Tag: The Power of Succession v2

There was little drama for the rest of our walk through the car show.  We had some cotton candy – well Alex ate most of it I did eat some.  But it’s too sweet for me.  The price for not eating sweets.  But I had fun feeding my share to Alex.  He didn’t seem to mind too…

I turned around to see Dan walking towards us.  I glared at him.  Alex moved me to the side, he wanted to step in front of me but I think he held back because he wanted to see what I’d do. “Bye, Dan.”  I said taking Alex’s hand and walking towards Dan to move past…

I had a date – with my husband for all intensive purposes.  But Alex was treating it as a date that I had to pick him up from.  It was kinda fun. I rushed through my breakfast and was in my room still nibbling on a banana Hunter thrust in my hand before I left, “You’ll…

There was a thin sheen of uncertainty but the vacation went well.  We were a big happy family.  And the tension only rose when Alex and I were alone.  Which only happened at night.  The first night back Alex slept on his side and me on mine.  Which never happened, but by morning we’d been…

No one came outside.  I head them all being a happy family inside.  I longed for the comfort of my family for Alex, but I was pretty sure all that was over.  The tears fell well into the morning, and no one bothered me.  No one came looking.  The house was silent.  Rider must have taken the kids out as he’d…

I didn’t dream.  I woke with a gasp from the darkness lying in our shared bed.  Though the sun was down and I was alone.  There were no sounds, and there were no voices in my head.  Everyone was asleep.  No telling how long I’d been out while my body healed the trauma.  I sat…

I dropped the veil and the wall separating us and Alex was there in a heartbeat lifting my arm to his face to look at the brand.  “What the fuck!” I shrugged, “You wanted me to be normal.  This is how I do it.”  I said snatching my arm away from him.  “I’m going for…

I dropped the veil as I walked and Ant was sitting in the sand.  “Hey Nox!” I turned to look at my fallen friend, “You might want to hide the rest of the whiskey.” I sighed with a nod as Ant collapsed back into the sand and laid like he was about to make a snow…

We walked closer to the patio and I saw a bunch of people standing around laughing and having a good time.  Griffin stepped in front of me and lead the way as a good bodyguard.  But I stopped short when I heard one particular laugh in particular.  Dan was smiling and flirting with Alex.  It wasn’t that he was flirting that bugged…

Breakfast finished and Rider took out the garbage.  There was a yelp.  Rider rushed back inside the house, “Um, are raccoons allergic to honey too?” “Why?”  We all asked at the same time. “There is a dead raccoon with the cake you threw out last night.” Griffin was the first one out the door.  I…

Alex and I slept in our own bed – though it wasn’t our bed – it wasn’t **my** bed. Strange places still made me restless. But I didn’t stray far I sat outside where Alex had waited for me and watched the sun come up. I dozed a little or I must have because before…

We watched the sun set well past dark.  Alex stood up and took the beer from my hand. “I’ve held it against you most of our life.  I know you love to dance. And I was afraid that one moment in our many dreams would stick with you and when I bared my soul to you on…

As I walked out of the room I’d been hiding in I pulled on a smile and took a deep breath to steal myself against the onslaught of people. The living space was full of people. More people than there had been when I’d left. The place was decorated too. Alex had pulled out all the stops. The ceiling…

I was sitting in the room where Dorian left me in the dark. I didn’t care if I was being anti-social. Really wasn’t in the head space to deal with people. But that didn’t mean people didn’t find me. And that they did. My father was standing in the doorway watching me. “Funny how no one is really looking…

Sage left to go help Mia, Jace was no where to be seen, “Did you not invite Jace?” Alex laughed. “He’s around somewhere.  I think he realized he fucked up 5 years ago.”  Alex quickly changed the subject, “Apparently Sage doesn’t drive?” “No. He has a fundamental fear with cars in general. The fact he rode in one at…

Hunter and I chatted and watched people; he was five and people looked at me like I was enabling a child who could walk all by himself.  I thought I heard people say something even as I looked at them, but their mouths never moved. Things were a little fucked up.  Hunter was giggling over…

Inside the beach house the whole family was sitting down to a meal including Seraph and Jae.  Isabelle was sitting in Ant’s lap eating a taco that smelled divine.  I was that hungry – almost ravenous.  My stomach grumbled and I left Alex and Griffin standing in the doorway while I made my own plate. There was chicken and ground beef all…

All the kids got in the water at one point or another, we all played a little Marco Polo until Ryan called for dinner.  He looked at me and grinned as all the kids piled into the house dripping wet.  Hunter pulling up the rear sucking up all the water with an ingenious weave of…

Outside all the kids were sitting around the pool.  The boys were all lounging in the chairs collecting rays.  Faelen sat under an umbrella with a book, covered in long sleeves and jeans.  I felt his shyness and wished I could help him overcome that, but I had my own issues about being covered.  This was family,…