Iris never came back that night and I fell asleep alone feeling like shit. I had blamed her for something that actually had nothing to do with me and then I went and hurt her in the worst way bonded halves could hurt each other.“Who ate your porridge?” Jared asked as he joined me at the table in the dining hall.“Iris and I spoke last night,” I said to him.“And?” he asked me.“I was an idiot,” I said to him as he laughed.“So why do you still look like this?” he asked me.“Because I was so hell bent on what she did before we imprinted that I wanted to hurt her back,” I said to him.“Did you sleep with someone in New York?” he asked me his voice changing.“Yes,” I said as he stood up and took a swing at me, his fist connecting with my jaw.The whole dining room fell into deafening silence as I stood up from the floor and Jared readied himself to take another swing.“The first one was fair game but come at me again and I won’t hold back,” I said to him.Jared lunged for me as I grabbe

I sat in my office and stared out of the window as the shock of what the doctor had told me washed over me. Jared was ecstatic, I was less so. I still felt numb and I heard the office door open and I smelled Kat as I turned around in my chair.“Congratulations brother,” Kat said and offered me a small smile.“Please don’t,” I said to her.“Jared can’t stop smiling,” she said as she sat down.“It’s not mine Kat,” I said to her.“What?” she asked me suddenly looking furious.“We only completed the bond a month ago, if it was mine she’d be four weeks pregnant, not ten,” I said to her.“What the fuck,” Kat whispered.I didn’t answer her, there was nothing I could say. I felt too damaged and used to even comprehend how I should react never mind what I was supposed to do now. I wanted to throw up and even worse was that I wanted to kill her, humiliate her like she’d done with me.“Damon! She’s awake!” Jared said excitedly as he popped his head into my office.“I can’t even think straight ri

At ten pm we had all shifted into our jaguars and hid in the canopies of the trees high above the forest floor. All the women, children and the elderly had been moved to the safe room in the clowder house at eight pm.We were scattered throughout the northern side forest and we would watch them as they entered our territory. I smelled them first and I gave the order to remain quiet and ready. The scouts reported their movement as they neared our border exactly where Iris said they would come from but the other scouts on our other borders remained quiet.It seemed that he had brought his whole force to this side. That was really stupid of him, we waited as they entered through the forest in their human form and slowly started making their way forward. Winston stopped two trees away from where I was and the men huddled around him.“Kill everyone, leave the Alpha for me and make sure you kill Iris,” he said in a low voice.They started creeping forward and I saw the warriors as they jump

“Hello,” I said with a smile as I answered the incoming video call.“Good, you’re still awake,” Mimi said as she frowned.“I’m always awake at this time of the night,” I said to her.Mimi was one of my best friends and we were the most alike in our dysfunctional little group. Mimi was beautiful, she didn’t realize how beautiful she was and she had a clear disdain for public places, people and anything to do with going outside. She owned an online boutique shop that sold handmade jewelry, that she made herself, and the most gorgeous evening wear you could imagine.“So I was already in bed when suddenly it occurred to me that one of these days the earth could just fall you know,” she said to me and I laughed.“Chances are rather slim, I think,” I said to her but her face was serious.“But just imagine, would we know we were dying if suddenly the earth started falling? I mean where would we hide?” she asked me.This was the basis of most of our conversations, where she came up with thing

FinleyI woke up to the ringing of my phone the next morning and the sun shining very brightly through the open curtains. There was a lingering smell of mint and rainfall and I sat upright in my bed and looked around.“Why are you calling me?” I groaned as I answered my phone.“Are you alone?” Harley whispered.“Why wouldn’t I be alone and why are you whispering?” I asked her as I held my pounding head.“We were just wondering because your hot neighbour took you home last night like a caveman,” she said and laughed.“What?” I asked her.“He literally threw you over his shoulder and carried you outside to your truck,” she said.“I don’t remember any of that,” I said to her.“You’re so vanilla Fin! How the hell do you not remember a hot guy taking you home?” she asked me.“My head hurts, I’ll call you later when I feel more human,” I said and ended the call as she started yelling at me.I groaned again as I moved my legs to get up from the bed and felt a slight uncomfortable pain betwee