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Bemy heads off to his meeting after we have breakfast, although he grumbles about having to go
almost the entire time. Aaron arrived halfway through breakfast but declined to have anything to eat.
I’m not sure if he was just trying to be polite or something though because as soon as Bemy leaves
he begins making himself a snack in the kitchen. I perch on one of the kitchen barstools and rest my
head on my hands, swinging my feet since they don’t reach
the floor.
“You know you could have just eaten when I offered you food the first time.” I point out. Aaron just
shrugs. Right, okay then. Well, at least Aaron is a little less paranoid than Bemy, I can probably get a
little bit of time and space to myself for once. I was originally nning to hang out with Megan, but now
I’m thinking that chilling and maybe messing around on myptop watching a movie or something
would be better.
“I’m just running upstairs to grab myptop and earphones, I’ll be straight back down.” I promise and
Aaron nods his understanding. Yep, Aaron might be a giant, but if I curl up in a corner I’m fairly sure
that I can pretend he doesn’t exist.
Five minutester, I’m curled up on the couch with myptop and a nket. I put a movie on, but I
minimise it to take up only a tiny corner of the screen and I find myself scrolling through inte posts
and junk news stories. Basically, mindless scrolling. Aaron seems to pick up on my I–want–to–be–
alone vibes because he doesn’t try to interact with me. He just sits himself on the furthest avable
couch and rxes, reading something on his phone. I aplish absolutely nothing, but I can’t bring
myself to care because it’s just so peaceful and I think I needed the break. I mean, I’ve not been
working and I have spent half my time sitting around meditating, but sitting, clearing my mind and
focusing is a different type of rxed to just letting my mind wander and do whatever it wants without
worrying about any particr goal. Considering I have spent almost two weeks with no work and no
real responsibilities, I don’t feel particrly rested. I’ve been too stressed out, not to mention sleeping
poorly.
I am blissfully rxed and if I’m honest, halfway to sleeping when the front door mming scares me
awake. Aaron leaps to his feet on high alert but rxes as Bemyes storming into the room,
although only a little. I notice he doesn’t sit back down and he keeps his shoulders held stiffly back and
up straight in an almost military fashion. Bemy barely seems to notice him and he heads straight to
me. In a movement so fast I barely know what
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happened, myptop is tossed to the other end of the couch and Bemy has me scooped up, nket
and all into his arms and is hugging me tightly. Over his shoulder, I can see gesturing towards the front
door and I shoot him a thumbs up. He nods and exits in his usual silent manner. Bemy still doesn’t
say anything, just clutches me to his chest like some kind of oversized teddy bear while he swaps from
side to side a little in what seems like a self soothing kind of motion. My feet are literally not touching
the floor and my arms are pinned to my sides so I’m pretty helpless, just hanging there waiting for
Bemy to work through whatever he’s struggling with.
“Uhm, Bels? Are you okay?” I ask softly. He sighs and moves, I think he’s about to put met down, but
instead he just lowers himself to the couch where I was sitting and settles me into hisp.
“Is this alright?” he confirms and I nod my approval.
“Yeah, I’m fine. Don’t worry about me. What’s bothering you? Did something happen at the
meeting?” I question. Bemy lets out a low growl.
“No, nothing happened at the damn meeting because the other Alphas don’t CARE. I brought
up the murders and the kidnapping and though Kohen expressed some sympathy, the others. were
completely uninterested. They didn’t even KNOW about them. When I asked how they could be
unaware of something that is causing fear all throughout the town they just
shrugged me off and said that no Shifters have been killed so it doesn’t affect us, as if we
don’t live in this city!” Bemy sounds incredibly pissed off, and I get it. I do know what they
mean that it doesn’t directly affect them, but that doesn’t mean that it won’t and it doesn’t mean that all
the young female Shifters aren’t afraid to go anywhere alone under current
circumstances.
“That’s a little naive of them.” Iment and Bemy nods his agreement.
“But that’s not all. To show that there is some relevance to Shifters, I mentioned how you who are a
personal friend of myself and Megan have been directly threatened even though you were already
under my protection, and the damn Avian Alpha just told me that if I can’t protect you properly, I should
‘let things be‘ and if you have offended someone that I should let you ‘deal with the consequences‘, like
it isn’t in any way rted to me!” Aaaah okay, now I see why he’s so angry. Not only did they basically
tell him to abandon me, but they also implied that he is incapable of keeping me safe. That would
definitely rub his fur the wrong way. No wonder he grabbed me the moment he got home. I’d be
annoyed too. In fact I find
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that I am annoyed.
“Well they’re idiots and clearly not worth your time. I know that you can and will keep me safe, and
that’s all that matters.” I assure him.
“If they don’t care about the city they live in then that’s just because they’re not as good an Alpha as
you.” Bemy gives me a weak smile, then closes his eyes and takes several deep breaths. He
releases thest one then speaks.
“Tell me something.” he says bluntly. I blink in confusion.
“Uh, like what?” I ask.
“I don’t know. Anything. What have you been doing?” he rifies. I shrug.
“Not a lot, mostly I’ve been sitting here watching movies on myptop.” I point at the discarded device.
Bemy tilts his head in confusion and I see his eyes dart to therge, fancy
television that I didn’t use.
“Why theptop? There’s a perfectly good TV right here. Do you not know how to set it up? Megan
would have helped you.” He points out and Iugh.
“No, no. I know how to use it. I just wanted to sit with myptop. It’s a different kind of feeling, sitting
with it on myp, watching without everyone else being able to see what I’m looking at. Not even
looking at anything specific. Just doing whatever feels right. It’s rxing.” I exin. Bemy doesn’t
seem to get it so I lean over and grab myptop. I put one earphone in my ear and hand him the other
one. He follows suit. I hit y on thest video I was watching. Some soothing art restoration and
cleaning video. When that’s finished I cue up a video of someone cleaning out a hoarders house and
settle in.