MIRIAM'S POV
"Um alright guys, break it off." I said when they had suddenly started glaring at each other with their wolves eyes. The combo of red locking with blue was really something but I knew if not taken care of, that something was going to give rise into more. There was no telling with the both of them. Even as I called for them to stop glaring at each other, neither was paying me any atom of attention as they seemed so engrossed with hating each other.
"Jason?"
No response
"Eli?" I called and he turned to look at me with a smile. The very same smile he had on his face back in the days.
"I'm hungry Mimi." he said, calling me by my pet name I could not recall actually when last I had been referred to by it. It was shocking to me as I realized that save for a couple pet names, Jason still had no nickname for me. No, I was beginning to feel silly and seriously needed to snap out of it. I handed him the other sandwich which he ate rather quickly. Jason was pissed and left the plate he had been holding on to as he went straight to the sitting room area and sat down angrily. Something was bothering him and I knew it would definitely be the presence of Eli in the house. No man would be glad should someone else who is more or less a rival shows up to claim their wife. I felt for him and I was hoping for both our sakes that Eli would be joking but something within me knew he was not. There was something I had grown to understand about Eli and I could detect if not easily when he was joking from when he was not.
Perhaps I should fill you in a little on how he had left me. I remember that night like it was only yesterday.
Fifteen years ago, it had been my birthday and we all were together. My family and Eli's knew well enough about our relationship towards each other and how much we cared for each other. At first it had not been all that close but sometime during our college days just a few days after his first turning, Eli had identified me as his mate. It was funny actually because as at the time, I basically did not know him or anything about him. We were not even in the same classes. So you could start to imagine how I felt when someone suddenly walked up to me one morning as I was headed to class and laid claim to me.
"You are my mate." he had said to me
"Mate? I'm sorry I do not understand. I caused no trouble." I said to him as I started thinking he was one of the bullies and perhaps this was my turn to go through something really similar. I could see some other guys I learnt were his cousins behind him watching us.
He decided to use the lines on me.
"Do you want trouble, Miriam?" he asked, although I never told him my name.
"No." I said as I simultaneously shook my head quickly. No way in the world would I be getting into trouble. I just wanted to study and graduate. It was weird enough being seen as one of the nerds of the school.
"Good. So you'll do as you're told?" he asked me.
What have I done and what did this bully want from me? Who was he even? These were the thoughts streamed in my head. However I agreed to do as I would be instructed as a way to escape further altercations with him. He smiled, the same seductive smile I told you about that I was totally floored. My heart was racing around him a lot faster which I dismissed as being caused by nervousness. He demanded that as soon as I was done with my classes, I was to wait on a particular spot outside. I agreed and then he started walking away.
"Wait, what's your name?" I asked him
"You'll see," he said and started walking away.
For a couple of moments I stood there unable to think as I did my best to catch my breath after the gorgeous young man had left. I realized later that day that I could not focus as I could see him in everything I did looking at me with that seductive gaze and smiled. I seriously must have been going crazy. Eventually school after a long drag as I realized that I could not wait to see him had come to an end. As I picked up my bag and got closer to the spot he said to wait, I wanted to walk away but simply could not. So I changed my mind and went on to sit on the resting bench right there. I sat down there and started playing music with my earphones when someone stopped in front of me on a motorcycle.
"Hey!!!" he called me and I put off my music and came to him. He handed me a helmet and asked me to get on.
"What?" I asked. "Where to?"
"You'll see," he said.
It was stupid of me and I know it now how crazy what I had done was. I suddenly had the feeling to trust him and found myself getting onto the back. He was a stranger and with all stories of serial killers I should not have pulled that stunt. He asked me to hold onto him around the waist and and I did so shyly but became tighter when he started driving. I reclined my head on his back as he rode off to someplace I have never been. Each time I asked him where we were going, the only answer I got was the I would see and sincerely I wanted to see where we were headed.
We rode through the road and were circling a hill until he eventually came to a stop where we got off and started walking a little more and we were up. I became scared that I might have encountered a killer and stood still but he went forward and sat down clearly waiting for me. I eventually went to sit beside him.
"My name is Eli. This place is my favorite spot of the city." he said answering my questions
"Um so why are we here?" I had asked him
"Because I need to get familiar with my mate." he said
"What's mate?" I asked
"Soulmate," he said to me.
I became more confused. I had a dozen and one question on my mind as to what he meant by soulmate when I didn't even know him. Besides, how could he tell I was his soulmate? I thought it was supposed to be a two sided thing when two people fall in love. I have not even had a boyfriend all my life but somewhere within me, I told myself that day that if this handsome jerk was my soulmate then I would be overly obliged to be his own.
"You have questions. I know." he said
"Would you answer them?" I asked
"Only until sundown." he said
"Why?" I asked him
"Because Miriam, your parents would be worried," he said.
Damn it. I had completely forgotten about home and my parents to follow this stranger. How easily I had forgotten scared me actually.
MIRIAM'S POV We eventually left the place after he had tried explaining things to me on how he was certain he was my mate. I know I come from a pretty weird family but could my life and family get any weirder? I actually agreed to follow him home and surprisingly he already knew the way to my house and I accredited that to the fact that he did say after all that he had been monitoring me longer than I could ever imagine. It had been a few weeks actually because when we got closer, he told me everything and for how long. Well he left me in front of my house but then came down as mother stood there in front of the porch. "You finally found your bride now haven't you?" she asked "Ma'am please let me take your permission to woo your daughter." he had said like the most gentleman in the world. I was totally floored especially when my mother agreed to his wooing me. Well I did give Eli a tough time but he made mine even more tougher at school as he started showing up around me and had s
MIRIAM'S POV I could say nothing to anyone for a long time and the only person there to comfort me was the handsome stranger that found me in the forest. You could imagine how shattered I was to keep living in the house which used to be lively with the sound of my family members. It was torment for me and at a point I became suicidal as I had begun blaming myself for all my woes. It was my fault they had died as had I not gotten entangled with someone like Eli, stuff like that would not have happened. I attempted suicide twice and was nearly successful with one had Jason not interrupted. He was there to wrap my slitted wrist with a cloth and took me to the hospital. When the doctors had spoken that it was too deep, he had snuck into my ward and poured some of his werewolf blood over my wrist. It did not heal all through but lessened the damage that I had done to myself. That actually was how I discovered that I was yet entangled with another werewolf. I wanted him gone but then he ne
"Who are you calling a murderer?" Jason demanded with so much anger in his eyes as he rose up abruptly.I was already prepared to step up."You buddy. How about you tell her about that night?" Eli asked him"What night? What is he talking about Jason?" I asked my husband"Nothing, he's full of lies Miriam. Let's send him away." Jason said"Or we could both tell our sides of the story." Eli said"There is no story to tell." Jason yelled"Oh but there is and I have a lot to say for that night fifteen years ago." Eli said"You're delusional." Jason said to him"Am I?" Eli demanded"Enough both of you. We are going to take these things out without waking the kids or alerting the neighbors who by the way if you have forgotten are all humans." I said, reminding them when I noticed the change in their eye colors.It took some time but then they both calmed down or rather pretended to calm down as they returned to their seats. I was glad I was beginning to get a hang of the situation but if I
"He's a liar, Miriam. This is why I insisted on letting him go." Jason suddenly screamed.It was clear something was amiss. In all my time with Jason, he has never done anything that would make me suspect him of anything like this as he happened to be the most calm person ever. At this point I had no idea what I should believe anymore but I needed to hear at least Jason's side of the story. That should be enough to make me decide but if I was being honest, right now I feared that a lot of things about me might be a lie. I calmed myself down and then turned to stare at Jason."J you said you found the necklace at the cliff right?" I asked him"You don't believe me?" he asked me suddenly squinting his eyes"Wait, the necklace of us both which he stole from my neck before wrapping that damned plant around my neck?" Eli suddenly asked me"Enough Eli!!! I'm talking to my husband right now." I screamed at Eli suddenly and honestly I felt bad about doing that. I knew I had hurt his feelings
JASON'S POVA banshee? This is impossible.I could not believe that this was the case right now. I had been living with my family's impending doom all these years and even dared to have children with her. I recalled how I had made certain to find out that she had no powers before pulling off the attack on their family. Yes, Eli just might have stated everything as truthfully as possible but seriously, what did I care about it?Years back, we had been working against the other pack of wolves and rounding them off as my family sought just one thing and that was dominance. I mean, we wolves were not wolves for nothing as it was clear what our supremacy was. To think that our kind hid in the shadows and in fear of the human race was simply something I could not understand. It did not make sense. How would one hold so much power and still be afraid to show it off.I had been tutored by my father himself and it had been his goal all these years but apparently, he did not have the strength
ELI'S POVI groaned heavily as I started healing. He actually had gotten me really good and it took a while because this was a fatal blow on my chest area and I could hear as muscles and sinews intertwined alongside cut arteries. Was this guy seriously trying to kill me in front of Miriam? Wait, Miriam. I had heard her scream earlier but I had an inkling she was safe. No way he would harm his own wife. Perhaps, he had just threatened her and made his way away from her and she might have fainted. But as the last part of my opened chest healed, I caught on with the scent of blood. That was not wolf's blood, it was human. Quickly I rose up and turned to find her lying on the stairs in the pool of her blood. No way in the world would I let her die on me. I rushed over and held her in my arms. She was bloodied as her side was bleeding badly obviously where he had gotten her and so was the back of her head that she had landed on the ground."Miriam.... Miriam!!! Don't do this to me. Miriam
MIRIAM'S POVI felt the cool air across my face and realized that I probably was in an open space as I simultaneously opened my eyes to gaze at the hay above me. It had to be hay, made into a rough covering over what seemed like a wooden shed. I realized I had been laying on a really big rock and got up immediately. Looking down, I lifted my camisole and discovered my stomach was wrapped with a bandage like material. Where was I and who had brought me here? I wondered as I looked around.I suddenly could hear someone approaching and quickly, I ducked as I hid behind the rock and listened. The person walked and stopped right in front of the shed as he suddenly dropped something. "Miriam?" He called out to me.It was Eli and I slowly made it out of my hiding spot."Where are we?" I asked him.He smiled as he rushed over to me and grabbed me in a tight embrace. I tried to stop him because of my large bandage but it was too late as he grabbed me tightly in an embrace. Surprisingly, I did
ELI'S POVI had been sent across and the impact was both painful as it was shocking. I could not imagine any other way for her to have done that until she raised her camisole and I caught sight of her healing wound. She stared down at it and then in horror as it was moving quickly let go of her camisole. She turned to look at me helplessly as fear was lined in her eyes boldly."What is happening to me?" She asked me.I finally found my bearing and I rose up as I approached her tentatively. I had just the clear cut answer to that but it was confusing. Miriam was becoming a werewolf or rather, had already become one as she had claws and her eyes blazed yellow. We would get around as to the reason her eyes were yellow but what we needed to do now was to get her to calm down otherwise she just might lose it and we all know that fear, anxiousness and anger were werewolves triggers. I was in no shape right now to start handling a youngling. That is what we refer to our newly transitioning w