“She didn’t say anything serious. I was just too emotional which was why I cried,” she retorted and scoffed.
“You are being so dramatic, Wayne,” she added and crossed her arms.
“Dramatic? You fainted! And you received a fucking IV drip too! But you say I’m being so dramatic? Goodness!” he ranted and banged his fist against his thigh. Olive palmed her face to avoid looking at him.
“You know what worries me most? The fact that you’re a werewolf yet you passed out from just crying like you were a weak human being. What if she poisoned you? She’s the Chief Female Army Commander and has access to a lot of weapons which includes poison. What if she is trying to kill you? Damn! I’ll burn her alive!”
Olive’s heart fell to her feet as she heard him rant out his worries. She removed her palms from her face and looked at his red face. She could deduce one thing. Alpha Wayne Knight cared about her. He cared about her so damn much.
She gulped down and slipped her hand into his which startled him a little. She squeezed his fingers and smiled.
“I’m fine, Wayne. She didn’t poison me. You forget that I was one of the best at The Vrek Cult. I can detect poison,” she said lovingly.
“But still, she must have done something to you. Did she touch you at any certain point in your body? Maybe she weakened you by-”
Olive shook her head.
“There wasn’t any body contact, Wayne. I fainted because I cried. And my body fails when I cry. Which is why I just don’t cry,” she stated and shrugged. Wayne did not look surprised but she knew he was just ascertaining if what she said was true.
“The main reason I fainted because of your… I mean, because of Cynthia’s torture and all that was because I cried. I don’t go unconscious that easily,” she added. She saw a flash of blue in his eyes when she mentioned the torture but it disappeared immediately. She squeezed his hand and smiled again.
“Baby, it’s fine. Stop worrying,” she cooed and instantly all his worry evaporated. It wasn’t because she told him to stop worrying. It was because of the endearment. Heck! She called him baby. Slowly, he felt his cheeks burning as he tried hard to stop himself from smiling. But the more he tried, the more his cheeks burned and he knew he was blushing at the moment. He just surrendered and let his mouth curve into the widest smile he had ever worn. That smile was so real and contagious, that Olive found herself smiling as bright as he was.
“What is it? Why are you smiling so much? And that too all of a sudden?” she asked amidst her own large smile too. He chuckled and rested his head on the seat.
‘Gosh, she called me baby and now I’m bubbling up like one,’ he whined in his head. He felt really bubbly and alive. So excited and ecstatic. Gosh, he felt like a teenager in love. How could just an endearment from her make him go all cowardly like this? He would look like a coward with the way he was smiling sheepishly.
No, Jake shouldn’t see him like this. Suddenly, he burst into deep, happy laughter. Yes, Alpha Knight was happy.
“Gosh, what is going on with you? One minute you’re frowning like a demon and the next you’re laughing like a child being tickled. What is it?” Olive asked curiously and began to poke him in the belly. But he kept laughing and covering his face with his large palms.
“Hey! Why do you look like a teenager in love right now?” she asked the same question he was thinking about seconds ago. He stopped laughing and looked at her.
“From today, you’re not permitted to call me Wayne,” he warned strictly. She frowned immediately.
“Why? What should I call you then? You already also stopped me from calling you Alpha,” Olive said and glared at him. Why shouldn’t she call her mate’s name?
“From today, don’t call me by name. Only endearments are allowed. Even if I’m with a bunch of people or even in front of the press, call me baby,” he ordered in the most firm way possible. Olive’s mouth parted in surprise and shock. Her eyes froze in their widened position as she gazed at the monstrously alluring man sitting by her side in the car. Did he just say that? Or was it… was it the blue eyed wolf? She was simply dazed at what she had heard.
“What did… you just say?” she stuttered. He grinned at her and started the car then drove into the road, zooming away fast almost immediately. He still had that smile on his face, and he was looking so relaxed and peaceful like he had proven a very good point in a competitive debate and was sure he would win.
Olive was almost the complete opposite of his state. She was still shocked by what he had said so she was still in that position. However, she relaxed and began to bite her lower lip to stop herself from smiling He wanted her to use only endearments on him. Gosh, that was so cute and romantic. Wasn’t Wayne adorable? She suddenly felt like showering his face with so many kisses.
“Baby, where are you taking me?” she asked as she turned to look at him. Something in his eyes showed a glint when she spoke to him.
“Somewhere you’re going to love, baby. Don’t worry, it’s magical,” he answered her and squeezed her hand lovingly. She smiled and began to play with his fingers in their entwined hands.
“Okay, baby. I’m looking forward to it. And it better be worth it or I’m going to punish you severely!” she nagged and he threw her a mischievous smirk.
“Why do I feel like I should look forward to this punishment from my mate?”
“Because you’re weird. And you underrate this mate of yours. I can inflict pain in the worst and most unexpected ways possible,” Olive stated and returned his mischievous smirk.
Wayne raised an eyebrow in surprise but it wasn’t at what she said. He glanced at the road and thought he saw a dark figure by the roadside. He thought he felt something.
They were already in the city, though not the busy part of it. There was a boarding school in that part of Aspen City. It was a few metres away and already visible.
“Really huh… pain in unexpected ways. Hmm,” he pretended to be thinking then- he brought their entwined hands to his already hard bulge and pressed down on it.
“You know how to cause painful erections, don’t you?”
“My specialty. I can also stop painful erections. Wanna see?”
Before he could reply, a dark, mighty, unseen force hit the car, causing it to swerve dangerously from the road and tumble over. It rammed into the wall of the boarding school and got stuck there.
Wayne was the first to get over the shock and speed of the crash. He was bleeding on his forehead and the blood was streaming down in a long line across the side of his face. His neck was also injured and there was a huge piece of glass pinning his arm to the seat. All these, but Wayne didn’t even notice them. His eyes darted towards Olive and a terrible wave of shock spiraled around his body. Olive had a metal jutted out of her chest, her legs pinned down dangerously by that side of the car which got compressed and half her face cut by shards of glass which were still in her skin.