Who is taking the bed

Chapter 6

Jacob's pov 

Dammit, my brothers are going to kill me.

That is…if I don't die right now perhaps.

I pushed my bodyweight against the rickety door, buying time. For what? I'm not quite sure.

"Just let me help you," the viper said, her voice a desperate whisper shout, I laid my eyes on her then raked them through.

She was taller than most she wolves, with distracting curves and her midnight black hair was a tight, heavy looking bun on her head…for a stupid second I wanted to loosen her hair and- 

"Lady Vivian!" The banging from the other side intensified and I almost whispered a thank you to the enemies behind the door frame reminding me that there was another enemy in here with me even when her blue eyes sparkled like stars.

"Didn't you hear me before? Why would I trust you?" I said making such spite dripped from every word.

Those doe eyes widened and a flicker of hurt past them.

A stupid impulse in me told me to console her and I smothered immediately.

Console her, why?! 

She was the viper.

A venomous fiend that ended my brothers life and mine as well, save from the distrastion outside I should be snapping her neck.

"I know you don't trust me, you'd be dumb to anyways but-" she was closer again and my wolf was yearning to sniff her but my scent cloaker I had on was also making difficult for me to catch other's scent."...Voss warrior wolves are never far apart, you could tear through those outside with brute force but once reinforcements can't reach them they'll be on your tail. Now tell me…can you handle an army?" 

My skin bristled with anger, I hated that she was right, hated the confidence in her voice that I would give in.

"Try anything funny and you'll regret it," I said through clenched teeth.

"Wouldn't dream of it," she said her lips falling into an almost smile.

In a few smooth motions she maneuvered me away from the door to the wall next to it that it covered when she opened it and her expression changed in a second flat, her lips were in a stern sharp line that could cut through glass and even her innocent looking eyes looked like pits of fury, the transformation was a whiplash but my surprise wasn't long lived.

Such two faced cunningness is exactly what I'd expect from the viper.

"Why are all of you here?! Trying to bring this door down?"her voice bloomed with natural authority, like she was used to shooting orders and having them followed.

They calmed instantly, a man with a gruff voice spoke up.

"We just happened to be here and decided that we should check up on you,"

She was quiet for a while, but even I could tell from where I stood against the world that it was for dramatic purposes to slice open their conscience even before her words could. 

"In case all of you have not gotten the memo yet I am no longer a part of Voss pack, your concern is unneeded,"

Confusion was beginning to swirl in me, either she was one of the best actress known to man or she had actually cut ties with her pack.

My fingers were trembling so much I brought them to my side. 

Impossible I couldn't allow myself to be swayed. 

This was the viper we were talking about.

Her loyalty to the Voss pack had been a deadly venom to mine in my second life. Her name rolled across our warriors lips with bitter reverence. She was a force to be reckoned with, a…

"Wherever I'm going to now has nothing to do with any of you, my safety is none of your concern I'll take care of myself this should be the last time I will have to face any of you," her words penetrated my thoughts and the next thing in he was the door slamming shot with a force that the vibrated through the entire room.

I waited until I heard footsteps outside until they faded away then my eyes were back on her, she looked exhausted, drained.... Not that I cared but it was hard to miss her dark circles or the way her face looked so pale.

She trained her eyes back on me as if they never left. 

"You are Jacob right?"

"Prince Jacob," I corrected.

"All right then prince Jacob-"

"I'm undercover right now, just call me Jac,"

She looks like she was about to pop again in her forehead and it might have been a little immature of me but I liked that I could get under her skin like that and annoy her.

"Do you think you can trust me a bit now?" She said and I weighed the question back still against the wall hands crossed in front of my chest, from the way she was acted it didn't seem like she remembered what happened in our previous lives, and in a way it's grated at my nerves that she had forgotten all she did to my pack.

But if I brought her back home with me she would be a vital source of information that could turn the tables in our favor. 

"I still don't trust you," I see frankly straighten up, "but it looks like I could use you, "

I clipped the distance between us keeping eye contact with her all through she didn't break any lesser wolf would have immediately curled into themselves and molded into the fetal position but she stood friendly and met my eyes which made me remember why she was such a formidable enemy in my past life.

"... But understand this the moment I have even so much as an inkling that you are trying to betray me I will not hesitate to end your life,"

I thought that would strike a little bit of fear into her and for a second her face got paler and then it warmed up just a bit.

"That's fair," she said as if we were going over a simple business deal. 

"Then there's just one more thing we need to settle,"

I cocked up an eyebrow; "What?"

She looked at me as if it was obvious.

"Which one of us is taking the bed?”