Masuk~Amelia~
While Kaden dealt with Blake, I had some unfinished business with Mara.
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~Amelia~While Kaden dealt with Blake, I had some unfinished business with Mara.She got to her feet slowly, one hand pressed to her side, blood at the corner of her mouth, and looked at me like she could not decide whether to spit on me or laugh.That look alone pissed me off.
~Amelia~I should have felt happy.But Tara stirred uncomfortably.My smile faded.Kaden noticed immediately.
~Amelia~I changed my mind about the dress three times.Not because anything was wrong with it, it fit, it moved right, it wasn't going to trip me if I had to run. But I kept putting it on and looking at myself and thinking: this is the dress. This is the one I'm wearing when everything becomes permanent. And then I'd take it off because that felt like too much to hold while also trying to do my hair.
~Amelia~It was actually perfect inside. Soft everywhere, dim, smelled like his hoodie. He'd already put the TV remote within reach. I pulled a blanket over my legs and immediately felt about seventy percent better, which I was not going to tell him because he would be insufferable about it.He appeared with a bowl of sour gummies, a bag of salt and vinegar chips, the jar of pickles I'd been eating straight from for two weeks, and a box of those chocolate-covered pretzels I'd mentioned wanting exactly once three days ago.He remembered the pretzels.I was not going to make a thing of it. But I noticed."Pick something to watch," he told me, dropping in next to me."I don’t mind watching a cartoon."He stared at me with disbelief."You said pick something and I think the baby wants it too."He took the remote and put it on without another word. He pulled my legs across his lap, opened the gummies, held one out. I took it. He opened the chips and set them between us. Settled in with his
~Amelia~I woke up dizzy.Flat on my back, ceiling spinning slow, and for a second I thought it was just the pregnancy doing its thing. Then I tried to sit up and the room tilted hard and I grabbed the edge of the mattress like it was going somewhere.Tara was not calm. She was pacing the inside of me, agitated in a way that had nothing to do with a threat outside. I got to the bathroom. Splashed cold water on my face. Gripped the sink and looked at myself in the mirror and thought: great. Twelve hours before the ceremony. Perfect timing.Kaden was in the doorway before I finished the thought."You're white, tell me what’s going on." he requested. "A great way to start our mornings, don’t you think so?"He crossed the bathroom in three steps and took my arm. "Is it the baby again?""I can’t say but all I know is I feel dizzy. My wolf is restless but I think I’ll be fine in an hour or two." I let him steer me back to the bed. He was already on his phone. “Eli, I need you here in the
~Amelia~I was in the kitchen minding my own business, tea, crackers, the baby doing her usual morning gymnastics against my ribs when his mother walked in.My first thought was: so this is how it ends.My second thought was: I should have eaten more of those crackers while I had the chance.
AMELIA’S P.O.VClara didn’t say a single word regarding my conversation with Aaron. I could tell she was thinking about it though. She was many things but stupid was not one of it. She knew exactly what that conversation was about and I expected more questions from her but there was nothing.“Do you w
KADEN’S P.O.VAs soon as Caleb drove off with Amelia, I felt someone slap me upside the head.There were only a handful of people who would dare to do that- my mother, Amelia and Pamela- I didn’t need to turn around to know who it was.“You idiot,” Pamela hissed. “What were you thinking? She told you t
AMELIA’S P.O.VI walked out of the dining room and out the front door.I knew I was being a tad bit unreasonable but it pissed me off to no end that he couldn’t just trust me. I didn’t want to have that conversation in front of everyone, I didn’t want that part of my life out there. We were having a c
AMELIA’S P.O.VI was done hiding.If Blake was willing to leave his pack despite not having his wolf then he was a greater foe than I knew and I couldn’t just sit on my ass and wait for him to attack whenever he felt like. He wasn’t backing down anytime soon, I knew that much. I saw the look in his ey







