6 - Look who's finally here

Danielle’s POV:

My father has been in and out of the house this week. He doesn’t tell me but I know he’s been out meeting Alpha Kaden, negotiating pack lands and pack assets. I could tell easily when he moves past me. One whiff of his scent and my wolf perks up in attention, salivating and wagging her tail for her mate. She has been howling insufferably in my ears, forming a pounding headache for the last hour.

‘Ok, that’s enough,’ I finally snap.

‘This is all your fault,’ 

‘How is it mine?’ I ask, appalled my own wolf would blame me for something I did. Not that this is the first, still.

‘Did you have to be a bitch and reject our mate?’ she snarls. I roll my eyes. 

‘And do you really have to be such a drama queen?’ 

‘At least I had the brain to think through things, before randomly blurting out a rejection that could well damage our life!’ 

‘Don’t tell me you’re still sulking over that. You know who he is. A guy like that? Nothing good will ever happen with us being mated to someone like him.’

She knows exactly what I was talking about. 

Months before this we have been bashing Alpha Kaden for his blatant arrogance towards women. He thinks he can have whoever he wants. 

‘Face it. We can’t resist the mate bond. He’s right,’ she growls but I growl back.

‘He stole my virginity!’ I can’t believe my own wolf is siding up with that self-righteous bastard.

All my life, I dreamed of having my first time in some place romantic, so it would be worth it when I finally give it to someone I loved. Alpha Kaden, as drop dead gorgeous as he is, is not who I had in mind.

‘Oh, please, who would you rather lose it to? Dex?’ she mocks.

I chose not to say anything knowing she’d only tease me more. She has this fucked up delusion in her head that I have some feelings for him. Do I? 

I mentally shake my head. Gross.

‘Fine, and I’ll pretend I didn’t see who you were screwing in your sex dreams,’ She huffs before putting up her mental block. The block hinders my connection with her, making it near to impossible to communicate if she doesn’t bring come out of her damn cage.

‘Fine’ I spat back.

Who needs a dramatic, exaggerating horn dog anyway? I think to myself, not that I actually meant it. To be honest, I don’t know what the hell is wrong with me.

I am beside myself lately. I have been feeling either overwhelmed or irritated at every stupid thing. Everything just gets on my nerves.

My phone rings, and I groan. 

I let it ring a few more times before I finally grab it off my side table, pressing it into my ear before I growl. 

“What do you want, Kaden?!” I snarled into the phone.

The only other thing getting on my nerves and almost making me self-implode every damn time.

“Woah, you need to chill, sis,”

“Dex?”

I cringed at his call for endearment towards me. He’s been calling me that since forever. 

Sitting up, I rub my eyes, and yawn.

“What’s up?” I ask.

“I heard about Kaden.” He says, his voice low.

My eyes went wide in an instant. 

“What?” He isn’t supposed to know. No one should, not until my father decides to announce it to the entire pack.

“Everybody knows. You’re now the big gossip in the entire city, labeled as the dark Alpha’s fiancé,” 

“His what?!” I fake gag at the label bestowed upon me. 

“So tell me,”

I sigh, and proceed to tell him about the events prior to my dad’ meeting with the notorious, deadly Alpha when he cuts me off.

“How about you come over and we’ll talk about it?” he offers, and I pause.

My wolf partly pulled down her mental block before she scoffs.

‘Great. Just the comfort you need,’ She says, sarcasm dripping from her tone.

Rolling my eyes, I shove her to the shadows of my mind when the sun doesn’t shine. 

‘Go back to your cage,’

She huffs, returning to her make-shift container where I had been stuffing her for years. 

“It’s just I could feel you’re stressed.” Dex adds.

Whether I admit it or not, I can’t deny that he’s right. I’ve been highly stressed lately because of the dark Alpha, as they call him. 

“Alright, be there in five,” I say and quickly hang up to head to the shower. I dressed casually as per usual whenever I crash in his apartment. 

The moment I step out of my room, I find my father standing outside. His hand is raised mid-air as if he was about to knock any moment before I opened the door.

He looks me up and down. “Where are you going?” 

“I don’t need to tell you anything, Dad,” I huff, walk right past him without looking back.

“Elle please,” I hear him say but I was already out the door.

I haven’t spoken a word to him since he turned down my proposition to take over the pack now that I’m 18. He insisted I needed an Alpha, that I was not strong enough without one and that a pack will never run the same with a female leading the pack. What he said brought me to realize what he was thinking all along. Everything he taught me was simply for show. He didn’t really believe in me nor in my abilities to lead a pack, but looked down at me simply because I didn’t have a meat stick dangling between my legs.

I refuse to speak to him ever since, locked myself up in my room for a week. 

Must be the reason why he suddenly showed up in my door.

Dex’s apartment was modest, well-maintained, and ambient as I walked in. Not a thing was out of place, everything is spotless.

He lives in a huge condo in the city, and I often come down here for ***flix and chill while we fight over the characters and whether or not the ending was worth it. My eyes circle his apartment. I noticed a camera sitting on the table across his comfy sofa. Walking over, I was about to take it when a voice reached my ears.

“Look who’s finally here,” 

I whip around before a smiling Dexter met my gaze. Finally, some peace and a friend to share it with, I thought.