Suspended by time

Mateo

I went to the cabin. Wondering what I was getting myself into and what I wanted to prove with this? I walked in frowning and sat down to wait for the bell to ring.

When the curtains opened, I was glad she was without a wig and contact lenses. Although I could tell she was a little uncomfortable when she came in, I felt she was surprised and I think she was even happy that it was me there.

And it all happened again. When my eyes met her bright green ones I was mesmerized. First, I froze there sitting there and realized she was also transfixed. I had to take a deep breath to be able to move towards her. Did I want to touch her? Goddess, what was this, my body was burning again, my wolf was agitated. And I growled in annoyance because there was that stupid glass there. But, the glass was good, it protected her from other men. She moved closer to the glass. We stood there looking at each other…

Nat

Yuri, my boss, almost forced me to take off my wig. The client wanted me to not wear the lenses, so far so good. But he didn't want the wig either. I was going to protest, but my boss was very emphatic that he had paid in advance. Stop being silly.

Well, if it was Daiki, he was tired of seeing me natural, it wouldn't make a difference. After I met that American boy, I would never care about anything again. He would never want me the way I thought of him. Maybe I would never see him again.

I started dancing and was pleased to know that it wasn't my mother's boyfriend. It was the American, I got lost again in those blue eyes. Should we have met somewhere else, maybe at college? That would be good, without him knowing my past, without me having to submit to that ridiculous dance.

Was he like the others? What did he want from me? He must have been on vacation and I was just the new thing.

He approached the mirror, that magnet I felt was pulled back towards him. How could he do that? The hairs on the back of my neck were standing on end. I stopped dancing and approached the glass. What was I doing? Offering myself to him? What would he think of me? We stood there looking at each other without doing anything. The curtain closed. I had to go back to my place. Yuri had asked me for my panties, could he have asked me for that? The payment would be in dollars, it could have helped me a lot with my escape or even with college, but now that I knew it was for him, I felt very embarrassed. I couldn't do that. I was definitely going to look for another job. I would have a day off tomorrow, so that's what I would do. I needed to start changing my life. Once again the curtain opened and he was no longer there. Since he had bought the entire schedule, I could leave early. I went to the dressing room, but just imagine? That wretched Yuri took my blouse from me. How would I get home now? Had he sold it to the guy? Idiot. Well, if he did, I would want my share. I put on my bra and jacket. I zipped it up tight so no one would know I wasn't wearing my shirt. I was going home on the bus. I needed to be safe.

Mateo

If I didn't get out of there when that curtain closed, for the third time, I wouldn't be able to handle it. I wanted her, I wanted her like I'd never wanted any woman, and I didn't even know what she smelled like, and it was killing me. I had no experience with...

Damn! I didn't understand anything about that conversation in Japanese. But when he threw her against the wall and hit her, I knew something was wrong. And I went after him. I punched him three times and he was already bleeding on the floor. It wasn't hard, he was drunk and I was a werewolf, even in my human form, I had more muscles than the idiot.

"Stop!" She spoke in English? Well, everyone knows some words.

"You're going to kill my mother's boyfriend!" she blurted.

That man was disgusting. How could he be her mother's boyfriend and watch her daughter dance sensually? Did her mother know that?

"Thank you, but you're leaving and I'll have to deal with him until the end of the semester. You made everything worse for me. Go away, now."

"Seriously? Don't you want to tell your mother that he grabbed you? I can testify."

"It won't do any good." She looked at me hopelessly. "She only believes in him." He's capable of kicking me out of the house and I still have nowhere to go.

"Where's your father?" I asked because I couldn't leave her in this situation, right? If she were in my pack we would give her shelter...

"You better go, he'll wake up."

"No. And then I took an action that changed my whole life. And my father would kill me if he found out about it."

"I simply threw her on my shoulders and took her to the motorcycle."