~Jessica~ I didn’t know when I finished the food, drinking every last bit of the soup and taking all of the fruits cut up in the plates as i was completely famished. I stood up, getting my strength back as I thought of taking the plates to Gianna myself. We weren’t in a good place or even friends but I needed the Information I could get from her. I stood there, taking in his scent, hating myself for it but it was like a force I couldn’t hold back. And I was alone so there wasn’t any need to lie to myself that I liked it. Knock ..knock “Gianna? Come on.” I asked, telling her to come in. There wasn’t need for her to knock anyways. “Let me just get these for you, when do you think we can talk?” My back faced the door as I put the plates together so I could make it easier for her. I suck it in.. the dark, woody and manly scent every young wolf would fawn over. It felt so real, so close to me. I nod my head, brushing the thought off as I was wearing h
~Jessica~ Arghhh!! I hate it! I hate the fact that his compliment made my stomach churn in a fluttery way. His face etched in one part of my brain, the scent of his cloth on me slowly intoxicating and I didn’t see myself taking it off. Can I … can I stay here? I didn’t want to forget why I was originally here. I don’t want to forget my plans of laying low only for a while. But what the hell would you have me do when I can’t get the fact that he touched me out of my head. Someone knocks on the door and I don’t even wait to ask who was there, taking a guess already. “Please go away!” I screamed out those words, hoping it’ll do the magic as there wasn’t any need locking doors when he can let himself in anyways. Whoever it is pushed the door lightly. “Don’t fucking push me!” I used all me to mutter those words as I just had a feeling I wouldn’t be able to do anything if he stood right in front of me, waiting to see what I’ll do. “I just need to get the
~Jessica~ I was finally myself, back to being the maid he wanted me to be. Everywhere seemed busy, it had been like this for days, people walking up and down like they were on a life mission. It had never been so busy here in the kitchen as finally they were all showing their faces. I didn’t want to see their faces before with the insults they gave me on my first day here, but I’ll rather have them here now on.. anything to take my mind off him. I gave it through thinking and it’s way better to see a bunch of maids who could only try to inflict pain on you with just their words than to stay in this big house with one beta annoying the shit out of me and the big bad alpha inflicting pain on me with his words, presence and everything that embodied him. I was going to pretend like I wasn’t counting the days, which was almost a week that I hadn’t seen his face. I asked a few questions from Gianna and definitely nobody had taken on my job yet as his personal serv
~Tristan~ “Is she good?” I asked immediately my beta stepped in. I shouldn’t be asking to know if she’s fine and keeping up well. Okay maybe that question should be if she wasn’t causing any troubles. But I just damn shouldn’t be asking any question about her at all, we were in a crisis and I should keep my head in the game. But that just wasn’t going to happen when I knew my young mate was somewhere in this house, moving around, hopefully not in clothes that didn’t reveal much. Thank God my men don’t come in here. “Yea she's good.” He repeated the same answer he gave me every time I asked. Refusing to question my actions and it was a good decision as I wouldn’t have answered and still asked about her. “He’s still pushing up for a visit right?” I asked, taking our minds back to serious business. Leroy was seriously pushing it, and I swear it’s only his title keeping him safe from me. “Yes boss, I had to intercept many of his calls.
~Sebastian~ (early morning before he spoke to her.) “Don’t act strange, don’t be stupid. Don’t make her feel alone or lonely, use your brain wisely and don’t make me come clean up this place when its splattered with your blood.” I was only following orders, using even kinder words than the one Tristan sent me to say. “Okay beta Sebastian. We’ll do just that.” They responded all at once, their heads bowed down as you could taste their fear in the air. This was not my duty in any way but I’ll gladly do it because it’s for her. There wasn’t any reason for me to act protective of her, but I wanted to do it without finding any issue with it as it just felt like a duty I had to do. He doesn’t realize it yet but I know he doesn’t plan on rejecting her and if I’m guessing rightly, it’s not even in his thoughts at all. His actions, the looking past her actions, his questions here and there, making sure she was fine even while he was goddamn busy. “She
~Jessica~ I was getting used to everything, just standing on the sidelines as the others worked. Been days Sebastian agreed on being friends with me. He disappeared since then, I don't know why I haven’t said that before but I just did. It felt weird, and burdensome taking my eyes up every time I heard noise. They’ve been in the office most of the times together and other times it’ll just be Tristan there alone. Crazy right? Taking notes seemed to happen by itself, like there was nothing I could do about it and trust me when I say that I tried stopping. “Why do you get so busy if your alpha never gets out?” It just occurred to me suddenly and I just had to ask. They all did hear me as I noticed the way their eyes moved up. “I mean why do you guys get so busy and do a whole lot of things daily.” I rephrased the question, waiting now for an answer. “The other men get very hungry after training hard everyday. And we also prepare for those on duties, and all.” One of th
~Jessica~ “Don’t .. don’t call me any of that.” I spoke out, my voice losing its normal strength it was used to. He was staring straight into me, probably enjoying the way I sounded and was looking so unsure. “Okay if that's what you want. And you still haven’t clarified the thing about wanting to know who served me, you know I’m not believing that apple shit thing” He asked again, clearly not planning on letting this go. I start to fidget and I don’t know why,.. it had never happened before. Like I was becoming too conscious of his presence, hell I was even doing everything in me to get pictures of him up close away from my head. I tried to put on a smile, completely confused on what’s going on with me but I’m definitely going to hide it.. mask it all away till I figure out what’s happening. “Just wanted to make you were hale and hearty. You know only I get to drive a stake through your heart.” His smile depended, I could already picture him laug
~Jessica~ “You don’t look happy or yourself, are you okay?” He asked, disturbing my thoughts. I gave him my attention briefly, telling him off. I really wasn’t in the mood now. It’s been a day and I haven't seen him again. I mean I don’t want to see him or anything but he said he was going to see me soon. And Sebastian standing right in front of me, talking and saying things I wasn’t clearly paying attention to. He’s been around, showing up even just to say that he was busy before disappearing but that monster was playing a ghost on me. I needed to talk to him, we needed to clear up some things. If possible, ask him to forget the image of my naked body in his head so that I can feel a bit settled. I was too concious, didn’t want to see him but I’ve been hoping he would walk in on me unexpectedly like before while I sit on my thoughts. Asking him to be his annoying self, while I be the stubborn one till I get my revenge on him. “Jess? You don’t loo
~Tristan~ “Tristan, did you even hear what i said? He’s asking if he can come here to seek refuge?!” Sebastian tried not to scream that out loud. Something I could already imagine him doing in his mind already. “Yes I heard your clearly the first and the second time. Just let him come, prepare someplace for him or something.” I said to him absentmindedly. I mean I did hear him clearly but fuck the thought of the way her face was all red and puffy. Trying so hard to appear cool and not affected by the question, when she still hasn’t said a firm No to my question. I was in a damn happy mood and nothing was going up stop it. Not this hatred thing between Sebastian and Nevan. “You want me to let one of our suspect here?” His brows were raised up in a questioning way. “And give him access to harm someone?” You could see it all in his body movements. He was damn trying to look up anything and say anything that’ll stop Nevan from coming here. He was pr
~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