MIRO

Right from school, Theon had always been the odd one out and when he gets intense about something, others tend to leave. him alone which is why the moment he claimed Ryn, the others dispersed and walked away.

Then it was just us, standing amidst others but yet, it felt like we were the only ones in the room. I looked into my brother’s eyes and I could see the strain in them. The struggle between hate and recognition. I could tell that by just standing so still, he was fighting demons, and yet he had the calmest expression.

“Where’s your…girl?” I mindlinked him.

“In the bathroom.”

I nodded. “Are we good or am I going to get another beat down?

Theon sipped his drink. “I am me but not myself at the same time. Just don’t say things against Chelsea and I won’t get triggered.”

I nodded in understanding, and we both turned to look at the party. All around us, women of different sizes, color and ages, oogled at us, standing in groups and gushing to themselves as they gossiped amidst each other.

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This always happened everywhere we went and usually by now, I’d be flattered by their attention and scanning for whom to take home tonight but looking at them all, none of them excited me.

They all seemed like a blur of color with only one woman catching my focus.

Ryn.

When I found Ryn watching us across the hall, my heart skipped a beat. There was something in her gaze looked too much like desire, and I wondered.

Does Ryn feel what I feel too? Or am I just deluding myself?

a hunger that

Her eyes slid to my brother and the desire in her eyes turned sorrowful. I glanced at Theon and found him watching her too. Looking away, I smiled bitterly to myself.

sure knows how to pick women who will never belong

that?” I asked, after a while and Ryn got distracted by

“Do what?”

claim Ryn

sighed. “I am trying to protect

cautiously. “Aren’t you supposed to

way that showed that even he

guys prey on Ryn. We lived that life in

us.” I replied, feeling defensive. “They even had a name for their

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and seeing it happen in real time with Ryn made me

him, starting to get miffed. “We never sold

we didn’t, but we used them and passed them

to get frustrated. “What’s up with you? What’s all this talk and where

the last time, “I don’t know, but I’ve been thinking lately, maybe the Goddess is punishing us for the things we did back then and the lives

liking what I’m hearing. “We didn’t

found your mate?” He

anything wrong”

the kind that renders your helpless and at a

way. “Instead, your wolf keeps forming connections with random girls, giving you hope only to have it snatched away when they find their true mates. Doesn’t that sound familiar to

of sadness as my eyes found Ryn easily across the room. Someone said something that made her smile and something

think I have ever made her smile

then, even though I have not been able to deeply connect with another woman, I..” He paused,

though I had nothing to do with Chelsea, I now understood what it meant to have hope in someone and have it taken away from you, even though

you think Ryn is one of those

eyes. “I don’t know. I

at her. “What

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