Zane's POV
Who the hell does she think she is? And who the fuck is this chummy guy who came here to rescue her?
Are they together? Why did they look so cozy together?
Thousands of questions ran through my head as I tried to get over the fact that she is trying to get close to other guys.
I gritted my teeth as I glared at the guy who went behind Amelia as soon as he finished cleaning the spilled drink.
I admit, these people were treating her poorly but why did the guy intrude? Does he know her well? Are they friends? Are they dating?
God! I am losing my mind thinking about him.
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Three days went by on a whim, I hate to admit it but I missed seeing Amelia, I missed how we bickered even though we were despising each other. I admit it is fun to drive her mad.
Today, she will finally come to the school as her suspension will be over.
“Oh look who graced us with her presence today?” I drawled when she walked inside the classroom.
“I don’t have time for your shit, Zane. You already wasted my 3 days at school. I don’t want to fight you anymore,” she replied with a sneer and for some reason it didn’t sit well with me.
“Oh you don’t have time for me now? Then who do you have time for? That guy at Joy’s maybe?” I commented in a sardonic tone.
“What are you saying?” she asked me, her eyes assessing me doubtfully.
“Oh nothing, just curious about you. You too looked pretty cozy together,” I told her.
She narrowed her pretty little eyes at me as she asked, “So what? Why is it any of your concern?”
Instead of answering her, I shot her with another question, “Are you dating him?” I asked her but in a very casual tone, it was a little too casual for us. We never maintained a fine conversation for so long now, whenever we talk its is mostly insults and fighting each other.
She looked like she wanted to kill me with the way she was looking at me, but after a beat she replied, “As if it is any of your business, but yes, we are going on a date together,” she said with very less conviction as if she was not sure if he would come to the date or not.
“Wow, our little wolf got herself a boyfriend? I hope you are not just dreaming about him,” I laughed hoping she would change her mind about it.
“Of course not,” she replied way too quickly.
“Then why do I get the feeling that you are lying?” I asked her with a smile hoping that she would say that she is lying, at least I would feel a little better. I hate that she is going on a date with a guy she barely knows.
I mean no other guy who knows me would dare to go near her.
“Maybe it is just your wishful thinking?” she replied with a smirk on her sweet face, and she looked absolutely hot whenever she tried to act brave.
“Have a great date, Amelia,” I told her, more like challenging her because I knew I was never going to let that happen.
“I will, jerk!” she said with a forced smile and went far away to sit next to her quirky friend.
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Next few hours I spent on getting every single detail I could on that guy. His name is Garret and his grandfather owns Joy’s so he is working here as a manager for the time being. He is a human. Huh? Pathetic. He has clean records and everything about him screams a god boring little guy.
I watched silently from my car as the guy served tables and handled some other stuff. To be honest he doesn’t look like a bad person but still… I don’t want him to mess around with Amelia.
So I got out of my car and walked straight into Joy’s. He recognised me from yesterday immediately as he greeted me joyously, “Hey man, what’s up?” what a jolly good fellow he is, unfortunately I don’t give a flying fuck about his conviviality.
Instead of replying to him, I walked up to him and punched him square in the face.
Blood drew from his lips as he looked at me with a shocked expression but didn’t fight back. I am sure he must have felt that punch in his guts that is why he doesn’t want to fight me. Everyone in the restaurant looked at me, and I guess they were thinking- ‘Not this guy again.’
Because I keep coming here because of a silly girl and I have to keep hurting people left and right to keep her safe.
“What the fuck?” he yelled as he spat the blood on the ground.
I grabbed him by the collar and pulled his face to mine, “Now, listen here you little chum! I will say this once and for all, you will stay away from Amelia! Do you understand?” I asked him with a raised brow and then added, “ and now you will immediately call her and cancel your date,” I declared like I was the master of their fate and in a sense I was.
“What? What are you talking about?” he asked me dumbly.
“Oh c’mon! Don’t act like you lost your memory because of one punch, it was not even that hard,” I drawled out annoyedly looking at him with nothing but disgust in my eyes.
“Just don’t mess with Amelia, do you understand?” I asked her once and for all and he nodded.
As I was on my way back, I got a call from my dad, I frowned because dad rarely called me.
“Hello Dad?” I asked uncertainty.
“Son, where are you?” he questioned and my frown deepened.
Um… weird.
“Just hanging around. Is everything alright dad?” I asked him.
“Yeah, but I heard that you have been hurting humans again and again from the same restaurant?” he said, oh so now I understand someone told Dad about my visits at Joy’s. I will fid that motherfucker and make sure he doesn’t do that again.
“Oh, it was only twice dad, but don’t worry it won’t happen again,” I promised my father.
“I take your word for it, son. Because I don’t want an obstruction in your way of becoming the succeeding Alpha of our pack. Make sure you maintain good relations with most people, we only hurt people when it is necessary,” he preached and I agreed with all the words he said.
If I have to become a good Alpha like my dad, I need to have good relations with humans as well as the creatures here. Because, I want to earn their respect, and not want them to just respect me out of fear.
Zane’s POVI walked inside of Velvet Fist as the intense sound of music rushed in my ears. I don’t even know what I am doing here, I just know that I need to find answers.Answers which my own father is denying me of. I need to know the real truth. The absolute one before I tell it all to my sunshine.I just hope she understands why I kept it away from her.“Zane?” Uncle Beck's voice came from behind and I turned around to see him chug down a drink, looking a bit sulky.“Uncle Beck,” I said in a greeting as I moved towards him.“What’s shoved up your ass today?” I asked him as he downed another drink.“Probably the fact that my mistakes are catching up with me,” he replied and downed another drink.Before the waitress could get him another one I motioned her to go away, much to my uncle’s dismay.“What’s with the booze? Trying to kill yourself before my dad does?” I asked him as I started my manipulation on him.My father taught me a lot of things and manipulating someone to get answe
-Amelia’s POV-We both controlled our breaths and evened out our clothing before heading out. Although I completely forgot about hair which was an unruly mess right now.When we arrived at the table, we saw Ronan and Tessa seething at each other as they were locked in heated eye contact.Well, well!Just as they saw us arriving back, Ronan’s lips tilted up in a lopsided smile and Tessa looked at the sandwich in front of her.“Oh look who we have here? I think the entire Ark town heard you both today,” he remarked, making my entire body red in shame.“Ron, don’t!” Zane warned him playfully as he smiled cockily like the bastard he is, both of them enjoying my embarrassment.“What are you talking about? I didn’t hear anything,” Tessa said questionably.“Umm… nothing!” I squeaked as Ronan and Zane snickered, “I will tell you about it later,” I said to her quietly as I slid next to her in the booth and Zane sat next to Ronan on the other side of the table.“So Amelia, now that you have tie
-Amelia’s POV- I smiled bashfully as I filled Tessa in about everything that went down with Zane. I am glad she is happy for us both. I guess she is the only person on the entire planet who supports us right now.Tessa looked up and so did when we saw two tall and muscular figures walking towards us. She smiled and nudged my arm, teasing me slightly.I was already feeling like I was about to pass out. I don’t know why I am feeling all of these sensations but there is something different about this meeting with Zane.It feels… intimate. More than we have ever been.I greeted Ronan who came here with Zane and then I looked at Zane who had no expression on his face, and I wondered what was wrong with him.Ronan nodded at me with the same stoic expression and then looked at Tessa and winked at her evilly.“Hi, Tessa,” Zane said, scratching the back of his head.“Zane,” she looked up at him, expressionlessly.What is with everyone here? Why is everyone so stoic today? Am I the crazy one
Zane’s POVMy phone rang again and I watched it like it was my biggest enemy right now. Amelia had been calling me for like an hour now, but I couldn’t bring myself to pick up her call. I don’t know how to talk to her, how to look her in the eyes knowing that her mother is probably getting banged by one of the dirty John’s.In future, if she ever finds out that I knew about all of this and still hid the truth from her, she will despise me. We finally were moving past our differences and then this bomb landed on our heads.I pressed the end call, but after a few seconds it rang again but it wasn’t Amelia this time. It was an unknown number so I frowned and checked the caller identity on one of those caller identification apps.It said Samuel, I begrudgingly picked up the call to know why exactly Samuel from the Moon Stone Pack was calling me.“Zane —?” Amelia’s voice boomed through the phone as soon as I picked up.What? How could it be her?“Where the hell are you and why are you igno
Zane’s POV“Oh Zane! You have grown up to be such a young man,” she exclaimed happily as if didn’t just see her alive after years, and that too fucking my uncle.“What are you doing here? And how are you alive?” I asked her stoically, not sparing her any good manners.“Zane, I know we haven’t met in a long time but there are some things I cannot disclose to you. However, I would love to know if you have met any of my children recently? How are they doing, Zane? Are they okay?” She begged me, and if I were a gullible boy I would have fallen for her beggar voice, but I knew better than that to trust a woman who stayed hidden from her own family.I looked at her with a disgusted face as I said, “Like you care,” I scoffed and took a menacing step toward her, “Now, why don’t you tell me why you stayed hidden from your own family when you knew they’d need you?!” I asked her, my voice was like a cold whisper which made her look at me with guilt.“Why don’t you ask your oh so amazing father
Zane’s POVAfter noticing my deadly gaze on him, Beckham said something to the girl in his lap who stopped fucking him immediately as she threw a glance in my direction. When she met my eyes I could see that she didn’t recognise me at all and that’s how I knew it wasn’t my Amelia. I was sure she cannot be in a place like this. But then who is this woman? Amelia doesn’t even have a twin sister or anything? But this woman is an exact doppelganger of my Amelia.My uncle and the woman, they both scurried and wore their dresses as Beckham headed towards us whereas the woman disappeared behind the glass door. Leaving me and Ronan like confused lambs. “Who the fuck is that?” I shouted as soon as Uncle Beck reached closer to us. Ronan was looking just as riveted in knowing as I was. He was still thinking it was Amelia but I was sure she wasn’t. This place is too dark and filthy for my sunshine, even though I am sure she could even make this place look like a heaven’s corner.Beckham looked