Everything comes crashing down as my eyes widen into his. Both of our breathing labored but his hands not releasing me. “Grace.” He says breathlessly. That name is all it takes to wake me up. ‘Grace’ I’m not Grace. He thinks I’m someone I’m not. I shouldn’t be doing this when he doesn’t even know who he’s with. I scramble off of him and stand in the middle of the room panting. I can see him start to fumble, standing up and walking towards me. I look up at him, my eyes wide. “I’m so sorry. We shouldn’t… We shouldn’t have done that.” I stammer out and he looks at me shocked. Walking towards me like I’m a trapped animal he’s scared is going to run away. “Why, Grace? Why shouldn’t we have done that? Please, just talk to me.” I can hear the pleading in his voice, the fear that I didn’t want him to kiss me, but that’s not it. I don’t know why. Why I’m so scared to just tell them the truth, so I decide to lie. “I’m sorry, Gunner. I like all three of you. I’m not going to choose, so I’ve just decided I wouldn’t be with any of you. It’s not fair to you guys.” I don’t wait for him to respond, I run out the door and down the steps, landing face first in Dean’s chest. He pulls me up and wraps my legs around his waist causing me to gasp. “Who said we’d make you choose, Bambi?” And before I can respond his lips are on mine.
View More“Wake up, Xena!” Someone whisper yells at me. I groan in pain, wondering who is waking me up. I was just able to get my body to allow me to sleep.
Thanks to the most recent beating from what most people would consider my father, I can barely move. I haven’t considered that man my father from the first time he laid his hands on me.
That doesn’t seem to stop him from laying claim to me, when he needs to pretend that we’re the perfect family.
The perfect daughter, that’s what I am. Great grades, well behaved, and of course what’s most important to him, beautiful.
My long golden blonde hair flows to my butt, bright blue green eyes with a circle of bright, sparkling gold around my pupils, height of five five and skinny with curves in all the right places. All things that I’m required to maintain, for fear of life. Not sure how I’m supposed to maintain half of those, but it wouldn’t matter, I’d suffer the consequences if my body decided to grow an inch. I mean literally, he checks my height monthly.
I look around in a daze, “Mom?” I whisper, following her lead. She scowls at me; I figure berating me for my stupid question.
I manage to get myself into a sitting position on the bed, just as she throws me my hoodie from across the room.
It lands on my face, blinding me for a second, when I grab it and pull it down. Luckily my sperm donor never aims for the face, so it didn’t hit any bruises or cuts. He would never hit my face and risk hurting the ‘according to him’ only good quality I have.
“Get dressed. We have to go.” She whispers again. I start getting dressed as fast as I can, without hurting myself, while I watch her. She’s going around my room throwing all my clothes in a suitcase.
At this point, I’m at a complete loss with what’s happening.
I gave up hope a long time ago that my mom would ever leave my sperm donor. Once I realized the difference in the way they treated my brother, Alec, compared to me. I knew that my mom loved him with all her heart. My mom would never risk leaving and losing my brother, even if that meant sacrificing me.
My sperm donor would never allow my brother to leave. Alec will be the next Alpha of the pack, so there wouldn’t be anywhere my mom could hide that he wouldn’t find her.
That being said, I don’t really believe she wants to leave Heath, my sperm donor. He is her mate and regardless of everything she seems to love him, and he her. It’s really only me who got the short end of the stick, when it comes to love from Heath. Maybe he just didn’t have anymore love to spare once I came along.
I finish getting dressed and look over at my mom, “Where are we going?” She looks at me for a minute, seemingly studying my face. She shakes her head, as if berating herself for whatever thoughts she just had. “Come on. We need to go now.” And with that as my answer, she makes her way to the door.
Once she opens it, she looks both ways to make sure no ones there, I’m guessing.
All this secrecy is scary, if we’re doing something against the Alpha’s wishes, I’m going to be the one punished for it, regardless of if I had any idea what was happening.
I huddle close to my mom, then she deems it all clear, and heads into the hallway. I follow her closely as we make our way through the pack house and outside to the car, without anyone noticing us.
Once we get to the car, my mom throws my suitcase into the backseat, then makes her way to the front as I get into the passenger side. My mom takes a deep breath and then starts the car.
I watch out the window as we head down the road that goes through the woods and passed the pack boundaries.
Once we make it passed the pack boundaries, I look over at my mom, I see the tension in her shoulders fall and then she looks over at me. “I’m going to drop you off at the nearest bus station.” My eyes widen. “What?” I ask, louder than I intended.
Her eyes soften just slightly when she looks over at me. “I can’t do much to help you Xena, but I can hopefully get you away for a little bit.” I just stare at her so confused, before she speaks again. “You are to follow the bus route until you land in White Peak. Then, ask for directions to the Turning Point summer camp in the White Peak territory. I’m sure someone there will know and be able to route you there. You’ll being staying there until fall. Your father doesn’t know where I’m taking you, just that I’m getting you out of the pack for a little while. After this last stunt you pulled, he doesn’t want to see your face for a while.”
I stare at her bewildered, because the ‘last stunt’ I pulled was eating an extra roll at dinner. I knew I shouldn’t have, but the regime he has me on to ‘maintain’ my figure, is practically just starvation.
Then I remember who I’m talking to. The same woman that has allowed that man to beat and starve me for years, without saying a word in my defense.
She really doesn’t deserve the title of mom either, but in a world that you have nobody, you have to hang onto even the smallest threads.
We finally pull up to the bus station, and I stare at it for a while before she starts nudging me out. She grabs my suitcase from the back and hands it over to me. I’m waiting for some heartfelt goodbye, or something, anything, as I look into my mom’s eyes.
She straightens, “Well, don’t forget about your regime. You come home fat, you know what will happen.” Then hands me a purple folder.
We go back to the hotel after rock climbing all afternoon. None of them seem mad after the stunt I pulled, and I want to spend more time alone with each of them anyway. This works for everybody.Apparently, we have more plans, so I go to get into the shower. Shockingly, they let me shower by myself and I finish quickly. I get into the small bag that was given to me, considering I was completely unaware that any of this was happening.All that’s in it is the purple dress from the store and a darker purple jacket. What the hell? There’s not even underwear.I purse my lips but just get dressed in what I was given. Then step out to free up the bathroom, and finish getting ready in the room. Then Gunner walks into the bathroom.Once we’re all ready, we begin to leave. I keep pushing down my dress, uncomfortable with the idea of being free rein under a dress.I need to have a discussion with whoever packed my clothes.We stop at a pizza place, and I smile, excited. While I’ve decided it’s m
We get to the place where we’re taking Grace, and she still looks confused. We walk over to the instructor, and he smiles greeting us all with a handshake.We walk through the woods until we get to the place set up with all the gear and helpers. My brothers and I don’t really need the helpers, but we wanted to make sure Grace was safe.Grace looks up at me, “Are we rock climbing?” She asks trying to contain her excitement, but I can feel it thrumming through the bond. I smile down at her and nod.We thought she would like this, after she was so obsessed with the obstacle course, and clearly, we were right.A huge smile crosses her face, and I watch her as she turns and looks up at the wall we’re climbing. She turns back and looks at all of us, “I bet I can win.” She says smiling and we all look at her like she’s crazy. “We’ve been doing this for a while, Sunshine.” Issac tells her.She smiles, “Whoever wins gets a night alone.” She says, suddenly making this a much more serious compe
We start walking to the car and Lux pulls me aside. “Hey, I’m really sorry if I said something I shouldn’t have.” He says to me, and I smile, “I’m not mad, Lux. If anything, you’re right.” I tell him and he sighs, “Still.” He responds and I pull us both to a stop, so he faces me.“Look, when I first got to camp, I was covered in scars from the things that had happened to me. I always wore a hoodie to cover them. I think at some point in my life, it just became a safety blanket.” I explain and shrug. I can tell he’s trying to hold back his anger, “I’ve seen you in a dress. I didn’t see… I’m sorry.” He says, and I smile.“When the triplets found out why I wore hoodies they brought their healer to camp to take them away. I just haven’t found it in me to get rid of the jacket yet. I think it helped that I was wearing a mask the night you saw me.” I explain and he gives me a small smile. “I’m really happy they found you, Grace.” He says and I smile, pulling him in for a side hug. “Me too.”
We get to the shopping center and Gia and Olivia instantly start pulling me to different stores and forcing me into dressing rooms. It’s definitely an experience.I don’t keep track of who’s buying all of things that Gia and Olivia insist I just ‘have to have’, not wanting to think about it. I decided I wanted to do this, so I’m doing it.I come out of the dressing room, with a pretty purple sundress on. I really like it and will probably add this to the pile that they’ve made for me.I see Lux sitting with the triplets looking extremely bored. I chuckle, and he glares at me. “You could go find something to do. It’s not like I need you to protect me right now.” I tell him, knowing I won’t be shaking the triplets, so there’s really no reason he needs to be here.Issac ignores us and looks at me, “I love that one! And it’s you’re favorite color!” He says and I laugh at him remembering what I said about that. Dean and Gunner blanch, “Purple? Why did I think it was yellow?” Dean asks and
I stare into Issac’s eyes, “Why does that scare you?” I ask and he sighs, scrubbing his hand over his face. “I’m just terrified of losing you, Sunshine. I don’t know what would happen to me if I ever did.” He explains, and a small smile graces my face.“I’m not going anywhere, Issac. I love all of you so much, it physically hurts thinking about losing you. And while I have my fears about you guys not wanting me eventually, Dean’s right; I can’t see the future. I’ve decided if it happens, I’ll deal with it then.” I tell him and he smiles, “Good.” He says, and my mouth opens, I expected him to be more not okay with my statement. His smile widens, “Good, because if you you’re waiting for us to not want you, to start worrying about that then you’ll never have to worry, because us not wanting you will never happen.” He says, and then grabs the back of my head, pulling me into a kiss.I easily fall into his kiss, until I pull away again to look at the book. “Albert Windshion? What do you th
I’m reading a book called ‘In the beginning’ by Albert Windshion, feeling Grace’s emotions all over the place. I want to leave and go to her, but Dean said he’s handling it, and she’s not physically hurt, so I’m waiting.Gunner’s pacing behind the couch, distracting me also, so I close the book and look behind me to him. I wasn’t learning anything new from the book anyway. “Dean says she’s fine. They’ll be back in a minute.” I tell him and he nods.He stops pacing and looks at me, “Do you think this feeling will ever get easier?” He asks, and I scrunch my face and look him over. “What feeling?” I ask.He sighs, “I don’t know… It feels like there’s a fire living in my soul from how fucking angry I’ve been getting over everything. I know it’s not uncommon for me to get angry, but this feels… Different. Do you not feel like that? I wasn’t sure if I was just feeling her emotions or not, it doesn’t feel the same, but it’s not like I’ve done this before.” He explains and shrugs.I tilt my h
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