Semua Bab Alpha Cassius Darkest Claim: Bab 21 - Bab 30

CASSIUS VALE POV“Feels like I haven’t worked for months…” I muttered and sipped my steamy hot cappuccino, I was seated on my little work space at the balcony, the cool morning breeze was refreshing and exactly what I needed to get some work done.I scrolled through my emails, and the roll was unending. I had a lot of proposals to approve, a lot of investment opportunities to review… buying properties is my favorite thing to do.Annelise was still deeply asleep, this was my only opportunity to get some work done.I sighed and turned my work phone on, I had put my phone on do not disturb, and had my P.A do most of the jobs, very important jobs too, which was unlike me, but I had to do it for Annelise. I needed to spend more time with her so that I wouldn’t feel like she would slip off my finger when I get too busy… That was exactly why I enrolled her in uni.Might sound selfish, but I never really wanted her out my sight. Yes, the p

ANNELISE POVI woke up quite late the next morning after a very eventful day yesterday with Cassius, Isolde and Dashiell. I remember getting so wine drunk and sleeping off on their couch, but I don’t remember getting back home.I hated days like this, I’m a nightmare when I’m drunk. I mean, I don’t have the habit of always getting drunk, but when I do, I wake up to embarrassing stories.I sighed and turned to the other side of the bed. Cassius wasn’t lying next to me as expected, but there was a note and a pill with a glass of water next to it on the bedside cabinet. I grabbed the note.‘Good morning, Sweetness. I had an urgent meeting to attend. I couldn’t bring myself to wake you up after the night we had, I gave you a kiss though, take the pill, it would help with the hangover. I will be back before noon.’I pulled myself up and sat mutely on the bed imagining all that might have happened last night, what I might have said and what he might actually think of me right now.“Oh no! A

CASSIUS VALES POVIt’s been about three days since I last spent quality time with Anne, and it’s been affecting me more than she believes.I hated missing her first day of school, I knew that she would hate me for sending a stranger to take her to school and missing her big day which was a once in a lifetime experience, but I had no choice!I was protecting her… From me.It was that time of the year again, the last quarter of my werewolf shift… The last full moon of the year, I needed to leave home because my wolf starts reacting days before the actual full moon, and for the first time since my first shift, my wolf started reacting a week before the full moon with an aggressiveness I had never experienced before, like he was trying to tear off my skin before due date.It was disturbing and strange, I tried controlling it for Anne’s sake, but the more I stayed close to her the more the feeling worsened. I was suddenly seeing myself

CASSIUS VALES POV One week later… I stood by the kitchen counter, watching Annelise who was standing at the balcony, with the glass partition closed separating me from her. She looked hollow, lost… Confused, she’s been standing there for hours watching the Eiffel Tower with a glass of brown wine. She hadn’t said a word to me since the Surgeons announced her mother’s demise, when we got the news, her reaction wasn’t what I expected, I had prepared myself to console her as much as she needed even if I didn’t know how to do that, but her reaction was… Blank, her eyes were vacant, she received the news like she had already been expecting the worst. These were moments I wished I could control, I felt emasculated knowing that I could do nothing but to watch her get lost in grief. She had requested that I helped her cremate her Mom’s body and k

By 12:46 Cassius was already parked outside the school building waiting for Annelise, cars were trooping in and out as some students came out of the building.Cassius checked his wrist watch for the time, five minutes had passed since he arrived, he sighed and rested his back on the chair as his eyes went to the reflection at the mirror of the paper shopping bags branded with ‘Léa Atelier’ at the back seat.He had spent over an hour trying to make a clothing choice for Annelise, but ended up going with Léa’s choices. Annelise was in a delicate position, and he couldn’t risk making her unhappy by his ‘insecure’ choices as Annelise had referred to him.Soon he spotted Annelise, she was laughing and discussing with a girl in baggy clothes, her hair packed up in a high ponytail. Cassius could tell at first glance that the girl was French, but what he really wanted to know was if the girl was good enough to be hanging around Annelise, Annelise looked happy though, her smile didn’t look con