Beauty Sleeps (Fairytale Shifter 2)

I feel another little tear form at the memory, and he comes over to hold me. I can’t wait for these damn hormones to pass.

Hearing a knock on the door, X goes over and lets everyone in. Dominic practically carries in a very pregnant Ruby, and Winnie comes in right behind them.

After we all hug and say hello, I sit down on the couch with Ruby and Winnie and catch up. I hear Winnie let out a long sigh, and I look over at her.

“You okay?” I know the twins have been giving her shit lately, and I’m really getting tired of those bitches.

“Yeah, just kind of sad. I still can’t remember anything. And I’ve been all over the place today.”

Winnie has been struggling more than usual lately with her memory. For a long time, she didn’t talk about her past, and we thought that was by choice. But she’s opened up to me a little, and I know that she has no memory of her life before she was found wandering in the woods. I think the most frustrating part is that she doesn’t know when she’s going to come of age.

“You’ll know when it happens. You’ll feel it,” I tell her, and reach out to hold her hand.

“From what Dominic says, you feel it when it happens,” Ruby says, smiling softly at Winnie. I think Ruby feels a special bond with Winnie since she was once an outsider herself. Even though Winnie is a shifter, she doesn’t feel like she belongs in the pack.

“Yeah. You’re right. I’m just super emotional today. I keep crying. Sorry.” Winnie gives us a half-smile and tries to shake it off. “If I didn’t know better, I’d think I was pregnant.”

I laugh at Winnie’s joke and shake my head. “Tell me about it. The last time I was this crazy with hormones I was—” It hits me. The last time I was this crazy with hormones and emotions was my eighteenth birthday. When I started to come of age, it was just as bad as it is now. “Winnie, you don’t think—”

I’m cut off by the front door bursting open to reveal Stone standing in the doorway.

Xavier and Dominic are in front of the females in under a second, both half-shifted to protect us.

Stone stands there, breathing hard and looking like he just ran a hundred miles. He’s nearly rabid as he looks past X and Dom, glaring at Winnie. His snarl echoes through the room, and one word leaves his lips.

“Mine.”

THE END…. for now