Love like chocolate

Chapter 2- Bulky idiots

Noah (at the beginning of the ball)

It was time for the ball, Noah watched the werewolves and humans entering the ballroom expectantly. He had held this ball for years and never felt this nervous, this excited.

-What is happening? -He thought but he knew why he was feeling this today, he was hoping, expecting that today would be the day he found his mate but he was not willing to accept that since he did not want to keep his hopes up.

While people arrived, he could simply stare from the balcony he was currently at, his eyes traveling from face to face as if searching for something but after a couple minutes of repeating the same action, he just gave up looking for the person he did not want to accept he was searching for and walked away. Poor Noah, had he wait at least 10 minutes more he could have seen Hana and Lou entering together or maybe… that was for the best since they were holding hands.

Noah went to down from the balcony and into the ballroom floor and started small chats with some regional alphas he knew. The talks were the usual topics, pack business, old memories, some even tried to paired him with their sons and daughters but as always, he politely refused advances in that department and kept walking.

That went on for about an hour until Noah suddenly stopped in his tracks a smell of a rainy day in a forest and a flower field filled his nose. He frowned and started looking around until he saw her. A petite woman wearing an overly huge suit eating in the buffet area.

He found himself lost while getting small glimpses at her face how she would lit up every time she picked up a new dish and ate the contents. Everything seemed to stop at that moment, he did not even notice how some people tried to start a conversation with him, all he had, all he was seeing was that petite frame, that red hair.

Without noticing Noah started walking towards her as if bound by a spell, his heart beating fast almost as if it wanted to jump out of his chest and go to its rightful owner. He had to see her, he had to look into her eyes, he did not know why, why her? Why such a young person? Why now? Hundreds of different thoughts came rushing to his head but just one was resonating hard in his current state -What if it she is not my mate and I am only fooling myself? -.

Once she was at arm reach, he turned her around. He knew there were better ways to approach a complete stranger but at the moment he was not at the right state of mind.

He looked straight into his eyes and that’s when he knew she was his mate. At that moment everything else disappeared. All the sleepless nights, all the times he felt his hopes being crushed, every year of waiting, everything felt worth it. Every little piece that connected them to this moment felt worth a lifetime.

“Mine!” he screamed, he had waited for her for so long, long enough to feel like a walking corpse, long enough to feel a void eating at his heart. Each passing day that felt like hundreds of years waiting for his other half, the one he could love, touch and protect. The one person that was to be always by his side, the person that needed no one else but him.

Then a thought crept its way to his head -What if she hates me? What if she does not want me? –Noah shook his head and focused on her one more time noticing she was lost in thought but was not running away or feeling scare of him. He placed his arms on each side of her waist and decided to present himself.

“Hi my love, my name is Noah, May I ask your name?” Noah asked with a sweet voice. Surprising himself, he had never done a voice like that.

She looked at him straight in the eyes with a clear but obviously tired face and shrugged “Hana, my name is Hana”.

The voice was melodic, as if a mermaid came out from a fairy tale to talk to him, he smiled giving her the biggest smile he had ever shown and picked her up bridal style.

“What are you doing?” Hana asked with a bewildered face.

“Just a moment princess, I will take you to a safe place” He answered while at the same time he was walking with big steps towards his room.

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Hana (When Noah turned her around)

“Mine!” he screamed.

She looked at him straight in the eye with an unimpressed, almost tired, look and no words coming out of her mouth, for what could she say to a man so anxious he would listen no reason?

The word he said 'mine' said it all. She was his mate.

Honestly, to her, the whole situation was somewhat annoying, she understood why he was acting this way, after all, for a werewolf, a mate was a big deal and, contrary to what the anxious werewolf was thinking, she was more than willing to give him a try to at least be his friend.

She looked down to the tile floor and thought -why is he so anxious? Does he think I am going to reject him? I mean, I know about rejection but they don’t teach humans how to do it, besides even if I knew how, I wouldn´t do it-

She could not bear the idea to simply leave him heartbroken but not because she loved him or because she felt bad for him, how could that be the reason when she didn´t even know him? no, she could not leave him because of her parents’ words, the ones they used to say to her every day.

-remember to always give people a chance, do not judge people base on anything- the words her father and mother used to say echoed in her head.

She knew what most werewolves do to humans, to the very least, almost all the werewolves she had met were nothing short of tyrants but she also had met humans who were horrible to her and that does not mean she would hate every human she met. She was willing to offer friendship and kindness to everyone who was willing to do the same for her.

She felt strong muscular arms on each side of her waist that completely took her out of her thoughts and look up to the eyes of the now calm man.

“Hi my love, my name is Noah, May I ask your name?” he asked with a sweet voice looking at her his eyes sparkling with hope and adoration. She looked up staring at his eyes again and sigh.

-Well… - She thought -Hopefully I will not regret this- and shrugged before answering “Hana, my name is Hana”.

The man, she now knew as Noah picked her up bridal style and started walking. Hana watched the man who picked her up as if she weights nothing and thought -C´mon, I know I am small but can you at least fake I am a little heavy? If only to save my pride? - She frowned until she noticed they were moving towards the door that said ‘do not enter, only authorized personel’

“ummmm Noah, right? I don’t think we are allowed to go there…” she started

Noah looked at her and chuckled lightly “We are allowed in there, after all it is our home”.

-Ah s**t, he is the Alpha but wait, isn´t the Alpha’s name Xavier? maybe he is a worker, nah, he has a fancy tuxedo and said it was his house, well he said our home but he cannot decide where is home for me- Hana thought and suddenly realized -my friends… is he not going to let me say good bye? –

The little journey to Noah’s room was quiet but surprisingly for Hana, it was a comfortable silence Once they reached their destination he said “I need to go and keep our guests entertain, I will be back as soon as I can, I promise” he said with pleading eyes.

He kissed her forehead, a tender quick kiss and before she could say anything he was gone. -Did the dude just leave me alone in an unknown room for who knows how long? Should I be angry? He looks like a nice dude…-

Hana did not think she could fall in love with a stranger but, being friends? She thought they could be that. After 30 minutes of wandering the room like a curious cat on a new house she started to talk to herself. Hana liked to talk to herself when she was alone, not because she dislikes silence but because she thought that if she could not even enjoy her own mumblings no one was going to be able to, plus she enjoyed the silly arguments she could come up with when left alone. Like that one time she thought about why crows like shiny stuff.

So just like many other times before; she started her monologue “Should I go out to at least say goodbye to my friends? I mean… he didn´t even ask me what I wanted so I suppose it would not be a douchebag move but then again, he only ask me to wait, it’s not like he is going to keep me trapped or anything… but if he is the Alpha, as I am almost sure he is, then that means he is going to return by the time my friends already left… what to do? What to do?”.

After walking around for 5 minutes she decided “Let’s wait, he looked so desperate and I do not want to hurt him unnecessarily, if he comes back by the time my friends left then I will have to go to meet them tomorrow” once she decided what to do, she went to the balcony she saw earlier, if she could eat no more at least she was going to get drunk on the beautiful view she now had available.

And so, she did, she stared at the starry night sky and the lights of the city that seemed to go until the infinite, thinking about nothing, just enjoying the view… after all a view like that needed no words or thoughts, it only needed feelings.

She stayed like that for who knows how long, losing the track of time drowning in feelings of awe until a scream cut the moment, a loud scream she knew all too well.

“f**k off mutt! Leave us alone!” a scare and angry voice said.

“Shut up! You useless piece of s**t, we only wanted to talk with you” a voice said with a pissed off tone.

“Talk!? You don´t want to talk you want to hurt us” Another voice said.

Hana could not identify one of the voices but, the other two? Hana knew who those voices belong to so she started frantically looking for them. -Lily and Molly… - she thought -It sounds like they are in danger, they dare to harm my family!? I will kill them… – she continued her search until she saw them, Lily and Molly were surrounded by 5 bulky scary looking men, men Hana knew were werewolves, how? Because one of them was the grandson of Mr. Wilson, the asshat (as Hana called him) was always surrounded by werewolves since he despised humans and always picked on Molly and Lily just because Lily rejected his advances a couple years ago.

One of the werewolves, that Hana was referring to as Bulky i***t no. 1 reached out to Lily ready to punch her.

“Leave us alone!” Molly screamed and yanked Lily´s arm to get her out of the way of the punch.

Hana was still in the balcony on a third floor so she knew that if she tried to look for the stairs and then reach them, she could either get lost or not reach them on time so she did the only thing available at the moment, she jumped from the third floor to a balcony on the second floor.

-My poor knees, please forgive momma, is an emergency- Hana thought before landing. Once she landed, she observed the height that was left.

-Alright, I can jump without harming myself from the second floor, let´s do this! - she made a little run to get more energy for the jump and when she reached the floor, she made a barrel roll to absorb impact.

“Thank god I used a suit instead of a motherfucking dress” Hana said out loud “HEY! Asshat!” Hana shouted.

“You again!? Do you like solitary confinement that much?!” The Asshat name Derek said (but we will go with asshat, he deserves it >: / ).

“why yes! Thank you for asking asshat, I happen to love it a lot!” Hana stated “Now, we can do this the easy or the hard way and we both know how it ended for you last time, by the way is your butt cheek healing properly? I did land a heavy kick there last time” she said with a casual voice, the kind of voice you use to ask for the weather or the hour.

“You… YOU!!!” Derek said.

-As Usual the useless piece of brownie cannot find words, that is actually funny and a little sad- Hana thought and chuckle since for her, seeing a pampered dumb brat bothering teenagers for a rejection and then getting owned by a 16-year-old was quite the funny situation.

The chuckle was what made Derek the asshat snapped, he screamed with a squeaky voice “Get her!! I want you to punch her so much that the guards can not recognize her face when we send her to the cells!!” He said, his face red as a tomato while he was stomping the floor.

The other 4 bulky man looked at him as if surprised, did they feel bad bout punching and kicking humans? The answer to that would be no, but they fought Hana before and they did not know why, but she always beat them, how? They did not know; how could they know of Hana’s past? She grew up fighting werewolves and humans ready to kill not like these brats who did not know what killing and bloodshed was, no, she knew what true hell was and fighting brats was not it.

“What are you waiting for??!!” Derek said “GO NOW! Or do you want my dad to fired your family?!”

That last phrase seemed to snap the bulky men out of their hesitation.

Bulky i***t no. 1 and 2 went for it first.

Bulky i***t no. 1 threw a punch at Hana with a lot of force and speed but no technique whatsoever, Hana simply moved to the side and stuck her foot out to make him tripped. He fell on the ground and she stump on his back to make sure he stayed on the ground.

-Man, how I wished I had the healing abilities they have, had he not been a werewolf he would stay paralytic after that- Hana thought.

Bulky i***t no. 2 thought that she was distracted… he was wrong. He tried to catch her neck but stupidly left his crotch unprotected, Hana simply kicked him were **the sun doesn't shine**

“That is dirty play!!!! Fight with honor you piece of s**t!” Derek the asshat screamed.

“DUDE! You have me fighting FIVE big ass werewolves alone! To hell with fair play” Hana answered. Once no. 2 was on his knees, she kicked him straight in the face and with a TUM sound, he was down. Just to make sure he did not get up; she did the same as she did with bulky i***t no. 1.

Bulky i***t no. 3 was a little more intelligent, while she stumped no. 2, he took a knife pocket out and attack her, she got out of the way but he managed to cut the side of her chin.

“f**k! That is going to leave a scar!” Hana said and then looked at the knife and the eyes to no. 3, the eyes of a man so angry he lost part of his reason “…are you trying to kill me?” Hana’s demeanor suddenly changed, the aura around her got cold, at the beginning of the fight she was only ‘teaching a lesson’ but if they wanted to harm her for real (they were going to harm her bad, like really bad, but they never actually planned to kill her, it is illegal so they would end up in prison) everything changed, her instincts kicked in. The instincts that made her kill to survive.

Hana started talking “I recommend you dropped the knife and give up” she sounded calm, cool and collected. It looked like she was relaxed but her eyes said it all, she was going in for the kill.

She tried, she tried so hard to suppressed the memories threatening to surface in her mind. “Do NOT make me hurt you…”.

Bulky i***t no. 3 and 4 each gave a step back, as werewolves, their instincts were stronger than humans, and their instincts were screaming ‘DANGER!’

“What are you doing!?” Asshat screamed “are you seriously afraid of a dwarf?!”

Once he was done speaking no. 3 and 4 launched at Hana.

With a collected mind Hana thought -Let´s get rid of the knife first, then snap his neck- but no. 4 reached her first.

No.4 launched a punch, Hana got out of the way of his punch and caught his arm, she pulled the arm to stretch it fully and hit it with her knee. A crunch sound was heard and then a scream.

“My Arm! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!” no. 4 felt on his knees. Hana ended him the same way she did with no. 2 and got her full attention on bulky i***t no. 3.

“what’s wrong?” Hana said viciously “c´mon, don´t get cold feet on me now, we were having fun” she continued.

“N-no, I did not mean to… I was just doing what I was told!” the i***t said.

“And I am just doing what I want” Hana answered smiling wickedly.

Bulky i***t no. 3 knew he was not going to be able to run from her and like a trapped animal, he did the only thing he could. He attacked her.

Hana dodged the knife that was pointed at her neck, she disarmed him, moved behind him and positioned ready to snap his neck.

“HANA STOP!!!” Hana heard the scream and immediately snapped out of it.

“Stop… please… it is not worth it!” The voice whom Hana knew was Molly’s imploring voice.

“W-what… I just… I was not going to…” Hana tried to say something but just couldn’t because she knew, she knew had she not been stopped, she would once again fill her hands with blood.

Hana let go of bulky i***t no. 3’s head and said “go… just go… I don’t want to see you for the rest of the night, not near me, not near my friends” her voice cold and deathly.

“w-we…we are not leaving because you said it!!” Asshat said while starting to move again.

“What is happening here?” a masculine voice said.

“A-Alpha…” Derek the asshat looked at him with wide eyes.

“What were you trying to do to my mate?” Noah said a vein popping in his jaw.

“Y-y-y-your mate?” Derek said bewilderment and fear clear in his eyes.

“Yes, my mate” Noah grabbed Derek by the collar of his shirt and said “Get out of my sight right now” Dominance radiating from him “expect my guards tomorrow morning, they will make sure you receive the punishment you deserve” Noah added calmy. Derek paled and with the help of the workers he and his friends were removed from the scene.

Hana a little calmer peeked a glance at her friends, Molly and Lily were looking at her with a horribly worried expression and run at her side.

They both ran towards her and hugged her, none of Hana’s friends knew of her past but they all knew it was bad, bad memories. The few times they saw her like that they knew that in the aftermath she would crumble down into a mess.

Hana started trembling, horrible flashbacks running in her mind and started sobbing and sobbing until those sobbing became tears.

“I am sorry… I am sorry, I didn´t mean to… I had to… I did not want to do it!” Hana started rambling. Molly and Lily embraced her tighter and started rocking her back and forth.

“hush, hush, it is alright honey… it’s alright, we are here” Molly coed into her ear.

“Princess… are you alright? … please…” Noah started walking towards Hana with a lost expression. What could he do? What was happening? Who fought those men? Is she alright? Is she hurt? So many thoughts running through his head and no one to answer them. But the only question that mattered was -Why was I not here to protect her? –