13- Gifts and guards

Here.” She hands me a folded square of paper. I unfold it and read.

*Ryann,

Since you will be attending my sister's engagement party and will be assisting me with the matter we previously discussed, it is only right that I provide you with the appropriate attire for the occasion. As such, I hope th...

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Chapters

1. 1- Wine and witches

2. 2- Shifters and Scribbles

3. 3- Comfort and cookies

4. 4- Slippers and surprises

5. 5- Neighbours and nastiness

6. 6- Abductions and alphas

7. 7- Demands and denials

8. 8- Tests and tombstones

9. 9- Fate and friendships

10. 10- Incubi and intimidation

11. 11- Arguments and agreements

12. 12- Messages and mornings

13. 13- Gifts and guards

14. 14- Trust and truth

15. 15- Shopping and sparkles

16. 16- Favours and formalware

17. 17- Black and blue

18. 18- Waiting and watching

19. 19- Spies and stalkers

20. 20- Attacks and awkwardness

21. 21- Pillows and protection

22. 22- Muffins and mornings

23. 23- Disrespect and dress codes

24. 24- Heels and hugs

25. 25- Reassurance and respect

26. 26- Schedules and sick days

27. 27- Fate and family

28. 28- Babysitting and board games

29. 29- Rewards and rom-coms

30. 30- Dates and dinner

31. 31- Dinner and dominance

32. 32- Fighting and flirting

33. 33- Sharing and staring

34. 34- Crumbs and compromise

35. 35- Tossing and turning

36. 36- Caffeine and contests

37. 37- Bears and birds

38. 38- Sleepwalking and spa days

39. 39- Bridesmaids and ballrooms

40. 40- Greeting and glaring

41. 41- Dessert and dancing

42. 42- Teasing and terror

43. 43- Monotones and makeup

44. 44- Understanding and unsure

45. 45- Tears and truth

46. 46- Home and hot chocolates

47. 47- Forts and fallouts

48. 48- Cartoons and considerations

49. 49- Decisions and determination

50. 50- Challenging and comfortable

51. 51- Relief and rejection

52. 52- Fight and flight

53. 53- Selfish and shy

54. 54- Return and relax

55. 55- Bedrooms and boundaries

56. 56- Courage and courting

57. 57- Worries and worth

58. 58 - Distraction and denial

59. 59 - Sleeping and shrieking

60. 60 - Couches and company

61. 61- Apologies and alarm

62. 62- Nightmares and numbness

63. 63- Security and suggestions

64. 64- Silence and sass

65. 65- Cameras and chocolate

66. 66- Promises and photos

67. 67- Codes and cocktails

68. 68- Laundry and loneliness

69. 69- Family and facetime

70. 70- Experience and events

71. 71- Spells and strings

72. 72- Videos and vampires

73. 73- Presents and potions

74. 74- Trip and tangle

75. 75- Holding and hiding

76. 76- Bag and back-ups

77. 77- Letters and learning

78. 78- Sorting and singing

79. 79- Drunk and daring

80. 80- Hungover and horrified

81. 81- Pants and painkillers

82. 82- Planning and placating

83. 83- Build up and bathtubs

84. 84- Ideas and intentions

85. 85- Dance and display

86. 86- Puppies and pregnancies

87. 87- Running and regret

88. 88- Naps and nerves

89. 89- Guilt and glass

90. 90- Fury and fear

91. 91- Rocks and racing

92. 92- Seeing and staying

93. 93- Blindness and bubbles

94. 94- Looking and low-key

95. 95- Hair and hands

96. 96- Cosy and close

97. 97- Purring and problem-solving

98. 98- Anxiety and anger

99. 99- Options and obliviousness

100. 100- Interrogate and investigate

101. 101- Doctor and distributor

102. 102- Roles and regulation

103. 103- Move and miss

104. 104- Leave and little girls

105. 105- Live and like

106. 106- Settle and stay

107. 107- Friends and family

108. 108- Horror and helping

109. 109- Real and repeating

110. 110- Early and eating

111. 111- Recognition and re-evaluation

112. 112- Lockdown and loading

113. 113- Mugs and marshmallows

114. 114- Charms and check-ins

115. 115- Cards and concentration

116. 116- Meeting and meaning

117. 117- Coordinate and complicate

118. 118- Choice and changes

119. 119- Focus and flow

120. 120- Predictions and precognition

121. 121- Links and linearity

122. 122- Confidence and connections

123. 123- Interested and idiotic

124. 124- Proposal and peril

125. 125- Bashful and blameless

126. 126- Meditation and murder

127. 127- Calling and convincing

128. 128- Emails and empathy

129. 129-Read and respond

130. 130- Boss and brush

131. 131- Agitation and ASMR

132. 132- Internet and instruments

133. 133- Food and freak-outs

134. 134- Relevance and registration

135. 135- Charge and control

136. 136- Cheeks and cheating

137. 137- Responsible and ready

138. 138- Passion and personal space

139. 139- Seduce and shrug-off

140. 140- Sugar and spoons

141. 141- Wake-up and wittness

142. 142- Shampoo and spending

143. 143- Moving and managing

144. 144- Celebrate and catch-up

145. 145- Menus and mischief

146. 146- Brats and bartenders

147. 147- Drinks and disgust

148. 148- Contracts and confirmation

149. 149- Announce and add

150. 150- Brothers and bonding

151. 151- Push and pull

152. 152-Touch and Taste

153. 153- Resolve and reality

154. 154- Rumours and realisations

155. 155- Sisters and similarities

156. 156- Information and introductions

157. 157- Organising and ordering

158. 158- Panic and passing out

159. 159- Lectures and letting go

160. 160- Warning and wearing

161. 161- Subtlety and specially

162. 162- Starting and spanning

163. 163- Diaries and death

164. 164- Children and chosen

165. 165- Research and reason

166. 166- Success and shock

167. 167- Risks and requirements

168. 168- Books and backrooms

169. 169- Tracking and trading

170. 170- Nice and nighttime

171. 171- Perfume and progress

172. 172- Confessing and committing

173. 173- Fulfillment and fantasies

174. 174- Striking and starving

175. 175- Admiration and alcohol

176. 176- Anticlimactic and assistance

177. 177- Independent and insecure

178. 178- Managing and measuring

179. 179- Teamwork and timelines

180. 180- Increase and interactions

181. 181- Hostility and hearsay

182. 182- Mothers and meltdowns

183. 183- Pacing and preparing

184. 184- Lifeless and lawn

185. 185- Honesty and hatred

186. 186- Examination and exhaustion

187. 187- Accidents and avoidance

188. 188- Backrests and basements

189. 189- Detention and deserving

190. 190- Freezing and feeling

191. 191- Technology and teamwork

192. 192- Numb and nervous

193. 193- Passing and palms

194. 194- Fire and fanatic

195. 195- Smoke and smothering

196. 196- Rescue and retreat

197. 197- Leaving and leaning

198. 198- Stolen and sure

199. 199- Clean and covered

200. 200- Healing and hunger

201. 201- Touch and trust

202. 202- Calories and clothing

203. 203- Beads and bonding

204. 204- Adapt and adjust

205. 205- Sweethearts and safeguarding

206. 206- Nice and normal

207. 207- Invitations and interest

208. 208- Custody and caring

209. 209- Guests and gathering

210. 210- Announcement and alarm

211. 211- Building and bonding

212. 212- New and normal

213. 213- Managing and marrying

214. 214- Zombies and zen

215. 215- Silly and sorry

216. 216- Want and will

217. 217- Routine and rigidity

218. 218- Mistreatment and monsters

219. 219- Painting and purple

220. 220- Letters and letting go

221. 221- Endings and everything

222. Bellamy 1- Scents and stalking

223. Bellamy 2- Meeting and magic

224. Bellamy 3- Shoes and shock

225. Bellamy 4- Waiting and wanting

226. Bellamy 5- Sharing and showing

227. Bellamy 6- Flustered and flushed

228. Bellamy 7- Fallen and funny

229. Megan 1- Dancing and drama

230. Megan 2- Pushing and prodding

231. Megan 3- Avoiding and alert

232. Megan 4- Exploding and explaining

233. Megan 5- Will or won't

234. Megan 6- Dead and done

235. Megan 7- Crying and cleaning

236. Megan 8- Presents and patience

237. Aaron 1- Clubs and curiosity

238. Aaron 2- Sisters and sleep

239. Aaron 3- Recognising and recording

240. Aaron 4- Talking and teasing

241. Aaron 5- Late and leaving

242. Aaron 6- Plus one and prompting

243. Aaron 7- Hints and hesitation

244. Cam 1- Mocktails and magic

245. Cam 2- Lonely and laughing

246. Cam 3- Felines and favours

247. Cam 4- Dosed and docile

248. Cam 5- Sensations and slime

249. Cam 6- Sharing and sneaking

250. Cam 7- Covens and connections

251. Cam 8- Jugs and jealousy

252. Cam 9- Exes and expectations

253. Cam 10- Waiting and working

254. Cam 11- Pranks and potions

255. Cam 12- Arranging and avoiding

256. Cam 13- Dinner and delight

257. Cam 14- Rainbows and ringtones

258. Cam 15- Warnings and wondering

259. Cam 16- Truth and temptation

260. Cam 17- Fake and familiar

261. Cam 18- Damsels and debts

262. Cam 19- Bills and backup

263. Cam 20- Numbers and noticing

264. Cam 21- Fun and family

265. Cam 22- Glitter and gimmicks

266. Cam 23- Costs and concerns

267. Cam 24- Pride and permits

268. Cam 25- Contacts and considerations

269. Cam 26- Mess and miss

270. Cam 27- Clothes and convenience

271. Cam 28- Cooking and cuddling

272. Cam 29- Dating and doubting

273. Cam 30- Phones and photos

274. Cam 31- Stubborn and stunning

275. Cam 32- Relaxing and reacting

276. Cam 33- Consent and concern

277. Cam 34- Faking and fretting

278. Cam 35- Boundaries and bragging

279. Cam 36- Whispering and winning

280. Cam 37- Touch and teamwork

281. Cam 38- Adult and attached

282. Cam 39- Reacting and recounting

283. Cam 40- Paint and presents

284. Cam 41- Fire and flukes

285. Cam 42- Thrill and torment

286. Cam 43- Love and longing

287. Cam 44- Plastic and pleasant

288. Cam 45- Preoccupied and prepared

289. Cam 46 -Charges and changes

290. Cam 47- Plans and pleas

291. Cam 48- Guilt and goals

292. Cam 49- Distressed and determined

293. Cam 50- Requests and research

294. Cam 51- Poison and passion

295. Cam 52- Awkward and avoidant

296. Cam 53- Footsteps and fret

297. Cam 54- Interest and intention

298. Cam 55- Cock tales and conclusions

299. The Final Chapter- Ryann

300. Alex (BONUS!)

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