Next Time There Won't Be A Next Time Novels & Stories

This time, I don’t break. This time, they will. **********

"Because you didn't care. Your attention was always on Piper. You knew your mother treated me badly, but you could not be bothered to intervene." Cole's face went white. "That isn't true, Audrey. I know anything I say now is too late. "Life moves forward. Let's forget the unhappiness behind us. Come home with me, and I'll spend the rest of my life making it up to you." I stared at him, unable to understand his reasoning, though my voice remained calm. "If life moves forward, that is even more reason I can't go back with you. "I have already found someone better than you."

No longer would they allow themselves to be trampled—not this time. It wasn't the end, but a new beginning.

I don't like the thought of things being awkward between Jackson and I, after tonight. I might never look at him the same anymore and that is scary. I don't wish to lose him as a friend because he's been there for me, we've known each other for so long and to have one night, change things. No, things can't go like that. I can't lose a friend. ******** ' Skylar Grey, you will not grow silent on me like you've been doing, call me sweetheart. Mom.~

he continued threateningly, "don't expect me to mark you at the ceremony two days from now!" "Sure," I said flatly. "I'll be there soon." "That's more like it. You better stay this obedient. If you don't, even after we bond, I'll end the relationship whenever I feel like it." He clearly thought he still had me under his thumb. I could hear the smugness in his voice through the phone. I hung up and blocked his number too, smiling coldly. Yes, I would go. But not to apologize. The old Lycan King had informed me that Sven's surgery had been a success. Before the bonding ceremony, we would publicly announce our relationship at our engagement party.

“Next time, I’m not stopping until you can’t remember your own name.” The bond hums in vicious agreement. And I want the next time already.

Next time I’ll be faster. Next time, I’ll have proof.

The memory-flowers rustled in the evening breeze, their petals brushing against each other in the particular way of things that are settling. "I have not thought about what to do next," Morwen said finally. "For centuries, the next did not exist. There was only the loop. The iteration. The same events, running in the same order, leading to the same conclusion. Next was an illusion. There was only now, and then the reset." "And now?" "Now there is a next. I do not know what it looks like. I am learning to be comfortable with not knowing." Clara took her hand. "That's what I love about you. That you're still learning. That you haven't stopped."

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I stammered. “It’s the time you have left to find your next bond. If it runs out, so does your life.” l