Chapter 16: stranger

Logan’s pov

He didn’t reply but took a sip of his whiskey. I looked at him carefully trying to understand his facial expression.

After some time he smiled at looked at me,

“dream on little brother , I am stronger and older than you. There is no way father would pick you” he answered.

He continued sipping his whiskey and  I just looked at him.

He sounded so confident.

he thinks that being Alpha King is all about strength but he is wrong.

There is more to it than that, its about having compassion, understanding your people and their needs.

Its about being able to swallow your pride and do what is best for your people which is something my brother hasn’t learned.

I don’t want to be Alpha King, its not my fate and its not something I want to do.

Which is why for years I have been trying to show my brother all these things so that our father will pick him without any doubt.

But he just ended up resenting me and saying that I am trying to act like I am better than him.

“you don’t need to suck up to that vampire you know” he said after some time and I just shrugged.

“I wasn’t sucking up, we just met and I caught a scent of my mate and he was looking for someone as well” I replied and he looked at me curious.

“huh you don’t say, did you find your mate and did he find the person he was looking for?” my brother asked.

I could tell he had no interest in me or my mate but asked so he could ask about the Vampire King.

“no and he didn’t find her” I replied and his smile got wider.

“huh so it’s a her, interesting” he said with a smirk.

I just ignored and we just sat there in silence drinking and my mind went to my mate.

She is somewhere in this city and knowing that made me feel less lonely.

It made wonder what she was doing right now and why everything points to her being on the run.

Could she be in trouble for some reason?

Come to think of it I find it weird how she disappeared so easily that night.

Its like one moment she was there, and she was gone.

Even the way she was dressed, the hoodie and also a small backpack same with her father.

There was an urgence in his voice that day when he called her to go and she responded very fast like they were used to it.

Did she do something wrong?

But she didn’t strike me as someone who would get into trouble like that.

The way she spoke to me and her smile, she listened to a complete stranger without any kind of judgement.

She even gave me her scarf, can someone like that be capable of a veinous crime?

If she did commit a crime then its probably something related to supernatural beings which is why she is hiding her scent.

I hope not, I hope she isn’t a hardened criminal.

But most witches do it because they don’t want some random men following them.

Especially with vampires,

I heard that they follow a person using their scent, if that scent catches their attention then the person becomes their prey.

She could be doing it to protect herself, but something tells me that she is on the run.

After that I went to my hotel, and I could see the city from there.

I don’t usually use my werewolf sight to see further ahead but today I was tempted to.

From where I was standing I could see two figures dancing on a room top.

It was two ladies;

they were wearing hoodies so I couldn’t catch their faces and they were really far from me.

They seemed to be having fun that I couldn’t help but smile looking at them dancing around.

I got a call from my friend who was asking me all these questions about the even I attended.

Apparently the even is big but there was really nothing good about it, it was just boring.

There was a lot of socialising and watching as people pretended like they weren’t planning wars behind each other’s back.

Others were clearly not shy to show people that they are here to look for a potential partner.

Imagine coming to an event to hunt for a wife or a husband, it still amazes me the things people would do for power.

Why not marry for love?

Why want more power when it usually means more responsibility?

My brother is also one of the people who came all this way for power.

Charlotte’s pov

“I can’t believe we pulled it off” Alexa said jumping around in joy.

We were at the roof top of our building, I smiled at this, and she came and sat next to me.

“I am sorry I had to call you to come, its just only you could have solved that problem” she said, and I nodded.

“it’s okay, nothing happened, and I came in and out without anyone noticing me” I replied, and she smiled.

She helped me up and started playing music, we started dancing around and celebrating.

This event was big, so we made a lot of money and it put us on the map.

After dancing around, we sat down for some wine and then I remembered him.

The man on the balcony, I know for a certain that he is that man that I saw that day.

That man who is my first love and mistook me for someone else, he hadn’t aged a big and this time I caught it.

His scent, I usually hate vampire scents but for some reason his was different and I know for certain now that he is a vampire.

So, when he said he has been looking for her for centuries he probably meant exactly that.

I don’t know if I could do that, if I could love someone for that long, centuries is a very long time.

But I guess to them time is not a big factor, they don’t age and can live forever so loving someone for a few centuries isn’t a big deal.

Where is she?

 If she is a vampire as well why is she running away from him?

“you seem deep in thought; did something happen today?” Alexa asked me and I just shrugged.

“Is it crazy? To constantly think of someone, you just met twice and hardly interacted with?” I asked her.

“it depends, why do you constantly think about that person?” Alexa asked taking a sip of her wine.

I nodded, she is right in a way, it depends, why do I think about him?

He is a stranger I have only seen twice.

So why?

Why do I always feel like I know him more than I know myself?