LOGINWhile holding the warm coffee in one hand, I switched off the engine and stepped out of the car. The car key dangled between my other bunch of keys, settling perfectly in as it was made for me to ride and use.Maybe I could take residence here for a bit.I walked across the driveway to reach the main entrance to the house. In front of the large carved wooden door, I found Raymond standing, idle, his expression stiff and his eyes red in anger."Raymond," I stepped up from the stairs and reached him. In order to get inside, I had to get past through him and it was going to be hard. "It's just been a couple of hours more. You really didn't have to budge me with all those calls and messages." I said, my voice exhausted out from the day I had spent."I told you something...""To be back-I'm back. I didn't run. You should be happy about that rather than all gloomy." I wavered my hand around his face and that only furthered the anger within him."I told you to be back by evening," He said, l
"A lot of things have changed, Aurora. It's a whole new life here." Grace said, walking along with me. We were in the garden at the back of her house and the garden overlooked the town and hills. It was a beautiful sight, reminding me of the time everything was well between me and Raymond."That's amazing to hear." I walked barefoot and the grass brushed against my toes and my heels. It was cold but I wanted to enjoy before the sun left and it would get dark.From a distance, I could hear voices, a dozen of them, people talking and giggling, some of them arguing and children jumping around. It was a whole new life, just as Grace said."There were a lot of changes made over the year. We couldn't have been any more happier with how we live now. Alpha Raymond has done a great job", She tucked her hands inside her jacket and her cheeks turned red as she smiled. Something glimmered in her eyes, happiness."I picked up a few shifts at the hospital's pack , I do the diligence in the pack and
I stepped out of the house and a cold shiver ran down my spine, forcing the hair to rise over my skin even when I was covered in layers of warm clothes. I took a sniff before glancing around, casually eyeing the cars that were parked at the driveway.No one was using them...A man was passing by, someone who seemed like he'd be taking care of the cars in this place. I raised my hand, waved at him and in a just a few seconds, he began walking toward me."Do you take care of the cars?" I asked, hand folded across my chest and my voice as deep as it could get. I had learned a few things here and there over the past year."Yes, ma'am." He replied, nodding."Good. Get me the keys for the black one." I twisted my neck only a little to direct him toward the black car that was parked behind a blue sports car. "And fast and make sure Raymond doesn't knows about this-" That came out wrong. The man looked up at me, confused. "I mean, I'm his guest and I'll inform him later and I don't want you t
My face was red, I was red when I stood in front of the mirror, staring at the countless hickey's Raymond had left over my body. They were over my neck, my breasts, my shoulders, my collarbone-everywhere anyone could possibly see.I tried covering some of them up with the makeup inside the dresser drawers but it didn't help. The hickey's were too dark and fresh to be covered so instead, I wore a turtle neck sweater and hoped no one would see it.All this for nothing...My lips lined straight as I grabbed my phone off the dresser and walked out of the room. A few voices reached up to my ears and I went down the spiral staircase before arriving at the kitchen where I found Raymond, all freshened up and munching on food.His face was bright with life while I was dying with what he had done to me. He had left me whilst I was almost going to finish. I was never going to forgive him for that and the hickey's."Would you like something for breakfast, Aurora?" My mother asked me, holding an e
I stood underneath cold water hoping it would wash away the heat growing inside me. There was no way I was ever going to have sex or any sexual interaction with Raymond no matter what I had to do. My skin continued to burn whilst I showered and cleaned up my body. The cold water helped a little to soothe the heat inside my body but my wolf was acting difficult.It really missed him but I was controlling it. I didn't have sex in over a year, nothing was going to force me to have it now with Raymond.Sleeping with him was different, I need comfort but that was all. I had no intentions of rising any emotions or feelings from the past and giving any hope to him or myself. Things ended when they did.This- being back here, it was only temporary.Sunlight filtered in through the little windows inside the bathroom as I ran my fingers through my wet hair and closed my eyes tight while water fell over my face. Tired of the cold, I switched the water to warm and soon scorching, hot water pou
I ran the brush down my now tinted dirt blond hair, carefully untangling the knots that had build up throughout the past two days. My hair reeked of wet dirt and sweat. I had to take a shower but my limbs were unwilling to step inside cold water. Exhaustion and sleep covered my eyes. The bags underneath my eyes were getting thicker and darker by every minute passing by.I had already opened every drawer and closet in the room my mother had prepared for me. My old clothes still hung there, faintly carrying the perfume I used to wear every day. A few items sat in the wrong places, as if someone had moved them and then carefully put them back. None of it mattered as much as the quiet that pressed in from every corner.The loneliness hit harder than the pain ever had. Memories of Mackline and everything rose uninvited, soft, sharp, and unwanted.My old books still lined the shelf against the brown wall. Jewelry and small trinkets rested in the dressing-table drawers beside the half-empty







