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âYou should stay with me. Youâll be safe here, just donât leave my side,â he continued. I almost melted right that moment. My wolf purred. I was happy with the idea but I couldnât just leave everyone back home and stay with him like I donât have any other obligations of my own.
âI-I canâtâ I said. âIâm just here for a vacation, me and my sisters. Next week, weâre going back to New York. Iâm sure the rogues wonât follow us there.â
Caleb surely didnât like the idea. He looked annoyed and uncomfortable. He was about to say another word but closed his mouth. Is he hiding something? He rubbed his forehead for a bit and finally said, âYou must stay here until your vacation ends then. At least let me look out for you.â He looks genuinely worried that it almost crushed me seeing that in his expression. Without second thoughts, I agreed.
CHAPTER 3 - Living Together --- Wrong Choice?
Weâve been arguing for hours with my sisters, particularly Freya. âMaya, we donât know him. Why did you suddenly agree in staying with that guy?â
âHeâs my Mate. I trust him.â I replied, trying to sound convincing.
Freya huffed. âYouâve known him in less than 24 hours! Donât just trust anyone like that even if heâs your mate!â she was pacing in the living room of our hotel suite. We went back to get our luggage and then check out, while Caleb waited outside of the hotel.
âThis is for our safety. What if he was telling the truth?â
âIf heâs telling the truth, we can handle ourselves without staying with him. Iâm a great fighter, remember?â
âSo are we just gonna stand here?â Aya interrupted our conversation, eyebrows arched and arms crossed on her chest. âI agree here with Mai this time, Frey, no offense meant.â Aya agrees with me? Well this doesnât happen a lot! I have to remember this day! Ha!
âNot you, too, Ai!â Freya cried, frustrated. She put her hands on her head in so much frustration.
âYou see, Mates have a different connection. You donât need to know everything about them before you decide to like that person. In the cases of mating, us werewolves already like our mates from the first time we laid our eyes on them. We feel like weâve known them for years. We trust them with all our hearts and rest assured that they would never do anything to hurt us. Itâs already the law of nature.â Aya explained. I give her 2 thumbs up for that. She definitely is the logical one.
âYouâre saying we should do what Caleb asked?â Freya asked. She was already standing beside me, crossing her arms on her chest.
âYup! Itâs better than being with just the 3 of us. If there are a lot of rogues, weâd surely lose to them no matter how skillful you are, Frey. We should trust him because heâs Mayaâs mate.â Freya sighed and threw her hands in the air, motioning to accept defeat. I smiled and looked at Aya. âThank you,â I mouthed to her. She smiled back and shrugged. Iâm really thankful that Aya convinced Freya. I donât want to risk anything. Iâm worried of what might happen so it was better to be with Caleb and his pack. His packâwhere were they when we went to that haunted house? I only saw Jake. Where were the others? I donât even know how big their pack is. I sighed. I still donât know a lot about Caleb. Iâll take this as a chance to get to know him.
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We arrived on the haunted house again. Itâs already 2 in the afternoon and we still hadnât eaten. My stomach grumbled suddenly and I felt embarrassed. My sisters laughed at me. Caleb just stared at me, amused. Okay, Iâm pretty sure I wanna die at this very moment. âI-Iâm sorry about that... I hadnât eaten anything since this morning.â I blushed. Caleb shot me an angry look. What did I do now?
âLetâs go inside. I already asked someone to fix lunch for us.â Caleb said in a cold and demanding voice.
We seated on the long dining table. The food was already prepared. Roasted turkey, vegetable salad and mashed potatoes. The food smells so good. We ate until our stomachs were bloated. Caleb already finished eating before us. He was now talking outside with Jake and another pack member, I donât know his name. He wasnât with the 5 men who abducted me either.
I stood up from my seat, trying to stretch my arms and legs. I left the dining hall. Freya and Aya were still there, talking about just anything. I didnât know what because I wasnât even paying attention.
I went outside to get some fresh air. I saw Caleb and the 2 guys still talking. It was surely a serious talk and I saw Calebâs angry expression even if he was almost 20 meters away. He might have sensed that I was standing by the large double doors of the houseâs entrance. He looked at my direction then looked to his men and nodded. The 2 men nodded back and went inside the forest, running fast.
I walked towards him. He was already facing me; his face shows no signs of emotion. As I came closer, I could smell him more. Oh Iâm so addicted to his heavenly scent. I could smell him all day. After smelling him, Iâll hug him. Iâll touch every inch of hisâoh my creepy self! Why am I thinking about these things! Dirty thoughts, get away!
âAre you done eating?â he finally asked when I was only 5 feet away from him.
âYeah. The food was really great. Thanks.â I replied, trying to be as calm and as composed as I can be. I inhaled, my way of keeping myself calm, but it only got worse. I could smell him. Itâs making me uneasy. My wolf already wants to jump onto him and claim him. Crap! No! Behave! I scolded my wolf. She just scowled at me, mad at the idea of me trying to fight the urge of touching him. I closed my eyes and inhaled small amounts of air.
I sensed Calebâs intense gaze at me. I opened my eyes and looked at him. And there I saw wanting and lust in his eyes. Iâm starting to lose myself again. My wolf is howling. She wants him and she wants him now! This is not good. I need to stand my ground. I still have a lot to ask to him. âC-Calebâ I finally managed to say something, stuttering. I saw him flinched. Heâs really affected everytime I said his name. His eyes glistenedâoh his mesmerizing emerald green eyes. It was like his eyes were saying somethingââI want youâ.
âWhat?â he already recovered from the heated moment between us.
âI was just curious... when I woke up this morning, I couldnât remember anything that happened yesterday, why is that? And when I saw you, I remembered everything except after the time you carried me out of the room where I wasââ I trailed off. I donât know how to say this without making him angry. I saw how he got mad yesterday and I donât want that to happen again. He stiffened after hearing my question. Now, Iâm pretty sure heâs hiding something. Iâm not sure what but Iâm determined to find out.
âYou were just maybe traumatized by what happened to you.â He answered, he was careful in picking his words. He looked so guarded. But I shouldnât push my luck too much so I just believed what he said for now.
âReally? I guess youâre rightâ I said, trying to be very convincing. I saw him relaxed, like he was relieved of something. But my interest is piqued so I canât help but ask another question. âWhat happened after you carried me? I just want to know.â
âYou asked me to get you back to your suite because youâre already worried about your sisters. But before that, I called one of my pack doctors to cure your wounds. They werenât totally healed though because you were already in hurry to go back to your hotel. I just have to carry you close to me so that at least I could make you feel better and lessen the pain.â
âI-I see. Thank you.â I smiled at him. I felt happy that he took care of me last night even if it was just for a short while. He then snapped his head up and paused. He might be having a mind conversation with someone in his pack. I just stood there, looking at himâadmiring his glorious handsome face and perfectly sexy physique. Iâm sure he noticed my gaze because he glanced at me with an uneasy expression. I didnât care about what he was thinking catching me checking him out. I need to satisfy my wolf even just by looking. One step at a time. I said to my wolf. She just purred.
âI have to go. It seems thereâs a bit of an emergency,â Caleb said, interrupting my moment.
âUhmm, okay.â I said.
âDonât worry, youâre safe here. This place is surrounded by my men. Iâll be back before you know it.â He said and ran towards the direction the 2 guys went earlier. I followed my gaze to where he was and saw him shifted to his wolf. He was a black wolfâa beautiful black wolf. He stopped and turned his head, looking at me. I saw his green eyes. He nodded and went his way. I watched him as he disappeared through the thick forest. I felt like Iâve seen the wolf before. I thought deeply for a while when I finally remembered where I saw that wolf. The painting! He was the wolf in the painting displayed in a street in London before I was abducted. He was the beautiful wolf.
Questions are now piling up inside my head. I need answers.
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I woke up in the middle of the night. This is strange. Iâm a sleeper. When Iâm asleep, itâs already hard to wake me up, wherever I may be, comfortable or not. I looked around the bedroom. My sisters were sleeping soundly beside me. I started feeling uneasy. I feel rage inside me. My wolf feels it too, sheâs somewhat annoyed. I slowly got out of the bed, sniffing, trying to catch Calebâs scent. None. He hasnât come back yet. I went out of the room, towards the stairs. Before I took a step down, I smelled something. It was a very light scent, meaning it was at least a mile away or so. I sniffed again and realized what it wasâblood. I ran down the stairs as fast as I could, but tried not to disturb my sleeping sisters. I opened the double doors in the front of the house, still sniffing. The scent was coming from where Caleb disappeared earlier today. Without any more thinking, I followed the trail of the scent. I ran through the thick forest. The smell of blood is getting stronger, so as the rage that I feel. Why am I feeling rage? Iâm confused. I stopped when I saw a lightâor a camp fire, Iâm not sure. I walked
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