THE JEALOUS MAN


    ZARYA’S POV


    At night, we went to the Ocean Bar. It had been a long time since I did not go here. When I was in this world, I and my friends went here after the ss. My father was so mad at me. He even grounded me for weeks, knowing how I kissed random guys. He lectured me that I should not do that. Well, why mad at me? As if I let them touch me? Just kissing, nothing more. I was not that kind of good woman. I yed also, but when I started to be with Hali, I forgot my identity. I feared to be with the stranger again. I felt like everyone would stab me at my back or men would take advantage of me as he did. I became aware of my surroundings. I learned what they just want for a woman like me. I had a knowledge they would note near me if they had no intention. Perhaps, I was not conscious, I learned from Hali mostly. I was forced to be mature even if I was just eighteen years old.


    So what I did was sit at the ind counter next to Khal. We were just talking about random things in life while drinking. The ce was not new to me; the noisy people dancing, drinking, cuddling, flirting; the colorful lights reflecting all over the ce. I missed being here, but what I longed more was my friends.


    How are they doing now anyway? The bitches: Serenity and Amari. I have never been friends with a good girl, so expect that they were bitches who taught me how to drink, how to go here, and how to escape in ss. Regardless of how bad an influence they were, they were the most genuine people I had ever known. They were with me in terms of sadness and broken. They never left me even once. I left them instead.


    “Is your friends know about your life? How you’ve… be?” Khal gulped the content of his ss. I was done telling him my life as a student.


    “Nope. I never tell them about…” I lowered my voice when I continued. “Wolf and such unbelievable world I am in.” I grabbed another bottle and poured my ss. “How ’bout you? Why are you believing all those children-created stories in this world?”


    “I don’t know. I just do.” A smirk was formed on his lips. He bit his lips afterward. “Hali acting weird the first we met. He was drunk andmanded me to obey his orders. It made meugh, but eventually, I noticed how he acted.” He licked his lips in a way of tasting the alcohol. “Consistent… he is still acting like a king. King of what? I was asking myself plenty of times, but the question had finally answered when I saw him shifting into a wolf.”


    “Was that terrifying?” I chuckled at him. I gulped another one and let my system absorb the liquor.


    “Yeah, so much, but I never tell anyone. Hali is my friend… like a brother. I can’t harm him.” He gave me another battle. I was just wondering why he was hearing me even if I was just whispering. I mean the ce was crowded and the loud sound was all over. He may be had a great ear, but the wolf was just possessing that ability? Vampire? The vampire was lost for thousands of years. The race of wolves defeated them. After that, no report had been spread again containing vampires.


    “I envy him. No matter how tough he is. He has a friend who’ll love him. He doesn’t deserve all of you.” I sniffled and drank after I continued. “You don’t deserve to die for him.”


    “I’m not.” He shook his head. The smile could be traced on his kissable lips. “I’m not going to die. Not today or tomorrow or next week. I feel it.”


    “Sometimes, instinct is not true.” I nced at the people on the dance floor, watching them. “My instinct doesn’t tell me the night my family gets murdered.”


    “Who said death will tell you when your life is about to cut?” He poured all the liquid into his wine ss. I thought he was drunk since the liquid was spilling from it.


    “Your drink.” I shook my head as I was chuckling. The liquor was now spreading down from the ind counter.


    “Oh, sorry. I think I’m drunk.” He chuckled back at me. It was sofortable to be with him. He was like a brother to me. He got me with his charm. How I wished my brother was here. I missed Zaiden so much.


    My forehead wrinkled when my eyesnded on Hali. He was like a mess, swaying on the dance floor, but what made me startled was his dancing moves. Is he a dancer?


    “You don’t know, do you?” Khal was chuckling like a crazy man. He was so drunk, he was funny. Afterughing at him, my eyes went back again at Hali.


    “Hali is a great dancer. I once took him to the studio. People like him on the stage, but he refused. He didn’t want poprity. Only to find out he is the kin一” I covered his mouth to cut his words. He was telling the secret and this was bad.


    I looked around to find Froy. He was so busy with the women wrapping it into his waist. I could not take care of Khal alone.


    “You should sleep, Khal.” I grabbed his arm, wrapped it to my shoulder. “You’re not a drunk master.” I chuckled at him while dragging him with I don’t know. Maybe upstairs, I only need to pay for the room.


    “I’m so sick of being popr even drinking is prohibited.” Heughed so hard.


    “Come on. You must rest.”


    I brought him to one of the rooms upstairs. I guided him toy on the bed. I was about to move up when he circled his arm on my hips. “Are you going to leave me here?”


    “Nope. I have nowhere to go.”


    He removed his hand at me. I sat on the corner of the bed. “You must sleep. I will not walk out until Hali and Froy go here.”


    “Tell me a story.” He sniffed as he slowly moved his eyes open and close, fighting his drowsiness.


    ” told you everything. What should I story told?”


    “Ah… I tell you my story instead. I haven’t spelled it out to you.”


    I nodded my head slowly. He was about to speak when the door opened. Hali’s eyes were burning when he moved closer to me and dragged me up.


    “The agreement, remember?” He gritted his teeth. The madness was written into his emotion.Content is property of N?velDrama.Org.


    A grin was formed on my lips and whispered. “The jealous man.” I had no intention to tease him. It came naturally and it felt so nice.