Fated to Them (book 1+2) novel Chapter 47

Read Fated to Them by Jessica Hall Chapter 47 – “Mind if I join you?” He asks and I shrug, not really caring and he strips off his shorts. He steps in behind me, turning the other showerhead on before putting his face under the steady stream, his hands braced on the tiles, the water cascading down his back.

I couldn’t help but admire the way the water moved over the lines on his body, I marvelled at the hard toned muscles that humans spend thousands of dollars and hours in gyms to try to achieve yet, not once did I ever hear them speak of gyms or see them do any form of exercise. I envied that. I eat a Snickers bar and worry about gaining weight while they look like gods effortlessly.

“You’re gawking,” Cyrus says, snapping me out of my daze. I could hear the smile in his tone.

“Do you work out or is this a vampire trick?” I blurt out. Cyrus laughs his muscles flexing from the movement.

“No vampires are changed, so whatever form they were in before the change is the state they remain in”

“So you were like this before the change?”

“Yes Addie, I was born in a different era where people actually did manual labour not stare at their phones and computers all day, actual work” he says.

“What about Eli, he is built the same as you?”

“Lycan genes, they got the good genes with no effort”

“Speak for yourself, I work,” Eli says, stepping into the bathroom. I look over my shoulder at him and see his eyes trailing up the back of my body before looking over at Cyrus.

“I am yet to see you do anything that resembles work unless you count the hours spent watching the foyer cameras spying on Addie” Cyrus says.

“What? there are cameras in the foyer?” I ask horrified wondering if I ever did anything embarrassing while he was watching, s**t I hope they don’t have sound.

“Calm down Addie, I can hear your heart pounding at the thought of me watching you. And I wasn’t always watching the cameras, Cyrus is just making me out to be a creep” he says glaring at Cyrus.

“I promise he isn’t a creep, that’s why he has a pair of your panties in the top drawer next to the bed because he isn’t one” Cyrus says with a laugh.

“G*d I hope they are clean, did you try them on?” I ask, reaching around Cyrus and grabbing the soap. Eli growls.

“No of course not, I don’t wear thongs” Eli says, making me look at him.

“So you do have my panties?” I ask and I see him blush realising what he just admitted before he suddenly turns walking out.

Cyrus chuckles at him shaking his head.

“So what sort of work did you do that made you look like that?”

“Why, are you thinking of a career change?”

“No just curious”

“When I was human, mostly farm work, I was a blacksmith and stonemason for a bit, and a bit of mining. Things were different then whatever work you scrounge up you did. Work was work we didn’t have the opportunities you do these days Or cushy jobs”

I nod trying to imagine what it would have been like, it probably wouldn’t have been a nice time to be a woman back then.

“What about family?”

“What about them?”

“Did you have family?”

“Everyone has family, and yes actually I was married, had a wife she was a scullery maid”