جميع فصول : الفصل -الفصل 40

Erin's POVRuby glared down at me, her eyes filled with rage. “This isn't over, you stupid bitch.” Her fist slammed into my face as she threw me back onto the floor, my head smashing hard into it. Stars danced across my eyes. Blood pooling.I breathed out slowly.Ruby took off towards the window, leaping out of it.The darkness creeping in.Whatever Ruby had done to me was making me weaker by the second.The door burst open.“Erin!” Adam's panicked voice yelled as he rushed towards me.My eyes fluttered.“Erin, look at me.” Adam dropped to his knees in front of me, his face blurring in and out as his hands moved over me.I tried, but I couldn't move.Nicklaus rushed in behind him, his eyes taking in me and the blood on the floor before looking around the room. “Find them,” he growled.Anthony took off, leaping from the window.Adam gently lifted me off the floor, cradling me in his arms, the steady beat of his heart and his warmth spreading through me, holding me here. He laid me down

Erin's POVI threw the blanket off me, my eyes landing on the box sitting on my bedside table. There was no point using the key or even finding out if it even was to the locked room because I wasn't staying here forever, and whatever Adam had hidden in that room was his business.I was already getting too comfortable here as it was.The last thing I needed was another reason to feel like I belonged.I sat up, grabbed the key out of the box, got out of bed, showered, and got dressed before heading downstairs.I wasn’t going to drag this out.Adam was kind and caring; he deserved to know now, not to waste any more of his time on me.But what if he asked me to leave his house?Where would I go?I pushed those thoughts out of my head and forced myself to go downstairs. This was the right thing to do, rip the band-aid off now before I had another one of those stupid moments I couldn’t explain or want happens again.The sound of someone in the kitchen came towards me as I walked down the ha

Erin's POVNicklaus was mad at me for trying to do the job he had given me. For the past three hours, he hadn’t said a word to me, only come out of his office to check I hadn’t snuck off again.I hadn't meant to do anything wrong, and I still couldn’t see how I had done anything wrong. I hadn’t left the packhouse or anything like that. All I was trying to do was do the job he gave me right.And those few minutes I had with the women Madeline had taken me to lunch with had given me more than any of these files had in the last three hours.I shouldn’t have let it get to me so bad. I was only going to be here for three months. That hadn’t changed, and it wasn’t going to.But I still wanted to do the job the best I could to thank Nicklaus for letting me be a part of his pack, giving me a job and a chance to feel useful again after everything Carlos had taken from me.And most of all, for showing my son kindness and letting him lay to rest here.This was the least I could do for him.I jus

Erin's POVAdam shook violently before he spun me around, storming towards the bed and gently laying me down.My back hit the mattress, and I sucked in a breath, staring up at him. His golden eyes were almost completely taken over by his wolf as he stood over me like he was fighting every instinct in his body not to just take what I had offered him.But he didn't.His hands stayed beside him, fingers curling into fists as his eyes dragged slowly over me.“Can I touch you?”“Yes.” I bit the side of my lip.His fingers brushed against my cheek first, softly. Goosebumps rushed over my skin as his thumb traced across my bottom lip.“Here?”I swallowed.“Yes.”He kissed me, softly. His hand slid slowly down the side of my neck.Fuck.My breath stalled.His mouth moved against mine, deeper, and my fingers curled into the front of his shirt, pulling him closer.Adam groaned.Blue surged forward so hard, my entire body buzzing with electric pleasure and excitement.My eyes opened slowly, roll

Erin’s POV‘Turn here.’ Blue slammed into me, pushing me around a corner. ‘They’ve been following us since Emily’s.’ Every inch of her on high alert. She had to be being paranoid, taking Nicklaus’s warnings a little too seriously. Surely it was just someone else walking the same way I was.Distant voices, a child crying. Footsteps. I walked faster, turning the corner and pressing my back to the wall. I held my breath and waited. My hands resting on my chest as I stared into the reflection of the flower shop window across the road.A man wearing a black hoodie pulled over his head looked up, a black mask covering his mouth and nose.Blue shackles rose inside me, rumbling deep in my chest. I trembled. The hooded man looked up.No.He could see me.I pushed myself up off the wall and hurried down the street, listening for his footsteps. They were faster now, slipping on loose stones as he rounded the corner.My eyes scanned everything around me. I needed to lose him.I walked faster, tur