Mason’s P.O.V.Dread.
It’s written all over my face as I take a look at Bella; she is oblivious towards it but I can’t just avoid the terrifying feeling washing all over me after that little chat with Rachel. If she thought it, after being my sister, basically knowing me my whole life; why won’t Bella, she just met me a few weeks ago?
The conversation with Rachel is imprinted in my mind and I can’t really ignore the fear of losing my mate because of some misunderstanding. When Bella told us what she observed in the super market, I wasn’t that bothered about it because let’s face it, why would that bother me? It’s not like I care about Veronica’s whereabouts so what she does and who she does is least of my concerns; but when Rachel mind linked me to ask if I was the reason behind it, I was more than just bothered.
Of course, I wasn’t responsible for it; I haven’t seen here since Bella lashed at her, so I was damn sure that I’m not the one responsible for Veronica little tour to the supermarket. I am not going to deny the fact that I did fool around with her a little, but I’ve never had sex with her or anyone yet, I was never interested in her like that; feelings were never involved between us. Yeah, she used to latch on to me as if we were dating, but we never were and everyone who knows me, knew about it. My only mistake here was that I never shrugged her off but that wasn’t required after Bella came into my life.
Rachel’s question has offended me to no end, she is my sister and she is supposed to know that I would never do anything like that; at least not after finding my mate. But when she asked me and I literally shouted at her, I was brought back to this world with Bella’s soothing voice. My mate was oblivious to the fact that my sister just asked me whether I fucked Veronica, the same bitch whom Bella roared at, for touching me and calling me her possession.
As I look at her, my thoughts move back and forth from Rachel’s words to Bella’s concern; every thought ending up with what if Bella feels the same about me a Rachel? What if she leaves me because she thinks I fucked Veronica? All these questions end up with just one answer, come what may, I can’t lose her now, when we are finally getting somewhere in our lives.
I hear her mumbles to me, “Hey are you okay. She was just messing with you. Chill baby.” Her words instantly bring me back to her as I calm down, pulling her to myself as I take a deep breath to inhale her beautiful scent that does wonders to me, my shoulders sag in relief as I keep her close to me. Everything goes back to normal as everyone move their attention back to their lunch; suddenly a growl is heard as someone shouts, “What the fuck are they doing here?” grabbing all our attention towards it. I don’t have to look at him to know who he is, his voice is the second most annoying voice I’ve ever heard; veronica’s being the top most annoying. I sense Bella move a little a she turns to look at him, she has confusion glued to her face and so does Rose and Ryan, Matt on the other hand is least bothered by him as he continues to eat his lunch. I can’t help the smirk forming on my face as I shake my head and Matt catches my eye as he gives me a smirk of his own.
I sense Bella sigh at his question registers in her brain, Rose glares at him and asks, “What do you mean punkass?”
Isabella’s P.O.V.Caleb was late for lunch too; it was creating a lot of doubts not just in my mind, but I could also sense the gears turning in Rose’s mind and the tone she used when she asked Caleb what he meant by his earlier question had venom dripping from it. On the other hand, Caleb stood there unfazed by it, with his attention on only one person, that being Mason. Mason was unaware of the glare that was directed towards him as he was looking at me; I gave him a smile as I moved my attention back towards the one causing all this commotion.
I threw a glare of my own directed towards Caleb as I asked, “Do you have a problem with it?” My words made him move his attention from Mason to me as he asked, “What do you think princess?” Mason tensed at his words, or should I say particularly because of the word ‘PRINCESS’ I could feel the anger radiating from his body as he took deep breaths to calm himself down. I grabbed his hand under the table as I mind-linked him, “Calm down baby, he is not doing it purposefully, they all call me Princess. Don’t take it personally.” Mason’s grip tightened on my hand as I hear his reply, “It doesn’t look like that love. Just look at him and you’ll understand.”
I didn’t understand what he meant until my eyes landed on Caleb’s smirking face as if he was happy for hitting a nerve, he was happy because he succeeded in riling Mason up. Why would he do that on purpose? If he found his mate than why is he trying to get at Mason? My eyes narrowed at his face, which got him conscious of my stare as he moved his eyes from Mason’s pissed face as he looked at me. I was pissed for some reason at him now, I don’t know what, maybe his cockiness or the fact that he was trying to rile my mate; I growled at him, “If you have a problem with this, then it’s your problem; not mine. So fucking deal with it.”
Shock was evident on his face as my reply touched his ears; hurt and anger flashed through his eyes as he looked away. But I wasn’t done with him yet, “And if you have a problem sitting with us, why don’t you go and sit with your mate, after all she might be too goddamn special if you’re hiding her from us, isn’t she?”
His eyes widened at my comment, which I realized later that sounded bitchy, too bitchy even to me; but once said I couldn’t take it back now. He wasn’t hurt at my words but scared that his biggest secret was out, almost out. A wicked smile grew on Rose’s face as Shock was seen on Matt’s and Ryan’s face. Rose turned towards Caleb as she said, “Yeah, the Moon-goddess’s blessing of a mate of yours.”
She is being a sarcastic bitch too.
Matt pulled her towards him as he wrapped his arm around her shoulder as he asked, “You found your mate?” Ryan has composed himself by now and was busy eating his lunch unbothered by the conversation as if he didn’t care about it at all. Seeing Ryan not interested in Caleb’s business is weird, since these three were always attached to the hips; so one’s business was always other’s.
Caleb just shrugs as he stutters, “No… No, I didn’t.” His stuttering is making his statement quite unbelievable due to which Rose says, “You don’t sound so convincing.” I look at him as I whisper-shout, “Don’t lie asshole.”
He ignores Rose as he moves his attention back to me as he asks, “Why would you say that?” I shrug at his question as I smirk and say, “You think we are all blind? Because if you think we are than let me tell you the cut on the inner side of your lower lip didn’t go unnoticed by us, as well as the deflating tent in your fucking pants. And the messed up hair gives it all out, don’t take us in fools Caleb.” He is taken aback by my answer as he adjusts his ants to hide the not almost normal bulge, taming his hair with the other as he gulps down, looking at me speechless. I shake my head in disappointment as I continue, “We are happy that you found her but the thing that has all of us bothered about is, why are you hiding her from us? Why didn’t you tell us when you found her?”
He still doesn’t say anything as he shakes his head and mumbles, “I’ve to go. I’ll see you guys later.” Without even a bye he speed walks towards the exit, doesn’t even bother to turn before disappearing. Everyone is still pretty much in a daze about the conversation as Rose mumbles, “I just love drama” Matt smirks at her statement as Ryan mumbles, “So much for avoiding drama.” Rachel giggles as she confirms with Rose, saying “Me too. It’s just too much fun, what’s life without some drama, huh?” I can’t help the shrug that goes from my side as Mason shakes his head at his sister’s statement. I don’t say anything and that bugs Rachel as she asks, “What do you think Bella?”
“Oh, not me. I’m fine without drama, I agree with my brother on this one Rach” I say as Ryan raises his hand for a high five and I slap my hand on his to give him one, as he shouts, “Damn right sis.”
Soon the bell rings informing us that the lunch break is over and we all leave to our respective classes for the lectures with a promise of meeting in the parking lot before we leave for our packs.
Caleb’s P.O.V.She knows.
I am not happy about having a mate, because all I want is Bella. But she seems unfazed by the idea of me finding my mate, yes I could sense the anger in her words when she spoke to me but it was because I didn’t tell her who my mate is; not the reason I wanted to be behind her anger.
I wanted her to be jealous about it and beg me to take her as my mate as she leaves that douche bag of an alpha for me, but my plan back fired. She just doesn’t care, it’s like she is too happy with him; why can’t she see that her happiness lies with me and not with him. He will never be able to love her like I do; he doesn’t know shit about her so how can she expect him to love her.
Why can’t she see?
All she and everyone else care about is who my mate is, when even I don’t care about her. I won’t deny the fact that she is a good fuck, but nothing more than that for me, nor am I for her. She loves someone else and so do I, we sure do goof around but it’s because of the fucking mate bond which makes it really hard to resist the urge. The mate bond is the only reason why we fucked in the first place and still do. It all started the day after Bella’s interrogation, the day she ditched us and left early for college to have breakfast with her shitty ass mate.
When Matt told us that she is with him, I left for college and as soon as I parked my car, my wolf was on edge again; this has been going on for quite some time now. I know why this was happening, but never bother to find her as all I care about is Bella; but that day I was pissed at her for choosing him over us, over me which made me search for her, my mate. I moved out of the car and traced my eyes over the place to look for someone who was too familiar or maybe present all those times around me when my wolf was distracted.
My eyes landed on a few girls who were there, but they didn’t seem as bothered as me, I thought about walking around for some time with a hope of catching her scent. I walked to some distance when I heard some girls bickering about some other girl, how she was a bitch for stealing her boyfriend; but that wasn’t what caught my attention, it was the scent which had a hint of lavender to it. The scent was so intoxicating that I couldn’t help walking in that direction and soon enough I was standing in front of her.
She looked at me for a second and the next I know she growled the word “Mate” with a smirk just as it passed from my mouth. I wasn’t happy about the idea of having someone as my mate other than Bella but the part of having the person standing in front of me as my mate made me disgust the idea even more. She wasn’t happy either but the smirk laced something evil to it as I saw something flash her eyes as she walked towards me, swaying her hips like a gazelle.
I had my eyes on her every moment as she wrapped her hand around my neck and latched her lips to mine. For a second or so , I didn’t respond as I didn’t realize what was actually happening but soon enough I responded to her kiss with the same hunger, as her hand moved down towards my crotch, rubbing her palm over it. It was like I was in a daze as the kiss got heated by every passing second; soon she moved away with her arms still around my neck as she whispered, “I hope you liked it Caleb.”
Her words brought me back to reality as I pried her hands away from me and shouted, “What the hell Veronica?”