NATHANShe's given in to me in someway but she still remains stiff on the bed, occasionally throwing me glares when she thought I wasn't looking.I can tell that our deal is pissing her off. I can tell that the fact that she had to give in to me is making her mad and just a little bit on edge. With the way she's vibrating with her dislike of the situation, I'm grateful for this. Now she'll have to put up with me and tolerate my presence for as long as it took for us to find Axel and the moonstone.Which I hoped was a little long. I wanted Faye back, and this was just the right opportunity for me to make amends for the past.It looked like that amends would have to include heavy grovelin because she was fighting me, even when silent.She wanted me. I could hear her little breathy sighs and sense the sexual tension. She didn't plan on acting on it though, I could see.She was really convinced that is being together had brought about this chaos. It made sense that she didn't want to re
FAYE The look on Nathan's face was not a good one. I knew from the look on Nathan's face that what he'd heard on the phone was bad. I only wondered if it was as bad as what Granger had just told me. "We need to go, Faye." "Go where?" I asked, looking at him like he was crazy. "To my pack. There are some things we need to go over." "I can't be seen at your pack house. In fact I shouldn't even be seen with you. That would just complicate everything."I pointed out, considering all the media focus on me right now, I couldn't afford to be seen with Nathan. It wouldn't just affect the company, with all the questions and flying suspicions about me and Nathan, it would also get the packs talking. He sighed and regarded me wearily, the look on his face told me something had made him worried enough to suggest that we head to his pack house. "What did you hear on the phone? What's made you like this?" He shook his head and then glanced over at me. "I found out where Axel's hiding o
FAYE"Come on, take it." Nathan cajoled, trying to get Carolyn to take something he wanted her to have if he didn't come back.I felt sorta sick watching them. What if he really died?Could I handle it?"Why can't someone else go with you, Nathan? At least take Zelda.""Not more than two people enter the forest at a time, Carolyn. It won't allow it." Lannon answered."What do you mean it won't?" I asked for the first time. Did he mean the forest?I hadn't brought up him bringing anyone else because it wasn't my place to demand that. And this was my mess, so I wasn't dragging anyone from my pack into it."There's a reason why they call it the forest of lost souls. It draws people in and makes sure they can't leave. But it only takes two people.""How?" I asked him, looking at Nathan who just stood by and let Lannon do all the talking."Well its magical powers do not allow more than two people to use the portal leading into the forest on the same day. And I've heard that there's a stro
NATHANI drew Lannon with me out of the study.We had things to talk about.We went upstairs to my room, and I shut the door, facing him. "Find anything else on the witch? Are there more of them in there with Axel?" I needed to know what to expect. Needed to be prepared. Any werewolves in there wouldn't have their powers, but a witch would.I could do my best handling one witch, but if they were as much as they were in the pictures, if some or all of the men were wizards, then I could never take them on."I think those are just the muscles. I don't even think they have magic, nor are they werewolves."Okay. "Then what about the woman?""Her name's Vera."It didn't sound familiar. I didn't know anyone who was related to the pack or the werewolf community with that name either.Definitely not from here."Any connections to Axel?""They've been dating for a while now."Stunned, I asked him again. "Dating?""Yes. It seems to be over a year they've been dating."I calculated and that ha
FAYEI was rigid, skeptically taking in my surroundings.My eyes swept all I could see, trying to see if there was anything unusual. Their was nothing unusual about the forest. There wasn't even the skulls I'd expected to see lying around on the forest floor.That part was sort of something I had left for her.I watched my boots as I walked.There was nothing but fallen leaves on the ground and some were still freshly fallen.My ankle boots crushed some of them, making the only sounds I could hear. Everywhere was so quiet, I'd vomit all my phone. Nathan was super light on his feet. Werewolves always were. They walked like there was only air beneath their feet, making no noise.I looked beside me to steal a glance at Nathan like I'd been doing for the last twenty minutes. He wasn't beside me. I paused warily, and turned around to search for him. But nothing.I started to panic just a little. There was no way he had been attacked, cause I would have heard.Nothing could have hap
NATHANI'd scared her badly.For her to have cracked and spilled those tears in front of me.She was so icy now, I doubted she ever cried infront of anyone.I had felt something change between us. She wasn't saying anything now, just walking stiffly beside me. I looked ahead, raising tree branches that hung low so that both of us could make our way through.We trudged on, the low bushes and weeds brushing against our thighs and lower legs.The roots that were off the ground were not easy to spot, and almost brought her down twice, with me reaching out to steady her and getting rebuffed each time.I could take that.For now. I would take it until she didn't want to throw me off anymore. Couldn't reject me.I walked around a tree and her eyes followed me sharperly, showing me she was watching me, even though she pretended not to be. I chuckled to myself, coming out onto the path we were walking.Something felt eerily quiet about the forest.It wasn't just that I already knew it was
FAYEI held his bandaged hands in my hands. He'd scared the hell out of me when he had run out on me like that. I couldn't believe what I had heard. He'd said Dad, and then he'd started calling out mother.I didn't know what he'd been seeing but it sure felt very intense from where I had witnessed it.There was no one else in the forest except for me and Faye, everything else was false. I told myself repeatedly, trying to quell the worry I had now. What if I was the problem that needed to be stopped?What if I saw things just as clearly as Nathan had?I shook my head and refused to fall for it. "We need to keep moving." Nathan said to me and I agreed.We had to leave that area. We had both taken a drink of the potion now, and nothing more could happen to us for a few more hours.It was getting dark now. I didn't know if this was an effect of the forest magic or something else but we had to rest. We stopped and collected wood for a fire together.We stacked the wood and then s
NATHANThere was a tinkle of laughter in the air when I woke up.The sound was pleasant to my ears and made me ache to find the owner of the laugh.My eyes slid open and rested on Faye. Something was making her happy this morning.I could relate too, cause I felt really happy too. Despite everything that had happened yesterday, it was great to see that we were okay.In fact, we were more than okay. We had finally talked about the part of me that I'd always locked away, never wanted to talk about with anyone, or show anybody.She giggled again, looking up at something I couldn't see and I had to ask her. "Heyy, Queeny." I said, wondering how she'd react this time to the nickname she was always irritated by. "Heyyy." She replied, not really paying me much attention. There was an excitement to her movements though, and a wide smile on her face. I could watch her smile all day, or just listen to her laugh and feel good when the day ended. "What are you doing?" I asked her.Not to