I don't know why but I immediately froze to the ground. I couldn't take her hand, I just stared blankly at her. Alpha Kaden didn't take his eyes off of her. When she saw that I wasn't going to be accepting her handshake, she took her hand down and cleared her throat, "anyway, I saw some of your men and they're really busy so it might take a while for my things to get here, and I do need a shower so badly so I'll take one of your clothes, that's fine, isn't it?""Your things?" Alpha didn't sound very pleased."I figured you'd need emotional support," she nodded, "so here I am." Her eyes turned to me and a frown etched her facial features, "and why are you still here?"I caught myself, I don't know why hearing that he had mate was taking a toll on me. "I was... I was j- just leaving." I lowered my head and attempted to walk past her to head out of the packhouse, only for alpha Kaden to hold my arm sharply.I looked at his hand that gripped me tightly, then at his face and then at Alice
Shayla povBy now I had lost count of how many days had passed by. Usually, werewolves had a great sense of direction but I had been so engulfed trying to find Talie that I didn't realise I'd lost my way, now, not only had I lost track of her scent, I was stuck without knowing how to head back.I'd gone without food or water for days and at this point, I would eat any living thing that walked by. I'd slept in the rain under trees that barely provided shade and my skin must have a terrible stench right now.My stomach growled and I grumbled, "yeah I know, I don't know what the fuck to eat."I couldn't find the strength to shift to my wolf. I stumbled on a rock and lost my balance, "great, is this really how I'm going to die? Of starvation? Ash must be so worried, fuck it, I should have just listened to him." I cried and tears streamed down my cheeks. I was lost, really lost.I pulled myself up to my feet and stared at a random tree standing in my way. "It's really done to this yeah?"
"I got it," I nodded at him, I didn't want to stand her and keep listening to him, "it's okay, we both had our fun, we got careless and we caught ourselves, I didn't have any special attraction to you anyways, it was nothing but lust." I sucked my lower lip in and nodded, "so yeah I wish you and your mate a happy life with whatever decisions you two might choose to make." I concluded and decided to leave. I refused to display any form of emotions to him.I was going to leave when he held my wrist, "whatever we did together held a meaning to me."I didn't say anything in response, I wasn't going to fall for his mind games anymore.I wriggled free from his grip and left the balcony , I'd had enough for one day at this point."And if it makes you feel anything, we've not actually mated before," he said in a hushed voice as I walked off. His last words brought some sort of smile on my face but I did my best to hold back from showing it.Getting to my bedroom, I saw Alice going into the ro
NextI gagged, turning on my heels and sprinting out the door.Riggs caught up with me, holding my box, "we were here to get your box in the first place so I took it."I couldn't stop widening my eyes, "I'm fucking scarred for life!""I didn't know they'd be here, I'd have ugh, I'm sorry, we were dismissed from patrol and some other warriors took over, they said they'd leave later, I didn't know." He sounded so apologetic."It's not your fault," I shivered, "they hated each other so much, oh my goodness, I'm going to throw up." "I thought they did too," he agreed with me."Ugh, horrible way to start my birthday.""Let's just head back to the pack house." He sighed, "it's fine.""Ugh, please."We got back to the packhouse and found Alpha struggling to tie a balloon. It flew out of his hand in deflation when he saw us."What are you doing?" I raised one eyebrow."Um," he scratched the back of his neck, "it's your birthday so I thought we could-""Aw, you're so cute alpha, you're not th
We got into Alpha's car and he zoomed off into the distance. Putting my seatbelt on, I turned to look at him, "where are we going Alpha?""We are headed there, aren't we?"I nodded and said nothing for a while until I decided to ask what was on my kind, "what about Alice? You didn't seem to have returned with her.""Yes, she will be back tomorrow, I gave a warrior the task of finding her a home around.""Oh," I sighed, "so she's going to be staying for a long while is basically what you're saying."His eyes were fixed on the road as we continued our journey."Why isn't she just staying in the packhouse?""It's not for living, it's accessible to all packhouse members and unless there's an emergency reason, it's only home to the alpha, beta and their family.""But she's the future Luna,""She's not mated yet.""Yeah but she's in a foreign land,""look are you just going to keep advocating for her to return or will you let me drive in peace?" He sounded so tired of my pestering by now.I
We were greeted with confetti when we got back to the packhouse. I flinched and scooted closer to the alpha. He held my hand tight to ease my worry but he didn't seem startled by himself.“Happy birthday!” Riggs called, blowing a small party whistle.I let go of him and my worry transitioned into ease. I broke into a smile, looking around, he had set up the living room with a few ballons and a birthday cake was in the center of the room.You guys took forever but I’m glad to see that you’re back from your honeymoon,” he teased, “come on Talie.”“You are the fucking sweetest Riggs,” I chuckled, digging the knife into the cake and stuffing my mouth with it.“You were waiting for us?”“Yes, let’s just have fun tonight and stay up for as long as we can.” He chuckled. I looked back at alpha to see his expresion and hope ld he didn’t ruin things with a mood.He had a small smile on his face and I took that as a go ahead.“Let’s do this!”Riggs grinned and turned music on. “I’ll go get the
"What are you talking about?" I was drunk but I wasn't hearing things."From the first day I saw you, my wolf knew we were mates, that's why I was so protective of you to begin with, but I'm bound to someone and so…"I cut him off with a nervous chuckle, "so let me get things straight, you have been my fucking mate the whole time and the only reason I couldn't tell was because you were bonded to someone else?"He reached to hold me, "Talie, I-""Don't fucking touch me!" I snapped, standing to my feet and moving away from him, "do you know what I have gone through all these time because I couldn't find a mate and you just casually say," I trailed off, unable to finish my sentence as tears streamed down my cheeks.He stood up and breached the distance between us, "Talie," he lifted my chin so I was meeting his gaze, "the last thing I would want is for you to cry over me.""So mark me then, am I going to spend the rest of my life this way? Mateless? Why wouldn't the moon goddess fate me t
"Alpha?" I called looking around me. I sat up in bed and stretched wondering why his name of the first thing that came to my mind and soon as I woke up.Stretching cause the blankets to fall free from my chest region and I was fully naked. I widened my eyes as memories from last night flooded my head. I wondered if he had left the room because of me.I sighed in relief when I saw him coming out of the bathroom patting his hair dry his gaze fixed on me as soon as he saw me. He came to stand beside me and planted a kiss on my lips, "look who's finally decided to come awake."I looked around to see if I would find a wall clock or something "why? is it really that late?""Good morning sleepyhead," He came even closer, lowered himself to plant a kiss on my cheek before he turned to leave. I held his face to stop him and kiss his lips softly. He spread them apart and deepened our kiss.I closed my eyes and shook my head ,"yeah if you don't stop now, we're definitely going to be repeating wha