[Leah's POV]I looked around the table at all the smiling faces who were here to celebrate my 21st birthday. Even though I insisted that I didn't want to celebrate because I needed to study for Ian's herbal medicine quiz the next day, Thia insisted. After all, according to her, that was the day that I became a true adult."Auntie Leah," Serenity murmured, fixing her large blue gaze on mine. "Why do you look so unhappy?"For only five, she most certainly was perceptive. However, how could I possibly say that I wasn't happy because the one person I hoped to see here wasn't present?"I'm okay." I murmured, jostling her dark wavy hair that was the exact color of Haidan's. "I'm just tired.""You're lying, auntie." My nephew, Devlin, huffed."Leave your poor auntie alone." Thia snapped, shooting a glare towards her son. "Today is to celebrate, not to interrogate.""But...""No buts, young man." Ashton warned, making his way to the table from the kitchen.As he took his seat beside Thia, I s
His eyes sent shivers rushing through me as I tried to process what was going on. "Did you just say..." I stammered as my heart began to pound painfully in my chest. "To forget that I found you?" How could he stand there and say that with such a straight face? Wasn't he feeling the same way that I did? That all consuming want to be near and the flutter of butterflies just from our being near? "I have no intentions on ever accepting a mate." He said slowly, his eyes growing darker. "Especially a lycan one." His words felt like knives piercing into my heart. He was rejecting me. He was really standing here rejecting me and not even giving me a chance. "Why?" I asked slumping t
A soft snore stirred me from my sleep. Feeling confused, I rolled towards the sound, opening my eyes and staring into the face of a man that I barely knew. How had I ended up in this situation? Why did this continue to happen to me?Rejection… A small voice in the back of my mind whispered, sending a shock of pain through me.Two years, it had already been two fucking years and somehow the pain still felt fresh, like it had just happened yesterday.Cursing I sat up, letting the blanket that was covering me fall to my waist, revealing my bare breasts. Small hickeys lined my nipples and chest. It looked like I would need to cover them for the next week while working.
"Leah!" I called, gently knocking on the door. "Open up."I could only imagine what Leah was feeling right now. Our first change was terrifying and painful. I hated that she was alone when the change had begun."Thi..." Leah’s garbled voice came through the door as a loud howl sounded.Cursing I grabbed the door knob and began trying to turn it. I needed to get in there before she completed the change.Sometimes, rarely, we would go mad and forget ourselves during the first change. This didn’t always happen, but it could, and if it were to happen to Leah, I needed to be there to stop her."Leah, let me in!" I c
I could feel all the warmth disappear from my body as Ashton’s stone cold gaze took me in. Even after 2 years, it looked like he still hated me, despite us being mates."What are you looking at?" He growled, his eyes narrowing as the clear disgust he was feeling shone on his features."N-nothing." I stammered, slowly getting my wits about me. "Most definitely not a piece of shit with an attitude problem."At my words, Ashton’s frown deepened. I knew that taking hits wasn’t the best of choices, but I couldn’t stop my mouth. I was still so deeply hurt by his rejection, and I wanted desperately to make him feel just a smidge of the pain he was putting me through.
"Who do you think you’re talking to?" Ashton growled, his eyes growing dark."An idiot." I snapped back.All the feelings of depression and hurt that I was feeling were gone, and now I just felt pure irritation at the man standing in front of me. Sure, he was my mate, but that didn’t mean that I was going to let him talk to my friend like that."Did you just?" Ashton’s narrowed gaze grew wide as he took in my words.Around us, I could feel his alpha aura beginning to seep out. It looked like the man was pretty pissed and wasn’t going to calm down that easily.
Ashton remained quiet and continued to move until we reached the edge of Lake Ramsy. Small ripples danced around it as harpies swam below. From my vantage point, I could just make them out through the plants and rocks that sat at the bottom of the lake."What are those?" Ashton asked, squinting down at a particularly small harpie that darted from rock to rock."Harpies." I responded, feeling slightly confused. "You’ve never seen a harpie?""No." Ashton admitted kneeling down so he could get a better look as the small creature slowly began to swim towards the surface.Releasing my wrist, he reached out a hand in an a
I slowly reached out a finger and pressed it against the smooth skin of Serenity’s little hand. As I did so, it clenched, grabbing hold as tightly as a tiny little creature could."She’s perfect." I whispered, feeling tears pricking at my eyes.Never in my life had I ever considered myself the emotional type, but here I was crying over a newborn as if the child was my very own."She is, isn’t she?" Haidan murmured, smiling down at her daughter."She is the most perfect creature in the world." Antoine ad