Night of the Ball – It was hot in here - 5

Aubrianne Ivanov

Zayne's eyes scanned Aubrianne from her head to her toes while she scanned him from the tip of his shiny shoes to his gorgeous, dirty blonde hair.

His blue eyes would randomly change to the most unusual yet riveting shade of ice and fire.

It was like flames were burning in the ice. They pierced her soul, the room temperature rose, and a fullness overwhelmed her.

Aubrianne felt complete. She felt protected, safe, and secure, and that was not the half of it. She also felt an overwhelming amount of love for this person. She felt like she would tear people to pieces if they hurt him.

Or if a b1tch would! 'He completes us.' Leia purred, 'He is our everything and so handsome.' She squealed in excitement, and. Aragorn already loves me, he said.'

Aubrianne did not even hear Leia because the more her mate stared into her soul or scanned over her body, she felt heat, hot; it was hot in here.

She struggled with the most straightforward task of breathing. However, when she sniffed a little stronger than necessary in an attempt to fill her greedy lungs, the scent of a woman wafted to her nose from her mate.

Aubrianne's own demons about the matter attacked her right all at once. Right then and there, and it was simply too much. She almost stumbled again but did not fall, and this time, when Daniel reached for her, Zayne was in front of him in a second.

His hands sunk into his pockets, a feeble attempt not to bash this punk's face in. "I swear to our Divine Moon Goddess..." He leaned in closer, "Touch her again, and I will end you," Zayne growled lowly, menacing, fire and ice-fleck eyes blazing with fury.

How he wished Daniel would touch her so he could be done with this fool; when Cassius was not about to back down, he growled at Zayne, as Alpha Theo growled at Daniel.

Even though he did not like this scum, they would respect the rank.

Entirely overwhelmed by the madness and the hurt that suddenly overtook her body, she yelled, "Would everybody stop growling?"

Aubrianne then turned and ran out of the ballroom when her father and Daniel took off after her. She turned abruptly and snarled, her dominating Alpha tone as Leia had her full support.

"Don't you dare follow me?" She seethes.

'He told me he loved me. He lied," Leia whimpered.

Theo and Daniel stopped in their tracks while Zayne had already slipped away, heading behind his mate. However, he had gone out the entrance he came in from.

Needless to say, he got a bit turned around.

Theo turned to storm towards Zayne. However, Zayne was already gone, "FIND HIM." Theo roared.

He then decided to bring some calm to the event, "Well, that was something." He chuckled a bit uncomfortably when Ivan stepped up and took over, directing everyone into the room where they had dinner. He then ordered the staff to clean up the mess in the ballroom.

Theo could not believe what was happening. This is precisely what he did not want for his daughter.

He looked around at the crowd. He could not believe this had happened while accommodating a few high-class guests for the weekend.

Everyone saw that his daughter was mated to HIM. Steele.

And here he was, worrying about that young man messing things up for him by association. Well, it was f*cking more than that now.

He'd worked too hard to get where he was right now in society to have the son of a scum sully his future within the elites.

Meanwhile, Daniel knew his time with Aubrianne was over. But he struggled to accept it.

Aubrianne is not the type to meet her mate and then have sex with another man.

She is not. Now that the mate is in play, this changes things drastically for Daniel.

Nevertheless, Aubrianne had taken off her heels and ran straight into the garden. However, as soon as she got there, she had no time to think.

She and Leia were in a heated conversation, trying to make sense of the fact that they smelt a female on their mate. Aubrianne's body was trembling with desire for a man smelling of another.

Her heart was suddenly beating for him, she was yearning for him, and he broke her heart, so engrossed in their back and forth that she noticed in time to feel the needle sinking into her neck.

She was dazed; she felt someone picking her up and placing her in something, and her body was a bit awkward. Then she felt herself being rolled somewhere, and she lost consciousness.

The mystery waiter pushed a large cart with a giant bin on it. He took it straight to where he parked in the car park close to the dumpster. 'How clever was he?'

With all the commotion going on, a particular waiter started to make his preparations. For him, it was now or never.

He may have to go psycho on these people. So imagine when he spots his angel running past where he is.

'Well, looks like I would not need to go psycho on these people.'

Nevertheless, he gently took out Aubrianne and placed her in the back seat to lie down, so careful not to hurt her.

Then Ron jumped into the driver's seat, shut the door, and drove off.

There was a thunderous growl in the air as Zayne rounded a corner, following his mate's scent, and saw someone putting his mate in a vehicle across the lot.

He had sniffed the air and smelt her; he took off running and quickly mind-linked Rafael and told him to tell Theodore someone had taken his mate, and with that, he shifted mid-air.

Zayne's heart was pounding out of his chest. He heard it loudly in his eardrum. His solid and sturdy paws tore up the earth as he pressed forward.

Meanwhile, Timothy stood in the shadows, smoking one of his father's cigars. Suddenly his little hideout was full of action.

He had watched the entire scene go down and did not even flinch.

When it was over, he stepped out of the shadows, dropped the cigar, mashed it with the tip of his shiny shoes, fixed his jacket and tie, and headed back into the party.

Ron Miller

Tonight was the night he had worked long and hard to get here, and finally, his plans would come to fruition.

Ron came prepared to take Aubrianne tonight. He had scoped out the happenings around this ball and found himself employed with the catering company.

Everything was ready and waiting. Ron just needed to lie low. He had made plans to run away with Aubrianne.

But since he found out she was a wolf at the club, the hunter in him was contradicting his plans for her into something more sinister than his plans to kidnap her and run away with her.

He had picked up on her trail since she left the hospital back in Clifton Hill, and she never went out of his sight.

Ron knew that he and his love, Aubrianne, were made for each other, so he had planned to stake out the hospital and follow her when she was leaving.

He couldn't imagine a life other than the one he pictured in his mind's lens.

Who he could see leaving that Saturday afternoon was the most beautiful woman in the world. He had regretted his actions the moment she lay lifeless before him.

He was so relieved to see she was alive and that they would get another chance to be together.

It was not over yet, he'd told himself.

He had followed her from the day at the museum and amusement park straight home. He had simply looked on from afar, watching the going ins and outs of the people in this neighborhood, hoping to formulate a plan to get to Aubrianne and get her out of this wolf-infested city.

He will protect her. He was the only one who could.

Ron felt justified in his plans, and the need to protect her from these wolves was immense.

She doesn't know what they are like, but he does. She is so innocent, his sweet little angel, his breath of fresh air.

Aubrianne breathed life back into Ron the moment he walked into Triple X and saw her for the first time.

He was a retired hunter wandering aimlessly through life, trying to forget the horrors he'd seen hunting wolves on the other side of this world.

They are savages with no care for human life or the innocent.

Now, he finally has her. How lucky was he? How smart was he to use the employed staff route?

He patted himself on the back as he sped down the road, unaware of the raging, mad, almost feral Aragorn's heavy paws hitting the side of the roadway as he pummelled forward, chasing after that honda accord.