Chapter 144
Chapter 144: Questions & Hangovers
Lucas.
The moment I stepped out of Cassie’s room, my heart sank into
my stomach. For a moment, I had actually thought our bond was blossoming, but instead I was a fool t
o think I was anything more than a quicky for her. Mate or not, she was adamant
to keep me away at every turn.
So of course, I showed her how much of an asshole I could be.
It wasn’t hard to hear her scream once I left her room. I had stayed for a moment trying to decide if
I wanted to go
back in and apologize. Goddess knows every part of me wanted too, but my Lycan… he wasn’t please
d.
She doesn’t deserve our mark…
The dark, stormy whispers within my mind were loud, and as hard as I tried to shrug them
off, they had gotten louder
since I came to this realm. I needed something, anything to quiet them, and as much as I wanted to sle
ep, I didn’t see it happening anytime soon.
Step by step, I stormed down the hallway with my room in sight, but even the thought of going there
right now didn’t seemforting. Thest thing I needed was to get into trouble with all of these people
lingering around, but at the same time, all I really wanted was a drink.
A drink to clear my mind
and perhaps thepany of a woman who was actually worth talking to. Not that I could actually
do that. I had justid with my mate, my fated chosen by the
gods themselves, and in a way, I was rejected -even if she didn’t say it.
Passing the threshold of my door, I exited the same way I had
come in with Cassie and ventured outside into the garden. The cool night air blew
gently against my skin, and inhaling deeply, I tried to ignore the scent of my beautiful. mate still
lingering around the area.
She was everything I wanted in a mate, and yet pissed me off
more than anything. How was I supposed toplete a
bond when she refused my mark? It was in our nature to want to be bonded–
at least, that was what I was told.
Could I honestly have been wrong?
Was this not how the mate bond worked?
“Are you okay?” The sound of a woman’s voice caught my attention, and looking to my down the
shadowed path that led towards the school, a red–haired woman with glowing
eyes stepped forth into my view.
I wasn’t sure who she was, but I remembered seeing her around campus. Her long red hair blew again
st the breeze as the glowing greenish–blue eyes she
had stared into the darkness like a cat stalking its prey.
I wasn’t sure why she was out here or, better yet, near the dorms but shaking my
head, I brushed her off and turned my attention back towards the moons
above. “Yeah, I’m fine. Just getting some air.”
Turning away from the woman, I closed my eyes, and hoped she would take the hint to
walk away, but instead, she stepped closer to me, causing my body to stand on edge.
“You look like you could use a friend-” she said softly as if she was trying not to alert me in any way. “Yo
u’re Lucas, aren’t you?”
Snapping my gaze to where she was now, only standing feet away from me, I had the opportunity to re
ally take her appearance into ount. Red hair, glowing eyes and a wicked smile on her face spoke of
the trouble this woman was. She was older, much older than
me, but something about the look of her seemed so familiar.
“Who are you?” The snipped question caused her brows to raise impressively.
“The dean of your school for one,” she replied, causing a knot to
form in my stomach due to my rude stupidity. “But also someone who knows how to find something you
want.”
Confusion filled my mind as my brows knitted together. “What do you mean, something that
I want? I don’t want anything, and I don’t have time for riddles,dy, no offense.”
A soft chuckle
escaped her lips as the corners of her eyes crinkled in amusement. She may have been the dean of st
udents, but something about her seemedpletely off. “Tell
you what… you answer a few of my questions and I will take you to him. Does that sound fair enough t
o you?”
“Take me
to him?” Laughter escaped me as I shook my head. “There is nothing that you can tell me, and I
don’t have time for the games. I’m sure there are other students around here drunk that
you can harass.”
The moment I tried to walk past her, she
gripped my arm firmly and stopped me in my tracks. Shocked and irritated that she would touch
me, I ripped my arm from her hand and stared down at her.
“Please refrain from touching me.”
She wasn’t in the slightest phased by the Lycan aura
surrounding me. In fact, she seemed almost thrilled she was able to bring forth this part of me as if she
was almost hoping she could. “My apologies. I simply wanted to help you.”
“As I said, I don’t have time for this. No please leave me alone.” My reply was short, but
when I turned away from her once more, her words stopped me.
“Even if it’s about your father and those remarkable gifts you have?”
Stunned in silence, I turned once
more to face her. I wasn’t sure if she was messing with me. Yet staring at her, she showed no signs of d
eception.
I didn’t know my father, and as far as I was told, he abandoned my mother and I when I
was two. Part of me wanted to tell her to fuck off, because honestly, I didn’t want to know the piece
of shit who left me. The
ache it brought my mother was something unbearable, and when she died two months ago, I hated him
more for leaving.
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The other part of me, though… was intrigued.
“What about him?”
Cassie.
“Dude, you look like crap. Hungover fromst night?” Sansa‘ s question caused me to roll my
eyes as I grumbled underneath my breath. I had hardly slept after what
happened with Lucas, and actually had been searching for him all morning to see where he had gone.
I wanted to confront him, ask him what
the hell his problem was. Yet, everywhere I looked, he wasn’t there. Even his bed had
looked untouched as if he hadn’t even slept therest night.
“No, just slept like shit,” I finally replied as I grabbed a cup of coffee from the barista and turned, headin
g towards our usual table on the far left wall of the room. I hadn’t seen Trixie at all this morning, and whi
le I had expected her toe bounding towards me with endless amounts of rainbows and sunshine, I
was pleased she hadn’t.
There was too much confusion in my mind right now to deal with another one
of her many lectures on my appearances and also what we were supposed to be doing in
magic ss. Not that I needed it. Most of the students there could barely use their magic.
Yet the teacher told me it’s about me being able to control it… and I could, mostly.
“So, are you going to just act like you didn’t sneak off with Lucasst night?” Sansa stated in a matter–
of–factly. My eyes quickly darted to where she sat as I tried to understand how she even knew that.
“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
Rolling her eyes, she opened her
mouth to speak, but a smooth, sultry voice perked my ears to attention instead. “Hey gorgeous, still dan
cing this morning, I see?”
It was Ss, and god, did he look absolutely delicious.
“Ss.”
Running his hand through his dark chocte brown hair, he gave me that signature white
smile, flexing his arms as he leaned over the table. The conversation with him from
the night before had
been enchanting, to say the least, but of course, it quickly died when Lucas made an appearance and
went all high and mighty.
“You don’t look too happy to see me,” he replied, his smile forming into a yful frown.
“I’m tired and have a headache,” I mumbled, trying not to seem
as annoyed as I was. It wasn’t that he was annoying me. I simply just had no interest in that particr m
absolutely delicious to look at.
There was a twinkle in his eyes as his smile grew again. “Hangovers are never any fun.”
“I’m not hungover-”
“Yes, you are,” Sansa replied, causing me to shoot her a daggered re
that made her smile. “Don’t look at me like that, it’s the truth.”
Maybe I was slightly hungover, but I didn’t need people pointing it out. Turning my gaze back to Ss, I s
Hesitation twinkled behind gaze. He did want something, and the fact
he did made me nervous. He didn’t seem like the kind of man who calmly
asked for things. At least not to someone like me.
“Actually, I wanted to see if you would have dinner with me.”
Sansa went into a coughing fit, drawing both mine
and Ss‘ attention as well as a few people sitting near us. Patting on her chest, her eyes
wide she quickly took a sip of her drink and gave me a sheepish grin. “Sorry, that went down wrong.”
I wasn’t stupid. The only reason why she choked was
because Ss asked me out, and looking at him now, I could see he was dead serious with his
question. “Didn’tst night warn you about being around me?”
Laughter left him as he shook his head. “You mean the overgrown dog with a territory issue? I’m not
worried about him.”
It was my turn tough as I thought of Lucas as an overgrown
dog. I couldn’t get upset at Ss cracking a joke. Lucas did act a little crazyst night, but it didn’t make
Ss seemed genuinely taken back by my question of whether or not I could think
about going out with him. Which meant he more or less was used to
people epting right away. Too bad for him, I wasn’t easily swayed, and as he went to open his
mouth, Pollux decided to join in on our conversation.
His egotistical smirk bounded up right next to
my table as he sped a hand on Ss‘ shoulder with a smile. “Hey, we‘ re getting ready to
head out… are youing?”
Not surprised by the fact Pollux had
made friends with Ss or any of the other Alpha males around this ce, I rolled my eyes
andughed. “Looks like you better get going. My brother has ns with you.”
“Am I missing something?” Pollux snapped as he red at me.
“Nope, nothing at all.” My reply was more than sarcastic, and my brother knew it. He stared at me
for a moment longer before Ss straightened himself and turned. The
tension in the air was strong, and as
Ss said a few whispered words to my brother, I watched them both quickly disappear.
Whatever it was Ss said was enough to make my brother ease up, but I knew the
conversation wasn’t over. At least not for now. Pollux had a way of making things
difficult, and if he knew
I slept with Lucas or that Ss was asking me out, well, we can just say he would flip his shit.
Because no matter the issues we had, he was damn sure not happy about me
having a mate before him–let alone a friend with benefits.