TAYLOR’S POV“Get up. Sulking in bed doesn’t suite you.” He said bluntly, tapping me on the shoulder. I opened my eyes and presumed I was dreaming he would come here.I threw the sheets over my head and closed my eyes again. “Taylor, don’t be ridiculous. Get up we need to talk.” He said, more stern now than before. I pulled the sheets down and looked. He was right there, sitting on my bed, wearing a blank expression.“Zephyr.”My voice came out a bit hoarse. I furrowed my brow. I didn’t expect that. Honestly I thought that I could sound like a pitiful school girl.I sat up, pulling the sheets to cover up my nude body. Zephyr’s expression remained unreadable. He didn’t even twitch when he realized I was naked. Sexual attraction wasn’t going to help us right now, that was obvious. Frankly I was banking on it. “I didn’t expect you to come here. Honestly.” I started slowly. Something min me just told me I should be the first to speak.“I didn’t stay like this because I was waiting for
TAYLOR’S POV “Taylor.”Someone called out my name. I froze, breathless. I saw Daisy’s eyes widen immediately. My heart sank. I turned around slowly, raising my face to look at the man behind me. Zephyr stared back at me like. How His eyes were laced with fear and gloom like I just stabbed him in the heart. My lips parted but no words came. My trembled instead, tears welding up in my eyes. I didn’t need to ask. I didn’t need him to say it. It was obvious that he heard it. He heard everything.I tried to get up, to walk to him. To explain. To do something, anything at all but my limbs suddenly felt so weak like I had a giant load on my chest and I couldn’t carry it. My legs buckled and I crumbled to the floor. Daisy rushed me. She looked at Zephyr. “Its not what you think, Zephyr. Just hear her out first.”“Get out.” Zephyr ordered immediately. His voice sounded a terrible mix of anger and hate. Daisy knew she couldn’t stay, not after he made spoke in such a scary way. She stood u
TAYLOR’S POV“I did something terribly wrong.” I said out of the blue while we were baking some home-made short cakes for Zephyr and Theodore.She paused, glancing at me from the corner of her eyes. “Is it do bad that we have to leave the cakes to discuss?”“No. Eh well, I don’t know actually.”“Does it, by chance, have something to do with Zephyr and Oscala?”I lowered my head, momentarily stopping my mixing job. “Is it that obvious?” I murmured.She laughed a little, turning around to look at me. “Oh yes it is. You have been doing a very bad job at hiding your feelings lately but if it’s any consolation, I’m sure no one can guess what exactly you are feeling.”I chuckled nervously. “I don’t search if I should be relieved or not.”She hunched her shoulders, to tell me she didn’t know the answer too.“How did you notice?” k asked as we returned to our baking tasks. “Well, you have been avoiding Oscala the whole of today plus when I brought up the idea about baking, you jumped it lik
ZEPHYR’S POVI looked forward, all my attention drawn to the voice in the crowd. But not out of anger, out of sheer wonder. Who was it that had the guts to speak up when the alpha had made a declaration?The Crowd was obviously as eager as I was because they too, turned towards the voice. A young wolf was standing on his feet, wearing a bloody glare and it was directed at me. There was no fear in his eyes. No quiver in his bone, he was more than ready to drive a claw into my heart if he had the slightest chance.I leaned back on my throne, like that world to me and I gazed at him, with keen interest, to see what he would do next. Theodore knew me well. I loved to watch a challenger prove that he was worth my time so he decided to give the young wolf a chance to prove his was not a joke. “Young council men, do you not know how wrong it is to speak like that to the alpha?” Theodore called him out for his behavior. He did not show a single hint it remorse.“Apologize to the alpha or
ZEPHYR’S POV“How is she?” I looked up, raising my face from my palms where I had buried it all morning. My gaze fell on a calm and soft smile. Theodore always knew the right expression to wear on every occasion. I tried to return the gesture but I could only faintly twitch my lips. That was enough for him.“She is still asleep. At least she is not crying anymore. I don’t my what happened in Oscala’s mind but it must have been terrible.” I heaved distressfully. “I wish I had known of it. I wish I got the hint. I would have gone in there with her. What the hell was I thinking?”I smacked myself in the head, scattering my hair. The thought of my mistake made me raging mad at myself. I felt a urge to beat myself up. An urge I couldn’t contain. Theodore sat down on the sofa, beside me and he pat me on the shoulder.“I was there too remember. I saw what went down. It happened so fast Zephyr. Too fast for you to have done anything about it. Like it or not, it was out of your control. Stop
TAYLOR’S POVI froze but it only for a moment. He had never been the one to kiss me. To make the first move. I should have been shocked, but I wasn’t . I was scared. I thought of shoving him off. I thought of slapping him across the face, reminding him that we shouldn’t be doing this, I’m mated to someone else but I didn’t do any of that. I couldn’t.The brush of his lips against mine. The gentleness in the way he sucked, licked and chewed on my mouth; it felt like he was doing something he should have done a long time ago. Something he could never do again. His heart must have been aching, because every tender touch of his lips on mine, made my heart weighed with sadness. Whether we were doing something wrong or doing something right; It didn’t matter, not right now. My mind was filled with the sweet nectar smeared in his mouth. Filled with the longing for me, in his heart. It was like his soul yearned for me, for so long, and this was his only way of telling me, it did.For the f