Fated is overrated

Zane POV

I gulp with the way she is staring at us, her gaze filled with [**t. Although I wish it was love, I'll take anything I can get for now. I really wished she would look at us like that when she is sober.

The desire to have her is overwhelming, I am longing - no, craving for her. Not just physically, but even more so emotionally. I want her to open up to me, to us. To trust us and love us as much as we love her.

When she licks her lips absentmindedly whilst staring at us, I am a goner. My c*ck is twitching in my pants and all I want to do is grab her right now. But with Lola, I am never sure what to do. I am always scared I end up doing the wrong thing again. Damon clears his throat, breaking our little moment, and I have to resist the urge to punch him.

He is her brother so I can't, but damn it, we were having a moment. "As much as I love seeing you all eye f*ck each other, I'd rather not be a witness". Lola's mouth drops open and her cheeks turn red in embarrassment, it's adorable.

"I was not!" she pouts like a little girl and it makes her even more adorable, I can't resist the chuckle bubbling up before I smile at her and give her a wink. She turns even more red if it were at all possible, before grabbing the she wolf's hand and storming off towards the bar. Lola POV

Horrified. Absolutely f*cking horrified pretty much sums it up. I need to fight this harder, I need to drown it out. "Let's do shots!". Nadia giggles "wow you have changed so much in the past years Lola, it's so weird seeing you so confident and strong. And not to mention, drinking like a trucker". I chuckle at her choice of words.

"I guess I have changed a lot. But, I have always been strong. You know, I trained martial arts every day after school. I was just never able to fight back against them while they had their wolves and I didn't.

And, I was outnumbered". Her mouth drops while I order more of that sambuca stuff with the bartender. Not going with shots, but whiskey glasses again. Nadia always used to know her way around a drink as well, so she should be able to handle it. "That is what you were doing after school every day?!".

"Well, yeah. What did you think I was doing? Meeting a secret lover even though I never dated?" I chuckle at her dumbfounded expression.

"Well... I... I don't know! Just not.. that!" we both laugh wholeheartedly, before the bartender interrupts us with 4 whiskey glasses of sambuca. When I pull my card out to pay, the bartender waves me off saying "it has been paid for".

I look at him confused, while he nods towards the other end of the bar. Following his line of sight, I see Felix holding up his glass while winking at me. I chuckle and shake my head at him, but I pick up the glass and hold it out to him anyway, mouthing a 'thank you'. I turn to Nadia and hand her a glass, before clinking them together and downing it in 1 go. "Geez Lola calm down! You'll get me sh*tfaced drunk at this rate".

"That's the plan!" I reply, while tipping her glass up so she'll chug it down faster. I chug down my second glass and wait for Nadia, but she signals she's had enough after a few sips. I take her glass from her and down that one as well.

She looks at me wide eyed "Lola calm down!". I just smile at her in response, before dragging her back to Damon. It's about time these 2 face the music, they just need a friendly nudge.

And I just needed some more alcohol to give them that nudge. I feel the alcohol flooding my system already by the time we reach my baby brother, it feels nice and soooooo fuzzy, clouding my thoughts. I just about remember pushing Nadia against Damon, before everything starts becoming blurry.

Zeke POV

We kept our eyes on Lola the whole time she was chugging down that insane amount of alcohol at the bar with her friend. Even for a werewolf, Lycan or dragon, what she was chugging down was enough to drown a man triple her size.

She is going to be very drunk, and very vulnerable. 'We have to keep an eye out for her, she wouldn't be able to defend herself in this state' I link Zane, and he agrees with me. She returns with the she wolf, and very unceremoniously shoves her in Damon's arms before speaking. "OK you two, you have been ignoring each other long enough now. Get it cracking!".

The she wolf is blushing profusely, and to my surprise, even Damon is blushing and is looking rather shy all of a sudden. We have been friends all our lives, but I have never seen the guy blush. Ever. Could she be.. his mate? And if so, is she really telling them to stop ignoring it? While she is doing the same to us?

Damon and the she wolf start speaking together, while Lola heads towards the restrooms. We decide to follow her in case she needs protection. Zane growls lowly through our mind link at how drunk she is, and I am so glad we came out here tonight. We really weren't in the mood to go, but we had to do something to get our minds out of the gutter. We weren't expecting to see her here. And we are trying to keep our distance, but it's SO hard..

Especially when she looks like this and is this drunk. She suddenly stops dead in her tracks and turns around to face us, a seductive smile on her lips while she licks them slowly.

She sways towards us slowly, eyeing us from head to toe, before saying "look who it is, my sinful looking ex mates. Now, why are you following me?". I growl lowly "not ex, just mates".

Zane grumbles before speaking up "and we are making sure nobody harms you while you are vulnerable". She raises an eyebrow at that, I know she doesn't like to be called vulnerable. But in this state, she is. She smirks seductively, while pressing her body in between us both, caging herself in. " And who is going to make sure I don't hurt either of you?"