Chapter 7

"Jeffrey, lead the way." 

The room they gave me was similar to the one I saw Atlas had. Big, spaces, but the decor was more oriented towards a woman. I put in the closet the little clothes I had in my backpack and after that, I had nothing but time on my hands.

"Let's go explore the mansion, we have nothing better to do." I tell Saf as I see her waiting by the door.

"Don't tell me you are waiting for him." I say as I walk over to her.

"No, I'm trying to figure out who are those two outside the door." Saf said as she allowed me to open the door.

Sure enough, as I opened the door I was greeted by two men who seemed to be guarding my room.

"Can I help you?" I ask.

"Miss Kaya, our Luna instructed us to be at your service" What they meant was she instructed them to follow me around in case I try to leave.

"Fine, then one of you go and fetch me something to eat. I'm starving." I say as I close the door in annoyance.

"Saf, we need to find a way to get out of here."

"Good luck with that, this isn't like your parent's house. You can't just jump out of a window." Saf said as she lay on the bed.

"Hey, don't get too comfortable here, we won't stay for long." I take off my shoes and join her on the bed.

"Why would we leave our soulmate?" She asks me.

"Saf, don't you care even a bit about the fact I don't feel like that about Atlas?" 

"Well, you felt something with that kiss. What happens is you are still coated in the Cole illusion." Saf isn't a fan of Cole.

"Leave him out of this." I bicker back.

"Eazy, he's not even here. Atlas is." Saf said as she laid her head on my leg.

A soft knock was heard on the door and I sat up.

"Yes!"

"Your meal Miss Kaya." A voice said.

"Enter." Goddess, why did that sound so stuck up?

The man entered and left a tray of food on a small table by the couch.

"Food finally." Saf said in excitement. Truth be told we didn't eat in almost two days. 

After I ate the food I went and took a shower and changed into a fresh set of clothes. I decided to leave the room to see the mansion as the two men followed me around.

I decided to go to the highest floor in order to have a better view of the estate. Sure enough, I was able to see everything and estimate the length of the gardens, the height of the fence, and the number of royal guards.

"Planning your escape route?" Atlas said behind me.

"Yes." I simply say.

"Maybe you should reschedule until we figure this out." He said as he pulled out a book from behind his back. He opened a page with many illustrations of a man and a woman. In the first part, they are both with their wolves, in the second the man has the two wolves, and then the woman with the two wolves.

"So what does this mean, you can take Saf from me?" I ask confused.

"The same way you can take Sky from me, but there is more." He said as he turned the page. The two wolves on one side and the humans on the other.

"I think if we don't complete our bond, our wolves could eventually leave us." Atlas said as I stared at the book.

"Is this just your way of tricking me into letting you claim me?" I say as I close the book and push it into his chest.

"I would never deceive you in order to claim you, that is not who I am Kaya." He looked hurt I even implied that.

"I'm worried about what all of this means. You not feeling our bond, the fact I can all of a sudden see Saf and Sky being able to materialize outside my head." I looked behind him where Sky was sitting. I can see Sky.

"You can see him, no one else can." I tell him.

 "But how? You can see him, and I see your wolf. That shouldn't be possible." 

"I was able to see Saf since I was a child." Atlas"s jaw almost hit the floor. It was almost funny to watch.

"You had your wolf since you were a child?" He asks because normally the rest of the werewolves get their wolf after the puberty hormones settle down. It's been said that a child is too wild and unpredictable to have a wolf. I hid it from my family because Saf told me to.

"Just please don't mention this to anyone, let me figure it out." Where will I even start to look? I think to myself as my eyes land on the book again. "Would you mind leaving the book with me, I'd like to take another look at it." Maybe I'll be able to find some answers in there. After all, the pack mansion has the best archives on every werewolf matter.

"Sure," He says. "Take it." Atlas hands me the book, and as I take it from him our fingers graze each other, and he looks affected by the closeness between us.

"Could I ask you for one more favor?" I ask as he stares longingly into my eyes, fighting hard to contain himself from not coming closer to me. I know because I can feel the vibrations of his beating heart.

"Anything you want."

"Can you dispose of the two he-wolfs your mother sent to follow me around, it's quite annoying to have them at my feet." I see that they have made their distance from me as Atlas joined me, of course, they wouldn't spy on the future Alphas conversation.

"That depends." Atlas says as he steps closer.

"On what?" I ask as I take a small, small step back but my eyes stay locked with his.

"It depends if you still have the intention to leave."