Chapter 40: Start of Hell

KIX:

Screw being a werewolf and all that fated mate stuff! Screw trying to wait until I turn nineteen and finding my mate by chance! If it was Jade, I was ready to throw all my caution into the wind.

“Will you allow me to mark you,” I asked again.

She knew what a marking meant. It was the first step into sealing our bond. It could create a stronger, clearer connection between us, and I’d be able to find her at any time if I do.

“B-But didn’t you say you we should wait until after our birthdays?”

I didn’t tell Jade about finding my fated mate. I didn’t want to break her heart if it happened that she wasn’t the one for me. The most important thing was that right here, right now, I love her.

I would move mountains for her. I’d run away and defy my parents if I they won’t accept her. I was choosing her to be my love forever even if that meant going against the plans of the Moon Goddess for my life...

“Well, yeah… But, you know I’m almost always early for things,” I said.

I slid a kiss into Jade’s neck. She flinched, feeling ticklish.

“Let’s see… This should be a good spot, right?”

I tried sucking just beneath her right clavicle, but Jade pushed my head gently away after a few seconds of burying my face at her skin.

“Uh, no, Kix… You said we’ll wait…”

“But, we’re of age already. Do you really not want to wait?”

I could see the hesitation on her face. I really wanted to sink my wolf’s teeth into her and claim her.

“Don’t worry… I promise not to go all the way until we’re married, alright? Just… Just let me mark you…”

There were three degrees of a wolf’s mark. First would involve burying my fangs on her neck, the second would be on her thigh, and the third would be fully breaking her maidenhead. The first two marks would help heighten our bond and the third and final one would imprint my wolf’s image on her skin as her sole lover and alpha.

“Don’t you want to belong to me? Don’t you want to build a future together with me,” I said.

I can’t think of a future without my Jade…

Since I was young, I had been brainwashed by everyone in the family and in the pack that I must never deviate from tradition. I must excel in every field. I must do well. I must marry to a powerful family and secure the pure lycan blood of the prestigious pack of the Luna Albas.

I was sick of it all that I have actually contemplated running away from home and becoming a wandering rogue… That was before I met Jade, and from then on, I started dreaming of a future with only her in it.

“That’s precisely what I wanted, Kix. I want a future with you… a future where your mom and dad would accept me as your girlfriend, your fiancé, and maybe eventually your wife… If we get carried away tonight, and we fail our test, won’t that ruin our perfect future together?”

I frowned. As always, my Jade has a point… I collapsed at her neck in utter frustration.

“If I can’t mark you, then, would you at least let me do this?...”

“Do wha-?”

Before Jade could even answer, I snatched the words away from her lovely mouth as I gave her a long and passionate kiss followed by several pecks on her neck afterwards, all of which I made sure to become visible the next day…

And because of that night and my forward actions on my beloved girlfriend, Jade’s life in hell would soon start…

As soon as Jade bid goodbye that night to go home, mom and dad confronted me in the living room.

Apparently, my parents spied on me the whole time since they secretly installed a CCTV at their only son’s bedroom.

I had a very violent confrontation with them. They wanted me to break up with Jade. I defied them of course, and I ended up threatening them that I’d marry and run away with Jade if they didn’t stop their nonsense.

I thought that the fight between my parents and I were over at that point. Little did I know they had gone to kidnap Jade and her family, making her swear that she’ll dump me the next day or they’ll kill every last one of her kin…

In a way, they did kill my lovely Jade… They also wrecked our future utterly…

The next day, I was late to school. On hindsight, I suspected that the humidifier in my room was drugged. I immediately went to school, not knowing that my phone and social media accounts had already been hacked courtesy of my overly controlling parents.

When I got to class, Jade was not in sight. She was not in her seat.

It was test day, and even when she’s burning up with fever, she wouldn’t miss it for the world. Where the hell was she then?

“Have you seen Jade,” I asked my classmates.

The boys sniggered. They whispered as soon as my back was turned against them. The girls in class all gave me a dirty and disgusted look.

My heart palpitated. What the hell was happening?

“Hey, were you and Jade really not together? You’re just close, right,” one of the boys in class asked.

Jade and I wanted to keep our relationship a secret. It was mostly because my parents would be furious.

I nodded towards my classmate, thinking that I should consult Jade first whether it was alright for us to come out in the open now that I told my parents about her.

“Eh? So you didn’t get a taste of her yet like you said in the chat? Tsk, too bad… I think a night with her might have been thrilling, right? You should have said yes to her offer…”

Before I could say anything, he played a video from the group chat straight from his phone. He shoved it right in front of my face.

The video was of a girl with Jade’s face, trying out every lewd sexual position there was with an unknown man.

I stared in horror at the video. It was clearly my girlfriend’s face, but I was sure it wasn’t her body or her voice!

I snatched the phone away from my classmate and stopped the video. I tapped on the phone furiously and exited from it. Soon, I realized that the video was uploaded on our school’s group chat. In addition, there were also several photos of a naked Jade being defiled by unidentified men.

I was sure they were all made up, but by whom?

I held my f*cking classmate by the collar. “This is not true! Who made these photos? Who uploaded them?!”

Several of my male classmates held me from beating the life out of that boy who showed me the video.

“Hey, what are you doing,” I heard one female classmate said amidst the commotion, “you uploaded that video yourself, you freak!”

She was looking straight at me when she said that. The others nodded in agreement.

“Kix Sarmiento, you uploaded Jade’s photos and videos in the chat. You also said she offered you her services, but you refused. So who’s fault is this now, huh?!”

The world came crashing down on me as I realized she was probably telling the truth.