~Jessica~ “Who the hell is she? And why is she here?” I ignored that look on his face. He was pretty surprised or maybe shocked, the way I asked like I was damn interested. “Just answer me, I don’t care but I just want to know.” I looked at him squeezing my face real hard. It just happened on its own. I was just pretty pissed for no reason and on its own accord. “She’s Evie.” He recited, swallowing whatever the hell he was swallowing back. “You don’t think I already heard that?” I raised my eyebrows at him. Does he think I’m joking? “He said he told you about her coming? Didn’t he?” He was avoiding my question and I was seeing right through him. “No he did not. Not like I care anyway.” I cut through very sharply. My mind is faxed and going through a thorough and quick research process. I think he did say something like that but a lover he didn’t say. “Okay then. It’s only proper I don’t tell you all what you don’t care about.”
~Tristan~ ‘Stay with her’ we kept our tiny closed up mindlink going on as Sebastian definitely had something to say. ‘I don’t think you should go, maybe take her along?’ He spoke through the mindlink again and this time I took his advice, not fully understanding what he was trying to imply but the stubborn girl does what she does best and turns that down. ‘Just stay with her till I’m down with Evie.’ I told him, walking away with Evie, ignoring his plea for disagreement with all I said. I brought her here so the least I could do was be present to welcome little Evie. Well not so little Evie, she’s probably 20 or so right now. I can remember it like yesterday because it was an event, a picture that can never seem to disappear no matter how hard you try. Just that little kid that saw me get all the brutal punishment because she was one of the kids that lived in the pack house. I was meant to ignore her, I didn’t want pity from anyone talk more o
~Tristan~ Knock knock… “I really don’t need a babysitter right now.” Her voice was stern, sounding like she was ready to push a knife to whoever was standing at the other side of the door. Poor Sebastian… I can understand why he sounded so serious now. I pushed the door open, ignoring whatever threat and anger I could hear through her voice. “Are you sure about that?” I asked, pushing the door wide open and did the honors of letting myself in. Her face went numb for a second, definitely not expecting to see me. “It’s not Sebastian dummy and who says you don’t need a babysitter?” I asked, teasing her as I kept my eyes on her but used one of hands to lock the door shut. “Wait .. what are you doing? Why are you locking the doors?” Her eyes follow my hand movements. Watching me lock the door as she definitely wasn’t in support of that but guess who cares? Not me. “Chill, you look like you are about to see a ghost.” I stared at her, taking a quick guess at what
~Jessica~ Yesterday didn’t happen, it didn’t happen. That monster didn’t just look at me, with a mocking smile in his eyes as he watched me go on and on about how unappropriate all this was about him bringing his girl to the house. He didn’t just laugh at me but muttered that I was better off thinking about whatever I wanted to as long as I looked cute doing it. I rub both my cheeks as they heat up for like what? The hundredth time this morning? I walk right straight to the kitchen with thoughts to go about my morning like I’ve been doing for days now. Hoping just hoping I don’t meet her there. “Good morning Jessica, you are up later than usual?” Gianna asked vibrantly, taking a glance at me before returning back to what she was doing. “Morning, Was hoping by the time I come down, I won’t have to meet one ma’am.” I don’t mention her name, taking a seat by the island as other maids were present too. She doesn’t say anything at f
~Jessica~ ‘Myra I didn’t overreact did I?’ I sat still, the finished empty cup in my hands. I wanted to confirm that my staying here hasn’t had a bad effect on me that I misunderstood Evie. Sincerely speaking I could care less but I wanted to be sure this whole thing wasn’t playing with my head. Myra doesn’t say anything, her presence strong but also like she was slipping away. I didn't want that kind of reminder and Sebastian made me spit it out. It wasn’t my best choice to act like it’s no mistake staying with the monster that stole my joy. I was pretty much bottling everything up, understanding that crying every day with the painful image in my head every time wouldn’t help but put me in such a mood that I might not be able to think well before acting. I have to stay alive to avenge them, even if it’s the last thing I ever do, I’ll do it. There’s suddenly this moment of silence slowly engulfing me. The words I just said to myself looked lik
~Tristan~ “What’s the problem now?” I had to freaking ask, as this fucker was practically breathing down my space. Well he was calm, just stood there, his eyes saying a thousand things his mouth refused to utter. “Nothing boss, I’ll just stand here.” He says in a tone I can all too hear his want to air something out. “I won’t ask another time, just my fist in your face next if you don’t get out with it in the next second.” It wasn’t a threat, we both knew well that I’ll do it. “Okay Tristan, I don’t think it’s going to go well between those two.” He was direct with it. His face head on but avoiding my look. “Which two?” I wanted to act like I don’t know because to the best of my knowledge I don't know what he is talking about. My face looked straight at him, keeping him in place. “Jess and Evie.” He says it straight on. “Jessica, Sebastian. Jessica.” It comes out on its own and normally I could stop myself from acting on i
~Jessica~ “Anything to eat? I got a lot more hungry after wasting my strength talking to someone.” I said, entering the kitchen with a small smile. We all should definitely know the person in question. I found my favorite chair I was beginning to love and sat down, waiting for Gianna to say something. “Is that someone coming here too?” She asked almost immediately, lifting her head to check. A look on her face told me she was being conscious and I didn’t like that. “Why are you doing that? Why do you need to check to confirm.” I asked, following her eyes as she also checked the flight of stairs too. “I just have to be sure, I don’t want to fall into some kind of trouble while telling you anything I shouldn’t.” She says, finding no fault with it. I wanted to say something but refrained from it, she definitely had reasons and truly I can’t make her get into trouble. She’s a maid and could get into those. I nod my head at her,
~Tristan~ “You’ve never had anything to fuss about so what’s going on? My mate’s changing you?” The words come out on its own as this was the second time I asked him to send Jessica in and he has come up with the most absurd excuse. And yea I’ve decided to only vsll her mate in front of others. I’m staking my claim. ‘I just haven’t seen her all day and I can get whatever you want me to get for you.’ How he can even whisper that through the mindlink got me curious. His voice gave him away as I knew him better than anyone. That was an outright lie. ‘Send her and don’t make me say it for like what? The third time now?!’ I’ve given her a whole lot of time to recover from whatever it is and I only did that because I was for the first time trying to be considerate. She wouldn’t want to face me was all I could hear and I could also read that from Sebastian silent gestures. But it’s been more than a week now, she can come closer now. •••• “You ask
~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