“Alice! Bobby is still inside!” She yelled.
“You can come back for him later, just get me away from here….”
She started the engine as I covered my face with my hands, catching my breath. No, no, no… I chanted. We were on the highway when Emma received a call from Bobby and explained to him how I had run away as if I had seen a ghost.
“Care to explain what happened?” She was annoyed, and my wet dress, soaking up her car seat, was not helping.
“I bumped into someone,” I breathed hard, trying to keep down my wolf, who was ready to tear out of my body.
“So? Was it that bad that you had to run away?”
“He is my mate,” I whispered.
“What!” Emma blurted and nearly dashed the car into a tree.
“Emma! Look ahead,” I screamed as we narrowly missed a tree. Emma stopped the car at the side.
“We must go back to the party,” Emma said
“No! ” I almost yelled.
“Who was he?” she asked cautiously.
“I don’t know, and I don’t even want to know,” I whispered absentmindedly.
My wolf was angry with me.” how can you leave our mate? ” She cribbed.
“Look, let us just pretend this never happened. Do not tell anyone. I can control my wolf. My mate…… I mean, that man does not know who I am, he cannot find me. I am leaving in a few weeks, anyway. So, everything will be forgotten by him.”
Emma snorted,” that’s not how it works, princess. Now that he knows you exist; he will search heaven and earth to reach you. He would not leave you alone until you submit.”
“Great! So now I have a stalker!” I said sarcastically.
“It’s also possible that he doesn’t want a mate, either. Then he would leave me alone, right?” I asked, hopefully.
“Highly unlikely. Not all werewolves are a weirdo like you,” Emma replied.
“I am not a weirdo; I am a smart, rational person capable of making my own decisions. I do not rely on fate or God.” I said as somberly as my disheveled state allowed.
“I am going to change clothes in the back seat. Do not talk about this incident to anyone, ok?” I said with finality.
Emma shook her head, “Yeah, whatever.”
**********
Lucian
I could smell her near the poolside. My wolf was restless. I glanced at the crowd of people frolicking, but it was difficult to pinpoint among the crowd.
I rushed towards her. Her scent was like nothing I had ever smelled before; it was light, fresh, and wonderful. If I could only smell one thing in the entire world, forever, it would be her scent. I could live off her scent alone. As intoxicating as her scent was, it could not even compare to how it felt when her skin first touched mine. It was euphoric.
My body was on fire as desire and a desperate need to be closer to her body consumed me. My world had stopped spinning around the dull sun and now rotated around this celestial being.
It happened all so suddenly. I did not mean to bump into her, but as we fell into the pool, I automatically snaked my hand up her back and wound my fingers through her hair at the base of her head. My lips rested against her neck for barely a second, and that was enough to know she was mine.
Her soft body molded perfectly into mine, confirming she was made for me.
The only thing that could make this moment more enjoyable was for her to reciprocate these powerful emotions. I could barely control myself as her hazel eyes stared into mine.
“Mine.” My wolf roared. “Yes mine, this beautiful creature was mine,” I thought.
It took a split second to go from the euphoric bliss of her touch to the harsh reality of why she was not returning my desire. She looked at me horrified, then she was running away. Scrambling out of the pool.
“Stop her,” my wolf said.
“Did I scare her?” I wondered.
“Hey, wait,” I said.
That seemed to make her run even faster.
“What did you do to her, Lucian?” Garret, my old friend, joked.
“Nothing yet,” I grinned at him.
“You have scared her off,” Garret replied, laughing.
My Beta Damon was now standing by my side as soon as I got out of the pool. He looked baffled.
“Are you ok, boss?”
“Yeah,” I replied as I followed my lovely mate. I was uncertain why she was running away. After looking for my mate for the last 10 years, I had given up hope when Luna felt benevolent toward me.
“What happened, boss? You look a little lost?”
Damon passed me a towel.
“You see that girl in white running towards the porch?”
He nodded.
“She is my mate and your future Luna.”
“What?” Damon looked incredulous.” But why is she leaving?”
“No clue, maybe she wants to be chased the old-fashioned way. Find out everything about her.” I commanded and turned back into the house.
“How can you let her go? You know you want her?” My wolf chided me.
“All in good time, dear, all in good time.” I soothed my wolf.
I woke up slowly and fought my way to consciousness as if trying to swim up from deep, dark waters. I was 9 again, there was smoke everywhere. People were running around trying to escape the fire, there were gunshots. I closed my ears, trying to shut out the chaos, someone grabbed my shoulders. It hurt.
I looked up at the face of the man, but it was all blurry. Then I was running again, I hid under a table and shut my eyes and ears again.
“Do not be scared, I will protect you……” Said a gentle voice. I turned and there was a boy, a few years older than me. He was hiding along with me while the smoke billowed around us.
I woke up sweating from my nightmare, breathing hard. I checked my watch, it was still early.
Five am to be precise. Most of the juveniles and younger wolves would have already started their training. But I was on a vacation. I could catch a few more hours of sleep. Though I could not sleep anymore.
I lay in my bed and replied to a few emails, exchanged a few messages with Mark. My thoughts automatically shifted to the green-eyed stranger.
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