BLOOM’S POVHe was confusing me. One minute he made me feel so hot and the next, he was downing me with cold water. He made it clear that he didn’t want me, so why was he mad about me talking to someone other than him?It was all confusing for me. When I noticed him walking towards us, I was so scared that he would get the wrong impression of me talking to the Beta. Ray, I heard Rich say his name. And he had. To hell with the part of me that wouldn’t have lied if Grey asked what I was discussing with Ray. Luckily, he didn’t ask, and Ray didn’t disclose our discussion to him.I was crazy to think this, but Grey’s over-protectiveness was hot and attractive. I blamed the mate bond for this. Eventually, I would be the one on the receiving end of his brutality. He’d hurt me so badly, I wouldn’t be able to do anything about it. I knew he was just keeping me around because of the baby I was carrying. He might reject me after the child is born, and I wouldn’t hold it against him. No one wa
GREY’S POVI stared at the documents in front of me, not seeing anything anymore. Everything was beginning to make sense. Parker had come in earlier this morning to report what I asked for. I had been mad at him for bringing it in three days later, but he said it had been hard to get any information on my mate. She had no information about her except that she was a member of the Montrose Pack. Apart from that, she pretty much didn’t exist.That wasn’t even the most shocking part in all of this. That was on page two of the file. Parker said he contacted someone from her Pack who was his close friend and had told him everything about her. It turned out she was the Alpha’s daughter and last child who had been maltreated since she turned five, beaten almost every day by her father and many Pack members.Her father didn’t do anything to stop the abuse because he was the one who instigated it. She had been degraded and abused her whole life. Another part that made my blood boil the most
BLOOM’S POVMy heart was beating erratically as I watched the door that Grey exited from moments ago. I didn’t know what had just happened, but I knew I liked it. He had made me feel all kinds of emotions at once, butterflies in my belly, foreign sensations in between my legs, and hotness all over.When I opened the door to the restroom, I was not expecting to see him sitting on my bed like he owned it. Well, he did own it, but since I moved into this house, he had never looked at me the way he did today. Like he wanted me. I didn’t know what came over me either, I suddenly felt bold. I spoke to him without stuttering and I touched him. Every moment we had been together in close proximity, I loved. The last time we were that close was in the kitchen and then, he had a look of disgust on his face when he left. This time had been different. Or so I thought. I had my hopes up because he had looked at me differently today, and that maybe he didn’t hate me. He looked at my neck and body a
BLOOM’S POVWithin a few minutes, Steph pulled me up to my room to get me ready for the shopping outing. I still couldn’t wrap my head around the fact that Grey wanted to take me shopping. Well, he wasn’t the one taking me, but he sent me to go shopping with his money. Why?I had never had the opportunity to go out for this kind of thing before. The girls I used to work with at my former Pack always talked about the new things they would buy at the end of the month when they got their allowance. I never got one. I was always given the old clothes of people that I didn’t even know. Sometimes during winter, I had to go to the trash bin that held clothes to pick some clothes. I got frostbite often because of the cold.Steph pulled me across the car park that was in the basement. I looked around in awe. There were different types of cars, and they were all flashy.Wow. Grey was really loaded. Steph stopped by the door of a black sports car and opened the front passenger door for me to e
GREY’S POVMy breathing came out in jagged, short breaths. I’d been sparring with Ray for a while now, a little over an hour. At first, it started out as practice, but now, it was getting more aggressive from my side. He wasn’t backing down though. When I had walked into the kitchen earlier and saw all of them at the table eating and laughing, something moved in my chest. I became angry. Angry at the fact that someone else was making my mate laugh. Making her happy.Of course, it wasn’t logical to take my anger out on the poor guy, but I didn’t care. I had remembered the scene from the other day when I saw them together outside, and it made me mad that she was free with other people and not with me. Especially since she was free with Ray and preferred to be with him instead of me. “Not like you ever gave her the chance to be free with you,” my wolf reminded me, but I didn’t care. I realized that we were both on the mat now. I was on top of him, punching him in the face, and a few se
GREY’S POVI groggily opened my eyes, only to immediately squeeze them shut again due to the blinding brightness of the room. What was the time?I looked at the alarm clock on the bedside table and my eyes widened when I saw it was nine in the morning. Trying to get off the bed, I realized that I was wrapped around by warmth. My mate. Her scent was all over my room. I looked at her. Her hair was sprawled all over my chest, and she was breathing gently as she slept. What happened last night? How was she here? Then it all came rushing back. She had come into my room to thank me and things had escalated to the point where we kissed. After that, I convinced her to stay, and she helped me sleep. Looking at her now, a wave of comfort and happiness washed over me. I sighed in relief. I liked how she was so close to me. The warmth of her body clinging to me made me feel good. I reached out with my hand to touch her, to be sure she was actually here and not a figment of my imagination. She
BLOOM’S POVI felt stupid. Stupid that I had my hopes raised and expected something good from him. He’d made it clear that he didn’t want me, that I was someone whose presence ruined his plans, that I was a useless mate and didn’t deserve to have him as a mate, that even though I had Alpha’s blood running through me, I was still low. Yesterday things got out of hand, and we kissed. At that moment, it felt like the best thing in the world to me. It was perfect. I felt wanted and wanted to stay with him like that, just laying in his arms for a long time. I wanted him to want me and look at me like he did yesterday. But the next morning, he quickly dashed the hopes of that ever happening again. He said it had been a mistake. When I woke up and didn’t see him beside me, I felt disappointed. That he just left me alone. Stupid of me to have expected a little bit of care from him. My mistake was expecting much from him. I never got any care in my life before and I was used to being alone,
BLOOM’S POVA few days had passed and I hadn’t seen Grey at all. It seemed like he was avoiding me, and that was fine with me since I wasn’t ready to face him either. The embarrassment from his words the last time we saw him was still present.I was going to push that out of my mind. My life had become more interesting now that I had people who cared and looked after me. Kate had already gotten acquainted with the guys, and my guess about Greg stealing over everyone’s heart had been accurate. Anytime he was around and not at the Pack school, he was in everybody’s hair. Also, I later found out that Ray was one of the strongest warriors from Richmond’s Pack. He had become the new Beta after Grey’s former Beta betrayed him.The Packhouse had a different kind of vibe to it now as different people came and went. It was fun, but also overwhelming. Quite a number of people stopped by to check on their Luna. It was always a short visit, but it made me marvel at how cool Kate was. She was a