Chapter Two: Red silk and bittersweet feelings

I walked down the hallway towards my bedroom. Holding my phone in my hand as I looked down at the screen. Worrying my lower lip with my teeth. How was going to tell my boss that I needed time off?

Charity had told me what he was and I was worried that it would make me act weird around him. That he would know that I knew what he was. Sure, he was hot and I would be lying if I said that I had never thought about sleeping with him.

Not that I would, before I had been in a relationship with Jake. Now I was figuring things out with Jason, Ryan, and Travis. Even though I wasn’t sure what was going on, I knew that I wasn’t going to sleep with my boss.

There was something about him and I guessed that being a demon. Everyone felt that pull around him. He was a sex demon so it only made sense. It wasn’t like I was going to act on it or anything, but the thought was there at the back of my mind.

Shaking my head, I pushed open the door to my room. Everything looked just the same as it had yesterday afternoon. My bed was neatly made with the purple and white quilt that mom had given me for Christmas last year.

The framed picture of Jake and me from our first date sat on my nightstand. Our smiling faces looked up at me, it had been a good night. We had gone to see some action movie that he wanted to see. I looked at his face, trying to see if I could find any traces of the animal that I knew was lurking beneath his skin. I didn’t see any, he looked just like he normally did.

I wished that he had told me what he was.

cared about each other. And maybe, if I had known, it would hurt less thinking about him like this. I was glad that he had found his mate and I had not been lying when I told him that I wanted him to be happy. But that didn’t take away

felt like I had better closure

before, my friendship with him had been

if they were part of the same pack or maybe there was some super secret shifter club and they all knew each other. That

to look at Jake and me. It was best not to think about things like that. If I

drawer, I reached in, grabbing a sports bra and tossing it onto the bed with a pair of

owned.

muscles in my thighs trembled. I was so sore, but I needed to move around to

pulled open the bottom drawer. Grabbing a few pairs of yoga pants and

clothing to my chest, resting my hand on the dresser as I closed the drawer. I could do this, it wasn’t like I could stay down here like this forever. A part

could take another pain reliever as my muscles screamed in protest. Damn, I had never been this sore after sex before. Then again I had

Grabbing my overnight bag from the top

me from the

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