SWNOVELS Chapter Chapter No 6 I hate Him
When Althea returned home, Collin was already sleeping. She went inside her room and fell upon her bed. His arrogant face was dancing in front of her eyes. She felt her heart racing, “Jerk, what is he doing to me? What on the planet does he think he is?” she thought angrily. “Where is Jacob? I am trying hard to contact him. Sometimes I wonder why Tyler is so mean to me, and then why has he become my savior that night? As much as he hates me, he could have left me to die there. He would not have saved me, but he did. The other day when I was being bullied, why did he appear? And he knew that if he appeared at that moment, the girls would forget about bullying me, and he would get their attention instead. Why did he do this to me? Anyway, whatever he is playing at, I still hate him for ruining my childhood with that toy of his name, Julia.” She was so angry at him for teasing her. She fell asleep thinking about him.
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It was a misty forest full of plants, trees, butterflies, and sparkles. It was all magical. Two wolves were running towards each other. Hugging and playing happily. The one was pure white like a pearl and the other one was gray, a very different kind of wolf that no one had seen before. They both looked so happy with each other until they saw a black wolf that attacked the gray wolf.
Tyler got up, his body was sweaty, he was breathing fast and his heart was racing. He got out of his bed and rushed out of the pack house; he was running faster until he turned into his wolf. Axel was running, the gray wolf was in his mind until he howled aloud, so much aloud that the whole pack was alert.
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Althea was in deep sleep when she heard the howl. She got down in a rush to check on Collin. He also woke up. She rushed towards him.
“It’s okay Collin, everything is alright,” she said to him.
“Mommy, daddy are they home?” He asked, concerned.
“No, I think not because their room is empty,” she said.
“But I heard a howl. Who was it? I am scared,” he asked.
“I don’t know, I hope it’s not a rogue,” she said, afraid the night of the attack was in her mind.
“I need to see Viviana if she is fine,” he said, afraid.
“She is fine, muffin, she is home, with her brother to protect her,” she said, avoiding taking Tyler’s name.
“No, I am worried, please understand,” he said.
She gave him a sigh.
“Okay, let me talk to Jacob, he might be home now,” she said and dialed Jacob’s number.
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Jacob was sleeping in a deep sleep. He had his arm wrapped around Gena’s waist. His phone rang. He opened his eyes. The phone stopped ringing. He moved his hand to look for the phone but it was not on the bed. He checked upon the side table.
He looked down under the bed. The phone was vibrating. He grabbed it.
“3 calls from sugar plum fairy” he got up in a rush. Gena was still asleep.
He called back.
“Hello Althea, you okay? I am sorry I did not answer your call earlier,” he said, worried.
“Yeah, I am fine Jacob. I was calling you to know the way out of the pack house. I went to drop Viviana, but I got lost inside the house, so I called you,” she said, exhausted, but she did not tell you about Tyler’s room incident.
“I am sorry Althea, I was at Gena’s place,” he said sheepishly. “What happened? Are you home? Why did you call me at that time?” he asked.
“I was sleeping when I heard a wolf’s howl, Mom and Dad were in the pack meeting. Collin was worried about Viviana, so I called you to ask if you were in the pack house,” she said.
“No, I am at Gena’s place, let me know through the mind link what has happened?” he said and hung up.
“Levi are you patrolling tonight?” He asked through mind-link with one of the pack members.
“Yeah it’s me,” Levi responded.
“I heard a howl. Who is it?” he asked.
“I am exhausted now answering everyone, it’s the upcoming Alpha Tyler. He had a forced shift and he is currently in the forest unable to shift into his human yet,” he responds exhausted.
“Okay, thank you, Levi,” he said.
“Althea has nothing to worry about, it’s Tyler, he had a force shift tonight,” he said to Althea through mind-link.
“Oh, I was worried about the rogue. Anyway, Anyway, good night Jacob,” she said through a mind-link.
“Good night Althea,” he said.
“How is she?” Asked Collin.
“She is fine and sleeping, Tyler had a forced shift,” she said.
“Now, you should also sleep, it’s already the middle of the night,” she said, smiling and helping him lay down.
“Althea, I want to say something,” said Lilly.
“Yeah, what is it, Lilly?” replied Althea.
“You heard Tyler has forced a shift. He helped us once. Should we go to the forest? To check if he is okay?” She said hesitantly.
“But he has been so rude to us, all his life, and if we go to help him. He will push us away or humiliate us,” said Althea, annoyed.
“But I feel a debt. I mean, he saved us that day, and later from the bullying, did not he?” She defends him.
“He did, but I don’t think he saved us from bullying actually,” said Althea.
“At least we can try,” said Lilly hesitantly.
“Okay fine, that’s at your own risk Lilly, as you know previously, when we went to the woods we were about to be charbroiled,” Althea said.
She put on her long shoes and jacked as it was cold outside.
She checked on Collin. He was already asleep. She went out of her house and walked slowly towards the forest.
“Where would he be?” She thought. She was walking slowly looking around her surroundings. Somehow she was not afraid of this place, she had spent her childhood here and, most precisely, this was the very place she had been found by her parents. She was getting bored, so she put on her earphones and picked her favorite song on the air by Natalie Tylor.
She was walking slowly towards the wood, she was looking for him if he could be spotted anywhere, but she was a bit afraid too. He had forced a shift, he could lose control and attack her, but Lilly was insisting on checking up on him and trying to help him.
She saw paw prints on the ground. She chased them, but they ended up behind the bushes. She cried to him.
“Tyler?”. But she remembered his wolf’s name was Axel.
“Axel? Are you there?” She asked.
But no response. She turned to look at the lake. She walked towards the waterfall in the lake when she heard a growl behind her. She turned suddenly. It was Axel. He jumped on her. She fell to the ground, hitting her head, and he was on top of her. He was a huge white wolf. She could only recognize him with his deep blue eyes that he was Tyler. His paws were on her arms, making bruises.
“Tyler, I know you are hearing me, it’s me, Althea, please let me go. I know your wolf does know me, but it does not want to kill me. If he did, then he would not have saved me that day,” she said.
She was feeling so much pain in her arms, they were bleeding due to his sharp paws. After a while, Axel let her go, retreating slowly. He howled too much aloud, and she felt he was in pain.
Lilly was urged to take control; she did not understand what was happening. She forcefully stopped Lilly from coming out.
“No Lilly, you can’t, he will kill us if he comes to know who we are,” she said to her wolf.
Axel sat beside the tree, he was whining. She walked ahead toward him, and softly touched his fur, and more surprisingly he did not make a move or do anything to harm her. He let her sit beside her, placing his one paw around her. She never felt this much save in her entire life. The pain in her arm was now slowly fading, her wolf was healing her. She placed her head over Axel’s neck; she was so exhausted that she slept after a while.
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The morning
Beautiful songs of hummingbirds. Althea opened her eyes, her nose was cold due to cold weather, and she felt body warmth on her back and soft breath on her neck.
She tried to move but her hair was stuck under the weight of something heavy. More self-aware, she came to realize that she was sleeping with someone in the forest.
The heavy hand was around her stomach.
”No, No, No, this can’t be no, never it’s a bad dream,” she closed her eyes and thought.
She opened her eyes and turned a bit to look. Much to her horror, Tyler’s handsome and peaceful face was in her sight. She slowly freed her stuck hair under his head. When she faced him, for a while she had been lost in his handsome facial features. He was sleeping peacefully. He had a straight nose, an oval face, and small lips. His dark black hair was on his forehead, blowing with the breeze.
She felt a strong desire to touch him. She unconditionally moved her hand in his dark hair, she felt warmth. Then she came back to her senses, and got up carefully so that he would not awake. He was still asleep and there was nothing on him. Due to the shift, he tore his clothes and he was still naked. She put off her jacket, and though it was too small to cover his lean muscular body, she covered him with it. She walked away and turned to have a look at him. He was still sleeping.
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Gina got up at 8:00 am; she was late for school. Jacob was sleeping beside her peacefully. She moved her fingers in his hair.
“He is adorable, isn’t he?” Said Marian, her inner wolf.
“Yeah he is,” she said softly and got out of her bed.
She made breakfast and went inside her room; he was already awake and now checking on his phone. She smiled and kissed him on his forehead.
“Awake?” She asked.
“You never let me sleep,” he said, and kissed her on her lips.
“I made breakfast,” she said softly.
“Aww, my little she-wolf made me some breakfast?” He asked in a heavy voice. She smiled widely.
“Last night was magical,” she said.
“Oh it was because I had the sexiest girl in the world by my side,” he said, smiling.
“Let’s have breakfast, it is still warm,” she said, and left the room.
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Althea was getting ready for school. She was still thinking about last night and thinking about the morning. She blushed.
“Oh come on Althea, it was not like you had sex with him,” she said to herself, annoyed.
“Is he awake?” She thought.
“Maybe,” said Lilly.
“Oh Lilly, where were you? I haven’t heard from you since last night” she said.
“I was just exhausted that I had a very strong urge to shift so I blocked you out,” Lilly said.
“Why do you want to shift? It was not a full moon?” She asked.
“I don’t know I felt his wolf was in pain, I don’t know why I wanted to confront him,” she said softly.
“Eh. Eh, my little pinky wolf is having a crush. Eh. Eh a crush on the big white wolf,” she said, trying to tease her.
“Hey, it’s not like that and we had a mate out there. I don’t want to do things like Jacob.” Lilly said, annoyed.
“Like Jacob? What has he done” she asked.
“Don’t you know? He was at Gena’s place and he was banging with her, I am sure,” she said.
“Ah my wolf is rude,” she said.
“It’s not like I am rude, I am excited about my mate and there is only a year left to find him,” Lilly said excitedly.
“And Jacob, he is banging with someone about whether she is his mate or not,” Lilly said, annoyed.
“You are worried about him?” Asked Althea.
“Of course I am, he has been my friend since childhood, it would ruin both him and Gena. What if they were not mates?” she said, annoyed.
“But think something else, Lilly. Maybe she will be his mate. Look at the positive side,” she said and pulled her hair up.
She looked for her jacket, but the only jacket she had was in the forest with Tyler. She felt horrible because if she did not wear her jacket the brushes would be exposed and questions would be raised.
She dialed Gena’s number,
“Hello, Gena? Yeah, everything is fine,” she asked.
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Tyler felt a very strange scent around him, a famine scent. He was feeling cold in his legs but warmth on his upper body. He opened his eyes. After gaining proper self-awareness, he realizes he is in the forest. He was unable to recall what happened last night. He called his wolf but he was not responding to him, he might have blocked him.
He got up and he found himself completely naked. All he got was a small jacket. He gave it a sigh.
“Last night I forced a shift, but why can’t I remember anything,” he thought. He was staring at the jacket.
“Why do I have déjà vu ? I saw it somewhere before?” He thought about the jacket, but he was unable to recall it. He went to the pack house, but he did not want anyone to see him naked; he mind-linked one of the pack members to bring him clothes.
He put the jacket in his closet, but still, he was confused about who wore it and where he had seen it.
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Althea was waiting outside of the school for Jacob and Gena when she saw his car heading toward the parking lot. Her heart skips a beat.
“He is awake,” she thought. He got out of the car. He looked a bit exhausted and tense. She was trying to hide the brushes.
She still had visible scars. He walked in his usual style, impressing every girl around him, but today something else was on his mind, so he was not paying attention. He walked closer to her, he was passing by her when their eyes met. His eyes were digging inside her eyes, and then into her bruises. His expression changed a bit, but he passed by her.
“WTH! Did he not remember what happened last night?” She asked her wolf.
“He completely ignored us,” said Lilly.
“I told you, Lilly, he was a jerk, and we took harm to our safety for him. He is a selfish idiot. I hate him,” she said angrily.