AGREEMENT

“Then it’s decided. Our Hakan and your youngest daughter, Skye will marry.” Those were the conversation Skye had walked in upon returning inside the house, and if she was a lesser being and someone who doesn’t watch herself in front of others then she would have thrashed things by the doorway before rampaging inside the room where everyone was holding the discussion.

She was about to go inside the room when she heard someone breathing right behind her, acting on pure survival instinct, she turned around punching the one behind him. Before her fist could even connect with the stranger, it was caught by a hand and Skye was finally able to see who it was.

“Hakan. Sorry, I thought you were….never mind.” A sigh escaped Skye’s mouth as she turned back around, just in time for the door opened and out came Hakan’s parents and hers, as well as her twin whose eyes instantly went to her twin before wandering over to the man behind her.

“Ah Hakan and Skye, good thing that both of you are here. It has been decided, you will both get married to each other!” Hakan’s mother, Agatha, exclaimed in enthusiasm whilst clapping her hand, not noticing how the younger woman’s shoulders dropped but a fake smile was still plastered on Skye’s face.

“Should we let the two of them talk and get to know each other?” Skye couldn’t believe what she was hearing, her own mother, Anna Soleil Vailant, was actually instigating that she spend time with the man behind her. She did notice when her twin tried to stop their mother but Hakan’s mother had instantly agreed to the suggestion, eyeing her son and silently ordering him to do so.

A shiver ran down Skye’s spine when she felt Hakan release a long and deep sigh right by her nape, she had to bite her lips to stop the shriek that wanted to come out. Subtly turning her head, she gave the towering man a small glare that turned into a full-on fuming rage when the alpha just answered her glare with a smirk.

“Well, if Miss Skye wants to, I would love to take her out to the city and take her to dinner, if everyone is in agreement.” Hakan offered, his voice far different from the tone he had used when talking with Skye in the garden. He did his best to ignore the small scoff that left Skye’s lithe frame, clenching his fist to stop himself from lashing out verbally at the woman’s blatant disrespect.

“Oh, that would be wonderful. Skye why don’t you go and join Hakan in the city? Your father and I will take your sister home, once we’re done here.” Skye gave her mother a small faked smile, watching as Hakan’s parents led her parents out of the reception room, Zella trailing behind. Skye was about to face Hakan when a hand stopped her from doing so.

“I’ll try to convince mom not to go overboard. I am truly sorry about this Skye.” Came the whispered tone of her twins’ familiar voice. Skye turned to her sister before slipping both their hands together, noticing that they were now alone in the hallway. Skye squeezed Zella’s hand before pulling her elder twin to her and hugging her tight, tears pooling at the edge of her eyes.

Zella continued to whisper her apologies as Skye tried to comfort her sister. They stayed in the hallway for a couple of minutes, just so they could both calm down. Zella was truly Skye’s safe haven and vice versa, they were the only ones that could understand the other better than the rest of the world.

“Don’t ever apologize for something you couldn’t control Zella. I am fine, at the very least with this marriage you and my little niece or nephew will be safe. Remember what we promised each other when we were little?” Skye asked as she wiped her twin’s tears away with her thumbs.

“No matter what, we will be there for each other.” Zella started, her voice trembling as she matched her sister’s breathing pattern to calm herself down.

“No matter what, we will trust one another.” Skye continued, finally smiling genuinely.

“And no matter what, it will be the both of us against the world.” Zella ended as her twin nodded, a teary laugh coming out both of their mouths, as they finally calmed down. Skye held her twin’s head in both of her hands and kissed the elder’s forehead, Zella doing the same to her younger twin.

Unbeknownst to them, there was someone watching them from afar, or more particularly, someone overheard what they were saying to each other. Hakan stood still behind a pillar as his mind reeled at what he had just heard. 

He had faced Skye earlier that day, and he had already seen a different side of the woman compared to what others in their college were saying, and now he was seeing a different side of her once more.

A vulnerable side of hers and those genuine laughs that left her lips woke something primal within his own system. He wanted to hear more, he wanted to hear her laugh more. It was addicting, enticing, and extremely seductive for him.

“Alpha!” Hakan was instantly and forcefully dragged out of his daydreams when he heard his title being yelled so loud that it echoed in the empty halls, stopping the hushed giggles that he had been savoring earlier. Peeking out from the pillar, he instantly took the man that called for him before dragging him away, upon being spotted by the twins.

He could swear that he heard another round of giggles as he left the house, a man trying to keep up behind him.  

“What the fuck do you want?” he growled as they both stopped a couple of meters away from the house.

“Your, your mother ordered me to prepare the car and drive both you and Miss Skye to the city.” The man instantly replied, fumbling over certain words as he bared his neck as a sign of submission to the man. He didn’t have any clue what he had done wrong, he was only following orders yet now he had apparently evoked his alpha’s wrath.

“Go inside and escort Skye here, I’ll be waiting by the car.” Black eyes watched as the man scuttled away from the dominant Alpha and once the smaller man was out of sight, Hakan dashed over to the garage, his ears curiously flushed red.