Cassius pov.
I woke up to Averil's strong as hell grip around my waist. He begged to be big spoon now I'm stuck in his iron grip, the little wolf takes his sleeping strength for granted..
I look down at his arms that are wrapped around me and I take his hands in mine. His skin was probably one of my many favorite things about him. It was always soft and always smelled great.
His complexion is rich and golden, I loved that about him the most.. well theres a lot of things I love about him, I guess I do fall in love too easily..
I looked at his arms and I'm mad.. for him, the shit he went through with that Dane fucker, I wish I did more to him then just letting Malachai's Coven deal with the little shit.
The scars that stayed printed on my beautiful mate's skin felt like a stab to my heart. I could've protected him before it got worse, but I didn't.
I'm so fucking useless sometimes.
"Cass.." Averil groaned.
I turned over in a hurry to check up on him. He was okay.. thank goodness.
He smiled at me, my heart sped up a bit. I took that as a cue to scoop him in my arms and give him the biggest hug ever.
"Thank you Cass." He mumbled.
My eyebrows furrowed and I pulled back from the hug, cupping his face gently.
"Thank you for putting up with me." He sighed softly.
"Thank you for putting up with me." I mumbled back allowing our noses to touch each others.
I wasn't great with emotions, it was hard for me to figure out how someone was feeling or how to comfort someone.. I knew something was bothering him.
"I think we should go for a walk, to clear our minds." I say awkwardly.
He giggled and pecked me on the lips. "Okay big guy, lets go on a walk, yeah?!"
"After the both of you eat breakfast of course." Malachai walks in with a red face Owen attached to his side.
Had they been fucking in the kitchen? Cliche.
Averils pov.
I munched on breakfast like a little bunny rabbit. I was so hungry.. it was so bad.. I ate quickly scarfing down the pancakes Owen and Malachai made.
"Slow down before you choke, santa mierda" Malachai chuckles.
The language change catches me off guard but I keep forgetting that he's from Spain..
"So hows work going Malachai?" Owen asked as he snuck me a piece of his bacon.
Cassius loves bacon can't let him catch us.
"Well.. I just finished up an ad for Cartier, it was probably the most easiest ad I've done.. the problem is its theme."
I stopped eating and looked at him with raised eyebrows.
"What about the theme?"
Cassius eyes glow red and he take a sip out of his blood pouch. "Yea what about it Mal."
How dare someone get close to him? Ill kill her.
Woah??
"A woman had to be a little to close to me, well the theme was love but—"
"I say we kill her, guts splattered out and all." I stab the scrambled eggs on my plate.
Everyone looked at me with widened eyes. "Sweetheart your claws are out." Owen hands go through my curls smoothly.
I look down at my hands and shy away from them, shrinking in my seat slowly.
"That was so hot." Cassius whined.
Malachai smiled at me.
"Do you need to shift? Or have you been avoiding it?" He gives me a knowing look.
I stay silent looking at my plate of food.
"He's asking you something, pup." Cassius says in a gentle tone.
"I hate my wolf." Yes its true.. ive been beginning to hate my wolf, he wasn't as pretty as other wolves.. his white coat was plain and ugly.. and his claws were unkept and he looked messy..
I saw him when I accidentally shifted in the bathroom one morning.
I never learned how to take care of my wolf, I was too young to learn how to..
"And why is that?"
I told them why, it was stupid but..it was just honestly because he was just ugly in my eyes.
Owen sighed as if he was frustrated.
"You don't give yourself enough credit sweetheart, in our eyes you are colorful, you are a work of art.. you.. you don't understand how many paintings I've tried to attempt to paint of you and none of them ever match your real life beauty.."
My heart beats faster at his words, its as if
Im sinking them all in.. reassurance all I needed was reassurance.
Malachai nods and Cassius smiles."That's right! Ive watched him attempt many paintings of you." Malachai buts in.
"Thank you." I whisper and look down at my plate.
"Of course pumpkin." Owen hums and kiss my head full of hair.
"One of us need to go to the supermarket today," Owen looks at the Grocery calendar.
They got their fresh blood from this one supermarket, I was oblivious to the place of course.
"Ill go." Malachai looks at his phone.. I assume he was checking the time. "And Averil is going with you!"
I groaned.
"I hate going grocery shopping" I whined.
They all chuckled.
"Me too."
"Me three."
"You guys are just lazy." Owen adds in sassily.
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I tug on the sleeves of my sweater as I watched Malachai's add things in the little shopping bucket.
There was a lady with a stand she seemed to be some type of future teller, perhaps a witch or a magic user?
I pulled on Malachai sleeve and pointed to the stand. I was curious and I wanted to go..
"Ah, you want go? Lets go sweet one." He grabs my hand as he leads me to the little stand.
"Hello young men, Im tell your future for ### cash!" She smiled.
She had green and dark pink highlights in her hair, she wore dark makeup and had piercings in every spot you could think of.. her clotheres were primarily black and her skin was paler than white snow.
"Are you perhaps a magic user?" Malachai asks while he digs his wallet.
"Something like that." Her voice wad weird, sounded like a child but wise as if she was 1000 years old.
I looked up at Malachai with a smile and he wrapped his arms around me as the lady start to circle her arms around us.
She stopped just as fast as she started, her eyes widened and she looked at me. Her face curled up into happiness.
"Be careful, will you? Young man..? There's a little thing visiting you soon.." I tilted my head in confusion and chuckled nervously.
Malachai looked confused and rolled his eyes.
"Let's go Averil, shes a scam." He pulls me with him gently but all I could hear was the lady calling out to us, I couldn't form what she was saying all that I knew was that I was in danger??
Was I scared? Yes. Very scared..
Malachai kneeled down in front of me and cupped my face. "Its not real nothing is going to happen to you, I've got you baby,
Okay?"
I nodded and swallowed hard.
"Okay Mal.."
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A little thing? WHY ARE YOU SCARED OF A LITTLE THING AVERIL?? ITS LITTLE?!?! RAWHHHHHHHHHH