"Relax. I'm not breaking up with you." He laughed at her reaction.
"We need to talk? That's the line that usually leads to a breakup." She said, raising her brow at him.
She had grown to trust and love him for such a short time that she was so scared that at any moment the carpet could be pulled right from under her feet.
"What are we talking about?" She asked.
He was grinning at her but she still felt a pain deep in the pit of her stomach because she wasn't sure what to expect. Her wolf could feel her unease and threatened to unleash itself but she was able to tame it before it let loose.
"Relax, Stephanie. You look like you are about to have a mild stroke." He teased.
She tried her best to relax even for a little while but she soon realized just how impossible it was to perform such a simple action.
"Tell me already. You're going to kill me with suspense."
Audrey felt a little sick. He couldn't bring himself to say what he needed to say but he knew it was inevitable. It was just one of those things that needed to be done.
He pulled her close. "I don't want to hurt you. And I'm hoping you don't misunderstand me but I'm leaving."
She gasped and lost her color that very minute. She went so pale that Audrey got frightened that something bad might happen to her.
"Leaving? Where? How? I don't get it." She sounded frantic.
She pulled her hands away from his withdrawal with tears in her eyes.
"It's not like that. I got accepted into NYU. I will leave soon." He said rushing his words.
He was hoping to reduce her panic by telling her the news as fast as he could but he saw her expression fade away.
She got up to leave, avoiding Audrey's worried stares. He reached her on time and held on to her before she had the opportunity of storming away.
"What's wrong?" Audrey asked, his voice was thick with fear emanating from deep within him.
"Let go." She struggled to break free.
"Talk to me please." He pleaded with his whole being.
"Let go of me." She yelled.
He let go out of shock. He couldn't understand why she had yelled at him. Stephanie felt like her whole world was crumbling down finally and it was hard for her to draw in oxygen. She couldn't even think properly anymore.
"Just go. That's what you all do isn't it?" She yelled some more through the tears.
He couldn't understand what was happening as much as he tried to get a grip on the situation. She was pushing him away for whatever fucked up reason she had for doing something like that without even putting his feelings into consideration.
The feeling of hurt slowly morphed into anger and rage that threatened to drown him. He looked at her remembering just how much he had hated her not so long ago and why he had hated her.
"Fuck it!" He grunted. "If that's what you want then let's end it."
Stephanie felt a huge part of her break into a million pieces at his word and her tears flowed down an endless stream through her face. She jerked from the grips of erratic sobs.
"Fine. Do it." She said with conviction.
He turned his face away from her. He didn't want her to see the tears in his eyes forcing its way through the external rage.
"I reject you."
Audrey Brown the first legitimate child of Sir Roland Brown and twin brother of Derrick Brown, he belongs to the wealthy Brown clan as his father is the biggest and most influential shareholder in Brown holdings limited, a company situated in Cleveland, Ohio. Audrey had everything going for him apart from one thing, his love life.
He is a werewolf who had been married to Sophie, the daughter of Catherine his dad's former lover but due to the fact that Sophie had a stronger bond with his twin brother he let her go and hoped to find a better mate so he could become the Alpha crown prince. After his sojourn in Ohio he wanted more for himself, a better life and hopes of reviving his dead love life so he applied to New York University to study
Computer Science. He was to resume in the Fall. He told his dad and brother after he had gotten admission and preparations were made for him to resume at NYU.
Time flew by and he arrived at the most popular city in America, New York to begin his academic journey. The day he got to New York was a very draining one for him as he met a lot of hooligans on his way and he tried all he could to hide his real identity as he got very angry at the way Humans were treating him. He arrived at the Washington Square Hotel to spend the night before he went to campus the next day to start his registration. After he got settled in the hotel, he went out for a walk to catch a glimpse of the new city he will be in for a long time.
As he stepped out he entered a bar to take a few drinks, after a while his eyes caught the most beautiful thing he has ever seen. He instantly became mesmerized by her beauty and the way she carried herself at the club. Alas he thought to himself "she most likely has no one with her that's why she's all by herself" so he ordered the bar man to send a bottle of Champagne to her which she kindly rejected. After a while, she stood up and left the club, he also left immediately hoping to strike up a conversation with her but she seemed to move very fast as he lost track of her within the city.The next day, he set out to campus to start his registration and with hopes of meeting the girl he met the night before. On getting to school he had a lot of hardships navigating around campus as he did not know his way around. In a split second he finds a board that gives a vivid description of notable places on campus, on seeing the board he finds that his first point of contact as a freshman is the Porter's lodge so he could be assigned to a dorm and settle in.
The campus was filled with a beehive of activities, freshmen looking like lost puppies who have been separated from the owner. Sophomore and Final year students looked like the alphas of the school since they knew their way around. On getting to the road leading to the Porter's load he bumped into a long-time friend and pal, also a fellow werewolf like him named Austin .
Austin was a sophomore English student who also wanted a change of environment and needed a breathe of fresh air.
Austin was a sophomore English student who also wanted a change of environment and needed a breath of fresh air, hence he left his humble abode in New Orleans to go to New york. They seemed really happy to meet after a long period of time. Austin screamed " Fucking Audrey Brown where have you been all my life " Audrey then replied with a handshake and a pat on his back. He was relieved by what had happened in his life these previous years. Audrey alsobnever failed to mention to his friend about the damsel he met the night before according to him "She had the most beautiful eyes I have ever come across". He then promised and made a vow that he will do all he could to get the girl but "how was he going to find her in a city as big as New York" he thought. He was snapped back into reality when Austin tapped him and reminded him where he was, they had gotten to the Porter's Lodge, now he was to find the dorm he was assigned to, as he shuffled through the overcrowded hall amidst pe
Audrey walked back to look for Bradley and he was grinning from ear to ear like a kid who just won a Piece of Candy. He told Bradley all about it and they were both happy. That night at the dorms, it took Audrey a long time to fall asleep as he kept smiling and feeling hopeful again. He hasn't felt this alive ever since he lost Sophie to his twin brother. In his mind Stephanie would be a perfect mate for him so he would want to take things slowly with her even if he knew he already liked her besides she doesn't know he was a werewolf yet. So he wouldn't want to jeopardize his plans with her just yet. After a long myriad of thoughts, Audrey finally got some sleep. In the morning, he was woken up by his roommates alarm, he stood up from his bed and went into the bathroom to have his bath singing to an Edsheeran's song "Castle on a hill" playing in the background. However his bath was heavily and rudely interrupted by a call from his Twin brother who was angry about the
After the whole brouhaha that happened at the conclave meeting , he confided in Austin about his fears and concerns, they spoke about the likelihood of her being his mate and the possibility that she might not be his mate it then dawned on him that he had to act fast else he was going to lose Stephanie and might not have a mate before full moon. After the talk, he decided to invite her to dinner and maybe pop the question to her because he realized he had fallen in love with a human and the chances that she might not be a suitable mate for him are high, so he wanted to take his chances. He picked up his phone and dialed her number "Hi Stephanie, Good afternoon so errm I was thinking maybe we should hang out tonight, maybe a dinner or something we could visit a restaurant for dinner then you can come over to my place for movies, my roommate won't be probably around" she sounded excited and accepted to the offer. So he was going to pick her up around 7pm so they could head for dinner. E
"He admired her beauty and thought to himself how beautiful she was so instead of entering his family house he approached her they became friends and secretly fell in love with each other. They kept their secret away from everyone in their respective families because they knew that if the secret should come out a war would break out" "Their love was so strong that they risked everything to be together even at the expense of their own lives, when their relationship came out to the public the chief's son was publicly executed right before her eyes, she watched as his head left his body and rolled over to her side. She was made to watch as his throat was being split by his father and his body twitched and fell to the ground" " With tears in her eyes she vowed to bring revenge on everybody involved in the killing of her lover, she cried for days hoping to find a way to get revenge on everybody and she promised that no one would be spared. Unbeknownst to them she was carrying Apsi's child
On seeing that there was no hope of seeing Mirabel that night and no hope of finding a place to lay her head that night, she resorted to the last option she had which was going home to meet the man who had "ruined" her life at least he wouldn't hurt her in her state and that's the only place she can find a bed to sleep off her problems maybe when she wakes up it will all turn out to be one big nightmare. She got to her Dorm and found Audrey reading "Little fires everywhere", which happened to be one of her most favorite novels in this world. "Out of the books in this world it had to be the one she loved the most that he had to be reading," She thought. At that point she wanted to bawl her eyes out and scream at the top of her voice because it seemed the universe had this all planned out. She had two options either bailing out on him again and leaving him to face the cold alone or summoning her courage for the second time and walking up to him, telling and yelling at him to get out of
"Nothing, he replied", " Werewolves live like humans too unlike vampires, and they can look like regular people too". He told her not to be scared as they would navigate through that phase with her together,and she rolled her eyes at the statement. He then told her that they would need to go to Cleveland to meet his parents and other prominent Werewolves are. She was actually expecting that they would visit Cleveland but this soon, she was not down for it. She didn't want to meet that part of his life just yet and she wasn't ready to embrace that part of her life too and going to Cleveland means that it will eventually happen. After much persuasion and begging, she reluctantly agreed to follow him to Cleveland, she needed things to be sorted Out, if going to his hometown was going to provide answers then so be it. After she had agreed to follow him to meet his parents at his house, he walked out of the house feeling funky and happy. She then arranged her room and laid on her bed, list
"So I wanted to find out if you knew about it and kept it from me too" she said further "Could this be a trap or something, or was she using him to find out the truth about Audrey's real identity?" he thought out loud. He thought he was saying things in his mind not knowing he had said that out loud and she heard but she denounced it and told him that it was Audrey himself that told her he was a werewolf. It then dawned on him that it could be the reason why she was behaving weird in the restaurant the other time. He decided to answer all her questions as she seemed anxious about it. "Yes I am a werewolf" He said. "It's funny how Audrey told you about him and never mentioned my name" he mentionedm " We go way back, I mean Audrey and I we come from a long lineage of werewolves " he said. " And yes, to effectively answer your question, I knew Audrey was a werewolf." "Wow" she said and sighed, " I don't even know what to make of this" she stated. " Why did you guys decide to keep it from
"I knew it was a waste of time talking to you" she said "Steph calm down, you are too hot-headed" She said while laughing. "I just wanted to ease whatever you are going through, I mean you just came out of a trauma and now this" She said "Trust me if I was the one I would have gone mental by now" she continued. "O don't know why love has to be this complicated" Her best friend continued. "So when are you going to meet the Parents?" She said and waved her hand to show that she was being sarcastic. "Why did you do your hand like that now" Stephanie said "Ahah now I wasn't being sarcastic" Mirabel said while laughing. "Did I say you were being sarcastic now, if not that you know what you did would you have said that" Stephanie said and laughed too. She knew her best friend and she knew her best friend was one of the most annoying people ever, and she knew when the girl was lying or pretending to listen to her and at that moment she knew what her best friend meant with the gesture she did