~Asher~ She completely ignored my texts last night like I expected her to. It was a touchy topic and I knew I was stepping on fragile ground there. I came to meet Tristan only with intentions to get back at her physically. I could swear mu eyes met with Tristan’s before that hug. I think Tristan saw me come in and refused to recognize me till I got closer to them and I saw her flinch under him as she noticed my presence. It was all now past tense as i pushed the image behind me believing it was nothing.I decided to make use of her number I had gotten for a while now. If I had known sooner that a simple text would set her in a rage then I would've considered doing it sooner. Any reaction from her at all as long as it sets her in a rage was all I was looking for. “Asher? Your girl is around.” Ross muttered with a knock on my door grabbing my attention at once. “What? Why? I thought I asked Leo to deal with her?” My voice came out in a hurry as I stood face to
~Asher~ “As she what?!” My voice came out fiercely as she took some steps backward. I was way too mad to calm down even when I watched her take fearful steps away from me. That’s right she should be scared of me and do exactly what I say. I watch her with careful eyes waiting for her to complete her statement. “As she got rejected.” Her voice came out shaky as she moved towards a nearby table using it as support as her legs were also shaky. “You have no fucking business in my room and don’t disturb yourself on whether I f**ked Hazel in that room or not. You are the one standing right beside me, aren’t you?” I uttered taking huge steps towards her wanting her to hear every single word as it came out fiercely and out of a place of intense anger. She only nods her head in agreement as her mouth fails to produce any words. “Now won’t you be a good girl and go wait patiently like I asked you too?” She was going to agree either way I handled this situation as I w
~Hazel~It’s been over a week now and I just sit and stare at his last message every single day before going to the head house hoping he’ll be dropping a hint if he was or wasn’t coming. I had to still go to the head house, scared of the fact that he might just show up even if he hasn’t been here for days. These days when I could spend every second with Jaden, I still had to leave with the thought that he might just show up without announcement. I brushed it behind me, focusing my mind back to what I was doing. Rose already dropped Jaden at school but wasn’t back yet. I thought to clear up the bakery that was now dusty as it hadn’t been in use for weeks now. ‘Well we had just one person to blame for all this’ I twirl my head hissing at the thought of Asher. Why couldn’t he just send a message or at least inform Tristan that he wouldn’t come to Inspect his special trees today or the days before? Now I just go there and sit with a full head house of lycans with Marcus
~Hazel~ “Mama!” Jaden's little voice came up to me and I Immediately froze up. Turning my gaze to meet my son who was glad to see me. Even though he agreed to our arrangements, I’m sure he must have missed me a lot as the smile he has on now was saying a lot. The silence from the other side of the line made it clear that Asher must have heard what Jaden said. I panic a little thinking of what to do as Asher should never find out about Jaden. Taking the phone away from my ears a bit, I put my hands over the speakers making sure he didn't hear what I was about to say to Jaden who was now looking at me and the phone I had hung in the air. “My baby! Why are you back so early and where’s aunty Rose?” I asked in a hurry as I hate to be in the position Asher put me in. I couldn’t even welcome my son like I wished to and I couldn’t even worry about why he’s here so early as I didn’t want to arouse any suspicion. “She’s home dropping my bag. She told me you would be he
~Hazel~“I’ll be inside” she mouthed those words looking at me with sorry eyes and dashed into her room which she was occupying temporarily. After comforting myself and telling myself just how I was going to be what Asher said I couldn't be. I walked back home, wanting nothing to be in the bakery right now as it would remind me of the tension I felt when I saw Jaden come in and Asher hearing him speak. I thought I had failed at protecting my baby at that instant and the tension started rising from within me causing me to panic a little. I would have panicked a lot if Jaden had refused to go back and insisted on staying with me. The tension made me come up with the customer’s child idea and at one point I thought he wouldn’t believe me. Not until his voice came down a little completely believing everything I had said. It dawned on me at that instant that we weren’t linked but completely strangers. I guess the tensions came only because in time past he usually c
~Hazel~I’m sure everyone had a good night's rest as the rest of the day went by quickly. I sat up almost all night thinking of what I had to tell Jaden and how I was going to make sure that he was always safe. I can’t recall exactly when I fell asleep but was happy I did after a load of thinking and worrying. “You had a good night rest?” Rose asks, catching me by surprise. I stood still, rubbing my eyes still in my nighties. “What’s going on?” I asked while still rubbing my eyes to drive away any form of sleep in it. “You surprised?” She chuckled as I was baffled with amusement. I pinch myself a little wanting to wake up from my dream. “You don’t think I should? When did we switch roles?” It was pretty weird and odd for me to be the one standing here trying to rub sleep away from my eyes while Rose busied herself in the kitchen. Well I hope she wasn’t going to poison us with whatever concussion she was making up. “You don’t think I could cook up someth
~Hazel~ “What has he really done to you?” She looked at me with worried and bulging eyes. Do I look that bad? It was just one night of worrying… “why? Do I have dark circles?” I tried searching for it as I used my hands to caress my face, finally cupping my face as her face focused on mine. “It’s Saturday, Hazel. He doesn’t have to go in today.” She said slowly like I wouldn’t follow if she said it any faster. “Wait what?” How could that possibly be? I’ve just been in and out of the head house and… “I’ll be back” i needed to check the date to be sure, how could I possibly miss that? For all I know, Rose might be trying to pull one on me right now. “You can use mine to check but if you feel the need to check from your phone then it’s fine.” Her hands went into her back pocket knowing just what I wanted to go and do and she stood still stretching her phone towards me. I turned, checked it and hell it was truly weekend. I never ever lost track of the weekends.
~Hazel~ “No baby!!” I mouthed with all my energy as I started to fidget and he turned the doorknob with his eyes looking at me in a confused way. What was I going to do? I can’t stand to lose my baby, I wouldn’t stand still and watch him take my son away from me. I took heavy steps towards Jaden to protect him with all I’ve got as the door slides open and the huge figure stands just right outside blocking the sun from seeping in. “Uncle Tan!” His voice rang through the house with excitement as he jumped into Tristan’s arms and I stood still fazed at the turn of events. I could feel Rose's eyes at my back as I heard her sigh in relief. I thought my life was going to be turned upside down a second ago as I clutched my chest with my hands as it was breathing very fast. I tried to steady my breath, watching Jaden hug Tristan as he was lifted up nicely and they both still stood at the door exchanging greetings. “Hi, I didn’t know you were coming.” I finally
~Lily~ It was becoming a simple reality as I stood in his room with my back facing the door. I tried real quick to catch my breath as the images were looking very vivid. It was dark in here and yes I did notice that the paintings were nowhere in his room when I was here earlier. That was the very least of my problems as I was head on facing the bed, rethinking what I just did. “Good thing, I like the light out too.” I could hear him utter very clearly in his light hearted tone. His voice resounded like a calm river, with its currently but more like it was currently at sleep for a while. Wait? Please tell me I didn’t just tell him I sleep with the light on. ‘Oh yes you did. And you said it so boldly like you were ready for anything tonight.” Raya spoke out not so calmly as I could see that I wasn’t the only fidgeting right now. I wanted anyone to tell me just know that I didn’t indirectly tell him I was cool with whatever would happen tonight. “D
~Lily~ “Did you have a nice sleep or are you still busy with my mom?” His voice swept in like he’d been waiting for ages. I didn’t reply immediately as his voice was the first thing I heard after sleeping for only god knows how long. And the mention of how he personalised his mom strangely sounded not so annoying like it always used to be. “Should go on helping her again soon enough.” My reply came like it wasn’t an issue talking to him in my head. Like I never used to have issues with him hanging in there in my head without permission. “Ohh really? You mind telling me all about this help that only you can offer, or can Kade come lend a helping hand?” He sounded so aware of everything being a complete facade. And with the sound of things, he just wanted to flow along. I took a second to really wrap my head around it as the fact that it was me having a conversation with Jaden through the mindlink and there have been no shouting and disagreement. “
~Lily~ I didn’t let the reminder that it's soon going to be my birthday get to me for long in my head as it drove different signals to me. I was supposed to be up and ready to leave according to what i had planned with Raya. Nothing was eventually stopping me and this was entirely what I was looking forward to but suddenly the urge to run away was slowly fading away. Like I could literally feel it and I’ll be deceiving myself if I said that was exactly what I wanted right now. Hate? Yes I still hate him and I also still wanted to find out why I could feel his sincerity through those words he uttered to me. You can pretend and fake sincerity but you can never fake it so badly that the other person listening doesn’t feel it to know if you are lying or not. “Oh my, thank goodness you are fine.” Her voice brought me completely out of it as I stared into complete emptiness. I must have stayed still for so long, thinking and drowning myself that I didn’t real
~Lily~ “Are you okay baby?” My mom didn’t waste time and went all out with examining my body and her eyes showing too much concern right now like she just saved me from the lion's den. “I’m fine mom, why are you so worked up?” I found myself asking after removing the hand I placed aimlessly on my forehead, that depicted my lack of understanding what was going on. I wanted to go on and ask all the questions in my head but I held back and swallowed all the words at the tip of my tongue, knowing I should be grateful right now that I got out. “Definitely not what I heard so I have to double check.” She didn’t agree with me and still continued. She changed tactics this time around, making it seem all funny and held back my laughter, trying to link one and two together. “Molly got to you?” I asked the question without even thinking twice about it. I already even concluded that it got to be that or nothing else. And while her actions were funny to me, holding back was gettin
~Kade~ “I just need to speak to him for a minute, it’s very important.” She kept on begging and pleading with her eyes as she didn’t dare go all touchy with me. “He’s busy. If it’s so important you can relate it to me and then I’ll surely let him know.” I faced with all seriousness so she could back off. I didn’t need a soothsayer to tell me anything before knowing that she was outright lying to my face and making up excuses just to meet Jaden. I guess keen eyes can be awarded to me after walking in the shadow of Jaden and watching his back. I knew everyone that had potentials of being a pest and had to keep details and tabs on them just in case. “I can’t tell it to you, I need to pass this on myself.” She said still speaking so softly that it was irritating to listen to her speak. I’m not sure it was her voice that was making me lose my patience. It had to be the very fact that I still remembered clearly what she had done to my future Luna. Yes
~Lily~ This was all looking extremely far from all the tricks we went round with or used to go round with. Now it was looking so scary and trying to put up a face or pretend my way through this wasn’t what I wanted to do. It was meant to be the end point as I opened my mouth and spilled all that I should, securing myself from whatever he had planned. He went calm, his eyes lowered, staring and holding mine in place. It wasn’t too surprising anymore since it had become a norm for days now. The words he spoke next also kept me quiet as I listened with utmost interest since it all revolved around me. He explained himself, saying things I thought I’ll never hear him ever say. ‘The almighty Jaden was apologising to us?’ I asked Raya as we found it so unbelievable but that thing in the depth of us could witness with him that he was being sincere. You could sense and see it with the way his eyes moved and looked so soft and gentle even they gazed directly at
~Jaden~ “Do you need anything?” I asked her, watching closely as I managed to make her sit on my bed with my different sets of portraits pushed to one side of the room. I didn’t really think about what to do aside from sticking my hands all over her body and places where she’ll definitely not be in support of. “Anything that’ll keep me alive would be fine.” She uttered with so much anger in her voice that I held back the urge to laugh at how cute she looked even when she tried to frown. I pretty much was blind and too carried away by pain and past events that I let it cloud my emotions and even my person. It was going to be hard to actually prove anything to her but I’ll try my best to make it quicker as I want her always with me. “Got that. Anything else you’ll need or you want to try to be a more specific lollipop?” I tried my luck one more time with her. “Yeah, how about your head on a platter and you stop calling me that.” She snapped with her head bringing out
~Lily~ “So I also don’t get to choose where to stay? I know you know nothing about fun, but when a free day is mentioned, it’s most likely related with anything that’s not working.” I run my lips, hating to be quiet today. If he’s going to play this his way and keep me here then I’ll also talk and if possible cause great harm to his eardrums that he’ll send me out himself. “Fun is whatever we say is fun, lollipop. And the pictures I have up here are every bit of fun but what we don’t know is, if it’s fun to you yet.” He muttered pointing to his head as he made it sound like he could see right through me and afterwards made close eye contact with me after my very best efforts at avoiding it. I held my breath for a second, trying my best to hold his gaze too as I long avoided looking his way since I came in. I never ever took notes and I feel like punishing myself for taking notes now as I stood still, the words hooked on my throat with his mention of the pictur
~Lily~ “Lee, are you okay? Did he do anything to you?” Her eyes followed my every move, waiting patiently till I entered my room. Of course I knew with that public show of the one alpha we both hated, carrying me on his back and talking strangely like he didn’t want to push a spike through my heart, would definitely arouse suspicions and lord of questioning from Molly. I did the best I could and went straight to my room not knowing what I was going to say to her. I didn’t tell her anything the last time and clearly hawk wasn’t bothered about others having their own different thoughts. “I’m fine, he was just filling in for Kade.” I said to her putting on a smile so she wouldn’t suspect anything. She stood there for a minute, watching me closely like if she stayed longer I would break. “I’m guessing you have a lot to tell me because they couldn’t be all.” She finally concluded, opening my door and stepped in first. “Okay I’m all ears, let’s go.” Sh