Morgan's Pov
I woke up in the cruise ship with Shelby sleeping restlessly next to me. Sleep did not welcome me at all. Shelby tossed and turned in her sleep and that was problematic for me because these beds are small and I'm a cuddler. So you can imagine how many times I almost fell off the bed and clutched Shelby for dear life.
After a while of laying there with Shelby, I got up and went out to go get food. I heard the sounds of the ocean waves and I walked outside and leaned on the rails closing my eyes and I remembered all of my time I've spent in the BWCA and the sounds of the waves hitting rocks. The only sounds missing was a campfire and the sound of bugs flying everywhere. Although the bugs I'm glad are missing.
"I need to steal food," I said getting off the railing and I began walking to the food court to go steal some food. When I got there, people were already sitting down and eating. Welp, there goes my plan to steal food.
As I grabbed my tray someone slammed their tray next to me making me jump. This guy was at least 6'0. He had a buzzcut but you could see his hair was black and hazel eyes that kept changing from blue to green depending on the light. As I was staring at him he looked back at me.
"What the hell are you looking at?" He asked. His eyes were stone cold as they looked at me and I looked away quickly not to disturb him.
"Nothing. Sorry I just haven't seen you before." I said nervously.
"Keep it that way." He said. He pushed past me hitting my shoulder and I looked at him for a moment and sighed continuing to grab my food. 'Hard to do that when I just saw you, asshole.'
I sat down at a table alone and I saw the leader come in and talk to the other man I had run into and I looked away before I was caught again. Suddenly a paper was slammed on the table beside me. It was a circle and in the middle of the circle was a snake.
"What is this?" I asked looking at it confused and the women looked at me and lifted a black iron bar with the same symbol on the front of it. It was charred over like it had touched fire multiple times.
"This is what your initiation will be. You'll have to go in front of us all and get this symbol, The Mark of the Thieves, burned onto your back and you'll be branded," she said. I looked at her shocked. Not because I was about to get burned, but because of the fact I was surprised I didn't have to kill someone for initiation.
"o-oh. okay." I said surprised and shocked.
"is something wrong with that?" She asked. I shook my head quickly.
"No. Just a bit surprised I don't have to like, stab people." I shrugged and her eyes hardened.
"I don't know who you think we are but that's not how we run things. Everyone here is branded in one way based on what they do best. We aren't animals." She said with a warning tone. I nodded.
"My mistake," I said and I took a bite of my food and I heard a scoff from behind me.
"She doesn't know how to play by our rules. Maybe the branding will show her how to play by our rules," The man from before said sneering. I turned to look at him and I abruptly stood up less than an inch away from him looking into his eyes with a glare.
"I play by my own rules. I will not be controlled by the likes of a man who thinks I can be controlled. I do what I want." I growled. He laughed in a tone that sent shivers down my spine.
It went faster then I could process. His fist aiming for my face and then it making contact bruising quickly. I snapped back to reality as soon as my head smacked into the floor causing me to be dizzy. all I heard was a ringing noise. He leaned over me and grabbed the front of my shirt and picked me up and then slammed me against the wall hard.
"You seem to forget your place here. You haven't even gone through initiation yet. Which means I can still hurt you." He said glaring. I looked at him. He was just a blur right now. I kicked his chest hard knocking him back.
"You seem to forget that I'm not in the group either," I growled. He yelled in anger and charged at me. He tried to throw a punch at my stomach. I managed to stumble back right before, but he grabbed me by the collar quickly slamming me against the wall once again.
"You need to learn your place you little..." He started but the leader grabbed his collar dragging him back forcing him to let go of me.
"Enough! You both are acting like children!" she yelled. She glared at the man. "Donovan! leave the room immediately!" She pointed her finger at the door and the man huffed and left like a toddler throwing a temper tantrum. She looked at me and her eyes slightly softened. "Nobody has stood up to him in years. About time someone did, and by a newbie. There goes his reputation"
"Y-you aren't going to scream at me?" I asked confused. She laughed lightly but in a way that still sent shivers down my spine.
"No. I have no need. He was the one who started it and he got what he deserved." She said. She went to leave. "Agatha."
"What?" I asked confused.
"It's my name. Agatha." She said and she gave me a nod and walked away.
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Diabolical Love (Under Editing)
عاطفيةWhen Morgan gets an email from her crush saying he can't date her because it's against his religion, she starts to debate if he is actually telling or truth. soon, she finds out the truth of what hes really hiding and why he hid it.
