Chapter 51: Jason
"Jason..."
I spoke his name as if it was Tyler's. I really thought at first that it was Tyler. Thank God it was not him.
Or maybe I should be thankful it was him?
The Worm Moon was already shining brightly amidst the evening, my shoulders are gilded in silver thanks to its light. After a while, the air began to change as I returned my attention to my fiance's brother. I lifted my head and drank in the cool smell of the cold wind, closing my eyes so I could breathe in it more. It carried something pungent and foul on the moist breeze.
Someone stomped a foot. It reverberated in this narrow dark place so I opened my eyes in an instant.
"We're right here, Elaine." Jason swept his arm towards the view of empty cells around him while his gaze was steadily on me, watching and waiting. "So stop shutting your eyes and look at us."
I took in a deep breath and held it. In front of me is a man capable of reading thoughts and manipulating memories. How could I not quiver in fear?
Jason Claire Moonstorm's stern eyes lingered into my face, into my body, into me for being here.
He approached me with feral wolf grace. And as he stood a few breaths away, he leaned closer to my side until his mouth was right next to my ear. "I knew you would be here... You don't need to ask for assistance from someone else." His words were as clear as crystal, unmarred by the air inside the prison. Jason encircled me like I was a chicken and he was the vulture, surrounding me with dread and anguish.
My words hung in my throat as I looked up at him. His jaw was clenched. His eyes were firm and fierce, angry even. Had he been here even before I stepped foot? Did they manage to watch me and Rowena as we shared our cries in the dark?
"I will forgive you this time. But beware that my brother will hear of this disobedience." I blink to his statement. He will be my brother-in-law in a matter of hours, why should I be afraid of him?
The Alpha of the Amber Pack arrived only to speak these words to me. He tried to grab my hand but I immediately hid it behind, out of his reach. I know he will only be reading my thoughts which I gravely do not like. Among all of the wolves of Stella's Soul, the Brown Wolves' gifts are the least I like. In fact, I resent it.
I noticed Jason suddenly change today. The way he looks at me, talks to me, treats me. Everything.
Did he hear what Rowena said earlier about the Hearteaters' plan to resurrect Eliane and about my apparent connection to her? Did he?
"How long have you been here, Jason?"
"Why do you care?" My throat bobbed. The way he answered tells me that he had long been here. Maybe he was here since the moment I stepped in and just cloaked themselves with mirage and illusion.
"Go. Go now, Elaine," Rowena bellowed behind me. "Go now."
I swallowed all the emotions beginning to stir inside me. "Goodbye, Rowena."
Then I turn around completely. But not before Jason told me a shivering truth.
"Thanks to you, Elaine. Rowena managed to spit about the Hearteaters' plan and about Eliane." His eyes softened a little.
I breathed through my nose. Inclining my head to the side, I smirked. "I guess I should
say 'You're welcome' then?"
"You could say that," he smirked back. Jason's smile is like that of an adder.
I nodded once and lowered my head. I couldn't bring myself to look back at him and at
my former friend behind the rusty iron bars.
Jason really looks eerily bizarre. I can feel it but I can't prove it.
'Maybe he's just having a stressful day...'
I finally turn my body away from Jason, his two wolves, and Rowena.
I am finally able to leave this light-damned place for good.
As soon as I exited to the same door where Jose smashed the lock by turning it to
ice, I left every emotion that I felt behind.
A piece of my heart behind.
"I told you thirty minutes," Jose blurted.
But I just grinned in answer. "Time flies fast when you're talking to a liar."
Jose's brows met, unable to decipher what I meant by.
The Beta looked at me from head to toe as if assessing something. "Your wedding dress is still with Nicole!"
"I know..." I whispered to myself as I walked away, shoving all the things I knew from
Rowena deep in the abyss in me.
The wind whipped my dress around my legs as I walked on my way. I glanced at the watch around my wrist since I was tempted to know what time it is already.
Shit.
It's an hour before midnight-before the wedding.
; I feel something following behind me. As I slowly turn around, it turns out it was only Jose in his wolf form.
Light flashed before me and I had to close my eyes as I turned my body ninety degrees to the side, avoiding Jose's gaze and his glinting copper skin. He was wholly naked. In front of me. And he's my fiance's bestfriend.
Fuck.
"I guess you should be riding in my back if you want to save twenty minutes of
walking like a runway model."
I rolled my eyes behind. "That's a good idea."
I only pursed my lips to hide the heating of my cheeks.
So I climbed on his back. His wolf size is nearly as big as a horse but not compared
to Tyler's.
As Jose started to move, I blushed even more when I fathomed that I freaking looked like a cowgirl in white wedge shoes and spaghetti dress on the Beta's back.
'Who cares?' I thought as I spread my arms horizontally in the almost-midnight breeze like how Rose from Titanic did.
"This is life, bitches!" I chuckled as I gripped Jose's white fur tightly.
***
"You're late!" I already anticipated Nicole's scolding and Melissa's where-the-fuck-have-you- been speech.
I ignored both of them and single-handedly took the wedding gown and rushed to the
changing room.
I never knew weddings are this stressful even though I did not put up any money.
Because, in the first place, I don't even have even a penny.
Nicole pounded on the door three times. "Your wedding is in fifty minutes' time!"
"I know!" I yelled back, my mood shifting from excitement to utterly irritated. The feelings swirling inside me almost made standing impossible as if these emotions knocked the strength of my knees.
But I kept going-I slid my body in the immensely heavy dress and zipped the back with the use of one of my hairpins.
My silent tears swept across my face along with the stray strands of hair draping in front of me as Nicole suddenly opened the door fiercely that a few cloth from the gown fluttered like the wings of a robin.noveldrama
does.
"Thank heavens you are dressed," he crossed his arms like how an office manager
I just grinned as I took his arm. A frowned face was replaced by a slowly smiling one. And as I looked up to my new fairy godmother, I knew I should, at least for a few hours, enjoy the night as I am bound to Tyler under the bright light of the full moon night.
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