“I did not come up with the nickname, Hannah did.” I said taking a step back. “Then what would you like to call me apart from 3G?” “Gabriel.” “Yes?” “I am saying I’d like to call you Gabriel as that is your name.” He nodded. “Can’t argue with that.” He made himself comfortable in the couch and I headed to my room to change, making sure to lock it well. If he did want to barge in, then that mere wooden door would be no match for him, but I wanted a peace of mind. “By the way, where did Hannah go to?” I heard his voice coming from the living room. “You told her to get lost. So she must be wondering off somewhere,” I said as I took off my t-shirt. “No, I know I wasn’t so rude with my words. I have to get her on my side, I could possibly not have made a bad first impression. And btw, does that mean we have the whole apartment to ourselves?” I paused hearing that teasing tone of Gabriel. I wore my shirt as fast as I could imagine him could barge in any minute but that did not hap
Ten months passed by in the blink of an eye. With Gabriel, everything felt nice and he always gave me one thing to look up to. Even if it was his narcissism, our often lunch meetings or the way he always called me love, I started liking everything about him. My feelings for Gabriel started overshadowing what I felt for Ethan. Ethan protected me, he was always there when I needed someone by my side, so maybe I did not love him, maybe I liked his protection. But with Gabriel it was different, he was there even when I did not need him to be there, always irritating me, sometimes managing to make me blush and the other times he was a real pain in the a**. I was getting used to his company. He was becoming my habit, a drug I wanted to have around me all the time to make me feel alive. In the third month of our meeting, my results were out and I passed with a 91 percentile stamped on my result card. I came second in the whole high-school and Ethan came first. I joined a business under-grad
I was walking looking towards the ground when I hit a wall. A wall? In the middle of the jungle. It was then that I saw two legs and as I followed them, my eyes met his. “Why’d you stop?” “You are right Zayla. I wasn’t scared of anything in this world… until I met you. You are my destined mate, the person I swear to love and protect but you are also my weakness. I can walk on fire if I have to but when it comes to your safety, I can’t take a single risk.” Something fluttered inside my heart. I felt butterflies in my stomach and after such a long time, I felt my heartbeat rise. “Thank you Gabriel.” That was one sweet talk we had. While waking side by side in the middle of nowhere, he slid his fingers with mine and somehow I did not resist. If it were other times, I’d probably refuse and curse him, but this time, I liked it. I liked the touched. I liked the heat. I liked Gabriel. We were silently waking when Gabriel came to an abrupt halt. “What-” “Shh.” I was confused. “We are
“If the hunter comes back, even you will be in trouble. Don’t make this pain go worthless, be safe Zayla.” That day he’d called me Zayla more than he’d called me Love like he always does. And I hated that. He was slowly losing his consciousness and I was losing my calm. “Gabriel, we’ll make it out of here. Alive. Both of us. Please don’t lose your consciousness. Stay with me.” I helped him get up as I kept his one hand around my shoulder and I kept mine around his waist, helping him to stand on his feet. I started following the direction he’d told me. “Gabriel, please don’t lose consciousness okay? Listen to my voice.” I had to make sure he does not fall asleep. “You know the day I first met you, in your office closet," I was trying to make sure he is interested in listening to me and does not go to sleep because of the pain caused by the poisened silver. "I was blown away by your beauty, I swear. But the very next minute you proved to be an a**. I never knew my mate would be a Ly
Gabriel’s pov After that poison in the arrow started travelling in my nerve, I felt like I would die. I could hear Zayla scream in pain, but I could not move even the small finger of my hand. However I could feel the pain in my body reducing. It was becoming more bearable and I thought I would survive. I would not leave Zayla so soon. I was having hope. I woke up in the mid-day of the next day. I checked the surrounding and this familiar coziness brought a smile on my face until I recalled everything that had happened the day before. I checked my body and the wound and the poison were nicely treated. I immediately got out of bed and headed towards the living room. “Aunt Nancy? Where’s Zayla?” I asked the minute I spotted her. “You woke up? Are you feeling fine?"I hated that my question went unaddressed. "I am asking you where Zayla is Aunt Nnacy." "Don’t worry. She is fine so relax. She just took in some of your pain, not the poison itself.” What? “What the hell are you talking
Zayla’s p.o.v “He’s still a kid by heart,” Aunt Nancy laughed seeing Gabriel walk out like a stubborn child and I followed her. I liked that he was jealous and that he wasn't even hiding it. “So, come with me,” she grabbed my hand and took me to the backside of the house. The minute I walked out I involuntarily gasped out loud. That was the most beautiful place I’d ever seen in my whole life. A beautiful wide lake, jungle in the other end, waters reflecting the color of the sky and a wooden, no railing bridge that ended right at the center of the lake. “This is beautiful Aunt Nancy,” I stated. “It is right? When Max and I were looking for a place to build our house, we found this place and I instantly fell in love with this scene. So, we built a house here and made it our home.” “I hope I get to live like that too Aunt Nancy.” “Why are you saying it with so much sadness? Gabriel will turn this world upside down just for you to be happy.” She gently smiled at me. Her eyes weren
Gabriel’s p.o.v I was driving like crazy while returning. I always had limited time with Zayla and now that limited time was even cut short. All thanks to Aunt Nancy and Uncle Max. I rushed back to the house but to my surprise, the whole house was dark with no lights, curtains all down, as if no one lived there. The fear of something happening to Zayla started crawling inside me. Even though no uninvited people could enter the territory all thanks to Aunt Nancy’s magic but still I could not convince myself to calm down. “Zayla?” I barged in. Inside there were few candles placed at around few meters distance from each other and a note was beside each of them. “Gabriel, this is from Zayla.” -The first note. “Come on keep on following the light.” -The second note. “Thank you coming into my life. Though you’ve done nothing more than being a complete headache in my life,” laughter escaped my mouth. “You are also someone who is now an irreplaceable person in my life.” -The third note.
Zayla’s p.o.v“You never told me you were a Lycan.” As we were speaking so casually, I stated one amongst many main truths about him that he’d not told me.“Would it have changed anything for you?”Now no. Back then maybe yes. “But… I thought Lycans weren’t real.”“The same way werewolves aren’t real for humans.” He smirked. “Try asking your werewolf friends if we are real or not. But don’t tell them it’s me.” He winked.“Why?”“Because I’d hate to kill anyone who knows my identity.”“But I do.”“You deserved to. It was just matter of time.”“Don’t you think that maybe I’ll tell about you to the outer world?”“No.” his voice echoed honesty.“You trust me that much?”“Yes.”“Why?”“Because you are the mate I chose.”I hardly doubted that. He must have thought of me as a complete fool. It was a general fact that mates can’t be chosen, they are destined.“Gabriel?”“Yeah love.”“I was just thinking. You know many things about me, not all but still enough. But I know close to nothing abou