After dinner which ended with Ace continuously giving me the 'princess treatment', we head back to the pack house.I had just gotten dressed in my nightdress, ready to retire for the day when Ace returned, he met me spraying the daffodil I had a maid bring to our room. I felt his arms snake around me, touching against the silky material to feel my thighs as his breath fanned my neck. I turned to him, wallowing in his embrace. "I've been thinking of something. Can we talk?" I asked, tilting my head to stare at his face. "Sure," he agreed. "Let's sit." His forehead was already etched with concern even before I could speak. "I've decided to use my healing ability to serve the pack. I can work at the pack's general hospital and assist the doctors. It'll make their work easier and keep me busy at the same time working for the pack," I revealed to him. There was a twitch in his expression, a twitch that left me disappointed as I could already guess what would come after it. Ace's han

"What the hell are you doing here?!" I yanked at her in anger. The mere sight of her was enough to wring out the bitter memories, pouring them into my thoughts in a rush. I felt the effect all over my body, her brutality and torture. Like a book being flipped, her abuses faced me one after the other. My past life unwantedly revisiting my memory, reminding me of how much hate I bore for the pack that birthed me. Why do they keep coming into my life? Why wouldn't they fuckin let me be, and enjoy the glory of not coming across their horrendous faces? Didn't they call me cursed and unwanted? So why do they keep appearing in my affairs when I'm no longer involved with them?"I asked you a goddamn question!" I thundered at her when she said nothing, leaving my position to storm towards her. Silence fell over the living room, the workers lowering their heads and avoiding my gaze. Before I could reach Brittany, she fell on her knees, bowing submissively at my feet. I paused, taken abac

...I barely slept a wink last night due to Ace's and I disagreement, he hadn't come for me last night and I had stayed in bed hoping he would with my tears-soaked eyes. Waking up to a knock on the door, I wiped my face and sprang to my feet. If it turned out to be Ace, I had concluded on banging the door in his face to show him how pissed I was. I also wouldn't speak no matter how much he would try to make me and it would take more than just revealing his plan to get us working again. After all, he agreed on us being strangers. He might not have voiced it but his letting me leave without a word proved it. I didn't know why I felt us breaking apart already but for the first time, Amy couldn't convince me to set things right with him. I was just as obstinate as he was and I sensed that it was going to ruin us. The knock came again but with a voice this time, "Luna it's Georgia. I brought you breakfast."I plopped to the bed, heavily disappointed as I ushered her in. She gave me a pi

I woke up to find myself locked in a dungeon in an area I didn't recognize immediately. I looked around memory of what had happened quickly shuffling into my mind. I stood up from the bed and tiptoed to stare out of the tiny window and realized I was in the heart of the jungle and on the border of both the Crimson Pack and the Ocean Howls Pack. It was dark but I could see where I was quite well. I shut my eyes and tried to contact Ace through the mind-link but it was not connecting due to the distance between us.After several futile trials, I accepted my fate and looked around the room for an escape route. As I expected there was none and the window, if it could be considered one, looked too tiny to even fit my head. I crouched to my knees, thinking of the next action. I wondered how they were able to sneak me out of the pack house, and the only answer I arrived at was that there were more spies in the pack than Ace and I thought. More than enough to make my abduction successful wi

***The tears fell from my eyes in trickles as I wallowed in regrets. Carried away, I was unaware when Derek reached me and crouched beside me, I only felt his presence when his fingers began combing through my hair."You don't have to be scared, just trust me. No one will hurt you as long as I'm here, even if it's the last thing I do on Earth, I will protect you."His assurance did nothing to calm me, I wasn't scared of what these people were going to do to me. I was scared for Ace, scared that I might never get to see him again. Derek seemed to have come fully prepared this time, and I could only imagine what Ace was doing at the moment. He must be blaming himself for my abduction, having regrets for not protecting me enough. My absence would have torn the stitch of his wounded heart, making him recall the last moments of his parents with fear. My heart burned with guilt but the only thing I could do was cry. Ace did his best to protect me, it was me who didn't trust him enough. I