The Wolf Who Saved Me

I went inside the house straight to the kitchen carrying some leftovers. As I entered, I saw Lila washing the dishes. I opened the fridge, placed the leftovers, and looked at her. I wanted to help her, but I don’t know if she would appreciate it. After all, she cried and got humiliated because of me. I sighed. Pity struck my chest so, I walked towards Lila to help her do the dishes.

Without a word, I immediately grabbed another sponge near the sink. Then, she turned and looked at me in surprise.

“What are you doing?” Lila asked.

“I want to help you wash the dishes to finish it fast,” I replied with an awkward smile.

Lila stopped and yelled, “Can you get the hell out of here? I don’t need your help! I got punished because of you! Now, go before I get into more trouble!”

My blood pressure rose that I snapped and yelled back, “You did that to yourself! If you had been a little kinder, you would not end up humiliated in front of everyone. I did nothing to you and certainly do not wish to endanger the pack. I did not ask for Alpha Reule to save me that day we met. But I still feel it was not right for him to humiliate you.”

“Just leave me alone! I can’t bear to see your face!”

“Fine! Do this mountain of dishes by yourself!”

I stormed out of the kitchen, angry.

“I want to offer her my help, and all she wants to do is argue with me! Unbelievable!”

I stopped, closed my eyes, and took a deep breath. When I opened my eyes, I saw Landon standing in front of me smiling, and it startled me.

“Oh, sorry! I did not mean to startle you. I thought of saying hello before heading to the kitchen. But your eyes were closed. I was still thinking about tapping your shoulder or not just to check if you were okay. Are you okay?” Landon said, still with a smile.

I looked at him, wondering if he was also angry at me and if he heard Lila and me shouting at each other.

“Umm.. I am fine,” I replied in a low voice.

“Great! Anyway, have a goodnight. I will go and help Lila. See you tomorrow.”

I did a quick glance and saw him entering the kitchen. Why does he look so calm despite me being the reason his twin got punished? Is he really this kind or just pretending to be? I can’t tell so I just head upstairs.

I stopped when I was in front of my room.

“Should I talk to Reule about what she did to Lila? But Lila pissed me off again!” I said in a low but annoyed voice.

My mind was still battling with what I should do. I did not realize that I was already looking up at the ceiling, frowning.

“What are you looking up at the ceiling?” Reule suddenly asked, and again I was startled.

“Are you fond of startling me?” I replied, still frowning.

“Is looking up at the ceiling your pastime?”

I felt ashamed for a second, then softly said, “I was thinking of something.”

“So, whenever your thinking of something, you look up at the ceiling? Why? Does the ceiling answer whatever your thinking of?”

I rolled my eyes and replied, “Whatever! Do you need something from me?”

“Nothing. I just went out of my painting studio, and I saw you standing there looking up at the ceiling. I thought you might have seen a lizard or cockroach there.”

“Were you painting?”

“No, I was sketching. I wanted to paint, but my hands were shaking.”

“Shaking? Why?”

“It’s nothing. I guess they were tired. I woke up very early this morning, and I painted.”

“You shouldn’t overdo it. You have plenty of time to do it.”

“Yeah. Anyway, goodnight!”

Alpha Reule turned and was walking towards the last room.

“Wait!”

He turned, surprised, and asked, “Yes?”

“Why did you do that to Lila?”

He was silent for a second then said, “I did nothing but make her understand that what she did was wrong.”

“Hmm.. yes, you can say that it was wrong. But why did you have to humiliate her in front of everyone? You could have talked to her privately.”

“I did, so I took her to that dark corner. But she was wasting my time beating around the bush. I simply asked her what she said to you.”

“But she has the right to be suspicious of me. I don’t originally belong here.”

“She can, and I am not saying that she doesn’t have to. But I don’t like using my name to threaten someone. I did not tell her to do that.”

“Lila loves you, and she is just jealous of me.”

“She can be jealous all her life, but being rude and mean to any members of my pact is forbidden to me.”Text property © Nôvel(D)ra/ma.Org.

“I’m not really a member here.”

“But you are staying here now, so she might as well think of you as part of this pack. Why are you even defending her when she threatened you?”

“I did not like what she did. I was even angry, but I still did not feel like it was right to humiliate her. I pitied her. She is only doing that because she loves you.”

“But I never asked her to love me. It’s past midnight now; go to sleep.”

I watched him slowly walk towards the last room. I just realized that I didn’t even know where his actual bedroom was. It seemed that he was using all of the rooms in this house. But maybe it was the last room on this second floor of the house.

I was about to open my door when I thought I saw on the back of my eye that Reule almost fainting in front of the door. But when I turned, he was no longer. He already went inside.

“Did I just see him about to hit the floor? Or was I dreaming?” I whispered.

But since he was no longer there, I dismissed the thought. I went inside my room, straight towards the window.

It’s starting to get cold. I watched as the wind blew and the trees danced with it. It’s beautiful to look at. But near the entrance to the forest, I could see a pair of werewolves eyes. And it was looking straight at me.