Lucas.
It's been four days and I haven't been back to Crescent Hollow. I remained in Aspen Ridge for one reason. I needed to know what was happening that I didn't know of. Like the possibility of Gerald being out there and there might be a good chance that he was now a hybrid.
If Gerald was a hybrid then he turned Emily. All this is connected to Aurora somehow. Everything started when I met her. Killing her isn't working, forgetting her isn't either.
"What are you planning to do now?" The old man showed up beside me with a bottle of rum. "Where did you get that?" I asked.
"This? Some foreign ship landed on the old coast some time ago. Nobody was on the ship. No humans, no wolves…just barrels of rum."
He offered me but I declined. "You think I would poison you? I won't risk dying at this age. I know what you are capable of," he gulped down the bottle of rum.
"I know it's not poisoned. I smell a poison once it is opened. What do you want? I thought you wanted me dead for doing this to you."
He dropped the bottle and squinted his eyes as the sun shone out of a cloud. "The deaths…I think you are the only one that can help us. I resent you but…I don't know, things change and things happen."
He took his rum and stood up. "You should go to the arch. I heard there is going to be a meeting this evening when there is no moon."
I left after the old man left. Indeed, tonight was going to be a Moonless night. More problems keep arising and Aurora is the only thing I can't point out.
I concentrated my mind on my house and then teleported there. The room felt hotter than it was outside the door. I hid in a dark shadow behind the door and watched Aurora. She was going through some of the books on the shelf. A lot of books were opened and scattered on the reading table…but the Everest Book of Souls was still on the shelf.
"Why are you hiding? Lucas?"
I chuckled and stepped out. "You know, I have lived for more than twenty decades. When I became what I am, till now, no one could ever detect me if I was in any gathering, hiding in the shadows. Do you know what you are?"
I walked closer to her. "Do you?" She asked back. "I have read a lot of books here, this particular one is a story of how you defeated a monster with ten heads, thirty feet tall with fangs and claws. The skin was like steel, and could never be penetrated. Yet…somehow, you managed to kill it in a blink of an eye. How do you do that?"
I shrugged and grabbed a cup of whiskey. "If I told you, then it wouldn't be any fun." She cleared her throat and went back to the bedside with a book in her hand. She didn't ask any more questions, nor did she steal glances. The breeze came in through the window and blew her hair and her silky white dress.
Now that I watched her from this distance, I realized she had braided her hair, which must be Freya's work. Her rosy cheeks and milky skin were too attractive. Little Wolf, you have no idea what you are doing to me.
I got distracted by familiar footsteps and voices that just came into the building through the front door and they were talking about me.
"The Alpha would be around. I can feel it. My heart knows it," the first female voice said.
"I hope you are right," the other voice said. The footsteps then approached the stairs. I knew Freya and Trevor were out the door and wouldn't allow anyone to come in but I could feel it too. The secret bond feeling was created by Serena herself.
As the voices got closer, my heart pounded. I got out and Freya gasped. "What are you doing her—"
I hushed her up with my index finger on her lips. I took the left stairs where the voice was coming from and I finally saw her.
"Willow Shadowdancer."
She looked prettier than I can remember. The last time I saw her, she was younger and a little naive. Her mother had brought her to my abode pleading that I take care of her while she went to battle. Her mother never made it back and I hadn't seen her ever since she ran away.
I have gotten letters and calls from her but I ignored most of it. Perhaps it was because I thought she still looked as young as she used to be.
Her breasts were all pumped, unlike the flat desk she used to have on her chest. She was stunning, standing in a high-quality dress, hips disturbing the dress from falling straight down.
Her lips were colored with rose red and I could perceive her from where I stood on the stairs. She smiled, making my heart pound louder.
"Snap out of it!" Freya said and snapped a finger in front of my eyes. I blinked and indeed, I snapped out of it.
"Lord Lucas Frostbite. I finally see you. May I proceed?" Willow said.
"What do you want, Willow?" Freya's voice was harsh and not friendly. They aren't friends and they are far from becoming one. Now that Willow has found interest in me like every other woman in Crescent Hollow, she would have to make amends with Freya.
"Willow," I said again. If she was using magic, then it was working. Her beauty was unmatched and her elegance was to my preference. I knew it, she was my mate. I chuckled. "You look better than you used to."
I descended. This might be my one chance to take Aurora out of my mind. I took her hand and kissed her ring. "You found me first."
She smiled and hugged me. "I always knew it."
Everyone had surrounded us now and it was obvious that she was my new mate. Over time, I have been with a lot of women but only one was human. Well, that was before Aurora came into the picture.
Every Time a woman noticed that she was my mate, there was always this rapid beat from their heart and they could be compelled to do anything including taking their heart out and giving it to me.
There was Willow in the grace of her mother. Endowed with anything I could ever think of. She was most of the things I needed and she came at the right time.
"Would you like a tour in the garden?" I asked and she nodded.
"No one should come close to the garden for the rest of the day. It would on be fully occupied." The guards got the information but Freya, not really. She stared at me till we were out of sight.
Willow held my hand as tightly as she could. Her smile never left her face.
"Do you want anything?" I asked her and she shook her head and held me closer.
When we got to the garden, she wandered off and came back with a blue spring flower. They were rare and important species of flowers. I had to tell all my exes to look for it but none of them was able to find it. But Willow found it without being asked.
"Do you like it?"
I sensed the restraint in her voice and she was all nervous in her mind. I laughed. I sat her down by her waist.
"When did it start?" I asked.
"Some years ago. But the feeling suddenly hit me today and I had to come around to see it for myself. I have doubted it for so long but then, it turns out it was a real thing." She tucked some hair behind her ear but some of it fell back on her face.
I reached out and brushed them back myself. She trembled when my palm touched her face. I caressed her cheeks and smiled. She looked down nervously and touched my hand on her cheek.
"You are mine Willow Shadowdancer. Nothing would harm you now that you belong to me." I bent over and kissed her. I knew she wanted it, she was counting, waiting for me to lean closer and lock my lips with hers.
She was cautious, too cautious. She didn't know if she was to kiss me back or wait and let me kiss her so she just closed her eyes and remained calm.
I held her waist, giving her more confidence. She kissed me back. Hearts became one, dresses got scattered and love was in the air.
Two bodies, tangled in the grass, naked, sharing a one-day mating course.