Chapter 12"I'd scream if you don't stop right now!!" Ariel threatened cheekily. "Don't kill me." She added in a low and shaky voice the more he progressed closer to her. He leaned towards her with an almost deliberate slowness were she could feel his masculine scents wafts into her nose causing her heart to thud noisily in her chest and a slight blush appeared on her face. 'What was wrong with her? Some dough mate was trying to strangle her and all her heart could do was act noisily?' What she didn't even understand was why she kept even calling him mate and why her heart always reacted strangely when he was close by when she had already rejected him though he didn't accept it but at least they should be something different and not some increasing mate pull. Zeres gruff voice spoked more like whispered closed to her ears. "I just wanted to return the pillow you threw, what were you thinking I wanted to do?" He threw a questioning glance at her while tossing the pillow on the other

Just when Ariel was about to open the car door, she realized her hands had brushed against something, Zeres had also made the same attempt and while doing so their hands brushed against each other for a brief moment.There was a sudden surge of electricity within her over the brief contact. She wondered if it was him or static. She retracted her hands back and quickly said."You don't have to open the car door for me, I'm not incapable of doing so myself."Zeres didn't comment, he just blatantly ignored her and she knew it was intentional. "Rude." She muttered underneath her breath and rolled her eyes. For some unknown reason he was undeniably quiet than usual, he couldn't compliment her. Hailey had putting enough efforts in dressing her up for the goddamned club or whatever. Why was she even expecting a compliment from him? She definitely was dumb.The driver rev the car engine ready to start, when Zeres stepped into the car beside her."Wait! Wait! What are you doing?" She shrieked.

“N-nothing.” The asshole said finally catching up with the mess he had landed.That took a while, Zeres had to admit but what was he expecting from a twerp— no— brained asshole anyways. The boys face had reddened with panic just from the little hold of Zeres. Zeres was sure the boy would have peed his pants if he carried out his wolf’s threat..“I don’t think it was nothing.” Zeres uttered tightening his hold on him, and the boy whimpered in pain. “You used a very derogatory word on my lady here, don't you think you need to apologize?.” Another tightening, another whimper. “Or would you prefer we do it my style, hmm?” Zeres didn’t need to spell out what his style was. “I’m sorry,” The boy mumbled begrudgingly to Ariel, who passed a stony look back to him She didn’t respond.“I didn’t hear you, say it like you mean it.” Zeres uttered adding a smile that made him look more unhinged. The smile contained more threat than humour. The boy’s eyes flashed with unmistakable hate, but he wasn’t