"A baby! I can't give you a fucking heir when you take over for your father! I will never be able to give you that! She can!" Big fat tear drops hit the floor as my head hangs down and I hug myself. I'm trying to hold myself together. I hug myself tighter. "I don't need an heir! I fucking need you! How many times do I have to say it for you to believe it." Aiden yells. "You say that now. But when the time comes, and it will come. You'll be running to Savanah or some other female." I whimper. "I've been on this earth for four hundret and fifty years. The only thing I've ever wanted or needed was my fated mate. I'm telling you! Nothing will change! Not now, not a hundred years from now! All I will ever need is you! My fated by my side through the good and the bad."I don't see him coming. Aiden wraps me tightly in his arms pulling me into his chest. Electricity zips and zaps through my body. It fills my heart and soul with peace. A peace they hadn't known in long time. Aiden holds me
The whole way to the picnic table I'm thinking of a way to tell Chance we can't see each other or call each other again. It's not that I want him. No, the total opposite. I don't want him. I don't think I ever really did. But I have to find a way to tell him that without hurting him. "I'm leaving." Chance blurts out. "Okay. What does that have to do with me?'"I want you to come with me. I know Aiden is your mate. But he still hasn't claimed you. I wouldn't wait to claim you. I want you. I love you. Come with me?" Well shit! How do I get out of this mess?"I'm not leaving. Aiden and I have worked things out. We're trying to figure out this relationship thing. I'm sorry, but I don't feel the way you do. You have been an amazing friend to me, but that's all it has ever been for me."Chance walks around the picnic table and stands close to me. His pleading eyes almost break my heart. I feel bad that he loves someone that can't love him back. He's quiet for too long. I begin to get nerv
Aiden steps aside for me to see my surprise. All I see is a big jacked up black on black four wheel drive four door truck. "Where is it?" I'm confused. My heart pounds as Aiden hands me a set of keys. Skullz, Xavi, Gunner, Blaze and my dad part like the sea. I see the giant messed up looking bow on the front grill of the truck.I can't stop the big ass grin that takes over my face. "What the actual fuck? Really! This is mine! Oh shit! This is really really mine!" I squeal with excitement as I walk around the truck taking it in. Aiden nods his head. They're all smiling at me. I guess it's been a long time since any of them have seen me this happy.I run and jump straight into Aiden's arms raining kisses all over his face. "Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!""Did you guys know he was doing this?""Nope. We weren't let in on the secret until this morning." My father says."Get in boys. Let's go get some mud on the tires." I tell them. And that is exactly what we spend the day doing.Remi
I keeping getting everything situtated for me to go shower and get ready for work. "Can't a father just miss and want to talk to his only daughter?" "Yeah, but I can tell from the sound of your voice you want something. And it's something I'm not going to like." My father chuckles on the other end of the line. I cringe when I hear Aiden and Gunner tell him not to do it. I can only imagine what my father is going to ask of me. What I'm thinking he's going to ask for is a hard limit for me. It's a hell to the fucking no, no, no. "Well sweetheart, I was wondering if you'd accompany me to the Hybrid Association's auction tonight." There it is. My heart sinks down to my toes and my palms begin to sweat. The Hybrid Association is the group that put together the Hybrid Balls. Finally I find my voice. "That's going to be a hell no. I haven't been to anything they have put together in seven years. That's not going to change now." I wipe the sweat off my palms onto my yoga pants. I close m
How dare this assclown ask me that! "Aiden is my fated. What do you think?" I snap causing Chance to smirk. "I think just because two people are fated doesn't mean you have to love them. I think that just because you're fated doesn't mean you can't reject them." The scent of cinnamon and brimstone reaches me. I scan the crowd looking for my mate. When I spot him in the crowd the on his face says it all. He's witnessed this entire exchange. Aiden is beyond pissed off. "It was nice seeing you, Chance." I turn and walk away choosing to end our conversation before I have to beat his ass. I walk faster trying to put as much space as I can between me and Chance. I run my fingers through my hair and exhale slowly. I'm preparing myself for the argument I know is inevitable. I watch Aiden as he walks past the stairs to the bar. Judging by the way he moves through the crowd I'm in deep shit. Shade watches me with a question in her eyes. The one that asks if I need backup. I shake my head an
"Oh my freaking goodness!" I yell. "I'm done fighting abou this stupid ass shit! I'm done trying to defend myself when all I meant to do was say hello and welcome him back into town. I wasn't expecting him to kiss me! You need to go before this argument becomes more that it already is. Besides, I need to call my father. I'll see you when I get home."Relief washes over Aiden's face. He pulls me into his arms and places the sweetest softest kiss against my lips. "I love you, Remi.""I love you too." I tell him as I watch him walk out my office. I yank my phone off my desk and slap it against my thigh. I go back and forth with whether or not to call my father. I really don't have it in me for another fight. And I just know after our conversation today; there will be an argument. In the end my daughterly duty wins out. I press the call button. My father answers on the first ring as usual. "Hey sweetheart.""Hey. What's up?""First, I'd like to apologize for being an insensitive ass ear
Chance's polo shirt is ripped and stained with blood. Both his and mine. His jeans wear my dirty footprints. Remi is furious. I can't tell who she is more angry at. Me or the preppy fucking dick at my feet. Mine! My hellhound growls as he paces back and forth trying to find a weak spot in the hold I have on him. "Get. The. Fuck. Out!" Remi's dragon roars. A crew of bouncers come running towards us. She follows as the bouncers lead me and Chance out of the bar. Remi stands on the curb as we're deposited on the sidewalk. "Remi...I'm..." There's a million things I need to apologize for. The words won't come out. Gunner and Weston look at me like I've lost my damn mind. Remi stands there with her hands on her hips while squinting in my direction. "Shut the hell up Aiden. Chance don't open your freaking mouth. Both of you listen to me very carefully. Aiden, go home. Calm down. And I'll see you when I get home. Chance, don't come back. There is nothing here for you." Remi is so pissed s
Once I have my orders. I put my game face on. I stand in the mirror looking at myself. Sometimes I wish this wasn't my life. I feel like I was meant for so much more. I feel like I could do better. Be better, ya know. Under the circumstances this was how my life came to pass. Imma ghost. A myth. Parents use my name to keep their little ones in line. I appear when Remi summons. Until then I could be anyone you pass on the steet. I can get into your head no matter how strong a shield you have up. I can make you see what I want you to see. I can read every thought you have. I can kill you with the flick of my little pinky. All these powers trapped inside this little body is what makes me the most feared creature. It's not just my powers that has people running scared. It's my need to inflict pain. Or it could be the fact that the beast trapped inside me could destroy the world around us. Imma twisted little bitch. I like to find that one being you love or desire more than anything and