Stella POV.
“Oh for the last time, could you both leave me alone and take back your souls,” I offer them again, as they were both pushing each other trying to get toward me, trying to hold me, while I was good walking all alone.
“I swear Lil-star, if you say take your soul and leave one more time, I’m going to spank you, and then we’ll see how you’d give us back our souls,” Milo threatened me, I stopped in my place and turned to him with wide eyes.
“What?” I say, my mouth falling open while looking at him.
“You heard me Lil-star, say it again and I’m spanking you,” he says and that’s the same word again, spank me.
“I’m not a child,” I say with a big pout on my face.
“You’re acting like one, and I don’t mind treating you like it,” Milo warns me again.
“Theo do something,” I say with the same pout, maybe he’d do something, I don’t want to be spanked, I’m not a baby.
“Don’t spank her Milo,” Theo says with a shrug, he didn’t really mean to defend me, he’s just saying it.
“Really Theo? What a great help you are,” I say sarcastically.
“You shouldn’t be wanting to be giving us our souls back, you’re ours,” Theo says with a shrug, as an explanation.
“That doesn’t give him the right to hit me,” I warn them.
“Hitting is something different than spanking, I’m not going to actually hurt you, just teach you a lesson,” Milo says.
“That’s not nice either Milo, it’s abuse,” I remind him.
“No, it’s discipline, and that’s how littles are dealt with,” Milo says, I was pouting but hearing him out, walking next to him, going back home.
“You mean children and if you haven’t noticed I’m sixteen,” I say in a sure voice, I’m not a child anymore.
“Your biological age might be sixteen, but you’re acting like a four-year-old, and that’s if,” Milo says.
“Milo, I’m not a baby,” I whine, sounding like a baby.
“You know I wouldn’t mind having you as a little, you’re just a child,” Milo says with a big smile on his face, I knew what a little is, I read stories about littles, and I loved imagining being one of the littles, but I never imagined actually doing so.
“Theo, tell him,” I whined again, but the whining wasn’t that real, I do want to be a little.
“She’s not a little, those are disgusting,” Theo says breaking my heart into a million pieces, my frown got deeper, that wasn’t fair at all, that was really mean of him, I wanted to be little, but I didn’t want any spanking.
“Can you spank him for being mean?” I whisper to Milo.
“I will later,” Milo answered me, he held my hand and gave me a small squeeze to my hand, telling me it was okay, but my heart was broken.
“Milo, don’t be so selfish, you might be into that kind of stuff, but you can’t force it on her,” Theo was defending me, but I wanted to be one like that.
“And she might be it, Theo, give her a chance,” Milo says and I nod, give me a chance so I’ll decide what I want to be.
“She’s my soul, and she’ll be what I want her to be, and that’s not it,” Theo says with a shrug.
“She’s our soul, my lovely mate, and she can be whatever she wants to be, we’ll be happy to have her no matter what,” Milo says, I believed the other guy a lot more than I did Theo now.
“Thank you, Milo,” I say with a sigh, we get back to the school, and we get in Theo’s car, he’s the only one who has a car around here.
“Where are we going?” I asked them, I didn’t want to go to school, I was good at skipping the rest of the day.
“My place, we’re going to check some books,” Milo says and I nod, Theo groans.
“Why do we need to check the books? We know she’s mine for sure,” Theo says.
“Theo, I’m going to spank you as well, stop being a jerk,” Milo warned him.
“I’m not a little either, you can’t spank me,” Theo says with a shrug.
“You’re not a little, that we agree on, but you’re a fucking brat,” Milo says with a sigh.
“Thank you,” Theo says with a big smile on his face, he was happy about being a brat, Theo kept on driving until we got to Milo’s house, they got out of the car first, and waited for me to join them, I left the car and joined them back in the house.
“What books?” I ask Milo, he’s the one who owns the house and knows the books we’re talking about.
“We have books that explain all about souls and mates, I’m sure if we search through them, we’ll find one that explains our situation,” Milo says and I nod, maybe that would help us understand things.
We went toward an office, a home office, it’s a big office that has many bookshelves in it, Milo went to search for a book while Theo took a seat on the chair and groaned, I stood next to Milo searching, or at least pretending to, I had no idea what we’re looking for.
Milo handed me a book and then a second one, the titles didn’t say souls for dummies, or how to be in a poly relation, they had strange titles that I didn’t really understand.
“Take a seat,” Milo says, he starts to read through the book he had in hand, and I tried to do the same, but the book was written in a way that I couldn’t understand, not sure if it was English to begin with.
“You won’t be able to read it,” Theo says with a shrug, he didn’t offer to help me read them or look for any kind of explanation for our situation.
“Why not?” I ask feeling stupid, I know how to read but this isn’t a language I know how to read.
“It’s the old wolf language, you can’t read it,” Theo says in a sarcastic voice.
“I’ll teach you how to later love,” Milo says assuring me that he’ll help me to read it.
“Thank you,” I say with a smile, I didn’t have anything to do anymore if I couldn’t help reading, and I groaned with boredom.
“Milo, I need the bathroom,” I whined after sitting in the office for the last fifteen minutes.
“Go upstairs, the third room is mine, my bathroom is there and you can stay up if you want,” Milo says with a smile on his face.
“Okay,” I say and run upstairs to pee, I really needed to go, I opened the door and was met with a big room, it had a bed in the middle and a desk on the side, and there was a bookshelf filled with pictures and medals, I was going to check them all, but first I had to pee really badly.
I used the bathroom that I found inside his room as he said when I was done, I washed my hands and walked out relieved, I looked at the room again, this time paying attention to everything he had around the room, turns out that Milo used to play football and he’s really good at it. I was looking for anything that might tell me some more about Milo, and what he likes and hates, and if anyone has ever loved him before.
I didn’t find anything interesting, so I walked back down slowly, not making much noise, I stood near the office door ready to open it and walk inside but I heard them talking, so I stopped to listen first.
“That’s not possible, she can’t ever be two people’s soul,” Theo growls.
“It’s a very old legend, but it has happened before,” Milo says in a calm voice.
“I’m not going to share her, I don’t fucking care that you’re my alpha or even fucking mate, I’m not sharing her,” Theo growls at him.
“It’s not an option, it’s what Celine gave us, she gave her to the both of us,” Milo says in a cold voice.
“Then I’ll kill you and keep her,” Theo says.
“Try,” Milo says in a cold voice, I didn’t want them to kill each other, I was terrified and wanted to pull them apart.
There was another wild growl, and then the noise of something hitting, it sounded like a body had hit the wall hard, I opened the door and walked in to pull them apart, they weren’t in their wolf form, but they were ready to kill each other in their human form.
I walked into the middle of them two, I pushed them apart and stood in the middle, putting both of my arms up to keep them from killing each other.
“Stop, stop!” I say tears going down my face, I hate the fact they are fighting, it hurts seeing them fighting, I wanted them to stop.
“It’s okay, it’s okay,” Milo promises me.
“No, it’s not okay, she’s mine and not yours,” Theo says.
“Stop it, Theo, stop it, you’re scaring me,” I say with more tears going down my face, I hated this, I hated their fight.
“Stop trying to take her away,” Theo growls.
“I’m not taking anything away, she’s mine too,” Milo yells at him, pulling me from the middle and wrapping me in his arms, holding me tight, he kissed the top of my head and whispered sweet words into my ears.
Theo growls again, and then he leaves the office, he slams the door behind him, making the whole office shake, I shake with fear and hold tighter to Milo, he keeps on petting my back until I calm down.
“Is it real? Am I both of your souls?” I asked him, did the reading get anything?
“It’s a very old legend, it rarely happens, but you’re something special, and you hold more than one soul, which makes you special,” Milo explained to me, and then I wished I was only his soul, I felt safe in his arms, in the way he treats me, in the way he holds me, but sadly I had Theo’s soul too, and although I couldn’t feel that soul, I had the feeling that it’s dark and black, it’s eating me from the inside.