Chapter Sixteen

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 The Boy Next Door-

 Dedicated to @Thursday_ for the lovely banner to the side.

So, obviously I didn't post when I originally planned on posting, for that I apologize. But my internet sucks rotten donkey balls and it's not been cooperating this week. When it has been on it's only on for a couple of minutes, so yeah, sorry.

Also, I did end up cutting this chapter in half because it's taking me so long to get the rest of it typed-that should be posted the beginning of next week sometime if everything goes the way it supposed to.

Happy belated birthday, Britz443!

Chapter Sixteen:

It lurked in the dark recesses of the male’s mind, weakened from generation after generation of mixing breeding and plain old ignorance on the part of the bodies blessed with such an incredible gift. Too weak, it had seemed, to slip the bonds restraining it, forcing it into a hibernation it had long since given up hope of awakening from.  

At least, it had until the male had stumbled across the sweetest peaches and cream scent and followed it to where it was strongest: the oldest apartment building in the county. It hadn’t taken long for the male to figure out the owner of that addiction inducing scent lived in said building, nor had it taken him long to move into the empty apartment next to hers. But, of course, he had stubbornly chosen to believe it was simply the wolf in him that’d had him moving from a perfectly good cabin in the middle of Pack territory to a tiny apartment in the neutral zone between Pack and Pride territories.

Because, really, what else could it have possibly been, if not the wolf in him? The male had so stupidly believed the recessed genetics he and his brothers had unwittingly inherited from their mother were nothing more than a boost to the wolf that had overruled the watered-down genetics their mostly human mother hadn’t known existed within herself and had then passed down to the many children she had bore.  

It wasn’t as though many shifters new the truth of what happened the species were mixed. The closed minded old fools, otherwise known as the Elders, had spent so much time in the past attempting to eradicate the offspring of such a pairing that none had bothered to take the time to study, to learn just how different the… abominations, as they were so eloquently called, were.

But finally, the animal stretched its lean form, comfortable within the reddened haze fogging the male’s mind, a savage sense of satisfaction filling it at the rumbling roars of pain being forced from the body beneath him as the fists of the male-who had all but forgotten the animal’s existence within his own psyche-pummeled the male threatening to take away the one thing that had finally awoken the beast: it’s mate.

Oh, it had been weak at first. So weak, in fact, that it had taken nearly all its energy to keep the male from noticing its presence during those first precious weeks. But after the male had finally met the woman that delicious smell belonged to… Well, he had been far too distracted with actually gaining the woman’s attention to notice the animal’s presence within his mind.

But it was there, lurking unbidden in the darkness, and now that the animal had it’s freedom to roam, to influence the male the way the wolf in him so often did, it had no intention of giving that freedom-or the woman responsible for its awakening-up without a fight.

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“You know, Colton’s really a nice guy.”  At Cullen’s voice, her pacing stopped and the anxiety burning up her esophagus was momentarily replaced by a bemusement that simply felt strange given the current situation-and the fact that the triplets wouldn’t let her out of her own apartment.

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