"Hey, Iris, what are you doing?" I didn't even know what I was doing. I tried so hard to reel my wolf in, but she was intent on conveying her displeasure. It's no secret it startled me but she oh she was mad. I could feel the anger radiate and course through my veins.
I stood above Malik in my wolf form, my paws on his shoulders, holding him down. As I growled, his eyebrows went up.
"Are you mad?" Gee, I wonder why else I would shift. "You know if you want me to be more careful you have to be more specific, you can just tell me, not that it would change anything but you could still tell me you can't watch me get hurt," he smirked, I don't think he understands, I can't talk in my wolf form unlike his stupid pack of abnormally strong wolves. Leaning forward, my snout brushing against his nose, I growled again and stomped into his shoulder harder. It didn't phase him. As I said, I was a small wolf. I was probably standing at the same height in his human form when Lycan where averagely above six-eight, I was about six feet. Then his eyes widened. "Oh, I'm sorry-" as soon as I heard those words, I was able to gain back control to shift back, cutting the apology short.
He stood up immediately after I got off him and by the time I was human again and naked, he almost immediately wrapped me in a blanket.
"That was embarrassing," I huffed.
He smiled. "I almost forgot that only this pack of wolves could speak in their wolf state. I wonder if they can remember the stuff they do as wolves?"
"I vividly remember, and no, each pack has its unique qualities," I retorted.
I turned to the den. It seems he already dismissed the wolves, great I wouldn't want to be more mortified than I am right now.
"Come on, there is somewhere else that we need to go," he picked me up bridal style and walked away with me into the woods.
"Oh, please, I think I have been embarrassed enough for a day," I groaned.
"Don't worry, you'll like it."
"I doubt that."
"Don't argue. Please, just let this happen, okay?" He looked down at me, and I grinned, "you know I can't do that," he returned the grin, "not that it changes anything," challenge accepted.
"Lemme go!!" I screamed and wiggled in his arms,
"Stop that," he yelled at me, and of course, I didn't.
"You're going to fall."
"Oh, a whole mighty alpha can't hold a small, tiny girl wriggling a little?" I pouted.
He smirked. "You and I know you're more than just a small girl," he gripped my ass. I jumped and pulled away, grabbing his shirt along. You wouldn't guess my timing. We slipped and fell down a muddy slope. Guess I have a knack for picking them, eh? and my luck, the blanket got caught in a branch as I fell. I was stark naked in the dirt.
"Ouch!" I curled into a ball on the floor, again?
Malik got up with a serious look on his face. It was quite obvious that he was annoyed, then as if on instinct, he turned to the sound of water, "Iris?" he said, his tone serious. "I wouldn't be so forgiving next time, and the only reason I won't get mad at you is that in some twisted way, we have actually reached our destination."
"Well, I lost the blanket on the way down," I murmured, knowing he could clearly hear me.
"And? You have legs, right?" He snapped.
"Bu-but I'm naked," I whined.
His eyebrow went up, and he put his enormous arms on his waist as if to say 'so what'
I stared up at him. I needed him to get me the blanket. There was only one thing I could say to make him actually go and get it for me.
"I'm sorry." I looked at the ground.
He sighed and walked back up the hill.
I looked in the direction he stared into as we. The sound of rushing water was distinct. I got up and walked until I saw a little clearing and the most beautiful waterfall. It was amazing. So this was the ZODHAKARSA. It was a legend, there was a whole story behind it but I couldn't really remember exactly, all I knew us that when an Alpha is old and about to retire he is brought here, then the new Alpha and the old jump in, the old doesn't come back out. The waterfall was truly more beautiful than I thought. The moss and plants that stained the surfaces of the dark wet rock contrasted pleasantly with the aqua-blue of the falling water, which rumbled against the sharp rocks at the bottom. This place reminded me of a lion, yet there was something claiming about the vegetation and clearing around it. While the roar of the splashing water was heard, the picture-perfect vegetation surrounding that made you feel... serene. The flowers and vegetation surrounding the Zodakhasar, stained by beautiful drops of the splashing water, just made it so much more appealing.t.
It's a really old tradition. Even I thought it was a myth. I didn't know it really existed.
I walked further until I saw a mat on the floor beside the river, with all my favorite things. Almost hidden within the co-habitant grasses and lilies.
"Oh, my Gosh."
"You like?" Malik draped the blanket over me
I jumped, turning around and clutching the blanket tight.
"What?"
"You like it, right?"
Yes.
"Pfft, me? No, ew, yuck," shuddered and hurriedly sat on the mat.
My hand itched to grab the sundae, begging to be in my belly, but I just couldn't let him know that I was actually pleased. Besides, this had to be a dirty trick. I can't trust him.
"What are you playing at?" I eyed him cautiously as he sat opposite me.
"Can't prepare nice things for my mate?"
"I don't know, can you?" I asked with a raised brow.
"Well, apparently," he motioned to the food and the environment.
"Well, I'm sorry to burst your bubble, sir, but I'm not that easy."
He sighed. "So I can't just want some time with you before you leave?"
That hit me, I have been trying to ignore the gnawing feeling eating at me all morning, I will not lie I was terrified, what I was about to do was hands down dangerous, and how I wished I could refuse but now it's not only about the pup, my freedom depends on this, Aria's freedom depends on this. And even with all that, I still felt hurt that he chose the pup over me. It's not fair to think that way, but you can't really blame me? I was supposed to mean everything to him and he went and got a child with someone else. Now I have to save the pup. It hurt I won't lie. I was so mad at him for putting me in such an uncomfortable situation. But it was something I was allowed to feel, not say.
"It's good that you've already accepted that I'm leaving this place."
He growled silently. We both stared at the waterfall for a while, not saying anything.
"So about today-" Malik broke the silence
"I only shifted because it was distressing to see you fighting all those wolves like that, and I couldn't control it," I said immediately.
"Oh, so you were worried about me?" I could clearly hear the humor In his voice. He was teasing me, and while a blush crept up my cheek, I needed to make things clear.
"You seem to misunderstand, my wolf, not me. I don't care about you or anything that concerns you. In fact, you can dive straight down from the waterfall and die. I wouldn't give a shit."
"What the hell is wrong with you?" He yelled. "what have I ever done to you that you'd hate me so much, huh? For crying out loud, I am your mate."
"Like I give a shit, and what have you done to me? Do you forget you almost killed Aria? Twice! Even after I begged you not to, also you starving me and all the times you hit me?" I was angry. "Not to mention the fact that-" I paused. I couldn't say it out loud, and it just seemed wrong, no it was wrong and I refuse to be that person. He was having a pup with another wolf. It made my insides boil.
"What fact?!" He yelled. "You are so obnoxious and proud, not to mention that nasty mouth of yours. Just who the hell do you think you are? Huh, so special? You are nothing but a scam. I could literally have anyone I want, so what the hell do you think you have that makes you act so high and mighty?" He yelled while grabbing my wrist and he pulled me to him. Both our eyes had changed color, and it was obvious we were both pushing back. Our huffs filled the little space that existed between our lips with the aftertaste of the rage that boiled within us.
I snatched my arm away and got up. "You know what? Fuck you."
I turned around and started walking back to the pack. I was so done here. There was no doubt in my heart anymore. I was going to save the pup, no matter the consequence. Anything would be better than staying here.