“Finally, we are here.” Rose sighs, and tries to jerk the door open.
“Rose, wait a little bit. Are you sure this is the apartment Ben was pointing to?” I tap her but she doesn’t accept my suggestion.
“Just leave me the fuck alone.” She says, and jerks the door at once. It falls flat immediately, and Rose’s feet become slippery and as she slides into the house, Ben zooms into this arena and grabs her after I try to but couldn’t. This was done in less than a second. I don’t mean a minute. A fucking millisecond! By the time Ben lifts his face up and guides Rose out of where she almost got trapped into, his face and body looks very unkempt. My eyes catch hold of the two horns that have shot out of Rose’s head and a devilish unintentional smirk plastered on her lips. Then I know that she just shifted. They both just shifted.
“What just happened?” I rub my eyes with my fingers and by the time I jerk my hands down again, they are already in their human form.
“You should have waited patiently for me.” Ben says, and helps her up. I clutch onto her and smirk but the smirk soon dissolves into smiles on noticing her unexpected mood.
“Why did she change her mood?” I think, and she immediately faces me, staring bizzarely at my eyeballs. I now remember that she does hear my mind link, and that’s if it has something to do with her, her wolf or her vampire.
“Ben, where is your house?” I move away from her and smile at Ben.
“We will soon get there.” He smirks. Suddenly, I see two flashing of bats – one seems cooked up (false bat) and the other is a real one, thank goodness I have taken note of this observation.
“Don’t be scared. You should remember, they are your friends, okay?” He tells me and we cross to the opposite part. That thought of seeing moving cars and later knowing that they were only monsters flash through my mind as well, and I let out a deep sigh.
“I said don’t be scared!” Ben barks at me.
“He said do not be scared!” Rose yells at me almost immediately as well.
“But I didn’t say a word, why all this barking?” I retort, and move an inch away.
“Screw that.” Ben curves the tip of his index finger, and clutches onto me.
“Mate, we will soon get home.” He tells me and runs his hands through my hair.
“But… wait, I think we are taking a different route!” I suddenly free myself off of his grip, and yell.
“How is that so?” Rose retorts, questioningly.
“This… this…” I point at the road. “Rose?” I blink my eyes.
“What is it?” She rolls her eyes at me. “Don’t call me.”
“This is the road we escaped from! Fuck!” I cuss under my breath, and turn my back to go. My heart thump and race immediately Ben jerks me forwards again. This was how my heart thumped when Rose and Robert started to argue. But right now, no one’s arguing so what the f?
“Leave me alone.” I tell him, softly.
“No, I won’t.” He retorts. “Remember, mates do keep their mates from being harmed?”
“Should anyone come up here to attack you…” He says and suddenly frees me so that I almost fall. Then he demonstrates how he would fight the person with his fists and vampire self. I chuckle softly and he holds me unto him again. Rose is just quiet and far away from being chatty as she has been.
“But that is all fake!” I comment. “Rose wanted to save me the other day. Good, you alerted me and we took to our heels but we are talking about a superhuman, a vampire for crying out loud! Still, you didn’t shift. You refused to ’cause you don’t want your mate to know who you truly are.”
He tries to dig his hand into the middle of my neck but I hold it.
“I know that too. Remember, that was how you got angry the other day you refused to shift.” I tell him, and fling his hand off.
“You clearly don’t want me to understand or remember all what have happened.”
“Then I’m not even giving you the Vampire’s diary, I’m not even taking you to my house as well!” He fumes.
“Can you see?” I look back at Rose but she rolls her eyes at me and nods her head in support of Ben.
“Rude mate.” He clips.
“Then, reject me. Afterall, we are not bonded together.” I retort, sharply.
“She doesn’t have any manners.” A voice says from behind, and i stare at Rose with a hateful look.
“Ben, you know what? I’m going back to meet my mate. So just leave me alone.” I tell him but he hugs me dearly.
“No, I’m your one and only mate.” He sniffles.
“Then protect me and do not hide any thing from me.” I say, and he nods. By the time the tight hug is loosened, I see Rose breathing out heavily and i know my friend, she always get weary of long tight hugs especially by two opposite genders and again, in front of her. But no, that’s not the issue. I see flints of red sapphire flash through her eyes in a great number. Before I can make any sighs, we are already surrounded by rogues.
“Remember your promise.” I shut my eyes, and hold Ben by his arms. I climb into his back and he dodges me from the attack by the rogues.
“Give me one second to shift, go stay with Rose.” He says but I nod in disagreement.
“Why? We don’t have any time. Do you want to die?” He barks at me.
“Rose?” He calls her and she returns to her normal self.
“Yes, yes, Ben?” She replies, and beckons to me with smirks.
“Come over, Sophia. Let me protect you. Rogues are here already.” She says, softly and i succumb to her sweet but deadly statements. She clutches me onto her and Ben throws his head backwards and give his vampire the control. Rose quickly takes me away from the scene but Ben looks at her and pleads with his eyes but Rose smirks. Rose hides me behind a tree, and dips her hand into her pocket. Guessing what it might be, I sigh repeatedly.
“Will you keep shut?” She says, and the object glitters as she slips it out of her pocket.
“What the hell is this?” I scream with all my energy and then she squeezes my lips and slaps my chin hard but this only makes me scream more until she turns my screams into muffles through the dagger.
“Rose, please, don’t.” I beg of her through my mind if she would hear me. Then the whimpers and yelping of the hot argument between the rogues and Ben increase and I stare at that corner.
An Alpha is right here with all his pack members.