Chapter Three

Axel P.O.V

She opened the door in a hurry and ran straight into me, falling flat on her butt, I didn’t want to but could help but laugh at how clumsy she is, always falling and hurting herself. “Watch it Annalee you will hurt yourself again” I chuckled. Reaching down to pick her up she winced under my touch. “You, okay?” maybe she had fallen harder than I thought and felt bad for laughing at her.

“I’m fine just late, bye” she shouted as she rushed past me. She was a little whirl wind always running all over the place. Everyone kept her so busy around the packhouse I do not know how she did it all with a smile on her face. Since she wasn’t allowed to go to school, I would borrow books from the library for her and give her copies of all the work she missed out on so she could keep up with the rest of us. She needed to get out of this place when she turned eighteen and if she missed all these years of school, she wouldn’t be able to get her high school certificate and find a job to support herself, I couldn’t do much for her but I could do this. Leaving the books and homework on her bed I laid a small chocolate bar on the top knowing it was her favourite and silently closed her door and left.

Since being ordered to stay away from her, I missed her so much my heart hurt constantly. She was my closest childhood friend. She wasn't just wanting to get close to me because I was the son of the Alpha, she just wanted someone to talk to. Always looking forward to those moments I could sneak out of bed and go find her, talking in her room for hours, about everything and nothing. Spending hours laughing together, I would do anything to hear her infectious belly laugh again the kind that made her cry and snort. After I was caught sneaking into her room my father warned me, I couldn’t be seen with the hybrid, it would put a mark on the perfect Heartly name, we couldn’t be seen associating with the lowly creature. Me, I do not really give a shit if she is a hybrid or pure blood, I just want to spend time with my friend. But when he threatened to send her away if I didn’t listen that’s when I got scared. Against my mother’s protest, he was addiment, if I was found to be spending time with her again, she was gone. There was hurt and confusion when I explained it to her but she just went on with it, never complaining and never questioning.

Bringing my thoughts back to the present not even realising I had been tracing the scar on my right palm. Suddenly remembering that night and the promise I made, I know that the older we got the less I was keeping that promise. But I had no other choice and if I didn’t stay away, if I let her back in even a little, I knew I wouldn’t be able to leave her again and it would end badly for her. The thought of her being sent somewhere else and not being here killed me, so I pushed the need to be with her deep down and let out a sigh. Sometimes I just watch her from afar, as she cleans or cooks, whirling around in her own little world deep in thought, thinking of goddess knows what in that beautiful head of hers.

Wait what? Did I just refer to her as beautiful? No, she was my best friend, I didn’t see her like that, did I? Arrh Crap!

I cannot feel that way about her, I needed to find Xander and Tristan I needed to punch something and work out this sudden overwhelming feeling of frustration before school.

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Maddox’s P.O.V

As I lay in bed, staring at the blank ceiling I couldn’t help feeling exhausted from the long day I had. Being the next Alpha in training wasn’t the luxury experience everyone thought it was. Training was early and long, my father pushed me harder than any other in the pack and rightfully so. After training and going over policies and procedures in the pack and learning about the family businesses, I had school all day. My parents expected me and my younger brother Axel to not only achieve high grades but the top grades with anything less, unexpectable. After school we had private tutors for hours before more combat training. Our pack was known for the strong warriors, my father Alpha Maxwell Heartly, was known far and wide as a strong and powerful Alpha, like the generations before him.  Soon that responsibility would fall on my shoulders, and I didn’t know if I was ready. Pushing that thought away because I had no other choice, I had been preparing for this since I was born, I would be strong enough, I would make sure I was.

As I begin to drift off to sleep, I can’t help but think about those huge round midnight blue eyes that have been interrupting my thoughts all day. They are the colour of the ocean you see surrounding tropical islands, deep, with a powerful pull, full of beauty and secrets just waiting to be explored. Those eyes belong to a girl so beautiful it hurts, fair skin that reminds me of milk, hair slightly wavey that hangs below her shoulders as black as a starless night, lips so full and pink I want to know what they taste like. My eyes and hands want to know what is under all those baggy clothes she wears all the time, wanting to know how it feels to run my hand over her body and make her feel good. Annalee Starling, even her name was beautiful. The orphan hybrid, everyone is scared of, of what she could turn into. No one really knows what a witch, wolf hybrid will be capable of but they are scared as hell to find out. Honestly it just intrigued me, she was special, unique, forbidden and beautiful, and no one knew my secret, that I prayed for her to be my mate, NEEDED, her to be my mate!

My parents took her in and raised her, but never let her forget that she was a hybrid, considered the lowest form of supernatural, not really belonging anywhere. My mother always had a soft spot for her, convincing my father against all his protest, to let her stay when the warriors found her, alone and scared in the woods when she was five. Watching her grow up these past ten years has been torture. The older she gets the more beautiful she becomes. Knowing I could not have her, that no one would approve killed me inside and being the next Alpha I had a duty to my pack, and my pack came first. If she was my mate, I would have two years to change things in this pack before she would sense me as hers. By then I would be Alpha my word law, I could accept her into the pack and I wouldn’t have to stay away anymore and just watch from afar I could hold her, claim her, make her mine, forever. The older she gets the more her beauty is being noticed by other male pack members, I would catch them staring at her perfectly rounded arse sticking up when she was bent over cleaning something on the floor. Or see them looking at the tight toned abs when reaching for something on a top shelf. Thay would not admit being attracted to her if asked because of what she is. Jealously rages through me whenever I see them looking at her, she was not theirs to look at, I want to rip out their throats and watch as they drown in their own blood. But I can’t, it would reveal my true feelings towards her and my father would make her leave, before I got the chance to claim her as mine and she would find someone else who would claim her. Just the thought of another holding her makes me shake with anger, rubbing my face with my hands, groaning internally, I to try to banish the thought I needed to calm down before I put another hole in my wall because of her.

Watching my younger brother form a bond with her when they were younger, had me blinded with rage, although at the time I had no idea why. That’s why I told my father he had been sneaking into her room at night and he forbid Axel from spending time with her. Knowing this would hurt her but it had to be done, I needed him away, even though she doesn’t know it yet she has always been mine, not his. But I had to be patient dad would send her away if I got close to her, so for now, I needed to keep my distance, just admiring her from afar.

Letting my thoughts be consumed by her, her laugh, her falling into my arms in the kitchen this morning. Her mesmerising eyes looking up at me through her lashes with innocence and the slight blush on her cheeks, I found myself getting painfully hard. She will submit to me, I will consume her fully and take that innocence, it was rightfully mine to have, when the time was right. Letting my hands find their way into my boxers, I pumped at my hardened length while my thoughts turn to her milky white flesh laying beneath me while I fill deep within her. Her sweet voice moaning my name over and over again. These thoughts seemed to fill my nights lately, until I sill into my own hand. This girl has so much power over me, she is my obsession, she fills my mind completely and owns my heart and she doesn’t even know it.