Chapter 31 – New Information
–LIA’S POV–
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“This isn’t according to the rules, Zane,” Blake snapped at him. “We decided something together.”
Rules?
“Oh, and what you did was playing by the rules?” Zane retorted. “At least I respected the mate bond.”
“What rules are you guys talking about?” I asked.
“Nothing,” Blake said.
“I’ll tell her,” Zane smiled. “On your birthday, when he caught me inside your house and put up that whole drama of beating the shit out of me and dragging me to the forest, I fought back once we were out of your view. Then, we discussed the situation, realising that we were both mated to you.”
“We drew up some rules,” Blake interrupted, taking over. “We can’t do anything physical with you without your consent. We can’t abduct you. We can’t force you to choose us.”
“And we cannot try to limit the other from seeing you,” Zane
said.
“Exactly. So by sending your Hounds after me, and having them
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take Lia away when we’re in a deep conversation breaks that
rule.”
“What?” Sheila laughed. “Zane didn’t ask me to take her away. He just asked me to watch, to keep an eye on you. You know why, I’m sure.”
Blake’s jaw clenched, making me frown.
“Why?” I asked.
“Let it be, Lia. It doesn’t matter,” Zane said.
“I’ve already told her, Zane,” Sheila muttered. “Sorry I forgot to mention that.”
Zane gave her a look of disbelief, and Sheila took a discreet step back.
“Told me what?” I asked.
“That it was Blake who planned that werewolf attack that day. You know the one that pushed you into our world way before you were ready. He wanted to be the one to save you and expose our kind to you. But he failed his own plan and I ended up being the one to do it.”
So it was true…
Blake put me into trouble just to look like a hero.
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I glanced at him, disappointment clear on my face.
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“Lia, it wasn’t like that,” Blake said quickly, stepping forward to take my hands in his.
I backed away. “Stay away from me.”
“I wasn’t going to let you get hurt! You think I’d ever put you in danger?”
“That wolf was about to pounce at me, Blake. If Zane hadn’t stepped in, I would be his dinner.”
“No, you wouldn’t. Because I would step in.”
Tears pricked my vision. Not out of hurt, but out of anger. “At the right moment,” I nodded, “which could have been too late.”
“It wouldn’t be,” he sighed.
“Anyway,” Zane cleared his throat. “You got her into trouble once. I needed to be sure you wouldn’t do that again. Especially when I wouldn’t be here to protect her.”
“So then why did Sheila interrupt us? If she was just supposed to watch, why didn’t she?” Blake asked.
“Because, Blake, like an idiot, you were talking about our secrets in a classroom full of humans. You were about to reveal our
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greatest weakness to every person sitting close enough to hear you. And I know I heard you because I’m a werewolf, but the humans right adjacent to you would have heard you fine as well. In your efforts to grow closer to her, you’re acting stupid and putting our entire community into danger. You don’t even belong to this town, so if something goes wrong, you can simply return home. I wasn’t going to let an outsider disrupt the community we’ve maintained in complete secrecy for so long. Is that clear?”
Sheila’s eyes turned black as she spoke, and I sucked in a breath and moved away, my back hitting Zane.
“It’s okay,” he said softly, shooting Sheila a look. Her eyes returned back to normal, and she lowered her gaze.
“Sorry,” she muttered.
I swallowed, tucking the loose strands of my hair behind my ears. “I think we’re done here. I’m gonna go back to class. You guys do whatever you want.”
The three of them remained silent, so I went back, thinking about the new information I’d just learnt. First of all, Blake was a selfish jerk. Secondly, werewolves had a big weakness that The Hounds didn’t want humans finding out about. And third, Zane and Blake had their own contest going on about who would win me over, with rules and all.
At this point, I really didn’t know why I deserved to be caught in
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the middle of all this.
Blake kept away from me for the rest of the day, clearly too embarrassed and ashamed to come up to me.
Zane maintained a distance as well, until the last period was over and I was leaving for home.
“Lia,” he called out to me as I exited the school premises.
I stopped, turning towards him.
“You need a ride home?” he asked.
“So you can abduct me again?”
“No. I could abduct you from your house like last time.”
I rolled my eyes. “I don’t need a ride home. Thanks for asking.”
I started to walk away again, but he fell into step with me.
“Go away, Zane. I’m gonna walk home. It helps me clear my head,” I said.
“So? I’m not stopping you from walking. I’m just walking on this road because I want to. It’s free and it doesn’t belong to anyone, does it?”
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I took a deep breath, and shook my head.
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Now that he was here, I decided to ask him a few questions.
“Can I ask you something?”
“Anything,” he said at once.
“Why were you so secretive about everything? When did you think I’d be ‘ready‘ to find out the truth?” I airquoted.
Zane narrowed his eyes, thinking. “Honestly, I’m not sure. I just knew that now wasn’t the right time. Maybe once both Blake and I had won over your trust, once you would have seen that even The Hounds are no danger to you anymore, you would feel safer after finding out the truth than you do now.”
Yeah, that made some sense.
I nodded. “And why didn’t you tell me about Blake that night? When you came to my house? Wouldn’t doing that help your chances with me? The chances of me choosing you and not him?”
“No,” he replied. “It wouldn’t.”
I frowned. “Why not?”
“Because, Lia, you won’t choose either of us if you hate
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werewolves. If you realised how… selfish we can be when it comes to our mates, that would scare you away. And I didn’t want to scare you.”
“Then why did you keep showing up to my bedroom uninvited? You didn’t think that would scare me?” I argued.
Zane’s lips curled into a smirk. “Let’s skip that question.”
“Why? Because the answer is embarrassing? Because you cannot control your desire of being close to me?” I mocked.
He chuckled. “I mean yeah, that’s there. But I wouldn’t do it if I thought it would terrify you.”
“So you didn’t think showing up to my bedroom in the middle of the night could scare me. You didn’t consider that placing your claw against my neck could scare me,” I said sarcastically.
Zane simply laughed. “Yeah, I didn’t think so. And it didn’t.”
“You’re crazy,” I stated.
“I’m not. I know what I’m doing, Lia.”
“No, you don’t. I’m sorry but you sound like an idiot right now.”
Zane paused by a tree, raising a brow. For some reason, I stopped as well.
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“What?” I asked.
“You want me to prove it to you?”
“Prove what?”
“How I knew you wouldn’t be scared shitless?”
I blinked at him, then shrugged. “Go ahead.”
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In a swift move, Zane leaned forward and grabbed my wrist, pulling me to his chest. I gasped as he then pressed me against the tree, holding my wrists on either side of me. Tingles erupted throughout my body, and I squirmed to get free of his hold, but failed. Zane leaned in, until his face was inches away from mine.
“What—what are you doing?” I whispered, my heart hammering in my chest.
eyes
“Do you think I do not know when you’re excited and when you’re scared, Lia? I can smell it on you,” he whispered, his a darker shade of blue than I remembered, his voice deeper than usual.
My mouth fell open, heat spreading through me. “You… that’s—that’s not possible. How could you smell that?” I asked.
Zane smiled. “Tell me I’m wrong.”
I swallowed, looking awa
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“Hence proved,” Zane let go of me, and stepped away, I released a breath, staring at him, still with my back jammed to the wall. “You get excited when I come close to you. The more intense and forbidden the situation is, the more drawn you feel to me. Am I wrong? Or should I just tell you how you smell?”
I opened my mouth to respond, then stopped. I didn’t know what to say.
Zane stepped closer to me again, making me shiver. He leaned in, bringing his nose near my neck. I held my breath, clenching my fists. “Right now, Lia,” he whispered, his breath tickling my skin. “You smell like your perfume.”
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