44 Days From Now Novels & Stories

She explains. A week. That is seven days. Adding to the days remaining before the royal hunt which begins this week Saturday it makes it almost twelve days. Twelve days minus the twenty days I have left and that is eight days remaining. Eight days is not enough. "What time is it?" Ruby stands up, looking out of the window. I follow her gaze and realize that the sun is already up. "it's noon—or almost noon I guess." "Then let's go." "Go where?

"One month. They want you to start at the beginning of February." One month. Thirty days. Four weeks. That's all the time we had left before everything changed.

They do have important business to discuss, still working through the aftermath of the confrontation with Axel Brook. Amir decides to check on the Head Alpha. Amir frowns. Behind the bedroom door, groans, whines and sighs keep him from barging in. That’s either some amazing stamina or… But that’s not possible. Weston’s rut isn’t scheduled for another month. As a member of the Council, it’s something they always keep track of since it renders their Pack Alpha vulnerable for the two to three days a rut usually lasts. Amir also knows Millan's heat isn’t for another two months at least. He’d confided in Amir a while ago. So, it’s not possible unless…

“Okay, call me if you feel even worse, we can go to the hospital.” When they left the room, I felt peace. Good luck, Ronan, for taking care of the twins. I changed my clothes to make myself comfortable. As I couldn't do anything alone, I only watched Korean dramas on their international channel. Suddenly, a breaking news flashed on the screen. I was about to change the channel, but I noticed the date at the bottom of the news. “What? It’s already April 28?” Why did I forget about my month? I'm already delayed for six days but maybe it will come in the following days.

Way too soon. *****************************************

Three days. ---

Rosa was thinking in her mind "I have walked for what feels like a couple of hours now. My mobile seems to be not working and glitching. No wonder this area was prohibited for us. I am actually quite scared. I have an artificial atmosphere device attached with me which is supplying me with the required oxygen so I know I will at least not die due to suffocation or inefficient oxygen. At least not now, till the system is working and till there is oxygen left in the tank. It is connected with hotel Oxymar's main point of supply but there are a thousand different scenarios that might happen. Also I am far away from the safe zone so the supply is pretty weak and eventually it might just stop. I

I can’t lead him to believe we have a chance any more than I already have, tomorrow night, I need to have the hard talk with him, the we need to talk conversation. … Sunday morning, 5 more days until I get into my new apartment, I’m so close. I grab my phone and see two messages, one from Nick and one from X. I open nicks first, Thank you for last night, missing those lips already. I need to be back in L. A on Wednesday, can I see you? That text makes my stomach do flip-flops in the best possible way. I text him back, I’d love that I now open the text from X dreading it,

“Do you really care?” “Fuck yes. Tell me when I can move.” I reached for my courage. “You can move.” His torso tightened as he moved ever so slightly. “I want to jump ahead, a day or a week…I want to show you how good this can be.” Would a week be enough time? Pressing my eyes closed, more tears skirted down my cheeks to the pillow below.

I ask after a while "Nah, you didn't, thankfully. It's in three days. Today is the 28th. It's happening on the last day of the month, the 31st. The Council already brought a notice to that effect, you woke up just in time." She says, flashing me a smile of relief. "A lot has happened while you were unconscious." She continued saying "Oh!... A lot like what?" I ask with a frown, already praying in my mind it wouldn't be something bad