“Listen with your heart, and you will hear.”
“My heart doesn’t have ears.” I couldn’t help but bunch my face up at the foolishness coming out of her mouth.
“But it does. Learn to use it to listen. Then all will be revealed.” She winked at me before disappearing in a flash.
Springing forward as I awakened, I frantically looked around, my vision blurry. Toasted vanilla flowed through my nose.
He’s ours.
Squeezing my eyes tightly and then opening them, I frantically tried to locate the voice that sounded like an echo coming from my body. Slowly, my eyesight became clear, and everything seemed weird. Colors were brighter, and everything around me seemed sharper. It was like I was seeing things with a new clarity. My eyes bounced around the room, feeling like this was my first time seeing everything. I inhaled deeply, needing to get another smell of that delicious toasted vanilla scent.
He’s ours,that voice said again, scaring me. I felt like I had an entirely new nose because I could smell things I couldn’t even see.
Looking to my left, I came face to face with Kenzo. It dawned on me that he was the one who carried the toasted vanilla scent.
I want him.I had to be losing my mind, hearing voices of people who weren’t here.
“You had us worried.”
Hearing Kenzo’s deep baritone voice caused my entire body to tingle in ways I couldn’t comprehend. The desire to be close to him was growing the longer I looked at him. I could feel my pussy reacting to his gaze. Cramps were slowly pulsing through my stomach.
“Halo!” Kenzo yelled with a worried expression.
I found myself growing angry upon hearing Kenzo call for another female. My fists clenched while thinking about him having another bitch here when I was right here.I’m not supposed to care.But I did. I had to be going crazy from being around shifters for so long. I couldn’t understand if I should have been mad or horny right now. Too many emotions were flowing through my body right now.
I heard, “Here I am,” from a voice that caused peace to settle in my spirit before the face of a beautiful woman came floating into the room with a glass in her hand. The female paused, looking at me with squinted eyes, and I matched her gaze.
I knew her, but I didn’t know how. She was special. I felt it in my heart.I miss you,the voice from inside me said again, but somehow, I knew she wasn’t talking to me this time. The girl frowned as she stepped all the way into the room, quickly closing the distance between us and standing in front of me as I sat in the middle of a giant bed.
Tears fell from her eyes, and she tried to wipe them away. “I’m sorry. I don’t know why I’m crying. It’s my wolf. She’s reacting to your presence. We don’t know why, though. There's something blocking our memory. Do you know us?”
Before I could reply, a tall man with dreads rushed through the bedroom door. “Halo, what the hell is wrong? Why are you crying?” he asked while coming to her side and trying to wrap his arms around her, but she pushed him off her.
“I’m fine, Creeland. My wolf. She’s acting out,” Halo answered Creeland while briefly looking up at him before focusing back on me. “I’m sorry. I don’t mean to scare you. Can I…umm. My wolf wants a hug. Can I hug you?” Halo asked me with a nervous expression.
I looked at Kenzo. I didn’t know why, but I felt like I should get his approval first.I don’t need his approval. I can do what I want.That was what my mind said, but I dared not turn from him until he nodded his head yes.
“Yes,” a voice that didn’t sound like my own said.
Halo handed Creeland the glass that was in her hand before she crawled onto the bed, rushing toward me. As she was on her knees in front of me, we stared at each other again before we both reached for one another, hugging tightly. The familiarity and comfort I felt in that moment was something I had no idea I was missing, but I was.I missed you too.That voice didn’t come from me. It came from Halo, even though she never opened her mouth. I heard her speak.
“You know my mate?” Kenzo asked as we reluctantly let go of each other.
“I think we do,” Halo responded, but my mind was stuck on Kenzo calling me his mate.We are his mate,that voice said proudly, and I could feel my pussy begin to pulse again.
“Give me that, Creeland,” Halo demanded with urgency, and her arm extended toward Creeland. “Kenzo, don’t talk.”
I watched in confusion as Kenzo frowned at Halo and Creeland handed her the cup with the pink drink.
She turned back to me with the cup in hand and a sympathetic look on her face. “I’m sure all of this is a lot to take in, but I need you to trust me. You have to drink this.”
Scowling at Halo, I shook my head.Right now, I didn’t trust myself. I was feeling things for people who were strangers. I had no clue what had been done to me, but it had to have come fromthe sexual encounter I had with Kenzo earlier. I’d heard doing sexual stuff with shifters had a way of messing with a person's mind. Obviously, it did because I’d lost my damn mind, and until I could find a way to get away from these shifters, I was doing the opposite of what my mind told me to do.
“Please…” Halo paused while looking at Kenzo. “What is her name?”
“Bellamy,” he answered quickly.
“Bellamy, if you don’t drink this, you’re going to go into heat. I don’t know if you know what going into heat is. However, you are going to affect everyone around you. Mainly, your mate. He won’t be able to control himself, especially since you two aren’t mated. Kenzo’s instincts will be to mark you and to ensure you are carrying his cub. What happened earlier was a result of you going into heat. You won’t have control over yourself either. You might be able to resist for a little while, but it won’t last long. Your wolf won’t fight her instincts the way your human is. She’ll overpower you and make you submit.”
