OFF LIMITS: FAKE DATING THE ICE KING

Thelma’s POVTHE SUITEI held my breath, one wrong move would get me caught and so even when i'd crashed into a garden of thorns in my attempt to jump over a fence, I stifled my scream.My wolf staggered, recoiled at a corner and watched like she was so against me.Beside, her mate just marked another even though he hasn't openly rejected us. Sluggishly pulling out of the thorns, my feet found themselves in front of jax's suite, the one he take girls to after games.“You don’t get to forget me.” I whispered them to the empty hallway at 2:13AM, it smelt like champagne and sweat. The intern keycard in my hand. Still active and still pretending I belonged here.I stopped at room 418, Jax’s room. That’s what the roster said.Opening the door had me breathing hard, and I didn't look around, the first thing that greeted my eyes were the papers on the bed.It was spread like a crime scene, had my plays, my film notes and contract draft I’d written for him in Melbourne two years ago.My ha

Thelma’s POVHe grabbed my jaw gently, brushing it with his thumb as he let out a smirk.“You’re the reason I was standing on that ice watching Jax lift it.”And when he'd bent slightly again, his forearm rested on his knee.That towel shifted and I looked up fast.“But hate doesn’t win,” he exhaled“Leverage does.”I grab the arm rest, my eyes hovering around the room as nothing of what he said was registered in my head.“You need a visa. You have 42 days before Immigration throws you out.”His arms were on my trembling thighs, his fingers drew circles on them.“I need a strategist the League can’t ban. And I need the press off my back.”“So we use each other.”It was so cold, so logical, so Rhys and I bite my lips to stop a moan.“Fake dating,” he declared with a sided smile “That’s the legal loophole. League can’t touch a ‘girlfriend’ sitting in my box. Can’t call it tampering if you’re dating the Captain.”“You get 90 days. I get my season back.”He pulled something from the drawer

THELMA “I think you are overreacting, Thelma. Giselle here is the type of woman I want for myself, but you can be my mistress. After all, we are bound to each other.”Jax’s words cut to my chest like a double-edged sword, but I still wasn’t ready for what was coming next. I could still remember those words as though they had been said to me recently.My new life with Rhys was not without memories, the painful ones.I didn’t think I could do it, but it was either that or deportation.So, I chose to remain with him, but each day came along with its own drama. I thought I was going to escape the past taunts until that very day. When everyone stared while Giselle lashed at me. “How could she possibly have thought that you were going to remain with a weak werewolf like her?”“The poor girl is so delusional.” Giselle covered herself. She stood in front of me and jeered in disgruntlement; “He is mine now, Thelma. But I don’t mind sharing him with you. After all, we are cousins, and he i

THELMA Captain Rhys sent cold shivers into the body of everyone who set their eyes on him. He was standing right there like he owned the entire world. He didn’t need any introduction. Who didn’t know the demon Captain?“No one dares mark her as a rogue! No one!” He commanded, his thudding steps increasing as he marched toward me. “What is he doing here?” I thought to myself, but the only thing I could do was stare while I remained on my knees. “Captain Rhys?” My uncle’s voice suddenly quivered; it was as if he had forgotten that he was a Captain as well. “She committed a very serious crime, and we decided that she must be ousted.”“Then sell her to me, Captain Damian. I need slaves, and she looks like someone who can be able to tidy my chambers.” Captain Rhys’s smirk indicated that he meant his words, and I thought for a second that he was cruel.But that seemed to be better than being branded a rogue. The Demon’s slave had a little more dignity than being a rogue.“You want us t

THELMAI knew that Captain Rhys introduced me as his Luna to his pack so that he could save us both from ridicule, but I was still bothered that I had made a very wrong decision. “Sign here.” Rhys pointed at the contract paper he had already drafted, and the only thing that was left was my name.“Thelma? I love the way it sounds…” He said with a smile, and I realized that he didn’t even know my name. But that didn’t bother me as much as the realization of what I was about to get myself into.“Are you okay?” He asked, seeing the way I was staring at the documents like I was about to shred them after realizing my mistake.“If you don’t change your mind now, I don’t think you will ever have the chance to again.” His eyes showed me that he hoped that I didn’t change my mind.And when I thought about it, I realized that birthing a child for Lord Rhys, as he was fondly called, was better than the maltreatment that awaited me if I ever choose to return to Darkwood Pack. The werewolves of