Anyway, it’s good to be home and I wanted to thank you for everything. It’s weird being back in my old room, it’s totally untouched; not even my laundry has been taken away. But at least it means my computer was waiting for me. I guess I need to get a new phone though.
Oh yeah, to answer your question – the hospital were pretty amazed by my recovery. They wanted to keep me there for all kinds of tests, but obviously I didn’t want to do that. In the end my dad kind of blackmailed them about the fact that they had just let me “walk out” of there, all dazed and confused, and got them to back off. I’m feeling bloody tired, but otherwise just grateful to be human again.
Love
F
By the Goddess, it was going to be hard being the sensible one. He was just so wonderful! I melted at him calling me “darling”, and he had signed it Love F. Did he mean love love? Oh, how I wanted him!
Dear Fletch,
I miss you loads already, but am kind of confused about where we are at, do you know what I mean? Am I being too heavy saying that? Like it’s the old “where is this relationship going” routine?
Of course I want to see you. But should we? Also Dremouth isn’t exactly on your way back is it? It’s at least three hours out of your way.
That’s really good news about you staying with the wizard each month. I’m glad to hear you’re okay now. That’s all I wanted to know.
Emily
Darling Emily,
I would drive to the moon for an hour with you.
Don’t back away from me, please. It’s so difficult to convey feelings by email, but I think it’s the safest way to talk right now. I wish I could be there to kiss your doubts away.
Are you hoping to forget about me? I have no intention of forgetting about you. But maybe you are right. Maybe we should wait a while to see each other.
I also meant to say that I was sorry that I messed up your date on Friday night. I know that my turning up and threatening your boyfriend wasn’t cool, but I couldn’t help myself.
Love
F
Distance. I had to keep some distance from him. I took a deep breath to centre myself.
There was something else in his email that niggled at my brain though. What was it? I reread it. Ah, yes, Sean Carrey, my date last Friday. That seemed a lifetime ago now. What should I say about it? I hadn’t actually thought about Sean in all this, so I chickened out about it and decided to concentrate on us for now.
Oh Fletch, I’m very confused, but I don’t mean to push you away. Well, maybe I do. I don’t know. Somehow I actually find email easier to be honest than face to face, so I guess I’ll just say it. We can’t be together. I know it and you know it. It hurts like hell though. Right now I want nothing more than for you to be here, but we just… can’t!
I totally forgive you for Friday night. You weren’t yourself, it was the wolf.
E
P.S. I’ve been meaning to ask, at what point did you make peace with your wolf?
Darling,
I’m going to do some research. I’m sure we can find a way to overcome the whole repercussions thing. But in the meantime I will respect your wishes and stay away.
It’s killing me to ask, but are you going to keep seeing that other guy?
In answer to your question, I started to make peace with my wolf right about when I was going to bite you. You said you were mine, and I discovered what it was that the wolf and I had in Common. You. But it wasn’t until you were crying and you said that you needed me that it really happened. Both parts of me, the wolf and the human, wanted to return to you at that moment. That’s when I realised we weren’t two separate beings. The wolf is just the more instinctive and primal, but he’s still me. We became one in that moment because both parts of me wanted to get back to my body, back to where you were holding me and begging me not to leave you…
I thanked my lucky stars he couldn’t see how embarrassed I was feeling. I put my hands over my red face for a second. He’d heard me saying I needed him? Had he somehow heard all the rest of my waffle that night too? Had I said I loved him? No, I don’t think I did, but I know I thought it.
I thought about the moment when he nearly bit me. At the time it had seemed scary, but now it just seemed… sexy…
I remembered his demanding voice, so deep as he’d said “Mine,” and my saying “Yes.”
This was dangerous territory, and I had to put in more distance.
Don’t, Fletch. I was really tired and emotional. It had been a long night and obviously I didn’t want you to die.
I’m glad I helped you make peace with your wolf. But I didn’t mean the things I said. I was just trying to put right all the stuff I had made wrong.
Seeing as you and I can’t be together anyway, I can’t see the point in breaking up with Sean. Yes, I have feelings for you. But aren’t I more likely to get over them if I have someone else to focus on?
(I thought about typing that he should do the same as well, but I just couldn’t bring myself to do it. What if he met another witch? What if he bonded with her instead of me?)
I’m sure we will get over this attraction thing we have for each other; it just might take a bit of time.
E
LOL, nice try, Emily.
You want me as much as I want you.
He’s never going to kiss you like I do. You will never literally float away when he holds you, or create sparks between you like we do.
Keep seeing him if you think it will help. But I’m going to come for you, and when I do you’ll know you’re not over me.
We’re not done by a long shot.
I have to go to sleep now. But I’ll be in touch; and if a month from now, you hear a wolf howling at the moon, put on those pyjamas…
F xxx
I stared at the screen for several minutes, not knowing what to think. Then I slowly closed the laptop as a smile crept over my face.
Yeah, he was right, there was no way we were done yet.
The End
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Book three for witch Emily Rand and her Familiar Bob. Emily's relationship with Werewolf, Fletcher, is being kept long distance for both their safety; until his new pack Alpha thinks she would be a powerful mate and kidnaps her. Emily and Fletch must decide whether to join forces and become bonded or whether doing so might just kill them both. A Young Adult paranormal romance.
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Books by Stella Wilkinson
The Flirting Games
More Flirting Games
Further Flirting Games
The Flirting Games Trilogy, Books 1 - 3
Good @ Games
Flirting with Friends
Halloween Magic & Mayhem
Werewolf Magic & Mayhem
Solstice Magic & Mayhem
Notice Me
A Christmas Gift
All Hallows EVE
Romancing the Stove
Bend it like a Bookworm
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