Davina The familiar smug tone that spoke sent a rush of disgust coursing through my veins. Keith! I shut my eyes and turned away as I get a rush of the feeling from having Keith’s claws repeatedly dig into my stomach and tear me up. Utter hatred brewed in my gut for him. If we were here alone, his head will be sitting off his neck across the room. That smirk. “Why is he here?” I whirled my face to Evans and inquired of him using our link, briefly smiling to hide my contempt. “You told him I was here?” “I had to. It is only right that I do. He is your…” he said, lifting himself up from his seat and extending a hand to Keith. “I didn’t want anyone to know I was here,” I looked out the window. “It's barely morning, Evy. You couldn’t give me a little time… I am literally still recovering,” I growled in his head, clamping my lips together. He winced briefly shutting his eyes. “Are you okay? Is something wrong?” Keith asked looking concerned. I know he is not. All of it is an act—his
Keith “Where’s Jason, your highly esteemed beta,” Davina smirked at me as soon as I step out of the cottage she was in. That was new. She never smiles at me. The best I get is a sneer and a premeditated snarky phrase to piss me off. “You didn’t come with him?” she raised a brow at me. “That’s new. I thought he is your purse or something, and you have to carry him everywhere. Do you shower with him or…? Because you boast of being so handsome that girls trail the path you walk in, but I only ever see Jason with you. Is there something else going on between you two? I am dying to know. I know there’s more than meets the eyes,” she blurted, tucking a lock of hair away from her face as she pushed both of her lips forwards, then crossed her hands over her chest, jotting her hip forward. My eyes trail her feet up her thighs to her face and back. It’s like I am looking at someone else. Did she fall and hit her head too hard and now she is transformed or something? I don’t understand what i
Davina Keith had no idea this wasn’t a race. It was a way for me to get away from him and find Jason. He said he didn’t come with his intolerable beta, but I know his scent well. I knew he was somewhere around the cottage and I was dying to know who was lying to me between the two of them. Why would Keith lie about Jason? Did he? I went off the tracks of the race to find Jason. He was close, even as we were racing through the woods, I could still pick up his scent which meant he was following us or me. I had to know. It totally makes sense that Keith would ask Jason to tail him since he was coming here alone which would mean that Jason already knows what happened between Keith and me, and they are keeping it from everyone as I expect of the shady duo. Keith has no idea I know the woods like the back of my hand. Evans and I played around the hills when we were kids a lot of times against the wish of our mom who, at that time, because of the fight between us and the Antarti, didn’t w
Davina I am seated on Keith's bed, overly sensitive to his pungent scent, staring and smiling at him as he undressed and walked to the bathroom without really looking at him while making runs at different theories about what I had just discovered. I am in danger, and If I was wary of Jason before, now I have to be extra careful and avoid him totally while trying to figure out what his deal is in this subtle chaos. I didn’t know Jason had any family. He never talked about it. No one does. I never knew he even existed until Keith showed up from nowhere. Apparently, he has been lurking around the park from place to place ever since I started coming to Antarti to get acquainted with Cullum, occasionally slipping out to hang out with Keith. It’s all coming back to me now. I have to find out everything I can about him from anyone who knows anything, of course discreetly. Does Keith know Jason has a brother? They’re close, but I have seen enough to know Jason is the face of cunning and ev
Chapter 21 Keith “Who are you, and what have you done to the lordly bitch that won’t surrender to my whims and prominence as the alpha?” I squinted as I looked over at Davina. She was lying motionless, calm, and peaceful. I almost can’t believe it, especially after invading my privacy and brutally fighting me for it; that on top of all the other fights, quarrels, and unending disagreements—the very definition of beauty only; nothing more. What are you doing?I walked to the bed slowly so as not to startle her. I tripped and almost fell because my eyes were on her and I forgot about the stair-like elevation I have to climb to reach my bed. Really, dude? A wave of relief washed over me when I looked up after regaining my stance to see that she was still lying still like a sleeping lake. “Hmm,” I shrugged. People always said that Davina is beautiful, but I hadn’t really seen what they were talking about. I probably never looked at her—not until then, on my bed, with her fingers in
Chapter 22Davina“What took you so long? You have gotten slower. Maybe it’s all that Luna special treatment you are getting nowadays,” Evans teased, crossing his hands on his chest as he stood at the entrance of the cave. I rolled my eyes. “I came here as soon as I can, and…” I dashed toward him and picked out a strand of his curly blonde hair and zoomed back to where I stood, holding up the strand between my thumb and index, and wearing a smug expression. “As slow as you think I am now, you will still never be able to catch me.”“What the hell was that?” Evans’s eyes bulged out and he took a few staggered steps backward, pointing a finger at me.“What is what?”“How did you d-do that?” he stuttered with a hollow voice from his sudden breathlessness. “You were there and then you weren’t, and then you reappeared just now.”“What do you mean? Have your senses dulled? When last did you wolf out under the moon? Are you alright?” I blurted, worried he might not be healthy. The Evans I kno
Davina“This doesn’t make any sense? The color of my eyes means everything. It’s my very nature. I don’t understand,” I blurted, pacing around the spot I stood. “Is it bad or good, or…”“Calm down. You seem to be alright. Actually, better than alright,” a muscle in Evans’s jaw twitched. “We will figure this out,” he nodded. “We have to understand it.”“How?” I threw my hands in the air and let them fall loosely at my side as I feel overwhelmed. Am I sick or something? Was it the wound? I am totally healed, so what is wrong with me?I observe my hands like I would find the answers I need in them.“Veena, calm down,” Evans paused for a bit. “Has anybody else noticed any of these things about you—your eyes and enhanced speed?” “I don’t know. I haven’t wolfed out in a while now,” I mutter, looking away. I know he would be alarmed that I have transformed. Every wolf is supposed to transform out under the moon frequently to maintain a state of balance between both the human and wolf forms
Chapter 24DavinaI wiped my hands on my face as I was feeling quite tensed and sweaty. My hands on my face did nothing to ease the droplets running down my face so I rubbed them on my forehead again. As I dropped my hands, I caught a glimpse of blood smeared on my palm and it set my heart pounding faster than I think it has ever beaten.What’s this?I glanced down at myself and saw that I was covered in blood like I had a blood bath and I stepped back, falling to my knees as I splayed my hands in front of me.“This is not how I remembered it,” I cried to Evans. “You know me. I wouldn’t…” I looked over at the girl and tears rolled down my eyes. The gory sight terrified me. I have seen worse because I hunt, but she was just a little girl, and didn’t know if I killed her myself. It seemed so. There was no other explanation.“I’m I dreaming? I better be dreaming. I don’t know what is real right now. I helped her. He,” I pointed at the wolf taking its last breaths. “…and some other wolf we