The Witch & The Hybrid

10-Zen&Isa

A week later:

Isa's POV

I had been at work for a few hours now and as per usual absolutely nothing was happening at this place. It was just another night of patrolling and waiting until everyone went home or someone stepped out of line. Another night of loud music and half naked girls on stage and drunken idiots at the bars. Another night of me, pacing around the entire place and hoping that maybe she'd come by.

I felt like absolute s**t since that night with her. Zen. I'd hoped she'd show up here at some point, but she still hadn't and frankly, I didn't expect her to, either. Outside of checking the club I often was checking my phone damn near every five minutes just in case I might have somehow missed a text message from her. I was seriously becoming sad and desperate, wasn't I?

The wolf side of me had been driving me insane as well, screaming for me to go and find this woman and bring her back and apologize for being such a dumb ass and it took everything in me to quell that noise and shove my wolf all the way back down. I drowned myself in alcohol which wasn't exactly one of my best ideas, but it was an idea. Five bottles deep in vodka currently and I was scrubbing a hand over my beard repeatedly hoping that somehow something would change.

Dahlia had been making her rounds but kept coming back over to me, making sure I was alive. This time though, the look in her eyes practically said how absolutely annoyed with me she was. Despite how cute she could make herself and innocent, the rage that burned behind those eyes to the knowing person was almost terrifying sometimes.

"What, Fey-butt?" I stared up at her.

"You're working."

"That I am, indeed." I smirked and started drinking from the bottle in front of me.

"You're drunk." She sighed and leaned against the bar. "What's going on?"

I just stared at the rainbow haired fey for what honestly felt like, forever. I wasn't even sure how to answer that question. Did she want me to tell her everything? Cliff notes? What was I going to do spill my guts about how idiotic I was? Yes, probably exactly that actually.

"My wolf decided he wanted to claim someone." I snorted. "A witch. Can you imagine my surprise when I just wanted to get laid and come to find that out?"

"Isa..." Her gaze softened. "Does she..."

"She does not know and will not know." I pointed at her and raised a brow. Taking another long drink from my mixture. "That feels wrong to throw at someone expecting something in turn. She's free to make her own choices."

"And you're a mess." She sighed. "What else happened?"

"I kicked her out directly after having s*x with her." I twitched and closed my eyes. Setting the bottle down I gave up with it for the time and tried to focus my thoughts some. "And then gave her my number and told her to just come find me and now..."

"And now you don't know if she's going to."

"She has every right not to." I shrugged my shoulders and slowly pried an eye open looking at her, "I just need to shut this f*****g wolf up."

"Oh Isa." She shook her head and stood up, walking to the other side of the bar before reappearing with another bottle. "Pay up before you leave and make sure to do your job."

"On it." I grabbed the new bottle and lifted it into the air. Saluting her with it I smiled slowly as I started to get up and walked off. I needed to start patrolling again after all.

Maybe one of these days... Next time, I wouldn't tell everything on my mind? Specifically her. I always seemed to tell Dahlia literally everything that was wrong with me regardless of what it was. It was what happened with her being my best friend I guessed. I knew she wasn't going to ever go and tell anyone about it or doing anything about it either.

But that wasn't the issue, the issue was why the f**k did I always do this s**t? f**k. I was annoying the living f**k out of myself with my thoughts at this point, I popped the cap off of the bottle and tossed it aside. Lifting the bottle to my lips, I started drinking from it slowly, watching the patrons as I walked by. Most of them for once were behaving which was honestly a nice change but that didn't mean they couldn't turn around and do something stupid.

This was going to be an extremely long, shitty, night.

Zen's POV

I sat there, staring at my phone as I chewed furiously at my lip. The name on my phone read simply, 'Isaac Lawe-Prince'. I wanted him to call me, wanted to see a text from him... something. I edited the information adding a skull to the end of his name and stared at it. I wasn't going to call him, regardless of how badly I wanted to and I wasn't going to text him either. He could do that, he owed me that much right?

What did he say to me again? I couldn't even freaking remember the words he'd used really.

'If you want ot know why I'm acting the way I am...'

Did I really want to even know the answer to that though? Did I truly want to know why he had been acting like a crazed i***t that night? I mean the s*x was good I wouldn't deny that so maybe I did want to know but I wanted him to call me. Was that truly wishing for a lot?

Regardless though he was cute and I had to actually admit there was just something about him that I vibed with. I loved his energy even if it was for only a few hours that I got to be near him. I had honestly told myself that I wasn't going to date any outsiders anymore, only Magicians... I wasn't going to do anything to endanger my witches but...

Well, if I had been given the chance truthfully? I'd be all for dating him.

It wasn't like I wasn't already known for dating outside of Magicians already anyway. But, what if he didn't remember me? What if he didn't recognize me because he was drunk or it was so long ago or something like that? He gave me his number though and I didn't think...

I was pretty sure it was his number, right? There was no way it was a fake.

Oh my god. What if he did give me a fake number though? Anger flared through my veins as I thought about the idea of that happening. We'd only had a one night stand. s**t, i was really over thinking this whole thing wasn't I?

“Hey Zen, we are ready to start the meeting!”

I had more important things to worry about than him right now anyway. I didn't need to sit here figuring out what to say to a guy that I had a one night stand with. I needed to figure out how to keep my witches safe from the hunters and that was what mattered.