INICIAR SESIÓNWinter's povThe lights of the city faded into the rearview mirror as the heavy downpour finally tapered off into a small drizzle. But the silence inside the vehicle was quite deafening and only shattered only by Sophia's desperate heart wrenching cries.She was hyperventilating, her tiny chest heaving as she pulled at her soaked clingy shirt. Her small lips were pale as her body trembled uncontrollably against the cracked leather seat."I know Soph, I know," I sobbed, my voice small as I tried to focus on the pitch-black back roads. "You're hungry. Your belly hurts. I'm so sorry, Sophia...I'm going to get you something to eat. I promise. Just hold on for a few more minutes. Please, hold on."Up ahead I could see the neon sign of a lonely twenty-four-hour gas station flicker through the dark woods like a flashlight. I swung the truck onto the gravel lot, pulling into the far corner away from the bright overhead lights and killed the ignition.My heart was hammering against my ribs so
Winter's povI pressed my foot down hard on the accelerator, the tires spraying mud and gravel as Brody's old truck tore down the empty road. In the passenger seat beside me, Sophia was sobbing, her tiny body trembling in her wet clothes as she clutched her small hands together.Every gasp she took felt like a knife twisting in my heart."Shh...Sophia, it's okay. I'm here," I choked out, my voice cracking as I wiped rainwater and hot tears from my face with my shoulder. But my words were an empty reassurances that did nothing to calm her screams or quiet the sheer panic suffocating me.I had no money. I had no home. I had no food, no dry clothes and no place to hide. My mother had cast me out into the storm branding me a monster and threatened to hand me over to the werewolf council. I couldn't go back to campus and I certainly couldn't run to Axel or Ashton. If the they discovered what I was....what I had done....My knuckles turned white against the cracked steering wheel as my min
Winter's povThe freezing rain hit my face the moment I stepped outside, but it barely registered over the numbness in my veins. My shoes sank into the mud of the driveway as I stumbled away from the building, my breath coming in short uneven gasps that hitched painfully in my throat.A witch. I was a witch. The word echoed over and over inside my head. It felt like a death sentence suspended over my life. I couldn't go back to Campus. If my own mother was ready to hand me over to the Council, I couldn't go back. I couldn't trust that they wouldn't turn against me. Not after I rejected Axel. I had to run away. I couldn't go back. My knees buckled but I caught myself against cold wet metal.I looked up through my blurred vision and realized I was standing right beside Brody's old beat-up pickup truck. The rusted white frame was parked unevenly under the trees, hidden as if he didn't want anyone to spot it. The truck was idling softly, the faint rumble of the engine vibrating throug
Winter's povThe word hung in the cold air between us and I couldn't seem to wrap my mind around what she had just said. Witch.She was a witch. Which meant I was a witch. A witch....Shock paralyzes me, binding my tongue as my brain desperately fought to reject the reality crashing down on my shoulders. I was a witch. The strange shimmering light, the sudden explosion of power that had just torn through Brod......it wasn't a fluke. It wasn't an accident.It was magic. My magic. "No..." I breathed, shaking my head as the room spun. "No, Mom, that's impossible! Magic would have shown up when I was a child. It doesn't just-""It did!" Mom shrieked, her voice cracking into a manic screech. She stared at me, her eyes wild with a revulsion so deep it felt like a physical blow. "It just did! You killed a man with it, Winter! You destroyed him with a wave of your hand!""I was trying to save you! I was trying to save Sophia!" I cried out, my voice breaking into a painful sob."It's evil!"
Winter's pov"Get out!" Mom's voice spikes into a sharp screech that echoes off the walls as she collapses back onto Brody's lifeless chest. Her hands that were soaked in dark crimson, clutches at his dirty clothes as if trying to shield the dead man from me."You killed him, Winter! Oh God, you really killed him...I thought they were lying. I thought they were just trying to scare me when they said you'd be able to do this!"She shook her head, her eyes wild bloodshot and wide with a lot of terror. The tears trailed down her cheeks as her gaze darted between Brody's still face and me."I prayed they were wrong," she rambled, her breathing quick and uneven as her knuckles turned white against his dirty clothing. "I prayed you were just normal! But you're not...you're a curse. A terrible, wicked curse!"A cold sensation passes through my bones. The grief and exhaustion that was heavy in my limbs suddenly gave way to confusion. What did she mean? Who is 'they?'I stared at her through t
Winter's povI looked back at Brody when I heard the sounds coming from him grow louder. He was practically dying right in front of my eyes. The sight was horrific and should make me feel some kind of way, but the only thing I felt while watching him was a cold detachment wrapping around my chest. The unseen force binding him crushed inward and his ribs creak under the weight of an invisible clamp. His face turned a deep colored purple, veins bulging across his forehead as he suffocated on his own blood. Every agonizing gasp he tried to take was cut short by a sickening gurgle as dark crimson stream down his jaw, dripping off his chin and pooling on the filthy floor. His eyes rolled back in pure agony as he was trapped in his own body while he bled out from the inside.And I felt it. Hell, I felt every single second of it. The power inside me wasn't just surrounding us....it was flowing through me. It hummed in my veins like wild fire, like a fierce, roaring current that burned h
Winter's povThe slight brush of the tip of his tongue across my bottom lip had me tremble, gasping as I part them to allow him in.A hoarse groan pushed out his lips, the sound vibrating against mine and sending a shiver down my spine. I let out a moan and Ashton grunted.And then.....he pushes me
Winter's pov"You shouldn't have brought me here," I jumbled my words as I paced the floor in front of Ashton. He hadn't said a word but it's not like I had given him a chance to as I cried about what had happened earlier with Masha."Your brother, that shithead did nothing to stop his whore," I sn
Winter's povI stared at the floor, which was not much I could see since it was so dark in here. My inky long hair that normally brushes against my tailbone curtains around my face as if it were an armor to protect me.Their laughter still mocked in my ears causing me to grit my teeth and press my
Winter's povThe feel of him, the heat, the low grunts brushing against my ear as he moved in and out of me was intoxicating.I cling to Ashton, my nails biting into his shoulder as he thrusts into me deeper. My back arches, my breasts pressing to his bare chest as I flutter out a moan. "Oh A-"Win







