{ Leopoldo } For the next two of days, I enjoy my life as Jolene's stay-at-home-husband. To the dullest. Of course she doesn't know I'm her husband, but I've decided to call myself that in my own mind because that's how I feel when I'm around her. Her husband. Hers. In body and soul, man and wolf. We've been getting so much time with Jolene, my wolf is not even annoying me about confessing anymore, he's just enjoying the stay-at-home-husband lifestyle, too. He doesn’t give a fuck about being no one’s Alpha, he wants to just chill out all day and wait for his mate to return so he can love all over her. Jolene even gave me my own set of keys yesterday, so this shit is official. She got them when she went to the bank with Jonah to deposit the cash into an account because she was way too paranoid about someone getting into the house stealing it. Jolene has been less and less interested in going to work, but she still wakes her ass up every morning at six AM. However, now she come
I feel like I'm going to throw up, pass out and shit my pants at the same time, but I fight against my body to stop those reactions and I run to the first werewolf I find. Thankfully, it happens to be a woman, so I feel a little less scared. "Excuse me? I come fully in peace," I say, holding my hands open so she knows I'm not a threat. By the bored look she gives me, I think that was very unnecessary, "What the fuck is that, about Leopoldo, that guy? Can you explain? What is going on? Why are they offering so much money?" "That is Prince Leopoldo, he is the Alpha of Pack Garibaldi, but he ran away around three months ago. We believe he's hiding around here," she says, but the words are hitting me like gunshots to the head. Prince? Pack? Alpha? Those are werewolf words, "His family is looking for him." His family. His werewolf family? Fuck me in the fucking ass. "H-how would that work, if someone finds him?" I ask, gulping again in stress. The werewolf narrows her eyes at me.
No way. If I let him inside, he’ll just take Leo away and then... no, fuck no. What about the money? Three million dollars. That's a lot of coffees I don't have to sell. It's life-changing money I need. I want. And if this guy is going to take Leo anyway, why not at least try to get the money? "You cheap, cheap dog," I shake my head with narrowed eyes, crossing my arms, "You want to keep the money you promised. I guess you’re not THAT rich, huh?” The guy lifts his eyebrows and crosses his arms just like me to lean against my gate, all relaxed and amused. "So you want the money?" he asks. He must think I'm stupid or something, who wouldn't want it? "Duh," I let out, "And you want your brother, right? Well, I have him. He's inside my house, either doing my laundry, playing on his new game console or sleeping very peacefully. If you try to get him right now, he'll just grab me and run away as he always does. I mean, if you could just trap and get him, you would've done it alre
{ Leopoldo } The front door opens while I'm still playing in front of the TV and I jump up in that same second, surprised and pumped to see Jolene home so early. Around three hours earlier than normal, this feels very exciting. "Hi, baby. What's up? Why are you home so early?" I ask as I walk up to her and hug her, lifting her up for a couple of seconds. She seems stiffer than normal and she doesn't respond to my kiss right away, so I stop and pull her back down, "What? Something happened?" "Nah, I just got bored in the coffee shop," she murmurs and finally gives me a little smile. I kiss her again and this time she responds for a bit, but then breaks the kiss, "What were you doing? Didn't you hear me yelling?" "No, I didn't, why were you yelling?" I ask, stepping away from her so I can get a good look. Luckily, she looks unharmed, but my instinct is telling me something is up. She’s not acting normal and she smells worried and anxious, "What the hell happened, Jolie? You're actin
{ Jolene } I need to get out of this house expeditiously fast, especially when Leo starts getting handsy as we walk from the table to the couch once we finish eating. I know I'm a bad person and I’ve always been unapologetic about my badness, but for some reason, having sex with Leo –or being intimate at all– knowing I'm going to do something that's possibly going to hurt him, feels really wrong. "Wait, wait," I stop him again when he tries to grab my ass while we're watching TV, "Can we save this for later? I need to go get dressed, I want to go to Jonah's house and tell him about our trip. He needs to get ready too." Leo stops and looks at me, confused. And hurt. "Right now?" he asks, with his sad-puppy face. But thinking 'sad-puppy' just made me remember he's a literal dog so I start feeling anxious again. What if he turns into a fucking wolf in front of me? I would pass out, that looks extremely ugly, "When are we even going on that trip, by the way? We didn't plan a date."
As soon as Jonah arrives the next morning and we get inside his car to start our trip, I start to feel like I want to throw up. I feel like shit, literal shit. Leo is such a good guy, he's been super nice to me the whole time, he’s been super into me, lifting my self-esteem to the max... but I haven't even known him for that long. Tricking him should not he this big of a deal. And five million dollars is a lot of fucking money, he has to understand. He’ll probably be a little mad a me, but once he manages to run away again, maybe we can rekindle our situation? Unless he hates me forever and never wants to see me again. And what if that happens and I lose him for good? I’ll be so sad. Because… what if he's... like, the love of my life or something? Gah, I know he's not, even if my heart is talking at the moment. I need to shut it up. The heart has nothing to do when money is involved. I would never lose the opportunity to have that much money just because I really like
"Hey, hey, hey! Let her go!” Jonah says, stepping out of the car to look at the big guy grabbing my arm, "We just gave Leo some sedatives. He's fine." The big bad guy gives us both wary looks, but finally lets go of my arm to grab Leo's body and pull him out if the car. He looks dead. "He's fucking skinny as hell, have you been starving him?" The BBG growls in my face. "Jace, chill out," the other guy says, realizing he's being super mean to me for no reason, "Let's get him inside." As both of them grab Leo to carry him and move him inside, I finally pay attention to them and I realize they're the guys I saw the second time I met Leo, when he ruined my groceries. One of them is Leo’s brother. The BBG. "Both of you, follow us. King Archibaldo is waiting inside," the nice guy says. Jonah comes to my side and grabs my hand. "Thanks for protecting me, Jo. I didn't know you had it in you,” I whisper, squeezing his hand. "I don't have it in me, I'm shitting my fucking pants,
"All I wanted was to be left alone," I murmur, shaking my head, not making eye contact with anyone, "I’ve already told you a hundred times, don't want to be the Alpha, it's just not in me. I don't want any of this shit." "It belongs to you," Archie says, making me roll my eyes. We’ve repeated this conversation a lot, "Jace has been the replacement Alpha, but people still ask about you. They think they're safer if you're around. They want you. Beatrice is living here, just waiting for your return. She's your fiancée, Leo, whether you like it or not, you signed the contract and we need the connection now more than ever.” “She's living here, where?" I ask, looking at Archie. If she’s here, it means her dad is impatient for this union. I guess that’s why they were being so intense about finding me. "Here, here. In a guest room," Archie answers. I take my hands to my hair in stress and I push everyone away from me because I'm suffocating again. Just five minutes awake in here and I