For the next stop, I have to ask around for my mom since she's not in her room as she should at this hour. So, I have to get out of the house and run into the greenhouse my mom adores, with all her little flowers. As soon as she sees me coming in, she smiles. "Hi, mommy," I say. Instantly, her smile drops and she squints her eyes at me, "Yeah, I want something." "What is it, Birdie?" she sighs, putting her flower scissors down to give me her uninterrupted attention without me even having to ask for it like I did with my brothers. "I have a plan that can make all three Garibaldi boys very happy. All of us," I say, she crosses her arms and says nothing as I try to let the words out. It takes me while because I'm nervous, but I tell her anyway. Starting with the fake death, ending with the annual family trip, "There's so many human places you'd love, mom, I want you to see them." "If I wanted to, I would've already," she says, but she stays quiet about the other part, "I don't lik
Leo has been so busy lately, we haven't even talked about our baby or our future. We haven't fucking talked that much at all. So now I just cuddle against his body, taking advantage of the moment. "Be honest, do you think I'm actually pregnant?" I ask, hoping the answer is yes. And Leo starts nodding immediately, without even questioning it, "Good, that's good. Then yeah, we have to speed this up so we can have some vacations before we become parents." "You want to know the best part about this plan, Jolie?" he asks, smiling big and lifting a hand to brush my hair back, "We're going to be living on vacations, forever. There's absolutely no reason for either of us to work ever again. I mean, you are a millionaire, right? And, just between us, so am I." "Oh, really?" I ask in a stupid voice and I roll my eyes. "Yeah, but also... we're going to get a lot of free stuff here and there," he warns, as if I don't fucking miss it a lot, "Just because it's fun." "It really is fun," I
This is awful, I never, ever want to see it again. But everyone else around us is absolutely loving it, those fucking barbarians are cheering for their favorite like this is just a sport or something. I decide to keep my eyes shut for around ten more minutes, and then there's a huge collective gasp of horror. I open my eyes then and I see Jace shifting back to human -fully naked- to grab Leo's wolf form... his lifeless wolf form. "Jolene, what is-?" that's the last thing I hear. I feel everything going dark. When I wake up, there's chaos around me, my face is wet and Magda in my face. "She's okay now, let's go," she says and grabs me, basically carrying me away. I passed out I guess, "They're taking Leo to an ambulance, he's alive." "Everything is fine, Jolene, relax. It was all for show," Archie whispers in my ear and that brings a little life back to me. Right. Of course it was all for show, that was the whole point of it. I guess I just freaked out at the worst moment
{ Beatrice } I can't complain about my life, at all. I've never even had the need to complain. Everything I want, I easily get. I have a very close family that loves and cares for me and I have amazing friends. I have a good life in general. A little boring, sure, but I guess everyone gets bored sometimes. The only thing I want and haven't been able to get, is a man: Jace Garibaldi. But he's not just any man. He's an Alpha, a very strong and sexy one. He became an Alpha as soon as he came of age. He fought against a thirty-year-old man and won, at just eighteen years old. I was in Garibaldi with my parents for that Alpha Challenge and they allowed me to watch it. I guess you could say I developed a crush on Jace right then and there. I was just fifteen, but I knew he had to be mine one day. He just HAD to be, I felt it in my bones. So, when the opportunity of having him came up three years later, I took it. My father talked to me as he always does, in a completely
Jace didn't come back to the table after that final statement from moi, but Archie did. We drafted a contract as planned and I signed it. Archie promised me he would get Jace to sign it as well, so I left with my head held high. "What happened there?" My father asked on the way back home, "I know something did." "I had a conversation with the guys on my way back from the bathroom... the Garibaldi family is a very intriguing bunch, daddy. King Archibaldo is very smart and capable and Alpha Jacinto is just as intriguing as he is strong. I'm very excited to marry into this family," I admitted, looking out the window, trying not to focus on Jace's rejection too much. But only because of that comment I made on the way back, my father never gave up on the Garibaldi Pack. Not even when everything changed. When the omega Garibaldi brother turned out to be a True Alpha at the most random age, in the most random way. That only got my dad even more excited to marry me into that family.
{ Jacinto } Beatrice Cathalos is nothing more than a spoiled little princess who is used to getting everything she wants. And I don’t know what the hell is it about her, but she pushes every single one of my buttons without having to even do anything. Just her existing is enough for my system to go haywire. I don’t know why. But I hate it. I don’t like feeling all over the place, all out of control. I like my life simple and easy, and she’s neither of those. Of course, she felt hurt when she heard I didn't want to marry her, so she's been a little bitch to me since then, giving me disdainful looks every time I appear in front of her. The only good thing about Leo stealing my place as Alpha is that he'll be the one who has to marry Princess Beatrice instead of me. For the next two days, I don't have to face Beatrice at all because I'm searching for Birdie in Ramada Valley, but then I have to return home. And as soon as I come back, Archie takes my place searching... a
What? I just look at Beatrice for around half a minute, trying to understand if she's being serious or not. She just crosses her arms and looks at me with her big blue eyes, waiting for an answer. If we are being serious, the truth is that even I don't have that answer for myself. I don't know why she generates so many feelings in me, so much rejection… But I don't want to be serious with her. Why? I simply don’t feel like it. So I’ll give her the simplified, assholish answer. "Because you're weird," I say, opening my arms in surrender. I can tell she wasn't expecting that because she takes a literal step back, "You're very weird, and you're practically harassing me right now. I don't like being forced to do anything, but you looked me in the face and took a stance against me that first day we met, when you told me I would marry you even if I didn’t want it. In my opinion, that was a declaration of war. I don't like you because you're a fucking princess who has no business bein
The next morning I stay in my room not knowing how to proceed going forward. Should I continue with my plan of invading every little aspect and area of Jace’s life until he can’t think about anything but me? Or do I save my pride and do my best to disappear from his life altogether?Right now, honestly, I want to preserve my pride. So I call an employee and ask for a driver so I can just waste my time somewhere else, not in this house. I take myself on a breakfast date and then I go on a walk, enjoying the fresh scent of nature. Being in that house where Jace’s scent is all around me has been hard, so I let myself enjoy this open space that doesn't smell like Jace in the slightest.Little by little, I start to feel better and less humiliated. Fuck Jace for embarrassing me yesterday, calling me a weird stalker and a bitch. But, mark my words, I'll show him some embarrassment one day. I don't know how or when, but I swear I'll make him feel like this. I sit on an empty bench and then