CherryIn the blink of an eye, my mate was all over me. He wrapped his arms around my waist, tugging me closer to his body.One of his restless hands fondled me with his needy touches, caging my jaw. The other one palmed my boobs. Breaking away from our kisses, Dylan looked down at my chest, stopping at the part where my heart was.“What's it? Anything wrong?” I asked, a little pissed off at his sudden pause when my wolf and me were starting to ache for more.“Dylan—” I pursued after getting no response from my mate for quite a while.“Your heartbeat...and our bond! My wolf can hear yours again! And it hasn't sunk to me yet that you're back here.” Dylan's voice quivered with agitation.I gazed down on my chest, where his palm was still feeling the life in me.But all my mind was preoccupied with the concern about how provoking our position was: my legs straddling on his laps and my dress giving a peak at my thighs.“Dylan—” I was cut off when my mate suddenly crashed his lips with min

Cherry“Yes, we are! And we've even got the paperwork done.” Nina couldn't hide the excitement in her voice. “Dylan got it done!”“He did?” I asked, shocked to hear that all their paperwork had been ready.“Yes. We're not doing this on a whim, Cherry. Every designer dreams to be part of the Paris Fashion Week; so do Kendra and I. We made this choice because we want to make a step forward in our designing career.” Nina held my hand tightly while looking into my eyes keenly.“Not wrong. And Seattle gets all the diversity that a designer needs. We cannot just spend all our life here in Berlin. It's time we go and experience this world for ourselves. And we enjoy working with you and Maisy. It's just so great that we got to work back together.” Kendra chimed in with her idea.After catching up with Kendra and Nina and having a lively conversation, I bid them goodbye.Just as I returned from the door after seeing my friends off, Fern popped her head from behind the sliding door that led to

Cherry “Cherry, you've got to see this! She's here!” Kendra greeted me in excitement the minute I arrived backstage at the show. “What's it?” I asked, snickering at Kendra making a fuss about everything. “It's Anna Wintour! She's here! The chief editor and brain behind the famous vogue magazine is here at our exhibition!” Overwhelmed with joy and surprise, Maisy and Nina came over, joining Kendra to share this amazing news with me. "Anna Wintour's here at my show?!" I mumbled in disbelief, taking my eyes off my colleagues and following their eyes towards the front row, where Anna was seated. "But she didn't reply to our invites. I thought she was declining us." Things just happened too fast. I still couldn't believe what was going on in front of my eyes. “No, she didn't. But we did send her the catalog of your works at the show together with the invite. Maybe she happened to flip through the pages and saw something special in your concept!” Nina chirped cheerfully. “Nin

Fern's Perspective  Giovan's eyes hardened.  "You're not doing that little tree," he said to me.  Giovanni is my brother. I could feel our bond as fated mates, but I didn't want to accept it. Nuu-Chaah might have made a mistake pairing us. "Eight years ago, I didn't blame nor resented you when you couldn't do anything to help me when Alpha Dylan exiled me...." "Giovan, please. If we accept the bond as fated mates. Daddy will hate you even more! If he only threw you to the wall before, this time he might kill you—" "Don't turn your back on me the way our parents did, Fern," Giovan begged. He looked in pain.  "We grew up together, Giovan. Half your life you were treating me like a sister." "Do you want to know why Alpha Dylan and Luna Cherry agreed to kick me out of Starsmoon Pack?"  I shook my head and covered my ears.  "Your father saw the way I look at you. He said that's not how a brother looks at his

Giovanni's PerspectiveI came out of the tent after I felt Tobias' presence outside. "Did you use the drug on her?" He asked. I shook my head and threw the small bottle at him. "I told you I won't need this," I said. He looked over my shoulder. "Is she in the tent? What if Fern wakes up on the way to Dark Howl?" He asked. I walked to the tent and he followed me. "Get her. We need to leave the ground before someone from the Starsmoon pack comes to pick her up," I said to Tobias. He saluted to me. Tobias carried Fern in bridal style. His eyes popped when he saw the mark on her neck."Alpha what the.... did you do this? Were you the one who marked her?" He asked, further inspecting the wound on Fern's neck. "Aurora will be furious when she finds out that you claimed Fern as your mate."I grabbed my shirt from the ground, "Aurora will understand. She knew that she was the one that I loved, and ma