Big Bad Wolfie

Yeah, this is really bad.

My eyes nearly popped out of their sockets at how wide they shot open.

D@mn Rose and her freaking emotion reading.

I narrowed my eyes at her. "You didn't get that from me did you?"

She rolled her eyes and pouted, "No, still haven't gotten through to you," she pointed a determined finger at me, "but I will."

I chuckled, "Yeah, good luck with that."

She's been working to get into my head since she found out her talent was emotion reading and figured out it didn't work on me.

After some nasty run-ins with them(mind readers and such), I decided it would probably be best to try and train myself to keep people like that out of my brain. It worked. And pretty well too. Emotion readers, mind readers and people with telepathy can't pry their way in without me letting them(unless they're more advanced, in which case, I'm working on it). Now, I'm able to use it to keep bad guys out and annoy my friend to death. It's a good skill to have.

That's a well known fact around here, though, her emotion reading, she's always spilling secrets. But where everyone's attention is now, is the secret she just spilled.

Brandon, Wolfie and Happy mirrored my expression of shock. I don't think it's sunken in for everyone else yet.

Especially Brandon. His next action was to stare at me with a look of bewilderment on his face.

You'd think it'd be Wolfie who's reaction would be the biggest — his supposed secret being out and all — but Brandon knows me, and our little friend group was pretty much convinced I was never gonna find any sort of romantic love interest. Figured I was too romantically incompetent.

  Not even the mate bond that everyone gets would help me.

But now, here we are.

  Still an awkward potato that's afraid of emotions, but with a mate.

An improvement?

That's debatable.

And I definitely don't think the information has quite sunken in for everyone else yet. No one's looking shocked out of their mind yet.

  Yes, it's also a well known fact around here that I suck at love, so I'm just waiting for the confused faces.

  Wolfie glared, and his gaze shot to me, then her. "How did you know that?!"

  My best friend smirked evilly, "You may act all big and mean, but your feelings betray you," she pointed at him.

He narrowed his eyes angrily, "What the h3ll is going on? How did you know that?"

Haha, he's so confuzzled.

"It's my talent. Y'know, that ability vampires get when they're young?"

He just stared at her, still confused, and angry about it.

"No? Not ringing any bells? Jeez, you're mated to a vampire and you don't know crap about them," Rosie mocked.

Brandon shook his head, "disgraceful".

I smiled at them. They're so awesome.

"WAIT, YOU'RE MATES?!?!"

And there's the reaction from the onlookers I was waiting for. The lightbulb.

"Ha, of course. How typical," The Captain remarked with his nose up, looking down on me with judgment radiating off him, practically in waves.

this guy thinks he's the

But what

would turn out to be the invader of my house," I remarked

just get to disappear into the master house, with your mate, while we rot down here. You expect us to believe you're not

"Yes," I said

"Did you just

Brandon. No matter how funny that statement was, I can't

across the cell, so that means the

I said before," I addressed them, "I have never given any reason for you to doubt me before, so why would I

all of this, and goddess help me, I

"And me?"

actually remaining quiet for a

I actually got a happy ending, it wouldn't be right. Why should he be stable just because he's "supposed" to be. Didn't work that way for anyone else in my life that were

For some reason no one had a response to

yes, I just guilt tripped the h3ll out of all of them, but sometimes a girl needs to vent. And when everyone is yelling at her, telling her she's got it too good,

So they got to be reminded of my sob story that always seems

It never seems to want to leave the back of my mind. I low key envy them for being able

leaving the back of my mind. I became hyper aware of all of Wolfie's little fidgets throughout that entire

smirk at how I was successful in

I may never have him, made sort of a hole somewhere. I don't know where, and I don't know how to fill it, so I'm hoping getting out

saved us a lot of time. Then we moved down

I took note of everyone in there, paying special attention to where people like Margret, our house doctor, and Marco, the combat trainer for the higher

briefly and giving reassurance — I can tell Wolfie is getting impatient, I'm surprised he even lasted this long without telling me to quit with the hope speeches — we made our way back to

Now we're really done with the

turned to Wolfie and raised

turned to me, actually surprising me with how pissed he looked, "Your friends

eyebrows, "yeah, so? What's the big deal?

He suddenly shot his hand up and clasped my chin. He yanked me close to his

uncomfortably — but very comfortably at the same time — close to my face. I could

soon some very powerful people will find out, and after that, they will get the idea you are a liability to

silent

don't seem like very good people to make

strike a nerve? "Well, that doesn't matter much now does it? The deal

a whole house of people and possibly your chances of, oh, I don't know, not

doing this to his mate for crying

his grasp. I don't know if what was holding me there was his hand or

"What else is there to do anything

Oh

shook my head, "you must live quite an empty life if

think it, and it leaves an even bigger hole knowing that he doesn't. And I hate that. My happiness shouldn't rely on anyone other than me. Not to mention it's

But with

what about

Happy cleared his throat awkwardly and started shuffling in the direction of the master house. We took that as our cue to drop it

breath, why does this mate bond have it out for my mental health?

my territory, that's the size of a small town, and I still haven't gotten used to the fact

you going to let everyone leave they're home? Most of these

"I already told you, once there is order. We've already had multiple encounters of your house members running around, outside their

eyes, "Well I'm sorry we're not the compliant,

that's why I added more patrols and told them to use

my head, I was confused. What has he been doing this whole time? Asking nicely? No wonder

  Whatever, I'm

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  Oh, not