Anna gingerly knocked on the door to Damon’s office. She had barely seen hair or hide of him. For the three days she had been working here, after resuming work by 10am, she always saw him come in at 12pm like clockwork and didn’t close until after she and everyone else had left.“Damon.” She opened the door a little, and once again was stunned at how dark it was.She stepped inside slowly, trying not to lose her footing in such pitch blackness.Then she heard a voice right next to her which made her flinch.“The light switch is on your right,” Damon said.She chanced a glance at the direction she had heard his voice from and saw two glowing gold pinpricks that made fear shoot into her. Immediately she reached for and switched the light on and filled the room with warm, yellow light.Damon groaned, covering his eyes briefly, and Anna felt the urge to say, “Sorry, sir.”“It’s fine.” He responded after a while, reaching for his sunglasses on the table without uncovering his eyes, and the
“Uncle, you can’t be serious.”Lily stood in the living room as her uncle - whose height made him tower over her imperiously - glared down at her with an intensity that not even her father had in his worst days.Where did this all go wrong, she wondered? Why was her uncle all of a sudden restricting her movements like this? This wasn’t fucking fair! Not at all in any way!However, the Alpha of the Eclipse pack wasn’t so easily moved by her pretty face - he knew his goddaughter very well.“I mean what I say, Lily,” Alpha Drake spoke, his tone grave. “You should count yourself lucky that I do not have this damn talk with your father present. He wouldn’t believe all the things you were capable of.”He continued, shaking his head a little at the sight of her crocodile tears pooling in her eyes, “Don’t think you can make me change my mind, child. You won’t be leaving this pack without my say so from now on. And that is final.”“Uncle…” she had to try another tactic, she thought while rubbi
Anna let out a soft groan as she shut the door behind her. The babysitter had just left, and it was only an hour after Anna had returned home from work. She ran her hands through her damp red strands, and checked on the pasta that was boiling on the electric stove.The aroma hit her and she had to stop her mouth from watering too much.A chime on her phone made her replace the lid on the hot pot and pick her phone up, a wine glass in the other hand.It was Gillian.‘Hey, thanks for spending time with me today. Let’s have lunch tomorrow on your work break. My treat’, the message said, accompanied with various smiley emojis.Anna couldn’t help but smile; the stoic-seeming young woman on the outside turned out to have a very soft interior. She was also quite chatty and expressive when she let her guard down too.Anna thought things were going well now for her - she was getting the hang of handling her children’s werewolf genes, she was seeing Ethan, and of course, she had a nice job and
“Mommy, can we see daddy?”Anna paused in her eating, her forkful of pasta halfway to her lips.Andrew was the one that asked the question, but she saw the two eager eyes of her twins staring at her so innocently.Anna was reminded of what happened only an hour or so ago, and tried not to feel put upon."We can talk about this later, okay?"She tried to wave it off and finish dinner. The twins had already eaten under her watchful eyes.Andrew pouted in defiance.No,” he declared. "I want to see my daddy, mommy."Baby… You have a new Dad now. He was just here a while ago, wasn’t he?Andrew’s face screwed up in what looked like despair as he realized what his mother meant.That man? No! He isn’t my daddy. I want my real daddy!Andrew, stop.” Her voice was firm and weary. "It’s time to go to bed.”She immediately lost her appetite and dropped her plate in the sink, unfinished."Mommy, he scares me. I don’t like that man,” Andrea tugged at Anna’s sweatpants and pressed herself against her
The next day was the weekend, and thankfully so.After a long blessed week, all Anna wanted to do was sleep in and bury her head in the sand throughout the morning.Alas, she reminded herself of the shopping trip to get the twins new clothes for fall and winter - they were quickly outgrowing their clothes. Especially Andrew. That boy was growing like a weed.Anna headed out the door and to the mall, her twins in tow.As she began shopping for the twins, she expected the trip to go smoothly but somehow, she was to be proven wrong again.“Mommy, what about seeing daddy? You didn’t tell us,” Andrew demanded, his brows furrowed.Anna felt the heat of frustration come over her and she let out a sigh.“Andrew, please. We can talk about it later,” she replied to her son.“I want to talk about it now! Can we see him? I want him,” her son insisted, to her growing displeasure.Make them understand, Ethan had implied the last time they spoke. She didn’t want him to leave her; that would mean the
Vance’s eyes were widened as he saw the two walk away from his mark and her twins.Fuck, fuck, fuck!He quickly shifted so as to not be seen, his heart pounding.Hunter.A fucking Hunter.He felt a laugh of nervousness bubble up in his chest, as he fought the urge to growl.Did Lily know about this? Was this part of ber plan? The rogue didn’t know or care; he knew he needed to get the fuck out of dodge now before he would get caught up in it. If there was one thing that made Vance different from most other rogues, it was that he knew when to run away.He quickly whipped out his phone and dialed Lily as he walked toward the car park of the mall. Lights flickered above his head as he entered the darkened areas of the park, where no one was.The phone rang a little before her voice was heard.“Have you gotten anything for me?” Lily sounded extremely blasé, but he knew that she wasn’t.But he wasn’t in the mood to play a fucking game with her right then and there.“What the fuck have you
“How could this happen?! Why would the Hunters be here? And from those families as well?”The entire hall full of pack elders and councilmen and women were in an uproar. William’s jaw was clenched as he looked around at the members of his pack that made up their high-ranking officials and could only think of how quickly they managed to lose their heads.Of course, the Alpha was also not pleased. In fact, he was pretty pissed.However, he had a job to do and that was to find solutions. Sitting around sniveling was a sign of weakness, and William hated to show it.“Everyone.” He spoke after many rounds of listening to the Pack Council of his pack speak, one after the other sounding panicked and passing on the blame to everyone else. The entire hall fell silent at his voice, which rose above the sun and had the aura of the Alpha.As all eyes turned toward him, he kept his cool.“This isn’t a time for us to panic.” He addressed the council. “That would mean that we would forget exactly wh
Anna felt like she had been bamboozled, and watched in horror as William picked up Andrea into his arms gently, letting their daughter wrap her arms around him.“William.” She said his name in a hard tone that made all three of them turn to look at her.The twins looked wide eyed at their mother and she felt bad for making them alarmed like this. In a much softer tone, she murmured, “Andrew, Andrea, you both should go play, okay? I need to speak with your father for a moment.”“But, mommy…” Andrew tried to protest but William himself could see the dark clouds over Anna’s face. He didn’t come here to make trouble.Dropping Andrea back to the ground, he said, “Listen to your mother. I’m not going anywhere.”He tried to put on a reassuring smile which did wonders because his son didn’t say anything more in protest and nodded.Anna watched with a heavy feeling in her heart as Andrew took his sister’s hands and tugged her away from there, back into