209- Guests and gathering

Since that meeting went much faster than we anticipated, we decide to return and join the others in preparing for dinner. But first we ask Kiara to come and speak with us in the office. She looks nervous. Actually, she looks like she is going to be sick. I shut the door so we can all speak privately...

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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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