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9: Cat ears

Author: Ash Lennox
last update publish date: 2025-07-08 06:14:53

WREN’S POV

The day passed in a haze of quiet conversation with my wolf, Ashley, her voice a welcome balm to the chaos in my mind. She was snarky and warm, challenging me in ways I didn’t expect.

“You’re stronger than you think, Wren” she’d said at one point, her voice echoing in my head as I sat curled up on the couch. “But you’ve got to stop letting people stomp all over you. Including him”

“Alpha Ronan?” I whispered aloud though the cabin was empty.

“Do you see anyone
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  • My Step Daddy’s Holimate   89: No right

    RONAN’S POVI wasn’t following Wren. I told myself that very clearly as I walked down the main strip of downtown, my hands in my pockets, the afternoon heat pressing down on my shoulders. I needed air. I needed to be somewhere that wasn’t the cabin with its particular smell of her that had embedded itself into every surface, every pillow, every corner I turned. I wasn’t following her at all! I’d just happened to walk this direction. Fox said nothing, which meant he didn’t believe me either.The downtown strip was busy in the lazy way of island afternoons, people moving particular urgency, shop owners standing in their doorways catching the breeze. I walked without destination, nodding at the occasional wolf who recognized me and fielding two attempts at political conversation that I extracted myself from with the experience of twenty years of pack leadership.My mind was elsewhere. We have forty eight hours on the island and we’d be leaving this island. We are going back to a reali

  • My Step Daddy’s Holimate   88: Potential

    WREN’S POVHe stopped at the edge of my table with the courtesy of a man who understood his own power well enough to be careful with it.“You’re alone” he observed.“Camille had to leave.”“Mm.” He glanced at the chair across from me then back at my face. None of the presumption I’d expected, none of the easy entitlement that most alphas carried into every interaction like a briefcase. Mason is not the arrogant kinda alphas. “Would you like some company? I can just as easily sit at the bar if you’d prefer the quiet.”He meant it. That was the thing that caught me off guard. His genuine offer of the alternative, the way he left actual space for me to say no. I thought about it honestly for a second.I’d been avoiding him. Steering clear of situations where it would be just the two of us without the buffer of a crowd or Camille or even Ronan’s looming presence to hide behind. Because Mason was perceptive in a way that made me feel slightly transparent and transparent was not something

  • My Step Daddy’s Holimate   87: Solo date

    WREN’S POVThe restaurant Camille picked was the kind of place that made you feel like you’d stumbled onto it by accident and then immediately wanted to tell no one else about it.It sat tucked between a florist and a bookshop on the main downtown strip qith mismatched chairs painted in faded yellows and greens. There is a menu written on a chalkboard that someone updated in careful handwriting every morning. String lights hung in the windows even though it was the middle of the day. We slid into a corner table and ordered without thinking much much. A jerk chicken for Camille and seafood pasta for me with two glasses of something cold and sweet that the server recommended without being asked.“I needed this” I said, looking around at the lazy afternoon quiet of it. Only a handful of other tables were occupied, soft music playing underneath the sound of the ceiling fan turning overhead.“The food or the not being in that cabin?”“Both.”Camille smiled propping her chin in her hand. “

  • My Step Daddy’s Holimate   86: Camille's love tragedy

    WREN’S POVWe found a bench near the shoreline on the way back, one of those weathered wooden ones that looked like it had been sitting there long enough to become part of the landscape. The bench has probably witnessed a hundred difficult conversations.Camille sat down without me suggesting it, which meant she’d been carrying this long enough that her legs were tired from it. I sat beside her nd waited.Camille was quiet for a long moment, her hands folded in her lap, her eyes on the water.“It happened three days ago” she said finally.I kept quiet waiting for her. “There was a group visiting. Wolves from different packs, just passing through the island on their way somewhere else. Alpha Mason was hosting them for two nights.” She paused, something working in her jaw. “I was helping coordinate the guest accommodations because Lena had called in sick and I was covering.”“Okay” I said softly.“I walked into the main hall with a stack of room assignments and I just –” She stopped and

  • My Step Daddy’s Holimate   85: Nursing

    WREN'S POV“Miss Camille” he said breathlessly, his eyes jumping between us. “There’s been an accident down at the east docks. Cargo worker, something fell on him. The pack doctor is away on the mainland until tomorrow and Alpha Mason’s beta said you’d know –”“How bad?” I asked stepping forward.“His leg. Something heavy. It’s—there’s a lot of blood.” His eyes cut to me. I was already turning back into the apartment.“Wren –” Camille started.“Do you have a first aid kit here?” I asked moving toward the bathroom where most people kept them.“Under the sink but it’s basic –”“That’s fine.” I pulled it out, flipped it open and assessed the contents quickly. Better than nothing. Gauze, bandages, antiseptic, medical tape, a pair of gloves at the bottom that I pulled on. “What’s his name?”“Who?” The young wolf blinked. “The injured man.”“Oh. Benny. His name is Benny.”“How far are the docks?”“Four minutes. I have a cart outside.”“Then let’s go.” I snapped the kit shut and straighten

  • My Step Daddy’s Holimate   84: Hungover

    WREN’S POVI woke up to my own skull trying to kill me. The sunlight coming through the curtains was like a personal attack. I pressed my face into the pillow and groaned. My head was pounding and my mouth is tasting like regret and stale champagne. Every muscle protesting the memory of dancing in heels for three hours straight.Ashley was completely unsympathetic in my mind. Wide awake and judgmental.“Don’t start” I muttered into the pillow and she huffed.I lay there for another few minutes waiting to see if the ceiling would stop spinning if I just stayed very still and breathed carefully. It didn’t help but it didn’t make things worse either so I counted that as progress.That’s when I noticed it on the nightstand. It was arranged with a neatness that was not mine with a glass of water. Two white tablets beside it. A small folded piece of paper that just said take these in handwriting I recognized.I stared at it for a long moment. He’s left me hangover medicine.He came in here

  • My Step Daddy’s Holimate   49: The shore

    WREN. The sun was high when I decided to leave the cabin. The air was warm and sticky and for once I wanted nothing more than to feel the sea against my skin. I told Ronan I was going for a swim nothing more than that. He didn’t argue and he just gave me one of those long looks that always makes m

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  • My Step Daddy’s Holimate   47: A forest kiss

    WREN’S POV The wind tore through my hair as Ronan ran with his massive form weaving effortlessly through the thick trees, his muscles coiling and stretching beneath me. I clung to him more while gripping his fur tightly with my pulse racing and pulsibv in my ear with something I couldn’t name w

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  • My Step Daddy’s Holimate   44: Deadly whisper

    WREN’S POV Sleep refused to come. I had spent hours staring at the ceiling, tangled in sheets that still smelled like Ronan my body thrumming with the memory of his hands, his mouth, the way he had taken me in that elevator like he owned me. Like he had every right to claim me. But my thoughts

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  • My Step Daddy’s Holimate   41: Elevator moment

    RONAN’S POV I stormed out of the ballroom with my pulse pounding in my ears and my breath coming in ragged and uneven bursts. The tension in my body coiled so tightly it felt like I was seconds away from detonating. Every muscle was strung tight, my jaw aching from how hard I was clenching my t

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