KATRINA ‘Those words were deep, Mel.’ She sighed. ‘For the millionth time, yes, okay! Can we move on with our lives now?’‘But…’‘I’m not normally the one to say this but not another word from you.’“Katrina, are you paying attention?”Oh right, the meeting. “I’m more interested in this fork,” I said, throwing and catching it as the Triplet’s watched its movement. “There’s a lot it can do.”I’d been training dart so it wouldn’t hurt to give it a try. I flung it at him and it went directly above his head before its points penetrated the wall and got it stuck there.Elder Sesan tried not to act stunned but the widening of his eyes when that happened could not be ignored. “Nice moves, if you could just tilt your hand a bit to the…”“Shut the f*ck up, Cannon. This isn’t a f*cking training session,” Ian said, unconsciously drawing circles on the conference table.Or were those cigarettes?Sesan cleared his throat and brought our attention back to him. “Now if you would listen to me, I w
KATRINA Why the f*ck couldn’t I sleep? I haven’t been sleeping very well these days so I moved to the kids’ room, hoping it would but it was rather haunting. ‘They can’t take care of kids! What does the council think they’re doing?’Melora groaned. ‘Kat, you’re straight-up annoying me. I’m trying to sleep for the goddess’s sake!’‘This is why I miss Carissa. She listens to me. All you do is complain and judge.’‘You do the same, Kat.’‘No, I don’t.’‘We’re literally the same person in the same body.’Arguing wouldn’t fix my sleeping problem. ‘Fine then. Go to sleep, that’s all you’re good for.’‘Really? Then I better do what I’m best at, shouldn’t I?’Melora locked me out and I scoffed at her childish behavior. But to be honest, I was the one behaving childishly. The kids would be okay, I shouldn’t be so worked up. If I was sleeping, I wouldn’t be worrying about this. Being in the kids’ room wasn’t helping. I stood up from the bed, fixing any mess I might have made along with their
KANENo sexy bitches today, especially not with a kid around.I was slouched on the sofa, my back against the seat cushions, and my left hand wrapped around my head with my phone in my other hand and my fingers sliding quickly through it, as my head rested partially on the arm of the grey sofa.The lights were on because of Hilda. She was reading one of her storybooks but it was uncomfortable to watch her read something while I scrolled through my phone aimlessly.She was engrossed but I noticed she was somewhat uncomfortable too due to her random turning every other minute, giving out sighs. When she did it for the fourteenth time, I had to ask.“Everything okay?” Hilda looked away from her book, pouting. “It doesn’t feel right,” she declared, turning on the bed again.I sacrificed the bed for her and I’m sleeping on the sofa, what else does she want?‘That statement just won you the Worst Father of the Year award.’‘F*ck you.’“What doesn’t feel right?”She sighed again, closing the
IANEar pods on, phone set, smokes ready, nightwear worn and pup stabilized. My night might not be wasted after all.Dash was in his yellow pajamas, his hands furiously pushing the buttons and turning the switches of his gamepad while he bit his tongue. His eyes were focused his video game, playing with it his life depended on it.His headphones were on and he was as passionate with his video games as I was in this p*rn I was watching. I stared at him for a while to be sure he wouldn’t come snooping around then got working on it.Turns out, the little snooper was more interested in me than his game. I was absorbed in what I was watching; licking my lips now and again, while Dash was curious about what caught my interest.What could make a wolf look hungry?He removed his headphones and dropped the gamepad, ideas of how to approach me swimming through his mind. An idea popped in because he got a lucky chance when I chang
KATRINAIt was late when I returned to the kids’ room. I thought I forgot my phone there. I haven’t been using it like normal wolves or ‘people’ but you can’t blame me because I never had one until I left Southpaw. But yes, Kendra did. And even when I was in Seattle, I only used it for communication because Carissa insisted. In the middle of the night, while trying to sleep I thought of trying Carissa’s number for the last time. If it didn’t work, I’d go to Henry’s room and drag it out of him.‘So your lie turned out to be true?’ Melora said, chuckling.‘I hope it is.’Henry’s not that dumb. He would remember something. When I reached their room, I pinched myself because I remembered that I never brought it here in the first place.‘F*ck, my life is a lie.’Heatedly, I left the room but the handle of the door grabbed my pajamas. I tried wearing something other than nightdresses, hoping it would help me sleep.
SESANIt was one of the many assembling rooms the council owned and one of the few that the public is unaware of. But anytime we were gathered here for a brittle discussion, whoever or whatever we discuss is tagged as a ticking bomb, ready to explode, and my fellow members are more than happy to set it off. Even if it means destroying it.—unfortunately.This specific assembling room was called The Peril Chamber. The walls of TPC were covered in all shades of green mold, moist to touch, with the green darkening from the lower parts of the wall that had more mold, to the top of them that connected to the ceiling.There were no windows and the ceiling was falling apart. Dripping water resonated in our ears as it dropped from it to the center of the round table, due to the heavy silence. It sounded to me like the ticking of a clock… a timer to the end of another soul.The floor was uneven, with cracks, holes, and non-cemented patches detected at every angle… finding a good spot was almost
CANNONStepping out of my bathroom, I picked up my second towel on the bed’s side table and glanced at The Sleeping Beauty, Aurora. She was cuddling my pillow in place of a stuffed animal, with a little drool rolling down her slightly open mouth.I cleaned it off her with my least used napkin and dried the rest of my body, opening my closet to see what I could wear. My underwear was the only thing on when I heard a whistle come from the bedside and saw Aurora giggling.I turned back to the closet and picked a singlet. This thing that Aurora and I were doing was nice, and I wasn’t just ready to leave it. I guess they weren’t brats after all and it’d be lovely if we could spend the morning together before letting her go. Shadow loved her company too so why not extend it a bit?She got up from the bed, rubbing her tummy.“I’ll get Susanna to make us something.”“Yes!” she exclaimed, shining her not-so-perfect teeth. “I wan
KATRINA“Perfect…” It was the voice of a woman, or what should be one. The tone was thin, weak, and fading more with every letter she pronounced. Icy cold fingers were poking my stomach and that was what initially brought me out of the temporary coma.Apart from her disturbing voice, I also heard the sound of thick liquid dropping into more liquid. It was quick, like a drop every two seconds and as my eyelashes slowly moved, I felt numbing pain around my wrists.My whole body hurt but that could be ignored, compared to how my wrists felt. My back wasn’t lying on a bed—unfortunately—I wasn’t even lying down. I forced my guttering eyes open and was punched with nausea.The cave I was in looked like it had been dyed red. There was no entrance and no exit that I knew of. I was only in my underwear and my nose couldn’t pick up any scent.My hands and legs were bound to the walls by chains in a crucifixion pose and icy fingers poking me stopped. I didn’t find the woman the eerie voice belo