Todos los capítulos de MATED TO THE WEREWOLF AND THE VAMPIRE.: Capítulo 51 - Capítulo 60

Eliana's POV I got home and as much as the dog had served as some company on the walk back, padding alongside me the whole way without being asked, I was still pissed in my mind about the way Darius had let me down. You know, the thing was that I had made up my mind about that date. And I had genuinely decided to go … not just agreed to go, but had picked out something decent to wear. And had left the house a little earlier to actually get my hair touched up. I mean, I had invested in the evening. And he had just … not shown up. Leaving no message, no explanation, just his phone ringing out and the beach, the dark and eventually a dog for company instead of the person who had asked me there in the first place. So yeah. ‘Pissed’ was the word. I pushed the front door open and stepped in, the dog was following right behind me like it lived here, which it did not, but we were no

Rylan's POV From the way the conversation had been going, I could feel Eliana getting a bit more relaxed and the tension that had been sitting in her shoulders since she walked in starting to loosen by degrees. One topic had led to another, the way conversations did when both people were genuinely present in them, and at some point it stopped feeling like I was managing a situation and started feeling like we were just here, together.Which was exactly where I needed it to go. So I leaned into it as we went on to get along with the simple indoor game I initiated right here. "I'm sorry, you go like this." I demonstrated, pressing both palms lightly over my eyes … one to each … and waited for her to follow. She looked at me with that expression she had sometimes, the one that was somewhere between ‘what are you doing’ and ‘I'm curious enough to find out.’ An

Eliana's POV As soon as I stood right in front of him with the napkin, ready to just handle the practical task and move on, my eyes landed on his chest and didn't immediately cooperate with moving on. ‘Oh my God, he is so hot.’ That thought was loud and immediate … and I was keeping it exactly where it was, which is right behind my face and nowhere near my expression or anything Rylan could read. I placed the napkin against his chest and started cleaning it. "Thank you." He said. "Mmmhmmm." Was what came out of me, which was not a word but was the best I had available right at that moment while simultaneously trying to clean wine off someone's chest without letting on that the chest was doing something to my ability to breathe normally. I moved the napkin across, focusing on the task, keeping my breathing as even as I c

Eliana's POVMy eyes were still halfway open, in that hazy state where you are technically awake but your brain is still catching up on the details.The first thing I registered was warmth. The second thing was that the warmth was human. And the third thing, arriving just a beat behind the first two, was the specific texture of skin under my palm that confirmed beyond any reasonable doubt that I was not lying beside a dog anymore.‘I thought I went back to my room last night.’That thought came in clearly and then immediately raised 6 more questions I didn't have answers to. Because yes, I had come to my room. I remembered coming to my room. I remembered the dog and the ceiling and falling asleep with my hand in fur that was very much fur and not whatever this was.So how did a human being end up in my bed between then and now?I needed to look. As I couldn't just lie here with my hand on a mystery person's chest and pretend this was fine with me. I needed to see who this was so I cou

Eliana's POVI was dressed for school already, picking my things and putting them in my school bag, trying to give my hands something to do because my hands being busy meant my brain had less room to spiral.Rylan was on the couch scrolling through his phone, minding his business, which was the version of him I appreciated most on mornings like this one. No commentary. No questions. Just existing quietly in the same space and not making things harder.I was doing okay. I mean, I was doing absolutely fine. You know, I was going to go to school and focus on my academics and not spend the entire day thinking about this morning.The fact is that I really doubted that was going to be possible, but I was going to try.I heard footsteps and then Darius's voice came. "Eliana."And I kept packing my bag without stopping, because I already knew from the direction of his footsteps and the specific quality of how he said my name that he was coming over here to explain something.He came to stand