Chapter 8

I’m angry.

Furious, even.

Tyler is staring back at me with a wild expression and a gaping mouth. “Evelyn? -“

“It’s Eve.” I snapped and pushed past him into the house. Just like I remembered, I made my way to Xavier’s room and set my suitcases aside.

The room was clean, thankfully, and it smelled like coffee and peppermint. It smelled like Xavier.

I felt like taking a soak, so I stripped, grabbed my towel and pj’s, then entered the bathroom with my scented soap.

Halfway through my bath, I heard the door open and close, I knew it was Xavier from the smell, so I wasn’t bothered. I lay in there, thinking about how messed up my life had become. I had to come back to the same people that tortured me. I already knew that Elena and Ajax would come back and try to paw off more information from me; about my powers, and my ‘parents’. A knock on the bathroom door told me that Xavier wanted to use the bathroom, and looking at the wall clock, I realized I’d spent three hours in there.

My body never pruned, thankfully. I dried my body and put on my pajamas top and shorts. Xavier nearly fell on top of me when I opened the bathroom.

“Oh, good you’re okay.” He sighed in relief.

“Why wouldn’t I be?” I asked, moving past him to hang the towel.

“I just thought that…”

“What?” I turned to faced him properly.

“Never mind.” He shook his head with a small smile. “You going to bed now?”

“Nope.” I said, then opened the door to go downstairs. He followed me.

“So, what are you going to do now?” He asked.

I turned around to look at him. “What exactly do you want, Xavier?” I’m not going to run away again.”

His face fell. “Yeah… sorry. I’ll go to bed now. Just call me if you need anything.”

“I won’t, but yeah.” And I turned around and walked down the rest of the stairs. His house was a lot better than the pack house, as expected. What I didn’t expect, was to find a super cute guy doing the dishes. He was facing the sink, but I could see his brown hair. He was about 6’2.

Why is he doing the dishes?

I walked into the kitchen and sat on the counter. He didn’t notice me for a while, so I enjoyed watching him work. He turned around to get something and almost screamed when he saw me.

“Hiya.” I smiled.

“Um… hey.” He lowered his gaze and looked at the floor. Hm. Cute. “Do you need something?”

“Are you on the menu?” I teased. His ears turned a deep shade of pink, and he cleared his throat.

“You really shouldn’t be talking to me. Alpha will get angry.”

I scoffed. “Oh please, Xavier can’ t do anything to me.”

He’s quiet for a while, then he sharply lifts his head, his eyes wide. “You- Are you our Luna? Alpha’s mate?”

“Ugh” I rolled my eyes. “What gave it away.” I leaned into him a bit to see his eyes properly. They were a really good shade of purple. Wait… purple.

He was a multi-hybrid.

He quickly dropped to his knee and apologized. “Do forgive me for my disrespect, Luna.”

“Disrespect?” I laughed a bit. “Please, talking to you is the most fun I’ve had in had in a while.”

He was quiet for a while, then he got up. “Thank you, Luna.”

“You can call me Eve.”

“No, my Luna-“

“Please?” I pouted, looking at him. “Pretty please?” I batted my eyelashes. He nodded, then continued with the dishes. I figured he probably wasn’t going to talk to me unless I did, so I started a conversation. “So do you like ice-cream?”

He nodded.

“My favorite is chocolate. What’s yours?”

“Vanilla.” He murmured, turning to me. “With chocolate syrup.”

“Too plain.” I dramatically sighed. “You, obviously aren’t, though.” I winked at him.

“So this is why you didn’t come upstairs?” Xavier’s voice came. His black hair was wet and dripping, with his sweatpants hanging low. “Really, Blake? You know better than to disobey orders.”

“Orders?” I laughed, edging him on. What orders?”

“My orders.” He said sternly. His eyes were blazing.  Come on, Xavier. Give me that anger I know is there.

“That’s it.” He practically growled. He gripped my arm and pulled me off the counter, then started walking upstairs.

“Ow, Xavier! You’re hurting me!” I yelled. He let go of my arm like it was made of fire.

“Crap! Are you okay?” He stopped to look at it.

“Yeah, I just wanted to say bye to Blake… Bye Blake!” I waved with a smile. If I thought Xavier was worked up before, now he was furious. And I liked that.

“You crazy…” He lifted me over his shoulder and took me up the stairs and into the room. “What exactly is your problem?! I’m doing my best to make this work but you-“

“Blah blah blah” I smiled cheekily.

“Seriously, Eve-“

“Blah blah blah”

“Eve-“

“Blah blah bl-“

His lips crashed unto mine, making me squeal. For some weird reason, I felt like I was on cloud nine. It was like everything was supercharged and buzzing. My toes tingled, and he pressed me against the wall, making me gasp a bit.

“Is this what you wanted? Me to get angry with you?” He mumbled against my lips.

“Mhm.” I chuckled, then pulled back a bit. “Not exactly.”

“You like getting me mad, why? Are you trying to get my attention?”

I chuckled a bit. “No, I’m trying to get off.” He stopped everything and looked at me with hurt. I leaned in to whisper in his ear. “And you just happen to be available.” I looked at his lips, then his eyes. “As soon as you aren’t… Jake seems really cute, don’t you think?” I winked at him, then walk to the bed. He turns around to face me.

“You wouldn’t dare.” He growled.

I closed my eyes and sighed dramatically. “I can just imagine him on-“

Xavier shook his head and moved to turn off the lights, cutting me off. “But the story was just getting good.” I whined playfully.

It was all fun and games, but the real games we just about to begin.