Stella POV.
It’s been a week, you’d think after a whole week of being with us, of being with me, Theo would start calming down, maybe he won’t be that angry anymore, but instead of being just angry, he’s frustrated, he’s furious, and he’s ready to kill me somedays, it feels like he’s going to murder me and be over with it, today is one of those days, I took a step back trying to think of Milo.
“Stop! Stop calling him! You’re with me for fucks sake!” Theo yells at me, he’s mad because sometimes I prefer being around Milo, well not sometimes, most days I prefer being near Milo, I feel much safer around Milo, and he’s been telling me that it’s fine to be a little around him, that it’s okay to be a little.
“I’m not calling him,” I say my voice hardly a whisper, I was terrified of him, Theo was an angry wolf and although Milo said that a wolf could never hurt their soul, I doubt that applies to Theo.
“You are, I can hear you,” he growls since we share the same bond, he can hear me trying to use the bond to call my other wolf.
“No, I’m not Theo, why are you so angry?” I asked him and that was my mistake, I shouldn’t have asked him why he was angry, he’s not angry, but he’s furious.
“I’m not angry, Stella, you’re with me, don’t you dare call him,” he scolds me and I nod, I’m still thinking of Milo, hoping he’d come over even if I didn’t say it out loud.
“I’m not going to, what do you want to do?” I ask him with a fake smile, hoping that he’ll say anything that would take us near Milo and the rest.
“You want to thang in my house?” he asks me, but his house means we’ll be alone, and I didn’t want to be there alone with him, he still scares me.
“How about we check with Calesti and Finny?” I asked him instead, I didn’t mind spending time at my house or Cici’s house, anywhere but being alone with him.
“How come?” he growls at me.
“I don’t want to leave them alone, Cici is too old for my brother,” I say trying to act like the scared big sister, the one who’s worried about her brother, although they are good for each other and I trust them two.
“Fine, let’s go,” Theo says, he wasn’t too happy but he’s less angry now, we went toward Calesti’s home, and we found my brother there, he doesn’t know about wolves yet, but he loves spending time with the pack.
“Hey,” I say walking in and sitting between them two, trying to hide from my wolf.
“What are you two up to?” Calesti asks.
“We’re here to annoy you,” I say with a big fake smile on my face.
“Great, I’m trying to run from you,” Finn groaned, but he gave me a hug, he knew why I was hiding here, in the last week, he’d been trying to understand what was up between me, Milo, and Theo, I lied and said we’re all friends, but he thought that this is starting to be a love triangle, except there isn’t much love in the situation.
“What are you watching?” Theo says, when we’re around Calesti, he’s less angry, he’s very calm, he loves her, she’s a great friend and we love spending time with her, he’s not jealous of her, especially since she’s not my other wolf, and I don’t hold her soul.
“When Evil Lurks,” Finn answers me.
“What’s that?” I asked them confused, I didn’t recognize the name.
“A horror movie, we’re trying to see who would get scared first,” Finn says with an evil smile, he hoped that she’d hug him when she gets scared, he loves horror movies, but I don’t, I get scared too easily.
“Sounds like a good idea,” Theo says, I wasn’t too happy about it, but I agreed to watch the film with them, maybe it won’t be that bad.
The movie started, and I hoped that it would not be a scary movie, maybe just jump scares, maybe a movie that wasn’t actually scary, maybe we could laugh through it, and the movie would turn into a funny experience instead of a scary one. As the movie started, after the third scene, I found out it was actually a scary movie, the jump scares were real, and the whole plotline was demented, to say the least.
“Are you scared yet?” Finn teases Calesti who laughs it off.
“This movie isn’t even scary,” she says, but then ads, “Are you scared Finny?” she says using the same nickname I called him earlier, he hates it, but when Cici calls him Finny he’s all good with it, she could call him anything and he’d love it.
“Oh, I’m terrified,” Finn lies, he got up and pushed me from the middle, and now he’s sitting right next to Calesti pushing me near Theo, with the next jump scare, I jumped up and I don’t think I did anything, but Theo thought otherwise.
“I’m right here,” he growls in a low voice.
“I know Theo,” I answered him, I didn’t understand what he meant, I didn’t want to hug him if that’s what he wanted from me.
“Then why are you calling him again?” he growls at me.
“Calling who?” Finn asks looking at us confused.
“No one,” we both say at the same time, I think I’m calling Milo through the bond and he heard me again, but he shouldn’t be that worried, Milo didn’t come over yet, so that means I’m not doing a good job calling him.
“You two hiding something?” Finn asks with a raised brow at the both of us.
“No, we’re fine,” I lied.
“I’m sure they are fine, let’s start the movie,” Calesti says and turns the movie back on for us, she’s trying to hide the fact that we’re nearly fighting again.
“You can hug me if you’re scared,” Theo suggests and against my better judgment, I hugged him, ever since we found out about Milo, Theo’s touches have been feeling off, and his whole presence feels dark and heavy on my heart.
I tried to close my eyes trying to pretend that the movie wasn’t going, that my fear wasn’t there, not from the movie, not from the guy sitting right next to me, if I tell him to take his soul and leave me in peace, would he threaten to spank me like Milo did?
“Are you falling asleep?” Theo whispered to me and I stayed in my place, I stayed quiet, hoping he’d think I was asleep and would leave me alone.
“Only my sister would fall asleep during a horror movie,” Finn says with a chuckle.
“I don’t blame her, the movie isn’t even that scary,” Theo says with a shrug, even with my eyes closed the movie was scary, I didn’t need to see, hearing was enough for me. Maybe if I think of Milo in a really low voice, maybe if I just imagine him, he’d hear me and come here.
I felt the chest that I was lying over start to shake, and then the shaking got worse, is he going to shift? He can’t do that in front of my brother, he doesn’t know about wolves yet, we haven’t told him and don’t plan on doing so.
The shaking turned into an earthquake, or that’s what I felt having my eyes closed the whole time, he have thrown me off him, and I landed on my ass on the floor right in front of him, my eyes were wide open, why did he do that?
“Theo!” I yell that wasn’t called for.
“I’m here! I’m fucking here,” he says still trembling with anger, he’s going to shift, and he’s going to terrify Finn, and then he’d hurt me, or maybe kill me and go back to kill Milo as well.
“What the fuck man! Why did you do that?” Finn yells at him, he is angry on my behalf.
“Finn, stay out of it,” Calesti says standing right in front of him, I looked at her with wide eyes, she too looked furious, we’re gonna be stranded between two angry wolves.
“Yes little guy, stay out of it,” Theo says in a cold voice.
“Don’t talk to him like that,” I say standing up now.
“Or what? You’re going to run and call Milo?” he spits in my face, he sounded like a maniac.
“That’s enough Theo, come on, let’s go out,” Calesti says dragging him by the arm out of the house, I could finally breathe in relief.
“What’s going on Stella? Why are you spending time with him? What’s up with Milo?” Finn asks me, looking at me like I’m a crazy girl.
“I don’t know,” I confess, I didn’t know what was going on, but Theo is insane.
“Stella, stop spending time with him,” Finn says with a shake of his head and I only nod, I have to spend time with him, I hold his soul, his dark soul.
‘Lil-star, what’s going on?’ Milo asks us through our bond, I’ve been trying to call him for so long and only now has he heard me?
‘Can you come over?’ I begged him through the bond, and I could hear a very loud yell coming from the outside and then a wolf howl, and then quiet, they’re gone?
‘On my way,’ Milo answers me.
“Are you okay? Are you having a seizure or something? What’s up with that face?” Finn asks me, looking at me as if I lost it.
“I’m okay,” I assure him.
“Then what’s up with the face?” he asks me.
“Nothing, I’m okay,” I lied with a blush, Cici says I make a face when I’m talking through the bond with Milo.
“Sure, you are, let’s go home,” Finn suggests.
“It’s a long walk,” I say with a shrug, we need a drive to get back home, we don’t live near like the pack members.
“We can wait for Cici?” he asks.
“Yeah, let’s wait for her,” I say hoping she’d come back in, she’d leave him out there alone.
We waited inside Calesti’s home for a couple of minutes, until the door opened and we were sure that it was Calesti who had come back in, but it wasn’t, it was Milo, I ran toward him and hugged him tight, he picked me off the ground in his arms, taking a deep breath in my neck.
“Did he hurt you? Are you okay?” Milo asks me.
“I’m fine,” I lied, every time we spend time together, I end up being terrified, shook up or messed up.