CHAPTER 2 - BLAST IT!
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-VALEN’S POV-
The wind-driven rain poured thunderously, which did not stop Vaheed from taking me into this ridiculous brawl that he could not win.
"I love her." He gritted with tears in his eyes.
"I know, but she's not meant to be yours." I defended in an intimidating tone.
Vaheed won't relent. He swung another fist at me. I caught it. My fists cluttered on his face and I put a hole in his stomach.
We are both Alpha bloodlines from the same parents who are the werewolf king and queen. I'm the crown prince with a bald eagle and a white lion guardian. Therefore, I have exemplary abilities. Because of that, I’ve known she was my mate since I turned thirteen. Most wolves find their mates at age eighteen. It wasn’t easy to stay away from her and that’s the main reason that I kept busy by traveling out and assisting with pack alliances.
"f**k you, Valen." Even my wolf was getting riled up by Vaheed's disrespect. I sent him flying backwards into the graffiti brick wall behind him.
"Vaheed, please listen to reason.” I pleaded.
I watched him swoon over her for seven years. It was torture for me. Outwardly, I patiently waited for my brother’s eighteenth birthday with the hope that once he acknowledged that Raina was not his mate, he’d do the respectable thing to give up on her. Inwardly, I fizzed with anxiety and anger, even jealousy.
"You're partly to be blamed. You should have told me two years ago that she was your mate. Instead, you let me fall deeper in love with her." He spat, marinating in resentment. Though he was heartbroken, he kept coming at me. "You let me be the fool who was in love with his brother's mate."
Probably, this was why he thought that I did not want her. He couldn’t be more wrong. I craved for her but she’s seventeen, while I’m twenty years old. She does not feel the intensity of the mate bond the way I do. Watching her from a distance wasn’t much of a choice. It was a necessity to minimize the effect that she had on me.
This fight was preposterous. Earlier, I had permitted him to vent with his fists. But now I was about to arrest both hands. “Let’s go home, Vaheed. Mom is worried.”
He was aware that there was no room for nonsense when it came to Mom. Make her fret and endure my wrath. It was now necessary for him to suppress his feelings and suck it up. Even though I was entrusted to return with him safely.
He exerted an effort to fight me, so I apprehended his wrist with one hand and his upper shoulder with the other hand. I quickly grab his shoulders and wrapped my fingers around his shoulder blades to orient myself. I flipped him around, wrapping my arm around his chest to detain him. Vaheed grunted in resistance.
Giant sprays of forked lightning lanced across the turbulent sky, and three of them speared into the other side's back of an old apartment building's crumbling concrete steps and rusted metal fire escape stairs as if they were upset by our conflict.
Holding him close and tight, my hand went around his neck. As he raised his arms to protect his neck, I used the advantage to put my hand behind his head in a sleeper choke hold. I tucked my forearm under his chin and held it tight. It was time for him to say nightie night and I would teleport us back home.
"She's not yours. I won't let you have her!" He threatened, struggling vigorously with one hand on my forearm, striving to break free and the other trying to inflict some damage on my face in futile.
"Guys."
A sexy woman with burgundy hair and electrifying blue eyes came into my peripheral vision. Bluebell and cherry scents overwhelmed my sense of smell. Water streamed over her beautiful long hair, running over her pale, slender, honeyed skin as her attire clung to her 5’8 height of voluptuous figure.
“Mate.” My wolf purred, wagging his tail in happiness.
The whole sight of her was so seductive that my pulse beat extremely loud in my ears and I feared that she might be hearing it too. Raw hunger coursed through my veins, an unfulfilled hunger that was never unbridled in any woman.Wide-eyed Raina stood in the rain and her sleeveless plain pink sundress clung to her shapely form as the heavy drops saturated her. I growled in both approbation and satisfaction as her perfectly rounded breast imprinted, visibly saying hello to every onlooker.
Concerned eyes on her heart-shaped face jumped from Vaheed to me. "Why are you fighting?"
We froze in surprise to see her here. Our heads snapped to look at her, speechless. Quickly, I shoved my brother away from me. Raina did not need to see us like this. Did she drive in search of Vaheed? The thought irked me.
Soft slapping sounds approached us as she padded over to us. “Please tell me what’s going on with the two of you.” Her eyes stayed mainly on Vaheed. I growled but she acted like she did not notice. “Vaheed, you left the birthday party and had all of us worried about you.” She clasped his face in her palms and I growled again. This time her eyes found my disapproving face. She smiled and added, “Thankfully, Valen took care of you.”
That last part made me smile. My wolf wagged his tail, begging me to embrace her. As expected from a Delta’s daughter, she tracked us. There was no trace of Venus accompanying her. Therefore, Venus must have distracted Mom while Raina snuck out of the area.
Vaheed brushed her hands off him, seething and looking everywhere but her. My wolf wanted to knock his teeth out. Feeling concerned, Raina opened her mouth to address him.
“Vaheed is fine,” I interrupted.
I despised the way she comforted him. I did not hate my brother, but I coveted the way he was always with her. They were best friends along with my younger sister, Venus, who was also Vaheed’s twin.
“I’m taking everyone home now.” After teleporting them, I intended to have a cup of coffee with her, later.
My ineffable obsession with her was a quiet resident that was unknown to her. Since lately, I have been scheming to have time alone with her. Every time we interacted in private, her cheeks would flush. She was always nervous but excited to see me.
Raina did not protest and Vaheed was acting as best as he could in front of her. With two steps forward, I placed a palm on his left shoulder. He shrugged, so I dug my nails past his skin and he winced. Then I put the other palm on Raina’s with the expectation of feeling sparks.
“Ah!” Raina screamed and jerked away from me, clutching her bruised right shoulder. Her beautiful face contorted with agony and shock as she stared at me.
“What did you do to her?” Vaheed yelled and swiftly went over to check on her. Touching my woman. My promising queen.
Blast it!
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