Jordy’s POVTwo things happen on the first day. One is that, under pressure from me, Emma agrees to try a small boat.I have been at her for hours, saying that she can’t possibly come all this way and not enjoy the sea. But she says she’s been hopeless at windsurfing and can breathe underwater.We don’t have enough time to book her in for a beginners’ diving course, so we decide to sit on the boat.“How much is it?” She gasps theatrically when she sees the boat.“$357,263, I bought it yesterday.” I grab her waist and gesture toward the boat.“It’s really expensive!” Her mouth is wide open.“Yeah. Emma, I watch the weather report in the morning, it will be the last mild day of the month. Rain is due tomorrow. So don’t waste the sunlight, come on, let’s go out on the boat.”I carry a couple of blankets, two thermoses of hot chocolate, some raspberry biscuits Emma has made in the kitchen, stud with small white nubs of marzipan. The biscuits are warm from the oven still and warp in foil.
Emma’s POV"Emma!" comes a female shout from nowhere, my body shakes at her loud voice.I look up and see Roberta standing behind me. "Emma, why you are here? Aren’t you supposed to have a class now?"“Oh!” My body is too frozen in my seat for the moment, I glance down at my watch, “sorry. I must have lost track of time. The professor changed the time today.”"I can see, something is bothering you," she stares at me, sighs softly, and then slides her arms around me and gives me a hug.I childishly pull out my tongue at her, she rolls her eyes and pats my shoulders. “If you want to talk about it, it doesn't have to be now. Not if you don't want to.”I bite my lips, don’t know where to start.“I think it’s dinner time,” she says, “on me.”She drives her car to a Mexican restaurant and ploughs through great pies of shredded dried beef and tacos; it’s the best delicious meal any of us have eaten in months.She folds a piece of smoked salmon and places to me, "delicious salmon, really amaz
Emma’s POVWhen I go home, I get a massage from Jordy."I'll be in London with my business partners for several days. I'll be glad if you're willing to call me. And I just thought I'd tell you I'm planning on telling you something."I’ve got many phone calls and text messages from him, but I stop myself from replying.Instead, I content myself with reading his messages every hour or so, then swiping up to close down the app.“Emma, do you like the clothes that I bought it?”“I’m sorry, Emma. I didn’t mean to hide something from you. Please call me, I’ve called you many times.”“Call me, or send me a message, Emma. I just want to preserve the fragile happiness we are building up. I just want to do all I can to protect it.”...Every time I do so I put my phone away with the anxiety and tell myself that this will be the last time reading his messages.I tell myself that over time the spirit of the phone calls and messages will dead, that I will stop caring about them or wanting to read
Emma’s POVI didn't sleep last night, I law awake on the sofa, gazing up at the ceiling, and ran over and over the conversation I have talked with Jordy and Austin.It's as if everything has shifted, fragmented and settled in some other place, into a pattern I barely recognize.I can't tell anyone, that is almost the worst part. But I have to go to school no matter what happened.As I walk into the grand foyer, I accidentally hear people murmuring about me, let's just say that their words are very mean.In the crowd, many curious gazes at me, and some people even glare at me with eyes shot daggers.This hostility carries on through the whole day. A girl even splashes me with a cup of coffee; one guy teases me and asks me if he gives me some money, would I will give him oral sex.I feel very uncomfortable about the vicious attention, everyone's heads snap at me no matter where I am.But as soon as I turn around to search for the speakers, the voices die down very quickly.I'm so nervou
Austin’s POVHow did I know Emma has no place to live?I move my eyes to avoid her gaze, trying to hide the awkward face.Barbara sneers and cross her arms angrily, "Emma, such bitch like you doesn't need any attention, as long as a person has a brain surely won't live under the same roof with you."I scowl at Barbara, feeling angry about that. "Shut up, and get out of here immediately."I can't deny that Barbara is a bitch and a complete shrew, she fooled me, and even try to hurt Emma."Austin, you sneer at me? I'm trying to help you to see Emma's stinky mind," Barbara yells at me with flooded tears.I roll my eyes, my patience is running off at this moment."What the hell is this story about you loving this slut recently?" Barbara shouts at me before her eyes take in my suit. "And you are actually falling in love with her, this brat?" She asks in disbelief.Emma is our pack Beta's kid, I love my pack with all my heart but I won't sacrifice my happiness to marry her.“You promised th
Emma’s POVRyan and I walk together to the main house just as the rain begins to fall harder, and I curse under my breath at the weather.We plan to hold a party tonight, and the heavens think it's fit to send down a mixture of rain and ice.I hold an umbrella and Ryana is at my side leading me along. I pause inside his door, my shoes are muddy from the damp ground. As I look around, I can't see tracking the filth across the floor.“Emma, come in!” Ryan gives me a pair of slippers and grabs my hand to the parlor.My gaze stares out the window anxiously at the rain-slick streets, Under this weather, Austin is crazy enough to go swimming, is he seeking death? Then why should I care about him so much?Ryan goes to close the window, and the sharp pitter-pat of rain from outside fades to a distant sound.The rest of the groups start to talk about gossip and their hobbies. The more they laugh, the more worried I feel.Why I can't control my feelings toward Austin?One of the group members i
Emma’s POVMy body begins to shake, "Austin, I'm so very frightened..."He doesn't give me the chance to finish the sentence. He firmly grasps my hand and pulls me along with him down the hallway."But Ryan -""It's too late, he is already asleep. My apartment is here," he ignores my protest as he throws open the door to the apartment, pulling me inside before closing the door.He hugs me in his arms and holds me close against his chest, my body instantly surrounds by his perfume, a heady aroma."Let go of me,” I demand as his fingers now curl about the top of my arm and pull my body toward him until our bodies are almost touching.The distance is close enough that I can feel the heat of his muscular body and breathe in his seductive combination of aromas.Then I can feel his engorging manhood and it growing longer and thicker."You're perfectly correct in your statement, our relationship is lack eagerness and warmth, and this is no longer true," he murmurs.I feel so very good in his
Emma’s POVAfter the passion night, before Austin wakes up, I sneak out of his bed and go home with Ryan.Ryan and his friends thought I slept at Ryan's house, and they didn't know what happened last night.But when I arrive home, Tara texts me that I’d better move out as soon as possible, there is no cheap place to rent.She suggests the place she told me about last time, but I’ve heard from the news, that many creepy rich landlords use the cheap rent to lure the girls and force them to sell their bodies. So I told her I didn’t like the place.Austin says he can offer me his apartment. Jordy suggests I can live in one of his houses near my college.But I decide to think about it and try to look for another cheap place to live. Recently I sleep at the coffee shop at night while taking away my other stuff in the attic room.It’s cold today, I’m in my nightdress still in my dirty attic room, put a pile of paper on my lap, and want to write a letter to Roberta.The coffee shop has a big