BITE {Discontinued}

"All good things must come to an end."

Nox always hated that phrase. If it is good, why must it end?

His gorgeous girl was with him for three blissful days, simply existing in his world that seemed so much brighter with her presence.

On the first night, it took them almost an hour to go to bed, since she insisted that she would sleep elsewhere and neither he, nor Zev would have it.

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She clutched a pillow against her chest, glaring at the man before her. "Nox," she whined, trying again to side-step him and failing miserably. "Please let me go. I'm not kicking you out of your bed."

Nox scoffed. "And I'm not letting you sleep on my fucking couch, bella. The bed is big enough for both of us." Guadalupe sighed at his statement, and was gearing up to argue against him when he cut her off.

"No more arguing, bella. Please just get in? I want to make sure you're okay."

Guadalupe snorted, rolling her eyes. "That's the excuse you're going with?" she unknowingly asked harshly, and Nox recoiled minutely.

Guadalupe noticed. Her breath caught in her throat, and she began to stammer out an apology that Nox halted with a raised hand.

"How badly has he hurt you, bella? What has this monster done to you?" Nox drew closer to her, his heart clenching at the distressed look on her face.

She gave up trying to force words out of her mouth, and climbed into the bed, giving Nox her back.

"Can we not talk about it now? Please?" Guadalupe asked, her voice a broken whisper, and it took everything in him not to burst out of the house and track down the motherfucker who hurt his girl.

"Okay." He sighed, and walked to the other side of the bed, climbing in. Their eyes met over the mountain of pillows she put between them, and he half-expected her to turn away from him. But she simply gave him a shaky smile and let her eyes flutter shut.

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When morning came, she was splayed across his chest, her legs tangled with his. It was the first morning in a long time that he woke up happy.

He learnt just how good she is at avoiding people after it took him half an hour to find her in the dining hall.

He arrived at the same time Gamma Roccio did, finding her in an alcove, munching on French toast and watching the scenery outside the window. She lazily looked away and smiled sweetly at them.

"Finally joining me, boys?" Guadalupe asked smugly, and Gamma Roccio rolled his eyes, gently punching her shoulder. They ate in companionable silence, then Nox dragged her off to show her around the place. Their place.

Day two and three were similar in nature. Guadalupe grew more and more comfortable as time went by, so when she picked up her phone to get an earful of yelling from her grandfather and grandmother, a panic attack gripped her body.

He could hear their voices as if they were in his own ear. He watched her slowly become more distressed the longer she held the phone against her ear, and, deciding he had enough, he grabbed the phone from her hand and chucked it away, then gathered Guadalupe in his arms, squeezing her into him.

Her breaths came out in quick puffs of air and her body shook. Gamma Roccio entered his line of sight, and Nox heard him pick up the discarded phone and speak calmly into it. Not two minutes later, Nox heard his sigh and he looked at him.

His Gamma shook his head solemnly, and Nox gripped Guadalupe tighter.

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"Baby, please. Please don't go." Nox pleaded, crushing Guadalupe into his body, nuzzling his face in the crook of her neck. He never thought he'd see the day where he would be begging a woman that wasn't his mother or his nonna for something.

But here he was, ready to get down on both knees; ready to crawl through broken glass to get her to stay.

"Nox, I have to. They want me home." Guadalupe said, her throat clogged. She felt so helpless.

She wanted more than anything to stay with this man she met only a few days ago. She was ready to give up everything to be with him; if only she had a backbone to say it to her family's face.

To look them in the eye and say that she felt more love in three days in this stranger's home than she ever has in her entire life with them.

Her grandfather would backhand her. Her grandmother would yank her ear. Her cousins and aunts would yank her hair, slap her, punch her, insult her. And her father...

Her throat closed up at the thought.

"I'll do anything; anything you want baby. Just don't go. Don't leave me." Nox begged again, and he could feel Zev whining and pacing in his head.

He felt a clawing at his chest, an ache in his very soul.

'Goddess I just got her. Please don't take her away from me. I won't be able to live again.' Zev whined, pawing at his chest.

Tears trickled out of Guadalupe's eyes, and a sob bubbled from her throat. "Don't make this harder for me, Nox. Please don't kill me like this." She shook her head wildly, as if trying to shake the very thoughts from her head.

"It's not like I'm gone forever. We will see each other."

It was Nox's turn to shake his head. "No, we won't. I only signed up for that class to get to you."

Guadalupe swallowed. "We-we could video call each other. I could come here after my classes, Nox, we could make this friend thing work."

Nox groaned, pulling his head up to meet her eyes.

"You're not just a friend to me, bella. Why do you think I'm acting like this? Why people look at us the way they do? Why you're affected like this?"

Guadalupe was at a loss. She didn't know.

Her reaction to this felt ridiculous, yet valid. Nox pressed his forehead against hers. "Did Roccio ever tell you about soulmates?" Guadalupe nodded, and right then, it clicked.

"You are mine, bella. You're my soulmate. And you leaving, even if it isn't forever, feels like my whole world is coming apart." Nox hugged her impossibly closer.

Guadalupe choked on a sob. "It makes so much sense now. The little tingles every time you touch me. I just thought you carried more electricity in you than other people."

Nox began to shake with laughter, and the sound of his joy made her feel warm inside.

They remained clinging onto each other for a while longer before Guadalupe sighed dejectedly, slowing removing herself from Nox. "Bella,-"

"Just let me calm them down. Then we can move on from there. Okay?" He wanted to say no, to exert his power; throw her over his shoulder and lock her in his room for eternity.

But Nox simply nodded, not trusting his voice.

His world felt darker the moment she was five feet away from him.

Everything felt incomplete and incomprehensible. He curled his hands into fists in an attempt to stop himself from grabbing her and not letting go.

His world felt apart in slow-motion as Guadalupe walked away from him and towards Gamma Roccio, who waited with the passenger door open. Soon enough, they were driving off; then out of sight.

"Aksnes." Nox called out, and his Beta appeared at his side, almost out of thin air. "Yes Alpha?"

"Get a couple of warriors ready. I have something I need to retrieve." Nox commanded, and his Beta smirked slightly.

"You mean someone, Alpha." Beta Aksnes said smugly, and Nox rolled his eyes and nodded. "Yes, someone."

"Very well. We'll be here in five minutes?" Nox nodded at the question, and Beta Aksnes disappeared again. Feeling his mother's presence, he turned towards her.

She gave him a soft smile before saying: "Let's hope she doesn't hate you."

Nox exhaled, returning his mother's slight smile. "I'll spend the rest of my life begging for her forgiveness."

I hope everyone is holding up okay with this whole Covid-19 business. Be safe! <3~