My mom’s been locked in a room with my father for three days now. Dallas says she’s fine and is making sure to get updates on it to make sure. So, I feel a little better in that respect.I hate not trusting my dad, but what he did to her still haunts me. I could have lost her that day and bewitched or not, I would have lost my dad too.If not from one of us killing him, I know he’d never forgive himself if he killed her. I don’t think I would have been able to either.I’m having trouble now.It seems the rings Hazel made for all of us, are working though. As far as I’ve been told there hasn’t been any more incidents. And I believe them; Dallas would have either killed my dad or Dallas would be dead having tried.No matter how much he wishes he were at this moment, he’s not stronger then him. It took Walker, Dallas and me holding him down last time.“What are you thinking about?” The magical voice of my beautiful mate cuts through the drama in my head and I look over at her with a smil
I walk back to the house and walk inside. I start to head upstairs when Griffon’s voice stops me. “Mom.” Griff says and I hear him walking over to me from the kitchen.I pause, waiting to see what he wants to talk about, and I see Nadia walk over to me with him. I give her as much of a smile as I can muster, since I really want to punch something right now.“Nadia. I’m glad you’re back.” I say to her, and she gives me a small smile. “Thanks, Amy. I took the room next to Griffon’s. I hope that’s okay.” She tells me and I smile, even though I’m not overly happy about that.That means she’s right next to mine and Liam’s room, and for some reason I really don’t like the idea of that, but I chalk it up to being annoyed that I can’t be around my mate by myself right now, and everything is going to annoy me for the time being.“That’s fine. Do you need help settling in?” I ask, and she shakes her head. “No, Griff has helped me get everything settled.” She says, looking up at my son like he h
I wait at the opening to the cells, Dallas not allowing me to walk further inside. I don’t know what he thinks will happen. Liam should have the ring now, we all do, and he’ll be okay. We’ll be okay.I know he’s worried about hurting me, but he’s going to have to get over that, because I’m not going anywhere. He’s been my life for as long as I can remember, even when we weren’t together. If he thinks a witch’s hex can separate us, he’s got another thing coming.I hear him and Walker walking closer to the end of the tunnel after Walker was in there forever just to give him the ring.I spare a quick glance at Dallas, to see if I can get away, but his eyes are focused on me, like he can see my next move before I make it.Sometimes I swear this Gamma Luna bond will be the death of me, but it also comes in handy. ‘Like when your mates trying to kill you and we take way to long to contact help.’ Leah chaises, and I take a deep breath.She’s not happy with Liam. Even after knowing he wasn’t
I stare at this gray pebble covered in dirt from the floor in the cell I’m being kept in.The cell I’m being kept in, because I hurt her. I hurt my reason for existing, and she comes down here like I’ve done nothing wrong. Like I didn’t try and kill her yesterday.I kick the pebble away from me, like I can’t stand it’s existence, before turning around and punching my fist into the stone walls. The stone mends into my fist and carves it’s name on in my skin. The pain taking a backseat to the guilt and fog I still feel eating me alive.Rather I was myself or not. I shouldn’t have hurt her. I should have done better, fought harder.I lay my hands on the wall above my head and look back down at the ground, while I hear footsteps coming from down the tunnel.It’s not her. The footsteps are too heavy. It must be one of the guys.I close my eyes waiting for one of them to appear, when I get the scent of yet another person I’d rather not see right now.“Griff.” I whisper as I hear him lean ba
Hazel walks in circles around Liam, sensing whatever it is she needs to sense from him.I watch with intensity, not sure which way I want this to go. I want there to be a reason he’s acting like this, but I also don’t know how to feel if someone did curse him.Hazel hums as she works and finally, she’s done, and both Liam and I look over at her.Her jaw clenches and she looks out the window, “There’s a hex on him. I should have seen the signs.” She says looking at me apologetically.I look back at Liam and all I feel is a sense of relief, while this brings a whole new set of problems, it also explains everything.Plus, this started right after the ball, just like the explosion.Hazel sighs and looks at me concerned. I grimace, “Can you not fix it?” I ask and she shakes her head. “I can. It’s just the hex is… In simple terms the person who places the hex has to keep placing it for it to stay.His love for you is why his real self keeps breaking through. So, in order for him to keep ac
I watch him leave in complete shock. Staring at the back of his head until it disappears into the house. “Ignore him. He’s drunk.” Dallas whispers, just as shocked as I am. “He’s been drunk before.” I whisper back and he turns me to look at him.“Amy, he didn’t mean it.” Dallas tries to convince me. I close my eyes and turn my head to the ground, “My mate just called me a whore.” I whisper mostly to myself.But of course, they all hear it.“Something just has him acting out. You know he’s not like this and he didn’t mean what he said.” Nick says and I shake my head. “It sounded pretty convincing to me.” I tell them and they all go silent.I finally pull myself together and look over at Mia, “I’m kind of over tonight. Can I stay at your house?” I ask, not wanting to be anywhere near Liam right now. She nods, her face full of pity and shock and I look up at Walker to make sure he’s okay with it.My jaw clenches, “Maybe I should stay at a hotel.” I tell them. I don’t want Liam thinking e
We all sit outside looking at the stars, we turned off all the lights and our backyard stretches on for miles, so their extremely bright. The moon casting just enough light to make everything easily visible.Hazel, Dallas and I have a wine cooler, while everybody else is drinking beer. It’s such a perfect night, the weather is perfect, the company is perfect and everybody is getting along.I walk over to Liam and wrap my arms around his waist, and he follows suit, while I grin up at him. “This is nice.” I whisper to him, and he smiles and looks around at all our friends. “It really is.” He responds.He pulls me closer and leans down to kiss my lips. I let the kiss go on longer than I should, considering everybody here, but they all have their mates here too, so I’ll just enjoy my moment with mine.I finally pull away from him and look at the group. Cole looks at me and chuckles, “Do you remember when I dared Mia to kiss you, and you were so embarrassed to never have had a kiss before?
I was wrong and so was Walker. Everybody in the pack started giving me side eyes the second we walked out of the hospital and all the way home.I sigh relieved when I walk inside the house and fall back onto the couch. I grab the blanket off the back and cover my face with it.I was holding back tears the entire way home. I don’t understand how everyone is so quick to think the worst of me. I didn’t do anything, but they’re acting like I’m a murderer walking free.I close my eyes to keep the tears from falling, but a few still slide down my cheeks.Everything has been so good for so long. Why is everything falling apart all of the sudden? Maybe it was stupid of me to throw the ball. My whole reasoning was because I wanted Griff to find his mate, and now I’m not even sure I like her.I hear the door open, and someone run to the living room. “Mom, dad, are you guys, okay?” I hear Aspen’s sweet voice ring through the room, but I don’t move.“We’re fine, honey.” Mia answers and I hear as
“I’m glad your okay, mom. Are you sure you don’t want me to come back home for a little while?” Heather asks me over the phone.I smile, “No, sweetie. It’s just a broken hand. I’m fine. Don’t worry about me. I love you.” I tell her and she sighs, “I love you too, mom. Let me know if you want me to come home, okay?” She says and I chuckle. “I will. I’ll talk to you later.”We hang up the phone and I sigh looking at Hazel and Mia, who are both in their own beds, but still in the same room as me. The guys are all outside the door, keeping watch, but we know they’re talking about what to do. They just want to leave us out of it for now while we heal.I’m not sure what can be done. As far as we know, we haven’t had any witnesses come forward and that’s really all we could go off of, since car is in pieces, but I’ll let them try and figure it out. They’re much better at those things than we are.“Hazel, I think you saved our lives.” I tell her and she shakes her head, “You saved our lives,