Chapter 25: Chapter 25

"Why the fuck is she not cuffed?" Alaric's voice roared in anger as we both turned to look at the annoyed lycan standing beside the door with his hands fisted into a ball.

"I'm sorry I.. "

"You fucking what? You couldn't follow a simple command and chose to disobey me. I hope you know full well what the consequences for your actions are!" Alaric interrupted Jenny as she was trying to give him some explanations.

"Get out of my sight!" He roared at her, causing both of us to flinch before she scurried away from the room with her eyes filled with tears. She was definitely trying to not let them fall and I suddenly felt like a bad person.

"It wasn't her fault " I tried to protect her since it was technically my fault but the fuming Alaric wasn't ready to listen to any explanations as his burning eyes turned to me.

I gulped in fear as he walked towards me on the bed. I tried to cower away but there wasn't any where I could run to as my other hand was still cuffed and it only made the wolfsbane hurt even more.

With full force, he grabbed my wrist and cuffed it back to the bed as I winced in pain but he didn't seem to be in the mood to pity me.

"It hurts!" I cried while suffering from the effects on the handcuffs as the wolfsbane even burnt worse than ever with the force he used in cuffing my hands back to the bed. I could already see the part of my wrist turning red as it stung really bad but there was nothing I could do about it.

"Why do you take so much pleasure in disobeying me, little wolf!" He growled into my ear as he roughly cupped my cheeks into his hands.

"It was just hurting, I'm sorry" I pleaded as he cursed before standing up from the bed. He didn't remove his burning eyes from mine as he tucked his hands into his pocket,probably thinking of the punishment he wanted to give me.

After some time of not saying anything to me, he left the bed side as he walked towards the window, but his eyes were still fixed on me nevertheless.

I took the time to notice that he didn't appear as neat as he was when he was leaving the house earlier, he looked more stressed as I could spot the bags under his eyes.

His black shirt wasn't buttoned up like it was when he left but rather it was loosened to the fourth button and the tie I had knotted for him was nowhere to be found.

Perhaps he was already having a bad day and It got worse when he caught me uncuffed, he must have vented out all of his anger on us.

I slowly found myself forgetting about the stinging pain in my wrist as I wanted to know what caused his bad day and the reason why his brows were cringed and his shoulders unsettled.

"Fuck it!" He cussed as he turned away from me and held the window binders so hard that I feared he would yank them off.

"Prince Alaric?" I called his name but he didn't turn to face me as his head was still bowed in frustration, I have never seen him this way.

"Prince Alaric.."

"Call me Alaric, Lenora!" He growled In frustration.

I kept quiet afterwards because I didn't know what to say to him. I was scared I might say the wrong thing that could as well trigger his anger but I definitely don't want that for myself at the moment.

"What's wrong?" I finally asked after mustering up the courage, my eyes were closed shut after I asked the question because I didn't know what his reaction would be and I was definitely scared.

"Open your eyes, little wolf!" He ordered and my lids immediately sprung open.

The room was filled with another wave of silence as he stared straight at me without his eyes taking a break from me. I was nervous and uncomfortable. I had never seen him in this kind of mood since I got to know him and I wished there was something I could do to lighten his mood.

I honestly found this new character of mine really strange but I realized over time, I was starting to get used to him even though I try to tell myself I hate him so much but deep down I knew I cared for him but I don't know why.

Sometimes, I think it's just one of those moments where a good girl finds herself caring for a beast who might later eat her up but then I found something different in Alaric, something behind those ferocious masks he was putting on.

"You're bothered, what's wrong?" I asked but he said nothing in return as his eyes never left my body.

"It's fine if you don't want to talk about it, I'm sorry for intruding" I rushed my words but became mute when he was now seated beside me on the bed.

"Why do you care?" He asked with his hand softly on my cheeks.

"Who said I cared? I just have never seen you in this type of mood and trust me it's scarier than when you're being an asshole beast" I said but immediately bit my lips when I realized I had quite said some things I shouldn't have said.

A soft chuckle brought me back to reality as I turned to look at his face. I had expected him to be super mad at me but he was rather laughing and I really haven't seen him with this type of broad smile.

"Thank you for your concern!" He chuckled as he stood up from the bed and reached for his pocket to bring out a key and I was shocked at the next thing he did as he suddenly unlocked the cuffs In my hands still with the smile on his face.

I really didn't think he would feel any better with what I had said, I was actually scared I might have angered him more but he seemed to be in a lighter mood.

He bent closer to me so that our faces were now so close to each other that I could feel his hot breath on my skin. His hands snaked around my waist as I let out a soft moan but immediately flushed in embarrassment at my sudden outburst.

His second hand came to my face as he tucked a strand of hair behind my ear then proceeded to caress my face with his palm while his thumb brushed through my lips and fuck! that instantly turned me on as I could feel some wetness in between my legs.

I was ashamed of myself because right now I felt like I was no different from Asher, throwing our bodies at other wolves but right now I didn't seem to care much as I was really craving for him and wanted to feel something.

I felt his hot breath on my ear as he softly bit on my earlobe making me squirm and I suddenly wrapped my arms around his body but he had instantly removed them and pinned my hands on the bed with his hand.

"You're also an asshole" he cooed into my ear and it made my eyes widen in humiliation as I used every bit of strength In me to push him off of me.

Deep down I knew my push didn't have any impact on his brick body but he had willingly left me alone.

I heard a loud laugh coming from him as I suddenly became so embarrassed that my cheeks immediately flamed red.

"Ugh! I hate you!" I scoffed at him as I stormed out of his room.

"Soon, Lenora!" I heard him say to himself immediately I left the room but I didn't care and I really didn't want to care.

I had been locked up in his room all day. I had totally forgotten about how I had put Ariel in trouble and I needed to make up for my nonchalant attitude but on checking her room, she was nowhere to be found and her roommate had told me she had been serving her punishment since the fight.

She didn't tell me the exact place she was serving her punishment at so I was left to have to figure that on my own which took me quite a long time before I spotted an angry fuming shewolf cleaning some really messed up furniture.

I knew she would have probably sensed I was close to her but chose to ignore me and I sincerely couldn't blame her because i would have done the same if I was in that position.

I felt a wave of sadness washing through my body when I realized I had put two innocent people in deep shit today just because of my stupid attitude, firstly, it was Ariel who had to take my back and fight for me even though I was unable to save her back, then it was the innocent sweet looking lycan who had uncuffed me and ended up being scolded by her secret crush.

Okay, I felt bad for Jenny but I was glad Alaric had scolded her even though I knew that made me a bad person. I just felt uncomfortable with the way she talked about Alaric and my wolf didn't enjoy it either.

I picked up a napkin from the closest shelf as I joined her in cleaning and dusting the furniture. Even though I was right beside her she still didn't pay any attention to me.

"Ariel!" I called her name but rather than answering me she brought out her ipods from her pocket and plugged it into her ear as she played a song from her phone while totally ignoring me.

"Ariel, look I'm really sorry!" I yelled as loud as I could so she could hear me but she still ignored me as she went to the other side of the room to clean the furniture there.

"Okay I know you're probably really pissed at me but then I really didn't mean for any of this to happen, I tried to talk the prince into letting you go since it was all my fault but he wouldn't listen. I'm sorry for causing you this much stress Ariel..." I didn't complete my sentence before she threw the napkin into a trash can.

"Fucking bull shit!" She cursed and walked to pick another clean napkin but as she was about to start cleaning, her mate came into the room and her smile bloomed as she went towards him and gave him a tight hug and an intimate kiss afterwards.

"Hey Nora!" Brandon greeted me and I waved back at him before Ariel dragged his hands out of the room. He knew something wasn't right between us but didn't bother to say anything since he was probably used to us always fighting and settling.

"We'll make up right?" I continuously asked myself in an attempt to reassure myself that everything would be fine between us but something felt odd about this fight. I quickly brushed the feeling off as I didn't want to think about any negative thing, we'll surely make up.

After finishing up her task, I threw the napkin into the thrash and picked the thrash up to empty it.

I also plugged in my ipods as I wanted to drown myself into some cool music, it would probably help me calm my body down.

As I walked through the corridors and different rooms, I caught a familiar strong smell but there were actually two and a frown appeared on my face the instant I realised that it belonged to Asher and Tala.

I unplugged my ipods as I made up my mind to confront them once and for all before I suddenly stopped on my tracks when I picked up on their conversation.

"I'm still surprised that stupid naive girl believes you could ever be with her wretched self" Tala mocked after letting out a scoff.

"Come on baby, she's just lovesick" Asher responded and my body froze in shock.