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Chapter 22
“You don’t like her, huh?” Alpha Jude asked as he walked into the lounge room.
He had been observing her since they got here, and she had seemed to be not too taken by Ava. He could tell these things.
Alpha Damon had come in with her for the usual meeting they had every few days to go over the project and its progress.
Her name, he learned was princess. A name that suited her in his opinion.
While she was a strikingly beautiful woman, she was not to be compared with Ava. Ava had a beauty that was not to be compared.
And from the minute she had stepped foot into the same room with Ava he could tell, she was not a big fan of Ava and while he did not know what her reason was, he had a hunch himself.
Once he knew might be true, and he waited for the perfect time to ask princess, get the answers he needed.
So when she had excused herself to get some air and a drink, he had followed right behind her. It was the perfect time and opportunity.
“Is it that obvious?” Princess asked as she sipped the glass of wine that was held elegantly in her right hand.
“Anyone in or around that room would be able to tell.” alpha Jude said with a soft chuckle.
“Well, I guess I do.” Princess admitted, sighing distressed.
“Why?” alpha Jude asked, “if I may ask.” He added when she gave him a look he could not quite understand.
“Honestly, all she had done was take alpha Damon’s interest.” Princess began, she had not handed anyone to talk to she might as well open up to the handsome young man in front of her, she thought.
“Also he talks about her, and the ways his eyes light up when he speaks of her?” She said with a sigh and a shake of her head.
Alpha Jude leaned on the wall in front of her while he listened, it seemed his suspicions and hunch as not just a hunch. He was right, had always been.
“Can you explain more? Why does that bother you so much?” Alpha Jude asked, he knew where he was driving at with this, and he knew if he played his card just right she would see things with him.
“Why should I?” Princess asked, looking at him with slightly squinted eyes suspiciously.
“Because Ava broke off our engagement just a few weeks after she started working with Damon,” Jude explained. “And when he came with the proposal for the project, he had insisted on working directly with her, doesn’t that sound somewhat suspicious to you? It does to me.” Alpha Jude said, taking a seat opposite her.
“It does to me too,” Princess admitted. ” I kind of miss being the center of his world. It used to be just us two against the world, now it’s him and his little obsession with her.” Princess said with a hint of bitterness in her voice.
“Do you want him back?” Alpha Jude asked, leaning forward on his elbow while looking at her intently.
Princess stared back with a questioning look as if asking if he had not heard everything she had just said. Why would he just ask her that, what was he driving at?
She hesitated for a brief moment before answering him slowly.
“Yes, yes I want him. His attention, everything, I want him to be all about me like he used to.” She said, cutting herself short as she started to drift.
“Good” alpha Jude stated simply. “I want my Ava back.”
“Unlike alpha Damon, she does not talk about him, but I am a master at reading body language, I see how she acts and behaves around him.” He said, his pain reflecting in his eyes.
“What do we do then?” Princess asked, her attention fully on him now, she could tell that he was driving somewhere, and she wanted to know where exactly he was going with this.
“I have an idea, but I have to think it through first. We should get back to the meeting, they might be wondering where we went.” Alpha Jude suggested as he stood up and stretched his hands towards her, helping her back on her feet.
They walked back to the study silently, each engrossed in their thoughts.
Alpha Jude knew he had her just where he wanted her, this was the only way he was sure to get her back, all he had to do was make sure she, the princess played her part right.
Princess, on the other hand, tried to guess what he was thinking, he seemed like the type that would go to any length to get what he wanted.
She just hoped it was nothing too risky or dangerous, she would do anything to get alpha Damon back but nothing too out of sorts.
Ava jolted, pushing herself away from Alpha Damon just as fast as she had jumped on him when Alpha Jude left them both alone in the room, when she heard their returning footsteps.
He was irresistible, has been since the first time they had sex, and completed the mate bond ritual.
And it did not help that he wanted her just as much as she wanted him, their hands did not seem to stay by their side when they were tight alone.
She had felt his eyes on her all day, she had felt two pairs. One is his and the other belonging to the princess, who stared daggers at her.
Their lips had met the minute alpha Jude had also excused himself, and while she knew it was very risky, she still could not help herself.
Even alpha Damon was surprised, she could tell by the look on his face when she had sat on his lap and guided his lips towards her with her hand wrapped around his neck.
Not that he did not want to kiss her, it was just awkward to do that here, in mist wood in the office of the mark she was once engaged to.
But caution had been thrown to the wind when her hands had massaged his nape softly and her lips had found his.
She tasted like strong coffee, and he drank her in, smiling at the sweetness, savoring each drop.
Ava could not help the moan that escaped her lips and alpha Damon head bit her lips softly to quiet her down, not that it helped much, but it was something.
His hands had dug under her shirt to caress the skin of her back and grab her soft boobs underneath, he had slightly lifted the shirt to stare for a minute before lowering his head on the left one.
Ava threw her head back in pleasure as his warm mouth enveloped her nipple, sucking in all of it, including the areola.
The pleasure coursed through her body,” leaving a snail trail on her pants, she could feel it.
And just when bus straying hands had moved downward towards her panty line, she heard their footsteps and pushed away from him.
Adjusting her shirt and taking her seat back, wiping at her lips to get the stain of his saliva on it, she sighed to calm her panting.
When they finally walked in, Princess went staring at the seat where she had sat before, wrapping her hands around his bicep and looking into his eyes flirtatiously.
Ava turned away, she did not have to see that, alpha Jude, on the other hand, had a mischievous look in his eyes and his smile was wider.
She knew that look more than anyone, she had known him for over ten years, and she knew what he meant when he had a smile on his face.
Ava wondered what it was they had gone out to do, surely getting some fresh air should have not taken much time as it did for them both.
From where she sat, Ava could feel the princess’ eyes on her. When she glanced in that direction, she immediately knew why.
Alpha Damon’s eyes were trained on her and a small smile painted on his face, that why she was so furious, Ava thought.
If only looks could kill, Ava was sure she would be dead by now. It was no shock to Ava when the princess came back with that attitude towards her.
She was used to her being like this, mean and always bitter towards others. The only difference between now and then was that she, Ava, was now a woman, not the teenager from high school who she did not even remember.
When she had stared and stared and got tired of Ava not returning the energy and hate she had to excuse herself, of course, she needed air, Ava was sure to suffocate her with her silence.
The meeting continued, but this time the energy in the room was different, she could feel it.