JAYDEN
I rushed out of my bedroom leaving the needy Catriona. I hate it to leave her like that. My pants were heavy and painful.
When I was with Catriona, Jerome mind linked with me telling me that there was something I had to see. I went downstairs into another basement of the house in the torturing room where Jerome took the dead wolf.
I opened the door inside. I entered and saw a worried look on his cute face.
“Jerome what is it?” I asked him. He gave me a quick glance downwards. Alpha come here, you need to see this. He said. I went closer to the dead wolf and squatted down observing him. There was a mark I know very well under his fur neck.
That mark belongs to Alfredo. The vampire king as they call him. Said Jerome. I looked up at Jerome as I stood up. Jerome, this is bad news. I’m sure whoever did this was one of Alfredo’s men. “Why is he back, after what happened between us? A few years ago? I asked Jerome yet I knew he didn’t have the answer. I also don’t know why but I sent the men to patrol our territory. Said Jerome.
Thirty years ago. Me, Jerome and Alfredo were good and close friends. By then Alfredo was not a vampire. Jerome and I met him at the college, he was a peaceful man but lonely. We decided to know more about him and we became good friends. We trusted him and told him our true identities and a little bit of the supernatural world. We did lots of illegal jobs here and there. We did dirty work for rich people, as long as they had the amount we wanted. We got lots of good paying job opportunities because we did their jobs neatly without leaving any traces behind.
We did most of the things together, even sharing the same woman. Both me and Jerome loved Alfredo so dearly but he changed his back on us after being beaten by the vampire. He did so many painful things to me, that includes the women I thought I loved. I don’t want to be remembering that now.
“Alpha…? “Alpha…”. Huh… I came out of my thoughts and back to my senses. Your okey? Jerome asked. I nodded my head.
“What do we do with this dead wolf?” He asked.
Jerome, you’re my Beta and you know what to do with this kind of mess. I’ll take care of it, Alpha. He said as he bowed his head at me in respect. I’m just worried about you Alpha. I truly am. He said.
I know you are Jerome, but trust me. Am perfectly fine. He won’t do anything this time. I said to him and went back upstairs. I opened the door to my office and sat down on the couch and leaned my head looking up at the sky through the glass window that was facing me. I told Jerome that I was perfectly fine but I was not. I feel agitated and frustrated by hearing that bastard’s name again.
I wanted to have a son and forget all the crazy things that had happened to me including the women. I knew I had no luck in them. They were not my mates as well but I loved each of them. When Catriona came into my life, of course as my surrogate, I started to accept it and decided to give it a try and move on with her thinking that i left everything in the past. Now I realized that I was just fooling myself.
I will have to let her go after giving birth to my son. I don’t want her to face any danger that might be coming any time soon from now. I know very well that Alfredo will avenge me using her from what I did to him five years ago. I know she’s not going to like it when I tell her but I’ll be doing it to protect her.
My office phone rang, I got up from the couch and went to answer it. “Hello! Greeting Alpha, this is principal Joey, I tried to call you on your mobile but it was switched off. He said. Straight to the point. I told him, frustrated.
The construction has started and today we received sixteen students. He said. “Is that what you called to tell me? I asked him in anger. I have important things to do here. I gave you the right to run the school in my absence. If you feel like the responsibility is too much and you can’t do it anymore, just tell me so that I can find the right person who can run it and won’t report every single trivial issue to me. I told him calmly but in anger.
My head is about to explode right now. That’s not it, Alpha. He said with nervousness. Four of them were vampires.
I closed my eyes for a second and opened them. “Mr Joey, what did you do about it?” I asked him. You know very well that the school is not for vampires. It’s for the new and young werewolves. I told him. I know Alpha, that’s why I sent them back. He replied hesitantly. The door was opened and Jerome entered.
Then why did you call me Mr Joey? I hung up the phone before he said anything else. I got up and stood at the window facing outside. I punched the glass window and it shattered down into small pebbles. Jerome just watched me silently because he knew I was angry.
I took care of the work alpha. He said. Jerome, I want you to go to the school for me and see what’s going on there? I asked him, still gazing outside now at the unglazed window. “Okey Alpha. He said. Thank you Jerome for always being patient with me. And I truly mean it. I said to him, Whatever for you Alpha. I vowed to always serve you in whatever circumstances or obstacles. He said. I was turning around to give him a hug but got a glimpse of someone waving in the distance.
He was waving at someone, smiling alongside two others. “Who are those dudes? Jerome came to the window as well. I poked my head out. They are bloodsuckers. What are they doing here?
I was aghast when I saw the person he was waving at.
“Catriona.” What surprised me more was that Catriona was waving back with a little smile holding something in her hands. “How does she know those bloodsuckers?”
I headed out of my office and into her room. I walked straight to the balcony, she was sitting on the swingy chair and was surprised when she saw me. I grabbed her by the wrist and something fell down from her hands. She almost tripped from the swing chair but I steadied her from falling.
When the bloodsuckers saw me, they took off into the woods. I dragged Catriona inside and slid the door shut.
“What’s wrong with you Jayden? She shouted. Sandra was entering and I mind linked her to stay outside.
Catriona shook her hands out of my grasp and sat down at the edge of the bed.
Are you crazy….? Enlighten me because I didn’t know that . “What’s wrong with you? Do you want to kill me? Why do you always treat me like this? I’m human and pregnant Jayden if you have forgotten. Not just with one child, but two. And they are your children for heaven’s sake.
Do you and your people enjoy treating me like this? She said without giving me a chance to talk.
“How do you know those bloodsuckers?” I asked her.
Which bloodsuckers are you talking about? Who are bloodsuckers? She asked, puzzled.
The one you were happily waving at. I said. You mean the man from outside? She asked. Yes, that same one.
Is that the reason why you barged into my room and dragged me like a criminal? She asked.
You didn’t answer my question. I deadpanned.
Isn’t he one of your people? It’s not the first time to see him or them. She said,
No, they are not one of us. And from now on you should not talk to them, see them or smile at them. I seriously told her.
She looked at the closed door for a second and then back at me. Mr Jayden, you’re not my boyfriend or my husband to tell me who i should talk to or not. You don’t have that right. She said and I felt like someone had punched me in the heart.
I grabbed her by the shoulders firmly and looked directly into her pupils. “Because you are mine.” You’re my Mate. I’m the only one you should smile at. I said. She tried to shrug my hands off her shoulders but they were firm.
Jayden let go of me, you’re hurting me. She whined in pain and pleaded but I was not hearing it. I saw fear in her beautiful eyes and tears started streaming out of them but still I was grabbing them. You are mine, ours. You only belong to us and our unborn babies. I said, still holding her shoulders firmly. “Yes you belong to us.” My wolf added.
She stopped pleading and closed her teary eyes. Something like electric energy came out of her shoulders and pushed me off of her throwing down. I was instantly back on my feet, still shocked. I still feel the energy drilling in my hands.
She opened her eyes, still crying. “Jayden, don’t hurt me. If you say I am your woman, no man hurts his woman. She said and then fell down.
“What the hell was that?”