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115- SLOWS GOOD

Author: J L FLETCHER
last update Last Updated: 2025-11-02 17:42:18

(Pandora’s POV)

I had settled in Evergreen. Job, place to stay, somewhere to lay my head. Evergreen was that kind of small town. Ten conversations going at once, all of them about you if you didn’t watch it. I kept my head down, baggy tee, ponytail, no eyeliner, the opposite of the girl I used to be. Invisible was safer.

“Morning, Pandora,” Mr. Hollis called from the counter at the Farm n Feed, counting worms like they were coins. “Stock pellets came in.”

“Got it.” I slid past the display of saddle soap and twine. The store smelled like hay and dog biscuits. They bought their feed and forgot my face. I went straight to work, kept my head down and stayed quiet.

It would’ve worked better if Ethan didn’t keep smiling at me like a fool.

Local farmer who had a glint in his eye every time he saw me. He was in the back, loading grain into a truck bed, forearms roped hard from real work, hair curling where the cap couldn’t tame it. Wholesome small town boy: clean shirt, mud-caked boots, eyes
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  • CHASING MONSTERS   222-OBJECTIONS

    (Xavier's Pov)Sophie’s lashes fluttered again, slower this time, and Xavier felt the shift in the room before anyone spoke. They were hopeful.He stood at her bedside with their child held close against his chest, still half afraid, because he had watched her fall, watched blood spread, watched the chapel turn into a screaming ruin, and some part of him still expected the world to snatch her away as punishment for daring to love this much.Her eyes opened slowly, like she was surfacing from deep water and finding him waiting at the edge.Sophie stared at him for one long breath, her mouth parting as if she couldn’t decide whether to laugh or cry, and then the corners of her lips lifted in a weak, radiant smile that made Xavier’s throat tighten so hard he couldn’t speak.“There you are,” she whispered, voice rough with sleep and pain and relief.“I’m here,” Xavier managed, and his words came out uneven because he hadn’t realized how much he’d been holding inside his chest until she wo

  • CHASING MONSTERS   221-RIPPLE

    It wasn’t Xavier who opened the doors to the healing wing; it was his Lycan.It moved through the castle as if the stone itself had been built for its stride, broad shoulders clearing corridors that suddenly felt too narrow, claws ticking against the floor with a slow, deliberate patience that did not match the storm in its chest. Every scent layered over another, every heartbeat in the nearby rooms registering like a warning, every whisper sharpening into something it could track.Possession was not a thought in this form. It was the law.Mine. Sophie, and I had to get to her, and the small, new pulse that hadn’t existed this morning.A healer stumbled backward as I entered the corridor, hands lifting instinctively as if she could soothe a force of nature with gesture.“Your Majesty,” she breathed, voice shaking.The lycan’s gaze cut to her and held, and Xavier felt the tremor of it ripple through the staff nearby. He caught their fear at a distance, the way they pressed against wall

  • CHASING MONSTERS   220-SOMETHING OLDER

    Ronan had hunted monsters before.He had hunted wolves gone rabid, men who wore cruelty like a crown, and hunters who hated him. Nothing in his years had prepared him for the way the chapel had ruptured tonight, for the way Xavier’s scream had sounded when Sophie fell, or for the moment the king stopped being a man at all.Xavier had become something older.Ronan jogged through the outer corridors with Abel beside him, both of them moving fast, weapons left behind on purpose because the last thing either of them needed was a twitchy guard mistaking a blade flash for a threat when the threat was already loose.“Where did he go?” Ronan demanded, breath hard, mind racing too fast to settle.Abel’s face was tight, his eyes scanning every corner, every passage, as if he could track a Lycan by sheer fury alone. “Out. Toward the Sanctuary, if the reports are right. If he caught her scent trail…” He stopped himself, jaw clenching. “If he caught her trail.”Ronan didn’t correct him. He didn’t

  • CHASING MONSTERS   219-AFTER THE CHAOS

    (Shiloh’s pov)After the chaos, Shiloh did not leave Sophie’s side.Not when the chapel erupted into screams.Not when guards surged past them, weapons raised.Not when blood stained the marble beneath Sophie’s trembling body.“Betsy,” Shiloh said sharply, already dropping to her knees. “Agatha. Go. Now.”Agatha froze, eyes wide and glassy, caught between the chaos breaking loose and the sight of Sophie collapsed on the floor. Blood streaked the white stone beneath her gown, bright and terrifying.“Go,” Shiloh snapped, louder now. “Anyone wounded on the grounds gets triage immediately. Help them.”Betsy didn’t hesitate. She grabbed Agatha’s arm and pulled her away, both women moving fast, skirts gathered, fear shoved aside in favour of duty.Shiloh turned back to Sophie.The healers were already working, summoned by Magi’s sharp call. Hands hovered, spells half-formed, blankets appearing as if pulled from the air itself.Sophie’s fingers locked around Shiloh’s wrist with desperate str

  • CHASING MONSTERS   218-SHADOWS OF THE SANCTUARY

    (Malik's pov)Malik waited in the shadows of the sanctuary.Stone and shadow wrapped the courtyard, cool and quiet, a stark contrast to the chaos still echoing faintly from the direction of the chapel. Shouts carried on the air, broken and distant. Whatever had begun as a wedding ceremony had ended in blood.He wondered if Veronica would make it out alive or if she would finally meet the end she had escaped too many times before. He knew her. She had a gift for survival, a way of slipping through catastrophe untouched while others paid the price.The woman wore her arrogance well.Vile bitch, he thought to himself.Jo surfaced in his mind without warning, the woman he was here to protect. Her steady presence. Her courage was quiet but unyielding. After this, he wanted his pack recognised within the Wolf Nation. And if that day came, he vowed to himself he would make Jo his luna.What better time, some would argue, to take a human bride than when the old world was already cracking open

  • CHASING MONSTERS   217-THE WEDDING

    (Xavier's pov)Xavier had faced war councils, executions, and the quiet weight of command that came with sending others into danger while he stayed behind.None of it compared to this moment.The doors of the chapel opened, and the world narrowed to one woman.Sophie. His mate. His forever. She was proceeded by Shiloh, Betsy and Agatha. All of them beautiful in their own way, but his mate made his soul catch fire.She stood framed in light, her dress flowing around her like something drawn from legend rather than cloth, her hair pinned back just enough to reveal her face. She was glowing, not in the way poets lied about, but in the way strength softened by joy did something dangerous to the heart. She wasn’t nervous. She wasn’t frightened.She was choosing him.Xavier’s chest tightened so hard he had to consciously draw breath. He had never seen her look more beautiful, not on the battlefield, not standing defiant before councils, not even in the quiet moments they’d shared when she g

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