"Oh, you have got to be kidding me!" I seethed.

Harper's mouth fell open. "Did he just say what I think he said?"

I blew out a huff of air through my nose in aggravation. "Yep."

All I saw was the word the dog mouthed, but in the end, that's all I needed to see to make it seem like the end of my world.

The word that made my life SO complicated from that point on was...







'Mate'


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Maria lives in House Crimson as one of the highest-ranking vampires of her house. The second, to be precise. It's not because she's fought in countless wars, or lived so many hundreds of years, or can make people bend to her will with a threatening glare. She hasn't/doesdon't do any of those things. She's only 17.

Her rank might have something to do with her bad@ss nature and undeniable knack for leadership, but who's to say for sure?

Nevertheless, she's only second to the master and mistress themselves, who also happens to be her aunt and uncle.

Yeah... not great leaders, those two. They're cowards who abandon their house after the first signs of an invasion. Disgraceful.

Now, Maria is left to try and fix things on her own with the werewolf invaders. But of course, there will be. . . complications along the way.

Big Bad Wolfie 

"Okay well, now what the h3ll are we gonna do?" Stephan spoke up after everyone calmed down and I was finished with that disgusting blood.

"We've got a man down, wounds of our own to heal, and a bunch of hybrids after us on their home turf. This whole thing is going to s**t," he shook his head.

"Did you expect it to be easy?" I raised an eyebrow.

"No, of course not," he frowned at me.

I chuckled, "Well at least it's going better than I expected."

He looked at me incredulously. "How in the h3ll —"

Cali snorted, "Yeah, no matter how hard you tried to change that," she commented snidely about Wolfie and I's tiff.

She looked behind me at the sleeping Wolfie, and I felt my blood starting to boil at the mear sight of her looking at him in such a vulnerable position.

Then I immediately stuffed it down, because I'm the one that put him there in the first place.

Chapter 52)Trust