Poison

AURORA’S POV.
" You're fired!." The managing Director thundered, and all I could think of was where I had gone wrong.
I couldn't think of anything I might have done to warrant this sudden job termination. It made no sense, and you can't wake up one morning and decide to fire your workers; it just isn't done that way.
" Sir! With all due respect. I don't think you've told me my crime or why I deserve punishment as huge as this." I glared at the wolf who, in his little narrow mind, thought he ruled the world.
" How dare you question me? You're fired!." He roared.
I laughed. " I don't think everything is alright with you, sir. You can't fire someone you've already fired." I mocked.
No!. It wasn't an offense or a crime I committed. My job was terminated because of human greed and wickedness.
My mind flashed back to the incident a month before my release.
My M.D. had called me into his office to have a "discussion" with me. He talked about how he had a nephew that needed a job after years of unemployment with a good certificate that would kick most of us out of our jobs.
Of course, I wondered what that had to do with me. As the financial manager, I had good grades, and the pay was nice. At one point, I thought he wanted me to tell him how I had gotten my job with grades like mine, but that wasn't the case.
He wanted to fire me for his goddamn nephew, and I could only keep my job if I slept with him. The shock made me paralyzed for some seconds before hot rage began to flow through my veins.
The nerve of the man! Has he no shame?
He wanted to sleep with someone his daughter's age, if he had any, to give his nephew a job.
It took all the restraint in me not to punch his crooked nose. I refused his offer, insulted him six ways to Sunday, then walked out of his office as he hurled insults at me.
As the flashback ended, I glared at the ugly older adult in front of me before walking back to my office to pack my stuff.
As I walked out of the company, I suddenly remembered something. I dropped my box on the receptionist's desk and returned to the hallway, whispers floating in the air.
" What are you still doing here, you whore?." He said in disgust.
And that was how my final restraint snapped.
" I forgot something." I snapped angrily.
I walked up to him closely and slapped him with every pent-up anger and rage that his lip busted, his glasses flew to the other side of the room, and he staggered a bit.
" And that is for messing with me," I smirked and walked out of the firm.
I dropped my box on the passenger seat and drove home
When I got home, I went into the bathroom, took a shower, changed into a light top and bum shorts, then put on the air conditioner and curled up under my duvet, talking to my wolf.
" I like what you did back there, Aurora. Although, it would have been more acceptable if a little extra blood was shed. The old donkey was getting on my nerves." My wolf, Alaya, growled.
" Well, what do we do now? We don't have a job." She said sadly.
I had not thought he would go that far.
" But we have a house and a car and a best friend who loves us," I responded.
A smile made it to my lips as I thought of Jax Conrad, my best friend and first love from seventh grade. I watched him grow into a handsome young man. I watched how girls flocked after him. I watched him use and dump them...... He is a typical playboy, and I also know of his immense hatred for werewolves, which I happen to be. Nothing he did scare me, but his hatred for my kind was the deal breaker.
I don't want to imagine his face when he discovers what I am.
" Don't be heartbroken, Aurora. If he is meant to be with us, he'll love us for who we are." Alaya said sadly.
She is also hurt because we can never be with him, at least not how we want.
" I want to see him." I said out loud as I jumped from my bed, " I need to see him; I'm sure he can help us with our current situation." I said hopefully.
" I hope you are not thinking what I think you are thinking." She said.
" What might that be?." I paused and stared at myself in the mirror.
What could she possibly be talking about?
" We can't work with him in the same place." She screamed in my head, " That's the first reason we refused to work for him in the first place." She reminded.
Ouch!.
Jax was the CEO of a million-dollar company, and yet I was working as the Financial manager of a little wager law firm.
Damn, my love life.
" He'll work something out," I assured him as I pulled out a blue sunflower dress and drove to my best friend's home.
I already drove into his mansion before remembering that today was a Friday and that he would be out clubbing with the guys.
All is well and good. I'll sleep here till he arrives.
I thought.
I walked in, only to see Jax sitting on the floor, shivering like a child.
" Jax!." I called out and quickly rushed over to him. " Jax, are you okay?." I brushed his hair away from his face. His beautiful eyes were deep red, and he was covered in sweat.
" A...Aurora" He called my name in a whisper " You're here?." He said, fear evident in his voice.
" Of course I am. What the hell happened to you? Did you get into a fight? Are you hurt?." I questioned.
My blood boiled at the thought of someone hurting him. If there were, I would snap all bones out of the culprit’s body.
He shook his head.
" It's none of those things." He grabbed my waist, burying his face in my stomach.
Then what was it?
" Then tell me." I stroked his hair lovingly, trying to calm him down. " What happened, Jax?." I asked.
He looked up at me with tears in his eyes. "I'm running mad, Aurora. I'm going mad, and I'm turning into a monster." He responded, his voice cracking as he shivered like he had seen a ghost.
" What! What are you talking about?." I asked worriedly.
Did he maybe kill someone?
I wondered, but I knew it couldn’t be. My best friend was nothing like that.
" I went to the club to celebrate the contract I won from Skyline...." His voice trailed off like he had remembered something. Something that scared him.
I would have been extremely happy to hear that if he didn't look like he was on the verge of a breakdown.
"...... I drank the flaming dragon special, like 7 to 8 glasses, and then I s......started to feel..ling weird. I-I left the club to calm myself, but then I started hearing things. And before I knew it......" More tears ran out of his eyes. "...... I turned into a monster. A Wolf." He rounded up and finally broke down.
My eyes widened.
"What!!" I exclaimed.
How?.
He removed his hands from my waist and rubbed his eyes. " I know, I know, it's unbelievable; I sound crazy. But it happened, I swear to you." He said.
How the hell could that happen? Jax........a wolf.
" Please believe me, Aurora. You know I would never lie to you; I'm so scared....." His voice broke again.
" Jax, relax," I begged.
" I can't, and I'm turning into a monster, a monster that kills people.....” More tears roll down, and his palms form into fists. It was as though he hated himself.
" Jax......" My words trailed off, and my throat ached from the tears I tried to hold in.
"...... And I keep hearing voices in my head....." He went on.
" Listen...." I was saying before he cut in.
"......it won't stop coming....." He said again and paused.
It was like watching my friend run mad. It was painful and heartbreaking.
" Stop....." I pleaded, my heart aching and tears welling behind my eyes.
"....I can still hear it...."
He was stuck in his head, and he couldn't hear me. So I did the one thing I could think of.
I kissed him....... I kissed Jax.
He didn't respond immediately, then one hand grabbed my waist, the other grabbed my head, and he kissed me back...... as if his life depended on it.
I broke the kiss and looked into his eyes.
"I'll never let anything happen to you, Jax. Whatever this is, whatever is happening to you, we'll solve it together." I assured. Even though I knew what it might be.
How was I to tell him that he was what he dreaded and that I was the same too?
He looked at me with hunger, pain, desire, fear......so many emotions running in his head, and it broke me to see him like that.
" You promise?." He whispered.
I nodded.
“ I promise,” I assured.
He kissed me again, this time with a lot of passion.