2: Team

Alaric

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"Mo, you were looking very beautiful last night." I heard that dog say with a big smile on his face. I had to control myself from going there and ripping his heart from his body. I knew what he was doing. I knew that look. Vampires’ hearing was better than any werewolf's, but at the same time, werewolves were physically stronger and didn’t have a lot of weaknesses, like sunlight, garlic, fire, mirrors, iron, and many more things.

Coming back to where I was, I could hear the things that werewolves couldn’t. Thinking about those mutt words, I tried not to think about Moana’s look from the wedding because I was scared that Beasty would smell me. That was a different thing. I was great at masking any feeling, but I couldn’t hide the tent in my pants, so it would be better if I wouldn’t think about her at all.

"Don’t waste my time, Chris. What’s your point?" Moana growled, not entertaining his compliment.

‘That’s my gold.’

Yes, Gold. Because when my eyes landed on her for the first time, she was dressed in a golden color and shining like gold.

I wish I could tell her that I love her feisty look.

"I was thinking if we could... I mean, you and me like hang out together and have fun."

‘This mutt clearly doesn’t know how to flirt.' He mentally thought and knew Moana would turn him down; after all, she hated when someone used her beauty to get near her.

"So, you want to fuck me just because I was looking beautiful yesterday?" Moana asked sharply. "It’s a big no," she added.

"So, you’re eyefucking again?" My eyes widened when Eleazer spoke. I glared at Theodore for using these types of words in front of his son. Now, he would deal with his mate’s wrath.

"You know that you shouldn’t be saying that, kid," I said, looking at him. "Your mother will be so upset to hear that from your mouth."

"Yeah! Yeah! Always use my mother’s name to make me do anything, but that’s not happening at this moment. If you don’t want me to go and tell Aunt Moana about this, then I need something else, which I will let you know later." He traded like an adult. The kid in front of me had a body age of four, but his mind was way too old for that.

"And why do you think that I will give you whatever you ask?" I asked, raising my brow.

"Because I know your secret." He replied with a smirk, making my heart thud. I had two secrets. About which secret he was talking about.

Fuck! I couldn’t risk him telling anyone about it.

"Which secret is Eleazer?" Theodore asked suspiciously.

"It’s between me and Uncle Ric." The little devil replied, to which Theodore looked at me for an answer. I just shrugged my shoulders, acting as if it were nothing.

I knew that he knew that I was hiding something, but everyone had a secret. Then I looked at the little devil, who was sipping blood with an evil smirk.

‘Does he really know that Moana is actually my mate?' I wondered and recalled that night when I had caught her mouth-watering smell for the first time.

I had the habit of keeping my scent hidden most of the time; maybe because of that, she didn’t sense it, but I still remember the hatred that she had in her eyes for me because of what I was. It was obvious that werewolves and vampires loathed each other. So I understood that part, not that I was happy that my mate was a werewolf.

We, vampires, had the power to control the signs that could help in identifying the mate. That was the reason that she never realized that I was her mate. Not that she would have cherished that news.

Maybe she would have rejected me then and there. I learned that one of her favorite brothers was killed by vampires; that was the reason she hated vampires from the bottom of her heart.

Maybe Theodore would have tried this power when he met Liara but then, he wasn't just a vampire.

I had no idea what Selene was thinking by pairing a werewolf and a vampire. She did this before by pairing Werewolf King Benjamin Cornell with Vampire Queen Zendaya.

The result was that they were both killed by their own kind.

Vampires and werewolves were a big no.

Theodore and Liara didn’t have to face all this because Theodore was a hybrid, both vampire and werewolf, so no one said a word in that matter. I doubt things would be the same in our case.

Hell, I wouldn’t be surprised if my head or Moana’s head would be there for bounty. For a while, the werewolf King wouldn't say this but vampires... and their king and queen were horrible.

Lenora and Barrett Black.

They hated werewolves with a passion. That was the reason I admitted my crime of destroying a dozen packs and killing a lot of innocent werewolves two and a half years ago. I was promoted to the elder post instead of receiving any major punishment.

Instead, I was praised and was blessed with a couple of powers more except for just masking the scent.

Coming back to my situation, no matter how much I desired my mate and wanted her, I knew I had to stay away from her for her safety as well as mine.

I needed to stay alive to watch her, even though she hated me for what I was and for breaking the little agreement between us.

One-night stand

I thought I would get over her after tasting her once, but who was I fooling? One could never get enough of his or her mate, no matter what kind they are. No matter how much they hate each other, they desire each other the same way.

‘Does that mean she... I shook my head and didn’t ask myself that question to myself because there was no way she would want me because she had no idea the person whom she hated was none other than her own mate.

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Moana

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Finally, the moment was here: Liara was leaving with her family on her family moon for two weeks.

Two weeks!!

That meant I would have to handle this leech for two weeks.

I wanted them to shorten their family moon period, but then they deserved this. Their honeymoon was just four days and three nights.

"In case of any emergency, just let us know; we will be here," Theodore spoke to Dad.

"Sure!! Unless things will really start going out of my hand." Dad said, nodding his head. There were still a couple of people who didn’t want this place to turn into a pack, so hidden enemies were around us, waiting for a moment to kill Dad after all; he was the one who was leading this place for now.

"Al, Moana, you both will be handling all the securities of night and day, respectively, so make sure you both will work as a team," Theodore spoke the part that I hated the most.

as a TEAM.

Becoming my dad’s beta or gamma was not my thing. I loved breaking bones. So, I held the rank of the head warrior in the council.

Those who had problems with this had broken their bones as well to show that I was worthy of my rank.

"Enjoy your honeymoon, beasty, and stop worrying." Alaric spoke in a serious tone, increasing my heartbeat.

No matter how much I tried to hate him, I just couldn’t. I couldn’t understand how anyone could have such a strong effect on me.

"You’re thinking too much, Beast." I heard the woman’s voice, whose voice I had been hating recently the most, Emma, a leech-like him, and she kept revolving around Alaric like a bee around a flower. I mentally patted myself for masking my emotion because my hands were itching to kill that female leech who wrapped her hand around Alaric.

I doubt that they were friends.

Because neither of them had the other’s mark on their neck. Moreover, vampires rarely find their mates.

"Uncle Ric, can you give me some cash?" Eleazer, the little devil of the council, spoke sweetly.

"Huh?" Alaric looked at him in confusion.

"Why do you need cash from Uncle Alaric, El?" Liara asked suspiciously, knowing that he barely does anything without thinking.

"So that I can purchase things that my eyes will like," Eleazer replied, Theodore started coughing, and Alaric's pale skin turned even paler. No one bought his words, but Alaric quickly pulled out his wallet from his pocket and handed over all the cash that he had to him.

Now, it was sure that something was cooking between them. I kept looking at them two until my eyes landed on Alaric’s wallet. There was a black-and-white picture of a woman. She couldn’t see the face of that woman because Alaric’s index finger had covered it but she could bet that it wasn’t Emma’s picture.

"Here!!" Alaric said, asking him to take everything that he had in his wallet.

What the…

"Thanks, Alaric but he is just a pup. He doesn’t need that much cash. Moreover, he doesn’t cash at all as we will be there with him," Liara said and took one note from Alaric and gave it to Eleazer. "Here, $100 is enough for you but in case you will spend it somewhere then let me know, okay?"

"I’m going it give to a homeless person, Mom. As you said, you both will be there to buy me everything." Eleazer said nonchalantly. Liara’s narrowed eyes widened in surprise.

"That’s my boy." Theodore messed with his hair, picking him in his arms. "We should be leaving now."

Though I heard everything but I was more interested in seeing the picture in his wallet. It wasn’t just me, even my wolf, Lotus was restless to see that picture.

My wolf, Lotus was an excited and horny wolf until we got rejected by our mate, Andrew. Since then, she stopped talking. I could sense her and shift in her wolf form but since that incident, she almost turned mute.

‘I don’t understand why you react around this leech, Lotus’ I talked with her wolf and received her silence in return. I still remembered that I had sensed her pacing in my mind after years when I met Alaric for the first time. 

I watched Alaric keep the rest of the cash in his wallet and then close it to keep it inside his pocket. I cursed mentally when I failed to see what I wanted to do.

‘Don’t ignore me like this, Lotus. I know you’re not mute.’ I shouted at my wolf. Everyone could talk to their wolf while my wolf had been giving silent treatment for years.

‘FINE. The truth is that I don’t have the answer to your question.' She spoke. She finally spoke. ‘There is something that I couldn’t sense about this vampire.’

"In a good way or bad way?" I questioned her.

Silence.

‘Come on, Lotus! Stop behaving like this. It’s just you who lose your mate. I too lost my mate that night.' I said it in frustration.

‘Do you think that I stopped talking to you because our partner rejected us? No, Moana. I stopped talking to you because I lost both my human and my mate. I stopped talking to you because I couldn’t stand you lusting over a mated man. I stopped talking to you because I was disgusted by you and your sick mentality.' Her words were like a tight slap in my face. I knew I wasn’t a great person, but I never realized that my wolf hated me because of that.

Once Liara and Theodore left with their pups A small gathering of the people who were close to them started returning back to their room. I didn’t want to look at him, but I still did and found his eyes on me. His face had no reaction. I knew what he was doing.

Studying me.

"Come on, Ric! We need to get back to work." Emma said, grabbing his arms. Of course, they needed to get to work after all; it was already night. So, it was their duty time.

"Yeah!! Let’s go." He responded to her, but his eyes were on me.

‘Yes, go away, or I will do something that I shouldn't.' I barked in my mind and left from there in anger. ‘Fucking loser, staying away from me just because his friend asked him to do so.’

I shook my head, kicking his thoughts out of my mind, but I couldn’t. It was pissing me off more that he moved on so easily from me while I was struggling to do the same.

Maybe I should think about Chris’s offer.

‘Will he feel anywhere like I’m after watching me with someone else?' I thought and mentally slapped myself for connecting everything with him again. ‘I should focus on myself.’

I took a breath and started walking in the direction where Chris was.

'Everyone is getting laid in their life except me. I should also think about exploring new things in my life.’

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#TBC

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Thank you for reading :) I hope you remember who are Lenora and Barrett Black. Yes, the same pain in the ass who was in Cade & Andrella's story. If you don't remember then not a big deal because they're not really that important in this story.