Mag-log inAll her life, Calla Hayes has been invisible, the awkward neighbor girl with tangled hair and a frame too skinny to be noticed. Until the night of her eighteenth birthday, when the Moon Goddess reveals her fated mate: her arrogant stepbrother, Lucas Blackwell, the pack’s golden bad boy. But instead of claiming her, he rejects her in front of everyone. Humiliated and heartbroken, Calla runs only to awaken a power inside her no one in the pack can ignore. Now, two dangerous men want her. On hand there’s Lucas, the stepbrother who spurned her, now unable to resist her new strength, and Darius, her childhood neighbor and best friend’s protective older brother, whoshe has always crushed on. One is her fated mate. The other is her forbidden desire. Both are willing to burn the pack to have her. Calla’s no longer the ugly duckling. She’s the storm that will either break their world or remake it.
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“Back in this bitch” I said out loud to no one.
I dropped my bags in the middle of the living room, stood there like an idiot and stared at the tall glass windows of my father's villa.
The place smiled like dust and my father's old Arabian perfume, and even though the housekeepers had come earlier to make it livable after three years, it still didn't feel like home.
I ran my hand along my father's old trophies arranged on the antique table in the living room and sighed. My father has been dead for four years now, and I've managed to cope with the grief of being an orphan.
I should have been passed out in bed after the flight from Paris, but sleep was impossible.
Not with the racket coming from next door. I could hear the loud roar of cars and loud music, and the howl of wolves.
Yes, actual howls.
I hissed and rolled my eyes. “Are you kidding me? My first night back and this?” I had been home for exactly an hour and already regretted it.
I shut the windows, thinking it'll block out the nosiee, but it was no use. The bass was even rattling the old chandelier, and it felt like they were throwing a rave inside my skull.
“That's it.” There was only so much I could take. I slipped out of my clothes into the first thing I could find, which was pink silk shorts, a white tank top and my fluffy robe since it was cold outside.
My hair was a mess so I knotted it up with the ribbon I still had on my wrist from the flight. Classy.
I looked like the poster girl for insomnia, but I wasn’t about to let an entire wolf frat ruin my night.
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What I saw when I stepped out of my villa didn't make sense. A silver sports car screamed down the private road, and its tires were smoking, then out of nowhere, a dark wolf ran along with the car. The crowd outside shouted and hooted as if it was a normal Saturday night entertainment.
The car drifted to a stop, and the wolf shifted into a naked man in front of the headlights, and nobody seemed to care. What ever happened to wolves hiding from the humans? Or weren't there any humans on this street anymore? I wondered.
I made my way over there, hugging my robe as tight as it could go, praying I looked more like an annoyed resident than a trespasser. Heads turned as I entered the yard, and most of them were guys with the kind of smiles that made me want to slap someone.
“Uh, hi,” I said, clearing my throat. “Who’s in charge of… whatever this is?”
Someone laughed and pointed toward the villa. “He’s back inside, sweetheart.”
Sweetheart. Great. I rolled my eyes and walked into the Villa ignoring the hoots and catcalls.
The music was louder indoors. There were empty bottles littered around and wolves in human forms lounging around in half open shirts. I made my way out to the back of the house, the pool area. There were people there as well.
“Hey, excuse me…who's the owner of this party?” I yelled as loud as I could using my wolf voice. Yes, I am a wolf too.
“He's not here. Is there a problem?” one of the boys said as he walked over to me. He sniffed the air and frowned. “You smell like a wolf, but you smell different…”
I took a step back. I had to be careful so no one would know what I really was. A werewolf trybrid. My father was a werewolf, but my mom was a Fae, and a witch. Even in the 21st century, Faes, witches and werewolves still hated each other.
Infact, I was an abomination…a product of a werewolf and a fae. That's why my father is dead, because someone from his pack killed him for marrying a fae witch.
“You smell like alcohol.” I shot back at the guy. He bit his lower lip as his eyes dragged over my body.
He scoffed. “I like you, you have spunk. How can I help you?”
“Who's the owner of this party?” I asked again.
“Wel—” he started to say but he was cut off when something slammed me to the ground..
It was so fast I didn't see it coming. It knocked the wind out of me. It was a wolf, a black massive wolf.
I gasped for air, and crawled backward, trying to get as far away as I could. Its teeth were bared, and there was spit hanging off its lips.
“I…please the owner of the party. I just want to—” I blubbered, my heart racing wildly in my chest. The wolf leapt into the midair, its body twisting and snapping and by the time it hit the ground, it was no longer a wolf at all.
It was Adrian Vale, my childhood friend and he was naked, save for some shorts. He was taller than I remembered with a ripped body that belonged in a museum. His dark hair was longer now, that it fell to his shoulders. I had to leave because my mom pulled me out of LA to school abroad before I even had a chance to say goodbye to him.
And he'd never reached out or tried to keep in contact with me. He gave me a once over and he frowned. “No way…”
I tried to cover my shock with attitude. “Some people are trying to sleep.”
He shrugged. “Then go back to wherever you disappeared to, princess.”
“You almost attacked me, and now you’re refusing to turn down your music?”
“Attacked you?” He scoffed. “Don’t flatter yourself. I smelled a trespasser, that’s all. I just didn't think it'd be you.”
“Yeah well, surprise…”
He stepped closer, and I took a step back, his chest glsitened under the pool lights. His eyes dragged over my body slowly. “Nice Pajamas.”
Heat rushed to my cheeks and I turned away. “I wasn’t exactly planning to crash your little circus.”
“Then don’t.”
He turned to leave but I caught his muscled arm. The contact made me snatch my hand back. “Turn the music down.”
Adrian leaned in so close that I smelt the wild scent of wolf on him. “Go home, Sutton.”
“It's not Sutton, it's Audrey.” My name wasn’t Sutton anymore. I was here to find out about my father and I wanted to stay anonymous.
“Don’t bother lying,” he cut me off. “Do you think a fake name can fool me? Please… I’d know you anywhere.”
“Oh yeah? Then you know you're being a complete jerk.”
Adrian grabbed my wrist and dragged me back toward the entrance. God, he had gotten so strong.
“Hey!” I protested, hitting his arm with my free hand. “Let go!”
But he didn't even though he was making a scene. By the time we reached the gate, a small crowd had followed us.
“Adrian, stop! What the hell is your problem?”
“You!” He snapped back then pushed me out into the street.
I stumbled but caught myself as he yelled. “Don't come back!” Then he turned back into the house.
I stood there shaking with anger. My robe had slipped off and people were staring at me “Jerk. He's a total, arrogant jerk.” I cursed stomping back home.
Audrey's POVI walked to his door.The corridor was dark and cold and the villa was completely quiet around me and I walked to his door and stood in it and looked at him.He was on the floor.Back against the bed, legs stretched out, sketchbook open across his lap. Not sitting the way he sat in chairs — composed, deliberate, the posture of someone who had chosen how to occupy a space. This was the floor version of Luca, the one that did not exist in public, the one that only happened when the human part of him had given up on maintaining the architecture and just — sat down.He was drawing.I looked at the sketchbook.It took me a second to understand what I was seeing because Luca drew structures, Luca drew floor plans and load-bearing calculations and the architectural signatures of things that needed to stand up, and this was not any of those things.It was the garage.Specifically it was the Hellcat, and me, standing the way I stood when I had both hands on the engine and was thin
Audrey's POVThe front door opened quietly because I opened it quietly and I walked into the villa and Luca was standing in the hallway.Not blocking it. Not positioned dramatically. Just standing there the way he had been standing at the window — completely still, hands at his sides, the composed face entirely absent and nothing replacing it yet.We looked at each other.The hallway was narrow and warm and smelled like whatever Theo had cooked earlier and the bond between us was doing something so loud it was almost physical, a frequency I felt in my sternum rather than my chest.I walked past him.Not fast. Not slow. Just past, the way you walked past furniture, the way you moved through a space that had something in it you were not ready to address yet, and I felt him not reach for me and I felt myself not stop and both of those things cost something but I kept walking anyway.Up the stairs.My room.I closed the door.---The villa had a specific atmosphere for the rest of the nig
Audrey's POVI walked out of the cafeteria with Ethan and I did not look back.A conscious choice. Made with my whole chest and zero apology. The bond told me exactly what all three of them were feeling without me having to turn around — Theo's specific loud silence, Adrian's calculating stillness, and Luca's jaw doing the thing it did when he was keeping something controlled that wanted out.I let the door close behind me and breathed the cold morning air and felt, for the first time since Friday night, something happening on my terms.It felt good."You okay?" Ethan said, falling into step beside me. He asked because he paid attention, because he'd clocked the specific quality of my okay this morning."Getting there," I said.He nodded and we walked toward the academic building with the cold doing its October thing and it was easy the way things were easy when nobody was performing anything."First period?" he said."Vehicle dynamics," I said. "You?""Same building," he said. "I'll
Audrey's POVOkay so. Six a.m. and I actually slept. Like, slept-slept and not just the fake kind where you lie there replaying the bench and the hallway and that one pause on repeat until your brain just gives up from exhaustion. Real sleep. Then real morning. Then that washed-out October light doing its thing through the curtains.I just laid there for a sec doing an inventory.Wolf was quiet more like she'd been up all night sorting through garbage and actually finished the job for once. Came out the other side with her stuff together.Felt like patience, honestly. Weird to feel that from her. I got up, threw on clothes, went down before anyone else was awake.Kitchen was empty, freezing, and I made my own coffee for the first time in forever because apparently I'd just been letting Luca or Adrian handle that without even clocking it. Made it exactly how I like it. Climbed up on the counter, mug in both hands, stared at the mountain, breathed.Bond was still buzzing on that weird f
AdrianI had not planned on coming over. But the power at my villa cut off and I could see her struggling with her lights over at her villa.I should not have gone over, but I was worried she'd be scared and alone. She was always scared of the dark as kids.So when she turned around in her kitchen,
Luca's PovThe garage smelled like hot rubber and oil as always. Students sprawled beside their cars or their friend's cars talking animatedly. This was an F1 academy which meant that everyone's idea of lunch break or breaks of any kind was spent with their cars.I leaned against my black Porsche
Audrey’s POVThe F1 academy was home to wolves and humans alike, and other supernatural creatures, until my father was killed and it was taken over by werewolves.The werewolves had driven the other supernatural creatures away, leaving the humans because they paid well.The academy didn’t look like
Luca’s POV“Hey sexy…”The party was still in full swing when I saw her in that impossibly sexy tank top and her shorts and her tall legs peeked out of the robe that accentuated her curves.She looked like she didn't belong at this house and yet she walked out of Adrian Vale's villa with her head h
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