My reflexes were sharp enough for me to dodge her slap.
"Arianne!." The manager warned, I didn't know he was watching what was going on.
"She started it." Arianne said defensively.
"If you want to keep this job, you better behave yourself." The manager warned.
"What's going on here?." A guy with curly short hair asked walking into the shop.
" You're late." The manage informed him
"Arianne just tried to slap our new employee." Cherry explained with anger in her voice.
"We have a new employee?." Surprise filled his voice.
"Yes we do, her name is Kaya."
"Oh, wow... You're pretty." He said walking over to me extending a hand for a handshake. He was cute.
"I'm Kris."
"Kaya. Nice to meet you Kris."
"Argghhh!." Arianne yelled pushing down a shelf.
"That's it, time out!." The manager said to her.
" Kris is mine, stay away from him."
"Kris, I didn't know that you and Arianne were in a relationship." Cherry said to Kris.
" I'm not in a relationship with Arianne, I don't know what she's talking about." Kris said to Cherry, he looked utterly confused.
" Kris just started working here last week. I don't think I've told him the rules about not dating fellow employees." The manager told Kris.
" I seriously have no clue about what Arianne said. "
" Luckily nothing broke." The manager said.
I rolled my eyes because my life was beginning to get extra dramatic. How was I supposed to work in this place where Arianne is paranoid and jealous.
I decided to talk to the manager.
I knocked on the door of his office.
"Come in." I heard him say.
I walked in.
His eyes lit up.
I was nervous because of the question I was about to ask him.
" I came to inquire if I can get my payment for two weeks in advance."
"Can you state your reason?."
" Cherry is offering me accommodation at her house, five hundred dollars a month, it's not really bad at all but I haven't seen the apartment yet." I said wondering if I really need to see the apartment, do I really have options?.
He broke into a smile.
" Sure, you can get the payment as long as you're not planning to run away." He told me.
I laughed.
" Thank you." I said.
His eyes crawled fromy eyes down to my boobs, it stayed there for a moment before he quickly turned away and cleared his throat.
He stood up and my eyes couldn't help but fall to the obvious bulge in his trousers, I was staring at his erection, I was shocked.
***
"You didn't ask me how my trip was." Alex said to me. " Hey, I didn't even get the opportunity to see Lycan's mate, someone please tell me how she smells so I can find her."
Normally Alex was a talker but when he talked about finding my Kaya, it made something in me want to punch a gaping hole in his chest.
"If I were you I would keep my mouth shut. Ask Elvis what happened to him." I heard Crescent say.
" What happened to you Elvis?." Alex asked Elvis.
Elvis wouldn't reply.
"Elvis out of good faith wanted Kaya to leave Lycan. For obvious reasons, their relationship is forbidden... I think Elvis died and resurrected. He was taken to the hospital and there was no fucking blood in his..." Elvis cut Crescent off.
" Crescent.." he said with a warn.
I was in the same room as then but I wasn't there at all.
"Lycan, you shouldn't stay angry at your mum." Tide spoke up for the first time since a very long time.
" I've asked the four of you to take me to Kaya and you turned me down, I know that you all can smell her, it's not fair that there is a barrier between us. My mother gave her the potion, she's hated Kaya from the beginning... She doesn't understand that this pain in my chest could kill me." I said to them.
" She's no longer your mate, you're free from each other." Crescent said.
" Exactly. You can just find a Luna now. You know you need someone to match you power. A human is not a perfect match. The Lycan I know can get a new chick without even having to bat an eyelash." Alex said.
" He doesn't want to stay a werewolf, ask him he has this crazy plan to stay a human forever and age and die." Elvis said, he was angry.
" That's messed up. All these things were happening and nobody thought to just give me a call, I missed a helluva show. " Alex said grimacing.
"I don't want to hear any of it." I said and all of them stopped talking.
The room fell silent again.
"You don't want to make the same mistake twice." Crescent said to me.
I knew that out of all of them he was the only one that could stand up to me.
"Crescent. Please stop." I said to him.
"The mistake of mating with a human has been erased by the help of your mother." Crescent added, he was so fucking stubborn.
"Kaya was not a mistake, I knew very well that she was human, I drove her to my house, I opened the door to my bedroom and I took off her clothes, I was aware of what I was doing, I never even had a single drink that night, trust me it was not a fucking mistake." I said.
Elvis stood up and called Crescent, they went to the hallway, I suspectrd they were going tol have a conversation concerning me and Kaya, and Elvis was talking to Crescent in a hushed tone.
"She's no longer his mate. If not for me, she would have been taken by Alaric last night. I saved her but I didn't guarantee her entire safety. He already got her scent and he can go in search for her any time he wanted, at least by now she must have been claimed and marked by Alaric."
I couldn't believe it.
" Plot twist, he is hearing your conversation. " Tide informed them.