"No Dimitri you don't understand I'm not meant to feel like this, this is wrong but I want so badly for it to be right" Maria Jones didn't have much of a childhood her rich parents only ever wanted the 'best' for her, her mother was blind to the 'obedience training' her father gave her on a daily basis beating a small child for things that are normal parts of life. As far as Maria is concerned she doesn't have a childhood worth remembering she's been forced to be the perfect child her entire life, Honour roll AP student, prim and proper and most defiantly the only eighteen year old virgin that attends the private mixed school. So when a new teacher arrives at school who seems ten years too young to even be a qualified teacher Maria keeps her head down and tries avoiding him with the issue of her overbearing father that still trained her as if she were a disobedient puppy and a mother who was oblivious to the world as long as their was money on her credit card. Mr. Lupus becomes her only salvation from the world that is slowly drowning her in all the overbearing pressure that comes with it. Little does she know he holds a secret one that could make her or break her, he's a powerful possessive Alpha with one goal her.

The prequel to Dark descendants. Follow Gabrielle's (Arielle's) life through the first two hundred years of her existence as a vampire. through the ups, the downs, the pain, and the hatred. Watch her close encounters with Klaus, her meetings with the original family, and the life of a lost teenage vampire trying to find her way.

"Technically you apologized for two things." I said, not really sure how to respond. I held up two fingers to his face and he kissed them sweetly, making me blush pink. "Are you going to tell me?" He whispered. I gulped. Brain going fuzzy, heart beating eratically, breath labored. I was hopelessly lost in his eyes. Gosh since when did I become such a hopless romantic? "Trying to hurt people I care about don't make me want to forgive you." I responded softly, my eyes drifting to his lips. They quirked up into a half smirk and I quickly returned my eyes to his. My breath caught in my throat. They were full of lust and I was no longer sure if I would be able to resist. "You really want to kiss me right now don't you?"