The Scent:I open my eyes in an unfamiliar place, my windows which I open every morning are not the same. The room doesn’t smell the same, this scent…. It’s Logan’s….“Oh, that’s right, I’m not home. Wait…. Last night.”I get off the bed and notice that I’m wearing a big shirt with my bra and panties underneath, a shirt that doesn’t belong to me. “Where’s he? Where’s he?”I search but I don’t see him anywhere in the room, not even the bathroom. As I attempt to leave the room, he comes in with a tray of coffee and deviled eggs.“Um.. Good morning”“Good morning to you too.”My eyes are unable to meet his without me becoming embarrassed so I divert my eyes.“Did you sleep well, Ruby?”He drops the tray on a small table close to then bed; then sits at the bottom of the bed.“I think so”“I’m glad. I made you breakfast in bed, too bad you weren’t in bed when I came in.”He laughs nervously and strokes his hair backwards.“Logan, can I ask you something?” “We didn’t do anything, if that’
Clara:Music from my house echoes through the street, the party had already started and I wasn’t there.I take to running and sprint with full speed to get home.On reaching the house, I realize that I’m sweaty and my hair is a mess; I didn’t get to comb my hair over at Mason’s place because he has comb for women.I take the backdoor that leads to the basement.My room is the first destination I reach, I manage to enter my room without anyone noticing me.I’m lucky I entered unnoticed. Mason must be worried, I left my phone home so no one would know my whereabouts.I talk to myself as I shut the door.“You’re right, Mason is very worried about you.”Shock goes down my spine as I hear the voice of someone other than me in my room. The voice is one I recognize so I don’t bother turning around.“Marcus, how did you know?”You’ve always had the habit of escaping into your room straight from the basement whenever you did something wrong.“I guess they don’t. But I did nothing wrong this ti
Call the Doctor:My eyes open and close as nurses pushes me to the Intensive care unit on a stretcher.Members of my family occasionally comes into my sight as my sight goes on and off. I am unable to hear anything other than a sharp ringing sound which feels like it’d drive me crazy.“Will she be okay? Please tell me she’ll be okay.”She’s losing to much blood, if we don’t do something about it immediately, we’ll lose her.These are the only words my ears catch before I pass out totally.“She’s waking up, her fingers are moving.”This sound comes from a distance and I don’t quite recognize the voice of the speaker.“Call the doctor, her vitals need to be checked.”“Where am I? Wasn’t I just at the….oh, that’s right; I’m dead. This must be the afterlife.”“Ruby, Ruby! Open your eyes honey, open your eyes for me.”That voice I do recognize, it’s my mom’s voice. Are my eyes closed? It explains why I see total darkness.Slowly I raise my eye lids. The intensity of the light causes me the
Layla's Brother:Layla’s brother walks in the room unannounced. His entrance is followed by an awkward silence from my family members. Even I am too weak to tell him off.I try to get on my feet but my legs still feel weak, I sit back down on the bed and turn my face to the window.“Um…if I could get everyone’s attention please. There’s something I’d like to say.”Layla stares at her brother intensely.“Go on. Tell us”Layla says to him.“I’m sorry for everything that happened tonight. I’m sorry for everything that happened the other day too; I believe it’s partly my fault.”I look around the room, the atmosphere is cold. He gets no reply from anyone in the room“Could you guys excuse us please?”I ask politely and everyone leaves the room.“What do you want? Alpha?”He shuts the door and sits next to me on the bed.“What I want? Forgiveness; I need you to forgive me. I’ve done a lot of awful things to you and I regret them all.”“You must think this is some sick joke, Alpha; you’ve r
Ethan:It’s been 24 hours since I got home. I feel my energy coming back to me, I’m able to walk a little better than the time at the hospital.I texted Logan and told him about the incident when I got home, he panicked. Logan wanted to immediately come down to the house but I stopped him because I still have some drama to take care of.As I lay in my bed, alpha Ethan’s words echoes in my thoughts. He said things that left me sleepless during my night at the hospital.“Just what did he mean by all that, was he lying? Is he trying to play with me again?”I am unable to get past the thoughts as the whole conversation replays in my head countless times.I had urged my family to gather on the living room because I have something important to tell everyone. Mason texts me and tells me that the whole family is waiting on me in the living room.I reluctantly leave my bed and put on a robe, tie my hair and exit my room.Mason comes upstairs to help me down because my legs aren’t all that stro
Logan:I leave the call on without saying a word. Ethan also doesn’t say anything. The silence gets awkward and just as I attempt to end the call he speaks.“Did you consider the things I said?”“Why? Why did you say something like that. You’re putting me though a crises; make up your mind, do you hate me or do you not?”“I have no hatred whatsoever for you, I explained the reasons for my actions to you. They’re nothing to be proud of and I’m sorry I acted that way. I’ll plead for your forgiveness as much as I need to.”“I don’t need your apologizes. I just want you to stop messing with my head.”“Stop trying to fight it, Ruby. Deep down you know that you still feel something for me so why fight it?”“Ethan, please stop. Whatever this is, I am not interested in it.”I hang up the phone and throw it on my bed as I bury myself in thoughts again.A notification enters my phone and when I check, it’s a message from Logan.“Hey, Ruby. How are you doing? Just checking on you.”I smile imme
Layla:We sat by the lake; Logan tossed stones into it while I made the sandwiches from the bread he brought with him.“You’re very thoughtful Logan, to have come up with an idea like this. It’s beautiful.”He picks up a pebble and sits on the mat.“I think you should have this”“He hands me a beautiful Ruby coloured pebble.”“Thank you, it’s very pretty. I like it.”“It’s not as pretty as you though”“You think so?”“You’re the prettiest woman I’ve come across in my life, I’m glad to have met you that day.”“I’m glad too”I responded, turning my face away from him to hide how happy I felt.“The park seems rather quiet today doesn’t it?”“I’d say it’s peaceful. I love how the atmosphere feels.”“My parents used to bring me here as a kid.”“Really? What are you parents like?”He moves closer to me and places his arms around his knees, staring into the lake.“My parents? They were the best.”“Were? I’m sorry about that”“It’s fine, happened years ago.”“What happened?”“Ruby, there’s so
Mason inloveLayla made plans with me to check out a concert hosted by a local band but I declined.I badly wanted to tell her the things her brother said to me but I couldn’t. I knew she wasn’t going to approve of me meeting alpha Ethan.After giving it much thought, I decided that seeing Ethan would be best; maybe if I saw him we could finally get things over with.Although I’m going to see a man who has hurt me and made my life miserable, I decide to wear one of my best dresses.My leg feels better, it went back to normal when I woke up in the morning. I guess I just had to compensate for the blood I lost from that head injury.As I walk down stairs with trainers on my feet, I almost slip but I am caught by Clara who was making her way up to my room.“Hi Ruby, I was just about to come looking for you.”“Hey Clara, what’s up?”“I was wondering if you’d like to follow me to the baby store. There’s some stuff I need to get for the baby.”“Oh girl, I’m so sorry about this but I have so