Broken Bond
Chapter 4
Chapter 4
VANESSA
Here’s the thing- I don’t give out my phone number to guys.
Ever.So imagine my surprise when I was stocking the coolers at work this morning and my phone vibrated against the bar top with an incoming text message from Callum Conway.
His number wasn’t saved in my phone, but I immediately knew the message was from him, and it didn’t take long for me to figure out how he got ahold of my digits.
The sneaky devil must’ve sent himself a text from my phone when he was checking out my music last night.
If it were anybody else, I’d probably be annoyed with the underhanded way he went about getting my number, but instead I found myself smiling down at my phone, heart pounding as I considered how to respond.
Exchanging messages is harmless, right? At least that’s what I kept telling myself as we texted back and forth all morning while I smiled down at my phone like a fool.
I might’ve gotten away with it, too, if I wasn’t working the same shift as my best friend.
Vienna knows I don’t give my number out, so she was baffled by the fact that I was so caught up in texting with Callum, and honestly, same.
All of this is so foreign to me, but there’s just something about Cal.
He’s bold without being sleazy.
Clever without being cliché.
And for the first time, I'm...curious.
A lot of girls my age date around, Vienna included, but I never have.
She thinks I’m crazy, and she’s said as much when I’ve turned down dates or refuted advances from good-looking, smooth -talking guys that other girls would jump at the chance to go out with.
Call me a hopeless romantic, but I’ve never seen the point of dating or getting close to someone when I have a fated mate out there somewhere waiting for me.
Humans talk about soulmates, but in shifter culture, finding that person is a very real possibility.
Once we turn eighteen, every full moon presents a chance for us to find them.
Our packs shift and run together under the light of the moon, and if you’re lucky enough to be in the proximity of your fated mate on one of those nights, you’ll feel it- the pull.
My parents say it’s like an irresistible force that draws you to your mate, and once you lay eyes on one another, BAM! The bond snaps into place.
Even though all of us have a fated mate out there, not everyone is lucky enough to find theirs.
Statistically, less than half of us will actually find them and get to experience that magical fated mate bond, but I’m an optimist.
My parents are fated mates, and I’ve seen how deep that connection goes.
They really are two halves of a whole.
I want that for myself, and I’ll hold out as long as I have to in order to find my other half.
Which is why it’s so out of character for me to be acting the way I am right now, carefully applying my makeup and straightening my hair, changing my clothes five times before settling on an outfit that screams casual, yet sexy.
I’m nervous.I don’t get nervous around guys.
What the hell has gotten into me?
"It’s not too late to back out, you know,"
Vienna sighs from the doorway of my bedroom, and I’m not sure if it’s due to her own apprehension or if she’s sensing mine.
I know she’s just as anxious about seeing Chase tonight, but she’s gone the opposite way of me, putting minimal effort into her hair, makeup, and attire.
She's trying to send the message that she doesn’t care enough to dress up for him, but I think she looks even more beautiful when she goes casual and lets her natural beauty shine through.
If the Alpha has designs on playing it aloof with her again tonight, he doesn’t stand a chance.I shake my head as I cross the room to Vienna.
"Nice try,"
I laugh, snatching her by the arm and threading mine through the crook of her elbow.
"We’re doing this."
"But it's like ten degrees outside," she grumbles as I pull her toward the staircase.
"Let it go, Vee.The cold never bothered me anyway."
She stops in her tracks, hitting me with a dubious stare and raising a brow at my Disney reference.
"Frozen? Really, Ness?" I giggle, starting down the stairs and yanking her with me.
"It’s Mia’s favorite right now."
Her lips pull into a smile at the mention of my four-year-old sister.
while I’m the oldest of seven.She’s over here often enough that she’s basically a member of
happened to her Little Mermaid obsession?" she queries as she follows me
week," I say with the wave of a
how she is." I bound down the rest of the stairs, stepping over to the front door and calling out to my mom as I slide my
"I’m heading out!"
back instantly, her
me, so she doesn’t give me the third degree or question where I’m going.She knows I'll be responsible and come home at a
you don’t want to head to
asks as we make our way toward her car at the curb,
I laugh, giving her a playful
to get
as I pull it open and drop into the seat, rattling with a hollow, tinny sound as I close it behind
but I'l] never say that out loud because I know how proud she is of
to buy it with her own money, so even if it feels like a rolling death trap, I’ll act like we’re riding in
and we pull away from the curb, heading out of town
of Riverton,
still
just don’t
grumbles, shaking her
mean, Cal? Out
with a casual shrug of my shoulders.I resist the urge to pick up my phone and text him back, knowing that Vee will see it as me being too
even know the
you suddenly texting him like it’s a thing?" Troll
the only one making it
a hole in the thigh of my black jeans, my fingers
not dragging me out here
fun," I say
was either this or watching Frozen with Mia for the hundredth time."She’s quiet for a moment, but I can practically hear the gears turning in her head before she finally mumbles, "he just gives me
out a laugh, swatting at Vee’s
don’t know him either, Vee.You can’t
cover gives you
head, finally giving into the urge to pick up my phone and reply to
rest of the drive, but I think part of that
it, there's a palpable tension between her and Chase, and I
packhouse like it was on fire immediately after, like she couldn’t bear
jealousy, I don’t
cars at the side of a forest road deep in Norbury’s territory, climbing out and trudging through the trees while allowing the sound of
the tension rolling off Vienna in waves, making me second guess whether it was
she’s been in lately, but were my reasons more Callum, smiling shyly
chair, his long legs spread and his dark hoodie slung up over his
are partially shadowed by his hood, giving his
my back, a shiver
"Ladies,"
when he reappears with a bottle of beer in each hand, offering them to Vee
take it, curling my fingers around
and I snap my gaze back to him as he nods to the empty bench beside his
following his command, reaching for Vee’s hand to drag her with me over to
that I’m nervous- he
"You made it,"
the deep timbre of his voice seeping inside me and unraveling the tightness in the pit of
at him and his eyes are already on
irises are visible.I part my lips to respond, but my breath gets caught somewhere in my throat when he suddenly reaches out to take the bottle of
slow sip from the bottle.I’m not much of a beer drinker, but
it down and
Callum shrugs.
drinker." I
night. Straight
sliding from me and lingering on
needed it.Most of the time, I like to keep
him a joint.He takes it between his fingers, raising it
you were saying about keeping a clear head?" I tease,
as he coughs out the
explains, holding it
the cushion of my lower lip, giving
dip to my mouth, then travel back up to
in that deep, rumbling voice of
eyes trained on his, arching
if I
to himself and takes another hit of the joint before passing
with that.Just trying to get a read on you." He exhales the smoke toward the fire, sinking back farther in
into a smirk as I watch him, the
you’re a bad boy
meet mine and he grins menacingly, running
"The worst, babe."
surprisingly, I don’t hate the way
his stare, like he’s daring me to be the first to
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