~Hazel~ “Are you good? You practically said nothing while he was here.” Tristan asked out of concern, standing above me calling my attention away from my phone. “Yeah. You guys were discussing business and I know how important it is for you.” I muttered through clenched teeth forcing out a smile as I allowed the anger in me to dissipate. It was at the tip of my tongue to ask Tristan how Asher got my number but who was I kidding? He definitely wouldn’t have given him my number. Whatever means Asher got my number just proved that he could easily search me out and find out about Jaden. I tried to hide the panic written all over my face as Tristan still hovered around me trying to pinpoint what’s wrong as my face betrayed me, failing to hide my sudden fear. “I’m completely fine.” I laughed it off trying to act normal as his eyes followed every of my movements. “If you say so, Wolfy.” He gave up crouching to sit down beside me. I let a few seconds pass by as he relaxe
~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.