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Eight

Author: jokerblade
last update Huling Na-update: 2023-01-09 23:41:20

Chapter 8

Jacob’s POV

What the fuck am I doing?

Save my Gamma the trouble, my ass!

Your Beta got into your head. Ha! Thank him for me. My wolf laughed and I hated how he can see through my subconscious.

He might be right but there is no way in hell that I will accept this. How can I stoop this low?

“What? I’m not a flirt!” Lucianna burst and my jaw tightened together with my grip on the steering wheel.

She is. She is! My head screamed.

You sound to be persuading yourself hard there, my wolf laughed again. He sure is enjoying this!

I growled at him in my head, but my tension made me snarled loudly and it reached my mate’s ears.

Lucianna gasped at the back of the car and I froze. Did I scare her? Fuck!

“D-Did you just…” her voice is low, shaky, and I don’t know why but panic is starting to build in my chest.

What? Panic?

No. No.

I cleared my throat to swallow a huge lump I feel like stuck in it. Why would I care if I scared her or whatever? This shows just how weak she really is, right? I only snarled, not even directing it to her and yet--

Fuck. Why is she not continuing her words?

Sighing, I took a glimpse of her in the rear-view mirror. Her hands are crossed in her chest, like hugging her body while her eyes are looking at the window. I can see a faint redness on her cheeks, is she feeling hot? That dress looked chilling though.

Suddenly, the warmth of her skin crosses my mind. That bareback dress is dangerous, I almost lose my cool earlier.

I sighed again, feeling my member reacting at the replay that going on in my head. Her scent mixed with mine, her soft and silky skin, ugh, it’s addicting enough without the need of a bond between us.

The silence is killing me. What is going on in her head? I can’t see any emotion from her shadow either, it’s frustrating.

Oh, fuck. I’ve been thinking nothing but her! This is not good. I don’t want her to be my mate, but there is no escaping this, shit--

“Um, a-are we there yet?” she break the silence and I almost jumped. Fucking hell, what is happening to me?

Clearing my throat, “Yeah.” I said shortly, trying my best not to breath because the scent of her mouth is lingering inside this closed car. Sweet, tangling. Not to mention the smell of her body that has been bothering my senses since I don’t remember when.

I need to get her to my house quickly. This fucking distance is killing my control and patience. I’m not weak to give in to this mate bond, no.

I stepped on the gas and I heard her gasp behind me. Was that too sudden?

Fuck, stop caring about her thinking and feeling, Jacob!

Lucianna’s POV

I swear I felt my skin trembled from the way he snarled at me. I guess he hates it when someone opposes his thinking, huh?

But I am not a flirt!

But again, I don’t want to do things that he doesn’t like. If he looks for obedience in a  woman, I can be just that, right?

Though its far from who I am. Hah! Nevermind!

I sighed.

I can’t mess this up, I had been waiting to find my mate and I promised to myself that I will do everything to be a perfect partner. If he thinks I’m a flirt, then I will just need to prove I’m not.

Where did he got those things, I wonder? First, he accused me for being weak. Second, I’m a flirt. Am I giving such impressions for him to see me that way?

I have not talked to any guy here since I met him, right? Well, his Gamma, but did I flirt with Harley? I didn’t.

Maybe Jacob is a jealous type? Possessive? Maybe he don’t want me to get close to any guy?

But he is the one who sent Harley to me.

Sigh. This is frustrating.

Finally, we made a stop and I looked outside the window. His house is not that far from the Hall but we passed through a lot of trees so I’m guessing its in the midst of the forest.

I looked at Jacob’s back and noticed he is not getting out of the car. Should I wait for him to open the door for me or not?

Okay, Lucianna. Don’t be a princess, just go out of the car and--

My thoughts halted when the door suddenly open wide and Jacob was standing outside, holding it for me.

Did he just used his inhuman speed just to open the car door?

I looked up to his face and he was not meeting my eyes, he is looking somewhere, anywhere, but me.

He looked annoyed and my lips are still parted from being shock.

“What are you waiting for?” he said, rolling his eyes and looking at me. “Get out of the damned car.”

I pouted from how he sounded rude, hoping out of the car quickly. And here I am thinking that he looked cute and sweet for what he did.

“I need to go back to the Hall. I will just show you to your room.” he said as he closed the car door and started walking to the house.

“You mean, ‘our’ room, right?” I asked without thinking as I followed him.

I immediately realized what I just said when Jacob paused, stopped walking and turned to look at me with squinted eyes.

My eyes are wide and I couldn’t blink as I try to ease the atmosphere by laughing. And my fucking laugh came out awkwardly.

Damn it!

He just looked at me with a frown and I prayed hard to melt right here, right now!

I cleared my throat and looked away from his eyes, trying to distract him. “Oh! What a beautiful house!” I said, taking a step closer to the entrance. “It’s not that big, I won’t have a hard time cleaning thi-”

My body felt like flying and everything happened so quickly. Jacob was grabbing my waist with both of his hands, he pulled me up and my feet left the ground! As if I weigh like a feather, he holds me until we reached the inside of his house.

All of his move was fast that I didn’t had the time to blink!

The sole of the heels I was wearing touched on the marbled floor the same time the door shut loudly.

Jacob pushed me hard to the closed door and I thought my back will slam hard on the hard wood but his arms are snaked on my back, enough for support.

We are so close to each other that my breathe hitched. The warmth of his body immediately invaded mine, my chest flat on his, and I groaned when he pushed himself even closer to my body.

Like he wanted to be too close that even a thread won’t slid between us.

I was confused by why he acted this way but all I can think of is how my heart beat loudly as my core reacted from our position.

“Wha-”

My words were cut and I jumped when his other arm slammed on the door, just beside my head. His face is so close, too close to mine.

I can’t breathe. Damn, our closeness is enough to stop me from breathing but the way he looked at me with those eyes, makes it harder.

“I don’t want you.” he growled inwardly as he said those words in a rough voice.

My eyes widened and I felt something stingy in my chest like hundreds of needles are poking in my heart.

He don’t want me?

Why?

“Why?” I voiced out that question in my head.

Jacob growled again, grinding his body closer to me, and I feel like I’m flattened as I’m grounded between him and the door.

“I don’t want you. I fucking don’t want you.”

My lips was trembling as it parted, ready to ask, ready to say a word, but no voice came out of my mouth.

All I want is a mate.

All I want is a family.

So why am I hearing him say this? Rejection is not an option to the mate bond, but it still hurt me to think that my fated one says things like this.

I’m dying!!! my wolf crawled and cried inside me. I want to crawl and cry, too, but I am out of my mind right now.

“I don’t--” Jacob didn’t continue his words and his next move made my eyes pop out of its socket!

“Mmft!”

His lips slammed on mine in a sudden, claiming my lips for a rough kiss!

Jacob is kissing me! My mate is fucking kissing me in a hard way but what I felt was the electrifying sensation that comes to me the moment his lips touched mine!

I moaned when his tongue found its way inside my mouth and I heard Jacob groaned loudly, pushing himself closer to me!

His hand on my back  grabbed on my waist, gripping on my skin tightly while the other wend on my nape, tilting my head to the side for easy access to my lips!

Oh, damn, this feels so good!

The kiss is getting deeper, rougher, sweeter and all I could think is to ask for more! I may be a hypocrite to love this just when he told me he doesn’t want me but I can’t fool myself! I want this! I longed for this! This is my first kiss!

Our lips parted for a gasp of breath but only for a second because he continued kissing me again. My hands travelled on its own, embracing his neck, looking for support because my knees started to lose its bone.

Oh, God! Oh, God!

Jacob suddenly pulled me up and on instinct, I jumped on his torso and crossed my legs on his body. He carried me with such formidable strength and I hold onto him more.

“Fuck.” he whispered when his lips left mine but found its way to my neck, sucking on my skin hungrily! I feel the same wanting, I do! I want more!

My back felt the cold glass table when Jacob laid me there, hovering over me. I felt him grind his hips, and I moaned from the sensation that I felt!

He is hard! Rock hard! And I can feel how wet I am inside my underwear!

The way he grind his hips makes indirect contact of his manhood to my wetness. I can’t help but moan louder each time his movement hit a spot where it makes me tremble from the pleasure.

Even with clothes on, our lower parts feels so hot, that its warmth are exiting the fabric.

Jacob cursed again, and again, pushing his manhood more to my sensitive area before pulling himself away from me.

I was huffing, loss of breath, as I sat up and looked at him with hooded eyes.

What happened?

“W-Why did you stop?” I said, catching my breath.

He turned around, brushed his hands on his hair, and groaned loudly like he was in pain.

What did I do? Did I tugged on his hair too much? Did I hurt him?

I am almost out of energy, I couldn’t have hurt him, right?

Jacob turned to look at me, frowning as he wander his eyes on my body.

The hem of my long dress was curled up to my mid-thigh, exposing too much of my skin. My breast is almost popping out as my tube top hangs just in the middle part of it, making it looked more bigger than it is.

I bit my lip as I saw hesitation in the eyes of my mate.

He won’t continue, I can say.

I hurried and fixed my dress, standing up and pulling myself away from the glass table he laid me in.

I know I have to be the perfect partner but I can’t hold my anger from this moment. I was too into it and he fucking made me into it.

Now, he has to stop? Just great.

I crossed my arms in front of me, taking a deep breath and slowly exhaled quietly.

“That was… something.” I chuckled sarcastically, trying to hide my annoyance. “From someone who don’t want me as his mate, your actions does not match your words.”

I’m really angry, you fucker! Why don’t you just come at me and devour me whole! I’ve been waiting for it all my life!

Jacob closed his eyes tightly, then he looked at me with that disgusted, regretful eyes which almost made me lose my cool.

“Don’t get ahead of yourself.” he smirked. He took a step forward to me and my arms dropped on my side quickly. “That doesn’t mean a thing.”

My eyes widened. What?

I chuckled and shook my head. What are you saying, mate?

“Really?” I arched a brow at him and his jaw clenched from my tone and behaviour. “If you say so.” I said, crossing my arms again.

Jacob parted his lip to speak but didn’t, instead, he bit his lower lip before licking it. I think he does that absentmindedly but fuck, how sexy that moved looked!

“So, where is my room? From how you ‘don’t want me’, I get it that you want to be separated with me all the time.” I looked around his house.

I don’t want to back down but there are still some aftershock feeling left to me from that ‘intimate’ thing we shared. So since I know we won’t be continuing that, I want to hid anywhere to cover the shame I felt inside.

His house does not have a second floor but wide and modern. I’m guessing he has enough room from how huge the space is.

“Turn a right on that hallway. Your room is the first door on the left.” he said in a low voice.

“Okay.”

I started to walk away from him, my feet felt heavy from each step and I can feel his eyes on my back.

“I won’t be coming tonight so don’t wait and rest.”

I stopped and turned to him.

What?

“You have work this late at night?” my voice didn’t hide the disappointment as I said that.

Yes, I am annoyed but it does not mean I don’t want him near me!

I don’t care if he tell himself that he hated me, doesn’t want me or rejects me but I will lose this if I am not with him! No matter what he think, I am up to seduce him until he give in!

“You can say that.” he said, crossing his arms this time. He looked manly but rude right now.

I arched my brow. Is he playing games?

“What will you work on?” I pry. I wanted to know because I’m feeling suspicious from all of this.

Tonight is the Mapping Ball. There is no work for the Alpha of the pack because as far as I know, aside from it’s too late to work, there’s a pack tradition that is occurring which means no work for him.

“Hmm. I’m going to work on matching my actions with my words.” he smirked.

I was baffled but Jacob turned around and starting walking out of the door.

What the heck does he meant?

Argh! I can’t believe I’m in this situation! My head is still after the fact that he said he don’t want me but kissed me hungrily after! Is he out of his mind? Maybe he has some kind of mental condition?

Ugh! I don’t know anymore! Where is that fucking room?

I found my room ans its pretty spacious. The bed also looked comfortable but big. I don’t want to lay on such huge bed or be in a spacious room if I got to be the only one inside it.

Yeah, right. Like I got a choice.

Or maybe I have? I’ll ask for a smaller bed tomorrow and bear with this for tonight.

Since I’ve become an orphan, I started to love narrow and cramped places. It helps me think less that I’m alone, giving me a good sleep.

Well, I guess I won’t have that good sleep tonight, huh? I’m sure my head will be filled with questions and replay about Jacob and what we shared together.

Together.

Fucker. How dare he baffle me like this?!

I sighed and took off my dress, then wrapping my body on a towel I saw above the bed.

The room looked like it was prepped for a guest. Or did he prepared this for me? I know male wolves are aware if they will meet their mate, maybe he did?

So, does that mean he hated me even before knowing me since he separated our rooms? Ugh, my mind is bursting.

I decided to look on the closet and wander a little more.

“Whoa.”

The closet was full of clothes! Was this my size?

I grabbed one pair and wow! It is my size! But how did he know my size? Oh my, is these clothes belonged to his woman? Did he had any woman? It’s not new for male wolves to have a bitch to entertain them before meeting their mate, right?

Now, this dresses looked eww-y for me.

I throw the clothes back inside the closet with a disgusted face. I will not wear somebody else clothing! Better be wrap in a towel all night than wear them.

 I looked around the room again and sighed.

Damn it. This space looks scary.

I sighed again. I should take a bath.

The cold shower didn’t ease my thoughts at all. I came out of the bathroom, sighing repeatedly. I can’t stop thinking about Jacob! And I’m tired of the thoughts about him! Ugh!

Not entirely tired, I will still think about him tomorrow but now I don’t want to!

He is so confusing and frustrating! I can’t understand him at all!

I was about to sat on the bed when suddenly, I felt an unfamiliar pain in my chest.

“Ah!” I held on to my chest, shocked from the sudden feeling, but it was gone instantly.

“What was that?” I mumbled, rubbing on my chest.

I frowned and my mind was troubled from what had happened. It was like my heart was pinched hard by someone and then let it go.

The heck?

“Ugh!”

My chest hurt again and this time, my arms and legs felt like someone punched on them hard.

Fuck, what is happening to me!

I screamed my pain when I felt it again, two times painful from the previous one!

Bruises started to be visible in the skin on my arm and leg. My eyes are palpitating from the pain and my heart feels like it was being clenched tight and hard.

Mate! My wolf cries in pain, too. What is happening to us? Are we cursed?!

Mate!

The moment my wolf screamed the second time, an image of Jacob, fucking someone in what seems like an office, flashed on my head.

Cheating! My wolf cried again and another wave of pain washed through me.

Jacob is fucking another woman! He met me, he met his mate then why?!

Tears started to pool on my eyes as I felt like being punched non-stop on the same spots.

I am hurt. I am confused. I am in pain.

Why? Why is this happening? How can he do this to me?

All I wanted was to meet my mate. To have someone I can be with, to have a family, then why?

“Ahhhhhhhh!”

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    A month has passed. A cough coming from our bedroom made me jumped from my deep thoughts. I was having my coffee in the kitchen and Jacob was at our bedroom. Laying down on our bed even when the sun has shone for an hour and a half.Not because he feel lazy to go to the Hall like he used to, but because he has become weak. His eyes had sunken with dark circles under it, there’s hollow in his cheeks, his skin has become dull and dry and no matter how much I put lipbalm in his lips, it keeps on cracking. His body was not as strong as he was. And everyday he get worse.I can barely look at him in this state but the only time I wasn’t by his side were morning like this. I drink my coffee alone then I’d cry my heart out without making a sound and spend the rest of my day beside him again. This is the time I used to outlet my sadness, fear and every other emotion I couldn’t show in front of him.There was still no news about another way. There’s still no another way and I lose the hope on

  • Alpha of the Shadows   80

    I was asked to lay down on a stone table. The coldness touched the bare skin of my back and arms, making my eyes shut hard.“No need to be scared,” the enchantress said, standing on my side while rummaging into a box of small bottles. A potion, maybe?Harley and Roscoe are on the other side of the cave, or the enchantress’s home, as she calls it. There’s no way they would hear our conversation.“Will it hurt?” I asked in a low, trembling voice.The enchantress looked straight into my eyes and there was something in the way she look at me. She was saying something, her eyes were saying something. She doubted my resolve in continuing with this procedure, I know that was what she think.“It will sting.” she smiles but arched a brow, as if testing if I will back down.But I closed my eyes and relaxed.“You’re not scared.” she stated, not asked. It was as if a question in her head was answered.I sighed, long and painful. “No.”“I want to know why,” she demanded with a tone that she wouldn

  • Alpha of the Shadows   79

    Lucianna’s POVI cut off the portal I shared with Jacob, feeling the severed connection like a heavy weight lifting from my chest—and yet, a gnawing pit settled in my stomach. It was better this way. He didn’t need to know where I was going, especially for what I was about to do. The decision had been far from easy, but once I made up my mind, there was no turning back. I wouldn’t allow myself to back down.“Calm down, gamma,” Roscoe’s chuckle was low, rough, and filled the silence like an unwanted echo. “You look so pale, I’d wonder if your blood left your veins.” His voice trailed off, almost as if he were talking to himself—though in a car full of werewolves, he knew better. I sighed, a breath that didn’t even begin to ease the tension coiled tightly within me.“Cut it out, Roscoe,” I muttered, my voice steady though my mind was racing. I could feel Harley next to me, practically vibrating with barely suppressed irritation. “Just drive.”The sleek growl of the engine hummed beneath

  • Alpha of the Shadows   78

    Jacob hadn’t returned home since last night and I haven’t slept a blink. Thinking over and over again about my decision, I cried all night and prayed, continuously apologizing to the unborn child in my womb.“You called for me?”It was Harley. Of course I called for him, I needed someone by my side right now and since Jacob was against this idea, I had to call for someone who wouldn’t turn down my heeding.“Yes.” I wiped my face and stood up. I probably looked like a mess right now but I couldn’t care anymore. “I also called for, uh, Roscoe. Expect his presence in a bit, I’ll just get something from my room.”Harley’s POVEverything was a mess around the pack. I heard Jacob was scolding his staff and throwing things everywhere. Brent told me, of course. He’d been snooping about what was happening with Jake and Luce that may had caused Jacob’s nonstop tantrums over the Hall.Of course I said nothing. I promised Lucianna I wouldn’t tell a soul about Jacob losing his control of his wolf

  • Alpha of the Shadows   77

    Jacob’s POVI once again looked at the corpse, it was shredded into pieces. It’s skull was crushed, bones torned apart and cracked. There was blood everywhere, from the ground up to the trees. The body was divided into four pieces and the head was retrieved up the branch of a tree.“Please forgive me, Alpha Jacob.” said Jordan. One of the council, head of trackers that also conduct the investigation. “I failed to distinguish the entity of the corpse, Alpha.” he bowed and the rest of his team bowed as well.There was no question to why they failed. The core of the corpse was gone, making it hard to distinguish it. Without the core--its heart-- a werewolf wouldn’t shift back to human. No one would know if it was a werewolf or a forest wolf.But I knew.The moment I arrived, the air whispered to my ears. The smell of death lingered in my nose. And the howl of a werewolf called my Alpha wolf.The corpse was a shape-shifter like us. Definitely a rogue because there was no distinguished pac

  • Alpha of the Shadows   76

    The door open and shut but I did not bother to look who it was. I can smell Harley, anyway. He just got back from the crime scene. I bit my fingernails from the nervousness I feel inside.What did he find out? Is it a shifter? A regular wolf? Damn it!I did not bother looking at Harley when I felt his presence in the living room. Pretending that I was watching the TV, I stopped biting my nails and inhaled slowly.“How’s everything out there?” I asked in a normal voice.Harley exhaled loud. “Just a wolf. Badly torn apart though.” he slumped himself down the couch. “How’s the talk with the brother?”I shrugged. “Just the usual.”“Yeah, like I know the usual, right?” he said sarcastically.I looked at him and squinted my eyes. Why was he so grumpy? “Someone twisted your panties or something?”Harley shook his head and looked away. It looked like he was thinking about something and wanted to say it out loud but also thinking if he should.“Don’t tell me you will act like that all day? Bec

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