“Let me at least take you home.” Noah pleaded as Lucy shook her head sadly.“No. I don’t think that’s a good idea. I just want to be alone right now.” She replied firmly, the sadness in his eyes tormenting her as it pulled at her heart. Could she save their relationship if she stayed with him? It was so difficult to know for sure, but she really wasn’t willing to take the risk, and giving him any sense of false hope just felt wrong to her. If he wasn’t going to accept the rejection, then there was nothing that she could do to break the link, until he accepted it.“Lucy..please…” He murmured hoarsely, his voice cracking slightly as she forced herself to ignore the hurt in his eyes.“No. I’ll make my own way home. It’s for the best.” She said firmly as she turned and walked away, incredibly grateful for the jacket's protection against the cool summer air that was such a stark contrast to the day's heat.‘We could always run home you know?’ Maia suggested eagerly.‘We could…’ Lucy chuc
Lucy squatted silently in the bushes, peering out from between the leaves and shrouded in darkness. She was fortunate that the rustling of the leaves in the trees that ringed the clearing would most likely cover any inadvertent noise that she made. Why was Cassandra all the way out here? As Cassandra’s voice drifted towards her, Lucy strained forward slightly, as she tried to listen attentively, determined to pick up whatever snippets of the conversation that she could.“You really disappointed me this time you know? I thought we had a deal…” Cassandra whined as she leaned in towards the masculine figure in front of her. The figure flinched backwards slightly as her long fingers reached towards his face and his arm snapped up to grip her wrist and pushed it away.“I never agreed to anything Cassy. You asked, and I was perfectly clear when I said I couldn’t promise anything.” The male voice growled. Lucy groaned inwardly in frustration. It was irritating that the shadows shrouded t
Lucy waited for what seemed like forever in the bushes until finally, Caspian had left the clearing.She was fairly sure that no one else was around but she waited a few moments longer just to be sure before she crept out of the bush and made her way back to her dorm room.The whole thing baffled her though. How had she not realized that Cassandra had been holding people to ransom and manipulating people behind everyone’s back? “I’d always considered myself a good judge of character, Maia…how could I have been so wrong?’‘None of this is our fault Lucy. If we had known, or even suspected that she was like this back then I know for a fact that we would have stepped in or at least confronted her about it.’ Maia soothed, ‘All this proves is that Cassandra is a master manipulator, a professional narcissist.” Lucy hummed in agreement as she crossed the courtyard on the final stretch to her room, but as she came closer to the building's entrance, she saw that Theo was waiting there.She p
Theo took a step back in shock as he processed what Lucy had just told him. She seemed so nonchalant about it all as she pushed her door open and dumped her coat and bag on the hooks at the side of the door and turned back to face him.“Well? Are you coming in or not?” She asked impatiently as she held the door open for him.“Yeah, sorry,” Theo said as he stepped past her.Lucy smiled gently as she motioned for him to go and sit down and set about getting drinks and collecting a few snacks for them.“Lucy…you and Noah…” Theo began hesitantly. “What the hell happened? You two are mated…fated! We all knew it, ever since the beginning, and now…I don’t understand.”Lucy loaded everything onto the tray and sighed heavily as she brought the tray over and took a seat on the sofa next to him.“It’s complicated Theo,” she said, avoiding his eyes and reaching for the remotes before turning and thrusting them into his hand as she settled back on the sofa with a bowl full of Cheetos, “Pick a movi
They had sat through two episodes of the series already and the more time that had passed, the more relaxed Lucy became. The episodes had been interspersed with their chatter and Lucy realized that honestly, she hadn’t felt this relaxed in a long time. Despite everything that had been going on just recently, these past few hours with Theo had miraculously taken her mind off things. Not once had she thought about Noah’s actions or Cassandra’s betrayal, and quite honestly, she felt a little bit guilty for snapping at him earlier.“Still wanna watch more? Or do you want to call it a night?” Theo asked as Lucy stifled a yawn. “Yeah I’m good for another,” She grinned up at him as he shook his head teasingly. “Stubborn as ever I see,” He chuckled as he flicked the remote and the opening credits for the next episode began to play. “Would you want me any other way?” She smirked back as she leaned over and grabbed a light blanket from the arm of the sofa, “I am, however, going to wrap mysel
Despite everything in Theo’s conscience telling him this was a bad idea, the pleading note in her voice and her wide, doe-like eyes broke the last thread of his resolve as he quietly relented. “Okay, Lucy, if you want me to keep you company, I get it. I just…wouldn’t Cassy be better to keep you company?” He asked softly as he made his way round to the other side of the bed. Lucy snorted loudly and huffed as she turned over in the bed to watch him as he got in, pulling the covers back before he did so to make it a little easier for him. “Don’t talk to me about her, “ She muttered grumpily. “Did something happen between you two as well?” Theo asked in surprise. He wasn’t particularly fond of Cassandra anyway, not with the way she seemed to manipulate others into doing what she wanted. Something about her had always given him the creeps but he had always tolerated her and remained civil because Lucy and her were practically joined at the hip. He scooted down the bed and laid his arm
Cassandra had been creeping back across the courtyard to her dorm room when the sight of two shadowy figures chatting at the front caused her to freeze and take cover. The conversation with Caspian had not gone as smoothly as she would have liked and the fact that he still wanted to resist her made the risk of him talking and exposing her quite high.If he did talk, then she needed to make sure that her alibi was tighter than the hold an Alpha had over his pack. She had already rigged her laptop up with an auto clicker and basic program to make it look as though she was studying and surfing the internet if anything ever happened, but she had to make sure that she wasn’t seen in public tonight too.She darted a little deeper into the bushes that lined the edge of the building and crept a little closer to where the pair stood, hoping that she would overhear some of the conversation. Lucy was never out late at night, and if she was, it was never without Noah.A sly grin played at the edg
When Cassandra arrived at the doors to Noah’s dorm, she was met by a line of stoic guards, united in their desire to not allow her entry into the ranked wolves' quarters.“Do you even know who I am?” She demanded imperiously as they snickered amongst themselves and looked down their noses at this tiny female, bereft of any wolf that confronted them so brazenly.“No, we don’t,” The largest among them drawled, “because you have no wolf and no rank. The only way we would ever know who you were is if you caused enough issues to register on our radar, or if you were mated to a high-ranking male.”“Which you aren’t.” A second guard pointed out casually.“And probably won’t ever be considering you ain’t even got a wolf inside of you darlin’,” a third added in a bored tone, almost as if he were speaking to a child.Cassandra seethed silently and inwardly promised herself that as soon as she had the power, she would make sure that these idiots were added to her blacklist of those that would b