NATHAN "Hey Nate." Lannon said, standing full on in the middle of my office when I let myself in. I flung my jacket over the couch and moved to the chair behind the desk, settling into it before replying. "There was a time you used to love being hidden, you know. Now you're just always in my fucking face." Zelda sat reclined on the couch, facing Lannon. "What's got you in this shitty mood then?" he finally sat his ass down on the couch beside Zelda, leaning forward. "Does it have anything to do with Faye?" "Why'd you two love birds decide to visit? Can't handle being cooped up in the cabin anymore?" I asked them, tongue in cheek. "We enjoy being in the cabin. Thanks for asking, but that wasn't what I asked." "You make it sound like everything's about Faye with me now." "Just answer the damn question." "Okay, yes, alright? It's about her. She showed up with fucking Axel Foxglove at my board meeting the other day, wanting to buy me out." "Faye?!! Is this the same Faye we know

FAYE My heels clicked on the concrete floor as I walked beside Axel to the car. We'd just finished a press conference where I'd officially become the head of our real estate agency. I was the CEO now while Yvonne was the major owner of her and my dad's law firm now. All this just meant more things on my plate. I had so much going on and after the press conference, my head hurt like hell. I slid in into my car as he joined me in the back; and the driver pulled away from the company. "Is it always like this?" I asked Axel. "Always like what?" "Busy. Exhausting and frustrating." He chuckled, handing me a bottle of water. "Here. You have to remember to hydrate. And don't overdo it. You're not a werewolf like the rest of us." "Meaning I'm weaker?" I snapped at him, not smiling. "Did I say that?" I sighed and relaxed into the plush leather seats. "No, you didn't." I answered like a glum child. "I know you're tired, that's just it. When you're fully rested, you'll feel better

FAYEAxel stormed out and I didn't know what to do.Was it really that bad? I kept asking myself. I didn't want to get into a fight with Axel. He was only doing this because I had asked. And now he was mad at me. At the very moment we needed to figure out what to do with the… the things they'd stolen. He hadn't told me exactly where everything was stashed and I didn't want to know, but something had to be done before all hell broke lose. My phone rang in the dining room and I got up to go get it. Picking it up I saw it was Kate. My eyes shut in guilt. I'd been putting off a girls night out with her for weeks now, and I hadn't even spoken to Mira in like forever.I was definitely turning into the worst kind of friend. "Hello, stranger." She said as soon as I answered the call."Ouch! I'm so sorry Katie, I should have called.""Yes, you should have.""I swear I'll make it up to you. Right now though, forgive me." I pleaded, trying to keep the frustration and anger of a few moment

NATHANLooking into her bewildered eyes now made me want something I'd never wanted before.Something I didn't want to have to explain, or put a name to.I wanted her to answer my question.But she just stared at me, saying nothing."Do you love him?" I asked her, especially knowing that he'd been close to her for the last five years. Why hadn't she divorced me then and mated with him?Become his?And that guilty look in her eyes still lingered.With my hands gripping her chin, I urged her with a little shake. "Tell me. If you love him, then you should be able to say it.""My personal life is none of your business, Nathan. Don't you have better things to do than lurk about in another pack house?" Trying to change the subject, are we?"I'll lurk wherever the fuck I want to. Especially if the same place harbours my wife, who's pretending she's free to marry some other man.""Axel is not some other man. And I'm not your wife!""Yes, yes, you are. Those damned divorce papers you sent me

FAYEAll around me, jewels glittered, dancing under the bright lights of the ballroom. Millions of dollars’ worth of diamonds and every other gemstone imaginable were draped around the necks of women who’d never had to work a day in their lives.I'd grown used to distinguishing those ones from women like Yvonne, and then myself. It wasn't a secret in this tedious high class society that I was some child Maximus had out of wedlock, with some woman. Some of them gave me looks but mostly curious ones. They knew better than to be anything but cautious and respectful around me. Lifting a glass of champagne that wasn’t worth the two-thousand-dollar-a-bottle price tag to my lips, I let my gaze travel the room, searching for my date for the evening. He'd been back to check on me like he'd promised, and then we'd both gone into work together, promising to meet up later.And now here we were, at the outstanding employee award ceremony for the Crist holdings.We all had to attend of course.