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Prologue
Derrick
I can't believe you just did that
Was she for real? Did Skylar not know how much of an ass Noah was I hadn't thought about my reactions at all all I sore were his hands all over and his tong was down her throat, and I couldn't help but to think that should been me kissing her, out of nowhere I'd stomped across the beach shoved Noah off her and punched him in the jaw throwing sky over my shoulder and brought home to my room, everyone knew skylar and I hated each other we had done ever since her mother abandon her and father took her in, so why did I care who she was sleeping around with? I'd been avoiding making eye contact with her and when I did I never seen the girl so mad her face was crimson red darker then her tangerine coloured hair she crossed my bedroom slamming her small fists into my chest
"You had no right, I gripped her wrists with my hands skylar hated being out of control of any kind, in that moment something switched in my brain, letting go of her wrists I gripped her cheeks gently with my hands
"I wanted it to be me, not him, and nobody else, I wanted it to be me, I repeated seconds before my mouth found hers she stopped fighting me and started kissing me back,
We only came up long enough to remove my shirt over my head then hers followed more clothes came off we stumbled towards my bed,
Chapter one Derrick
Histerical sobs woke me from my sleep, I lifted my head up from my pillow as the frantic sounds of fake depression continued loud enough to most likely wake the whole family I groaned and froze as my leg brushed against another leg and then a smile spread across my face, as the memories flooded in I spent the night with skylar resurface
Rolling over I snuggled against her breathing in her sent I kissed her neck running my fingers down her skin until I found her ribs I gently tickled them, she jolted jarring me in the ribs with her elbow,
I grunted "Derrick you know i dislike being tickled, her voice was muffled from sleep she yawned before rolling on her back and I held back a groan she looked so good in my t shirt she was so short it stopped just above her knees,
"So about last night, I started
"Do we need to talk about it" at a scale of one to ten are you still pissed at me,
A smile broke across her face she wrapped her arms around my neck lowering me down so there was no space between us her forehead rested against mine and she kissed me,
"No regrets, she said giggling as I couldn't stop kissing her, fairly aware I couldn't stop smiling, who knew kissing her would feel this awesome then the wailing started again and she pulled away from me
"Who is putting on that fake act of depression?
Over the years we gotten use to the women father kept bringing home the girlfriends never lasted long they were clearly all after his wealth and when they found out they weren't the one the tragic acts of desperation followed
"You can't do this to me, I'll be homeless
I can't go back to that lifestyle please please, with in blink of an eye skylar was out of my bed and out of my room looking freshly dressed and heading towards the balcony my grin spread clearly she planned on wearing my shirt to school with a pair of jeans and her supernatural abilities always seemed to impress me shoving back the covers I found my pants on the floor and covered my hunters mark back up with my leather band and joined skylar and my twin brother in the hallway
Dawson gave us a nod rasing an eyebrow seeing skylar coming out of my room, skylar and Dawson's were best friends I was more then certain she filll him on the details when they had a chance to talk,
Looking over the balcony the woman was down to her bra and undies clutching her suitcase as her stuff kept falling out of her arms,
"You promised me, she wept falling to her knees her blonde hair shielded her face father towered over her,
"Maybe you shouldn't have slept with my driver multiple times" I know what the two of you were scheming against me get out of my house Missy, and don't come back you will no longer have access to my money all my assets have been blocked from you and the locks to the house been changed if you don't remove yourself from my property my security guards will" her sobbing increased on wobbly legs she scooped up her belonging, her hysterical behavior increased as the door closed behind her,
Father didn't look our way he headed into his office closing the door behind him
"Well it's about time this happened" I frowned at my brothers words and glanced over at him, and then I grinned as he indicated to the fact one of my hands was was wrapped around skylars
"I always wondered how long it was going to take you two to figure it out,
Skylar wrapped her self around my waste and I felt my grin spreading
"I should have kissed Noah sooner she giggled and a growl merged from my throat she giggled a second time winking at me, Dawson and I were the only ones that knew skylar wasn't human simply playing the charade of one, we knew her secret, but she didn't know ours, Dawson and I were born into this fate that been past down the family blood line destin to be the hunters we were meant to be, forced to train and slaughter mythical creatures that brought harm to humans, it was our biggest betrayal to everything we been rased to believe to not hand skylar over to the organisation the moment we learnt the truth, but we cared for her in our own ways, and something told me if skylar ever knew she was living in a household full of hunters she might runaway and we never see her again I could never take that chance not with her,
