The idiot grabs me by the arms and moves me aside violently, making me drop my bags and causing my groceries to fall to the damn ground full of used needles, but I have no way to fight him because he’s too strong.
“I’m in the same predicament as last time,” he says breathlessly, with worried eyes, “I need you to send them away, to the opposite side of me.” “What the hell is wrong with you?! I’m not actually your personal ass-saver!” I growl and want to keep complaining because his stupid ass ruined my groceries, but he puts a dirty hand over my mouth to shut me up. “Fucking obey me!” he growls, making me shut up immediately because I’m not stupid. That was not a nice command… quite the opposite, “I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have spoken like that. But…” His head moves as if he’s listening to something I can’t hear, and he suddenly lets go of me to run towards the crackheads. Without even thinking twice, he throws himself at the five bodies sleeping together, falling right in the middle. He steals the blanket from the one next to him to cover himself. “What the hell is going on?” I ask out loud, then I look down. My tomatoes, onions, oranges, and kiwis are still rolling downhill. The yogurt I bought is spilled over the concrete and my six-pack of favorite beers, of course, is no more. “Are you sure he went this way?” someone asks, approaching the alley. These people are not running. “Yes! I saw him. it was definitely him!” another guy growls and when I look up, my legs start to shake once again. My God, what the hell?! These two guys are also very clearly werewolves. Two of them. Oh, no. Now they’re looking directly at me. Now I can’t throw myself on a crackhead and hide like Lion. “Let’s ask that woman,” one of them murmurs, and then they head towards me. I think I’m going to pee myself… would that be a good defense mechanism against them? I heard they have superpowers like an incredible sense of smell. Maybe my smell will make them go away. But paralyzed by fear, I can’t do anything but stare at them. They look different from the ones from yesterday. More… important. Powerful. I don’t know, but I almost want to make a stupid bow like the one Lion gave me the other day, especially when their eyes are on me. Both of them are incredibly tall; one of them is even taller than Lion. Their muscles are out of this world. The taller one is wearing a black shirt that looks like it’s about to explode from his huge arms. His hair is as black as the night, his small eyes are a light green and his eyebrows are angular and angry. “Hey, you,” he says, with the deepest voice I’ve ever heard. “Have you seen anyone around here? Someone who… looks like me, but shorter, skinnier, and more stupid?” To be honest, he does look a little like Lion, except bigger and meaner. This guy is the evil version of Lion. “Jace,” the other one snaps, as if scolding him, “Don’t overshare.” “Please, overshare. I think I saw him,” I dare to speak because I have no other choice but to help the vermin once more, “What did he do?” The two guys look at each other before looking back at me. “He stole something,” one replies without giving many details, “Where is he?” “He was running exactly like a vermin who just stole something. He pushed me aside and made me drop everything!” I complain and point to my groceries on the ground. The two guys look down. The taller one, Jace, just raises one of his evil eyebrows at me as if he’s unimpressed, “Then he kept running like the devil himself that way. Disappeared in less than a second.” The guys share another look and just nod at me before heading in the direction I pointed. They still aren’t running. They’re talking in low tones, maybe arguing. “When you find him, send him back here! He owes me for what he destroyed!” I yell, just so Lion knows I’m not letting this go. The taller guy turns to look at me and scoffs. “Sure,” he mutters in a completely mocking tone, and I frown at his broad back. I want to yell something rude at him, but I don’t want to die today, so I just stand there, watching until the two guys disappear. A couple of minutes later once it’s sure they’re gone, I pick up one of the cucumbers that didn’t roll downhill and I chuck it directly at Lion’s lump. “They’re gone, you filthy fucking vermin,” I growl. Lion slowly lifts his head and peeks one of his stupid green eyes out. When he sees I’m telling the truth, he throws the blanket away from him and takes a deep breath as if he had been holding it in. “That’s what you get.”The next morning I stay in my room not knowing how to proceed going forward. Should I continue with my plan of invading every little aspect and area of Jace’s life until he can’t think about anything but me? Or do I save my pride and do my best to disappear from his life altogether?Right now, honestly, I want to preserve my pride. So I call an employee and ask for a driver so I can just waste my time somewhere else, not in this house. I take myself on a breakfast date and then I go on a walk, enjoying the fresh scent of nature. Being in that house where Jace’s scent is all around me has been hard, so I let myself enjoy this open space that doesn't smell like Jace in the slightest.Little by little, I start to feel better and less humiliated. Fuck Jace for embarrassing me yesterday, calling me a weird stalker and a bitch. But, mark my words, I'll show him some embarrassment one day. I don't know how or when, but I swear I'll make him feel like this. I sit on an empty bench and then
What? I just look at Beatrice for around half a minute, trying to understand if she's being serious or not. She just crosses her arms and looks at me with her big blue eyes, waiting for an answer. If we are being serious, the truth is that even I don't have that answer for myself. I don't know why she generates so many feelings in me, so much rejection… But I don't want to be serious with her. Why? I simply don’t feel like it. So I’ll give her the simplified, assholish answer. "Because you're weird," I say, opening my arms in surrender. I can tell she wasn't expecting that because she takes a literal step back, "You're very weird, and you're practically harassing me right now. I don't like being forced to do anything, but you looked me in the face and took a stance against me that first day we met, when you told me I would marry you even if I didn’t want it. In my opinion, that was a declaration of war. I don't like you because you're a fucking princess who has no business bein
{ Jacinto } Beatrice Cathalos is nothing more than a spoiled little princess who is used to getting everything she wants. And I don’t know what the hell is it about her, but she pushes every single one of my buttons without having to even do anything. Just her existing is enough for my system to go haywire. I don’t know why. But I hate it. I don’t like feeling all over the place, all out of control. I like my life simple and easy, and she’s neither of those. Of course, she felt hurt when she heard I didn't want to marry her, so she's been a little bitch to me since then, giving me disdainful looks every time I appear in front of her. The only good thing about Leo stealing my place as Alpha is that he'll be the one who has to marry Princess Beatrice instead of me. For the next two days, I don't have to face Beatrice at all because I'm searching for Birdie in Ramada Valley, but then I have to return home. And as soon as I come back, Archie takes my place searching... a
Jace didn't come back to the table after that final statement from moi, but Archie did. We drafted a contract as planned and I signed it. Archie promised me he would get Jace to sign it as well, so I left with my head held high. "What happened there?" My father asked on the way back home, "I know something did." "I had a conversation with the guys on my way back from the bathroom... the Garibaldi family is a very intriguing bunch, daddy. King Archibaldo is very smart and capable and Alpha Jacinto is just as intriguing as he is strong. I'm very excited to marry into this family," I admitted, looking out the window, trying not to focus on Jace's rejection too much. But only because of that comment I made on the way back, my father never gave up on the Garibaldi Pack. Not even when everything changed. When the omega Garibaldi brother turned out to be a True Alpha at the most random age, in the most random way. That only got my dad even more excited to marry me into that family.
{ Beatrice } I can't complain about my life, at all. I've never even had the need to complain. Everything I want, I easily get. I have a very close family that loves and cares for me and I have amazing friends. I have a good life in general. A little boring, sure, but I guess everyone gets bored sometimes. The only thing I want and haven't been able to get, is a man: Jace Garibaldi. But he's not just any man. He's an Alpha, a very strong and sexy one. He became an Alpha as soon as he came of age. He fought against a thirty-year-old man and won, at just eighteen years old. I was in Garibaldi with my parents for that Alpha Challenge and they allowed me to watch it. I guess you could say I developed a crush on Jace right then and there. I was just fifteen, but I knew he had to be mine one day. He just HAD to be, I felt it in my bones. So, when the opportunity of having him came up three years later, I took it. My father talked to me as he always does, in a completely
This is awful, I never, ever want to see it again. But everyone else around us is absolutely loving it, those fucking barbarians are cheering for their favorite like this is just a sport or something. I decide to keep my eyes shut for around ten more minutes, and then there's a huge collective gasp of horror. I open my eyes then and I see Jace shifting back to human -fully naked- to grab Leo's wolf form... his lifeless wolf form. "Jolene, what is-?" that's the last thing I hear. I feel everything going dark. When I wake up, there's chaos around me, my face is wet and Magda in my face. "She's okay now, let's go," she says and grabs me, basically carrying me away. I passed out I guess, "They're taking Leo to an ambulance, he's alive." "Everything is fine, Jolene, relax. It was all for show," Archie whispers in my ear and that brings a little life back to me. Right. Of course it was all for show, that was the whole point of it. I guess I just freaked out at the worst moment