Katie's POV “I know a hospital…and a person who owes me.” And by a person, I meant Esther. She was the one who was supposed to perform the autopsy on my mother's wolf to find out what happened to it but hasn't been around and has been avoiding my calls. What I knew for sure was she worked the night shifts and sometimes the morning. Aside from that, she was my mother's old friend from when they were both in healing school clamoring for the number one spot before my mother's scandal became an issue.“Well???” Roman and Shedrack exclaimed at the same time, bringing me back to the present.“Well, she is a great healer, one of the best this pack has. And Jessica is rich, right? I think with the right money and influence—” I looked to Shedrack, and he shrugged it off, nodding. “We could get her to do something or at least show us someone who could get rid of it safely. It is the only other idea I can come up with.”At the moment, Jessica will come from the top part of the hill that looks
Katie's POV“And Katie?”“Yeah??”“Come with the witch, we would need him.”The line goes dead. I'm clutching my phone in my right hand. The view of the pack, though beautiful, doesn't register in my head as it played his last instruction like a broken record.‘Come with the witch, we would need him..’Did I really need to tell him? I turned on my phone. At least he was right about one thing, it was already damn late. Some more minutes and It would be 10 PM. That is already late enough for the Whitlock household, plus it would seem weird that both of them would be coming in at the same time. I shook my head, the cold air slapping both sides of my face with a kind of vigor I didn't like, it was definitely a sign that I had been standing out here for a longer time than necessary.I walked back to the Jeep parking point which you could easily call our cluster point. Everyone was positioned just around the Jeep with Judy Ryan seated on the bonnet, he jumped down and walked towards me.“He
Katie's POV I did well to avoid Jessica in school as she did to me. Now that I knew what she was going through at the moment, I saw differently. From the way she sat down in class to how she spaced out with her locker door ajar and stuck in her left hand. She spaced out a lot for someone who used to be so intentional with everything she did. It made me wonder if my time of trouble made me look any different to someone else. No matter how bad I felt for her, I refused to sympathize with her or catch the flu that every empath caught. I knew how it would end for one and I didn't like it. We got through the history of creatures of the dark without a hassle. There was no one to banter with in class since Jessica was out of it. Leslie on the other hand, I noticed had been observing my every move. She didn't physically confront me like she usually did, and when she came close to an altercation, she sounded more dismissive than insulting. It made me wonder if Jessica had spoken to her abo
Katie's POV “You make a great aunt.” She smiled genuinely, her eyes twinkling like the less evil version of her mother.“Yeah yeah…”A text came in. The notification bell was set to the lowest sound that my ears could pick up, so I had reached for it so fast while startling Jessica in the process.“Dude! What the hell?!” She clutched her chest and truly, I could hear the rapid sound of her organ beating against her ribcage. I didn't feel bad yet, whatever was inside her wouldn't cry and kick just yet, so In my own point of view, she would be fine. “I swear If I gave myself a heart attack and I died, my mother would perform an autopsy on me and find this child inside of me…I will come back from the dead just to kill you…”“Interesting…” I muttered, swiping to the right with the call that began vibrating her phone, “Now hold your tits, this call is important.” Something about swiftly sliding out of the chair and walking into the aisle of books made me feel safer. Killian's voice came
Katie's POV “I know a way,” Shedrack said, looking at Roman. They did their thing again, communicating with their eyes until Roman groaned.“It’s my birthday this weekend, we could use it for a getaway excuse and that's it!” He snaps in Shedrack's direction.I butt in, “Okay, so Roman got a birthday he doesn't want to celebrate but Shedrack isn't giving up, but Roman is willing to use it as an excuse for us all to get away to this Monaco destination that is NOT in Europe. Okay! Did everybody get that??” And by everybody, I looked from Ryan to Jessica who stood unnecessarily far apart from each other.“Thank you, you get it.” Roman held onto my arm graciously.“I got you love.” I mirrored the same action he made.“I don't know why anyone wouldn't want to celebrate their 18th, it's your 18th!!” Shedrack exclaimed the level of exasperation in his voice was so stressed you would know that wasn't the first time they had had this conversation.“Exactly, my 18th. I can do literally whateve
Killian's POVI dropped the call with Katie, a sigh escaping from my lips. I clutched the steering wheel tight enough to watch my knuckles go bland white before letting go.“Fuck!” I groaned out to the comfort of the walls of my car, the harshness in my voice came echoing back to me in a hundred folds.Coming from Stephen's place straight to Katie's school had jiggled up all of my emotions and now, I felt like I owed people so much more than I have dished out to them. *flashback*It was a few minutes past noon and I had just exited the elevator that sat at the end of his hall. A smile comes to my face as I see the old woman, his neighbor. She was in workout clothes despite her old age and slightly hunched back, she managed to look fit and kind of cute. I found walking old women cute, their push at life motivated me.Knowing I had definitely forgotten her name, I went with, “Hey there…”She smiled a bit, her eyes sq
Killian's POV I brought the window down.“Thought you would never let go of that steering wheel…” Evan said, grinning at me with a glee that I didn't think was necessary. I wiped at my mouth, hoping there wasn't any sort of drool.“How long have you been standing there?” I stared at him, my tone almost accusatory.He rose to full height, backing off from the car with his hands up. “Woah…I haven't been here for long if you were wondering, okay?” He said, “I was going to say who owned that familiar car in the driveway, then I figured it was just you. Wasn't I who you came to see?”“Yeah!” Killian blurted out a little too quickly, shaking his head.“I am—I was just lost in thought back there but I'm here now. Just decided to give you a visit. The last time I was here, a naked girl was lying in your hallway, so who knows what my luck would be today…” I closed the door of my car, making sure to lock it with the key before turning around to find Evan still paused in the spot I had left him
Katie's POV There was only a day left until the agreed time we wanted to spend on the weekend with Killian in Monaco.It was past dinner hours. I knew I had dinner provided for me but I didn't go downstairs, not with the way Joanna looked at me every time we crossed paths. She was a hawk on a mission and I had to keep my guard up every hour of the day only made me feel more exhausted than ever.The donut in my hands was starting to get hard and drier in my mouth, it made me thirsty but I would rather stay here with the ache of thirst than count on my chances of running into the evil woman.I decided to distract myself by reading over an assignment with hopes I would get invested in it and forget how thirsty I was at the moment, then a knock came on my door.“I am not hungry!” The door handle opened and Jessica popped her head in.“Hate to break it to you but no one genuinely gives a flying fuck if you take some food or not, at least not if it affects their run for office one way or