LOGINTHREE MONTHS LATER. EDDIE BEAUMONT “Maria! You did not just do that!!” Noah shrieks, but it’s more of a retired shriek.Noah cusses under his breath, substituting his original ear bleeding cuss words for softer ones like, freak, shoes, all the corny stuff. I’ve asked him to cut it out altogether, but he is doing his best. With Maria’s senses sharpening, and her ability to repeat words sharpening, on more than one occasion we’ve been called to the school because she wouldn’t stop cussing. He cusses in front of the teachers, and apologized, promising to do better.It was so cute I couldn’t resist kissing him. The teachers cooed so they let us go.“We are already late Maria, don’t stress Daddy more than you have to.” I say with a conspiratory wink.She giggles.She’s so cute, she gets away with everything. “More than she has to?! You keep encouraging her!”I pull him into my arms, placing kisses all over his face, until he dissolves into a smile, then he shrugs. “Maybe we can go l
NOAH HARROW He kept his word.He stayed for breakfast, with Maria on her chair, he was feeding her pancakes. he actually asked her what she wanted and when she said pancakes, everyone who ate at the tower today had to eat pancakes. He asked them to make as much as possible with the resources available.I watch him now with her, he is a natural at it, making her laugh, recounting parts of his favorite super hero movies, while she clutched one of his Lego pieces, her old toy lay discarded somewhere in our room. He looks so relaxed, and in his zone that I dare not interrupt, just watching them play as they eat, makes me feel grateful. He has changed so much, yet he remains the same.He always had that wisdom and a sense of responsibility about him, but having it and using it are different. I’m just glad he didn’t lose himself.“I’ll come back early today, so we can spend more time together.” he says with a smile, the smile is shy and radia
NOAH HARROW I had been buzzing with anticipatory energy, but he only came back into bed, snuggling with me, body pressed against mine from behind. “Good night, Noah.” he whispered, and drifted off to sleep some time after.That’s it? I thought we would…?But his soft snores reminded me how much he has been working since he became alpha, the rest was very much needed. “Good night, Eddie.” I murmured into the dark, thinking he wouldn’t hear me or something, but his hands tightened against me. The next morning, when I wake up, his arms are still around me. Usually, his side of the bed would be empty when my eyes opened.While we slept, our positions had changed, I am now pressed against his chest in the most intimates of hugs. He pulls me closer, eyes still shut.I watch his sleeping face, mesmerized by his freckles, there are scattered all over his nose bridge. Subtly as I can, I try to count them, and his eyes peels open, the blue startles me so much that my mouth parts and only
NOAH HARROW When he kisses me, a small sound catches in my throat, and I think I might pass out. I open my mouth, kissing him harder, I’m breathing in his exhale like it’s my oxygen. Kissing him is like jamming a thousand, no, a million cigarettes up my throat, the high is different. My fingers fist his shirt, he grunts into my mouth.His leg goes between mine as he props himself up to hover over me, the heat of it all, his tongue sliding rough against mine, it’s all too much. I’m disintegrating, melting through the mattress beneath me, the weight of him on top of me is the only thing anchoring me to earth. His hardness is pressed against mine.“Mmm.” I moan into his as he gently starts grinding his hard on against mine, sending sparks down my nervous system. My legs thrash around, and so does my arms, wrapping and unwrapping themselves on his neck. He holds both my hands, pining them on the bed beneath me.I groan in dissatisfaction, fingers ac
NOAH HARROW His smile had become rare.Reserved for Maria and I. The rest of our friends occasionally got a ghost of a smile. It should make me glad, but it doesn’t, that’s not our Eddie, my Eddie.There has been no opportunities to bring it up, everything is over, but we had to pick the pieces of our pack, quite literally. Only a few buildings remained untouched, and food was getting scarce.Everyone had to be busy, every hand was on deck.First, we buried the bodies. Everyone but Eddie shed a tear.He looked… empty. Felt empty too, like he had completely disconnected himself from reality.Nobody blamed him, nobody whispered. The pack loved him.Then we had to find houses for everyone, the people’s houses that remained untouched had to share with the ones who lost everything. Some moved into the tower, living in his mother’s wing, he allowed it.Nobody wanted to live in his father’s wing, even if they had to squeeze themselves into the maid’s chambers. Millicent’s family
NOAH HARROW “We have orders to bring Noah Harrow to the underground bunker at the tower.”Nathan stepped in front of me, shoulders and spin straightening, he stared at the guards from on top of his nose, like the man in front of him wasn’t towering over him. “What do you want with him?”The guards swallowed, and I almost worry they are intimidated by my brother, then they speak, “The alpha Eddie needs you…”He didn’t have to say anything else, I didn’t need him to.My feet moved fast. He needed me was all I needed to hear.Then I saw his father. “Out! None of you are welcome in the tower!”Where would they go?? People were murmuring, shuffling, but they were more terrified of the missiles than they were of him. They saw what the missiles had done to their families. He was making them choose between death and death. How could he? Was the suffering he already put us through not enough??Rage filled my veins, and I snap at him. When I watched the interview, where he ba
We hit the books after.He must have realized it after all, that nothing was going to work between us, and he’s given it up, which was fine by me. It wasn’t fine.It felt like someone had yanked my heart out of my chest right through my mouth, everything hurt and we haven't even severed our connec
Everything passes by me in a blur. So many smells fill the air, ones I was unable to distinguish before. The smell of despair hung heavily in the air, the sound of the people groaning in anguish, i can taste the blood hanging in the air. The blood of the innocents that had been shed because my fath
“Now’s not the time to joke around.” he scolds lightly, eyes roaming my body like he wouldn’t feel it himself if I was in any sort of pain.He sniffs, and suddenly he doesn’t look so macho anymore, he looks like an eighteen year old who just went through the most traumatizing of experiences. I f
Noah didn’t explain what he meant by that, he didn’t get the chance to, Declan met us on the rooftop and while I tried to jump away from him, he pulled me even closer to himself.“What are you guys up to?”“I’m taking him to the library.” Noah nodded to me, who’s heart was definitely beating wit







