Chapter 4 - Life sucked sometimes!

Gabriella

“She’s too stupid to realize!” The man’s eyes turned black, showing that his wolf was near the surface, but his wife knew that he would never harm her. They had been mates since they met the first time at school. She had just transferred here from another pack. She couldn’t believe her luck when he was her mate. Now their entire lifestyle was being threatened by a girl!

“Don’t you underestimate her! I still can’t understand why you had to bring her back here! You’ve been running the pack since the day her parents died! Why haven’t you demanded to be declared Alpha already?! Send her back to the life she wants in the city!” She screamed and stormed out of their room.

On the other side of the territory, Gabriella was dealing with her own mate problem! Lucienne didn’t seem to leave her alone for one damn second and every time she glared at him, he would smile and tell her to reject him. As if he wanted her to! Maybe that was what he wanted. Maybe he had a little piece on the side that he would prefer and now he was pushing Gabriella to reject him so he could blame it on her and then begin his life with his little slut! Gabriella rolled her eyes at her own line of thinking. This really wasn’t the time or the place to be worrying about Lucienne and she forced herself to focus on what was going on in the meeting. After an entire day filled with meeting after meeting, she finally walked into her house and found Zi cooking dinner.

“Oh, God that smells delicious!” Her mouth-watering, she peeked into one of the pots and earned herself a slap on the hand for her trouble.

“Go and get cleaned up and put on something nice to wear. You stink.” Zion pinched her nose, making Gabriella laugh as she rushed up the stairs to get cleaned up. She put on a cool summer dress and looked at herself in the mirror. Yes, that would definitely do for dinner with her friend. Unfortunately, as she came bounding down the stairs, his scent drifted into her nostrils and her knees went weak. It took all her strength to keep upright until she saw him. Then anger flooded her and she felt her energy levels soar!

“Where’s Zion?” She glared at him as he brought the plates to the dining table and she realized the table had been set for two. With candles and everything.

“She’s gone to have dinner with her mate. I asked her to cook your favourite. I was hoping we could sit down and talk.” Lucienne smiled and held out a chair for her. “You know, like civilized couples.” Oh! He just had to get a dig in, didn’t he? That convinced her that he was trying to get her to reject him!

“Civilized couples do these things because they want to be in those relationships! Do you?!” She spat back at him as she put her napkin on her lap.

“Of course, I do. You are my destined mate. Do you think I would have been hanging around you like a fucking-love-sick puppy if I didn’t want to be here?!” He sighed and she rolled her eyes before she realized that he had been staring at her a lot.

“What about your other girlfriends?” She took a bite and the food was incredible, but her eyes were nailed to the man beside her.

“What others? I’ve never had a girlfriend, Gabriella. If you were here, you would have known that.” He looked amused and she rolled her eyes again. “Roll your eyes at me again, and I will pull you over my lap!” She burst out laughing.

“Excuse me? You wouldn’t dare!” She rolled her eyes again and before she could do anything, he was up and had taken a seat on her chair and she was sprawled out over his damn lap! He smacked her once and she screamed.

“Tell me, Gabriella, is it nice when someone rolls their eyes at you?” He sounded amused and it infuriated her. She tried to get up, but he had such a tight grip on her that she was sure she would be bruised all over when he was done.

“You are a fucking freak!” She shouted, still struggling when she felt him lift her dress. She couldn’t help the arousal that burst through her private parts at the thought that he was seeing her butt in her sheer panties, but as soon as that second smack came down and burned her skin like hellfire, her fury replaced her shame and she finally pulled out from his grip. Her eyes glowed amber as her canines protruded. “Don’t you ever touch me again!” She screamed before rushing upstairs. Lucienne pulled his fingers through his hair, realizing that his plan had gone completely awry!

“Civilized men don’t spank their women!” He sighed as the thought of what he had told her, but she infuriated him to the point where he thought it was the only damn way to get her to listen! All his life he had dealt with women who submitted to him without even thinking about it. Gabriella had always been the one girl who knew she was an alpha and she didn’t submit to anyone! That was what originally drew him to her. Why on earth did he follow through on his threat? He sighed and walked upstairs thinking of how he was going to have to apologize until the moon and the sun became mates, but that he had to do whatever it took to win her over.

She couldn’t leave him. She couldn’t leave the pack because of him. He needed her to accept him as his mate. He didn’t want anyone else.

“Gabriella.” He knocked on her door and when he tried to open the door, he found that she had locked it. “Gabriella, please.” He sighed.

“Get out of my fucking house, Lucienne!” She screamed and he could have sworn he heard a pillow hit the door. He was clearly not going to win this argument, was he?

“I’m not leaving until we’ve talked!” He sighed and got a bit of a fright when the door ripped open in front of him.

“Oh, now you want to talk? Or did you mean you wanted to abuse me some more first!” She screamed and he realized how incredibly beautiful she was when she was angry.

“I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have …” He started to apologize and didn’t expect the slap that stung his cheek the moment her skin made contact with him.

“THERE! Now we’ve talked! Now leave!” She growled and he could see that she was on the verge of shifting. Deciding not to tempt fate further, he nodded and went downstairs. He sure as hell wasn’t going to leave her house and this time, he rolled his eyes when he heard her door slam shut.

Gabriella was pacing in her room trying to calm her wolf when she heard him cleaning up their dinner. Damn, she was hungry, but she wouldn’t go downstairs even if she was starving to death! She grabbed her phone and called the girls.

“Hey, babe!” Venus answered the phone, sounding more like her usual self. She’d sounded a little off the past couple of days, but she was sounding better.

“Hi, is Melody around? I need to vent!” Gabriella fell down on her bed and started to pick at her cover.

“Nah, she’s at the restaurant. Do you need the number?” Venus was clearly eating and Gabriella rolled her eyes, which made her think of what had happened downstairs.

“No, I just wanted to talk to you both. I know what you are going to say, and I was just curious if she would feel the same way.” Gabriella sighed as she started to tell Venus what happened. Her dear friend was squealing with laughter on the other side of the line, which wasn’t doing anything to calm her down.

“He actually punished you for being a bad girl!” Venus said as she started to laugh all over again. “Who is this guy? I seriously have to meet him. Maybe he will punish me a little.” Gabriella could just imagine Venus winking as she made the joke but a soft growl escaped and she fought to swallow it. She couldn’t believe that she was actually jealous!

“As I’ve said before … Who needs enemies when you have friends like mine? Anyway, what’s been happening in your life?” She sighed.

“Oh, nothing much. Bradley died and left me his fortune. If I have it right, I think I might be richer than you at the moment.” Gabriella nearly swallowed her tongue.

"WHAT? When?! HOW?” They all knew that he was sick. Really sick and probably didn’t have much time, but she never imagined that Venus would be so blasé about it! Venus told her everything and Gabriella couldn’t believe that her friend didn’t call her the minute it happened.

“Oh, sweetheart, I’m so sorry,” She could hear that Venus was deeply hurt, and her heart ached for her friend.

“I’m going away for a little while. To one of the islands he … I now own. Melody can’t get time off from work because she’s still new, and you are away, but I think it will do me good to get away and just chill.” They talked for a little while longer and hung up. Without thinking, Gabriella opened her door and walked downstairs.