Frostbite

Frostbite: full of surprises

Henry's pov:

"so Nadeah is coming back after what? five years?" asks Gloria as she sits down on the table.

"Yeah, she finally finished her college education and she's going to be coming back in a couple of months," I say as I hand her a cup of coffee.

she blows on her cup as she stares at the room. "this house is pretty big for just one girl." she says as she takes a drink of her coffee. "sometimes I wonder if he ever felt guilty, maybe that's why he left them this house and the money that he had left."

"I don't know." I say bitterly "maybe he just wanted to make sure that they didn't have any other worries besides the small fact that they are slowly dying."

she looks at me and sighs "he was still half-human, he must have felt something for those children at some point. all humans do, unless they have some sort of missing nerve from birth but not that man, if he could feel inferiority it means he could feel fear, which means he could feel sadness as much as any other unlucky runt out there."

"who knows." 

she looks at her cup of coffee for about a minute before she says "where is that kid anyway?"

"she should be in her room." I say as I look at the stairs. "maybe I should go check up on her."

I get up from my seat and walk up to Skye's room. 

my heart starts to pound harder as I see the light to her room on and her door half open. I sense Gloria walking behind me as I try to not panic for such a small reason.

I begin to call Skye and she doesn't answer. 

I speed up my walking pace and stop once I see her laying down in her bed asleep.

I let out a long sigh as Gloria enters the room on her own and walks towards a cabinet that's beside Skye's bed.

"Such a nice space. it's bigger than my kitchen." Gloria says as she leans on the cabinet and a statue of a fairy falls on the floor and cracks. "oh s**t! sorry." she says as she leans down to pick up the pieces of broken glass.

I walk over to her side and pick up as many pieces as I can in order to help her out. 

"what's wrong?" I ask Gloria as she suddenly freezes. she looks back a Skye and picks up a large piece of glass and throws it at the ground as hard as she can. "what are you doing?!"

"that sound was loud enough to wake anyone up," she says as she gets up and runs towards Skye.

she grabs Skye from her arms and begins to shake her "he kid wake up! hey!" she continues to shake Skye but she doesn't move. 

I get up and when I see Skye's head fall back as Gloria holds her I drop the glass pieces in my hands on the floor.

'no!'

she continues to shake her as all I can hear is the loud sound of static in my ears as I see Skye there in between her arms, still. not even her chest is moving, the reality of it all hits me hard as I begin to cry. 

'she can't be dead, not yet...'

Ben's pov

School is very interesting, I have never interacted with so many new people in my entire life. ever since I was small all I knew was Skye and Henry but this was a nice change of pace.

"what are you reading now?" Scarlett asks as she stares at me from the opposite side of the bench.

"it's a legends and myths book," I answer as she smiles back at me when she hears the word myth.

"I didn't know you were into fairy tales?" she says as she gets closer to me.

"it's not fairy tales, it's myths. there's a difference," I say closing the book and turning to look at her.

"a myth about what?" she asks.

"it's just on the moon goddess, but the author was a human so I'm pretty sure it was all gibberish. although he has a lot of good ideas, and even if all the information came from his imagination it's pretty accurate," I tell her as she looks at my hair. 

"what's his name? I might want to read his work," she says as she pats my head and is most likely fixing my hair. 

"Thomas Boscow," I say as she writes it down on her phone. 

it's like a dream, the only problem is that I'm still not fully satisfied. as a wolf, and as Scarlett's mate I want to mark her and make her mine but I don't want to pressure her as well.

I lay down on my bed and I stare at the ceiling "how does Henry do it?" 

Henry has been waiting about five years for his mate to come back from college in order for them to finally be together. the reason is that she wanted to study in order for her to not have to be economically supported by him.

I sigh as I get up from my bed and pace back and forth. 

'this isn't right. I shouldn't be so greedy.'

'Why are you so afraid of getting your hands on what's yours?' I remember Skye saying. the memory of her at the age of ten comes to life in my mind as I watch her look at me with a bored expression. 

her hair is currently a mess from being up until late at night as she sits on a table filled with papers. she has her pencil in between her fingers as she plays with it from the boredom. 'if it's yours take it, why are you asking me about it?' she says with an irritated expression. 'i'm not going to decide for you if you should get married or not, so hurry up and get your act straight.'

I laugh as I sit down on the side of my bed.

Skye has always been like a small angry old man in the body of a small girl. She seemed even more mature than Henry himself.

I jump surprised when I hear someone knock on the door of my room.

when I open it I see Scarlett standing there in front of me. "what are you doing? it's late." I ask as she enters my room. "are you alright?" I ask as I close the door.

she suddenly hugs me as she holds onto me tightly. "Scarlett, if you do that i-"

"let's do it then." she says as she looks up at me. "my body feels weird," she says as she begins to shake.

I begin to smell the air and for some reason, her scent of tulips is stronger than before. "you're in heat?"

"what?" she asks as she puts her arms inside of my shirt and lets out a long breath. "when our skin touches the burning stops."

"you can't be here," I say as I turn to look at the door but can't bring myself to let her go outside into a house filled with unmated werewolves.

she pulls me over to my bed as she makes me sit down. 

she begins by taking off her shirt and then proceeds to kiss me lightly before I lose complete control of my actions and mind. 

the only thing that I have on my mind is how great is the sensation of my body burning every time that she touches me.

she lays on the bed as I move closer to her and take in her sweet soft scent of tulips. "there's no going back after this." I whisper in her ear and she just pulls me closer.

"I know," she says as she looks at me in the eyes, her cheeks turn a light red as she lays under me defenseless. 

I bite my lower lip as I move closer to her and place my hand on her hair as I lean closer and press my lips on hers hungrily. 

in the heat of the moment, I move my lips closer to her neck and sink my teeth into her skin. she begins to whine from the pain but her crying slowly fades away and is replaced with the sound of her voice moaning in satisfaction.

the burning sensation becomes more violent on my right arm but I ignore it as I continue to feel the satisfying sparks that we both feel when our skin comes into contact.

under the moonlight, I let go of my logic and I allow my heart to take over as I slowly allow myself to finally make her mine.

"Ben." I hear Scarlett say as I slowly open my eyes. "when did you get that?" she asks as she points at my right arm.

I slowly sit up confused as she covers herself with the blanket and stares at my right arm. I try to open my eyes slowly as I try to look away from the sunlight that's coming inside of my room from the window.

"what?" I ask as I look at my arm.

A red mark with black wraps itself on my right arm like some sort of tattoo and I'm left without words.

'I don't remember ever having this... am I still dreaming?'