“Fine, damn it! I am hybrid,” she blurted out, no longer able to resist his influence, and he looked at her with shock.
“That is impossible! A hybrid never lives past its creation and if it does it becomes nothing more than an uncontrollable monster,” he shot back and she sighed with exhaustion and gave the alpha another shrug.
“Yeah well, a little more than a month ago I would have said that I couldn’t become a werewolf by drinking a cup of coffee but it happened,” she replied bitterly.
“Explain,” he demanded.
“Bite me,” she snapped, and he gave her a growl of warning. But she only gave him the full account if everything when Nick used his influence on her again.
“Well if he is here then he isn’t using his real name,” he stated after she finished.
“Wow, you’re a regular Sherlock, It’s no surprise you became Sherriff,” she jeered at him. This jerk was making her lose time; she already knew by now she was using a fake name. Nick gave her a look of irritation and narrowed her eyes at him. “Can I leave now, I got a lot more people to piss off today,” she argued.
“God woman you are difficult,” he replied with a sigh and she smiled at him sweetly just about to give him a witty come back when a familiar voice caught her attention. It couldn’t be; she thought as she shot out of the chair and running over to the large windows that were blocked out by the off-white blinds. Of all the oddball coincidences, she thought as she saw it was, in fact, him, Xavier Thompson in the flesh. He was joking and talking with the people of the small police station like he was one of the towns.
“That’s Richard Crawford,” the sheriff said making Lily jump a little. She didn’t notice he had gotten up from his chair and was standing so close to her. God she really needed to start paying attention to her surroundings more. She was a super werewolf hybrid and she becoming too damn easy to sneak up on.
“That is Xavier Thompson,” she said bitterly watching Xavier approach the sheriff’s office. Nick sat back down, and Lily pushed herself in the corner.
“Nick, how are you today?” Xavier said entering the office and sitting down in one of the chairs in front of the sheriff’s desk. “I heard you had some trouble with trespassers today,” he added.
“Always clinging to men of power but still not one yourself,” Lily sneered, coming out of her corner. Xavier turned and smiled at her, not the least bit surprised to see her.
“Lily, what a pleasant surprise! How have you been my dear?” Xavier replied.
“So what she tells me about you is true then Richard?” the sheriff asked, looking angry, but Xavier ignored him getting up to face Lily.
“You look wonderful Lily. How’s the change been for you? Have you been able to maintain control over your beasts and how much blood intake do you need?” He asked quickly smiling as if he was meeting a long lost friend. She growled and pulled the wrapped up dagger she had stuck in her jeans, pulling off the cloth pointing at him menacingly.
“You bastard, I should kill you right now. Stab you right in the chest like you did Kyle,” she growled at him.
“Put that down,” the sheriff demanded, and Lily tried to fight it but stiffly did what he told her to do and Xavier was laughing.
“Quiet powerful isn’t he, Lily. Not like Andrew at all,” Xavier said with amusement.
“Shut up Richard, and sit down! You have a lot of explaining to do,” Nick demanded, but Xavier gave him a cold smile.
“I don’t think I will Nick, maybe another time,” Xavier told him smugly, and Lily noticed the sheriff looked surprised and confused. Xavier turned back to Lily keeping his smug expression. “I’ve known Nick for a long time, and even as a child he had quite the alpha influence about him,” he explained.
“And you planned for it by finding some way to block it from affecting you,” she stated the grabbed the knife bitterly again. “So let’s just end the problem right now,” she growled.
“Oh Lily, always so brash and forgetting to think things through,” he told her with a tone a parent would use with a disobedient child. “Sheriff have you seen Wendy today. Lily, Nick has a thirteen-year-old daughter, Wendy. She went through her first shift the same night you did. In fact, she reminds me a lot of you, smart, beautiful, and lots of spirit,” he stated smoothly.
“Richard what exactly are you implying?” the sheriff growled as he stood and Xavier gave him another cold smile.
“Actually, it’s Xavier Nick, and she is safe,” he told the alpha then turned to Lily. “She is quite the fighter. I see the same promise I saw in you,” he told her and Lily’s looked at him horrified.
“Don’t you dare,” she threatened, taking a step towards him.
“Don’t he dare what?” Nick demanded with a worried tone, but no one answered him.
“Why not, are you honestly going to say you don’t enjoy what you have become? I can’t see how you’d prefer to be that droll normal human you were a month ago,” he asked her.