Masuk♡☆CANDACE♡☆After dinner, I returned to Liam's side. He'd been moved from the ICU into the general ward and according to Dr Dennison, his wolf was out of danger. He was awake, sitting on his bed with thick red hair tousled, face ashen with bored eyes watching the news on the TV. My fingers tightened around the clipboard, not sure why I felt so intimidated, thinking of what to say to him and how to get the ice around his guarded muscles to melt. Dr. Dennison was on the second floor treating a newly admitted patient and had asked me to complete a simple task. Fill out Liam's recovery slip. Ask him the questions on the form and record his responses. How hard could it be?I'd had the Alpha of Duskmoon and my mate tell me straight to my face that he wasn't in love with me. So what else could be more challenging?Absolutely nothing. "Good evening, Liam." I wore a polite smile on my face, trying to brighten the mood in the ward. His head shifted from the TV screen, his eyes snagged min
♡☆CANDACE♡☆Luca wasn't in love with me?Good. No bad blood good. Except it wasn't good. Not even close.His words had been playing on repeat in my head since I'd shrugged, looked him in the eyes and deadpanned, "Whatever," before leaving the apartment. No matter how many times I told myself I didn't care, the truth made my heart hurt.Fine. He wasn't in love with me. So what?Luca was closed off when it came to emotions. But saying it straight to my face had felt like being slapped with a wet towel.He was unhappy with me keeping the details to myself but I'd rather have everyone angry and unhappy than becoming a lab rat, a specimen for tests to be run on my wolf to decide if I was a curse to the Pack. Or a threat to everyone. "I'm sorry," the receptionist returned my file, and shook her head in dismissal, "Unfortunately, you're rescheduled." "But today's the last interview day for the year. If I don't interview today—" "You can apply earlier next year." The receptionist offered
♡☆CANDACE♡☆Luca didn't arrive at my apartment until six a.m. that morning. I didn't know whether to be disappointed, upset, or relieved. A part of me understood that last night mattered, that his role in rescuing those girls was vital. But that very selfish, needy part of me wished he'd arrived earlier than this. I'd wanted him there when I was still shaking, when Marcus’s sudden appearance in my home stirred up my anxiety, and Baldwin’s people flooding my home like a homicide scene. I'd longed for Luca’s hands to hold me close, his reassuring tone, to feel safe. But he wasn't there. Instead I got nothing but a million and one questions fired at me from the people who clearly didn't try to mask their scorn, obvious that they didn't believe a word I said.And they didn't leave. Which was why I needed to lock myself in my room all morning, to stay far away from these energy vampires. Today would be my first day at the clinic for the interview. I needed to look my absolute best if I
♡☆ALHA LUCA♡☆"Alpha, a vessel is already underway." Liam pointed toward the ship clearly in sight as we arrived at the docks. "It's the largest one. The rest are decoys."Damn!Talk about a man being late. Again. Not hopelessly late tonight though. Even in the rain, my hopes of rescuing the girls didn't waver.My eyes remained fixated on the massive ship moving farther away from the docks.I'd been late enough for those bastards to have gotten their cargo out of reach.There were over two hundred men with me. They didn't stall, they received confirmation from me that the girls were somewhere on the moving vessel. Without a trace of doubt or any blind judgments, my wolf traced their scents to the vessel leaving Duskmoon.Not unless we stopped it. I bolted towards the smaller speedboats our men had secured. My wolf grew extremely restless beneath my skin in a way that tested my patience.I could understand how overwhelming the need to get on the big boat was but it wasn't helping tha
♡☆CANDACE♡☆I swung the vase so hard, with everything I had.It connected with his forehead. The crack was so sickening, shattering against his skull and my palm in an explosion of ceramic and rose water and, of course, rose petals. The big bad guy staggered back, a guttural curse rumbled off him. To my horror he didn't fall. Yeah. Because the universe never made things easy for me."Crazy bitch!" He vengefully spat. His eyes darkened ferociously as he shook off the impact like my deadly blow was only a mere swat. So what now? Run? Not a chance. His burly frame caged me in.It was his turn to attack. He did it so swiftly that my only defense was the dresses. I hurled the dresses at him, the hangers falling to the floor. The impact barely enough to inflict some kind of pain on him but in a way, worked because his blade missed me. Well, not completely. The silver blade slashed into my forearm. The searing pain shot straight to my brain. My wolf pushed relentlessly, painfully at m
♡☆CANDACE♡☆Something fishy was going on. I could not just smell it, but felt it. For a minute I felt stupid. And completely taken advantage of. I knew I couldn't trust Cathy even when she'd put on this entire facade of a changed and reformed stepsister. But once a snake, always a snake. My fingers were still trembling from the shock of finding a poison vial in her purse earlier. She could've hurt me. She had the perfect chance to. Why didn't she? I lingered over the thoughts of telling Luca about the situation. Again, I dismissed the need to whine about my personal problems. I was a strong woman capable of fighting her battles. Vivianne and Cathy had drawn the battle line. They weren't ready for what was coming. I left the closet in comfortable sleep shorts and shirt, moving to the kitchen to fix myself a cinnamon tea before bed. A part of me wishing Luca wasn't working tonight. But he was. He had to. Unlike other nights, tonight's mission was more than important to Luca and
♡☆CANDACE ♡☆"Get out." Alpha Luca muttered. His gaze was dark and condescending. His thick dick now shrouded by the velvet smoking robe he pulled on. Yet, it was hard to look away. "Did you not hear our Alpha? You stupid omega!" His slut, a lady in her thirties barked at me, eyes smoldering. Her
♡☆CANDACE♡☆I turned eighteen today. Finally legal. And fuckable.My best friend of eight years turned out to be my mate. Damien Knoxville. Agonizingly handsome with that impressive height, built like wet dreams on legs. Every girl in the Pack eye-fucked him raw. I wasn't excluded. Even though I w
♡☆ ALPHA LUCA ♡☆"I'll hate to stick out tonight like a sore thumb. I'm not sure if I can be the perfect escort for this dinner." Candace pouted at lunch. Taking a large bite of her beignet with powdered sugar all over her flustered face. "Why can't you?" I asked, my interest partly on my black co
♡☆CANDACE♡☆The next morning was pretty sunny, yet nothing about my mood appeared sunny.My nerves were still jittery from last night, from the weight of Luca's intense gaze. From the plaguing memory of his glistening cock in the red aesthetic lights. Also from the way he'd caught me touching mysel







