My skin is steaming I can’t look away from my naked form in the mirror My already tanned skin is blushed from the heat coming off my body despite the cold shower I just took. I choose to question it a little less so that I can try to piece together how I’m going to approach this situation
First, I need to worry about what’s happening to my body. Something tells me that it’s going to require all of my attention for a while. Once I have a feel for it, I can pretend that finding out that my mother was insanely important to the werewolf hierarchy isn’t a kick to my fucking face where it concerns my parentals.
Knightly marked me and it activated the dormant part of my werewolf heritage. I have two days before the full moon to prepare myself to turn into a big–ass wolf. A wolf I can feel all around me. A wolf who has been complaining about being hungry Let’s take care of that
I swear it got really happy about that decision. I suddenly feel giddy and like laughing. When I step out of the room I find Knightly waiting for me. He pushes off the wall. Just as he opens his mouth to say something my stomach takes the opportunity to show off how vocal it can be without having to be a werewolf. I laugh this time.
“I don’t understand you,” he smiles when he pinches my chin. “How are you smiling like that?”
*Im still mad at you but when you’re close it hurts less,”
“You’re in pain,” he says looking apologetic.
“It’s like being on shark week, It hurts but life goes on,” I shrug. He opens his mouth to probably question what that meant but I think it clicks in his head.
“I see, he presses his lips together. “Food. Do you eat it?”
“What?” laugh
“Would you like some eat?” he covers his mouth shaking his head. “Holy shit, my brain is short–circuiting. Shark Week, that‘ s hilarious. Umm, you’re not going to have those anymore. You had them because of the full moon, Now, every three months you will enter a fertile state for three days. Now that you know that. Would you like something to eat?”
“I would,” I nod. “And that was very informative. A fun fact and a peak past those wolly senses,”
“It’s my
ywolf. He gets very excited when you smile. I know I’m an idiot, but he doesn’t understand why you’re upset. Because I’m so out of touch with him, it’s difficult to balance,”
“That’s why I’m so happy.” I say excitedly. “That’s not me. It’s the thing I wake up to.”
“Fuck,” he laughs stepping away. He runs his hand down his face and reaches to rub the back of his neck. “We are going to have the attention span of our children because of our wolves, he tries his best not to but ends up laughing anyway. “I am a fucking idiot,”
“Im not going to argue that. I guess this is a worst–case scenario and we have to improvise. It’s not my first what the fuck is happening. We’ve had a couple of curve balls already. We have another shot. It doesn’t mean it’s a final strike: Just that really tight tension of the weight of our actions. I happen to thrive under pressure and I just cried a second ago so we’ve got this,”
“Are you freaking out?” he grins.
I
“Okay,” I take his hand and lead him to the stairs. “One thing you need to remember about me is that I need to freak out first. It’s a very good state of mind to be in because that is when I do my best work
“With that said, I need more information on this werewolf shit. I’ve been studying your sister’s high school annotations and I’ve got nothing.”
“Oh, that was very smart. I have some as well and I think you’ll find mine are better. I wrote everything down because I was-” he stops talking. “I took impeccable notes in health class,”
“Were you banging your health teacher in high school, Knight?” I laugh. “You’re an asshole”
“I am” he nods
“Are there little love doodles or lyrics on the margins?” I tease.
“I didn’t do that,” he laughs His ears turn bright red as he shakes off the comment
“Right, you strike me as a sit at your computer to open up a WIP kind of guy I continue.
The thing inside of me loves the way his entire Successfully unlocked! The scent around him intensifies and
breathe in deeply feeling the achy feeling in my
floating. What the fuck is that?
“It’s my LT Serbe tablet now but I did do that in high school,” he admits
ddy feeling drops a bit and it feels like I’m
“You would have something fancy to write your songs on, Nathan,” I roll my eyes.
“Our food will be brought out in a bit,” he leads me into the dining room I smile when I find one of Ayne’s Polaroids on the table. It’s a picture of Knight and Aizen petting a horse together “She loves cameras,”
“Images,” I correct him. My head swarms with images of Ayrie in that hospital bed and what followed after she woke up
“Explain. There’s a difference? he pulls out a chair for me and then helps me settle into it. He notices that I’m starting to feel upset
“Yes. After her fever, she didn’t remember anything. For a couple of weeks, she didn’t know who we were. It was crazy. She was terrified of us. She watched our movements and our voices startled her
“One day she went to sleep and then woke up as if nothing had ever happened. When she got sick and when she woke up six months had gone by. She told Aizen that she was scared that it would happen again, I’ve never told anyone that. Not even the nanny. “So he promised that he’d take lots of pictures but in the meantime, he’d paint images for her.
“She paints and takes pictures because she’s storing the images so she doesn’t forget again. Aizen seems more mature because technically he is. Six months in advance. It’s why her speech is lacking sometimes. Why she doesn’t react to things the same way he does and I make it worse by babying her. Fuck, they must be so worried,”
He sits back unable to look at me. He becomes tense and the atmosphere around us shifts. The hairs on the back of my neck stand when he looks over at me with anger, I sit back wondering if he knows what happened to Ayrie because of what they did to her. It has to be bad for him to have this reaction.
“What’s wrong?” we both look away when Mr. Knightly interrupts us. Knightly looks between me and his father.
“What did you do with the Alcantars? Knight suddenly asks.
“I killed the spares and have three of them in my underground dungeons. Why? You want to see them?” he smirks.
“They’re alive?”
“You asked me not to take it away from you,” he sits across from me. His eyes spark as if I was giving him something he’s always wanted.
I
“It’s not going to make you feel better,” I look down at my hands because even as the words leave my lips I don’t believe in them.
“That wasn’t Ayrie in the bed. It was her wolf. That is how close to death our daughter was. You’re right. It’s not going to make me feel better. In fact, it’s going to be an addition to all the other shit that keeps me up at night,” he stands up and kisses the side of my head. “I’ll be back before they’re done with school,”
The growling sound that comes out of his father as he goes after Knight sends an ugly sensation through my body. A couple of girls come out of the kitchen with trays. Maria and Tess join me. Both of them try their best not to look at me. “Why did I tell him that?” I ask out loud. My skin crawls suddenly and I swoon. I lose my balance and nearly fall out of my
“Your wolf is bonding with you and her mate, Maria steadies me.
Once I’m upright, she tops off a plate with meats from the trays that were brought out. She places it in front of me. I’ve. never been a very big fan of meat but my mouth waters and my gums ache at the medium–rare sight before me.
“She’s testing the grounds around him. Seeing how far he’d go to protect you and your pups, Tess adds.
“I’m going to have to watch what I say, I manage to say as I reach for my fork and swallow the saliva in my mouth before it drips out of my mouth.
“Mmm, you’re the alpha, baby girl, Maria grins as she holds up a slice of meat with her fork. “It’s going to be instinct to place your pieces around you. To test the boundaries of your dominance. I don’t know about the other alphas in the city. but I am very excited to see what my idiot kid just unleashed on us,”
*Praised be the moon,” Tess laughs. “I’m sure I’ve said this before but I love it when Knight visits. He makes me feel so
normal,”
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