Chapter 34: Chapter 34

"Let's sleep now, we can figure that out in the morning."

I glanced at Jake when I heard his statement, "Yeah, we can research it on the internet or try to find someone that's a werewolf that can help us figure out all this werewolf stuff."

"Yeah, let's do that. Good night, Max." Jake's lips widened into a large smile as he stared at me.

I stared back at him as my lips also lifted up into a smile. "Good night, Jake."

I turned around and made my way up the stairs. I paused and turned my head to the side a little to see Jake staring after me. He turned around and walked around the couch that he was leaning against earlier then removed his black leather jacket.

I turned around fully to him to see him pulling off his shirt over his head and his light, caramel skin came into view. His back was just as muscular as his abs, more tattoos covered him from his right shoulder to the middle of his back. That made his muscles looked even hotter.

I felt my face become hot as I watched the muscles on his back and arms flex. As if feeling my stare on him, he started turning around and his lips lifted up into a smile. I quickly turned back around and ran up the stairs to my bed room before he could say anything.

I didn’t know what I would say if he commented on my staring at his hot body. Even though, he was my boyfriend now and we have kissed three times already today, I didn’t want us to go further than kissing. I was still a virgin and even as my reputation as a bad girl, I didn’t plan on losing it until after marriage.

Many would think that it was uncool, but I thought that it was an honor to keep yourself for the one you love and that loves you and I hoped that that was Jake for me. I blushed harder as I pushed open my bed room’s door. Only Jake could make me blush and that was saying a lot about how he made me feel.

In the morning, I walked out of my bed room, showered and changed into a white top and blue jeans. Making my way down the stairs, I felt excited to see Jake, but my excitement washed away when I reached the landing and didn’t see him in sight.

I thought that he would have waited for me to wake up before he went back home, but I guess not. I had wanted to spend more time with him. Sighing, I made my way to the kitchen and walked to the cupboards then pulled one open to start bringing out items that I needed to make pancakes.

A nonstick frying pan, a bowl, whisk and frying spoon. I placed them on the counter behind me then went to the cupboard next to it and opened it to bring out pancake mix, milk, eggs and sugar then placed them on the counter too.

As I started mixing the ingredients into the bowl, I heard the door bell ring. Who could it be? I thought with furrowed brows as I stopped mixing the mixture in the bowl with the whisk. I made my way out of the kitchen and to the living room where the door was.

I twisted the door handle and pulled the door open. Jake was standing there with his pierced eyebrow and side lip ring dressed in a dark blue top and blue jeans. He looked even hotter than usual with his hazel eyes showing brightly and I felt my breath hitch for a second.

“Hey, you came back.” I stated in surprise and stepped aside for him to walk in.

He smiled his breathtaking smile as he walked in, “Yeah, I only went back home to shower and come back. I can’t just leave without saying good bye to my girlfriend.”

I felt my lips stretch into a smile at the word girlfriend, “Good because I’m making pancakes.”

I started walking towards the kitchen as he closed the door and followed me to the kitchen. As I went back to the bowl I was mixing the mixture, I looked up at Jake looking at me with widened eyes and raised eyebrows. He looked shocked.

“What’s so shocking?” I asked as I grabbed the whisk and continued mixing.

“You can cook. Very shocking, baby doll.”

“Why? Cause I’m the bad ass bad girl?” I chuckled and he joined me with his deep voice.

“Partly, yes.”

“Then what’s the other part?”

“You seem so independent and I thought independent women want nothing to do with the kitchen.”

I glanced at him as I shook my head. “That’s dependent women since they don’t know how to cook, they have to rely on others to do it for them.”

He seemed to think about it for a while then nodded. “What can I help you with since you’re my independent woman.”

I laughed, “Nothing because it’s too simple to make. I’ll just place the batter on the pan and it’ll be done.”

“Alright then, baby doll.” He replied as I stopped whisking then picked up the frying pan. I placed it on the gas cooker and switched it on then walked back to the counter to pick up the mix inside the bowl.

“How do you think we will find another werewolf?” I glanced at Jake as I started pouring the mix inside the pan.

“I have no idea, but we can try searching on the internet or seeking one of Kane’s gang member.” I replied as I looked back at the pancakes on the fire.

His brows furrowed in thought as he asked, “Do you know anyone among them that could help us?”

I stopped and thought for a second, “Yeah, there’s a guy that tried helping me in the gang when I was there, but Kane had him punished so he stopped trying to help. Maybe he can help us out secretly.”

Jake nodded, but looking a bit worried, “He seems scared of Kane, but let’s hope that he also hates him so that he won’t rat us out.”

“Yeah, we will make sure that he doesn’t since we only need to learn how to master being a werewolf and not their pack secrets.”

Jake smirked, “Let’s try to learn that too.”

I chuckled, “Yes, I would love to find all that out and use them against Kane.”

“Yeah, that would be one of the thing that we can use to defeat him.”

“Since he’s a werewolf now, we need to train more as werewolves to become stronger than him in that form. If not, he will use that against us.”

Jake nodded, “You’re right. So do you have a way of contacting this guy?”

“Yeah, I still have his phone number, but don’t know if he still uses it.” I said as I turned off the knob of the gas cooker. I took the frying pan and used the flat frying spoon to pick up the last pancake. I placed it on top of the others that rested on a large plate and kept the frying pan and spoon on the cooker before turning to Jake.

“Okay, we can try calling him after breakfast.” He said as his eyes captured mine, and I inhaled at the intensity of his stare.

“Yeah.”

After breakfast, we were sitting on the couch side by side as I scrolled through my contacts to search for Tanner’s number while Jake watched me. I finally reached it and clicked on it to call him. The phone started ringing and I placed it on speaker so that Jake would hear and I wouldn’t have to explain to him after.

“Hello, Max? Is that really you?” I heard Tanner’s voice say.

“Yeah, it’s me, Tanner.”

“How have you been? I’ve been worried about you, but didn’t want to impose on you by calling then I heard from Kane that you are with the Jaggers now.”

“Yeah, I didn’t want anything to do with your gang anymore to be honest because of the abuse I went through. But Kane came to L.A and things have gotten out of hand.” I sighed, and Jake took my hand and squeezed it lightly in reassurance. I smiled at him and the corner of his lips quirked up a little.

“And I’m guessing what you mean is that Kane turned you and one of the leaders of the gang into werewolves like us.” Tanner’s worried voice said.

I felt surprised that he said, ‘like us’. “Wait, you’re a werewolf too? Who else? But I’ve never seen any of you turn into wolves when I was there.”

“It’s because we weren’t 18 yet then. We are born werewolves, but don’t turn into wolves until we reach 18.”

“And Kane is your Alpha?”

“No, technically yes. He challenged the pack’s Alpha who has no sons to take over and is getting pretty old and won. So he’s Alpha now, but doesn’t have Alpha blood.” Tanner explained, and Jake’s brows furrowed in thought. I wanted to know what he was thinking, but I guess that had to wait until after we were done with the call.

“How does one have Alpha blood? Is it through heritage?” I asked curiously, and I noticed Jake also looking at the phone curiously.

“A person’s personality makes them have Alpha blood, a natural born leader and if they give birth, at least one of their child will inherit it.”

“Wow, I guess Kane isn’t meant to be a leader, but keeps forcing it.”

“Yes, especially since he runs our gang.” Tanner said with a bitter tone, showing how he didn’t like him.

“Yeah, so I called like you said because Kane turned us into werewolves. Jake and I, and he is here with me too, listening to the call. We are clueless at being werewolves and we also bit our friends, so we need guidance on being werewolves and everything.”

“Hi, Jake, nice to meet you.” Tanner said through the phone.

“Hey, Tanner. We’re hoping that you’ll help us out.” Jake said as he looked at the phone.

“Of course, I can understand what you’re going through, and I can help even if Kane wouldn’t like that.” His voice sounded apologetic.

“And Kane or anyone won’t know, right?” I asked, feeling concerned.

“No one will know, especially not Kane.” He reassured us before continuing, “What do you want to know about being werewolves exactly? I believe that you already turned the night after you were bitten.”

“Yeah, we did, and we want to know everything about it especially how to control our wolves.” Jake said, and I glanced at him to see him looking relieved that Tanner agreed to help.

“Okay, we can set a time to meet up then.”

“Alright, what about tomorrow around 5:00pm?” I said as I looked from the phone to Jake.

“That sounds right.” Jake replied, and I nodded.

“Okay, let’s meet then, but where? We need somewhere that Kane or any of my pack or gang members won’t see us.”

“We can’t meet here either since Kane already knows it now.” I said with a sigh.

“We’ll think about where to meet and get back to you.” Jake said to Tanner through the phone.

“Alright, talk to you two then.”

“Okay, till then.” I replied and hung up then placed the phone on the couch beside me and turned to Jake.

He was staring at the switched off TV screen as he looked deep in thought. “Hey, what are you thinking about?”

He turned his gaze to me and let a small smile touch his lips, “What he said about Alpha blood. Do you think that was why the rest readily left the Jaggers park to come here because of our personalities?”

What he said got me thinking, maybe we, especially Jake have Alpha blood, but we don’t know for sure. “I don’t know what to think, but we can ask Tanner about that tomorrow and hear what he has to say.”

“Yeah, let’s do that.” His lips spread into a wider smile as he intertwined our fingers as he looked at our joined hands.

“And we can also ask him why your wolf’s fangs come out when you kiss my neck.” I said as I grinned back at him.

“Yes, but we can test it out now to see if they’ll come out.” He murmured and before I could react, he pulled me into his lap and gripped my hips as he leaned his head closer to my face.

Our faces were barely inches apart, and his hot gaze captured mine as I looked into his hazel eyes. His pink lips looked inviting as he leaned closer. He pressed his lips against mine then moved them to my cheek then my jawline and finally my neck.

As he pressed kisses down the base of my neck, I felt sharp teeth graze the skin, and he quickly pulled back. I looked at him and saw exactly how it was.