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.

remarked with his nose up, looking down on me with judgment

the best

else

be the invader of my house," I remarked back flatly. "I swear,

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

"Yes," I said immediately.

you just

that statement was, I can't

spread across the cell, so that means the captain is winning them all over

addressed them, "I have never given any reason for you

in mind, that when I fix all of this, and goddess help me, I will, you

"And me?"

stared at me, actually remaining quiet for a

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 "supposed"

some reason no one had a response

guilt tripped the h3ll out of all of them, but sometimes a girl needs to vent. And when everyone is yelling at her, telling

they got to be reminded of my sob

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

mind. I became hyper aware of all of Wolfie's little fidgets throughout that entire conversation. It put me on edge, and it makes me

also made me smirk at how I was successful in relaying my sob story without actually giving Wolfie

but) saying out loud I may never have him, made sort of a hole somewhere. I don't know where, and I don't know how

to leave most of the blood bags for Rose and Brandon to distribute since they know how, which saved us a

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

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

we're really done with the blood

Wolfie and raised a

with how pissed he looked, "Your friends

so? What's the big deal? They

and clasped my chin. He

the same time — close to my face. I could smell his minty breath and clearly see

after that, they will get the idea you are a liability to a plan set in place and

I stayed silent

those don't seem like very good people to make a deal with," I stated, matching his gaze head

His demeanor darkened even more. Did I strike a nerve? "Well, that doesn't matter much

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

his mate for crying out

had loosened on my chin, but I was still held tightly in his grasp. I don't know if what was holding me there was his hand or his eyes or his smell or what, but I'm still here, very close to his

else is there to do

Oh my goddess.

quite an empty life if you really can't think of

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 a little self absorbed of me to want to be someone's reason to do anything. It's just. . . All my life I. . . It would be a nice change of pace if. . .

all that

what about me?

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

why does this mate bond have it out for my mental health? Wasn't in peak condition in the first

gotten used to the fact

let everyone leave they're home? Most of these

already told you, once there is order. We've already had multiple encounters of your house members running around, outside their homes. Y'know, exactly

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

realized that, and that's why I added more patrols and told them to use force on anyone who leaves their house

I glared at him in real life, but in my head, I was confused. What

Whatever,

"Mari!" A small voice