"You better hurry, I think we're about to run off the road."
I looked out the window to see she was right, the road was running short for us. Luckily the car was slowing down so the curve wasn't approaching as fast. I slid into the driver's seat as she wanted. I took the wheel as I hit the brake and we flung slightly forward. I cut the wheel as the curve approached and we were saved by timing. I looked at her in anger. How could she throw our driver out while the car was still going? She's purely insane.
"Some of us don't survive car crashes," I hissed through my teeth as I pulled my seat belt over my chest and locked myself in.
"I thought you didn't know how to drive."
"I lied."
Of course I lied about not knowing how to drive. In fact, Emmett was the one who taught me how. It was one of our first dates. Emmett was kind... at least to me. Only recently did he change into someone I didn't recognize. I don't want to think about him now.
"Take me to your family house. I want to see your home," she said suddenly. This whole time Lamia has been in the area, she has avoided coming to my family home. It's like it was a plague to her. Probably a reminder that my sister got away from her.
My family did, in fact. I wasn't as lucky.
"Why are you suddenly interested?"
I scowled at the thought of her stench going anywhere near my home. I couldn't stand the thought. What if she were to suddenly burn the whole place down after seeing something she didn't like?
Lamia knew where the home was. I have been staying there this whole time with Jameson and Felix. She could have paid me a visit anytime she wished. Even just to be nosy?
She didn't have to come out of the interest of me. She could have came to see what Niall or Vivienne's bedrooms were like. She could have destroyed the place out of rage... Why didn't she? Why was she avoiding coming? Why was she so interested in coming now?
The vampires cut the phone towers down so there was no signal in or out of the territory. All the landlines were down and the internet was blocked. It's like they wanted to make a zone of silence. It must've been to protect the business. Lamia's warehouse was burned down durring the fire but she still had the other businesses rerouted to our pack's little town. All the shops in the square were trasformed just like that comunity pool. It became a luxery town for the nightlife of vampires.
Bloodbars moved into town and they brought in the right paying customers. Lamia's new territory was growing just as she imagined. It was just lacking her property back in the Dragavei turf. She was winning despite it all.
The interest of setting up in a new location peaked interest in the elite rich society of the vampire race. They flocked to this new land of possibility like it was cotten candy at a fair. Vampires brought the digusting night lifestyle. New species was being marketed in the back allies of the town. I didn't venture out once they came. Jameson adviced it would be safer for me to stay at the house.
Of course that was until the talk about 'Lycanthrope.'
SO, why was she intersted in seeing my house?
"Some people don't need a reasoning for what they do. They just do things."
I glanced her way out of the corner of my eye. My heart fluttered from her beauty. She was perfect, truly. I don't think anyone alive could compare to her goddess like features. She was a beatiful siren. I felt that if I looked too long at her I would fall for her trickery. I would be sucked into liking her. I would become like my brother, Niall. I would love again... But, my love would go unrequited.
I focused on the road. My tongue stuck on saying nothing to her. I was being stubborn now. I was fighting my insticts. I wanted to look at her again... To steal just once glance would be enough for me. I was eager to talk to her again, it was becoming silly. I was being too stubborn to say anything to her. No matter how I felt. She was not worth the attraction.
I drove her to my family home in silence. She ignored me as she watched the road. It was if she was memorizing where we were going. The home was on the outskirts of the territory. It was the closest house to Dragavei territory. I would still be living here with my family if it wasn't for her. They had to leave in order to survive.
I just hope they made it safely. I haven't been able to contact them this whole time. Even in my dreams I cannot cross over to see the moon goddess. Those lands are closed. There is a huge wall imprisoning me here. I used to feel so lonely. Even Felix and Jameson were hardly companions.
How could I have these feelings for Lamia? How can I admit to having them? It was digusting to feel this way. I couldn't even tell if it was something she emitted or if it truely was coming from just my pure loneliness. I refused to believe it had anything to do with a mate bond or romantic feelings. I was probably heading into a rut season. It must be that. There was no way this was feelings.... No... Not... after what she did to my pack, my alpha, and my family?
It was like a horror story.
She had ran them off. I was stuck here all alone. I was having desires for her and I was feeling miserable as I brought my shirt down low enough to hide the buldge in my pants. I will suffer in silence. It's all I know how to do.
I parked outside the front entrance since I was too lazy to park the stranger's car out back in the garage. I figured we wouldn't be here long before she'd ask me to drive her backk where the old Alpha's pack house was. I took the keys out and stuck them in my pocket. I walked towards the door but froze when I noticed she still stayed in the car. I looked back at her. What's the matter with her? She stared me down with a slightly insulted look.
"What?" I asked quickly as I gestured for her to come on. I will leave her ass outside. My eyes looked up at the rising sun in the sky. I suppose she will be staying the day here in the luxury of my shadow filled house. I better rearrange some of the curtains for her. "You will bake if you keep sitting there. Cars get hot." She exposed her fangs before throwing open the door. She got out and slammed it shut before walking towards me.
"I am a lady," she hissed through my teeth. "Who raised a rude son of a bitch like you?"
"What?" I growled through my teeth. "Don't talk bad about my mother."
"You forgot to get the door for me you shameless bastard!"
I froze as I realized what she was mad about. I turned on my heels as I held in a laugh. Was that really what made her so mad? She really needs to get out more. We don't do those things anymore for women. That's so rediculous. Am I supposed to appolize now? Emmett used to get the door for me... It was sort of annoying to have to wait for him to walk around a car. I went up to the door and used the spare key hidden under a potted plant to get inside. I held the door open for her to try to make it up to her.
"It's not funny. Get that digusting smile off your face," she growled at the entrance of the door frame. I tilted my head until it rested against my hand holding the door.
"Do you want to come in or are you going to stay outside all day?" I asked as I was tempted to lock her outside.
"You're going to make this up to me."
"I will, now come in."
I gestured for her to come and she finally listened as she took off her cloak and held it up to me. I took it from her as I shut the door and motioned for her to wait. I put the cloak up on a coat rack. My heart fluttered as I realized I didn't know where she'd sleep. Would it be with me?
The anxious desire to be touched left me nervously covering windows. I was tucking them tight to protect her from the sunlight that would soon be shining in. I don't know why I was being so considerate. Maybe it was fear of getting my throat ripped out for not being a gentleman towards her. Maybe it was because I really felt concerned for her well being. It was growing to be worrysome.
I found her touching a leftover photo album in the family room. Her hands were running over baby pictures of us all. Her eyes twinkled in amusement.
"What ugly tiny humans," she said when she noticed me waiting by the entrance.
"Children?" I asked her and raised an eyebrow. She looked to recall the world now. "That one there is a picture of Niall. Can't you recognize the eyecolor? His son is a few pages over." I walked over to her as I took the book and flipped to Lowell. The same age in the photo, so she could have something to compare to I flipped back and forth. "Lowell."
"He's an ugly little rascal," Lamia said as she wrinkled her nose up finally when I stopped on Lowell. I scoffed before dropping the photo album to have it land safely on the table.
"Lowell is the cutest baby there ever lived," I argued before walking away from her. "You're proabably jealous you can't produce something since your heart is as cold as ice. Your overies are probably shattered into a million pieces." I stopped at the entrance. "Come on and I'll get you a nice shower."
My mind hung up on the thought of her thinking Lowell was ugly. He was super cute! Such a sweet boy and had such an amazing mother. Why would anyone bash that? I was furious from the thought of Lamia not liking the child. It was as if it was my own problem to deal with further down the road. It wasn't going to trouble me that she didn't like children. It won't if I don't let it.
How DARE she insult my nephew!
I stomped off upstairs and didn't wait for her footsteps to be following me. The house was a bit complicated to navigate. Malakai and Nena shared the same hall as me. I liked to think it was peacful growing up. We got along the best out of the sibilings. Mal was close growing up. We got into a lot of dumb shit. My sister, Nena, was the peacemaker of the family. I guess since she was the baby she was good at winning arguments.
Mal chased Viv off to college and I became obsessed with Emmett. He was facinating and talented. He knew how to woo me over. He even became the beta of the pack when Luke Mcconnell died in that tragic accident. We became inseperable. I was going to be a future beta of the pack. I was receiving extra training courses outside of the usual. Everything- WAS all ruined.
Why can't I stop thinking about it?
I stopped outside of my bedroom door. My heart pounded in my chest. I could hear her closing in on me. I was becoming nervous as I wasn't sure about letting her inside. But, my bathroom was in there. This is what I offered her after all. I sighed as I laid my head back. I was on a fense of emotions. I breathed in her scent as I found myself getting calm. Sure, I could let her in. She was only here to look around.