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.

with his nose up, looking down on me with judgment

guy thinks he's the best thing since

what else

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

saying, it's rather convenient you just get to disappear into the master house, with your mate, while we rot down here. You expect us to believe you're not just canoodling up there, not a thought about us in your

"Yes," I said immediately.

you just

Brandon. No matter how funny that statement was,

are starting to spread across the cell, so that means the captain

them, "I have never given any reason for you to doubt me

I stared right at the captain, "keep in mind, that when I fix all of this, and goddess help me, I will, you get to go back to

"And me?" I continued, "Not

stared at me, actually remaining quiet for a second time today.

be right. Why should he be stable just because he's "supposed" to be. Didn't work that way for anyone else in

reason no one had a

vent. And when everyone is

sob story that always seems to slip their

don't know how. It never seems to want to leave the back of my mind. I low key

all of Wolfie's little fidgets throughout that entire conversation. It put me on edge, and

smirk at how I was successful in relaying

I don't know where, and I don't know how to fill it, so I'm hoping getting out of this situation will help it

and Brandon to distribute since they know how, which saved us a lot of time. Then

in there, paying special attention to where people like Margret, our house doctor, and Marco, the combat trainer for the higher ranks, are being kept. You never know when you might need someone like them in a time

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 the entrance, or exit, or, whatever the

Now we're really done with the blood

turned to Wolfie and raised a confused brow,

how pissed he looked, "Your friends

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

up and clasped my chin.

very comfortably at the same time — close to my face. I could smell his minty breath

soon some very powerful people will find out, and after that, they will get the idea you are a liability to a plan set in place and bad things will happen to my pack and

stayed silent

like very good people to make a deal with," I

a nerve? "Well, that doesn't matter much now does it? The deal is already made. I

people and possibly your chances of, oh, I don't

his mate

grip had loosened on my chin, but I was still held tightly in his grasp. I don't know if what was holding me there

is there

Oh my goddess.

my head, "you must live quite an empty life if you really can't think

My happiness shouldn't rely on anyone other than me. Not to mention it's a little self absorbed of me to want to be someone's reason to do anything. It's just. . . All my life I. . . It

all

what about me?

awkwardly and started shuffling in the direction of the master house.

have it out for my

size of a small town, and I still haven't gotten used

going to let everyone

encounters of your house members running around, outside their homes. Y'know, exactly

my eyes, "Well I'm sorry we're not the compliant, quaint little vampires you wanted us

more patrols and told them to use force on anyone who leaves their house

was confused. What has he been doing this whole time? Asking nicely? No wonder so many people

Whatever, I'm not

"Mari!" A