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Authors: Caitlin Ricci
Tags: Paranormal, FF romance
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really gotten all that far. I took a deep breath to quiet my anger, then said, "I'm on my way." It was a promise, but of what I couldn't be sure. I'd go there anyway, to whatever fate awaited me.
The line went dead, and I let the phone drop to the bed beside me. I supposed that was it, then; there was nothing left to say after that.
Chapter Five
Maiki
"Did you call her?"
I shivered as the force of my alpha's presence washed over me. I slowly put the phone down and nodded. This wasn't right. I wasn't supposed to feel this way about him. My alpha, he was to be loved. Wasn't he? Something must have been wrong with me to have this kind of reaction in front of him. That had to be it. Everyone else loved my alpha, but I'd never been able to do so, not like I thought an alpha should be loved. I knew I had to try harder, to give him more of myself. But there were only so many fractured pieces I could give him before there were no more pieces left of myself for me for me.
"Well, what did she say? Is she coming?" my alpha asked me. He sounded impatient, and I flinched.
His hand came up to grasp my shoulder. I nodded again, my shoulders rounding as I tried to become smaller and less noticeable. Maybe then he'd forget about me. It didn't work, but then again it never did, and his hand trailed up to the back of my neck and tangled in the sensitive strands of my short blonde hair.
"Good. It'll be good to have our stray little wolf back again. Won't it?"
I couldn't lie to him. I'd never figured out how to. But he expected an answer. And I didn't have one for him. Shae had left for a reason. I knew this. And her reason was standing right next to me and his hand was in my hair. That he'd wanted me to call Shae had been a surprise. He'd forbidden it every other time I'd approached him until I'd stopped asking years before. He had her number but had to have known that Shae would never come back for him. She was the strongest wolf I knew, and from the few glimpses of her life that I'd caught in my dreams and had to tell him about, he must have known that too. Strength in numbers was the pack way; having Shae there would only help him avoid whatever was coming for us all.
I'd called her because he'd told me to. But I'd also reached out to Shae because it had been ten years since I'd last seen her and I wanted her back. It was selfish, but I did it anyway.
"Come on, seer, answer me," he coaxed. "You want your girl back. Don't you?"
I held back my sigh of relief and slowly forced my neck to make the careful, concise movements of a nod. I could answer him honestly about that. I wanted to see Shae again. I'd missed her. That wasn't a lie.
His fingers tightened in my hair, and with one yank I was forced roughly to my knees on the hard wooden floor. "Now, little wolf, tell me what you see." His voice was dark, the command behind it clear as I closed my eyes and tried to bring that other part of me in to settle down.
The woman, the wolf, and the seer in me rarely all worked well together and certainly not on command, but as his hands twisted in my hair and pain began to lace through my skull, I tried to force the connection until his deep growl against my ear halted my thoughts. It wasn't just that he'd interrupted me; it was that his presence frightened me, annoyed my wolf, and irritated the seer all at once until I didn't know which part of myself turned and looked up at him.
The only thing I was sure of was that I wasn't the one that pulled back my upper lip in a fierce display of something I should have never shown my alpha. And my reward for such behavior was a swift and painful smack across my cheek that had me falling to the floor in a heap as I played dead under him. I hid inside of my mind as the tip of his boot met with my ribs. The wolf inside of me whimpered and the seer trembled, but against the sound of her alpha's yelling, the wolf's noises meant little. There were other noises too. I could hear them from where I lay as
The line went dead, and I let the phone drop to the bed beside me. I supposed that was it, then; there was nothing left to say after that.
Chapter Five
Maiki
"Did you call her?"
I shivered as the force of my alpha's presence washed over me. I slowly put the phone down and nodded. This wasn't right. I wasn't supposed to feel this way about him. My alpha, he was to be loved. Wasn't he? Something must have been wrong with me to have this kind of reaction in front of him. That had to be it. Everyone else loved my alpha, but I'd never been able to do so, not like I thought an alpha should be loved. I knew I had to try harder, to give him more of myself. But there were only so many fractured pieces I could give him before there were no more pieces left of myself for me for me.
"Well, what did she say? Is she coming?" my alpha asked me. He sounded impatient, and I flinched.
His hand came up to grasp my shoulder. I nodded again, my shoulders rounding as I tried to become smaller and less noticeable. Maybe then he'd forget about me. It didn't work, but then again it never did, and his hand trailed up to the back of my neck and tangled in the sensitive strands of my short blonde hair.
"Good. It'll be good to have our stray little wolf back again. Won't it?"
I couldn't lie to him. I'd never figured out how to. But he expected an answer. And I didn't have one for him. Shae had left for a reason. I knew this. And her reason was standing right next to me and his hand was in my hair. That he'd wanted me to call Shae had been a surprise. He'd forbidden it every other time I'd approached him until I'd stopped asking years before. He had her number but had to have known that Shae would never come back for him. She was the strongest wolf I knew, and from the few glimpses of her life that I'd caught in my dreams and had to tell him about, he must have known that too. Strength in numbers was the pack way; having Shae there would only help him avoid whatever was coming for us all.
I'd called her because he'd told me to. But I'd also reached out to Shae because it had been ten years since I'd last seen her and I wanted her back. It was selfish, but I did it anyway.
"Come on, seer, answer me," he coaxed. "You want your girl back. Don't you?"
I held back my sigh of relief and slowly forced my neck to make the careful, concise movements of a nod. I could answer him honestly about that. I wanted to see Shae again. I'd missed her. That wasn't a lie.
His fingers tightened in my hair, and with one yank I was forced roughly to my knees on the hard wooden floor. "Now, little wolf, tell me what you see." His voice was dark, the command behind it clear as I closed my eyes and tried to bring that other part of me in to settle down.
The woman, the wolf, and the seer in me rarely all worked well together and certainly not on command, but as his hands twisted in my hair and pain began to lace through my skull, I tried to force the connection until his deep growl against my ear halted my thoughts. It wasn't just that he'd interrupted me; it was that his presence frightened me, annoyed my wolf, and irritated the seer all at once until I didn't know which part of myself turned and looked up at him.
The only thing I was sure of was that I wasn't the one that pulled back my upper lip in a fierce display of something I should have never shown my alpha. And my reward for such behavior was a swift and painful smack across my cheek that had me falling to the floor in a heap as I played dead under him. I hid inside of my mind as the tip of his boot met with my ribs. The wolf inside of me whimpered and the seer trembled, but against the sound of her alpha's yelling, the wolf's noises meant little. There were other noises too. I could hear them from where I lay as
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