YS

ad or worse… both, but as soon as I stepped into the living room, ready to leave the suffocating pris

erday when he unknowingly dropped the bomb on me. Mom was not

there was no use dressing up for someone who would

appearance. He appeared stressed, not as lively as he normally was, and I wouldn

is chin. “And where are you going?” he asked in

ars ago… or didn’t even at all. I kept asking myself why… why they didn’t tell me. How could he act so typical? How cou

my lip to hold it down. Lash

ng less about his approval because noth

stubble. “You sneaked ou

didn’t you? I almost screamed at

oulders, I answered. “Yeah, and I would’ve don

yss

foreign. “…I can take a lot of things but the moment yo

it was my lifeline. To be ho

your own

fety. It wasn’t for my sa

ards me but I stepped back like an abandoned cat refusin

because I was dying to let this weight off my chest but he just changed the topic, like he wasn’t hiding the

andelier, the million-dollar sofas, the lush paintings, the infinity inches TV that all screamed we were fine and doing

ed on them, like it’s meant to be a funeral or something,” I said, feeling conscious

e and no sunglasses was going to

ack to surrender to the Alpha King, was now like a slave pack to him. We lived

any? Why hasn’t another Alpha tried to take the title from Evan, did the Alpha King make it a law? Where did he g

. “Let’s make a deal, I’ll let you hang out with this boy you’re going to meet…” I stared at him in shock when I comprehended that he knew, he knew all t

ng onto my jacket. “Y

ll handle her

this was the only thing I understood. “Than

e before that evil woman showed up to ruin all my plans.

~

this is the

in that it was the exact address he texted me. I wasn’t wrong, th

I could be out of Moonfall territory… but I wasn’t r

e trees. No signs of rivers, animals, or anything tha

you’d never believe it was there. This must have been a road, borderline for ter

for weeks at this point but this time, I didn’t deny it. I kept rubbing the knuckles of my finger

never wanted to see me? What if he lured me out here to

l. Vampires only suck their fa

som

s? I doubt they e

d show up? What if he did

muttered to myself, feeling u

it. My dizziness stepped aside when I staggered back, and the first thing I noticed was how beautifully he smelt of saffron. The earthy mix of

he dimples in his subtle smirk, and the mouth-watering physique he had molded

tars twinkling all around it and I could bet on Carmine’s tail that there were more under the grey Henley shirt he wore. All buttons of his shirt were

say about my

step back, hands in sweatpants and silver watch over his hand as he just… looked at me. Why was he just s

t, keeping my other shaking one by my side. “I’m Spiderqueen

tte out of his sweatpants, placing it in my hand and pressing my fingers over it so that I was holding it. Then he pulled a

say something but he beat me to it

d stared at him in d

up his face. “…spider,” he said chuckling, blowin

jackass because you

ites right back…” he said, licking his teeth. “I need to kn

o check my bio?” I snapped at him. “I should’ve known there was a reason w

he cigarette off in the distance… while I secretly worried that

’s the only forest

ittle bat. Did your mother not te

ing people always fucking judging me just because of how I looked. I hated it and I wasn’t going to stand here and let this stranger ruin my day. “I knew this was a mistake from the start. I

st. I gasped at the harsh force he used to hold me but m

me. “I came out here to fuck something and I fucking like what I see so you be

that make me wet? “Y

now a pure sexy bitch when I see one.” He knows that… Could he smell me? Did he know I was wet too... fuck. His fingers danced away from my chin and went for my h

s one more mis

hat you are but I’m always lo

than they already were. “Flavo

because I believed my day couldn’t get any worse, I closed my eyes and waited for something magical to happen. There was a slight change in the wind but apart from that, we didn’t

office because of the desks of files and official pictures hanging on the wall, but it was brightly li

did

outh moving just yet

wouldn’t be enough to unravel him—a single encounter with him said that much. But I wasn’t here for a whol

two birds with one stone by