11. Carter & Wanda

This morning I wasn’t expecting, my back was killing me, when I went in this cottage the inside of this cottage was left untouched from only goddess knows when, the beds were old, springs where coming out of them from everywhere.

I had to sleep on the dusty floor, thinking about all of the messed up updates this place will need the door was knocked on making me take one step forward to crack my back, “ah gods that’s the spot.”

I exclaim, I keep stretching my body till I got the door open.

John was right there holding a big ass matress and behind him was Jona, they both had each a mattress, “thank goodness! Help me get these two old ones off this cottage.”

Without thinking they went in and helped me, they didn’t know how to do house work but they knew how to do patch jobs, so I had them fix a couple of things of the sealing before I could even think of getting myself some food.

I checked the kitchen to see what I had to deal with, but there were zero electrical appliances.

“Fuck me, this place is outdated if I had a freaking electrician.”

I was no good with electrical appliances, I would end up electrocuted every time I would put my hand near a freaking cable alone.

“Bro, getting pizza to eat 'cause this is insane, the amount of work you have. We patched up the roof. You don’t need a new one, we think, but let us know. Still, if your thinking of updating this sucker, you're going to need to contract a freaking company 'cause that ain’t a happening from us.”

I rolled my eyes.

That meant cold ass water was about to be felt in my soul when it was time to take a shower fuck me.

I shivered from that.

“Fine, I’ll do the ends, then have a meeting with the head omega here. She should know something I don’t. Thanks, guys. Need me to add for the pizza? I want in.”

They nodded and asked for $50.

Luckily, my money was on me, so it was no problem.

Knowing I would share this cottage meant I wouldn’t be alone, but with whom would I share it?

Seeing these two help me move the old mattresses, I asked for gossip.

The only way I can know anything is anywhere I go.

“So what happened this morning while I was dead asleep?”

John replied straight forward.

“Our enemy pack arrived yesterday, but get this, unlike you that you were at least in the trunk of the limo. I'm not saying it was cool or shit, but compared to how the others arrived,” he extends his palm out for me to see from my bedroom.

“Five-star bro, the enemy pack came with a bad Toyota with four omegas, two who are warriors, but that’s not the messed up part.”

Jona walked towards where we were then added with a growl.

“There were two omega girls” he extends two fingers at me.

At the same time, I finish putting the pillows in their cases, “Really beaten, one has a neck brace with a hand cast on her arm, and the other girl was knocked out of her consciousness like Who the fuck does that to two girls? And omega girls ass hole can’t keep his hands to himself,” I growled at what he said. It’s bad enough they arrived individually, but in that state?

Not giving a fuck about who hears me, I say out loud.

“Who the fuck is that alpha thinking he has the bigger balls of them all?”

Both Kohn and Jona growled in agreement.

When I was about to say something else, to my surprise, the door was knocked on, interrupting our conversation.

As I walked to the door, behind it was an elderly lady with a girl in a wheelchair.

She had a neck brace on her and a scarf holding her hand up that was in a cast.

This must be the same girl these guys were talking about.

The girl thought she had my attention.

She was beautiful, considering her current state.

Of course, I have no idea if she will be my mate or not, my birthday is today but at one in the evening, it’s currently eleven in the morning, so I had to wait till then to know, but I was strangely pulled to her, “may we come in a child?”

The older woman said as I didn’t say anything from staring intently at the beautiful girl in the wheelchair.

I shook my head but said quickly, “Yes, of course,” and moved to allow her to enter.

The woman rolled the girl's wheelchair in when I tried to speak again, still lost in thoughts.

“I’m sorry I was caught off guard by the cute girl,” my eyes go wide at my messed up words.

Still, the guys are laughing at my failed attempts to talk to a girl.

I tried quickly to save myself again, “I mean by the wheelchair,” I said, but I could not keep myself from the embarrassment, so I stopped myself for a second to breathe.

I tried one last time, “The girl in the wheelchair, are you okay? Is she okay?”

I asked as I had a horrible first impression of the girl in the wheelchair, who was now laughing, fuck my life, she is going to think I’m an idiot who is after her skirt.

I smack my face with my hand from the embarrassment of the century.

“Cassidy, my name, that is. Nice to meet you.”

She said from the wheelchair when I got a mind link from Wanda, ‘smooth, real smooth there,’ I growled at hearing Wanda.

I realized after it was my response to Cassidy, and I quickly opened my eyes to try and save this conversation, “Carter, I mean my name,” Jona laughed hard at me.

As I took a pillow from the sofa, I hit my face with it, groaning in misery. Just kill me now, floor open, and swallow me hole now, please, end this shame.

Cassidy tried to get up from the wheelchair.

I ran to help her, taking her hand; it was warm, “May I help you get on the bed? I promise to do business,” she smiled and allowed me to help, placing her in the bed I had just made.

I hear the elderly lady speak, “She needs to heal what is left of the medication. I assured her she would be fine. It will take her a while, but it’s best to give it to her on her bird that it will speed up her process of healing.”

I looked at Cassidy after hearing the elderly lady.

It was her birthday?

Maybe a tiny gesture would save my stupid mouth from earlier.

‘The flowers! Give her the flower!’

Wanda shouted in the link. I moved to help place the wheelchair in the living room, where I had the flowers in a water-filled vase.

Taking the vase to her room, the elderly lady sat beside her, opening the cast with heavy scissors. I placed the vase on her nightstand.

When she tried to move, I picked it up and then showed her what I had gotten, “It’s not much, but happy birthday, Cassidy, it’s a gift for you,” she smiled at my words, letting a slight blush creep, my heart was pounding from seeing her smile, gods she was cute.

“Thank you, Carter, I love them. That’s very thoughtful of you,” the elderly lady sighed as she was tired from cutting.

Placing six vases back, I asked older people.

“Can I assist you with cutting the cast? I don’t mind,” she gave me the scissors.

I opened it without a sweat, but the growl that escaped me made me almost see red.

Her hand was not only bruised and broken, it was misshaped, and the person who had done this did it repeatedly, even during her healing.

The older woman didn’t say a word, but her silence was menacing.

I didn’t feel safe with the elderly lady in her silence.

But I’d be damned if whoever did this to Cassidy gets a say in being near her, “Who did this to you?”

I asked Cassidy, who swallowed hard but answered in a bush voice, “The Alpha family, for a prank the Alpha’s son did on the Luna of the pack,” she looked away from us both, and my anger was out of this world.

‘Cool down! Cool down! We have an alert! Alpha kid! Alpha kid!’

Wanda kept shouting, and it felt as if the older woman could also feel or hear Wanda as she started to look out the window to see what I saw: a big guy who looked like a lousy rapper-singer was walking towards the cottage.

Still, Wanda was after the guy alongside other wolves, “who is that guy?”

I asked out loud, to which the elder lady moved with a light-colored water to tend Cassidy.