Angel Blackwood(51)

“We won’t. Let’s keep an eye on her from afar, just until we know what’s best for all of us, and until we can figure out what we truly want.

“And what are we supposed to do about Nixon, they’re always together?” He says with a low growl.

“I don’t know the history between the two of them, but there’s something there. Alpha said that he was from Point Bright too, so she must have gotten her father to accept him into the pack. I’m not sure what their relationship is though, they’re really friendly, but I don’t think it goes any further.”

Talon lets out a deep growl, I watch his hands as they turn into fists.

“I don’t want her touching him, I don’t care what their relationship is. I don’t like it.”

“Keep an eye on her, but don’t get too close. We’ve got some serious thinking to do, man. I don’t want her to hurt any more than what we’ve already caused her,” I say standing and looking out the window.

“Don’t think it’s going to be that easy, man. Someone is going to get hurt. We haven’t even thought of how we can even start to explain this shit to Alpha,” Talon says, standing up and walking out of the bedroom.





I tiptoe into the bathroom noticing Angel’s room is pitch black. This causes a pain in my heart thinking about how much I’ve upset her, she usually sleeps with the curtains open allowing the moonlight in. I hear her hiccups and snivelling and realize she’s still crying. I want to climb in bed with her and hold her tight. Take away her pain and promise her I won’t ever hurt her again, telling her that I’ll be with her and never leave her side. I’d tell her I love her and only her, but all that would be a lie because during the time Angel put so much distance between us, I met and fell in love with another beautiful soul named Kate. I never thought I could love someone that wasn’t Angel this much, but I do. The distance Angel put between us only pushed me closer to Kate, the only problem is that neither girl knows who I really am and the secret I hide. I don’t think either will stick around and wanna be with me once I show them who I really am; when they see I’m not so perfect after all. I think Angel is already starting to see the real person behind everything she thought I was before. She has begun to get a better idea of who I really am.

I slide down onto the bathroom floor and wait till her snivelling and crying dies down completely, until I’m positively sure she’s asleep. Creeping into the dark room, I’m able to immediately spot the small bundle in the middle of the bed. I pull the blankets from over her head and find her soundly sleeping with her hands curled under her chin; her pillow with damp patches from where her tears fell.

She’s so fucking beautiful.

I pull the covers down slowly to inspect the spots where I hurt her. Lifting her sleeve, I find a bruise marring her pale skin and I’m certain there’s a matching bruise on her other arm.

“I’m so fucking sorry, sweetheart.”

I feel the tears falling, watching them drop onto her skin. I press soft kisses to her upper arm where the bruise lies, and catch the faint smell of an unfamiliar scent as I brush my nose against her upper arm.

Moving my nose along her shoulder and towards her neckline, the scent is weak and that’s most probably why Talon didn’t catch it. I have a much stronger sense of smell than he does. The scent is definitely male… A male from another pack.

I move my face away from her neck and look down at my sleeping beauty. How can something so pure and innocent looking, be so cunning and manipulative?





TALON POV





“What the hell are we gonna do?” I mumble to my wolf throwing a rock into the lake.

“Who are you talking to out here?”

I jump and nearly fall over the dock and into the water when I hear Lucy’s voice. She walks closer giggling to herself and shaking her head.

“Fuck, Luce, you gave me such a fright.” Despite my wolf’s protests, I wrap an arm over her shoulder and bring her into my side. I can’t help but feel disappointed when the scent that catches my nose isn’t Angel’s.

“What did you mean by, “What the hell are you gonna do?” She mimics in a deep voice.

Lucy is aware that Angel is my mate, she knows the history and what went down and I guess she’s under the impression that I’ll reject Angel. She was there when I needed someone to talk to and I suppose that’s the reason why we’re so close. Tyler had started seeing Kate and wasn’t around much and Lucy and I have been friends for a long time, always friends though. The girl is wild and she’s the type I usually go for, that’s exactly why I kept the relationship platonic, but after Angel’s attack and after things started changing, Lucy was the one I turned to. I woke up the next morning after one drunken night in Lucy’s bed and just like that we moved from friends to dating. It happened so fast and whenever I needed to get my mind away from thinking about Angel, I turned to Lucy.