LOGIN"On your eighteenth birthday, after your first shift, and after you meet your wolf and unlock your gifts, someone would come for you. Someone special that deserves my precious daughter, someone that will take care of you and make you happy will come for you, my sweet baby girl.” On her deathbed, mom handed the rare diamond necklace to me and told me I would be found by someone special. I endured the torture and ill treatment from my stepmother and stepsister because I looked forward to my eighteenth birthday. I couldn't wait for my eighteenth birthday so I can take over the company and take everything that belongs to me.The day finally came, and...
View MorePOV: EdmondThe dinner was Gramps’ idea. A formal thing, announced with the air of someone bestowing a gift rather than issuing a command. A family dinner, he had said.“To present Alexia properly. To make things official.”I had sat across from him in his study and thought about eleven different ways to refuse and discarded all of them, because refusing meant a confrontation I wasn’t ready to have tonight.I was picking my battles with the strategic patience of a man who intended to win the war even if he conceded a few evenings.So I sat at the head of the table in my own dining room while Gramps occupied the other end like a king who had temporarily misplaced his throne.Alexia sat to my right in a dress that cost more than most people’s monthly rent, performing the role of radiant fiancée with the commitment of someone who had been rehearsing this specific scene her entire life.She touched my arm twice. The first time I looked at her hand and said nothing. The second time I moved
POV: SelinaI didn’t sleep well that night.I lay on my back staring at the ceiling with the restlessness of someone whose body was tired but whose mind had decided sleep was an optional activity, replaying the afternoon in the specific cruel way that memories do when they know they have you cornered.The way he had crouched beside me on the pavement without hesitation. The way he had reorganized the bags like he had been carrying my groceries his entire life.The way he had argued, completely sincerely, for nearly four minutes about why one shop’s tomatoes were categorically superior to another shop’s tomatoes, like this was important information, like this was a hill worth dying on.The way he had laughed when I told him he was being ridiculous.I hadn’t heard him laugh in weeks. I hadn’t realized how much I had been carrying the absence of that sound until it came back and something in me exhaled for the first time since everything fell apart.I turned onto my side and pressed my f
POV; SelinaI knew his car.That was the first problem.We have been meeting secrets for so long that I knew the sound of the engine before it rounded the corner, knew the particular way it slowed on Creston Avenue without fully stopping.I knew the exact window of time in which I should not look up from my phone if I wanted to preserve any version of the dignity I was trying to maintain.I looked up every time, every single time, without fail, like my body had made an agreement with itself that had nothing to do with my better judgment.And every time I caught the tail end of his car moving away down the street, something in my chest did that thing, that specific painful thing, that I had stopped pretending was anything other than what it was.I missed him with a completeness that frightened me. Not the missing you feel for something gone.The missing you feel for something present and unreachable, something close enough to see and touch and completely forbidden, which was its own pa
POV: SelinaThe leather of the backseat was cool against my back as she settled her weight onto my lap. Her skirt had ridden up, I noticed this the way I notice weather, immediate and total, and the bare skin of her thighs pressed against the fabric of my trousers."Eddie," she breathed, and her voice had lost its composure, the careful architecture of it crumbling. "Someone could see.""The windows are tinted.""That's not..."I kissed her again before she could finish. Harder this time. Her mouth opened under mine and the sound she made, half relief, half hunger, travelled down my spine and settled low.Her fingers found their way into my hair, gripping, pulling just enough to register as pleasure with an edge. The car had grown warm, or we had, and the windows were beginning to fog in slow circles from the edges inward."I've been losing my mind," I said against her mouth. "Every day. Every single day without you.""Me too." The words came out fractured. "I thought it would get eas
POV: Selina“I will not stand here and banter words with you, and I’m certainly not letting you get your greedy, filthy hands on my precious necklace. This is all I have left, and I’d rather die than give it to you!” I told her sternly, glaring daggers at her.“Well, if death is what you seek, that
POV: Edmond“I’m so sorry, Eddie. I messed up last night. I couldn’t get the surrogate to come. She suddenly changed her mind and called off the deal.”“What the fuck are you talking about? Who canceled what deal?Are you drunk, Chris? Is it not too early to be drunk?” I asked him, almost laughing
POV: Selina"Don't worry, sweetheart. You were just a little tipsy last night. But trust me, we had fun, dear. So much fun," he said nonchalantly, his eyes wandering over my body hungrily.My heart pounded in my chest as I struggled to process his words.Fun? Was that what he called it? My mind ra
POV: Selena“Don’t cry for me, my little Lina. You will be well taken care of after I’m gone. Your father will take care of you, and on your eighteenth birthday, after your first shift and after you meet your wolf and unlock your gifts, someone will come for you. Someone special that deserves my pr
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