Unfortunately, the bakery gotten even busier after valentines day, and Bianca had some wedding duties to attend and interviews for positions in sales. The girls had tried to making time to meet after work just for a sundowner drink and snacks at either of their houses, but something always came up. Sarai hated to admit it but her curiosity was getting the better of her and she wanted to prove a point to Bianca that all those gorgeous men were nothing more than catfish; Sarai downloaded the dating app and waited a few days,“B, I downloaded the app”“No way! We were supposed to do that together babe!”“I know, I know…. But you know how anxious I get”“I know… so, are you going to create a profile?”“No, I will try and wait for you”“Okay, well hopefully this week I will have time and we can meet and do this”Alas, that did not happen, one night Sarai got bored of drawing up budgets for the business and just looking at spreadsheets that focused on analysing the growth of the bakery; her
Thursday came faster than Sarai had expected, she was excited and nervous all at the same time, she couldn’t decide what to wear, some of her clothes too casual, too formal, too sexy and evening wear, too “curl up with a book at home”. Sarai sat on her bed staring aimlessly at her wardrobe; she then pulled out a plain white t-shirt and a three-quarter denim ripped jean and paired it up with a crisp clean pair of white Nike trainers. Keeping her makeup very minimal, she used a little compact powder, black eyeliner, mascara, and ruby red lipstick; Sarai straightened out her hair. Sarai got into her small Hyundai I20 and left for work, a part of her was shaking with nerves while the other part could not wait for the clock to strike two.Sarai kept looking at the clock while attending to customers. As the time dragged, she looked over at her phone that had been buzzing with messages from Hugo, she had been replying but every time she had the goofiest smile on her face, butterflies in her
Thursday Morning Hugo got back from his long and draining shift at the hotel; he had a couple hours to get a solid sleep and be fresh when he met Sarai later that afternoon, as he thought about it, he realized that he had been looking forward to this little coffee date all week and that kept him going. Hugo took a shower and laid down on his bed, his eyes grew heavy; he was drifting into a happy sleep when his mother came barging into his room,“Hugo, wake up you need to take Paige to do grocery shopping”“Can’t she take an uber this one-time mom?”“No, why waste money on Uber when you have a big fancy car”“Mom, I will give her the money for the Uber, I am exhausted and I have a bit of a busy afternoon”“What’s more important than being there for your family?”“It is not more important, but might be equally important”“You will take Paige, that is the end of story”“Fine, tell her to come wake me in an hour”Hugo turned on his stomach and closed his eyes, as he drifted into a deep s
“I love you Hugo”“What?”Hugo was beyond flabbergasted, he looked at Sarai wide-eyed; but in his mind Beast was doing somersaults and howling loudly that Hugo could not focus or react. Sarai covered her mouth,“I’m sorry… I have no idea what came over me; I will understand if this has freaked you out and I never hear from you again”Sarai turned to her car, her hands trembling as she unlocked her car and got in, Hugo held the car door open before Sarai could slam it shut“Where are you going?”“Home, I think I’ve embarrassed myself enough in these last few minutes”Hugo took Sarai by the hand and pulled her gently out the car, he held her around the waist and pulled her close, their faces inches away, Hugo pushed back a stray strand of hair that blew over Sarai’s face,“You did nothing wrong… you simply spoke your mind”
Over the last two days Hugo’s responses to Sarai were less frequent and she could feel a distance creeping between them; it was stupid to think that Sarai was falling in love with Hugo, yet here she was falling unwaveringly inlove with a man she had just gone out with once. Sarai could not wait to see Hugo again, she was ready to surrender herself to his love.Sarai was leaving the bakery a little early on Sunday when her phone beeped, she saw that Hugo had texted her,“Sarai, we cannot be together”Sarai’s eyes filled with tears, if she had just controlled her heart and impulses then this wouldn’t have happened, Sarai pulled herself together and got into her car and replied“Can I call you?”“Yes”Sarai, called and Hugo answered, his voice hoarse and bitter; Sarai felt a twinge in her heart and spoke&ld
Hugo parked the car outside his house at the pack lands, Zeke came over,“things got that bad at home that you had to actually choose?”“Yup”Hugo replied as he opened a bottle of beer, the two young men watched the waves roll onto the shore as they took a sip of beer,“I cannot believe you were going to reject her”Hugo thought back to that he called Sarai to end things, and when she said that she would cut him out of her life; it scared Hugo to the very core of his human and supernatural being. Hugo came here to Zeke who took him the pack elder to give him insight,FLASHBACK STARTSHugo told Zeke the entire story and how he was afraid that Sarai would be put in harms way everyday he stayed with her; he could not do that to her, she was innocent in this entire supernatural war of Rockshore Bay; Zeke could see the turmoil this decision
It was exactly a week ago since Sarai and Hugo had met and already, they had their first disagreement and now going away for the weekend. Sarai woke up feeling nauseous with all the butterflies in her stomach; but that did not keep her down, it was already six am and she had to meet Hugo at the mall by eight. Sarai double checked her little suitcase and her toiletry bag one more time and made sure she had packed cute day dresses and some sexy evening wear.“Perfect”Sarai let out a small sigh and looked at her bed side clock, how was it six thirty-five already! Sarai grabbed her towel and got into the bathroom, once she got out the clock already read ten minutes past the hour of seven am,“Fuck”Sarai threw on a pair of black yoga pants, a cream tank top and white sneakers and tied her hair up in a messy bun;“Sarai, you’re going to be late”“Sadie, he was twenty minutes late for our coffee dat
The door of the bungalow was opened by a middle-aged man that was in a floral shirt, and cargo shorts, he came down and took the bags from Hugo and walked inside; as Sarai and Hugo walked up the front porch stairs, a middle-aged woman greeted Sarai and Hugo at the door with refreshing ice-cold champagne cocktails, Sarai looked over at Hugo;“I am impressed”.“You ain’t seen nothing yet my darling”.Sarai blushed as Hugo held her around her waist and led her to the back garden, there was a beautiful maple wood patio, it had a white umbrella opened, a table and two chairs set up, the patio overlooked the most tropical garden, and a path that led down to the beach. Hugo took Sarai by the hand and they walked down the path hand in hand to the beach, it was picturesque, something you would see on a postcard, white sand beach with the most crystal azure blue water.“Hugo, this place is a piece of paradise”&ldquo
Peeking from around the corner, pretending to talk on the phone, the girl with shocking pink hair stood with her back facing Sarai; she waited till she heard the elevator doors close and looked around to make sure she was alone. Sarai was gone and Hugo was weak.The pink haired girl this time, did make a call,“Hey, it’s me. I have an update for you”The pink haired girl informed the person o n the other end of the phone of the huge fight and the rejection that had taken place; that she herself had seen Hugo grow weaker.“It would be the perfect opportunity to strike Ocean Crest and Hugo; a downed Alpha is a weak pack”.Hugo laid on his floor in the fetal position. Tears streaming down his face. Everything had come crashing down now. Hugo could hear his pack cries of agony through the mind link; they had all felt the pain of the rejection; but nobody knew the agony he was in physically and emotionally. Hugo could hear
Many months passed, Hugo was losing his mind and the Madcrest manes had become more aggressive; Hugo had become withdrawn and slept with more she-wolves and human woman than he could count. Sarai had achieved her dreams, and she was moving on with life; or at least trying.Sitting in her room Sarai looked back at her life and how she believed things would have been different by now between her and Hugo, instead she found out that he was leading her on and then leaving her hanging; by this time, she had decided to give it one last shot, she was going to fly back to Rockshore and do whatever it takes to win Hugo back. She packed up her bags and headed to Rockshore.Hugo was in bed smoking after sleeping with three women at the same time; he left them sleeping in his bed, it had been a week since he read any of Sarai’s texts and a month since he returned any of her calls. Hugo stood on his balcony and looked at his phone; he saw messages from Sarai and that she would be in town in a few
The sound of the ECG machine kept resonating in Sarai’s head, she thought back to the day when everything her life turned upside down.Flashback StartsHugo was poisoned because she wanted to prove that she was worthy of being the Luna of the pack, instead she placed the man she loves in harm’s way. Hugo opened his eyes, Sarai’s eyes were red from crying, she held her rosary in her hand as she held Hugo’s hand in her left hand and prayed for his well-being.Hugo opened his eyes and looked at Sarai who was chanting and praying as she rubbed small circles on the back of his hand, this perfect woman was trying and doing everything she could to fit into his world, a world he is still trying to find his own feet in. Leaving her at the house with no form of protection was his biggest mistake and what if something had happened to her… what if he did not get there in time; he was so weak that a small bit of the wolfsbane rendered him immobile and unconscious; it was Sarai that saved him.His
Sarai was alone in the dark passageway that led to the bunker, she was cold and scared... she sat on the bed in the bunker and waited... her heart filled with anxiety and her thoughts running wild.If she was to be the Luna of this pack she would have to show up in the face of danger, Hugo was always protecting her... she needed to protect him as well.Against her better judgement, Sarai went out of the bunker and snuck into the room; under her side of the bed, she had a pistol hidden, she loaded the bullets when she heard something go bump downstairs... She was not alone in the house... someone or something had come in and judging by the presence she felt... it was here looking for her.Sarai walked out the room slowly into the hallway of the dimly lit house, she saw the shadow of a wolf lurking downstairs, she knew it wasn't Hugo... she held her pistol loaded to fire as she walked down the stairs, "Show yourself"The wolf hidden behind the fining room wall, grinned and morphed back
For weeks on end, Hugo was on tender hooks; Sarai and him had numerous fights and arguments about her security measures, his family was questioning him on his financial status and where he was living; his mother crying and fighting every day on the phone and the growing threats and loss of pack members hanging over his head; Hugo felt as if the weight of the entire world now rested upon his shoulders and he was getting crushed by the weight of it all.Every time Sarai brought up the ridiculous security measures put in place she and Hugo ended fighting, she had started seeing less and less of him as the weeks turned into months; tonight, Sarai had planned a special dinner, she wanted to show Hugo her love and appreciation and that she was sincerely sorry for all the stress she had added to his life, she sat all dressed up in a pink skirt with thigh high slits on the right hand side and a lace zip up blouse to match and Perspex heels with stud work, her hair was set pin straight and she
Questions filled Sarai’s head, Hugo could see the gears in her head turning; Sarai’s head turned as she heard the howls of other wolves and a large grey wolf appeared with board shorts and a vest. Hugo slipped them on and looked back at Sarai who watched as the wolf bowed to her and then backed away into the darkness of the deep forest.Hugo held out his hand for Sarai who hesitated a little, but as she looked into the eyes of the man she loved she reached out and took his hand, they walked in silence back to the coffee shop. Hugo then cleared his throat, starling Sarai who was lost deep in thought.“Call your parents, tell them you will be coming home soon with me”.Hugo’s voice was hoarse, Sarai looked at him blankly,“They don’t even know about you… about us…”“We will tell them everything”“EVERYTHING?”Hugo nodded and Sarai called her family, her voice trembling. Hugo and Sarai arrived at her house and Sarai ran into the arms of her mother; Sarai’s father was infuriated and grabb
Sarai got home late that evening, she felt lonely and incomplete without Hugo holding her and kissing her; Sarai sat in her room and went through her phone gallery, looking at all the cute pictures of them from the weekend they had just shared together. While having dinner with her family, her parents ask about her girls weekend“It was nice, I needed that”A small smile crept up on Sarai’s face and her sisters noticed and smiled at each other,“What did you girls get up to?”“Just poolside chilling and late night drives”“You girls should have been more careful; there is news of large feral wolves roaming around at night”Sarai thought back to the day when that wolf tried to attack her, she still did not know why the large black wolf protected her; it felt oddly familiar…“Sarai… Sarai!”“Yes… hmm what happened?”“Wo
Sarai woke up all snug in the arms of the man she loves, unfortunately the most romantic and most eventful weekend had come to an end; later this afternoon they would be heading back down to Rockshore. Sarai curled up even more in Hugo’s arms, now that she had spent so much time with him; she did not want to go back home, she wanted to see him every day.Slowly getting out of bed Sarai, went into the shower, her eyes filled with tears; the thought of not having Hugo next to her upset her. The shower door opened, and Hugo stepped in, he turned her around and kissed her eyes.“Do we have to go home today?”“Yes sweetheart, but I promise we will see each other often”“Just one more day… please baby”Hugo smiled, letting out a little chuckle, he leaned down and kissed Sarai,“Parting is such sweet sorrow”Sarai rolled her eyes and smiled at how cheesy Hugo was and especially this early in the morning.“Oh shut up”The two got out of the shower and were getting ready to go for a nice walk
The rest of the weekend Sarai and Hugo skinny dipped in the pool or private beach for hours, soaking up each other’s love and affection… endless love making from dawn till dusk, every corner of the house had been touched by their naked bodies, heard their moans of pleasure and love. Sarai and Hugo had built a bond unbreakable, unshakable… at least that is what Sarai believed and it was something Hugo wanted to believe, but his secrets were eating away at him, so on their last night at the bungalow, Hugo arranged for them to be completely alone at the house, he had Aggie prepare a delicious dinner, bought a beautiful black dress and heels for Sarai, he left it up in their bedroom with a note attached.“Wear this tonight for dinner, see you at 8pm. I love you”Sarai walked out of the bathroom patting down her damp hair, she saw the stunning black dress, with silver thread straps , she held it up against her body, it was a deep back and low-cut neckline. Sarai red the note and smiled; al