We had spent the rest of the day not talking. He told me about his library and I buried my head in a book till he reminded me about the date.Standing in front of the mirror, I stared at my reflection and ran my hands down the dress one more time. No make-up. And a too tight dress. What was I meant to wear on my feet? Finally, I turned and walked out of the bathroom. No one was in the room but there were two shoe boxes sitting on the bed. Reaching for the first one, I found a pair of rather tall black heels. That’s a solid nope unless he really wanted to see me fall on my face. Turning my attention to the second box, I found a pair of ballet flats in black with rhinestones in the shape of a butterfly on them. They were beautiful. Pulling them on, they fit my feet like a glove.Looking around, I gave myself a minute to find my strength to go on with this. I walked out the door and found Aziel standing at the front of the stairs. He had on a button down top, in red to match my dress. So
Aziel had been avoiding me for a week. The night after our date, I heard him stop at the door to the room I chose to sleep in but, soon after he walked away. Kade and I had been spending a ton of time together. It appeared that my guards had become more lax with the news of Liv’s pregnancy spreading around the pack. Kade shielded me from it but the guards we passed, or the pack members who came to the pack house, were all about it. The pack members talked about how quiet their Alpha was being, wondering when they would have the interloper out of their midst. I agreed with them. What was the reason for me staying here if I had been replaced? And while it shouldn’t hurt, it made my heart ache to hear anyone speaking of it.Kade and I were out in the forest again going for a run when we bumped into a very excited Liv. She was practically glowing.“Oh, Beta Kade, wonderful news! They’ll be able to do my first scan today! I was just on my way to tell the Alpha.” She beamed with the news an
I had been sneaking to the kitchen early in the morning to grab enough food for the day. I didn’t want to see anyone, and I didn’t want to be social. I just wanted to be alone until he tells me I can leave. Creeping down the stairs, I made my way to the kitchen. Upon my arrival, I turned on the light and jumped. Sitting at one of the stools at the island was Aziel. His eyes were unfocused, and it appeared he hadn’t noticed that I had turned on the light. Ignoring him, I went about my business.“Are you going to keep avoiding me?” His words were slurred. Clearly someone decided to get into some alcohol tonight. Looking over, he was looking at me with a pleading look.“What is there to say, Aziel? You got someone else pregnant. You should be letting me go, I shouldn’t be here anyway.” I kind of plead with him in the hope that he would change his mind and just let me go. I could leave but I needed the ring, and he would be able to find me with the mark on my neck.“It’s not mine.”“What
I had managed to avoid Aziel all day yesterday, it was made easier by his need to also avoid me. Clearly, we weren’t going to talk about what took place in his office. Which was good because I couldn’t think of anything to explain what had occurred. Today, it was already different, it’s like wherever I went in the house or outside I was followed by a rather large shadow. I large shadow that refused to say anything. I was starting to become extremely annoyed.“Are you going to keep following me around all day? Could you at least say something?” I broke the silence between us while continuing to stare at the book I had been trying to read for the past ten minutes. Putting it down I turned and stared at him.“I didn’t think you would want to talk.” He huffed while looking at the book he was pretending to read. It appeared to be some form of romance. I wonder why he chose that one or was it just the first one he could manage to grab?“Well, if you’re going to act as my shadow, you might a
We had gotten to talking again about music and lost track of time while we were in the library. So, it took us a little bit of time to make it into the kitchen. When we finally arrived, we both didn’t know what to eat. Aziel decided to ask Kade to grab us a pizza since he was on the way to the pack house for business anyway.“What kind of pizza do you like?”“Do they have BBQ sauce?”“I think so.”“Can they do a BBQ, chicken, mushroom, and jalapeno pizza?” He gave me an odd look.“That sounds like something Kade would eat. Are you sure you’re not related in some weird way?” He raised his eyebrows at me and gave me a large smile.“Possibly. I’m sure we would make great siblings.”It wasn’t long until the front door opened and we could hear Kade singing as he entered. “Don’t you wish your girlfriend was hot like me? Don’t you wish your girlfriend was a freak like me? Don’t cha?” He came in popping his butt out, which was impressive with how he held the pizza from falling.“Encore! Encor
On my run, I came to the pond again in the clearing and decided to take a break. Dipping my feet into the pond, I thought about everything that had happened this morning. I just didn’t understand how he could go from wanting to give this a chance to not being sure if he wanted me to stay, all based on what their Elders had to say. Was the bond affecting me stronger than it was him? Should I try to get the ring and run soon? I had to come up with a plan. I don’t want to be stuck here if he doesn’t want me to be here and it doesn’t seem like he’s all that committed to keeping me around.I heard a rustling in the trees. Looking over I could see the blonde hair hitting the light first, followed by the body of a supermodel. I couldn’t catch a break today. Liv spotted me and walked towards me like she was on a mission.“I was hoping I would find you somewhere around here. How dare you take him from me? He was mine. I had him all to myself finally, then you showed up.” She sneered at me. “Wh
It had been a week since my fight with Liv and everything being relieved to me. Liv had been quiet, and I learned from Kade that Aziel had threatened her life if she ever came near me again. Aziel and I had been growing closer, but there was still everything from the past week that we hadn’t talked about. It was like the elephant in the room every time we saw each other. Kade and I would hang out when Aziel had “things to do”. I wasn’t sure what those things were because he refused to talk with me about anything substantial. So, Kade and I hung out. Since the day with Liv, I was always with one of them. I could even hear them moving around in the hallway after I went to bed.We were watching Underworld and talking about how Lycans looked nothing like that when they were around and how different the vampires acted in the movie than in real life, when in stumbled Aziel. He smelt like a bar threw up on him. I looked at Kade with questioning eyes. He looked at me then quickly looked away
I nearly dropped his phone when he spoke behind me. Turning to look at him, he looked steadier on his feet and didn’t appear to be as drunk.“Weren’t you just so drunk you were falling over?”“Wolf metabolism. It’s amazing, no?” He gave me a look like I should know this, but my metabolism was no where what his apparently is. So that means when he was drunk that one night not so long ago, he wasn’t as drunk as I thought he was.“Well, mine doesn’t work that way.” Handing him back his phone, I went to the fridge and pulled out some sliced cheese and butter. “Want a grilled cheese?”“Sure. It would definitely help soak up the rest of the alcohol.”“Oh, you’re not getting off that easily.”“What do you mean?”“We’re going to play a shot game.” Moving to the oven I started a burner and put a pan on it. “It’s time for you to be honest with me.”“I have been honest with you.” Looking over my shoulder I stared at him. “Well, as close as I can be to honest.”I got the bread down and spread a t