Stella POV.
“I don’t encourage her, she’s your Luna, you know she takes after you,” Theo says, I don’t know if he’s saying this to be on my side or just to piss Milo off, I never know with him, but I’m happy to have the support.
“And she’s my soul and she obeys me,” Milo answered him, I had to hold back my laughter, he thought that I was going to obey him just because I’m his soul, that’s funny, but he should know how stubborn I am, but for now I decided to stay quiet.
“Fine, she’ll obey you, but I don’t have to,” Theo challenged him, I knew he was doing this not because he liked James, but he’s doing it to challenge the alpha.
“As your mate and alpha, I’m ordering you to stay right here, don’t do anything stupid,” Milo scolded him, but I could read the look on his face, he’s going to do something stupid.
“Right, sure, of course, you staying here or you wanna come with me Stella?” Theo asks me turning to me, I had to make my choice, either stay with Milo who’s very sad and clearly needs me right now, or go with Theo and make sure he doesn’t do anything stupid.
“Maybe it’s better if we stay with Milo,” I suggest, he’s sad, we shouldn’t leave him alone.
“He’s not going to cry over my shoulder, it’s better if I leave,” Theo says in a mean voice, why is he being mean again?
“Theo, be nice,” I scold him, but he just shrugs as if it’s nothing.
“He’s the alpha and wolf, I might obey him, but that doesn’t mean I’ll obey you human, soul or not, know your place,” Theo says in a very mean voice now, I looked to Milo with a big pout, I was about to cry, that’s not nice thing or tone to use with me.
“Theo, watch the tone,” Milo warned him, but there wasn’t any use with him, he just growled and leave, he jumped through the window, and I turned to Milo with tears going down my face now, he opened his arms for me and I went there for a hug, he held me tight and kissed the top of my head.
“Why is he so mean?” I ask Milo, I didn’t mean to hurt him, but every time I talk to him he just get mad at me.
“He’s sick in the head,” Milo answers me with a shrug.
“Are you okay?” I ask him, he’s the one who just lost a friend and cousin, but I’m the one crying.
“I’m fine, what about you baby?” he asks me, petting my back, making me purr with happiness.
“You’re my kitten now?” he asked me and I giggled.
“Nu, I’m a wolf like you,” I say trying to growl like they do.
“A wolf? I think you’re more of a puppy,” he says rubbing his nose against mine, making me blush like crazy, I turned fully red.
“Nu-uh, I’m a big bad wolf,” I say after I get over the whole blushing phase.
“Of course, you are my sweet baby, I’m so happy, I have you,” he says hugging me tight making me melt in his arms.
“Are you okay Milo?” I asked him, and he gave me a sad smile.
“I know James is a badass and he’s hard as a nail, but losing him is hard, I know he’s still alive, but it might change anytime,” He says sadly.
“I still think you should try and save him,” I say to him, we could just go, pick him up and get back home for dinner.
“It’s not as easy as you think it is, James is smart, he must be hiding or sitting in a safe place, getting over to him would put all of us in danger, and the road isn’t a safe place,” he explains to me, and I pouted that’s bad.
“Can’t you just send a couple of humans?” I ask him, if the wolves are the ones who are in danger, and send some humans to get him.
“The only humans we trust are our souls, and our souls are very precious, we’ll never send them out to danger,” he says.
“But like you can trust some humans, and just send them,” I say again, he can’t be serious that he doesn’t trust any of the humans, if he wants to save his cousin, friend, family, whatever this James means to him, he should be willing enough to trust some humans.
“Let it go Lil-Star, what do you want to do today?” he asks me, shutting me up, he’s not going to change his mind, not over this, I wasn’t going to let it go either, but for now I’ll be quiet.
“We can just watch a movie,” I suggest, he’s been through enough for today, I don’t want to push him into doing anything else not for today at least.
“A movie sounds great, you want to pick?” he offers and I nod.
Whenever I’m watching a movie with Milo it’s very expected to end up watching something that’s cartoon-ish or something little appropriate, keeps calling me little girl, little star, little anything, and it makes my heart melt, I want to be his little, I don’t mind being a little around him, it sounds like a dream come true.
“So what’s today’s pick? And no more frozen, I almost sang let it go during patrol,” he warns me and I laughed, I can’t imagine him singing let it go to other wolves, they’d laugh so badly at him, and it’s funny.
“Fine, we can watch something else,” I say deciding on a movie, the school of good and evil, the Trailor seems to be interesting, and so I decided to pick it.
“Do you want popcorn or some snacks?” he asks me and I nod, I’d love those.
“I want oreo too,” I call after him as he left the room to go and get us our snacks, I decided to check on Theo, he’s a jerk, but I’m his soul and according to Beta Jasper, I’m the only one who could ground them and bring them back to reality whenever it’s needed.
‘Hey, Theo,” I send the message waiting for him to answer me.
‘What do you want?’ Theo messages back, I could tell he’s being a jerk again, and I should let him be for now until he calms down, but Luna Amelia said that we need to stand up for the wolves or else they’d always put us down, comparing themselves to us.
‘Where are you?’ I say trying to sound firm, I waited for a minute and then two, but he didn’t answer me, what a jerk, fine, I’ll ignore him too.
I tried to watch the movie and ignore Theo, I wished I was only connected to Milo yet again, I hate this feeling, I should like them both but the way that Theo is treating me, he always makes me wish that I was only with Milo.
“Drop the pout, I’ll talk to Theo,” Milo whispered to me while we watched the movie, the good character turned out to be the bad one, and the bad were good, it’s weird how things shift, how life pushes us to our limits turning us from good to bad people.
“He turns from nice to evil so easily,” I groan to Milo.
“He wants to be nice, but it takes him some time, just wait,” Milo promises me.
I spent the whole day with Milo, we watched TV, and we played with the other pack members, mostly the alpha, and beta, we avoided the rest of the pack, the ones who are my age, they were mean to me, tried to flirt with Milo and just never treated me nicely, so I avoid them, and Milo doesn’t mind spending time with me alone and the older friends.
I noticed that he didn’t have many friends that were his age, was it a dry year or something? Is he the only one who’s around the twenty-year mark, maybe that’s why he’s so mad at losing James, he told me a bit about him and he sounded like a real friend.
“James’ pack was attacked,” Milo tells his father in a sad voice.
“How bad is it?” His mom asks.
“Bad mom, there’s hardly any survivors,” he says in a sad voice, he was nearly crying again, and I hated this, I hated the fact that I couldn’t help him, not when I wanted to do so badly.
“I’m sorry for your lost son,” Alpha Jayden says to his son.
Milo dropped me home after spending the day together, I was ready to go straight to bed, our parents weren’t here yet and I just wanted to sleep, I was in bed, all warm and cosy when some cold wind hit, I looked up to my window and saw it open.
“Hey,” Theo says standing in front of the window.
“You could use the door you know,” I note in a cold voice.
“You’re going to sleep?” he asks me and I shrug, I’m in bed wearing my pj and ready to sleep, of course, I’m gonna sleep.
“Milo is miserable,” Theo says.
“I know,” I answer him, not that he cared.
“And what are you going to do about it?” Theo asks me.
“Sleep?” I asked him, what am I supposed to do?
“No, get up, we’re going to save that James,” Theo says.
“You don’t even like Milo or James,” I note, why is he bothering to help him?
“I don’t like James because he’s a snob, I don’t hate Milo that much anymore, and you like him,” he says.
“That’s not an explanation,” I say confused.
“You love Milo, and Milo likes this James person, and since you’re the only person I like and want to make happy, it means making Milo happy and to make that idiot happy, we have to save that jerk,” Theo explains to me.
“How noble of you,” I say looking at Theo unbelieving his logic.
“So are you in or not?” he asks me.
“Let me get changed first,” I say leaving my warm bed, I go to my closet and change into my warmest clothes available, it’s freezing outside.
“Do you know where he is? How to get to him?” I ask Theo as I put yet another layer on.
“I have his number, and I had someone pin him down for me, I’m not as stupid or untrusting of humans,” Theo answers me.
“Wow,” I say looking at him with wide yes, so he’s more than just an idiot and jerk most days.
“Yeah, don’t think too hard about it, don’t you dare tell Milo, not if we want this to work out,” Theo warns me and I nod trying my best not to think too hard about it.