~Asher~ I watched her come down from his car with Tristan’s hand at her back as they walked towards us. We got here a few minutes ago and was told by one of his men that he was out but would be back shortly. We decided to wait as he was to lead us to the silver oak trees. I had series of discussions with Ross after the one on one meeting with Tristan and he kept on nagging about why I was riled up about Hazel when I single handedly sent her out. His exact words were these, “what the hell were you thinking? You wanted to start a war for a girl you threw out?” He bluntly told me, looking me in the eyes. “A bloody war is exactly what I’ll start!” My tight fist kiss his face as I answered him with a growl. Ross is my childhood friend and that’s the only thing keeping him breathing and standing next to me. He understands me better than anyone else and is the only one that can stand up to me and still live on. Her face became clear as I fixed my eyes on her, st
~Hazel~I could see the worry in Tristan’s eyes as the plan was never to leave me alone with Asher. But if I let him go alone, then he might likely come over to the shop and walk in when Jaden was around and innocently playing around the shop. I tried to tell him with my eyes that it was okay and I’ll be fine. This monster couldn’t eat me up, he could only try to break me but I wouldn’t allow him. I suddenly had found the courage to talk back to him as my son's need for safety pushed me to be bolder. I could feel his eyes all over me from when we both came down from the car till when Tristan stood up for his call and came back. I wanted to call him out on it but refrained after thinking that he might be purposely doing it just to spite me or force me to react to it. I wasn’t here for his games,neither here to be his game either, so I did what I could and ignored him all through as I could feel him boiling as I paid no attention to his tactics. I thought for a secon
~Hazel~ He had a cold look on his face as his face became unreadable when I stole a quick glance. What?! So now he’s quiet? He thinks I can’t return the favour and snap right back at him. I would do it at every opportunity I get to make him pay for everything he made me and my son go through. “I guess staying with the lycans has surely given you lots of courage” he muttered through clenched teeth as he looked me over with a deadly stare. “Better than staying with corny wolves..” i muttered back as he gave me a quick cold stare as he looked like he would strangle me and I caught Ross look over the rear view mirror not to look at me but at his alpha and I understood that he was definitely mind linking him as I felt Asher lean back into his seat as his aura filled the air showing just how pissed he was right now. I knew I had overstepped and at this point I shouldn’t really say much as he might pounce on me. After driving for what seemed like an hour because of the ten
~Asher~ I wanted her close to me. I needed this moment with her. I had plans of threatening her like I did in the bathroom but my thoughts changed and vanished into thin air when I sensed that she was scared to be alone with me. I don’t wish to be always cold with her but I have to as I don’t know if there are eyes watching us. I couldn’t remove the image from my head, the one that caused all this in the first place. I had simply made a deal with Ross, he insisted on coming along like he should but we mindlinked and I practically begged him to stay and he only agreed to do so if I promised not to hurt her. I wouldn’t ever purposely hurt her like everyone thinks I will. Keeping all this to myself keeps eating me up as I couldn’t tell anyone or even explain myself to anyone. How do I tell her that I’m doing all this for her safety? That I never stopped loving her and never plan on stopping. I know she wouldn’t believe my words. This was never the plan, I never pl
~Asher~ “Wait… how long would it take to get to the bakery from here?” I found myself asking as the question hung in there and Ross turned to look at me quickly before wondering if he should really answer that. “I’m sure you’ve calculated it, you’ve never had an issue with mapping out areas so out with it!” I demanded. “A normal wolf would take around 30 to 45 minutes but with Hazel an hour tops should do it from here.” He said with his raised eyebrows, as he looked over me through the mirror. I could hear him give volume to how weak her wolf smelt, and his eyes were pointing daggers at me clearly blaming me. Relaxing a bit and ignoring his eyes, “it wouldn’t take that long then, she wouldn’t have to shift.” I relaxed as I looked into the mirror once more as we moved further and I couldn’t see her anymore. “What do you mean? I thought you were thinking of dropping her off?” He looked confused. I’m sure he's wondering just what I really have in mind as I st
~Hazel~That look of betrayal sitting coldly on his face, flashed through mine as I told Tristan all about the inspection leaving out every unnecessary detail about what Asher might have said to me personally. “Yeah I got a call from his beta, Thanks a lot for going.” His smile came up quickly with his lips pressed nicely into a single line. “I did it for my son, and I should be the one thanking you for all you’ve done till this moment.” I’m truly grateful to Tristan, he’s been a life saver. Even when I feared that he might want me out of the pack if he found out how I left my old pack, he found something more than that and still allowed me to stay. We sit facing each other with him smiling down at me as I bring to remembrance to myself every single thing Tristan has done for me. There were times when I was extremely angry and yelled to myself at night inside the bathroom. I always made sure it was locked and kept the tap running away from Jaden’s earshot as I
~Hazel~ “Hey Rose!” I waved once at her as I walked in heading straight to my room. I had no idea what Tristan said to her but she moved in temporarily to keep watch on Jaden. I guess he probably used his alpha rights on her. I hate to impose on her but I know she knows I want nothing else but to keep my son safe and away from Asher’s grip. “You spent quite a lot of time at the bakery, were you guys busy?” She asked, looking at me from the side of her eyes, looking all curious and giddy, ready to swallow any information I could feed her with. “Don’t be like that, you know exactly what we talked about. And besides I’m sleepy” using my hands to cover my mouth as I yawned loudly. With sleep as an excuse to escape her questions, I walked lazily to my room , placed my hands on the doorknob and was about to open it before her voice came up to my back losing the cheerfulness it once had. “Be careful Hazel!” Her voice rang out with all seriousness. Turning ba
~Hazel~Morning came almost too quickly as I got up to start breakfast on time and get Jaden ready for school. I and Tristan talked last night about me coming to the head house in the mornings to avoid any of Asher’s surprise visit. I start off with a simple breakfast, before her sleepy voice Interrupts “is it morning already?” She walked in rubbing her eyes a little with a pout. Sometimes I wonder if she’s really girly or just fierce like she poses to be sometimes. “Good morning sleeping beauty, you can go get ready. I’ll dress Jaden up and finish up breakfast.” I focused on what I was whipping and moved to bring out some plates. “Okay I’ll be back in a jiffy” she slowly responded, going back to probably have her bath. I’m sure the water would do justice and bring her back to reality away from the sleeping world. “Mama!” His tiny voice rang out. “What’s it baby?” I removed the eggs from the cooker and headed towards his voice, and crouched down
~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