Toxic by K.B. Torres (portable ebook reader .TXT) 📕

Anastasia

Being bitten by a werewolf sucks. If you don't believe me, imagine this.
First the agonizing pain that seems to course through your veins and in your very core(which I should point out is worse than any vampire bite), then your vision makes you slowly see everything bathed in a red, then nothing but blackness. You pass out, and you either become a lycanthrope, or you die. Unless they heal you.
I awoke in a dimly lit bedroom, in a bed. I couldn't make any details out, if it was a male or female bedroom, if they painted the walls, nothing.
The bed was soft, nearly causing me to fall asleep again.
"You awake?" A male voice asked.
I expected Emmanuel.
I was wrong.
A light went on and I was face to face with Felix, standing in front of me. He looked slightly wild, his hair sort of ashen, with a shadow of a mustache. He wore black jeans and a gray button down shirt, the first three buttons undone, the start of his chest showing.
"You're strong. A mundie had been bitten a few months back. Took them nearly a month to recover. You, on the other hand recovered in just a week." Felix said, crawling on the bed.
He pinned me down under him, his legs straddling mine. I slightly trembled. His hands held him up.
"Now, I want to try one thing." Felix said, leaning in.
Someone cleared their throat. The noise was small, as if scared to be interrupting, and female.
Felix sighed, obviously exasperated, and sat up, straddling my legs with his own.
"What." Felix snapped, not looking away from me.
His white-blonde hair fell in front of his face, slightly hiding his features, making him look feral.
"M-master, I-I thought you might have been thirsty, or h-hungry. I-I brought food..." A female voice said, trailing off.
"Keva. That is not needed. Get Rhiannon and Damien to calm down the pups." Felix ordered.
"Master-" Keva started to say.
"NOW!" Felix yelled the order, still looking at me.
I must have been flushed a bright red, because when Keva leaned into view, seeing me, she flushed and left. Keva reminded me of a mix between Gabbe and Lydon. She had Gabbe's nasally ambrosia voice and Lydon’s looks.
"So, where were we?" Felix asked, leaning closer to me.
He laughed.
"I've never seen a girl that red before in my entire life. And I'm older than that leech you were with. Don't worry, I won't bite." Felix said.
Felix leaned in and stole a kiss full on my lips. It was quick, and our lips barely touched, but it left me feeling exposed and tingley. He got off of me.
"You might want to change." Felix said, laughing, before he went and dragged a giant box over to the edge of the bed. I pulled the covers down.
This time, it was Felix's turn to blush.
My shirt and pants were gone, leaving me in my frilly, lacey, black lingerie. And in view of a guy I didn't know! So embarrassing.
"WHERE ARE MY SHIRT AND PANTS?!?" I exclaimed.
"Uh..Um..th-these are clothes we could find that might fit you. We often have to help the Pups, those are the werewolves that were just changed, find clothes that will survive through the change from human to wolf. Your clothes were ruined thanks to my dickhead of a brother, so I Uh, had to have Keva burn them. They smelled of your blood. The leeches would have traced it." Felix said, still a bright red from seeing me in frilly lingerie.
I peered in the box.
"Oh my god, are those Olivia jeggings? And that shirt, is that...Oh it is! Those are so cute!" I said, as I went through the box.
Felix sat next to me, watching what I picked out, but maintaining a distance.
"That's an interesting pile. Oh, I forgot we put those in there." Felix murmured, picking up a girl's bra.
"Pervert, maybe I planned to wear that. Jeesh, now I have to burn it." I said, snatching the underwear back.
I ended up in a pair of lemon yellow Olivia jeggings, and a little half shirt, that looked as if someone had peered into my fashion dreams and created the shirt. It was an orchid purple, with a gold and silver heart smack in the middle of my breasts. The sleeves looked cut up, but they were supposed to be like that. For some reason, the shirt looked familiar. Did I own one like it? I looked at the brand.
"That's part of the Shallow Dreams collection. By Bellona Gray. My sister Rhiannon loves her." Felix pointed out. "Such a shame, you look prettier naked. I say you go naked."
I just glared. I started to pull my shirt off, but Felix interrupted.
"Kidding. Keep your shirt on, especially since you're pretty as it is. You don't need the pups molesting you."
"Like you did a moment ago?" I snapped.
Felix's eyes flicked to the door as I put the shirt back on.
"I'm sure as soon as everyone knows you're awake, they will come and harass you. So, I might as well ask now. Sit." Felix said, sitting on the bed.
I must have hesitated, because when I sat down, Felix said, "Look, you can trust me. I won't hurt you."
"Well, the front of my body hurts from you forcing yourself on top of me, and my shoulder hurts, that's your fault. And my stomach hurts. You didn't cause that, but I'm blaming you..."
"Ha-Ha."
"What were you going to ask?"
"Anastasia, correct? I always want to call you Anais. I don't know why...Sorry, off topic. I know you may hate me for the incident back at the vampire den-"
"You mean my house?"
"Yes. I guess, but I am not a bad guy. I believed I was human too, in fact, I never was too. My parents had both been Wolves, but they gave me up at birth. What I have to ask is, will you stay here? Lycanthropes don't act abnormal unless we are turning to Wolves, but other than that, we are like humans. Please." Felix said.
"I-" I started to say, but Keva came in with a stack of letters.
"Master, these came in the mail. Also, some of the Wolves would like to speak with you, and her." Keva said, inclining her head at the last word.
"Leave the mail on the desk in my room." Felix said, dismissing Keva with a wave of his hand.
"Yes, Master." Keva said, before curtsying and left.
"Master?" I asked, confused why they addressed him like that.
"I can't stop them from saying it. I'm sort of the Alpha." Felix groaned, annoyed.
I giggled, unable to help myself.
"What's so funny?" Felix asked.
"The irony." I said.
Felix raised an eyebrow.
"In the school you found me at, the students went by the wolf castes: Alphas, Betas, subordinates, and omegas, blah blah blah. It was like other schools that use the popular girls and boys, the jocks, the followers of the popular, and the losers. I was considered the 'badass Alpha girl' for scaring and injuring the previous badass girl, a vampire. Though, I did take a punch to the face from Juliet like it was worse than it was..." I trailed off.
"Cute, now come on, I'm getting a feeling you'll be hungry." Felix joked, pulling me up, his hand sliding down to my waist.

Emmanuel

A week after Anastasia was kidnapped:

"Where would he take her?" Juliet asked as we wandered the streets around midnight.
"Well, Felix seemed sexually interested in Anastasia. I'm worrying." I said.
"Looks like you have competition." Luke said, snickering.
I turned around and shoved him, wishing for Anastasia's unworldly strength. I got close. Luke doubled over and coughed up blood, the same way He did when Anastasia shoved him. That day seems so long ago...
"Right over the injury from Anastasia." He muttered.
"Boys, stop fighting." A female voice said.
I looked up.
"Desdemona!?" I gasped.
"Hi Emmanuel." Desdemona waved, stifling a lovestruck giggle.
Desdemona was a tall girl with long neon green hair usually pulled into a side pony tail and golden eyes, and she was always wore purple dresses, usually made of leather. Spot on tonight. Not to mention, Desdemona should only be 15, but she looks older. She obviously has a crush on me.
"Hey, Emmanuel, Juliet, Luke. Whatcha' doing?" Desdemona asked.
"Cool Hair, Dess." I said.
"You like? I got the idea from the time I was baking with limes and-" Desdemona started to say, but I went up to her and whispered, "What will it take for your assistance?"
Desdemona grinned, flashing her vampire fangs.

Anastasia

"You see, to get by, all of the wolves help with a downworlder bar. Obscure de la Lune. Thirsty? We have food too. So, uh...yeah." Felix said, seeming uncomfortable next to me.
"Don't worry babe, I don't bite...hard. Though it is when I punch, scream, push, or use willpower to hurt people that you should watch out." I joked.
"She's awake, huh. Such a shame." A male voice said as a door opened.
It was Damien. He looked a LOT like Felix, a more, nourished version of Felix, that it was creepy. He wore a tuxedo, his hair slicked back. He was dressed like a waiter. He was actually kinda cute. Instinctively, I hissed.
"You sure she's her? She seems like she's like, I don't know, half banshee, half vampire." Damien laughed.
"It's not that, it's just that I hate you." I snapped.
Why does everyone think I'm part banshee?

"Because you can scream like one." Damien snapped.
Crap, I spoke out loud. I mentally shook myself, leaving a metal note to not think out loud.
"Damien, get back to work." Felix snapped.
Damien muttered something under his breath. I caught very little of it.
"Felix...Pretty girl...melts...fuck him...oh well." He muttered, and