"Hey juniors." I grinned at the sight of Roman, leaning against a wall. His eyes shone with excitement that his face refused to expose.But I knew him too well to know how giddy he must have been feeling right now."Oh will you look at that." Kat spoke dryly. "If it isn't one of the AAP candidates. How do you feel, hot shot?" She teased."Careful, Katherine, your envy is showing." Roman easily shot back."Lucky for me, I look amazing in green." She spoke with a smile. Roman rolled his eyes. He then looked at me and smiled. I smiled back. "What d'ya think, baby doll?""I think you should not call me baby doll." I giggled. "But are you kidding me? I'm freaking proud, Ro!""Then show me."Before I could run into his arms to give him a congratulatory hug, Chris beat me to it and wrapped his arms around my boyfriend."You are quite literally my hero, man! The freaking AAP? Point one for the outcasts." He yelled.Roman tensed up and looked at Chris awkwardly. "Thanks man but I was kind
FLASHBACKI stumbled through the woods.'Don't be mad.' They told me. 'These things are normal.''She'll come back for you."'She loves you."Lies! All lies! They were all lying, pretending to care.Acting like this was what it would take to protect me.But who were they really protecting other than themselves?They were protecting themselves from having to tell me the truth.Which was simply, my parents ditched me here because they didn't want me.It wasn't exactly the easiest thing to tell a fourteen year old girl.So they lied and made empty promises about my mother coming back for me.Is it weird that somehow I had known?Not that she would desert me but that she would never look at me the same?The day I had fainted in PE and they had to call my mother. How I had to miss a whole two weeks of school a freaking animal's tail had emerged from no where.The constant fevers and bursts of energy. The splitting headaches that my mother would later sit me down about and explain as 'the
It was awkward.I mean, I expected it to be awkward but I hadn't really grasped just how awkward it would be. We sat at the dining table.I sat beside Tristan directly opposite Aunt Sarah and Uncle Victor.Aunt Sarah kept fussing with the place mats on the table and kept rearranging and arranging the flowers in the vase before her.Uncle Victor sat very still and was very quiet as he studied Tristan too intently. Bridget and May stood at attention behind us as if they were bodyguards.I really wished that they would sit down because I could just imagine Bridget staring daggers into the back of my head, silently blaming me for this. It made me more nervous than I already was."So..." I begun, deciding to break the ice.I stopped, realising I actually didn't know what to say.I looked at Tristan but he just stayed silent instead of helping me.Sure I had told him I would do all the talking but since when did he actually get good at listening to me?I looked back at Uncle Victor and he
May was driving again. I sat in the back of the SUV while Bridget took the passenger seat.The ride was pretty quiet.I honestly didn't mind the silence, it gave me time to think.Not about the craziness of becoming the new luna of the Silvercrest pack.No.Somthing way scarier.How I was going to tell Uncle Victor and Aunt Sarah that I had been keeping all this from them.They would definitely freak when they found out I had spent the night at a man's house.Even if he was their alpha.The car stopped and I noticed that we had stopped right in the middle of town outside the alpha's offices.Next thing I knew the back door was opening and Tristan came into view. Or rather, his back. "Tell him I want the report by tonight. No excuses." He barked at a young man I didn't recognise."Yes alpha." The young man let out hurriedly.He caught my eye and his eyes widened.Tristan snapped his fingers. "I'm over here, Simon.""Y-yes, sorry, alpha. I just err...""What?"He gestured to me. "The l
FLASHBACK “Wow! My own girlfriend doesn't trust me!" I fought the urge to roll my eyes at Roman.He sat across me, being a little drama queen."Well so far you haven't given me a reason to." I shot back."I'm your boyfriend!" He yelled."That really doesn't count right now!"He placed his hand on his chest and let out a long gasp."Oh my - will you two stop it? It's just a game!" Kat snapped from where she sat beside me.This time the three of us let out long dramatic gasps.We were seated at a booth in Chris' mother's bakery playing a card game that Chris had introduced to us. It was called 'the Resistance'. It was basically a strategy based game where you had to identify who the spy was in the game.And so far, my money was on my dearest boyfriend.Roman and I had been hooked from the beginning but Kat honestly just thought the game was a waste of time.We didn't care, we made her play anyway."Someone here is trying to jeopardise this mission and I shall make it my life's work to
"Don't you eat, dear?" Lady Melrose spoke.I looked at the lamb stew before me that Anita had whipped it up and it honestly smelt and looked amazing.But my nerves honestly weren't letting me eat much. I took one bite and immediately went back to thinking about Joshua's bloody skin, about the wolf that had attacked us.I thought about the people back at school; Kat and Chris... were they safe? Had they been sent home?What about Aunt Sarah and Uncle Victor?Aunt Sarah worked at the nursery school so she would have to stay there with the other children.But Uncle Victor's construction jobs probably weren't much of a priority, I'm sure he was allowed to leave and be with Hazel and Parker."Francesca, she obviously can't stomach the stuff, leave her alone." Anita spoke, smiling at me warmly as she came to place a hand on my shoulder. "It's okay, sweetie. When my son got back from the war, he couldn't stomach anything either."I gave her an appreciative look."It honestly does taste amazi