Julissa’s POV
After all these years I’m back and ready to enact my revenge. What I didn’t expect was for Ashton to be my fated mate. I refused to let that be a wrench in my plans. After I left him in front of the pack house I went in search of my mother. I know she was disappointed I didn’t attend her wedding ceremony, but I couldn’t face Ashton yet. I was still too weak. Moving in with my grandmother was amazing. I finally made a few friends and enjoyed the rest of my last year of high school. I had studied hard and gotten into college and I was about to be in my last year. I decided to transfer to the pack college for my last year, I was ready now to face my bully. He looked more attractive than when we were in high school. He grew into a really sexy man, and I chastised myself for thinking about him that way. That’s what had gotten me into this mess in the first place. I was too blinded by my feelings, and he took advantage of me. “Mom.” I called out when I found her in the alpha’s office. “Julissa!” She ran over to me and gave me a large hug before pulling back. “I decided to finish college here. I’m moving back in today if you and the alpha are fine with that.” I told her. “Of course! We can clear out your old room. Nobody has touched it since you left anyway.” She smiled happily at me, and I felt a little bad for having ditched her. “Daughter, it’s nice that you returned.” Alpha Bradley greeted me. It was weird to think of him as my stepfather now. “Thank you, alpha. I came to seek permission first; I still have to go get my stuff and bring it here. I’ll be back a little later.” I waved goodbye and left the office. When I went back outside Ashton was back in the training field and he looked up and stared as I got on my bike and drove off. I could feel the weight of his gaze until I finally got out of sight. Ashton’s POV I watched Julissa get back on the bike and drive off. I ran inside to see if my father knew why she was here. I found him in his office with Julissa’s mother. “Hey, son. How can I help you?” He asked when I walked in. “Do you know why Julissa stopped by? I asked him. “Your sister wants to move back in, said she’s transferring to our college for her last year.” He informed me. “Okay. I was just wondering.” I scratched the back of my head and left. So, she’s moving back in and she’s going to be attending the same school as me. I wonder if she’s as much fun to torment as she was back in high school. I was torn between wanting to torment her and wanting to pull her into my arms. I was reminded of having that same feeling before. I went to my room to shower and get changed. If she was coming back to the house, I needed to look my best. I needed to make her mine, after all the fates were never wrong. They determined that she should be mine. I smiled to myself at the thought of ravishing her hot body. She was going to be mine to love, mine to fuck, and mine to bully. I would give her everything. A few hours later I heard a commotion in the common room downstairs. I went down and found Julissa and Julius in a deep hug. I growled and stomped towards them. How dare he touch my mate! I tapped on his shoulder and when he turned around, he gave me a confused look. “What do you want Ashton?” He asked bored. “I just think that you two are hugging too long. You don’t want people to get the wrong idea.” I told him, unable to come up with anything else. He rolled his eyes at me and kissed her cheek before setting her down on the ground. “Let them get the wrong idea, I don’t give a fuck.” He told me. Julissa frowned as she looked at me and I grew bitter. She’s not supposed to look at me like that, I’m her mate! I felt the need to teach her a lesson soon. I just needed the right opening. I walked off and into her room where I waited for her. A few minutes later she walked in and looked me up and down, “why are you here?” “Baby, we are supposed to be together. I’m sorry for how I treated you before. Can you forgive me?” I asked. She gave me a sly smile and approached me, pushing me down onto the bed. I watched her straddle me before she whispered in my ear, “fuck no.” I grabbed her ass and gave it a slap. She tried to scurry off of me, but I held her down and gripped her long silky hair into a ponytail with my fist. I bared her neck to me and licked it before I sucked on her skin, leaving hickies in my wake. “Ashton. Stop.” She moaned. She tried to wiggle out of my grasp but all that did was rub her tits against my chest. I whispered in her ear, “fuck no.” She whimpered and I worked my mouth from her neck to her jaw, trying to make it to her sweet lips. As soon as our lips met, I felt an explosion of ecstasy and I wanted more. I shoved my tongue in her mouth. Almost immediately, she bit down, drawing blood and I let her go from the pain I was in. “Why the fuck did you do that?” I yelled. “I told you not to touch me!” She growled back. “Baby, I said I was sorry.” I repeated. “You think sorry is going to change what you did to me? I don’t think so.” She spat with flames in her eyes. “You’re so sexy when you’re mad.” I cooed at her. “Get out of my room, Ashton!” She shouted. The door to her room opened and Julius walked in, “is there a problem here?” “Ashton was just leaving.” Julissa told him. I scoffed and stormed off. This was going to be harder than I thought.Gray’s POV“Get the fuck out now,” the vamp growled again, clawed hands dragging down the glass like nails on a chalkboard.I raised my hand slowly, pushed the door open with my elbow and stepped out with my palms up. “I don’t mean any harm.”But they didn’t give a shit. The second my boots hit the asphalt, one of them tackled me. I hit the ground hard, my knees scraping concrete as a heavy elbow crushed into the back of my neck.Fuck. I wheezed as pain lanced through me.“Stay down, mutt,” i heard them hiss.The fuckers moved like trained killers. This clearly wasn’t the first time they’d slam someone face-first into pavement. My cheek was ground against the gravel and I could taste the blood in my mouth.Fucking hell.“I’m just looking for someone,” I managed to spit out through gritted teeth. But i hadn’t even completed my words before I heard the sound of hells coming towards me.It was definitely the vampiress.WHen she appeared in my line of sight, all I could see where her leat
Julissa’s POVThe air between had changed. It was charging with electricity and the look in Kane’s eyes made me aware of every single thing.Of his arms around me, water dripping from my naked skin onto his shirt, and i could his heart pounding against my ribs. I tried to squirm out of his grip, but my limbs were still dazed from the panic of nearly drowning.“Kane,” I breathed, “Don’t…”But his eyes were wild and hungry, looking at me like I was the answer to every fucked-up prayer he’d every said to the goddess. It had my pulse pounding in my throat.“Put me down, Kane.” I rasped, squirming in his grip. However, it only made my bare pussy slide over something very hard between us. Oh gods! “KANE!”But he didn’t let go of me.Instead, his arms tightened, and he roamed his eyes down my body shamelessly, taking in every inch of me before crashing his lips onto mine.The kiss didn’t feel like a kiss. It was brutal. His mouth took without asking and my body betrayed me with a full-body
Julissa's POVI’d kicked Ashton out, yelled at him, and told him to never touch me again—and for good reason. He tried to force himself on me. He fucking tried to kiss me when I’d made it clear I belonged to Roman. But still, the moment the door slammed behind him, a sick pit opened in my stomach.Because I wasn’t completely innocent either.Asher had been my rock.For the past two months, when Roman was still deep in that coma and I wasn’t about to see him, it was Ashton who stood beside me when the pregnancy tests turned positive. When I was hunched over the toilet every morning, vomiting my guts out and crying from the smell of soap, Ashton was the one who held my hair. He was the one who got me crackers and rubbed my back in silence when I didn’t have the strength to even cry. I’d been so lost, so numb, and Ashton… he’d made me feel less alone.So I understood why he might’ve thought there was still a chance. That maybe my leaning on him was permission. Maybe I blurred the lines a
Ashton’s POVI reached out across the bed, expecting warm skin, soft breath, maybe her tangled hair spread across the pillow. But my hand hit nothing but cold sheets.My eyes snapped open, and I sat up with a curse lodged in my throat.Her side of the bed was empty.And not just empty. It was also cold, telling me she’d been gone a while. Long enough for the heat her body left behind to disappear completely.What the actual fuck?I gritted my teeth and dragged my hand down my face. The room still reeked of sex. Her sweet human scent was faint on the pillow, and my wolf wouldn't stop howling in my psyche for his mate. I don't even know her fucking name.My cock twitched from the memory of last night, but the second my mind registered that she’d left without a word, everything inside me turned sour.I stood from the bed fully naked as my muscles tightened with irritation. Usually, I was the one who left or kicked women out of my bed once I was done. No one ever walked out on me. Especia
Ashton’s POVI didn’t come here to meet anyone. I came here to drink and drown the bitter taste of Julissa from my mouth. I needed to feel the burn of liquor sliding down my throat until I forgot the way her lips used to part when she gasped under me, or how she laughed when she thought I wasn’t listening. I didn’t want to remember any of that tonight. I just wanted to be fucking numb.But the second I smelled that scent, something inside me snapped like a wire pulled too tight.My head jerked up before I even realized what I was doing.The woman was standing by the bar with her dark hair tumbling past her shoulders. She wore black jeans that hugged her hips which swayed to the beat without effort. As though she felt someone looking at her, she whirled around and her eyes met mine, making my wolf howl loudly inside me.Mate!Shit I must have said it loud because the woman cocked her head and raised her brow at him like I’d told her she had spinach in her teeth.Fuck.She clearly didn’
Gray’s POVI’d been driving all damn day and now it’s night.Since the GPS kept screwing me over, I’d thought for a minute that Julissa gave me the wrong address to keep me away from the truth. It was like I was going around in circles, dirt roads that didn’t exist, and dead ends that looked more like trap sites than missed turns. I was ready to find the damned device out the window. But finally, it had shut up, and the cabin was now in sight.The wood was clearly faded, and the cabin had a couple of broken windows with a few boarded up from the inside. Weeds swallowed the porch, a clear sign nobody had been there for a while. With a grimace, I pulled over a good distance away and killed the engine. But as I made to open the door to step out, a flicker of light came from one of the windows.That wasn’t right. No one should’ve been there. From what I knew, this place had been abandoned since Julissa and Ashton ended Nathan. But someone was inside, and I wasn’t about to barge in blind.