Dahlia’s POVThe box is huge with an inside second floor. There left wall is a floor-to-ceiling liquor rack with a bar and everything at its feet. Two bartenders bustling around for the crowd. A video game corner and a billiards corner, both filled with laughter and shouts. There is even a room with specially made thick door -- a small KTV.We left the noise from the dancing pool outside, but it’s not much quieter in here at all.“Come, let me get you a drink,” Justin tilts his head, whispering by my ear. I follow him happily with my eyes trying to take everything in. Excitement surpasses nervousness.The first question from the bartender got me bewildered. What do I drink? I don’t drink. I have had alcohol but only lightly, and that’s only after I turned 18, meaning, only in Damon’s mansion.Damon’s drink is simple. He has all kinds of wines, but I can barely taste the differences even after googling their prices. He also drinks liquor sometimes, but almost always pure, and almost al
Dahlia’s POVI didn’t expect Damon to have just me in his life, but seeing him kissing another still burns, though not even on the lips.Damon took Jessica with one hand on her waist, pulled her into him, and landed an intimate kiss on her neck. Like a lover. She raised her neck to take it, letting out a moan on purpose before her eyes landed on me with a provoking smirk.“I thought you weren’t coming,” Jessica warps her arms around Damon’s neck, her tone luring and sexy, “I was getting worried.”“How can I miss the fun?” Damon taps her cheek before he goes and settles down on the sofa. Jessica goes and leans into him, and a few guys come and join them, leaving little room on the outside of their circle for me and Justin, who are the only two standing.The scene looks familiar. It was just like Damon’s last birthday party. But something is different.Damon is.He is not a party guy. I can tell. He throws a lot of parties, and he plays the charming host perfectly. But there was always
Dahlia's POVCheering burst out at Jessica’s announcement, penetrating my skull like a jigsaw.In tears, I fell to my feet, no longer able to stand as a sharp pain spread in my chest like vines with thorns. Is this it? Does this count as his rejection? It has to be. Otherwise, why would it hurt so much?Justin comes up to support me, but Damon is one step ahead. He grabs my arm and grumbles fiercely by my ear: “You are so weak! I haven’t even said anything!”I seriously want to murder him.And I did.I tried to claw him and bite him anywhere I could. If I had a wolf he would be dead! Or at least scratched by now! He bounds me with his iron arms, his Alpha Aura spouting out: “Quiet now! You bite me again and I’ll--”I bite him again. Right on his collarbone. That’s the only place I can manage.Damon gasps a hiss. I thought he would break my arm and throw me away, but he didn’t.“Let her go!” Justin shouts in a horrified voice, “Alpha Damon! She is only a wolfless! She is too fragile--”
Dahlia’s POVI take a sudden gasp, feeling like the whole world’s air is being sucked into a dark hole and I can’t breathe. I stagger back but the man won’t leave me alone. He presses close, slowly and dangerously, like the predator he is.“You...you know?!” I cover my mouth, too scared to move.“You aren’t the first one trying to poison him, little thing,” Lupus snorts coldly, his eyes looking void as if the soul living in there left, “but you are the first one to ever get to try a second time.”I shake my head in tears: “I’m sorry! I wasn’t trying to poison you--”“Ohh, no worries, you didn’t. You set me free,” Lupus grins at me. A warmth-less, deadly grin, “I wouldn’t get to spend some alone time with you otherwise, little thing.”I don’t want to spend time with him. He is scary. I want Damon.“Damon doesn’t want you to spend time with me...?” I murmur, my voice scared shaking. If Damon was only mean-looking, Lupus is lethally evil. His eyes are void. He looks like the kind of mani
Dahlia’s POVIt didn’t take me too much time to persuade Finn to change our destination when I told him Barke ran off in frustration. Guess it’s not a secret to Aiden’s men that Barke is special to Aiden.Barce’s trace ends up in a forest, but we managed to keep track of it with Finn’s nose.“I’m the best tracker under Alpha--” Finn blurts at my compliment, only to purse his lips again.“Why do you call Aiden Alpha?” I frown, following Finn in panting. Seriously, does a teen wolf have to walk so fast? Doesn’t he know that I don’t have a wolf?!“Most Betas that Alpha Damon has given a piece of land to ended up becoming an Alpha,” Finn rubs his nose with a blush, “so sometimes we would call him Alpha, as a joke.”“It doesn’t sound like a joke when you have a slip of tongue so much on it,” I squint at Finn suspiciously.The kid gives me a bashful grin, rubbing the back of his head: “Okay, we all call him that behind his back. Please don’t tell Al-Beta Aiden, please! He doesn’t allow us t
Dahlia’s POV“Who’s there!” Right at the moment, Barke spots us, too.“Go far!” I hiss at Finn before I walk out slowly, my hands in the air.Finn whimpers behind me, but he can’t argue with me now. I hear rustling behind me, which is getting Barke’s attention, too. He looks fierce with his chubby face stiffened under stress. I take a step forward, and Barke’s attention is instantly on me--He turns quickly and wipes his face.He was crying?I think the shock of his discovery of his mate easily matches mine.“Back off, witch!” Barke hisses at me when I get closer. His tone is fierce and grumpy like a wounded little animal, but I keep on going. His rank puts limited power over me because I don’t have a wolf to feel it.“I know you are hurt right now, I know how you feel,” I say in a gentle tone as I approach slowly.Which doesn’t work on the hot-head at all.“You don’t know anything! You are a heartless devil woman!” Barke snarls at me, wronged tears bursting out of him, “All you do is
Dahlia’s POV After my talk with Barke, the ice between us seemed to have melted. I don’t know if it was Damon’s command, but Barke started following me around. Day to night! That was not what I expected out of our conversation... But Barke seemed to suddenly like me after I told him I was going to set his Alpha free from me. Aiden came to see me once. I'm pretty sure he lured Barke away for that. He came with his face covered in bruises. He said Damon looked worse. I doubt it. But Damon never came. Not even to reject me. I didn’t ask Aiden. What’s there to ask? Damon just claimed a mate. For what it’s worth, he didn’t look forced. I don’t know whether Lupus really wanted to reject me, or just teasing me with a rejection he can’t perform because I wasn’t his to begin with. And I have no interest in finding out. I don’t want to find out. If I found out that I wasn’t Damon’s mate, and I had been treating my savior horribly this whole time, I would lose it. Damon has his mate now, an
Damon’s POV“So you just fled?”I glare at Aiden’s annoying face when he just stares at me with genuine curiosity in his eyes. I don’t know if I’m more annoyed by his horrible choice of words, or the fact that he is indicating disagreements. Of all people, he should understand.“What should I do?! Have dinner her and then eat her my dinner?” I hiss at him, rubbing my hair in frustration.“You are too dramatic,” Aiden rolls his eyes, but only to flinch the next second because he squeezed the bruised one, “Bipolar disorder is not that bad. You have never hurt anyone before.”Yes, bipolar is not that bad, for a human. It’s another thing if you have a beast living inside you that tries to grab control and do things in their beasty way.I cock an eyebrow at my too-positive beta: “Have the injuries on your pretty face taught you nothing?”Hearing that, Aiden puts on a plaintive face: “I told you Lupus has been jealous of my handsome look! He promised a good workout but he only targeted my f