His Woman

CHAPTER 7

/ ABBY /

I looked at Wolfie as if I had seen a ghost.

"Hello, my love," he greeted me with a bow.

Genebeth beamed with laughter and started teasing me. She looked at him from head to toe.

"So you finally got yourself a hottie boyfriend huh?" She said, smiling widely at me.

"He's not my boyfriend," I told her straight away.

"Oh it's okay to be shy about it. What's your name, by the way?" 

"I am Zhask Magesblood Zaffiro. Pleasure to meet you," he said in a very respectable manner and extended a hand. 

"Cool name," Genebeth said, shaking his hand before whispering in my ear, "Where did you find this guy?"

I wanted to tell her I found him in the woods but I'm sure she wouldn't even believe me anyway. 

"Let's talk," I told Wolfie and dragged him further along the hallway. 

"How did you find me?" I asked him, feeling furious. 

"I followed your scent."

"I told you to wait there!"

"I can't. I won't."

I felt so stressed out, so I wiped my forehead with my hands even though I knew there was no sweat there. Then I tried to calm myself down.

"Okay, just tell me what do you want. I'm going out tonight so I can't stay with you. You have to go back there."

"I said I won't spend another minute without you."

"Oh please... you're a full grown up man. You can't just stay with me every second, every minute, every hour! I have school! I have a life! I'm not your mother! I can't always look after you!"

"But I can always look after you," he replied. His voice was calm even though he just watched me in a verge of a panic attack. He stood straight, unwavering and not affected by the harsh words I uttered to him, like a royalty as he claimed to be.

"You can't look after me. I don't even know you. I'm scared of you," I told him without even looking at him because I knew my words would definitely hurt him.

But he gently placed both of his hands on my shoulders and tried to look at me in the face. "Then stay with me," he said very softly. 

I looked up at him and saw sincerity in his eyes. 

How could this man be dangerous when everything about him looked so comfortable and warm.

"Stay with me," he repeated. "And let me prove to you that I won't hurt you. Because I would never hurt you. Live with me in that house. I will protect you and I will keep you safe."

I was about to answer that but I heard Genebeth's footsteps approaching.

"Sorry to interrupt your sweet moment guys, but are you two coming with to the party tonight? 'Cause I can go alone if you guys want," she said.

I shook Wolfie's hands off my shoulders and straightened myself out. I let my emotions overpowered me again. This had always been my weakness. So I calmed myself down and make a decision.

"We're going," I told Genebeth with a smile on my face.

"Really?Both of you?" She didn't seem to believe it.

"Yes, both of us."

Wolfie looked at me as if he was gonna ask another question again but I stopped him.

"You said you wanna look after me. This is your chance."

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Our friend's party was held in a club near Genebeth's place. It was already bustling with people when we arrived. There were lots of drinks, loud music and drunk people dancing on the dance floor. 

We met some of our college friends there and they offered us a drink. Wolfie never stayed out of my sight, he was observing everything I did. I had to introduce him to my friends. They didn't believe I didn't know him so in the end, I ended up telling them he was my boyfriend. And they made us sit down side by side and so close to each other which was kind of awkward for me because after all this time, he was still a stranger to me. But he seemed to like it because he had his hands over my shoulder as if telling everyone that I was his. 

They gave him a drink which he also took. I was surprised he didn't seem to be much affected by the alcohol. I could already feel my head getting heavy.

"Your turn, Abyy," one of our friends said and offered me a glass.

But Wolfie took it instead.

"Hey that's mine!" I snapped at him, trying to get my glass back, but he wasn't giving it to me.

"I'll be taking your glass from now on," he said and gulped the alcohol down his throat.

"Awe, so sweet," Genebeth said. "Why don't we dance to the dance floor."

I felt so excited about dancing. "Sure," I said, standing up. My body felt so light and hot. 

"Zhask, you can join us," Genebeth tried to convince him but he only shook his head. 

"It's fine. I'll just stay here and watch," he said. I could feel his discomfort since we got to this place. He didn't like it. But whatever, I was having fun tonight.

Genebeth and I headed to the dance floor and joined the crowd. Then we started dancing like crazy. I didn't mind who was with us in that space, I just danced and danced and stretched out my body and limbs to sync with the music. 

It was supposed to be fun, until one guy started grinding his body behind me. I tried to avoid him but he kept following me. 

"What's your name beautiful?" he asked, his mouth was so close to my ears, I could smell his breath. 

Then he started touching my waist. I felt so disgusted. 

I turned around, but before I could even face him, Wolfie hit him real hard in the face and I watched his body getting thrown accross the dance floor in complete shock. 

"NOBODY TOUCHES MY WOMAN. NOBODY!"

Wolfie shouted in rage and everyone went silent.