ONE NIGHT STAND

[ Alexander Blackwood  ]

The strong aroma of strong coffee hit my senses and I try to open my eyes only to shut them again.The bright rays of sun falling through the giant window directly upon my face frustated me.I blocked it using my palm to shield my lethargic eyes until they adjust with the brightness of daylight.I dug my face in the pillow to get some more sleep before my day starts.

Suddenly a whiff of distant scent caused me to sniff the pillow,its a very familiar yet strange scent,so enchanting and intoxicating for my like.Its lavender and honey suckle,a weird combination but the sweetest scent.

"Get up my dear friend.She is gone.Well thank God she is gone before I snap her head myself."Chase,my best friend's voice caused me to snap my head to glance at him.

What the hell he is doing in my room?

Well its not looking like my room!

"Where I am?"I groaned rubbing my eyes to clear my mind from morning lethargy,I have never been a lazy person since Olivia left me.

"You are inside one of the Blue Moon Club's stinky room."Chase,who is sitting on the chair in a corner of the room,his legs crossed and wet hairs neatly combed back which means he is showered and dressed to start day's work.

The sniffed the air again,the familiar scent keeps distracting me from my conversation with Chase.This never happened with me before but why now?

"You really don't understand why you fucking prick?"Jace,my wolf growled at me,he is pissed off,well he is pissed off on me everytime,not a new phenomena.

"Shut up Jace.I told you many times to sleep until I sober up to think straight.I reprimanded him,luckily he didn't budge me further much to my relief.

This feminine scent is making me go all crazy and the funny part is,I don't remember a trace from last night.

"Jace has all rights to be mad at you buddy.After all you crossed all your limits ONCE AGAIN."Chase sounded disappointed but again the question comes.

Why?

"Chase for the last time I am warning you,don't beat about the bush and tell me what the hell did I do last night for which both you and Jace are ready to kill me."I yelled on him,my patience is running thin by passing second.

"You slept with a human last night after you got your ass drunk.I can't believe you did the same mistake again Alex."Chase's words seemed like someone poured a barrel of icy cold water over my head.

"Would you care to repeat?"I blink my eyes to register his words but it messed up my mind along with Jace,who march too and fro in my mind.

His anger on me surface after long five years.He used to growl at me when I was with my love Olivia,he didn't like my desperation for a girl who wasn't my true mate.He was the happiest soul on the earth on the moment,I dreaded the most,when Olivia found her mate,who is my cousin and Alpha of our Dark Moon Pack,Alpha Adrian.

How ironic,he now flaunts her in front of me and her coldness towards me kills me a thousand death at a time.

"Chase please help me to remember everything from last night.Its not normal.I never loose my control over my desires not even in my unconscious state."I shake my head in denial.

Chase has special powers to take someone in past events through mind link or sometimes he sees the future which is very rare.His mother was a witch from a very powerful clan and father a werewolf making him a hybrid in our pack that's why he was too thrown out by Adrian along with me.

"Let's forget it here Alex.Its going to pain you and more to Jace.Today we have a shipment coming from Moscow.Nicholai is not someone,we should mess up with."Chase reminds me of our deal of illegal opium with Nicholai Chekhov,the Russian Mob boss and a hard nut.

"No Chase first do it because it's going to play with my mind until I figure out the reason for my reckless behavior.Morever,the meeting is scheduled at one in the afternoon and its-"I glance at the digital clock sitting on the bedside table,"Eight forty seven in the morning so do it fast."I demanded.

It took me an year to make him agree on our terms as he is very skeptic to do business with American Mafias.An old school narrative but sealing a deal with him means,I'll have a upper hand on American Mafia world.

An exiled Alpha becomes a mafia lord.

A weird and unsual story but true.

"Fine if its what you want me to do but don't regret later on Alex.I can't see you going through all those once again."Chase walk to the bed,his green eyes filled with concern.

"Do it Chase,"I repeated with closed eyes.

I heard him sigh deeply and then he pressed his fingers on my temples.He begin murmuring an ancient dilact and I slowly started seeing the remnants from last night.

"Alex stop its your sixteenth shot."A worried Chase tried stopping me from drowning myself in alcohl.

We faced a brutal attack on our way back from our warehouse where we killed five of Italian goons who tried to steal the information about our shipments coming from Russia.

"Relax Chase don't be a mother hen.I can easily digest a barrel of whisky."I shove his hard chest aside and grabbed a bottle of whisky from the bar island regardless of bartender's warning.

"Please Alex I know it kills you from inside whenever you take a life."Chase followed behind me while I walk to the booths to sit down and watch the young people grinding their bodies on the dance floor.Some drown in love.

"You're wrong buddy.It soothes my soul.I see Adrian's face in each traitor."I chuckled ironically.

"Please let me take you back home."He shook his head in dejection and try to grab my arm but I jerk him off once again.

"Leave me alone Chase.I am tired of being told what to do and what not."I yelled on him slowly loosening my senses when all of a sudden a very strong smell of lavender and honey suckle stirred my wolf.He perked up his ears and started sniffing the air to find out the owner of such heavenly smell.

I begun roaming my eyes in the crowd of sweaty bodies despite of Chase calling my name.I was under a magical spell by the scent.

"Alexander its our mate.I can feel her near us.Please take me to her."Jace,my wolf howled in desperation.

"Its impossible Jace.I am turning thirty and still no mate you know very well why."I laughed at his false alarm.

"We have a mate Alexander.You know it because we met her already."Jace gave me a sharp sting in my heart.

"How can you be so sure that the girl from that night is our mate?I didn't feel connected with her."

"Its her mark my words."Saying this he blocked me out.I groaned on his desperation to get a mate.Well he wasn't wrong either.In our world,most of the wolves find their mates within their twentieth birthday but I crossed the age nearly a decade ago.

I have been cursed by a witch,whose son was killed by me during a rogue attack.She cursed me that I will die mateless and since then I have been living with the pain of my actions though I fell in love,the curse came true.

She left me for her mate.

I sniffed the air more to filter her scent in the mixture of alcohol and smoke of tobacco.

I kept pushing bodies away to get a glimpse of the girl whose scent can only wake my wolf from his hibernation.

"Get closer to the upstairs,I can smell her there."Jace guided me being equally desperate while my body gradually started giving up due to excessive amount of alcohol inside my system.

My eyes struggled to remain focused when I bumped into someone and the scent became unbreable.

"Sorry I wasn't looking forward,"The girl with whom I collided apologized for my mistake.

"Mate mate mate!We finally found our mate Alexander.She is the one,she is our mate."Jace howled in utter happiness after ages but I had a feeling of deja vu,how can it be possible.The witch's curse was true,no one have ever succeeded in breaking her curse.

"Actually I should apologize Miss-"Rest of my words died down in my throat when she looked up pushing her canopy of honey blonde hairs back.

I was left stunned.

She was the same girl whom I saved from some goons in a deserted alley and also drove her till her apartment but why didn't I recognize her back then?

The most beautiful face I've ever seen,she had a round face,with milky white skin and almond shaped ocean blue eyes.I couldn't take my eyes off from her.

"Its fine Mr-"She waved her hands in the air but paused as she didn't know my name.

"Alexander Blackwood and you?"I smiled for the first time in years.Jace was constantly nudging me to mark her before she dissappear but somehow I shove him behind.

I need to come back into my senses and also need her approval before taking an impulsive step for which I might regret.

"Felicity Brown and I am here to celebrate my 21th birthday with my friends."She exclaimed with excitement when she told me the reason for her clubbing.

"Oh its your birthday,happy birthday Felicity,nice name I must say."I forwarded my hand for a shake.

"Thanks Alexander."She merrily shook my hand sending electric sensation in my body.I never felt it with Olivia.

"Do it right now you moron."Jace showed his canines inside my head.

"Wanna join me for a drink,it just a drink by me on your birthday."I offered her.

"But my friends-"She looked around for her friends but after a minute she turned to me,"I think they are too busy to notice that I am gone.Come let's have fun."She grinned showing her perfect teeth.

We had a few drinks together.She is a living person,carefree,optimistic and full of positive hopes.I instantly felt the strong pull of mate bond.We also danced with our funny steps and things went on the next level and-

Now I am naked and alone in the bed.

"Shit!Felicity is my human mate."I yelled as soon as I recalled everything from last night.