Little Red's Beast

Chapter 4

Nero's POV 

I stood there staring at Jacob and the mystery girl that entered my room with tears filled in her eyes. 

"Layla!" My wolf screamed as his eyes locked onto her body. I looked over to Layla and quickly examined her body to see that my wolf was correct. I didn't recognize her with everything that was happening at once. After examining the situation more and more, I looked over to Jacob and mind linked him without raising suspicion to Layla who was now trying to sneak out the window. 

"What are you two doing here?" I asked with a slight rage.

"She snuck out of the house alpha. I am following orders from the father to bring her home immediately."

"How did she sneak out of the house? Do you not realize the situation at hand-"

"She has... become crafty.... as of late. The father and her are in multiple arguments... like the one that will be coming shortly when she returns home."

My eye cut over to her as she tiptoed to the window and I shook my head slowly. 

"She's going to the window. Make sure she is returned home with no questions asked. Get her. She's trying to sneak out the window."

"Hold it!" Jacob screamed and the girl stopped in her tracks. 

"Get over here right now." Jacob said with a stern voice. 

Hesitantly, she turned and faced him as he glared at her.

"Layla..." 

He spoke once more and she rubbed the back of her neck nervously. 

"H-Hi Jacob. W-What brings you here to this.... location?" The nervous tone was clear as day in her throat.

Jacob and I stared at her as I knew she was trying to think of a way to get the hell out of here. The only way she was getting out was through the window. And no one is that stupid to jump from this height. A wolf... yes. Human, I wouldn't think twice of seeing one of them do it. 

"I want to... but see... technically I am not suppose to be here." She said making a break for the window. 

I was surprised that she did it too. Pain of course will be in her legs. Jacob and I walked over to the window and looked at her laying body in the grass. Just as I figured, her legs were in pain. 

"She's on the move, move in..." As Jacob gave out the orders, I calmly walked to the bathroom to bump into Carter. 

The scent of another woman and Layla's rubbed through my nose making me growl. My wolf became agitated, wanting to come out and rip his head off. 

"Got your d**k wet by another woman besides your own?" I asked with glaring eyes. 

"Dude mind your business and stay out of it. Where is Layla?"

I growled once more and snatched him by the throat, slamming him into the wall with my hand squeezing his throat. 

"Layla... is my business.... And I smell two scents coming from you and your d**k is harder that a f*****g rock right now. Layla... isn't here... So, that means you got your d**k wet by another woman."

"Hey man! Let me go!" He said struggling against me. I squeezed tighter feeling the rage take over. He tried to punch my face but I moved my head out of the way and punched him in the nose breaking it. 

"Stay. Away. From. Layla." I said squeezing his throat more and more with each word said. 

"If I see you by her, talking to her and no one in the school assigned you to her, I will come back and finish exactly what I am starting here." 

I could hear my wolf's satisfaction of the boy's face turning blue before me. I heard footsteps and dropped him to the ground and went into the bathroom to shower. After Showering, I went back into my room and packed a book bag full of clothes and left the house. I walked until I was away from the house and allowed my bones and body to begin to ache as I shifted into a wolf. I watched the jet black wolf hair grow on my body and once I shifted, I headed off to find Jacob for an update on Layla. 

I arrived in the forest moments after the chaos I heard coming from the mansion. Wolf ears are great for that. I could sense the rage coming from Layla with her heart beat increasing by the second. I growled from sensing her anger and proceeded to the forest to find a gray colored wolf sitting by a tree in the center of the forest. I rushed over to him and looked at the large wolf's body. Almost matching my own. . 

"Jacob, I am not surprised you would pick this spot for me to find you." I mind linked him, calmly sitting down. 

"I think I like this tree. Plus, it is easy to find considering it is the largest. 

I looked up and down the tree to have his statement be nothing but the truth. This particular tree did stand out since it was the largest in the whole forest.  

"Any update on the situation?" I looked at him as he nodded his head slowly. 

"There has not been no movement from anyone outside of the pack. The men, even though Layla hates them, have been on the lookout for anyone suspicious. Most of the people around her is the people from the school."

"Which is a good thing. Come, I wish to see her." I said standing and walking to the mansion. 

Jacob followed and gave the signal to one of the men, who signaled another to make sure that the camera's were not facing the two wolves who were walking on the mansion's ground. 

Jacob and I kept our presence hidden and once we reached the double doors that led into Layla's room, Jacob shifted to his human form and opened the door. I walked in slowly and came over to Layla's bed to find her sound asleep. My tail swayed from left to right and soon I nuzzled Layla's cheek with my nose. 

As always, she slowly wrapped her arms around my neck and held onto me tightly. A smile washed over her face as the scent of my wolf must have given her a more calming mind. I climbed into the bed with her and wrapped my body around her, her head laying on my stomach. I laid my head on my paws and closed my eyes for the night. 

_______________________________________One week later _____________________________________

Layla's POV

I noticed I have been getting much better sleep at night again. I have no clue as to why throughout my life, some nights I can't get sleep, but then there are some nights where I am sleeping as if I am on a cloud. I love those sleeps. 

It's been a week since the party, since the grounding, and of course since the slap to my face. I was still upset about it and since then, I have yet to speak to my parents. They tried to talk to me here and there but I gave excuses as to needing to do my work, or practice for track. I guess it makes them upset and my father regrets his decision more and more. 

Everyone was still speaking about the party because that is what we high school students do. I was hearing about information I was not aware about. 

"Yo she gave up that a$$ like it was nothing!"

"Sasha threw up on the dance floor after she got completely wasted."

"Maurice jumped off the balcony into the pool and got the girls soaked."

"Dude, Claire was stripping at the party when she started drinking nonstop."

This information only pissed me off more because I missed all of it. Even though I missed all of it, I could always count on one friend to keep me in the loop and make sure that people think I was somewhere where I wasn't. 

"Layla!!!!!" Sara shouted as she walked over to me standing by my locker. 

"Her girl, what's up?" 

I shoved my books into the locker neatly as she rambled on and on about the party. At some point, I turned her out because at some point, I stopped caring. I kept tuning her out until she mentioned Carter's name and I turned to her trying to catch the details. 

"Wait what???" I said slamming my locker, now holding my track clothes. 

"Yeah! Carter, right so he came out and came to me. He told me to tell you that he will no longer be f*****g around people and that he sorry and all this blah blah blah bullsh*t. But there is more detail to Carter. Apparently, someone and Carter fought. Dude had Carter by the face, punching him left and right or something like that. I don't know." 

I shrugged my shoulders and headed off to the girls locker room. Sara followed and kept me company until it was actually time for me to go to the field. Coach was really strict about having friends or distractions. I looked around to see the men my father hired on the bleaches though. 

Yeah he kept them close by to watch me and the coach knew about them. So he allowed them to be there. They were not dressed in black outfits. More like regular people who didn't have a sense of fashion. It was weird. 

I looked over to my right to see the men working out in gym class. It was great because all of the guys were there, sweating, shirts off, and just working out. What I did not like were two things. One, Carter cheating a$$ was over there as well. Secondly, the jock which all the girls flawed over was there too. He occasionally hits on me like it was a sport of his own. It was truly disturbing and disgusting. 

Warming up felt great. I sat on my firm but, legs spread, while I reached for my toes with both of my hands. One thing I loved to do was stretch and being a little bit flexible made stretching more easy for me than the other girls. I continued to stretch out my legs until I heard the coaches whistle blow. 

I started jogging around the field, sun blazing on my skin, feet feeling great against the ground. It didn't take long before we were running around the track, passing the ballots, breaking our records here and there and of course the boys from the gym stared at us, whistling and fanning themselves with their hands. I loved showing off my track skills but not for these idiots. 

Here and there, I caught Carter's eyes and he looked away from me each time with the look of guilt and fear. I would do that too if I got caught cheating at a party. 

By now, it was an hour and a half into practice. Coach was yelling at us to be the best, be nothing but the best and to make sure we were walking harder than ever in practice and in our school work or we could kiss our track goodbye. 

Track came to an end and the girls and I were on our way to the showers. I went over to my locker waving to the others and saw Sara standing by my locker. 

"Heeeeeeeeeeey! So listen, I was going to tell you this some time next week but I seriously cannot wait anymore about this. I am thinking about taking a girls trip!" 

She jumped up and down laughing about it and held my non bouncing hands. She saw the shocked look on my face and pouted when I wasn't as happy as she was. 

"Please tell me you're not jumping because you are exhausted from track practice."

"That, and because you know my father won't let me go. Especially not after this stunt I pulled."

"Then talk to your mother! She is the nice one and at least let you live life."

"Give me the details." I walked over to the showers and stepped in after stripping and listened to Sara on the outside of it. 

"Okay, me, you of course, Jessica, Melody, Alex, Julia, and Taliyah," 

"Sounds like a lot of people but good for us! No drama and fighting like the last one you did with your parents!"

"That was horrible girl. HO...RI... BBLE! I cannot believe them girls were acting like complete idiots and fighting and sh*t. My parents said never again to them."

"Well I... completely agree! I can't believe they got makeup on my hoodie. You know how long it took me to get that stuff out of my favorite hoodie." 

I came out of the shower and had a towel wrapped around me as I headed over to my locker to change. Sara and I continued to talk when we heard a banging on the door. You would know how hard me and Sara jumped at the banging on the door. Sara walked over to the door and huffed when she opened it. 

"Girl, it's for you!" 

All the attitude was in her throat so it could only be who I think it was. 

I stepped out in a long hoodie dress with sneakers while drying my wet curly hair. The men in black stood at the door with their legs spread and hands behind their back. There were three of them there. The middle man stepped forward and bowed his head to me. 

"Layla, you are over your time. We need to go home now."

"Really, so I can't shower and be a girl for a couple of minutes?" 

"This is not a joking matter, miss."

"Ew, you make her sound so old..." Sara chimed in as she walked over to me. 

The middle one watched her movements and she stood behind me with an attitude. 

"Being watched is not my cup of tea, you know? What... you think I will harm the precious Layla?" 

The middle one stayed quiet and I walked away from them all. I grabbed my bag and pouted walking out hand in hand with Sara. 

We walked out and I bumped into nothing but muscle while falling on my a$$. I looked up to see the same male who just popped up out of nowhere in the past two days. 

The men in black rushed over to my aid as the male before me reached his hand out and helped me up. 

The second man in black went to speak but his words were caught in his throat. I truly have never seen something like this happen.... only with my father. I looked over to the male who was looking at the men in black with an angered look on his face. He then looked at me and his face softened. 

"Are you alright?" He said with a low husky voice that made my legs weak. Now that I have the chance, his face was hella cute. 

Nice soft silver eyes like I saw before, black hair that had to trail down to the mid section of his back, was tied in a ponytail to bring the silver out in his eyes. He was walking with no shirt on and black sweats this time. Arms a bit muscular but the real stare down was in his abs. 

I guess he noticed me checking out his body because a chuckle came from his lips to snap me out of my staring. 

"Do you like what you see?" He said with a cocky smile and his head tilted. 

Truly I wanted to say hell yes but I cleared my throat and shook my head. 

"Sorry, I have this, uh, weird staring habit when-"

"You see something you are interested in?" He said, still chuckling. 

I blushed shyly and ran my fingers through my hair. Sara cleared her throat which made me realize she was standing there this entire time. 

"Sorry, I bumped into. I was talking with my best friend and was not paying attention to where I was going." 

"It's fine. I can accept the apology from a sweet girl like you."

He made a gentle sweet smile which gave me the chance to see his purely white teeth. I inhaled deeply only to have my body shudder and quiver from the scent he was giving off. I never thought the smell of a male would make me so happy. 

"So, mister mystery man who is clearly distracting my friend.... Got a name?" Sara spoke up boldly while stroking her chin. The male laughed and nodded his head slowly. 

"My name is Nero. May I ask you two your names in return?" 

"Why yes!" Sara exclaimed and she gently pushed me closer to him, making me inhale his scent more and more. 

"M-My name is... L-Layla. This is my friend Sara." 

"Best friend. Missy, your distraction level is off the charts. Right now. Excuse me mister Nero, as you can see the men behind us, they should really be getting princess Layla home in time for studies and such." 

"Princess huh?" Nero eyes trailed over my body then to the men and then back to me as he nodded his head slowly and stepped out of the way. 

"Maybe, we shall see each other again?" Nero said as we walked past him. Sara had to practically move my body in order for me to walk again. 

Just as we started walking, Carter came out of the male's locker room and looked at me stunned. 

"Layla!"

"Why the hell are you shouting Carter?" I asked with a frown on my face. 

"I, uh-" Carter's eyes glanced over to Nero and his face went white. Like white as snow white. I raised an eyebrow and looked over to Nero whose facial expression matched mine. I turned back to Carter who was gaining color back in his face. 

"Excuse me," he said quickly then stopped when he heard Sara.

"Really is that all you have to say to her after you done f*cked a bimbo at the party? You should at least be saying something other than-"

Sara's words came to a halt when a hand was placed on her shoulder. She looked up to see Nero and then quieted her voice. I, on the other hand, was storming off to Carter and turned him and looked at me with shocked eyes. I growled low and slammed my fist into his nose. The men in black along with Sara and Nero rushed to me, who stood over Carter's pathetic body. 

"You disrespected him in the most awful way imagined. And you don't even apologize but try to cover your tracks. I know I never said this when I found you with said bimbo.. but we are through. Sorry excuse for a boyfriend." 

I turned and looked at Nero who had a smirk on his face. It seemed he was proud of my work. Sara threw her fist in the air while jumping up and down. The men in black, just stood there like statues. 

"Sorry you had to see that but... I needed to get that off my chest." I said, biting my bottom lip. 

"No... I think it was great honestly." Nero said smiling. 

Once again, I was lost in his eyes. Oh, those eyes that would make me melt like his sweet chocolate skin. 

"C'mon girl. We got to goooo." Sara said once, pulling me away from Nero. 

As we got to the car, Sara couldn't help but to keep laughing as my cheeks were now red in the face. 

"It's not funny!" I shouted and started pouting like a little baby. No one, not even Carter made me feel like that. So... why him?

I couldn't wrap my head around it, but then again, I didn't want to. I think I was enjoying it too much. 

"Girl, I think you found yourself a new crush that makes you go into la la land."

"Oh, hush you. I can admit he is VERY attractive and I do... find him easy to talk to but... I just got out of a relationship with a d**k. I don't need to jump back into another one."

"But you saw the way he was looking at you. He liked what he saw and not in the way the jocks do when they see us girls. But in a nice sweet way." 

"True, you don't get that much from all the assholes in this school." 

I got into the car that waited for me on the outside of the school and smiled leaning my head out the open window. 

"Girl, just... don't cage yourself up alright. If you feel that connection, I say go for it when the time is right." 

I smiled at Sara's words and waved to her when the car pulled off.