Chapter 28 Want to go home
Delaney’s POV
“We are leaving,” Knox announced, taking my other hand.
The only thing I could think of at that moment was ‘Uh oh I know it wouldn’t end well because Rakel has jealousy issues, especially when he is already so worked up. I could tell this from the way his hand tightened around my hand, so tight that I hissed loudly, drawing both their attention to me. When Knox saw the red marks on my hand, the ones I got from the handcuffs, he finally lost his usual cool, “What the hell did you do to her?”
“I should be asking you that, why did she leave you in the first place? You must be dreaming if you think I’ll let her leave with you.” Rakel growled and then they began quarrelling. Knox would jerk me towards him, barking words at Rakel while Rakel would jerk me back to him till Knox suddenly shut up. His eye colour changed to red, his fangs also elongated, he then leaned towards the red marks on my hand.
My heart stopped, and images of what happened the last time he bit me flashed through my mind, causing me to panic. He isn’t going to feed on me here, right? I was already overwhelmed by having both of them in the same room, but now this… I had no idea how to react, I could only stand frozen with my mouth half-opened.
Before Knox’s mouth touches my hand, Rakel pulled me out of Knox’s hand and then shoved him away from me “What the fuck do you think you are doing you old vamp! You want to feed on my mate, how dare you!”
The fight broke out between them, Ten pulled me aside, leaving them to battle. I glance around the room wondering why no one made a move to stop them, they all stood still, watching them. Vendetta stared at me expectantly as if waiting for me to stop them, but how? How should I stop these big bad supernatural Alphas? This is what I’ve been afraid of, them fighting over me when the person in question didn’t want to stay with either of them. I planned to escape quietly without notice, but that didn’t work out because Knox ruined it by showing up! I can’t believe he just arrived here and expects me to go back with him, who the hell does he think he is. And Rakel … I shook my head, not wanting to think about chained me to the bed earlier. I need to stop them before they break this building down, though I have a feeling they aren’t using their full strength since I’m in here.
Shrugging Ten’s hand off my body, I ran towards them, “You guys! Stop this!” they ignored me, so I tried again “Please…”
Both of them were hardheaded, they easily deviated from my side to the other side of the room, attacking their selves like they didn’t hear me. I grit my teeth in anger and stormed toward them again, this time, I made sure to dive right into their centre. Both their fist which were raised froze abruptly.
“Woman, do you want to die?” Rakel asked while glaring at me as if I’m stupid.
“Haven’t anyone told you it’s dangerous jumping into a fight?” Knox chimed after him.
I glared at both of them, “Enough! Enough of all this! I’m not leaving with you Knox” I muttered sternly causing Rakel to smirk at him.
“Hear that Knox? She doesn’t want you, she wants me.”
“That’s not what she said, she…”
I caught him off before he could finish, “And I won’t be staying here either Rakel!” I growled.
He blinked several times as if trying to process what I just said. Knox also smirked at him and then crossed his arms.
“Then… Where do you want to go? You are my mate, I cannot let you out, it’s dangerous.” says Rakel.
Knox glared at him, “My mate.” then they began arguing again. Goodness! How the heck did I ended up with these two? It’s not even an hour yet, and I am already having a migraine. I facepalmed and took a deep breath while counting from one to ten because I’m beginning to lose it.
“Shut the fuck up, you goddamn egotistical Alpha males!” I screamed, startling them.
Rakel blinked “Damn! Did you just cuss?”
I scowled at him, “Rakel…”
He raised his arms in mock surrender, allowing me to carry on. I puffed up my cheeks before speaking, “Now that we’ve gotten that behind us, how about we all sit and discuss this…” I pointed between the three of us and then continued, “this thing between us like a normal human being.”
“We are not humans,” they said at the same time.
“Yeah, yeah, whatever. You know what I mean, now shall we do that? And no fighting, for God’s sake!”
None of them moved, Knox only stared at me like he was seeing me for the first time while Rakel’s eyes burned with something oddly familiar, like he wants me, right here. I forced my body not to react to all these strange feelings bottled inside me, but it was impossible when they are both standing so close to me. Especially Knox, the bond between us seems strong now, I can practically feel his every movement. The tension in the air grew as time passes by, I opened my mouth to say something, but I suddenly lost all the confidence I somehow got. I was tired, hungry, sleepy, and frustrated from the day’s event, the fact that these guys keep adding to my stress isn’t helping matters at all.
The silence stretched, becoming awkward by the minute. I decided to break it by saying something but when I opened my mouth, my tummy rumbled loudly causing me to flush in embarrassment. I held my stomach, wishing I could vanish into thin air because I’m sure everyone in the room heard that. “Umm-”
I felt Knox’s rage before he spoke, “He’s been starving you, hasn’t he? I knew the bastard wouldn’t take of you, you’ve become so thin.”
I saw the guilt in Rakel’s eyes as he growled, “What did you just call me?”
I place my hand on both their big-toned chest, “Enough! He hasn’t been starving me, now shall we have this discussion?”
“Not until you eat first,” Rakel muttered, and Knox agreed. It seems this is the first thing they’ve both agreed on tonight, which means I have no choice but to heed their command.
I guess Rakel massaged someone through the mind link about the food because some females brought the dishes in no time. As I sat on the chair, I tried my best to ignore the two males who sat on either side of me, glaring at their selves like they’re two long-lost enemies waiting to fight to the death. It’s weird when you suddenly have two overprotective males you are attracted to, gazing at you tenderly like you’re their everything like they can’t live without you.
My spoon froze halfway to my mouth at the realization ‘Oh, God, I’m attracted to them.’ I thought in surprise. It must be the mate thing because it’s not possible to suddenly find two guys attractive when I haven’t found any attractive in my whole life, so why them? I decided to focus on my food since it’s so delicious and I’m starving. I found myself moaning at the taste. Heaven, I don’t think I’ve eaten anything this yummy, It’s something that I’m going to miss when I go home. There’s never enough money to fend for me back at home, the only thing I eat is mostly junk food. Cassie usually brings some stuff, but it makes me feel worse, so I stopped her because I’ll never have that much to pay her back.
When I raise my head, I saw both of them watching me with a heated gaze. My cheeks turn to a shade of red, realizing I’ve been moaning all through while I was eating.
“You know, I have thousands of ways to make you moan Delaney, wanna try?” Rakel wiggled his eyes at me.
My blush deepens, and I turn away from him to let him know I’m still mad at him for handcuffing me today. He can’t tease me with a few words and expect me to forgive him, never. At that moment, Asher walked in, coming straight to my side. He tucks a few dark locks from my face gazing at me lovingly “Are you, okay sweetheart?”
I nodded. Asher and I have only spoken once with each other, and that’s on the first day I arrived here. Even at that, I was glad someone cared enough to ask if I’m okay.
“I heard what happened, If I heard known earlier, I would have shown up.” He’s talking about Rakel handcuffing me, how did he find out?
I smiled at him, “No, it’s fine. I’m okay.”
He peered at me for a while then shrugged his shoulder, “Okay.” Asher Ignores the two men who were now frowning at him like they are trying to assess what is going on between us. Rakel was practically shooting daggers at him. Hmm, if only looks could kill.
“So, why don’t we talk about the elephant in the room to clear out our misunderstanding. That way, we wouldn’t have some certain persons fighting over a girl.” Asher raises his brows at me and I nodded. I would also like to understand this situation better.
“There is no misunderstanding here, boy, Delaney is my mate whom your Alpha kidnapped and now, I’ve come to take her home,” Knox said, drawing everyone’s attention to him.
My brows creased, kidnapped? Oh, well, that’s part of what it is but…”Rakel saved me Knox after you almost killed me.” I spat.
“You wouldn’t have died if you remained at home, dear Delaney, I’ve explained it to you already!”
“That is not enough reason for what you have done!” I growled. Is he trying to blame me?
Asher interrupted us by dropping the bomb, “Anyway, the answer is simple. Delaney is both your mate.”
“Impossible!”
“She can’t have both of us as her mate! It has to be one of us!”
I blinked, “Why can’t I have both as my mate?”
“Because It has never happened in history sweetheart Asher explained slowly “in the past, we’ve known of two werewolves having the same mate, same with the vampires, but we’ve never heard nor seen any vampires and werewolves having the same mate. It’s even forbidden for a wolf and a vampire to mate.”
Great! Just great! It seems I’m the only one born with bad luck, I’ve never been attracted to any guy but when I do, it was to two guys whom I just find out it’s forbidden.
“So, what you’re trying to say is I must choose one?” I asked, glancing between Knox and Rakel who doesn’t seem to like the idea.
“Yes, that’s what it means.”
I chewed on my inner cheeks and stood up, “If that’s the case then I’m done.”
“What?”
“I won’t choose any of them as my mate, I want to go home,” I announced, which brought an awkward silence in the room.
It was Rakel who took my hand in his “You can’t do that, Laney.”
“Why?”
“Because it’s dangerous out there, you know about our kind, and I’m sure our kind knows about you. Now, if they find out you have two mates, you’ll be targeted by our enemies.”
Knox nodded in agreement.
I slowly withdrew my hands from his, “I wasn’t asking Rakel, I really want to leave. I can’t do this, you guys are too overprotective, too demanding, you expect me to do whatever you want…but I never get to do what I want. I can’t live that kind of life… I can’t.” my voice wavered slightly, but I won’t back down from my decision. I’m exhausted from guys demanding things of me.
I felt Knox and Rakel’s eyes piercing into my back as I ambled to Asher, “Will you… Can you please take me home?”
He glanced behind me and smirked “Sure thing sweetheart but not today, we will leave first thing tomorrow. You need to nap a little, can’t have you fainting on the way, okay?”
I nod.
He was about to wrap his hands around me when Rakel appeared out of nowhere and picked me up, “He’s right, let’s go sleep for the night. We’d continue this conversation tomorrow.”
However, before he could take a step forward, Knox used his vampire speed, stopping Rakel’s movement.
“Where do you think you’re taking, my mate? She sleeps with me.”
Rakel smirked “Why? I don’t trust my mate with you, so she sleeps with me. It’s not as if we haven’t slept on the same bed before.”
“What?” Knox glanced at me, obviously, shocked.
“That’s right, we’ve been sleeping on the same bed since the night I saved her. I’m sure she wouldn’t mind spending another night with me.”
My face reddened from embarrassment. Seriously? Why is he shamelessly lying about that? He only slept on my bed once.
Just as Knox was about to speak, Asher interrupted them by scooping me away from Rakel’s arms “She won’t be staying with either of you, she sleeps with me.” without waiting for them to comment, he strolled out of the guesthouse with me in his arms.
“What are you doing Asher?” I asked when we arrived at his home.Content © NôvelDrama.Org 2024.
He smirked “Having fun? Did you see the look on their faces?”
I giggled “Yeah, they deserved it. Thank you, Asher.”
He smiled “No worries sweetheart.” he kissed my forehead “I will see you tomorrow morning.”