I stopped chewing.Damon stopped chewing.Latifah gently set her cup down.We all stared at James, waiting for him to go on.We'd known that Evelyn had gone MIA for a while. At first it seemed like a cause for alarm, but we'd been informed that Evelyn sometimes went on nature retreats. Sometimes she'd disappear for months on end.And since there was no evidence of a break in at her place, no signs of struggles or intruders around our lands, we were inclined to believe it.Even at that, being so cool about her sudden disappearance didn't feel right. But I couldn't help it, nothing nagged at my mind, or anyone else's for that matter, that she was in danger.And James' next words confirmed it."She returned last night." He continued. "The scouts saw her return to her cottage. She seemed unharmed."I was relieved.Evelyn was okay, she really did just leave on a retreat.Maybe next time she should give us a warning though. She's been gone for quite a while, if it hadn't been for Rose, afte
Damon and James were both expressionless though. I couldn't also feel any emotions coming off of Damon.But as he neared me, I could see the wheels turning in his head.He placed a gentle hand on my cheek before I could even open my mouth to ask him what's wrong and asked me if I was okay."Me? I'm fine. Why?"He gave me a once over, like he wanted to confirm my statement for himself before he shook his head slightly, "No, it's nothing. I just thought you'd left."I frowned slightly, "Left? To where?"He shrugged. "I don't know, I just couldn't feel you for a moment, I couldn't mind link you either." His brows furrowed, his eyes still searching mine.I smiled. "Now look at who's having problems with mind linking." I teased. He just rolled his eyes and took a little step back.The Doctor, whose name I could not pronounce, so let's just call him Doctor V, cleared his throat."I shall be back in two days to have a look at her again to see if anything has changed. In the meantime though,
So, contrary to what I believed, we did not in fact have a team of super deep clean staff on hand.The main entrance to the building known as the Great Hall, which is all it was, a really really big hall, was securely chained and padlocked. Rust was even appearing at the edges of the padlock and I assumed that the inside of the padlock must be completely rusted since after a minute of trying to open the lock with its key, Damon just broke the padlock off with his hand."Why even keep a padlock on then?" I raised a brow at him.A 'Keep out, Alpha's watching' sign would be more effective in keeping people out. If they really wanted to enter this place, I really doubt that this flimsy padlock that snaps like a twig would keep anyone out.He just shrugged, pulling the iron bars apart, revealing a heavy set of doors with yet another flimsy padlock. "Formalities.""Ah, it makes so much sense." I said reaching forward to snap this padlock open as well. I'm not ready to wait longer for him to
We were many now, yes, but we weren't slaving away like we had to work for our lives or to survive, we were almost doing it leisurely. We were in no hurry after all.And I quite honestly liked it like this, everyone chatted and joked while we worked. Daryl, class clown that he is, was keeping us very entertained alongside a guy named Lee and another man, a bit older, maybe in his forties, called Oscar, who had a very dry sense of humor.I felt like we were coming together as a pack. No divisions here, no old pack members, no new pack members. We were all just the same.So we all stopped working on the tables and those still dusting and sweeping inside all came out to help get the chairs out.Two people had to grab a really high stack of chairs from the truck and gently carry it out and set it down. Then the stack would be disassembled and each chair was carried off and placed around where the tables were, but with enough spacing to make sure, washing and drying would be easy.The chai
He looked over at me and rolled his eyes smiling and shaking his head slightly. "Very funny." He thumped his leg on the floor."Don't tell me, now you're checking the roof for stability." I teased again.Which, now that I thought about it, would actually turn out badly for us if it isn't in top notch condition.But there's no way his foot stamps could cave in a roof anyway. Surely."No, actually, checking for rats and scorpions. They don't particularly like sound vibrations so if there are any, they'll come out."My smile drained from my face."What?"He thumped his foot again, in a different spot."Which part didn't you hear, the rats bit or the scorpions? Those are two of the things that freak you out the most right?" He ended his question with a smile.My shoulders relaxing, I moved to punch him in the arm.He just laughed it off."You're lucky it's not true, I would have used you as a shield." I told him.He moved to another corner and thumped his foot again."Really? All this ins
Rejected Alpha under editing!!!An: I didn’t know how to post a message for everyone to see, so I just decided to do it here. Hi, my name is Sharon and I’m the original author of this book, I posted a couple of comments in the comment section sometime ago when I first discovered my book had been stolen/plagiarized. It was very upsetting to me by the way, to have my work stolen like that. I reported it to the editors of this app and they helped me and gave the story back to me. Anyway, I’m saying all this because I’ve read a lot of complaints in the comment section about how chapters are repeating and some don’t make sense and that scenes seem to have been cut off. Well this is all true. So I’m going to do my very best to go through everything and do some heavy editing so that you can enjoy the story but I will keep updating while I am editing. Thank you all for reading. ***************She took the end of the hose and used it as a makeshift mike, belting out the lyrics to a Disne
First thing I registered was that I was wet. Dripping wet. Drenched right down to my underwear. Best part was I could still feel a steady stream a water splashing me in the face.I raised my hands to shield my face against the onslaught of water that was currently attacking me.Just then, the pressure on my face disappeared and was probably directed elsewhere.Slowly, I opened my eyes and was met with about ten pairs of worried and curious glances. "Hey, are you alright?" Mavis was on one side of me and Raven on the other. Apart from that, all the rest around me were the kids who were previously rinsing off the tables and were now staring at me with their curious glances. Also in front of me was a little blonde girl with pigtails, holding the end of the hose, pointed directly at my face, but thankfully, not streaming with water anymore.I watched almost distractedly as drops still escaped the end of the hose and landed on my leg. Drip. Drip. Drip. Wait, I'm on the floor?"Adri
She couldn’t communicate…Communicate.There are other ways to do that.Quickly, I jumped to my feet and started looking around.I think hearing me fidget around her house made Evelyn come back out. She stared at me as I continued rummaging through some drawers and eventually found a pencil, and some old newspapers. That ought to do.I handed her the pencil and flipped through the newspaper to find some small free space where she could write.She stared at the pencil in my hand like I was trying to hand her a grenade."What?" I asked. "It's just a pencil, please take it, and write stuff out, what's wrong with you? You gotta tell us what happened to you out there." I tried to convince her while still holding out the pencil.Still, she refused to take it, just staring at me with a blank expression."Evelyn, the pencil is not gonna bite you, just take it. And here's some paper, you can write in the corner here. Please."Reluctantly, she took the pencil from my hand and together we talked