Bullshit? BULLSHIT? I'm here because this ass decided he's too good to try and get along with me, he's selfish enough to change everything for his convenience and I'm the one in the wrong in his eyes? What the hell? And everyone here seems to be agreeing with him?
If I didn't want to be near Nick before now, I'm starting to despise him. Let's say I do agree to be his mate, would it always be like this? Everyone agreeing with him and me just passively giving up? Fuck you all.
"Nick" I say calmly, and he looks at me with a cocky smile on his face but that face soon disappears into anger once he looks at my face, I'm looking at him with disgust "You really are a fool".
"…mate called us fools" I hear the wolf's unhappy voice.
-Yes, I called you fools- I think my answer to the wolf
"You and that wolf are both stupid idiots without brains. Apollo, if you really love me that much you should've stopped Nick before he took me away from my home, I somewhat liked you before but now that's over, you're just as bad as Nick in my eyes, and you Nick. You're an ass, and I hate you" I can't even recognize my voice, it sounds so venomous, far more vicious than what I'm used to.
I know I said a lot of things that shouldn't make sense to him but I'm so angry I don't even care. I can't only ignore a situation for so long. 'Apollo', I remembered the name that warrior told me when I saved Nick. I wish I didn't, I should've let them die.
"What the hell…?" I hear Dylan say now "You told her about your wolf?" he asks Nick, but he shook his head.
"I told her!" Jos intercepted and I looked at her in surprise. She's covering me and I smile, I really like Jos. She must be wondering how I know too but she decided to protect me instead, I'm glad she's with me.
"I really hate stupid idiots like you" I direct my words to Nick again. After I said everything I wanted to say I feel the anger decrease. Alright, I'm done, but now I don't want to go back home… at least not yet.
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Nick's POV
Her words anger me but also make me more and more interested in her. I loved to see emotions in her, her voice didn't raise much and she still looked somewhat numb but her voice showed a lot of anger.
While she talks the only thing I can think of is to take her back to my room and have my way with that sweet body of hers. Make that face show emotions only I can see.
"Mate's body… I want to bite it, taste it. I want it!" Apollo shouted and that make my smirk wider. Finally, something we can agree on.
"Please stop lusting over my body. I dislike that very much" I hear her say and I look at her. Were my eyes changing? I didn't feel like they were but even if they were… how could she know? Did someone explain her?
"Does it make you uncomfortable?" I say while walking towards her and biting my bottom lip. Once I reached her, I take off the hood of the onesie. I lean until my face was next to her ear "don't be afraid, I'm sure you'll like it" I say while biting her earlobe.
"ah" she exclaimed as if she just realized something. She takes a step back and I let go of her ear, I don't want to hurt her. She looks and points at me with one finger "Exhibitionist?" she says with sparkling curiosity.
"Man! She really says the weirdest things!" I hear my beta laughing. Fucking Dylan loves to make me lose my cool. I see around and my pack members seem confused. I get them, she sounded angry before, I liked seeing a different reaction but the way she changed from angry to her normal unimpressed face also surprised me for a second.
She turns her head towards my beta "Is it weird? I didn't know… I must say it's my first-time meeting an exhibitionist" she says calmly "Do you feel excited displaying your naked body and sexual desires in front of a crowd?" she asks again, and I hear Lucas and Dylan laughing.
"I'm not a fucking exhibitionist!" I can't believe she actually thinks something so stupid!
"But when I saw you in the forest you were naked, then you slept shirtless and now you're making sexual innuendos in a crowd. I supposed that is what an exhibitionist does" she said calmly with a pensive face.
"She's adorable when she does that! She's so cute! Take her with us! to our room! Let's mark her! Let's mate with her! She'll feel the sparkles! She'll feel like us!!" Apollo shouts. He's giving me a headache.
"I don't want to mate with you, and I don't want to be marked. I don't want to go with you either" I hear Alice say and I look at her in surprise.
She covers her mouth as if she just realized what she was saying. I see her face make a new expression. She looks mortified. Everyone around us is just confused but I know.
I thought I was imagining before but now I know for sure. She wasn't talking to herself, no… she was talking with my wolf, she was answering Apollo's words.
"You… you can hear him? How? Can you mind link with him?" how? She's not part of the pack and even if she were… she's human. Humans can't mind link with us with or without the mark.
"I'm not mind linking her!" Apollo informs me. I smell her insecurity and fear. Her eyes were directed toward the exit of the kitchen.
She scrunches her face and looks at me with a fierce gaze, even when her face seems to do just small movements, I know that's showing a lot of emotion her, I like it.
"Nick" she says calmly, completely taking me by surprise. Judging by her face I thought I was going to listen to a different kind of voice. "Yes?" I reply.
"You shouldn't ask for things you don't want to know" she says seriously "you're still on time. Don't ask me more and let me go"
Does she think this will frighten me? You're wrong my little mate. I will never let you get away from me. Not now and not ever.
"Adorable" I say absent-minded "I find it cute how you want to look intimidating".
She's looking at me with that expression again as if I was a pitiful person. "I'm not intimidating, that would be pointless, I'm weak, I can't do much. I'm giving you an honest warning, but you seem determined in finding your end within a few days" she sighs, and she looks ready to say something else, but she's interrupted by a loud sound.
BANG
We hear a shotgun outside of the packhouse and I immediately start walking toward the entrance -are we under attack? Is it the red river pack? Are they finally attacking us? No… not know, she's not in a safe place, I have to take her to the underground bunker".
I open the door and meet the intruder, one man, one man with a shotgun tightly grabbed around his fingers.
"Let my daughter go!" he says with fervent determination "This is not what I was told when I accepted the job! I was told we would be protected, no one told me my child was going to be taken away from me!"
"She's not a doll or a toy you can take just because you want to! She has thoughts and dreams of her own! What the hell is wrong with you! Give her back!!" he kept shouting "Where do you have her? In a dungeon!?"
"Mr. Brown, you're mistaken, as I explained to you before, she's my son's mate, we would never hurt her, we can't. She will be taken care of here, within the pack. We explained to you how mates work and you agreed to our customs" I hear my father talk to him. That man is Alice's father.
"You told me that she could find her 'other half' in here! I was told they were going to court her not kidnap her! Give me back my child!" he kept shouting; I could see the veins in his neck popping.
"Hi, dad" I hear my mate say in a casual tone, as if he was not angry and with a shotgun in his hands.
"Hi, Allie" he replied in an easy-going tone without even looking at her and kept talking now directing to my father in the angry voice he was using before "As I said! Where is she!? Give me back my child!!" he said again.
"Yes, please give him back his child" Alice said calmly while looking at me and casually walking towards him.
"See!? She agrees with me! Tell me where she is!" he said angrily until he stopped, froze, and then looked at her.
"Allie!" he shouts and runs at her dropping the weapon "Allie, my baby girl!" he hugs her and kisses the top of her head.
"Hi, dad. Can you please stop trying to break my ribs?" she said in a calm voice as if this whole situation was not dangerous.
"No! I'm never letting you go! I'm sorry Allie, I'm sorry… my Allie, you're safe now, I'm not going to let anyone hurt you" what a pathetic man, more than trying to calm her, he was saying those words to calm himself.
I see Alice hugging him back and patting his back "it's ok dad, I'm not letting go either" she says soothingly, completely different from the way she treats me… she treats me like a bug while she treats him like a jewel.
What the hell? I know he's her father but… can she be that kind to me too? I'm the one she should be getting close to. I'm the one she should be telling those words.
"C'mon Allie, let's go, these people can't even use common sense!" he says while grabbing her hand and starting walking towards a car parked near the packhouse.
His words angered me, and I feel Apollo thrashing in my head "He can't take her! SHE'S OURS! If he tries, I will rip him apart!" Apollo shouts and I see Alice looking back at me with sadness.
I open my eyes wide; she's really listening to him; she's really listening to his voice. I know I can't be imagining it after so many times but it's still surprising to see it. No one should be able to hear your wolf, it's in your head, unless you mind link it should impossible, and even if you do mind link, speaking directly to someone's wolf is not easy.
"Dad, I can't go back yet" I hear her voice, I see her father's surprised face while I smirk. She's not leaving, she decided to stay.
"But… but" her father tries to say something, but my mate stops him.
"I'll visit, but for the moment, I have to stay" she says in that enchanting monotonic voice.
"Do you want to stay?" her father pressures and she shook her head. That gesture made my blood boil, but I stopped myself before doing something stupid.
"Then, why?" he tries again.
What she said next made us all look at her in surprise, some vicious words came out of her mouth, but her face and voice didn't match them. She talked in a calm and casual voice.
"I still have my revenge to take, I can't go back until I beat the ever-living shit out of some people here, especially Nick"