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*** Melanie ***Alan is raging as he drives my car like a maniac through the streets back to our side of town. “She thinks she can just bring some other man into my house with my kid in it. Well, she’s got another thing coming, she is getting no divorce from me, the whore. Who does she think she is?”“But I thought that was what you wanted Alan, to be able to divorce Helen and move on with me? I don’t see why you are so angry. She was the one who caught us in the act, remember,” I tell him. The words are hardly out of my mouth before he stops the car abruptly.“Get out now!” he shouts at me; his eyes are wide and wild and his spit flies everywhere, making me cringe. “Get out of this fucking car now, Mel, before I punch your face in.”Tears roll down my face. “This is my car; we are driving to my house. I am not a pushover like Helen, you can’t talk to me like you talk to her.” I stand up to him for the first time knowing if I allow this to happen, this will set the tone for the rest o
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*** Brad ***I realise how lucky I am that Halle has trusted me enough to help her. It has been frosty between us for over three months and as much as I am annoyed at both our parents for poking their noses in, I cannot deny that I want her. I want Halle Morales like my life depends on it. I would be a fool to not want her, she is incredible.This started off as a business arrangement, but boy could that woman keep me honest. She takes none of my crap, she stands up to me, she has a brilliant mind and work ethic, and it does help that she is sexy as hell and fiery and passionate.Ever since that night when I caught her before she fell down the stairs head first, all I can think about is the connection between us. There is a chemistry there that I have never felt with any other woman, she has me enraptured and her elusiveness just fuels that even more. To prove my point, I start to harden at the memory of her in my arms.We are just coming out of the local authority building and she is
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*** Slayne ***I have been on the hunt for a couple of hours trying to find the little girl. There is nothing in the systems and, despite intimidating some young girl who works within the child protection department, all I had found out is that Summer was assessed by a woman called Carole Berkley who has called into the office sick now.I call Ivan, and I want to cry with how distant he sounds to me. “Yes?” That’s how he answers my call, he used to always call me beautiful, and I would chastise him. Now I have to settle for a ‘Yes’!“Beta Ivan, could you please run a check for me, I need everything you can pull on Carole Berkley who works for children services.” I wait for his reply but it’s not what I had hoped for.“I will send it through now, bye.”It feels like my heart drops into my boots. This feels like the long goodbye. I need to do something fast to show Ivan that I do care, but after all this time, will that be enough?True to his word, all the information about Carole Berkl
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*** Halle ***I watch in disbelief as my best friend walks into the café holding hands with Alpha Manzitti Goldrick. What the actual fuck is going on? I also groan internally as I see the Alpha has brought his obnoxiously rude sister, I cannot be bothered sparring with her today, she is like a chihuahua constantly ankle biting and retorting and yapping.Brad converses with them with ease, he quickly addresses Alpha Manzitti and Lieutenant Slayne before hugging Helen and inviting them all to sit. I notice the protective way the Alpha looks at Helen especially when Brad hugs her. I wonder!“Eve, what happened? You finished work and then there was no sign of you after you left to get into your car.” I look at her with concern, especially when her eyes fill with tears.“I was kidnapped, Sal. Just before I got to my car someone grabbed me and stuck a sack over me and took me away somewhere. I was bound and gagged and locked in a cage. I missed Summer’s pick up. Alan the piece of shit refus
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*** Manzitti ***I tell Slayne to leave her motorbike and travel with Helen and me, and despite her moans, she does as she is asked. It's nice having Helen here. Slayne seems to want to make a good impression and isn’t half as annoying and outspoken as she usually is. I could get used to this.We decided in the café before we left that Brad, and I would knock and pose as businessmen since we both have a shirt and tie on. We will make enquiries and try and listen out for signs of a child. When we give the signal, Helen will approach with Slayne and Halle and demand that this Carole woman tells her where Summer is.“I will mindlink Slayne when the time is right for you to come to the door, okay, Shortie?” She nods at me and then frowns.“When you say mindlink, do you mean you can talk to each other in your heads, like telepathy?” My sister laughs and I growl at her. She had best not mock my mate, I will kill her if she does.“Sorry, Alpha,” Slayne says and she sounds contrite, so I let
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*** Helen ***I cry until I am numb with shock. Where is Summer? What has that woman done with my precious little girl? Halle and Brad want to stay with me but I tell them I need to be alone, I can’t keep up this pretence in front of them. I am dying inside and need to be able to just feel this pain, to know I haven’t lost my mind. This is real, my daughter has been taken away from me.“I will see you tomorrow, Sal, please just go home and get some sleep. I want to be on my own. Thank you, Ale, thank you for everything.” I shut the car door and run to my home before Halle tries to force me into accepting her company.As soon as the front door is shut and bolted, I hear Brad’s car drive away and then I sink to my knees and cry. I have cried like this only once before and the incident that caused my reaction pales in comparison to the loss of my child even though at the time, I felt like I wanted to die.My miserable state of mind allows me to recall the harrowing incidents of living in
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Back then, being sexually humiliated by my husband and then scorned by him caused me to feel like life wasn’t worth living anymore, but that is nothing in comparison to not knowing what has happened to my daughter and facing an eternity not knowing how or where she is.Alan is well and truly out of my life now and I will never, ever want or need him again. I stayed shackled to him for far too long for all the wrong reasons. My marriage never failed because of me or because my mother has several failed marriages too. It failed because the piece of shit I married treated it as a joke and made a mockery of every pledge, vow and promise we made to each.I do shoulder some of the blame. I am starting to suspect I never truly loved Alan. I married in haste because my new stepdad frightened me, and because I felt flattered by all the attention Alan showered on me. Whatever it was that drove me to accept his proposal, I tried to give our union my best shot, but he never did and therefore it w
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*** Manzitti ***I watch my little sister looking out the window as Beta Ivan leaves the pack territory and I am there to catch her when she falls and cries.“He left Manzitti. He actually fucking left,” she says as she howls in pain. “He said he would never leave, but you all do eventually”.“Hey, I’m still here!” I remind her through her uncontrollable sobs. “And you could have asked Ivan to stay. He would have stayed if you had asked him.”She looks at me like I’ve grown an extra head. “I can’t just ask him to stay, he wants me to mark him, Manzitti.”“That’s what we do. We are first and foremost werewolves. We are territorial about what belongs to us. How would you feel about a load of girls coming on to Ivan when he goes to a bar later, since he is unmarked and therefore fair game. He has wanted you to be his for seven years, Slayne, and seven years you have been with him and no other. Who are you trying to kid, me or yourself, Sis? Because you’re fooling no one. Take your time a
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