Chapter 125
Chapter 125: Chaotic Mornings
-Two Years Later
Cassie.
“Girl, I’m so d that these stupid-ass sses are almost done,” Melissa said with excitement through
the other end of my phone. She and I had been friends for as long as I could re member, and though we
had both been through some crazy shit, I was d I had this girl as my best friend.
“Yeah, soon we will be on to bigger and better things.”
“Don’t remind me,” she groaned as I continued holding up different shirts to my body in front of the long
mirror in my room. “I won’t be able to make it without you.”
Without me? Confusion settled in beforeughter escaped me at her dramatic tone. “What are you
talking about? I’m not going anywhere but to college with you. Unless you n on making it with some
other girl. Which, I mean, I’m gonna need to know her name, so I know exactly who to fuck upter.”
“Oh, my god, stop,” she sighed. “You know what I’m talking about.”
I did know what she was referring to, but it wasn’t going to
happen. “Nope, I’m going with you, Melissa. Stop ovepli cating it.”
For the past few years, I had been excited with the notion I was going to escape my pack life to go to
college with Melis sa, not to mention how amazing my life had gone over the past two years-I had no
intentions of doing anything my par
ents wanted me to do.
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I had gone from being a nobody who couldn’t control her shit, to having almostplete control in my
eyes – as I stayed at the top of my ss in all subjects preparing for an amazing life of full ride
schrships and future college par ties.
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There was no way I was giving any of that up for anything.
ty.”
No matter what my parents had to say.
“Yeah, right? As much as I would love that, you can’t get out of your obligations. Remember what
Prisci said…”
Thinking about the woman made me roll my eyes. “She is old and crazy. She has no idea what she is
talking about. Now stopining and get your ass ready. I’m leaving shortly, and I expect you to be
there when I get to school.
“Fine, calm your tits, woman,” she said.”I’ll be there in thir
My friend was always the dramatic one out of the two of us, but without her, I wouldn’t be able to move
through the day like I did. “Better. Don’t forget, it’s your turn to grab cof fee.”
“Shit… well, better make it forty then. See you soon.”
“See ya.” Cracking a smile, I hung up the phone, shaking my head. So much had changed over the past
few months, and thinking about how ourst year of school was about to end, I couldn’t wait to move
forward with my life.
“A week left, Cass…” I muttered to myself, finally happy with the ck gothic look I sported. My deep
purple and pink hair was a huge contrast against the ck skinny jeans and tight nk tank top I wore.
It may not have been a look my mother approved of, but it was definitely me.
Taking a deep breath, I tried to ignore the ever-growing voices hidden within the deepest depths of my
mind. I had done well thest two years, learning control over my powers and many other things.
After everything that had happened between my mother and I two years ago, my father Talon changed
up the punish ments Pollux and I usually received and, in doing so, actually found what helped to ground
me.
Fighting was the only thing I knew anymore, and while I trained with my brother and the warriors, I did it
in secret. My mother didn’t approve, just like the many other things she didn’t approve of, but it was the
one thing my father Talon stood beside adamantly.
“Cass, are you ready to go?” Pollux’s voice called from my doorway, causing me to gaze at him from the
long mirror I currently stood in front of.
“Yeah, I’ll be there in a sec.”
“Sure, whatever,” he scoffed, flipping the long strands of ck hair from his face before disappearing
down the hall way. “Just don’t take forever, otherwise, I fucking leaving you.”
The sound of his voice trailing down the hallway toward my room caused me to roll my eyes. It was
always the same with him anymore. The moment he got hurt ying football and was told he couldn’t
y anymore, he became aplete
asshole.
Thank god daddy Damian was able to keep him busy pre paring to take over the pack from Hale one
day. Otherwise, he may have taken out his anger on everyone else around him.
Grabbing my ck leather jacket, I slid on my tennis shoes and snatched my backpack on the way out of
my room. Never in my life did I find myself excited to go to school until I was so close to finishing. It was
the best birthday present a girl could have, finishing school two days before you turned eighteen.
The moment my feet hit the floor at the bottom of the stairs, the chaos of my family consumed me. My
younger sib lings ran around screaming and yelling at each other. My mother was busy making lunches
in the kitchen while my fa ther, James, finished preparing breakfast.
It was a whirlwind of chaos, but I loved it.
It reminded me I was real sometimes, and within the chaos surrounding me, I felt nothing but love. Even
if the majority of them got on my nerves half the time.
“Oh, Cassie.” My mother smiled as she wiped her hands on a kitchen towel. “Can you do me a huge
favor on your way home today, please?”
Letting out a soft sigh, I pushed a smile onto my face. “Sure, what’s up?”
“Can you just run by the pharmacy and pick up Tatum’s medicine, please? It would be a huge help. He
isn’t having the best day today, and I don’t want to take him out. Not to men tion everyone else is busy…”
Tatum was the youngest of my siblings at only nine, and unfortunately,st year was diagnosed with a
rare condition. that quickly changed all of our lives. “Of course, Mom. No
problem.”
Tatum’s eyes met mine as he rounded the corner into the
kitchen, coughing. The dark swells under his eyes were a huge contrast to his pale white skin, and every
time I saw him, I prayed I had the power to change his fate.
“Cassie.” He smiled as he wrapped his arms around my waist. “Are you leaving for school?”
“Yeah, buddy. I’ll be home a little early today, though, since it’s only a half day. Maybe when I get home,
we can climb into my bed and watch a movie. Does that sound good to you?” I asked, watching his eyes
light up with excitement.
“Yes. I can’t wait! We can watch the new dinosaur movie
that came out.”
Tatum continued to ramble, making my mom smile behind tired eyes. “Alright, sweetie. Cassie has to get
going, so why don’t you go eat your breakfast daddy made, and then we can get you sorted for the day.”
He didn’t hesitate to do what he was told, which made my mother happy because out of all her children,
he was the only one who never gave her any problems. Gazing around the room at everyone who was
here, I tried to imagine what it would be like once I went off to college.
I wouldn’t have the continued chaos anymore. I wouldn’t have dad’s amazing breakfasts or even mom’s
homemade lunches. The thought alone made me want to change my mind, but pursuing my dreams of
bing a doctor wasn’t something I was willing to give up. Even if no one knew, that’s
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what I wanted to do.
“Cass,e on, Jesus Christ!” Pollux yelled from the front door, causing me to cringe as I rolled my
eyes.
“I’ming. Calm down.” My grumbled response seemed to make him simmer, and after grabbing a
piece of toast from the counter, I quickly followed him out the front door towards his charcoal gray four-
door truck, lifted too high for my liking.
“I’m seriously going to start leaving you if you keep this shit up in the morning, Cass.”
The moment I closed the door and the truck started down the road, I was quickly on my phone, trying to
ignore hisme ass music. “You know you won’t leave me there, Pollux. I don’t know why you constantly
threaten it.”
“Would you stop fucking calling me that?” he snapped. “It’ s just Lux. No one calls me Pollux, but you
and mom.”
ncing at him from the corner of my eyes, I scoffed with a smirk. “It’s your name.”
“I fucking know that, Captain Obvious, but I can’t stand it, so fucking call me Lux or don’t talk to me. I
don’t understand what’s so difficult about that.”
One would have thought because we were twins, we were close, but the answer to that was absolutely
not. We may have
been simr in many ways, but being close wasn’t something we had been in a very long time.
Since the day we got our powers, actually.
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“Whatever… Lux…” I replied sarcastically as I rolled my eyes and went back to scrolling through my
phone. “Are you going to the party this weekend?”
“Yeah, don’t I always,” he sneered with irritation. “You’re not going, though.”
“Excuse me?” Laughter escaped me at hisment. Every time there was a party, he tried to ensure I
couldn’t go, and yet I always found my way there despite his efforts. “You can’t tell me what to do,
Pollux.”
Gripping the steering wheel, he turned his gaze towards me as anger seethed in his eyes. “Cass… I’m
not telling you again.”
Never had I been so excited to see school as I was during this argument between him and me. Thest
thing I wanted was Lux ruining my morning with another lecture just because he was the future Alpha of
the pack.
As soon as the truck pulled into his parking space, his many groupies flocked to the vehicle, wanting to
be the first ones to greet him. And quickly I was a ghost of a thought.
It was just how I liked it, though, and as my eyesnded on Melissa – with two cups of coffee-my
excitement for school grew. “Have a fabulous day, brother dearest. Try not to catch something from these
whores.”
Stepping out of the truck, I ignored Lux’s snappye back as I beelined straight for Melissa. Leggings
and a hoodie were her favorite and as I approached her messy bun, no makeup look, I couldn’t help but
smile. “Oh my god, you’re a lifesaver right now.”
Smirking, she shrugged her shoulders as she took a sip of her coffee. “I take it the morning drive was
eventful?”
Eventful would be an understatement. “If you only knew.”
Laughter fell between Melissa and me as we walked to ward the towering brick building in front of us.
The echoing sound of the school bell rang in the distance as the many voic
es of students rushed to ss past my ears.
This ce had been hell to me for many years, and now that I was done with it, I couldn’t help but think
of how bitter sweet it really had been.
“Are you going to miss this ce when we graduate?” Melissa asked, drawing me from the many
thoughts which had been circting through my mind.
“I don’t know. I guess part of me will just because I made
so many memories here.”
“Yeah, I guess you’re right,” she muttered as we passed the double doors, making our way toward our
lockers. “We should do something epic, though, before we go.”
ncing at her, an amused grin crossed my lips. “Epic? What do you have in mind?”
She shrugged her shoulders with a smile as we reached our lockers. “Well, for one, I think you should
put Ashley in her ce before the end of the year. That would definitely be the start of going out with a
bang.”
Ashley was the harlot who hung around my brother. The cheerleader type who was dead set on
bing the next Luna of our pack, even though she wasn’t his mate. Some thing I was able to see the
moment I met her.
In our world, you were able to find your mate when you turned eighteen, and even though none of us
were eighteen, I had the gift of foresight, and she wasn’t the girl I had seen my brother with.
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“As much as I would love to do that, Melissa. She will be put in her ce at our party. Lux will see she
isn’t his mate, and he will get rid of her.”
“…and if he doesn’t,” she muttered, causing me to sigh.
“He will… he is the next Alpha, and my fathers have in stilled the mate bond stuff into us since we were
kids. I can’t tell you how many times I heard the story of our my parents found each other.”
It was a story everyone in the pack loved to tell, but so cringe-worthy, I was perfectly fine never hearing it
again.
“Yeah, well, right now, he doesn’t look like he cares. The two of them are headed straight for you.”
Turning to look over my shoulder, I noted what Melissa was talking about. Lux was
making his way towards me with Ashley at his side and con sidering the grim expression on his face and
the ecstatic one on hers… something was up.
“Shit… and here I thought I’d enjoy my coffee in peace this morning.”