Chapter 6

14th of October, 2016

She was shaking. The torture that shone in her eyes tore my heart into shreds. Why was I feeling like this?

Evelyn had changed. She wasn’t the scared shaking girl I had met two years ago, even now. Even as sweat built up on her forehead, I could see it.

She was strong.

“Evelyn…” I trailed off, moving closer to her. Her breathing was erratic and shallow. Her feet were set apart, and her body was tense. But her eyes….

Red, blue, green.

They changed color over and over again.

Her lips moved as she mumbled things I could barely make out. “No, no, no. Leave…. no….” Her hands moved through her hair. “No… please… I didn’t….”

“It’s okay.” I was a few inches away from her now, “Calm down, Eve.”

She gripped her hair in her fists and pulled hard. “Please…”

“Eve!” I yelled, and gripped her face. I forced her to look at me. “Look at me Evelyn.”

Her body shook under mine, trembling with fear. Her eyes connected with mine, and for a split second, I saw the vulnerability.

The hurt.

Then they rolled to the back of her head and she went limp.

I scooped her up in my arms before her body could hit the ground. She was too light.

Up the stairs I went, and figured that the room that was slightly ajar was her room. Thankfully I was right, and I softly placed her on the king-sized bed. Her eyes were tightened. Her face, scrunched up like she was in pain.

I drag a chair nearby and sit, staring at her, scrutinizing her. From her plump pink lips, to her long eyelashes… Eve was undeniably sexy. Her eyes held a teasing stare that excited me, lured me into her mind. But from the looks of it, her life was a lot darker than I ever imagined it to be.

I heard a phone ring from downstairs and quickly ran to get it, not wanting to get her up. The Caller ID showed ‘Jake’. A rush of possessiveness ran through me, and I picked it up.

“Evelyn, you’re okay.” A male voice said, sounding relieved. “My gosh, I’m so sorry for what happened, Eve, I didn’t mean to hurt you. I swear!”

“Jake, right?” I asked him. If he knew Eve, he would be able to give me some answers.

The line was quiet for a while, till he finally spoke again. “Yeah, who’s this? And why do you have Eve’s phone?”

“I’m Alpha Xavier, of the Photia pack. Eve’s a… friend of mine.” I told him. “She isn’t feeling too well, so she’s resting.”

“Oh crap.” I heard him breathe out. “Ah fudge. This is my fault.”

He was the reason my mate was shaking to her knees?! “What did you do?” I almost growled out.

“Look, chill. She helped us out with an attack by some wolves against our kids.” Eve helped them out? “And the thing is, when she uses her powers, she looks real scary. Her hair is electrified and her eyes glow a wicked red. But today… today she was pissed. She burned them to the ground. To ashes.”

“Shit.” She could do that? I gulped quietly as it dawned on me how powerful Eve was. And she hated my pack. She would hate us more if she found out all the secrets, though. The dirty secrets that were rooted so deep, they ruined and destroyed the pack from within. Secrets that would wreck the walls of every single pack that existed.

“Yeah… wait. Did you say Photia pack?”

“Uh… yeah.” I reluctantly replied. I oped he wouldn’t realize everything and stop talking to me. “Why?”

“Oh, nothing,” He answered a bit too quickly. “Just sounded familiar. Anyways, please tell Eve I called. And that…” He paused for a while, then breathed out. “That I love her.”

My jaw clenched.

He loved her?

He loved HER?!

Adrian, my wolf,tried to take over, but I reeled him in. “Yeah.” My voice was tight. “Sure, I’ll pass the message.”

“Thanks”

Then the line went dead.

I gripped the phone hard. He loved her. Did she love him too? I never even thought about it from her point of view. What if he was her boyfriend? If he could say he loved her, then they obviously had something between them.

I sighed deeply.

That day, I walked into my room to see the window gaping open. I couldn’t smell her. She was gone. Just like that.

It still hurt.

How she left without a goodbye, without a proper reason. Thoughts constantly ran through my head, and they formed the anger. I was always angry. Angry that she didn’t give me a chance. Angry because she left without giving me any closure. But then Thalia came along.

She helped me get over Evelyn, and me see what a real mate should be like. But I wasn’t exactly sure her definition was accurate anymore.

Since Eve was sleeping, I decided to make her something. Finding the kitchen was a bit difficult though, her house was huge. I came across many pictures of her and a guy together, and figured it was Jake.

Ugh, Jake.

When I finally found the food factory, I was shocked to say the least. It was the most elaborate kitchen I’d ever seen. Expensive knives shone brightly when I turned on the lights. The counters were a beautiful marble without a single blemish. It was so neat, I mentally applauded her. If I lived alone, my kitchen would look like a war zone.

I pulled out a few ingredients for spaghetti from her huge gray fridge and got to cooking. Once the smoke extractor came on, I started the sauce.

In about thirty minutes, dinner was ready. I made enough for both of us, since I hadn’t eaten dinner either.

At least I hoped she hadn’t eaten dinner.

I put the food on a tray and walked up the stairs slowly. I didn’t know what was wrong with me. Here I was, the Alpha of a powerful pack, serving a girl dinner?!

‘A girl that is your mate.’ Adrian corrected me.

‘Whatever dude.’ I replied, then blocked him out.

I took in deep breath and let it out, then walked into her room. I set the tray on the small table beside her bed.

“Eve.” I softly called out to her. No reply. I moved to touch her shoulder. “Eve-”

She jerked up, her eyes wide open and alarmed. For a few seconds she simply stared at me. Then she wiped the sleep from her eyes and yawned, arching her back.

Then she frowned.

“Wait…” She started. “What the hell are you doing in my house?”

“I… uh…” I stammered, then cleared my throat. “I came by to tell you that Elder Markus says you need to come with me as soon as possible.”

“Why?” She asked, letting her feet touch the ground. I swallowed hard as my eyes trailed up her legs.

“There’s a full moon next week, and your powers are going to be heightened. So you and your wolf need to get used to our territory so we can manage your powers.”

“Mhm.” She tilted her head to the food, frowning. “What’s that for?”

“Oh, I assumed you hadn’t eaten, so I made dinner for you.”

“Thanks” She said. “But I’m not hungry.”

I frowned. For some reason I didn’t believe her. Especially since she kept sneakily glancing at it. “Are you sure-”

“So we aren’t going to talk about what happened downstairs?” She interrupted me.

“Well you passed out-”

“I mean before that.”

“Well you screamed at me.”

She smiled a bit. “I mean before that.”

“Oh.”

“Yeah. The fact that we practically mauled each other out there?”

There was silence for a while. “Well we are mates so I guess it’s understandable if we-”

Her head moved sharply in my direction. “No, no it’s not understandable.”

And that was that.

She got up and walked over to a door. All I could see from where I was standing is clothes, clothes and more clothes. She rolled out a few suitcases, then went back into the room. “Did you bring your car?”

Her voice was a bit muffled.

“Yeah, I did. Are we going in my car?”

“Hell no.” She came out again, her hands filled with neatly folded clothes. “I’ll go in my car.”

She put the clothes on the bed and opened one of the suitcases. Before she put them inside, she sniffed them and sighed in pleasure.

Adrian growled at the back of my mind when I realized they were male clothes. Were they Jake’s clothes?

Back and forth, she went. Shoes, clothes and toiletries. I didn’t know whether to be happy or disturbed that she wasn’t bothered by my presence in the room. My stomach grumbled, so I picked up a plate and moved to the other side of the bed to sit down. Before I could land on it though, Eve yelled.

“Don’t sit there!” I nearly dropped the plate. I turned to look at her for a second then apologized. She sighed and went back into her closet.

“Sorry.” I went back the the chair and enjoyed my meal. At least I was. My phone started buzzing and I pulled it out of my pocket.

Thalia.