Scarlet's Daughter

Chapter 15: Caught

    "I hope you aren't thinking about showing that picture to Barin." I stated crossing my arms over my chest. As much as I want Barin as my own, this isn't the right way to go about things. My wolf even agreed with me, and she's been ignoring me since I've been planning on my trip of leaving. I won't lie gives my wolf and I great satisfaction to have caught Isabella in the act with another man, but I know that showing the evidence of it will put this pack at risk of another war. Although, my wolf has began to warm up to the idea of being in a poly relationship with our mate. I, however, have not. I refuse to be less of an importance to that hussy. I deserve a mate who is going to make me a priority in his life, not treat me like I'm just some side chick. 

    "What if that's what I'm going to do?" Zora says crossing her own arms over her chest, "It's not smart. There is no telling how Barin will react, and frankly I don't want to see him." My chest started to ache I really wanted to see him. I want to cuddle with him and run my fingers through to his dirty blonde hair. "I bet it's soft." my wolf purred, "I bet it is." I said sighing. Zora looks at me giving me the "what are you talking about?" look, and was laughing. "What are you laughing about?!? Barin could restart the war over Isabella's betrayal!" I tell her trying to stress the importance of the situation. Zora went stiff as a board at my last remark, good. "Alright, I won't say anything to Barin." Zora says, pressing the button to the 8th floor and continues. "I'm keeping the photo. I have a feeling it will come in handy, and I want to find out who she's cheating on Barin with." Zora finishes as the elevator opens to the 1st floor. Barin was standing there in gray sweatpants and a tight fitted black tank top showing off his muscles. My wolf howled in delight and was quickly sending me dirty thoughts of Barin naked doing things to us. "Hey girls, are you leaving?" Barin asks us, but kept staring at me. His scent smells so delicious, I want to lick him. Wait, what?? Zora gives me a look and responds for us "No, we just pressed the wrong button. We've had a long night. " she says flashing an award winning smile. "Well, in that case I'll join you on the ride up." Barin states, walking into the elevator pressing the 9th floor. "Bella called me to come get her, said she had too much to drink." Barin answering our facial expressions of why he's here. 

    It was a silent ride in the elevator, I kept catching Barin looking at me which gave me goosebumps and burning sensations in my cheeks. His scent was intoxicating, I felt like I wouldn't get enough of it. I looked over at Barin who was having the same issues, his breathing was quick and then he looked at me. His eyes were a golden, that must be his wolf. Just seeing those eyes my wolf fought hard to come to the surface. She demanded that I kiss, and make love to him. She was flooding my mind with images she wanted us to do to him and what he'd do to us. My blushing deepened, my wolf finally gave up and just as I let my guard down my wolf took control. All I could do was watch and feel what she feels.  

    Barin was the one who made the first move, pushing me against the elevator wall causing me to gasp. His right hand gripped my left hip tightly massaging the inner portion gently with his thump holding me in place. The look in his eyes of burning desire captivated me. My wolf and I were both giddy at the thought that he wants us. My wolf, still in control makes her move and kisses Barin. A soft moan escapes his lips as she deepened the kiss by allowing his tongue to explore the inside of my mouth. He tastes like sweet milk chocolate, just melting my insides. I moaned a loud when his thump pressed harder and forced my right leg to the side to all him closer. His member was solid against my inner right thigh. Everywhere, our bodies connected sweet sensations would cause my core to become heated and wet. It wasn't long till Barin hoisted me up to have me straddle his hips while leaning me back against the elevator wall. His erect member right bellow my core, if his pants and Zora weren't ... Zora! OMG!! What am I doing?!?!? This has got to stop. I fought with my wolf to take control, and she whimpered at me, but finally let me take control. I quickly dropped my legs from Barin's hips and tried pushing him away. His eyes were still golden, and gave the expression that I hurt him. Nevertheless, he stepped away from me and his eyes went back to his normal color. Both of our faces were hot, sweaty, and red. Our breathes were uneven, but I straightened myself up and followed Zora who basically ran out of the elevator. That will never happen again.

    When we were far enough away from the elevator and heard the doors close Zora basically yells at me, "WHAT THE f**k WAS THAT!?!?! COULDN'T YOU'VE WAITED!?!?! That was super gross!!" "It's not my fault, my wolf took over!" I said to her with my voice a little hushed wrapping my arms around myself. I feel nude. Zora smiles at me chuckling and gets a serious look on her face, "Wait." She holds out her hand to stop me and point to our apartment doors that was once locked, now ajar. "Stacy shut it before we left. I heard the click. Follow close behind me." Zora quietly instructs as we approach our apartment doors. To no surprise, the apartment look a mess. The furniture was ripped to shreds and flipped over. The door to the pool was shattered and all over the floor. Zora quietly went over and picked up the largest piece and handed it to me, quickly whispering to me "I'm going to shut and lock the apartment doors. Then, I'm going to do a quick walk through the apartment. If you hear a bird chirp come find me, otherwise stay here and if anyone else comes through what's left of the pool door stab them. Do you understand?" I quickly nodded yes, firmly holding the glass. 

    Five minutes has passed and I haven't seen or heard from Zora. I was about to go looking for her when she finally came through what's left of the pool door. "There is no one here, but they left you a note." Zora says while passing me a folded note. I handed the glass to Zora, and read the folded note outloud. "I know what you saw. Say anything and you will die!" I shrugged my shoulders a little and said, "well that's lame. I'm sure we have nothing to be worried about, but just for safety measures I'm keeping this in a baggy." walking over to the kitchen pulling out a sandwich bag to put the folded note into. "I think we need to look into who that guy was that Isabella was with. Despite putting ourselves at risk, but the pack deserves to know who Isabella has been going out with other than our future alpha." Zora says while straightening up things using magic, everything was back to normal in no time. Except I had this feeling of impending doom. I tried shrugging it off, and blaming my anxiety. 

    Calling it quits after fixing most of the apartment, Zora and I headed off to our rooms. The next morning both Zora and I get woken up by a huge bang from our apartment door. I quickly sprung out of bed startled when another bang came from the door. I slowly crept out of my room, into the hallway, and to the living room. I scanned the room taking everything in. Everything was in place that Zora and I fixed last night. Zora slowly crept out into the open for me to see her and I quickly ran to join her side whispering, "what do you think it is?" I asked. "I don't know, but whoever it is means business." Zora says hesitating to walk any closer to the door. Another bang assaulted our ears and rattled our door. Zora ran and grabbed a chef's knife, while I ran to the door. Zora gave a brief nod, I unlocked and opened the right side exposing whomever was on the other side of the door. 

    "Goody! I see you are awake! Thanks for being such a buzzkill last night Zora." The unidentified voice says. I slowly creep my head from the otherside of the door. Oh it's just Harper. Feeling a sense of relief I came out from behind the door and stood next to Zora with my arms folded. What the hell is wrong with this person. "Harper, you know it's 5 in the morning. Nothing starts till 11. What is your issue?" Zora says exhaustedly walking over to the kitchen to put the knife away. Harper helps herself in and closes the doors behind her, tossing her charcoal gray hair over her shoulder.  Straightening herself out and giving me a warm smile Harper extends her right hand out for me to shake saying, "Hello! I assume you are Annie, Barin's 2nd half. It's nice to finally meet you officially. Sorry about last night, I'm so not totally like that." Shaking her hand, returning her smile and nodding yes I say, "it's nice to meet you too. Although, I hear you are the one who started rumors about me. I do not appreciate it." Her response was just shrugging her shoulders with an unapologetic look. "OH! Before I forget someone randomly dropped this in the hallway addressed to you, Annie." Harper says taking a folded, crumpled up note out of her bright pink shoulder bag and handing it to me. It was identical to the one Zora found in the apartment last night. "Looks like you saw something you shouldn't have seen." Harper states and blows up her bubble gum so big I couldn't help, but pop it. To my amusement the gum went all over Harper's fancy high dollar sunglasses. 

    I snickered as she groaned at me taking off her glasses and going to the kitchen to clean them off. “Do you know who gave you the note?” Zora asks, examining the note. “No. They were walking towards me and dropped their note. I picked the note off the floor and tried to return it, but I lost them when they turned a bunch of corners. I examined the note and noticed it had Annie’s name on it, so I thought I’d deliver it. The person was wearing baggy clothes and a hat, so I can’t tell their gender. They kept staring at the floor the whole time they were walking."  Harper says coming back to the dining room with clean glasses and gum missing. "I think we should take this up with the alpha." Zora says folding the note and walking off towards her bedroom, coming back with the first note and a long black leather shoulder purse . "Wouldn't that still be affecting the pack! We would have to explain ourselves to the alpha of why we are being threatened. Besides it's not as if we are in any real danger." I say trying to hide the worry in my voice. "Annie you are part of this pack. Whomever targets you, targets the pack. Besides, Barin isn't alpha yet and won't be able to do the rolls of an alpha till after he is married. So we are good. An the alpha will know the best way to handle the situation." Zora says carefully placing the notes inside her purse and slinging it over her shoulder. "Wait. We are still in our PJs. They won't take us seriously. Let's change; then go, okay?" I say looking at Zora's messy bun looking like a big knot on top of her head, her tank top is too big and her straps are constantly falling off her shoulder. Zora's shorts are.... well, they honestly could be considered as panties. Thank god for the long tank top cause those shorts don't cover much, plus the bunny slippers she has on just adds to the appearance. Zora takes a look at her outfit and blushes hard, "I guess you're right." she says running towards her bedroom. 

    After changing our looks and looking appropriate to speak to authority, we head out to the elevators. Zora is wearing a flowing, red and white polka dotted, knee length dress with white egyption like sandals that stop at the ankles and a small white sweater. She looks like a model, and I would be lying if I said I wasn't jealous. I didn't really dress up, I mean I'm wearing black dress pants that fan out at the bottom. My shirt is a grayish blue that was designed to be put into a knot in the front. I didn't do anything fancy with my hair or my shoes, I'm just wearing black flats and I straightened my hair except my bangs. Zora's hair is always crazy but it's cute. No matter what look she does, she makes it look effortless. She might've put moose in it but that's it. The whole elevator ride was silent, the elevator ding telling us we've reacted our floor was almost deafening. I didn't realize I was listening so hard for something. What was I listening for? I shook my head, getting rid of the thoughts. I walked out of the elevator without thinking and out the doors to the open. I wasn't really focused on anything, for some reason I found myself looking at people's shoes. Today must be busy, I found myself weaving in and out of people's way. "Annie, watch where you're going!" Zora yells to me close behind, as I see a pair of expensive well kept black dress shoes something a businessman would wear purposely move in front of me. I tried to move out of his way, but he followed me causing us to crash. I stopped moving as I felt a sharp pain in my right lower abdomen immediately made me gasp aloud and grabbing my side. Did he have a sharp elbow or was I just stabbed?? I thought to myself. "I know where you're going. Snitches get stitches." the man whispered into my ear, moving away from me making me stumble back a few paces clutching my side. Watching the man put something shiny back into his black coat pocket. He stabbed me, but with what? I studied the man as he left, he was wearing black businessman shoes, black dress pants that have thin white strips, black coat that button all the way up covering his shirt with his collar up covering his neck, black gloves covering his hands, and a black top hat. His voice... Do I recognize it?? I finally look down at my side removing my hands showing that I was in fact impaled. My hands covered in blood, "Annie, are you al- OH MY GOD!! MOVE EVERYONE OUT OF THE WAY!!" Zora yells picking  me up and running.