C3 Chapter Three

A tanned male with slicked back white hair met me at the boundary line shortly after Leo left and he was not exactly friendly. Even the way he looked at me was aggressive.

He wrinkled his nose in disgust at me when he took in my scent.

I sighed because he smelt Leo on me, because of when he fed me his blood.

‘I am Scarlett, what is your name?’. I muttered, uncomfortably.

He stopped in his tracks and stared at me.

‘I do not want you to infect me with your disease. Do not talk, just follow’. He spat at the ground.

Wow I thought.. I previously thought that my stepbrother had handled what I was badly, but it turns out his reaction was mediocre at best compared to this asshole.

I clenched my hands and felt a sharp pain in my palms, I must have broke the skin.

He must have smelt the blood because he turned around and grimaced at me.

‘Do not do that you stupid bitch! Now Alex will think that I hurt you!! Do you even know what you are walking into and who owns you!?’. He shouted, in a panicked yet angry voice.

‘Nobody owns me, idiot’. I snapped.

I noticed fear in his eyes. I grimaced at him in response.

He was afraid of me and he probably knew that if I wanted to I could kill him right now.

‘Tell me your name or I will do worse’. I smiled, raising my eyebrows at a challenge.

He scowled at me in response.

‘Kane’. He grumbled.

‘See, was all that really necessary, Kane?’. I grinned.

He sighed in response and kept walking. I easily kept up the pace.

Maybe I should not have pissed off the first Pack member I had met.. but I was not about to be thrown into silence just because somebody saw me as a monster, even if I thought it myself.

As we crossed the clearing, I saw a large house with three extensions on a very large plot of land which went on as far as the forest. So this was the Pack House and part of the Werewolf boundary.. it was huge. Alexander must have been very rich, I thought to myself.

‘Hey, Kane?’. I muttered.

‘WHAT!?’. He snarled.

‘I am sorry for upsetting you, but this is just as difficult for me as it is for you’. I smiled.

‘Your apology means nothing to me, Hybrid’. He scowled.

And with that I sighed, as we walked into The Bayou Pack House.

Kane pointed to the closed doors to my right, which was obviously Alexander’s office.

I gulped, as our last encounter had been a bit heated.

Kane went straight to the bar and began laughing with the other Pack members. They kept asking him questions, as he gulped down whatever alcohol they had just handed to him.

I looked down at my now healing hand, as I thought well here goes..

‘Alexander? It is Scarlett, I.. can come back later if it is a better time’. I anxiously awaited his response.

I was shocked when the door opened and then a woman ran out of the room with her head down, disheveled shirt and jeans apparent.

‘Come in, Scarlett’. Alexander sounded cheerful, despite obviously having been interrupted.

I sighed; I opened the door to see him doing up his shirt buttons, I blushed as I saw his lipstick stained muscles. He raised his eyebrows at my demeanour.

Male Werewolves were VERY muscular, especially the Alphas.

‘Like what you see do you? I cannot blame you, power has its attractions after all’. He grinned.

Now that I was here in his home, I could feel his Alpha presence and it made me uncomfortable. It gave you a permanent inconvenient knot in your stomach.

But I also knew that Alexander was dangerous… the fact that he had ordered Allie to be hurt proved that. I took a deep breath.

‘I apologise on being late, I had some matters to handle’. I smiled.

As fast as I blinked, Alexander was in front of me, inches away scowling at me.

‘You call fucking my enemies a matter to handle!?’. He grabbed my face hard with his fingers.

I looked down to the floor despite his tight grip on my face.

‘And what the fuck happened to your hands!?’. He snapped.

‘Look at me when I am talking to you Scarlett!’.

I felt my whole body shake in anger; I was close to losing control of my emotions.

I felt my pupils dilate and my fangs retract; I grabbed Alexander by the throat hard enough that he knew that he had pissed me off. He did not defend himself despite his eyes dilating and his wolf responding to my challenge.

‘Ah, there SHE is. What a beauty’. He snickered.

I grimaced, was he testing my control?

‘I do not like this’. I muttered as I took a big step back towards his Office door, readying my escape.

He laughed and walked back to his desk and sat on it.

‘Freya, the girl from earlier, will show you where your room is. Take a shower so I do not smell that Werecat on you by tomorrow’. He spoke politely.

I nodded not meeting his eyes.

‘Oh and be up by 8.00 o’clock or you will miss breakfast and trust me, you would not want that’. He laughed.

I did not respond. All I knew was Alexander was scary and I did not trust him one bit.

When I shut his Office door, Freya called me over to the bar.. where Kane and a few other Pack members stood drinking.

Kane regarded me coldly, while the others seemed excited to meet a fresh face. They did wrinkle there noses the minute they got Leo’s scent up their nostrils.

I could not help but scratch my head awkwardly in response.

Freya was the first to talk to me.

‘So Scarlett.. Alexander says you are part vampire, is that true? Are you like you know.. hungry?’. She exclaimed excitedly whilst making fang motions with her fingers.

There was a pregnant Werewolf hanging off of Kane’s arm, who rolled her eyes at Freya.

‘She has been holding that in all month’. She muttered annoyed.

I was the talk of the Pack. I sighed.

‘I have eaten.. uh.. thanks?‘. I muttered sarcastically and plastered a fake smile on my face.

Freya grinned in response.

‘Tell me you ate that disgusting Were-Leopard and that we do not have to hurt them anymore’. She groaned and the others looked at me cautiously.

‘She probably fucked him, so do not get your hopes up hun’. Alexander’s cold voice spoke from behind me.

I grimaced, as they all looked at me in disappointment and slight disgust.

‘Oh my god, I have heard they are super flexible, is it true?’. Bailey exclaimed.

Bailey had long frizzy red-hair and I just learned was actually Kane’s pregnant girlfriend.

Everyone gasped, as Alexander scowled at her.

‘On that uh note, may we be excused boss?’. Kane cowered, as he looked at Alexander.

Alexander nodded gritting his teeth.

‘I think that is a good idea, Kane’.

I was the only one who scowled at him. Everyone else seemed petrified of him, even Freya kept quiet.

‘I am starting to come to the realisation that you are a complete and utter asshole’. I snapped at him.

Everyone else disbursed out of the room like I had just lit my own funeral pyre.

Alexander grabbed me and shoved me against the bar, I groaned from the impact. Glass shattered against my body, as he threw me further across the bar. When I came to my senses he was squeezing my throat. I hated that I was gasping for air.

‘Do not EVER speak to me without respect in front of my Pack, half breed’. He snarled still squeezing at my throat.

I felt tears well up and like I would vomit at any given moment and yet I still managed to nod at him. He soon let me go.

‘Your room is up those stairs to the right of the top corridor, it is all set up with the basics until you earn your place’. He added with no emotion whatsoever and then he took the bottle of whiskey and drank straight from the bottle.

I gasped for air for a good few minutes before I looked around for the others, but they were nowhere to be seen. With that I walked fast up those stairs.

My Bedroom was adequate; a single bed with a fridge nearby and the Bathroom had a shower, sink and cupboard with a mirror above it.

I sighed as I looked at my reflection; I had glass in my hair which was now matted and stank of alcohol, I had cuts over my face and deep purple bruises over my throat. All of which would be yellow by the morning.

I could not bear the heat of a shower right now… I just wanted to sleep. I pulled out the glass shards and threw myself back on the bed and sighed.

‘Oh Leo.. I wonder what you are doing right now. I would probably have been safer with you’. I whispered into the covers.

I knew I could have fought Alexander if I wished and probably won but it was not worth it. I was not here to draw attention to myself and if my family knew I was here.. it would all be over.

I ended up crying myself to sleep.

Leo stared at his phone angrily.

‘Why did I not get her phone number? How do I even find out if she is safe?’. I snarled at the screen.

I threw myself back against my chair and I was pulling at my hair in helplessness.

I heard a light knock at my door, but I chose to ignore it and wallow in self pity.

‘Leo? I knocked.. are you.. okay!?’. Allie grimaced, as she took in her brother’s demeanour.

‘Damn you have got it bad, eh?’. She chuckled.

‘Allie.. what is wrong? Is it Scar? Is she okay?’. I realised now that I needed to see her. I could not handle not knowing if she was okay.

‘I am going over there’. I snapped.

‘Like hell you are! You will cause more problems for her, idiot. She is already having it hard’. Allie grimaced, having realised she slipped up, as she forced me to sit down.

She knew something, but she did not want to say anything… but I needed to know.

‘Tell me, sister’. I threw every ounce of my abilities at her, much like an Alphas.. Clan Leaders could make you feel so uncomfortable it was impossible to get out of it.

Allie groaned in response and glared at me.

‘She is alive, she just upset him apparently’. She muttered.

‘You got that from who exactly?’. I snapped.

Now I was even more worried about Scar. If he had hurt her then this war would definitely be worse for him; I would be forced to retaliate, she was at least my friend.

I sighed at my sister as she stared at the floor, she was too scared to tell me who her inside contact was.. so it was a female… it was not that long ago that my sister told me about her sexuality. She is a lesbian.. not that it bothered me in the slightest.

The trouble was… if this Werewolf was stringing her along for Alexander.. I would kill her.

I loved my sister no matter what, it was why I made her my Second. Much to everyone’s distaste, as women did not have much of a role aside from having babies in our culture. It was outdated and irrelevant, there were enough Shifters in the world as it is.

A Second was the same as a Alphas Beta, their second in command should they become injured or die.

‘You do not want to talk of her?’. I smiled awkwardly.

Allie shook her head, a clear no. I knew better than to push it.

‘Okay, no worries. I am going to go to bed soon anyway.’ I sighed.

Going to sleep when I was this uneasy was very unlikely.

Allie left after that and I made some calls before having a bath to try and calm myself.