~Tristan~ The knowledge I wanted no part in just stuck there on his own. I didn’t have to look at her to know she was goddamn pretty even with her deep hazel eyes that would show just how uncomfortable she was with me. I wouldn’t blame her, it was exactly what I wanted, so she doesn’t push me to do what she’ll hate. I had long decided that I could live without a mate bond, so having her here shouldn’t really change anything or that fact I could personally go on without one. No matter what Dakky my wolf thinks. “The little thing is acting too eager and has been bugging me on setting up another lunch meeting with you.” Sebastian mentioned with his face deep in a frown. Aside from understanding each other and having to share a few things, we both hated the idea of this little bug coming here. “He’s not in any way useful to us. Just a very ignorant young Alpha that we need to push to the side.” I uttered, speaking with so much freedom like it was just bot
~Jessica~ “You are taking time with that” he wasn’t even looking at me. His back faced me but he said it like he memorized it already and that was exactly what I’ll be doing. “You can do it yourself, you know.” I mumbled the words as this routine was already becoming so usual. It’s been busy, a whole lot busy with having to watch wolves train like they are about to face something way worse than death. I had to wake up the same time they were up, followed and learned to stay silent. My new decision was eating me up. The thoughts of betraying my people plunging into the deepest part of my heart. It’s been days following the same routine, Tristan’s response becoming so expected as he didn’t act too scary but still very much looked the part. It was like he was way too busy for me or my troubles and I should be happy about that right? I mean I’ve been dreading having to bathe him if he was ever serious about that. And I still haven’t told him abo
~Tristan~ “You took time” I growled out, my complete focus on the scattered paper work on my table and the laptop I’ve been using these days now. “Well it’s here now.” She quietly muttered. I would be praying for a miracle if I ever thought that would ever stop. That sharp tongue and character to always have the last word no matter what it was or who she spoke with. I turned to look at her sharply for the first time… well first time that she’ll know of. “I’m having a guest later on and I’m sure Sebastian would have told you about it already?” I asked, still now looking up at her with a stern face. She nods, taking a few steps back. I’ve been noticing it, watching all of her movements around me. She’s more quiet than before, watches more than talk when I’m around and even if she’ll talk, she’ll try to only mutter her words. “Yes he told me about it.” She replied curtly, her eyes disconnecting from my stare as she relaxed into the sofa that by now a
~Jessica~ What’s going on? I couldn’t process anything right now. Somehow my mind was going blank and in my defense he wasn’t going to do anything, he just wants to scare me right? He got so close and I tried to steady my breathing so he doesn’t know I was freaking out. It’s going to be the third time he’s getting pretty close to my face again! I tried to push him off as my head began to swirl, my insides a bit bubbly as Myra was ever so concious and liked the idea of having him this close. It was going to be something quick and would leave me after tracing my lips with his hands right? Making me feel things I hadn’t known was possible to feel. “Let me just give you another good reason to hate me, princess.” I should be so angry and pissed off but the moment he called me princess I stupidly laid down my guards a little even though I knew that had to a be a sign of nothing good. My mouth wide opened, my breath and words out of me as he groped me, holding o
~Jessica~ “And where are you going?” The second on my hate list stopped me in my tracks as he stood right outside Tristan’s office, his back on the wall. “Why are you asking?” The words rushed out as the knowledge of the fact that Sebastian saw his Alpha cupping me, made me too aware “Under orders to be with you all the time when he’s not around, remember?” He spoke up, getting his back off the walk as he stood firmly to face me. “No need, I’m going to meet him.” I blurted out, walking right past him to the room Tristan forced me into. I didn’t want to see his face. Didn’t want to see this particular monster, and I'm never going to stop hating them “I told him that was going to be your next choice of action.” He said it like it meant nothing as he stood behind me. “Wait what?!” What’s wrong with these men, one acting like he knows me the other doing whatever he wants with me. “Don’t freaking act like you know me, I’ll hate you.” I freaked
~Tristan~ “Nevan.” I called out his name, watching that ignorant smile rolling off his face as he stood to welcome me. We sat outside the house, no way I was allowing him inside my house. But he didn’t mind, not getting the idea that this was an outright way of telling him that he wasn’t welcomed. But who was I kidding, he never gets it. “Alpha Tristan” the young alpha addressed me properly, knowing fully well that anything less than that could get him on my bad side and he was sure too know what that meant. I sat down watching him closely. “What did I do to warrant this visit?” I let that clumsy smile go okay on my face, waiting to hear him out before coming to conclusions myself. “I just wanted to see you and say my greetings .” His happiness was visible on his face as he watched me too, too eagerly that could freak anyone else out. “Okay you’ve seen it now and you can call to do that rather than leave your pack and come all the way here.”
~Sebastian~The plan was to avoid her, forcing her to deal with two monsters isn’t what she’ll like. I thought I was going to stick to that no matter what but the little wolf just kept crossing the boundaries multiple times. It’s a fucking miracle that she’s still alive, because of her I believe every single thing they’ve ever said about the mate bond thing. Never imagined anything or anyone talking to Tristan and remained alive. She’s one interesting wolf, my future Luna to protect if she doesn’t keep pushing this revenge thing. I pretend to not see the struggles in her eyes, damn we all know it too well that whatever this is, it’s slowly killing her. I enjoy when we bicker at every turn, finding issues where there’s none. Being able to enter her young head since I have to play babysitters duty till she understands that there’s really no way out until Tristan says so. And that’s likely lots of years to come because if he wants her gone, she would hav
~Jessica~ “No, I’m not going anywhere with you.” I muttered, crossing my hands over my chest. I so much wanted to shout that out but I was guessing I shouldn’t and I didn’t. “You want my hands on you?” He asked, moving his eyes down my body. Making pictures of minutes back coming to my memory. My face was heating up a bit, i suddenly felt so uncomfortable as he was standing right there with me. I move my legs in a hurry walking past him and back to the building. I walk really fast not wanting to suddenly see his face as I could only imagine when he was just mere inches away from my mouth. “Why are you fucking running princess ?” He called out from my back his voice sounding deeper than it usually was. Wait .. what? Myra, how do we know how deep he usually sounds? I don’t respond, walking pretty fast even though I know he could catch up to me in less than a minute if he wanted to. Wait I don’t want him calling me that again an
~Jessica~ Very funny, very very funny. Ha ha you think I like you? Why? just because I felt the pain you were feeling? Get your act together Tristan. ‘That was convincing enough right? Myra don’t freaking go quiet now!’ I so wanted to blow out my brains right now. ‘Maybe’ she answered without any interest, her voice was low and sounded uninvolved. Shit! Shit! I should have atleast said something more convincing right? I didn’t like the way he was looking at me, making me almost choke as I couldn’t stop laughing at every sentence I was making. This was crazy! Entirely crazy. ‘Why the hell would he come up with a question like that, do I look like I like him or something?’ I asked, rubbing the nape of my neck And maybe I shouldn’t have asked my wolf any questions She was obviously not pleased with my answer and is not pleased with me. And I don’t want to add that to my worries, because why would she betray me this way and want our loved ones kil
~Tristan~ My eyes patiently followed the way her chest was moving. A sign that she was still very much alive and stable. I couldn’t wait any other second and let myself in to take a look at her. After hearing all Sebastian said, I knew my wolf wasn’t going to be able to calm down without seeing her. There were lots of questions on my mind right now but it can wait. Wait till I am so sure that she’s calm and sleeping without issues. “I’ll fucking kill Sebastian for delaying something as important as this.” I whispered under my breath, confirming for the third time that she was fast asleep now and wouldn’t blink so uncomfortable again. When I came in you could see signs of struggles, her eyes half asleep. Making little troubled cute sounds as she slept. I was going crazy right? Because the sounds were signs to show that she couldn’t sleep comfortably but what did I do ? Still found it h*ll cute because apparently everything about her calls to me in a diffe
~Tristan~ “What do you mean there was another attack?” My anger doubled up as he gave me a not good news. His eyes are careful and anywhere else but on me. Like he was giving me space on purpose. “Got a call from Zach.” “And you picked it in front of Jessica?” I immediately asked as I heard the name Zach. His eyes moved up with purpose, and this time around he looked at me in the face. “And of course Evie? How could you take such important calls in front of them.” I asked, bringing to his memory just in case he forgot that we were not to take such calls in front of others. Okay… we both knew they couldn’t do anything with the information we have. Maybe I didn’t want her to hear all of it and still strongly see me as a monster. It’s something I was working on changing, hoping she could see me in a different light. He smiled awkwardly, looking at me with a nod before speaking up. “They couldn’t hear anything boss and besides it had to be important for
~Jessica~ His words rang out loud and hell I haven’t seen such a disappointed look on anyone’s face before. It went completely silent, everyone’s eyes taking a peek at me and I don’t even understand what’s going on. It didn't register at all until he finally did smile a little and stood up at once to go upstairs. “Did he just say apple?” I asked myself, lost in whatever was going on right now. My eyes turned back to follow his movements but he was already gone and out of sight. I still wasn’t getting it, what did he mean by apple again? I stood up like I was wired to, I needed him to explain what he meant. I didn’t like the look he had on his face. “Don’t bother. I don’t think you should go after him if you just did the apple thing with him again.” Sebastian spoke up, stopping me from moving any further. What the hell is going on? Why do they keep saying that and having a long look on their face while at it … like I killed someone. “Can you exp
~Jessica~ “Do you want to go upstairs first?” Gianna brought me out of my thoughts, tapping me lightly as she looked at me with a small smile. The fact that I might know why that smoke was there made it all worse. “No, I'm okay. I’ll just eat dinner and then go up.” I’m not running away, whatever Sebastian said wasn’t my business in any way. She nodded her head, and walked away with that smile still plastered on her face. Like she was blushing on my behalf. The thoughts I know I can’t wash away from her memory snd she’ll definitely be thinking things about my red lips and Tristan. They would be done any minute from now and I can’t seem to get a hold of myself. I shouldn’t have listened to him say rubbish to me. “Jessica what’s wrong with you!” I hit my messed up head with one of my hsbds. His words rechoing snd Myra recharging the words ‘no harm in opening up.’ “Pfft.. like I was ever closed up. He’s clearly just not my type.” I cursed under my
~Tristan~ I finally found the missing link. I didn’t want any of my men taking this thing seriously then because I didn’t want anyone to panic. Sorry… the word should get too furious that they’ll want to dig out the person without checking twice. I’ve been quietly marking out all the suspects with the names Sebastian gave me that wanted the last lead dead immediately. I had to cross check smartness, strength, reasons and every other thing required to pull this off. The hell no one checked all the boxes at once. What was I really expecting? Not like I didn’t see this coming “You found our man?” His eyes shined brightly, ready for any information I had for him. “Yes, a small list of two people who would likely only benefit from this. “ “So it’s who’s likely to sit as the next alpha king if the present one somehow doesn’t wake up?” He asked, saying what took me literally all day to accept in one sentence. That just had to be it, because there was no other aro
~Sebastian~ I don’t hate my job one bit. I’m right in the middle of two aggressive wolves that could either love each other or hurt each other real bad. I don’t know when I started to care that much but I fucking did. I was too conscious of her movements, enjoyed her harsh talking and I earnestly waited for one when I couldn’t get it because I was busy. Well it wasn’t anything new that I didn’t know of. My wolf probably surely accepted Jess as a female wolf to protect. It was a normal duty to do since she was my alpha’s mate and so I didn’t even think about it twice. Damn I hadn’t played so much, laughed like I hadn’t had any worries when we were in very much a lot of them right now. She was young and I used to think that would make her alienate herself even more after the monster claim issue. But you can hardly recognize that if you are engaged in a conversation with her. Like she was blending and definitely getting a lot comfortable. Something she
~Jessica~ “Why did you call me out?” I asked, standing outside my door, looking at him with tired eyes. “Let’s go down. You’ve practically locked yourself for a long time.” He uttered , grabbing my hands immediately. I don’t move, taking my hand back with force. Nah ah.. I’m not doing this with anyone. Trying to force myself to sleep because I can’t get this whole disturbing thing out of my head. Everyone with each of their issues and guess what? It’s stuck like glue that won’t come off. “So what? I can’t decide to stay away from you people? You think I enjoy it here and have a lot of fun smiling and eating with you guys, don’t you?” I asked, changing the topic all over. I can’t even remember what he said again just now , I was all about what was going on, turning the issue the opposite way as I was silently airing everything I’ve been doing wrong. They are all totally wrong if I did enjoy them.. and thinking now about it, I probably did. “You think yo
~Jessica~ “How did it become so red?” She asked for like the fifth time after I tried to ignore her questions. Her eyes were looking at me confused and waiting on me for answers I wasn’t going to give her. If only Sebastian didnt run off so I could tell him not to bother, that I probably bit myself. Wait, why don’t I tell her that? “I accidentally bit myself.” I uttered in a rush, finally giving her an answer, while she insisted that she put the ice on me herself. “Hmm, are you sure? It doesn’t look like it.” She asked unawares what her questions were to me. Constantly bringing my mind to where I didn’t want them at all. “That it’s Gianna, I mistakenly bit myself while talking.” I said this time around with so much conviction so she could drop the topic. Her eyes looked a bit confused, like she was taking a minute to study it more, her hands trying to run through them but I shrugged them off. I don’t want anyone else touching my lips again. “