SCARLETTBlake had been whining for approximately ten minutes now.Why? Because Alex and I had just broken the news about him officially being my mate the next morning at breakfast and he was being a typical last born about it. I found it really funny and so did Logan, but Alex didn’t share that opinion because he and Blake were evil twins in another dimension and lived off bickering.“So the moon goddess is being picky? She’s handing out mate bonds based on age differences? I find that pretty weird and unfair,” Blake picked at his croissant and threw the crumb at Alex while Logan and I stifled laughter.“Get over yourself, weirdo. It’s not some competition where it matters whose bond comes first or last, either way, we all know that the seer wasn’t lying,” Alex defended seriously, managing to catch the crumb before it hit him and throwing it back at Blake.Easily, Blake caught the crumb and threw it back.“Oh please, we all know you’d be just as dramatic if I developed the bond befor
BLAKE I looked Wathoni’s limp and injury ridden body over again.The only reason I could believe that she wasn’t a sick imagination of mine was because Hyacinth was present and her hands roaming around her bloodied body was proof that she was real. I shuffled on my feet helplessly as I watched her examine Wathoni closely while chanting.A part of me urged me to yank her off my office couch and throw her into the nearest dumpster and leave her for dead.But how could I? I wasn’t a heartless monster and she was clearly near death’s gate and she’d come to me when she could’ve gone anywhere else. She must’ve known that coming to a person who was tagged as a traitor would mean putting her life that was on the verge of ending in more danger, but she’d looked past that and come to me for help anyways.That showed just how desperate and endangered she was. As well as how much she trusted that I had some good in me.I couldn’t turn her away knowing that. Right?“She’s alive,” Hyacinth announ
BLAKEWathoni got on her feet while my brain went dead from the questions that had been hurled at me.For some reason, Scarlett’s eyes followed her movement closely until she stopped right beside me and then a frown caused her forehead to form displeased folds. And those soft and beautiful eyes of hers were full of what could only be jealousy as she looked Wathoni over from head to toe.Granted, Wathoni was a looker with generous curves and caramel skin but she didn’t compare to Scarlett’s otherworldly beauty in any way, I hope she knew that.“I’m Wathoni,” she introduced herself nervously, rubbing her hands along her battered clothes, “I know you all have every reason to be mad at Blake, but he doesn’t deserve to take the heat alone when I’m the one that dragged him into this mess by coming here for help,” she explained calmly.Logan walked into the office and so did Alex and Scarlett before shutting the door behind them.“Saying your name doesn’t explain a thing,” Logan pointed out,
SCARLETTI didn’t trust this bitch, and it had nothing to do with the sting of knowing she’d been with a man that rightfully belonged to me.However, the guys seemed interested in what she was willing to offer up, so I held back from voicing out my distrust to avoid looking like a tyrant in our relationship. But that didn’t mean I couldn’t give her the stink eye every now and then to remind her that she couldn’t fool me for a second.“Well? Don’t just dangle a goody bag in front of us and then keep quiet,” Alex said, seeming just as irritated with her as I was, “tell us everything you know, right now.”She glanced at Blake, as if hoping that he would back her up or something and that pricked me in all the wrong places. He wasn’t hers anymore and she had no right to have crawled to him, talk less of enraging him with information she purposely withheld and then looking to him for shelter afterwards.“I’ll write it all down, just give me a minute,” she replied, her feigned apologetic loo
SCARLETTDon’t trust her, my wolf whispered for the umpteenth time.She didn’t have to remind me so often, I had no plans of ever trusting this slimy snake of a woman. I was watching her ramble off more details about the Shahato army to the guys in the conference room of Logan’s company, but I didn’t trust or believe a word that left her lips.I wasn’t hard to convince on a normal day, but when my guts were constantly rejecting a a person, I knew there had to be something shady about them and I’d rarely ever been wrong about that all my life.Right now, I wasn’t voicing those concerns because the guys seemed seriously interested in what she was saying since they’d confirmed that the information about the hideout wasn’t a lie.“You’re certain this is the day when their forces are weakest?” Blake asked, motioning to the scribbling on the white board.Wathoni nodded eagerly, stepping closer him and annoying me in the process.“Yes, every Thursday about half of Lucas’s army are sent out o
BLAKEA miracle landed at our doorstep, yet Scarlett was giving the gods a ‘fuck you’ finger for sending it our way whenever she got the chance.“You definitely have no intention of helping these men and I know it, so stop fucking lying, okay?”I’d heard her say, and despite Wathoni’s attempt to sway her thinking, she’d gone ahead to light fire to gasoline and that’s why I’d stepped in to extinguish the fire before it blew up in all our faces.Now I was face to face with her and she seemed completely unapologetic about what had conspired between her and Wathoni. The look on her face was enough to tell me that she knew I’d overheard them.“Why’re you doing this, Scarlett? She’s just trying to help, without her we’d have never found the Shahato’s new hideout,” I said tiredly as she walked towards where I was in the doorway.“I really don’t want to get into the whys of this entire thing, I just want you to answer me one question Blake,” she sighed as she reached me, “can you do that for
BLAKEAlex and Logan were too busy fighting off the men we hadn’t planned to encounter while our army kept deteriorating by the second.Unlike me, they’d easily gotten over their initial shock and thrown themselves all into the battle again. But I was too busy hating myself for endangering them because I’d foolishly believed the lies of this traitorous bitch before me instead of trusting Scarlett’s guts.“I should’ve let you die, you fucking snake,” I pointed an accusing finger at Wathoni who was pointing a gun at me, “I should’ve let you bleed out on my doorstep while begging for mercy until you crawled back to hell where you rightfully belong,” I spat hatefully, my entire body filling with heat.She grinned, fondling with the trigger of the gun in her hand. It was similar to the one the men jumping out from the underground tunnels had so I knew that if she shot at me, I’d turn to ashes in a second, but that didn’t stop me from speaking my mind.I didn’t fear death, and as long as th
BLAKEIt dawned on all three of us at the same time; how foolish and thoughtless we’d been.We’d left Scarlett in the care of armed men at the Vaughn mansion when she would’ve been safer in an armored truck with us. We just didn’t see the point of bringing her into the heat of battle when her training was still incomplete and the Shahatos weren’t supposed to see us coming.But they’d seen us coming from the onset, and knew our plans. Wathoni made sure of that.“We have to go get Scarlett! Now!” Logan yelled as I dropped the gun in my hand, his eyes bulging in realization upon hearing Wathoni’s words.Without wasting another second, we all shifted to our wolf forms in unison and sped back towards the Vaughn mansion at full speed. We didn’t want to leave a single second to chance, we’d already wasted enough time fighting while she was in harm’s way.How the hell didn’t that occur to me while I was nursing the sting of Wathoni’s betrayal?Scarlett’s scent was disturbingly faint as we bur