18

~Arsen Storm~

I had to go away for a few days to set up new territory boundaries with the Blackshadow pack. I actually wanted to do this a week ago, but Aurelia intervened.

Since the meeting took place in my pack last time, it took place in the other pack this time. Fortunately, this matter was now resolved and I had time for Aurelia again. I had forbidden that idiot Steven to go out with her, so now I could show her the rest of the village in peace.

I hoped that maybe she would finally talk to me again and that I would get a chance to get to know her better. Of course I could just ask Steven for information, but that would probably be too obvious. He would immediately notice that something was wrong with me.

When I got to Aurelia's room, I unlocked the door and entered. She was sitting on her bed bored and when she saw me a small smile came to her face.

I didn't want to rush it right away and, as always, started with simple questions.

"How are you?" I asked and she started to smile, which looked awfully cute.

"Fine and you?" she answered me. It made me happy that she finally answered my questions.

"I see you finally found your voice again" but then it occurred to me that it's probably thanks to Steven, which made me jealous. This made my already deep voice even deeper: "Is that because of your new guard ?".

"Perhaps."

That was enough for me and I almost lost my temper. Why is she happy around him?

"You're taking me for a walk now!" I clarified in my alpha voice.

But she replied, "Er, no? You're not telling me what to do." She also tried to throw me out of her room. Unfortunately for her, I'm a lot stronger than she is. That's why it didn't quite work out the way she imagined.

It kept bubbling up inside me. I didn't like it when someone disobeyed my orders, even though she's my mate.

"If I tell you what to do, you'll do it too!"

I could see fear in her eyes, which is probably because my eyes turn red when I'm extremely angry. And that's exactly what she did. She made me so damn angry.

I walked towards her and she backed away. Finally she was standing with her back against the wall. i was so close to her My body on her body.

Suddenly my raging rage turned to pure lust. I wanted you. Wanted to taste her soft lips. Wanted to kiss her tender neck. Mark them and make them my property.

My gaze slid further down her, to her perfectly formed breasts. How I wanted to rip my shirt off her body and caress her breasts with my tongue. Just the fact that she was wearing my t-shirt turned me on incredibly.

My lips went to her ear. I wanted to let her know how horny she was making me.

"But you really don't make it easy for me either, with your small perfect breasts."

"You perv!" she yelled at me in response. She struggled, smacking my cheek with her small fist. I felt nothing, but it made me angry again.

Why is she fighting me like that? I mean her no harm. I could never hurt her even though I'm an asshole.

At that moment she whimpered. I realized that she must have hurt herself when she punched me. So I took a few steps back and looked at my beautiful mate.

"How I'd like to take you now." I didn't really want to say it out loud, but she's so beautiful I can barely control myself.

She didn't react, but she still looked at me with a shocked, confused but also angry expression. So I put even more distance between the two of us, even if I didn't like it that much.

I broke eye contact with her beautiful eyes to calm myself down a bit.

Then I quickly came up with an apology, even though I usually never had to apologize. "I'm sorry, I sometimes forget that you're not one of my pack members." Since I still wanted to go out with her, this time I tried a simple question: "I wanted to ask you if you would like to go for a walk with me? Then I could show you around the grounds a little."

At first she didn't answer. I was about to start to leave the room when I finally heard a hesitant nod.

~Aurelia Williams~

Arsen led me out through the many corridors of the pack house. I still needed the crutches, after all a break like that doesn't heal that quickly.

Together we walked around for a while between the smaller wooden log houses. In the meantime, I memorized everything out here in case I wanted to flee later, or had to. Who knows what those werewolves are going to do to me.

For once, pack members that we met from time to time didn't stare at me, but made themselves small and showed their necks. This confused me. However, I think that's because arsenic is the so-called alpha and thus something like the king here, as he explained it to me.

Finally we were a few meters away from the houses and were now walking around in the forest.

I felt a little uncomfortable walking around here with arsenic all by myself. After all, he had said himself that he wanted to fuck me. It was probably even his plan. He would just take me away from civilization and then rape me. But what was so special about me? Why would he want that from me? Maybe he liked virgins, but he couldn't know that I was one.

My heart started beating a little faster at that thought. But then I saw how the trees around us began to clear and we finally stood in a clearing. There were also some other people here who were fighting, so I dismissed my previous thoughts.

What kind of absurd trains of thought do I have? That won't be normal anymore.

"This is our training ground," says Arsen, who has been silent all the way here. "Here we teach the young wolves how to transform and fight. They learn to fight in wolf form as well as in human form. We have to teach them self-control as male wolves lose temper more quickly than female wolves."

"Oh, I didn't even notice," I retorted snotty. I don't know why everything has been pouring out of me lately. But it's naïve of me to believe that there won't be any punishment for it. Who knows who hurt me next?

"You don't even know how high my self-control is." He looked over at me and took a few steps closer to me. But before he could step closer to me, a light-blond beauty pushed between us. I was even grateful for that.. .or so I told myself.

"Hey baby," Savanna said before her lips sealed with arsenic. It gave me a little pang in my heart, even though I already knew he had a mate. At least now I knew who she was. But it was clear that she I had to be. After all, she's beautiful, unlike me. I'm just a frock coat with bruises and scars all over my body. I'm marked by my past. No one wants me.

I really didn't want to stare at them, but I couldn't take my eyes off them either. Then she broke the unrequited kiss and rested her forehead on his. "I've been so lonely without you the last few nights and I miss our hot sex."

She tried to whisper those words in his ear, but she spoke loud enough for me to understand every single word, which I'm sure she did on purpose. Then she kissed him again, while he looked like he was about to push her away.

But I didn't want to watch this show any longer and stand there stupidly, so I decided to hobble closer to the fighting characters. There were two boys, I guess about my age. A third person stood next to them and watched the fight attentively.

It was the one who was briefly in my hospital room. If I remember correctly he was Arsens Beta, whose name was Costa. I also remembered that he wasn't too happy about my presence.

When I finally got up beside him, all I could manage was a soft "Hi."

"Hello Aurelia, it's an honor for me to finally get to know you properly," he said in a surprisingly friendly tone. I was surprised that he was so nice to me at all, after all he demanded to 'eliminate' me at the time.

"I'm glad too," I said shyly.

"Why are you out here alone? Where's Arsenic?" he asked, looking around until his eyes finally settled on Arsenic and his dolly, who were still clinging to each other and almost looking like they were about to devour each other. At least, that's what she looked like.

"Ah I see... Savanna must have gotten jealous. I can imagine how that must be for you."

How must it be for me? Are you serious? Surely I don't care what the two do together.

"I don't care," I said.

"I can see you're jealous."

"I? Jealous? Because of someone who fucks everything that isn't on the tree by 3 anyway. Never." And Costa started to smile. "He's an asshole." I added to reinforce myself.

I stubbornly crossed my arms across my chest and stared at the fighting boys. Suddenly, however, their bones began to crack and they made strange contortions.

The next moment two wolves faced each other and growled at each other. One had dark brown fur and the other gray with black spots.

That should probably be proof enough for me that werewolves really existed. The last spark of doubt has now disappeared.

I gaped at her, my heart beating faster than usual. How to turn from a human into a wolf. How is that possible?

They started fighting again. Only this time it looked much more aggressive than before. They jumped at each other, tried to grab each other and kept fighting. Until then suddenly the brown wolf's eyes shot to me and this time he started growling at me.

"Cody!" Costa said, now standing protectively in front of me. But the wolf's gaze was still fixed on mine.

That can't be good? I knew they didn't want me here.

"Don't move!" Costa said, walking towards the brown wolf.

However, when he jumped and avoided Costa, I started to run. Unfortunately, I still had the splint on my right leg, so progress was slow. I wouldn't get away from him for long. In addition, it hurt with every step that I landed on the injured leg.

I knew the wolf was behind me because I could hear its large paws hitting the forest floor. And the next moment his heavy weight landed on me and yanked me to the ground.

It didn't do my still broken ribs any good, as they started hurting like hell again on impact.

I cried out, it hurt, and I also sense that this must be the end of me.