ALEXANDER. “Sir, are you not checking out? Everyone’s gone.” Barbara peered her head into the room which made me raise my head from my laptop for the first time in two hours. I had been so engrossed with work, I barely had time to think for myself. It was dark out, I backed an entire transparent floor-to-roof length wall yet I rarely find the view as interesting as it was meant to be. I only looked out there to find something. It. I called that something, It because it couldn't be named. It was like a hole. A puzzle that was missing. However, I didn't know what it was. I didn't even have options. All I know there was sometimg. “Barbara, you can leave. I’m gonna stay,” I said. She nodded, her glasses didn't flinch even though they sat on the bridge of her nose. Barbara had been working with me for the longer than I could count. I wasn't kidding, I couldn't count how long she had been working for me. I didn't know honestly. Royce said it had been years. Lost my memories in a
LENA. The club was not as crowded as I thought it would be. Great, I needed some alone time to actually do this shit. I needed alcohol too, to get myself together. To get the plan right and do what needed to be done. This was completely against all I believe in, I had promised Scott’s aunt, Lucia that I was going to help. Her plans wasn't right. It was rough and all shades of wrong yet I was going to use liquor to make me feel like it wasn't so bad. I could do this. I could help her. Help Leilani, her daughter. And suddenly, I felt cold sweep over me. It was different, gave a sensation of peace yet drove me to the edge for a moment. I looked around me because that peace felt so familiar. It felt like home, one I had lost a long time ago. My eyes kept skipping around the club, the four walls of it and the corners I never would turn to on a normal day but there was nothing. And that peace; that home, it left as quickly as it came. I sighed disappointedly, grabbing another sho
LENA. “What cost?” I asked as soon as we walked into her living room. I didn't know why I followed her, curiosity I guess. Her living room was quite scanty. There was no television and the painting looked like it was peeling off. Okay, why should I believe her when her house looks like this. Moreover Jenna was a neurosurgeon, how could she ever be friends with someone like this who stayed in a middle-class environment. Her house didn't look nice too, looked like she didn't have any money to repair damaged areas. There was a frame on the wall. It contained herself and a lady who looked like her. It was her daughter, There was no doubt. “That’s my daughter. Her name is Leilani.” She walked over to the frame. She paused in front of it and then caressed the photo. She sounded sad like she was dead. “Where…” I paused starting to feel guilty for bashing her in my mind. She didn't deserve that especially because she had lost a daughter.“Where is she?” I finally the gut to ask. She tu
LENA. One of the teachers, I had been nice to her for some time now, and she gave me the information I needed concerning scott’s aunt. She said her name was Monica. Great! “Lena, I really need you to understand that giving personal information is not right with work ethics but you are a good person and I can trust you, right?” She asked. She was correct. She could trust me. This was the way I got Monica’s personal information, including her Facebook page. Going through the front page, I did not expect to see her in a picture with Jenny. My eyes went wide, and it was so unexpected. I stared at the picture of Monica for some time, realizing she sort of looked familiar. The kids were in school now and I got a break from work. I had been working online for sometime now, mostly handling the shy or busy patients who couldn't come for physical meetings. For a second, I felt a wave of cold blow on me but it wasn't the good kind, but the odd one. The one that came with pain. I often
LENA. My wolf was right, it would catch up with me but there was no other way to stop the persistent pain. After losing my mate - killing him- I started to feel a heart wrenching pain in my heart, a burning sensation that spread over. I had to take multiple painkillers to stop it. Yet, this painkillers could slowly kill me because one of the key ingredients was mild wolfsbane. It was never supposed to be overused. Unfortunately, I had to use it twice in one day to reduce the pain. After dinner, I put the kids to sleep. They didn't sleep though, not yet. Isna was staring at me as I read ‘The Napping House’ to them. Israel was playing with his motorcycle toy, gently riding it along his side. He looked like he wasn't interested in what I was reading. “Mom, when are we going to meet daddy?” Isna asked, cutting me short. Shocked, I lifted my head. She was looking at me. Why have they suddenly started to ask about their father? Did someone tell them something? “Maybe because
LENA. I couldn't be mistaken, it was Alexander but how come he had been with Jenny for the longest time. Even before I had my kids. Jenny once told me she was in love with a guy named Xandy. She told me how she fell in love with him. She also mentioned that he was the one I slept with; the father of my kids. Could it be that Xandy was the father of my kids and also Alexander? My mind spiraled at the thought. It couldn't be right. How was it possible? That I had slept with Alexander that night? If I had, then I would have remembered. His scent would have made me aware that it was him. Plus, the pictures and videos showed didn't tally. Alexander went crazy for years and was in the pack, how could he be in videos and pictures with Jenny? It wasn't making any sense. “Then why has Jenny been running from you and who is this new guy?” My wolf asked. I couldn't respond. I was confused as well. Mom returned to the kitchen, she walked over to the kitchen cabinet and she continued to