How Are You In My Head?

Chapter 2

Why the hell was this happening to me? There was nothing special about me. Wondering if I had done the right thing getting in the car with this strange guy I didn’t know from a bar of soap. Emmett looked like he was going to kill my brother.

“How fucking dumb can he be?” He asked me oddly calm.

“I don’t know honestly, Emmett. Like I said, it has been happening more lately. But my question is, why was he scared of you?” I was curious to find out that answer.

“Do you think I could be scary?” He asked me with a hint of cheekiness in his voice.

“Honestly, if you can scare my brother like that, then hell yes, I think you could be scary.” He looked at me and winked, causing the both of us to piss ourselves, laughing for some reason.

“Emmett, are my parents really going to be at this townhouse, or were you just saying that to get me away from Jordon?” 

“They will be there when we arrive, Elara, I promise.” It seemed to me that he was a man of his word. We got to the more expensive part of town. There was a hotel in this section that only the wealthiest of clients could get in and, to my surprise, that was the building that we just pulled up outside of.

“Emmett, are you serious? Look at me, how can I go in there looking like this? My cheeks?” I scolded him.

“Elara, trust me, you will be fine. Your parents own half of this building, so no one is going to say anything to you.” I was gobsmacked.

“My parents what?” I asked him in shock.

“Elara, please just come with me.” He walked to my door, opening it up for me and extending his hand. This brought a smile to my face. He knew how to treat a lady. As we walked up to the entrance, the doorman held open the door for us.

“Mr Harrison, welcome back. And who is this lovely lady you have with you?” The man asked like a gentleman.

“Fredrick, this is my friend Elara Hamilton.” Fredrick took my hand and placed a kiss on it, causing me to blush.

“Ah, Miss Hamilton, it is my pleasure to finally meet you. I hope I will be seeing more of your lovely face around here.” He said as we walked into the grand entrance of the hotel. It was incredible. The floor was marble as far as you could see. There were flowers placed around the room where dark wooden benches were that seemed to be lined with gold. In the centre of the room was an enormous desk where the most beautiful women were that I had ever laid eyes on. As we approached the desk, the girl's eyes lit up as soon as they saw Emmett.

“Carman, Michelle, how are my two favourite ladies today?” Emmett had put on a seductive voice. My god was he charming. I bet this man could bed any female within the first sentence of talking to them.

“Mr Harrison, it is better now that we have seen you. And who is this lovely lady you have brought with you today? Will you be acquiring your normal room?” This made me cringe.

“Oh no, sorry, we are not together. We are actually here to see my parents.” I told them. They both looked relieved when I stated that I wasn’t with Emmett in that way.

“Mam, may we ask what your name is?” 

“This is Elara Hamilton.” Emmett chimed in before I had the chance to speak.

“Miss Hamilton, it is so nice to meet you. Your parents are with a guest at the moment. But I am sure Mr Harrison here all ready knows this and will be able to show you to their apartment.” Carman gave me a shy smile, which made me instantly like her, whilst Michelle winked at me and I had to giggle because Emmett had missed it and was looking at us all, confused.

“If you need anything at all, Miss Hamilton, please call us.” Emmett placed his hand across my back, indicating that it was time to go. We entered an elevator, and he pressed the button for the eighty-second floor, which was the highest that the elevator went. The hall for this floor was grander than the lobby had been. It seemed that there were three doors up here.

“This one is mine. The second is your parents and the last one is Aiden’s. Your parents, I would say, would be at Aiden’s, so we can wait in mine until your parents are done.” I nodded my head in agreement. My head was spinning so fast with everything that I had barely had a freaking second to stop and think. Emmett let me into his apartment. 

It was like walking straight into one of those magazines that show off all the designer houses. Looking around, I had a feeling this had Nate Berkus written all over it.

“This is very elegant. Your designer wouldn’t happen to be Nate Berkus, by any chance?” 

Emmett looked at me with wide eyes.

“How in the hell did you know that?” I laughed at his reaction.

“I study design. Nate is one of my favourite designers of all time.” 

“Well, it seems that you would have good taste dollface.” He said, winking at me.

“Take a seat and let me look at your cheeks.” He commanded me. Doing as I was told, I sat at the island, turning so that Emmett could look at my cheek. As he ever so gently touched my cheek I winced from the pain.

“How bad is it?” I asked him through gritted teeth.

“Its one of the worst I have seen. It has bruised already. Think we need to put some ice on it to lessen the swelling.” A few minutes later I was sitting on his couch watching a movie with a blanket on to keep me warm whilst the ice pack was on my face. Not sure when I had dozed off but I was woken suddenly from the sound of my dad roaring.

“HE DID WHAT NOW?” 

“Leo shh you will wake her up.” Mom scolded him making me giggle, then I suddenly had three sets of eyes on me.

“Sorry honey, I didn’t mean to wake you up.” Dad said looking at me.

“Its ok, I didn’t know I had fallen asleep. Sorry Emmett.” I said to him in a soft voice, he had been nothing but kind to me.

“Pumpkin, what happened?” Mom asked me, so I spent the better half of an hour explaining to them exactly what had been happening when they left.

“I will ring his neck.” Dad said again.

“Leo would you calm down. It is our partly our fault too, we should have realised that we were asking too much of him.” 

“Your right Audrey. Sorry Elara this is our fault. There is a reason why your brother is acting like this. It still doesn’t excuse him hitting you and trust me he will regret that.” Dad said only half explaining what was going on.

“Look, I know you guys are hiding something from me and I want to know what the hell it is.” I was angry now, they were still keeping the truth from me. They were looking at Emmett.

“Don’t look at me, you are the ones that have to tell her. I need to see Aiden. So I will be back in an hour or so.” He told them, then he looked at me with sadness in his eyes, it was like he was trying to say sorry to me, but he hadn’t done anything, I gave him a weak smile in return.

“You will be ok Elara, I promise you. Just listen to what your parents have to say and if you need me just call to me in your mind and I will come to you ok.” Emmett’s voice was just in my head clear as day but his lips hadn’t moved, exactly like the voice I had heard earlier. I couldn’t say anything so I nodded my head.

“Elara, you are not who you think you are. There is no easy way to say it so I am just going to tell you. You are a werewolf.” Dad told me, letting the last part sink in. What the hell was he playing at? Was this a joke to them? A freaking werewolf. There was no such thing.

“You bet your damn ass that we are a werewolf and sister, I am your wolf Athena.” That same voice I had heard earlier echoed in my head.

“How the hell are you doing this? This is a joke, right?” I laughed.

“Elara, honey are you ok?” Mom asked me.

“First, you tell me I am a werewolf and now I start hearing voices in my head. What the hell is really going on?” I asked them in a panicked voice.

“Honey, calm down and listen to my voice, please. You are freaking out and are on the verge of having one of your attacks. Listen to my voice.” Mom was talking to me, but I couldn’t hear her. I was too far in my mind. Everything was spinning and my chest was tight. I couldn’t breathe. It was like my heart was getting ripped from my chest.

“MOM.” I screamed from the pain. It was like someone had put their hand in my chest, grabbing my heart and was squeezing it.

“I can’t breathe.” I struggled to say in between the screams of pain. Why would someone be doing this to us?

“It is our mate Elara, someone is killing him.” My wolf’s voice said in my head. She howled inside my head. She was feeling the exact pain I was.

“Elara, baby, I can’t hold on any longer. I will love you forever and always. I never got the chance to tell you that I love you so goddamn much.” Alex’s voice was in my head and he was in pain. I could feel every bit of pain that he was suffering, what was happening to him. He couldn’t be dying. I had just seen him yesterday when we had just had our first kiss.

“Alex, where are you? I love you too.” I said to him as the pain made my body thrash then everything went black.