Chapter 15: Time apart
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Molly
I cried when Trick hung up on me, I didn’t understand why he was so mad. He asked me questions and I told him the truth, I thought he would feel better knowing I had never really been with Toby.
“It’s ok, just give him time to calm down,” Natasha said, hugging me.
She let me go and then Kai pulled me into his arms and said, “Natasha’s right babe, give him some time, like Grayson he has a hot temper, he’ll calm down, and you heard him right?”
When I looked up at him confused he said, “Trick told you he isn’t breaking up with you, and he said he’d kill any man that tries to get with you, if that isn’t enough proof how serious he is about you then nothing is.”
He was right, and slowly I stopped crying, Trick just needed space, I could give him that, it would be alright I thought to myself.
I stayed over at Natasha and Kai’s for another hour and then made my way back to mine. Bedtime was difficult without Trick there, I was used to him holding me and I couldn’t sleep, I tossed and turned, sometimes I cried, and eventually, I passed out exhausted.
Another three days passed by, and he still didn’t come to mine, if I saw him at the main pack house he wouldn’t talk to me or even look at me, it was so hard having him cold and distant with me again.
I was home watching TV alone on the fourth night when fireworks went off outside, it was pretty close meaning it was probably one of the neighbours, they lived about twenty minutes away, but the fireworks was still loud, and my wolf hearing only made it louder. Panic came over me, my heart began to race, I covered my ears and rocked wondering how long they would be.
Fireworks were lit one after the other and I couldn’t think, couldn’t drown out the noise, my door knocked, but I didn’t answer it, I couldn’t, I didn’t want to move, I rocked harder and kept my hands over my ears humming to myself.
I felt a hand touch my shoulder and jumped.
“Molly, it’s just me.”
I looked up and saw Trick standing there.
“Are we ok now?” I asked, my hands still over my ears.
“No, but I know you don’t like the fireworks and I wanted to make sure you were alright,” he replied coldly.
“Ok,” I said, rocking and going back to humming.
I heard him sigh and watched him walk over to the kitchen table where I had left the noise-cancelling headphones. Walking back over, he bent down in front of me and gently pulled my hands away from my ears. “I bought these for a reason, use them,” he said and gently put the headphones over my ears.
He got up to walk away, and I grabbed his hand, still humming and rocking, unable to look at him.
“Hold on,” he said, he walked away and came back holding my weighted rabbit, he handed it to me and I took it, feeling the weight of it and stroking it.
He sat down beside me and stayed with me until the fireworks finally stopped. He looked up at the clock and said, “it’s late, you should go to bed.”
“Will you come?” I asked.
“No, I still need space,” was his cold reply.
“Can you tuck me in like Kai did?”
He looked at me then and said, “when did Kai tuck you in?”
“Before I met you, on our date that didn’t go so well.”
“He tucked you in?” He asked, his voice was even colder.
“I told him I liked being tucked in and being looked after so he did it for me before he left.”
“Is there anything he hasn’t f.ucking done to you,” he growled.
“He’s never loved me, he never saw me as a woman like you did, he never treated me like everyone else like you do, he doesn’t make me feel safe like you do, he doesn’t have my love like you do, I love you Trick.”
He stroked my cheek and more softly said, “let’s get you to bed.”
When I was in the bed, he took my headphones and placed them on the side for me and said, “remember to use them when you need them.”
He pulled the covers over me and tucked them in down my sides so tightly, I couldn’t help but laugh and giggle. “What?” He asked with a small smile.
“Nothing, it’s just cute you tucking me in, and it feels so cosy I got a little excited.”
He smiled more genuinely and said, “I’m glad you’re cosy.”
When I tried to reach up and kiss him, he moved back and said, “goodnight Molly,” and then left.
I missed Trick, I hoped that tonight could be a track in the right direction for us to be close again.
I thought he might talk to me the following day, but he didn’t, he was still silent and didn’t acknowledge me, it was like he had never turned up at all, and I had just dreamed the whole thing.
I ate breakfast, spent some time talking with Jerry and Paula, then I left and got ready to go out, I didn’t care where I went I just needed to get away from the pack for a while and be alone.
I grabbed the headphones and put them on, and then I started to walk towards the town. It was lightly raining, so I pulled up the hood of my baby pink raincoat.
When I reached town I walked around not sure what to do, I ended up in a book store and looked in the anime section, I moved onto the fantasy section and saw a couple of books about werewolves, it was so strange seeing fiction romance stories about us knowing that the readers had no idea we were real, it felt even weirder thinking the word ‘we’ instead of ‘them’, I kept forgetting I was a werewolf.
I grabbed one of the books and read the back of it. “Boo!” Someone whispered in my ear, I spun around and saw Axel standing there, wavy dark blonde hair falling into pretty dark green eyes.
“Axel?”
“Hey cutie,” he grinned.
“You don’t think I’m cute so don’t pretend.”
“Maybe not on the outside, but give it a couple of months you’ll lose all this weight, and we can doll you up.”
“What do you mean we? Why are you here?”
“I know, I know, I shouldn’t be in Grayson’s territory, but after giving you the bite I had to come and see if it worked.” He leaned in close and sniffed my hair, “seems like it did, you smell like a b.itch in heat, all you females do, but you smell extra f.ucking good right now, are you in heat?”
I frowned, “no? How would I know?”
“Are you not feeling anything?” He asked.
I thought about it and said, “maybe a little hot.”
“You’ve probably only just gone into heat today, the longer you leave it the more painful and uncomfortable you’ll feel. Did no one explain this?”
“No,” I shook my head.
He gently took the book from my hands, put it back on the shelf and then put his arm around me and guided me out of the shop. “Come on, I’ll explain it.”
I let him lead me outside, but I paused when he tried to take me to his car. “I don’t want to go back to your place.”
“Come on, I can teach you so much about being a werewolf, I’m Trick’s friend, I can’t be that bad if he’s friends with me, can I?” He smiled.
“Trick used to be bad.”
“That’s true, but he was in a lot of pain, our alpha was cruel, I wasn’t bad though, and I always tried to help him when I could, jasper was messed up and a s.hit friend, he was always trying to make Trick do bad s.hit, you saw him encouraging Trick on that video didn’t you?”
I nodded, and he said, “there’s more videos like that, and I’m not in any of them because I wasn’t like that, I’m still not.”
“I don’t know, Trick seemed mad when he found out you showed me the video.”
I watched his face, I think he looked afraid before quickly hiding it behind a smile, “ah that’s just Trick, he gets embarrassed about his past, I’m sure he didn’t mean what he said literally about being mad. Come on, you want to learn more don’t you?”
“I should stay here,” I mumbled.
He walked around to the drivers side, opened the door and leaned on the roof of the car looking over at me, “you sure? Will Trick teach you when you get back? Are you his mate now?”
I shrugged, and quietly said, “I don’t know, he’s mad at me at the moment.”
“Hang out with me for a while then, you could probably do with the space and time apart, come on, get in, and I’ll drive you back later.”
“Are you sure?”
“Yeah, it’s no problem, I know Grayson and other packs get p.issed about crossing into one another’s territory but I’m not bothered about that stuff, I think we should all get along, after all, we are all we’ve got aren’t we?” He grinned at me.
I thought about it, he seemed genuine, and he was being so nice, I did want to distract myself from worrying about Trick and our relationship, so I got into the car.
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