“So, Annie I heard you work at some restaurant.” V says as they are taking a stroll after their dinner.
Standing in between the two siblings and her fingers interlocked with Jordan's, she nods “Hmm.” She replies affirmatively.
“That's probably not a good idea.”
Annie blushed in embarrassment when she realized what V was trying to say but before she could reply, Jordan glared harshly at V and opened his mouth to reprimand her when the two siblings suddenly froze and stopped walking.
The clueless Annie stopped too when she noticed their abnormal behaviour “What's wrong?” She anxiously asked them.
The two siblings turned to look at each other before Jordan barked an order.
“Take her with you and get out of here.” He tells V, his voice stern.
V nods with a serious look on her face.
Annie continued looking to and fro the two siblings “What's going on?” She starts freaking out.
None of them replied her, instead, V pulled her by her arm and dragged her with her as she turned back to sprint away.
Bewildered, she turned back to Jordan that they left behind only to see two big wolves surrounding him.
Annie freaked out and turned to the running V
“What the hell are you doing?! You're leaving him alone with wild animals! Do you want him to die?!” She yelled in anger at her.
V turned to look at her and under the beautiful glow of the moonlight, Annie saw her once Hazel eyes glint dark green.
Her mouth widen in surprise, she anxiously turned to look back at Jordan only to see a larger human build and the silhouette of longer nails.
Annie gasped in shock.
As if hearing her gasp, the figure slightly turned so she's able to see the side view, with help from the moonlight she saw big, sharp, elongated teeth and recognized the face bearing this as Jordan.
She got really frightened, tears spilled from her eyes as she's still being dragged.
She noticed one of the wolves try a sneak attack on him but he raised just one hand, caught the wolf by the neck and wrung its neck, breaking it and dropping the wolf on the floor.
With widened mouth and water works flowing down her cheek, she tried screaming but V pulled her hard enough to turn her head around.
The moment her eyes met V's, everywhere went black to her.
In her subconsciousness, she felt being carried up, and the rate at which the air wheezed past her face made her realize that they were going at an indescribably fast speed.
She soon, succumbed to darkness.
*
MEANWHILE...
After wringing the Lycan's neck, the expression on Annie's face made him feel like she saw him as a monster and soon rage, due to the fact that his mate saw this side of him without him explaining or telling her the truth first or preparing her, made him turn to the remaining rogue Lycan in front of him.
Knowing his game was up and seeing the undeniable rage in Jordan's eyes, the rogue Lycan tried making a run for it, as his eyes started darting round, looking for an escape route.
But unfortunately for him, he underestimated Jordan's rage.
In a split second, Jordan was standing in front of him and grabbed his right paw -since he (the rogue Lycan) was in his Lycan form- and twisted it, breaking his bone.
The rogue Lycan howled in pain.
“Shift!” Jordan barked authoritatively at him.
On a norm, even the next in line alpha doesn't have the alpha tone that can order anyone from their pack to do anything they order them to our any wolf or Lycan in the world in case of a Lycan King but in Jordan's case, he was a hybrid, a combination of the two best breeds - Lycan and demon - so there were many privileges alongside it eg he could use the alpha tone on any wolf or Lycan although he wasn't king yet.
The rogue Lycan immediately compiled and a naked man, sweating profusely from pain is staring pitifully at him.
“Rufus, Rufus, Rufus!” Jordan called his name while shaking his head with obvious familiarity alongside a small smile tugging on his lip but his eyes were stone cold and void of any emotion, talk less of amusement.
“Please.” The pathetic 72yr old, looking late 20s beg.
Jordan's smile grow broader “Oh, you're in so much trouble, trust me.”
The said Rufus trembled at the ice cold man still holding his broken arm.
Before he could say another word, Jordan punched him right in the face and knocked him out.
★★★
AT THE PALACE...
“OMG V, who's that?” The Queen asked her daughter the moment she walked into the room after V mind linked her that there was an emergency.
V bit her lower lip “It's Annie.” She replies.
Her eyes widen “Jordan's mate?”
V nods.
The Queen looked down at the beautiful girl lying down unconscious, on the broad bed.
“What happened?”
V showed a weird expression “Jordan, kinda... half transformed?” She ended her answer in a question manner.
Her mom raise her hand and hit her on her arm “And you spell_knocked her out, didn't you?”
She frowns “That hurt! Maybe.”
She rolls her eyes at her daughter “Why did he transform?” She calms down and asks V.
“I don't even know, he could easily snap their necks without raising as much as a finger. I thought he wanted to use this opportunity and reveal himself, instead of waiting forever. Mom you don't know but we weren't to a restaurant together and the smell of testosterone was so strong in the air, I knew he just wanted to draw her back to restaurant back and have his wicked ways with her.” Distaste clear in her tone.
Her mom hit her arm again.
“Mom what?!”
“She's his mate! Of course he had the right to do all those things to her. And stop yelling, you might wake her up.”
V raises his nose at her mother before conceding the moment she replied her with a strong look “Fine.”
Before any of them could say another word, Jordan breezed in, his heavy breathing called, the moment he saw his mate on the bed.
“Here's the man of the night.” His mom sarcastically said. “How thoughtful of you to transform without warning in front of a human.”
He rubbed his forehead “I don't have time to be reprimanded.”
She eyes him, annoyed “Go on, take her. If she wakes up and the first face she sees is yours, she'll freak out. Go on.”
Despite his mom's warning, he still carries his mate and takes her to his own room.
He lay her on his bed and his eyes didn't leave her small body frame.
A lot of scenarios came up in his head on how she'll react when she wakes up but his mom interrupted his train of thoughts.
“Who attacked?”
“Rufus.” Came his monosyllabic reply.
“Him again? Why?” Annoyance, clear in her voice.
He shrugged “Dropped him in the cell and rushed off. Gave him an injury scar that won't ever fade.” Here grit his teeth.
She lets out in a deep breath “Ok, your father and I will go visit him.”
Without raising his head, he replied “Do something about him, the next time I see him, I won't care he's Martin's Uncle, I'll wring his dirty neck.”
She sighs “Stop calling your father by his name and I'll relay the message. And don't scare her when she wakes up.” The last sentence being referred to Annie.
He nods.
She gives him one last fleeting look before leaving the room, and closing the door.