Heartless Angels
Chapter 42

Chapter 42 – Oakley

Chapter 42 – Oakley

There’s frantic pounding on Ray’s door the next morning. We’ve been given the day off and training will resume tomorrow,

so Ray and I were sleeping in. Whoever is on the other side of that door didn’t get that memo though, since the clock says 5:30.

“I’m gonna kill them,” Ray says fiercely. They’re gonna die a slow and agnosizing death.”

“You do that and you can’t go back to bed,” I mutter, putting his pillow over my head to block out the victim’s screams.

“Good thinking. I’ll kill ’em quick and get back in bed quick,” he quips back.

I hear him shuffling to the door and call out, “Don’t forget to put pants on!”

“F uck that. They wake me up this early on a day off, they gonna see everything the Goddess gave me and f ucking like it. Morning wood and all.” At that, I sit bolt upright in bed, pulling the sheet up around my chest. Sure enough, Ray’s n*ked and

starting to unlock his door.

“Ray Wilder Hawthorne you better put some dam n pants on! I am not about to show the world what is mine!” My wolf rises

in my chest, her voice making my lower with a growl in it. I can even feel my teeth and my fingernails starting to lengthen and

sharpen. She doesn’t like her mate showing what only her eyes should see to anyone else.

Ray looks to me and his wolf immediately raises, showing in his eyes. I can feel him calling to my wolf, soothing her metaphysically. The look on Ray’s face is one of smug satisfaction and lust. He likes that my wolf feels so territorial over his.

He likes that I don’t want anyone else to see him.

Holding his hands up in the air in a show of innocence, he moves back to the bed and grabs his sweats from the floor. “Yes, ma’am” He adjusts his pants on his hips, licking his l*ps as he looks at me, his wolf still present in his eyes as he smirks at me.

His voice a low, amused growl, he says, “You can show me just how much I’m yours when I scare away our intruder

My wolf gives him a playful growl through my l*ps and I allow the sheet to fall, revealing my n*ked upper b*dy. The lust that

comes forward in his facial expression is all consuming.

He starts to climb on the bed when the pounding begins anew. The growl that rips from his mouth is that of a predator

denied his prize. He moves with fast, preternatural lethal grace to the door, swinging it open and announcing. “Someone better dam n well be dead or I’ll make them that way.” His voice is nearly completely controlled by his wolf this time and my wolf preens at his desire to bed us, knowing that we drove him to that point. Our first mate may have been a conceited, selfish, bigoted di ck, but this one wants us. And in our estimation, he’s a far better choice.

Cassie is standing on the other side of the door with Je rry. Cassie flicks Ray’s arm out of the way and walks into the room. “Where’s Mary?” she demands the second she’s inside. That immediately pushes my wolf down. She doesn’t want to be a part

of this fight. Coward.

I hear a long, low growl and notice that Ray is about to square off with Je rry, not allowing him to come into the room.

“Ray, it’s alright. Let me get some clothes on and then Jer ry can come in. Jer ry, just wait outside,” I call from the bed.

Je rry looks over Ray’s shoulder, something Ray really doesn’t like based on the second growl that resonates from his chest,

and holds his hands up, backing down the hall.

“Her too,” Ray’s wolf demands looking at Cassie.

“Cassie’s my roommate, Ray. She’s seen me n*ked before – “I start, but he interrupts me.

Hef” He says more forcefully.

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Cassie huffs, but spins on her heel, slamming the door on her way out. I know that it’s because she’s worried about Mary and she would never look at me in that way. But you try telling a male wolf that his unmarked, n*ked mate is cool in a room with other wolves around. Go on. I dare you.

The second the door is closed, I grab Ray’s shirt from the floor and my leggings. I quickly walk over to him and wrap my arms around him. His wolf is still very much in control and he turns me, pressing me against the wall.

“Mine!” he growls out.

“Yes, all yours. But I need you to rein in your wolf. This is not going to be a good conversation and Cassie and Je rry are about to get really pis sed. Also, I’ve already mindlinked Harry and he’s on his way here,” I say quickly.

He leans in and I can see him trying to regain control. He breathes in my scent and closes his eyes. When he opens them, he’s the only one there. “What happened?”

I quickly fill him in and he looks away disgusted. “F uck My wolf is gonna be pis s ed.”

I give him a sad smile. I don’t know. I might need a pick me up after a while.”

He gives me a gentle k*ss before moving to the door. “Come ori in, guys.”

Before he’s even finished talking, Cassie’s through the door, followed closely by Jer ry. Harry walks in at a much slower pace. He winces when he sees me, knowing that this isn’t going to be a very pleasant conversation at all

“So where is she? Why does her note say that we need to talk to you two?” Je rry says.

F uck! Mary, really? That bus hurt a bit when you ran us over with it.

“Sit down, guys. This is gonna be..” I say, searching for words that I just can’t replace. How do you tell someone’s twin and their mate that they felt them screwing each other?

Harry comes to my rescue, though not in the way that I would have done it. “This is gonna suck. Like a lot.”

I shoot him a look, but he’s honestly not wrong. I sit. Harry sits. Ray sits. Cassie leans over the back of the arm chair and Je rry paces back and forth behind her.

“Just f ucking tell us already!” Jer ry suddenly bursts out.

I look at Harry and then start. “Mary left.” That’s all I get to say before Cassie is on my as s.

“Left? What do you mean she left? Where did she go? When’s she coming back? Cassie fires at me.

I hold my hands up to get her to stop. “Maryleft last night. She’s not coming back. She – she asked for us to be the ones to tell you guys that she’s gonna stick around in town until training is done. She said that she’d have her phone on if you wanted to

talk to her.”

“She quit?” Jer ry says, appalled. “W-w-w-why would she do that? It’s what she’s wanted ever since our parents died. To replace another family to belong to. She wouldn’t just leave if she thought that she had a chance”

“She would if she thought that she could replace a better one. One that would love her no matter what,” Harry says. He’s

pis sed. I can feel it pouring off of him. He’s angry. And I think it’s on Mary’s behalf.

“What do you mean “Jer ry asks, his fear turning to anger pretty quickly. He stops in front of Harry, squaring off.

But Harry interrupts him, getting in his face. I mean that Mary found her mate. And she felt you f ucking her last night. It’s

why she left.”

derry’s face immediately loses all color. “No. No, no, no, no, no. His gaze flicks to Cassie’s before he looks at me for

grace

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confirmation. “It can’t be. They would have felt each other before now. They would have known they were each other’s mates

before now if that were the truth.”

“I didn’t know that Ray was my mate until a few days ago. Harry and Lisa figured it out about 48 hours in. Because of who and what we are, we don’t know until the Goddess is ready for us to know,” I say.

“Oh, sh it. Oh, f uck. She’s never gonna forgive me. I f ucked her mate. She’ll never want to see me again,” he cries.

I look over at Cassie who’s been quiet this whole time. She’s in complete shock. Unable to formulate even a single thought.

“Ca ss,” I say, walking over to her. “Cassie, she said that if you want to talk to her, she has her cell. You can call her. She still

still wants you. She wants you more than she could ever want this place.”

Cassie looks at me and tears begin to fall from her eyes. Slowly, one by one.

Harry hands me a phone and I recognize it as Jer ry’s. I look at him, surprised. “How’d you?”

“I couldn’t sleep after we talked to Mary last night. I went to Ethan and got Jer ry’s phone, Harry says.

I nod, grab the phone and pass it to Cassie. She stares at me, obviously not knowing what to do. I put the phone in her hand

covering it with my own. “Just call her. See what she has to say.”

Cassie nods and hurries out of the room,

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