CHAPTER FIFTY THREE
From the moment Reza left, Taurus' mind had been on the horse ride he was to take Reza on. He did not want it to be ordinary or generic, he wanted the horse ride to be something he would look back at with happiness. There was something that just attracted Reza to him. He did not get the usual generic feeling he hears everyone say they get whenever they find someone they are attracted to, or neither is she his mate. He was old enough to find his mate and though he had not found her, he did not see it as a bad thing to like someone else. If anything, the idea of finding a mate you know nothing of and spending eternity with them, sounded a little weird to him.
'Pardon me Selene!'
The image of Reza's face lifting to look at him and those black obsidian orbs of hers, magnetising its way to his soul. It was delirious and Taurus told himself that he should be called, "a liar" if he said he had not had urges, numerous times since then, to sit at a corner and just jerk off, thinking of those eyes of hers.
The number of times the urge had come on, the equal number of times he had fought it. He felt if he succumbed to the early embers of fire that were rising like molten fire within him, it would taint their to- be friendship or possible relationship.
He was currently standing at the front of a mirror, a grey towel tied decently on his waist and a clipper in one of his hands. He was trimming the edges of his hair to give a clean cut look. When he was done, he shaved off the little hair that was beginning to sprout out on his face…he loved his face, hairless and could only hope Reza's qualities in a man, should not involve a fully bearded and moustache-d man. He was not in that era yet and he would like to spot a clean face.
As he trimmed and cleared, he sang to the song that was playing from the mini stereo in his room.
"I'm too hot (hot damn), uh
Call the police and the fireman
I'm too hot (hot damn)
Make a dragon wanna retire, man
I'm too hot (hot damn)
Say my name you know who I am
I'm too hot (hot damn)
And my band 'bout that money, break it down
Girls hit your hallelujah (ooh)
Girls hit your hallelujah (ooh)
Girls hit your hallelujah (ooh)
'Cause uptown funk gon' give it to you
('Cause uptown funk gon' give it to you)
'Cause uptown funk gon' give it to you
Saturday night, and we in the spot
Don't believe me, just watch, come on!
"For a tracker, you sure do enter into a world of your own when your music is playing!" said Alpha Ralph from the door. He was on a white shirt, a black suit jacket and a pair of black trousers. He had come to inform Taurus about something important and he met Taurus singing without no care in the world with his deafening voice and he had also seen him wiggle his waist for some seconds as some parts of the lyrics of the dong he was singing seemed to get to him.
Ralph was just coming back from a meeting with some Alphas and the main reason he had fixed the meeting was for him to take a closer and very noticeable look at the Alpha of Grey Woods Pack - Luke Zeref Mane. He was the man that made him not to realise Karen had left the party that night because she was supposedly sick and now that Ralph thought of it, Karen was not sick because when he had rushed home, she was by the lake and that was the time he had that unforgettable experience of his life…Karen had seen Luke Zeref and had decided not to make herself known. She had called in sick to run away from him.
Luke Zeref Mane is a handsome man, that Ralph gave him but Ralph had also noticed that beyond that good face of his was a manipulative man, calculating mysteriously and waiting for everyone to fall so he could rise, unrivalled.
Ralph had known this much about him today because Luke had been so excited when Supreme Alpha Ralph told him that he was coming to pay his pack a 'very much needed' visit, since he had not done that since Luke became Alpha. He had only been paying visits to the packs of regional Alphas but it was time to make a change…because of Karen's disappearance.
"Tío!" said Taurus, happy to see his uncle and not just that, his uncle looked healthier and cleaner. Alpha Ralph had trimmed his beard, his hair and his moustache and his overall demeanour had changed. He did not just trim his hair, he cut it, but the bad part was that the new haircut gave him a new and different look. It seemed to Taurus that the lead they had on Karen being a member of Grey Woods Pack, had brought some hope to Ralph. He had faith in seeing his mate, soon.
"I have come to tell you something" said Ralph as he opened the door wider and stepped into Taurus' neat room. His nephew really took after him and not his mother. That was a good thing!
Taurus Immediately turned off his song. How had he not noticed that his uncle had opened the door to his room. Well, Alpha Ralph was also a former tracker and skilled at that, so it came as nothing for him to know and understand the mastery of waiting on a prey, like a lion. Watching the prey up close, ensuring you are not noticed, ensuring that the prey is in its most relaxed and vulnerable moment, before an attack is sprung!
"You would soon go on a hunt for me soon and this time around, it could take about three months" said Ralph and he watched Taurus' reaction but there was none. His nephew is surely maturing and trackers training paid off!
"I would fill you in on the kind of job this is some time later but for the meantime, you would be accompanying me to Grey Woods Pack, next tomorrow. I have to pay a visit to the pack." completed Ralph.
"Yes Alpha!" saluted Taurus as Ralph stood up and left his room. Taurus knew this was his uncle's way of checking up on him. He could have sent Beta Stephan but he did not. He wanted to see his nephew with his own eyes and that was enough for Taurus…the action had the words, 'I CARE FOR YOU', slimed over it.