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Author: L.T.Marshall
last update publish date: 2026-06-26 18:17:35

“Here.” I pull in the black holdall that was left outside my door, and Kaelin comes to retrieve it. Already topless, given he was getting ready for bed. “Is this all you brought?” I eye it up with suspicion, knowing he must own way more at the cabin, and this doesn’t scream he had long-term plans of staying here.

“Hmmm.” He scoops to pick it up and takes it over to dump on my dresser seat. “There was no point bringing a lot as I didn't kn

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  • Awakening - Eve Of Eden   128

    Part of me feels like this is how she’s punishing me for what I took from her, even if she won’t admit it. She’s like this with our family, too. Wanting everyone to leave her be and give her space.“Stop chasing her… Leave her be and let her contact us if she wants to know how things are. Stop being so available to her. You know she won’t budge, and keeping calling her makes her more stubborn.”“That’s easy for you to say.”Kaelin is back to pulling me with him, hand clamped in his, and pushing thicker foliage out of the way as he retraces the path we took here. So comfortable in this setting that it makes me wonder if he misses it when he’s at the Manor with my pack. It distracts me from the topic of Eve as I watch his strong shoulders, his masculine physique so built for outdoor life, and it renders me instantly mute. Emotions spiraling a little with a sense of doubt and sadness that maybe he&r

  • Awakening - Eve Of Eden   127

    “She’s insufferable!” I toss the cellphone into my backpack, catching Kaelin smirking at me over his sunglasses, and shove him away by the shoulder for looking so smug. “If you say I told you so, I will maim you.”I’m pissed off and tired. We’ve been hiking all day, and I finally got high enough to get a cell signal to check in on Eve, but she brushed me off with disinterest and told me to annoy our parents instead and stop ruining her vacay. A completely wasted three-hour trek for that diva bitch to not even talk to me.“Babe… It’s only been three weeks. Right now, she’s enjoying the new experiences and freedom. Let’s instead focus on us and our plans.” Kaelin is being annoyingly upbeat today despite the blistering heat of having to climb this high. S

  • Awakening - Eve Of Eden   126

    His accent veils his perfect English just enough to betray his origin not being this country, and he takes command of all attention as he strolls out, swiping up a wine glass in his long, elegant fingernails. Eyes on us, and all eyes on him. Knowing I won’t respond, given my frowny face and simmering mood.“I know you have reservations about my taking my beloved granddaughter with me abroad, my fair child. I understand your reluctance and your parents'… your families'. But no harm will come to her when she is by my side. I will show her the world, heal her heart and her wounds, and return her when she is ready to move on and start again. She has always wanted to be free… She proved she could go it alone, so what harm in accompanying an ancient, adoring old man who loves her endlessly? Let me show your sister what she’s missing and open her eyes to being more than just a vessel for power.”“She belongs here…&rdquo

  • Awakening - Eve Of Eden   125

    Pacing manically around the hallway while my parents, my grandparents, and my aunts and uncles are all locked away in the dining room, talking about Eve’s future, has me antsy as hell. Wringing my hands and muttering anxiously while feeling like we’re awaiting a death sentence.The last few days have been agony, given how reluctant she was ever to leave her room, and no matter how many times I went to see her, our conversation always stalled back to the same thing. The same words, and the same distance. Eve has been impossible to communicate with at all. Stubborn as always, and has no desire even to try to get adjusted back into pack life.Infuriating as always. Losing her gifts has actually made her have an even shittier attitude.“Sit down before you wea

  • Awakening - Eve Of Eden   124

    “Don’t be stupid, he’s just close because he thinks you might still hurt me, and yeah, you were right about Simon…. Even if your method was extreme. I forgive you, by the way. For fucking him and stabbing me before running off and abandoning me.” My own sass and bratty bite hit my tone, but I’m not sorry for it. Things between us are complex and messy. I guess we both did things to one another that are hard to get past. “I was clearly okay, not that you stayed to find out… I didn’t die.”“I’m sorry I tried to kill you. And left you to that imp to be saved.”I don’t know if it’s sarcasm or real. Given that her tone is still flat and unreadable, and that she seems to have no energy at all to distinguish her emotions. I know I shouldn’t still harbor a grudge about that whole thing, but it still stings.“How much did you lose…. your powers, I mean. Wh

  • Awakening - Eve Of Eden   123

    “I can go alone.” I stop Kaelin at the open doorway of Eve’s old room. Seeing her, sitting in the sunshine alone on her balcony, through the open patio doors across the room. Staring out into the distant mountains and sky, and closed to the world like she’s the loneliest soul alive. I know she can feel our presence, but she is acting like we don’t exist.Kaelin gazes off in her direction, a frown knitting his brow and a deadpan expression that screams he doesn’t trust her at all. Letting my hand loose despite his many reservations. I can almost taste his sulky mood seeping out at my not letting him remain as my guard demon. I have some work to do to get these two to ever coexist as any kind of friends.My parents told me Eve asked to come here instead of the infirmary last night and has wanted

  • Awakening - Eve Of Eden   2

    Dinner is when they conduct a head count of all the kids who came to the manor for the summer. To ensure none of us strayed too far. We live in the valley most of the time, but nothing beats the forests and beauty of the manor village when we have amazing weather and so much free time. Rema Sierra

  • Awakening - Eve Of Eden   1

    Age twelve"Why are you such a crybaby?" Eve drags me to my feet from the heap of limbs and clothing I tumbled into after I slipped into this crevice, tutting at me and rolling her eyes as she dusts me down with aggression. Irritated by my clumsiness and not an ounce of sibling care.Sighing heavil

  • Awakening - Eve Of Eden   4

    “I'm not climbing. I'm tired, and I want to eat.” Toya is less harsh in her refusal because she knows Eve has a temper, and, for some weird reason, she always picks on Toya the most. Maybe because of the five of us, Toya is the next strongest compared to my sister, and that threatens her. Toya is t

  • Awakening - Eve Of Eden   3

    “Pfft…what curse? He was an old man who wanted power and went about it the wrong way. He should have been smarter….. I would have been smarter.” Eve gets up, straightening towards the mountain, standing tall and foreboding, and pulls back her hands with dramatic flair to tear the trees aside, offer

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