“Sorry about that, I was just on a roll. Let me tell you the full story.” Adam whispered, turning to me, and I cringed.
His whisper wasn’t good for me, and there wasn’t much space on the hay to make enough distance between us.
Price to pay for a confession. Should be worth it please.
“As I mentioned before. I bullied Maya. Me and my brothers. And as I mentioned before, she didn’t have the wolf gene, so she was the butt of jokes to a lot of the people in the pack. It had continued for more than a year without my father knowing, or rather without any report being made boldly to him, until a particular day.”
A pause.
“She had been bullied in the school’s cafeteria, and her friend, Naomi-the only one that she had deemed worthy to speak with in our pack-had made the report to the principal who oversaw the running of the school’s activities…”
Adam chuckled drily. Most likely remembering the episode that wasn’t at all funny to me.
“Naomi was adamant for justice to be gotten for Maya, probably why she feels Maya’s absence the most out of all of us.”
I blinked back tears, noting the times I had been rude to my friend recently. But was there a choice? It was either that, or let them know about my existence.
“Well, when my father heard the news, he had no choice but to take action. So, he had called me and my brothers to order first, before stating the declaration that the girl would be transported to the human realm where she would be taken care of, since she didn’t have a wolf gene. She was allowed some visiting days per month.”
“Do you think that your father was actually sending her to the human realm? From what I heard of your father, he is quite a vindictive being? How are you sure that he wasn’t sending the girl to her death, or to some slave industry or something?” I inquired, remembering the look on Mr. Brekan’s face at that party months ago, even before the stolen necklace incident, and the look on his wife’s face.
It was like the woman had known that something had been about to happen to me, something that was awful.
Adam furrowed his eyebrows. I saw because I turned to look at him.
He shook his head.
“That’s not possible. Maya was the one wronged. He wouldn’t do that. My father is quite mean, I admit, but he isn’t evil. And if that had been the plan all along, I would have still found out. I had planned to follow Maya to the city of humans, to help her settle in, with or without my father’s consent. I had also planned to set the days of meeting between the both of us. As I mentioned earlier, she was the ray of sunshine to my darkness. I hadn’t shifted then, but my wolf always did jump whenever I saw her. One of the reasons why I had bullied her, was to subdue the feelings that she provoked in me.”
My mouth dropped open in shock, but then I chuckled thereafter, however angrily. The dude had bullied me because he didn’t understand his feelings, because I made his wolf jump?
But what was that about following me to the human community? Adam was really keen in creating a well of confusion in me.
“So, what happened then? How did your feelings for her change? How did she get into a cell?”
“At the swimming pool. She had been sent home after the incident in school, but she had joined Naomi at the latter’s house. They had been swimming, when I and the others had come in, having been sent out of school. Suspended actually…”
Wow. I hadn’t known of that.
“When Maya had stepped out of the pool, donning a skimpy bikini, after being knocked by my brother, and insulted by Timothy, I had lost my train of thoughts. Regular habits wanted me to bully her, but I couldn’t do that. I had watched her like a fool till she had gotten inside the house. After some minutes of goofing around, I had followed her inside. She had been eating cookies when I met her in the kitchen. Her mouth’s movements entranced me such that I didn’t know when I walked up to her, and started teasing her. Yet I couldn’t bully her.”
Adam paused, then bit his lips. His voice lowed like a whisper the next second, like he was talking to himself.
“No. I ended up kissing her. And when I found out that she was innocent.. I don’t know how I felt.. happy, proud, or something. But even with the kiss being the best I had, I had still thought of sleeping with her, and doing away with her, because I had known my father wouldn’t approve of her. I had been battling with two choices. But at the end of the day, I fell in love with her, after our first sex. That sex was the final straw. I had known that she was my mate, either fated, or to be chosen. I hadn’t cared for Claire. I even marked her, to show her that I wasn’t dishonest about my feelings.”
I gulped down saliva, then turned the other side as a tear trickled down my eyes, as my vengeful emotions abated a bit.
Adam had loved me.
What happened then? Or was all this a lie? But why lie to a stranger?
“We attended the send off party together. She was so beautiful, so beautiful like an angel..”
Adam’s hoarse voice let me know that he was about to cry, or was holding back tears. He had really been in love. My god, what happened then?
“Then what happened? How was the connection broken?” I asked, scratching a sore spot on my hand whilst willing my eyes to stop leaking.
“At the party, she was set up, accused of stealing my mother’s necklace. But I knew that wasn’t possible. Yet, my father had kept her in the holding cell, while we and the elders congregated at the hall. The others were sent home.”
“Who had set her up?” I pushed, wanting to know his answers so badly. I didn’t think I have thirsted for anything more than I have for this conversation.
“We never found out, but I think it was Claire. She was so adamant that Maya had stolen the necklace.”
“You mean the Claire that you are still frolicking with? How can you do that?”
I made sure that my voice was bland, devoid of any emotion, although it was draining-maintaining an aloof countenance in the midst of the conversation.
“It’s a long story.” Adam said, after sighing tiredly.
“Well, we have time, Adam. Or are you now in a hurry to leave?”