Chapter 63: Chapter 63

Jessy?

Anyway, it's him. I recognize his voice and it is more embarrassing, but I should get used to it because I'm a fully-fledged lycanthrope now, so I can recognize peers with their presence and smell too.

Jessy was hugging me so tight and his grip was so desperate. Plus how did he miss me so much that he went crazy? The guy, the last time I was with him, indeed had a rather strange behavior towards me, and his sentence was very perplexed and heavy with ambiguity.

He sounded like he wanted to do or say something intimate to me, but at that moment I thought I was overthinking it.

But now that I'm in his arms when he seems so ecstatic to see me, I wonder if he hasn't always had feelings for me.

At this thought, I retracted a little, at one time it would have flattered me but now it makes me uncomfortable especially since I am now convinced by my feelings for my alpha and Greg. There can therefore be no place for a third man in my heart.

I can be frivolous and have such an artichoke heart, but I still have limits that I don't want to cross.

Gently I pushed against Jessy's chest to put some distance between us and looked him in the eye. He remains physically appreciable, but when you have the pleasure and the honor of being in front of Greg Travis' face for hours and the next day it will also be the case, certain beauties that were once exceptional in your eyes suddenly become bland.

This is not to show me insulting Jessy but hey Greg is out of the category.

I gulped before forcing myself to smile as Jessy's face fell when I pulled his hands from my hips.

" Hello Jessy, how are you? I didn't think I'd find you there, given... Hm, your activity."

By activity here I was, of course, talking about human trafficking but again who am I to dictate the life choices of the people around me? It's inhuman even though Jessy is only human in appearance, but hey, that's none of my business. I have always been like that in my life even when I saw an injustice committed in front of me, I would prefer to close my eyes so as not to find myself involved in it from near or far.

It allowed me to stay in tune with society.

Jessy smiled before taking a cigarette and lighting it, ah it gives him a little sexy side I must admit.

" I'm not only in this activity you know Honey. I sometimes deliver rare products to certain shops for the manufacture of their articles. Like ivory, scales, or any animal product."

I made a disenchanted face. If it is not human trafficking, it is animal trafficking which I am sure are protected species. Jessy, how entrenched in illegality, is he? It's frightening

" I see."

I didn't have much more to say.

" And how are you? Since that woman took you with her I haven't heard from you, even Tom won't tell me where you are and give me your number. I feel like she decided to cut you off from everything and everyone."

I kept my composure listening to what Jessy was saying knowing that it wasn't Elsa's fault since until now, I didn't have a phone yet and the last few days I hadn't had a quiet daily life.

" No ... It's not Elsa's fault. I don't have a phone and I've been very busy the last few days, so you don't have to blame her and…"

" Are you taking her defense?"

I gasped in surprise at the mute accusation in Jessy's sentence. He seemed to tell me that I had certainly forgotten who she was and what her involvement might be in my family's misfortune being an influential member of Soul Moon.

I bit my lip thinking back to what my life had been like in her home and didn't want to imagine her as my enemy given the gentle and motherly way she treated me.

Even though she did it as a favor to her friend deep down, it was something touching. She is so nice to me and her family is lovely. I fail to see her as a horrible person even though she is part of this monstrous pack.

And if I think about it, it's the Alpha's fault for this pack, not its members, they just follow orders and I know from the explanations I've had here and there from the hierarchy of the packs that the Alpha's orders are not discussed.

"But... She's nice too... She's not surely linked to the tragedy that affected my parents. you know according to my mother it's the Alpha of Soul Moon who is behind this tragedy and…"

Jessy sighed deeply before going to lean against a wall and running his hand through his hair, throwing his cigarette on the ground before crushing it and giving me a cold look.

" You are very naive Sophia. I feel so disappointed in you. You certainly don't know it but this same Elsa that you defend is the right arm of the Alpha of Soul Moon and according to rumors, she greatly influences his decision-making. She was the one who announced my parents' death sentence after Sam rejected their Alpha because my mother helped Sam escape, who tells you that she was not included in the decision to kill your parents? Sophia in this town you can't trust anyone but me... I'm your only ally because I know your pain and it's the same people who are responsible for our common misfortune. Don't be fooled by fake smiles and stay focused on your true quest. Sophia, you know, you are precious to me and I don't want these people to hurt you, please Honey."

I looked down my head empty, I thought about it even earlier and now with Jessy's words, I feel so weak and bewildered. I no longer know what to think and what or to whom to put my real trust. I feel so lost, I need my alpha... I need you so much...

" Sophia???"

I heard Pamela's voice and freaked out knowing she would see Jessy but when I turned around he was gone.