The Werewolf's Vampire Mate
Chapter 66: Confused emotions.

Chapter 66: Confused emotions.

Darrien.

What is he doing here?

My heart races in my chest as he walks into the house. He looks skinnier than the last time I saw him. He is just a kid Darrien, why haven’t you been able to stop thinking about him?

"Have a seat," Alanis tells him and he looks at all the chairs in the living room unsure of which to take. I smile because he is adorable. This was the last thing I expected. Seeing him here. In my house, looking so cute with his big brown eyes. I don’t know what is happening but he is watching me too. That same look is in his eyes.

The look of uncertainty.

The look of confusion.

I take a step away from the scene. Right now, Jabi is the only one that has seen me. I am like a fly on the wall to the rest of them. Alanis seems to be in his head. So, there is a total of four people in the room apart from me. Beau’s friend and the kid and my two brothers—Alanis and Eligio.

It’s weird that we have wolves in our home. A couple of months ago, we didn’t even want to be in the same space with them but right now all I want to do is ask a wolf if he has eaten today cause he looks fucking starved. Jabi looks unhappy and I hate it for reasons unknown to me.

"What is going on?" Alanis asks the other guy. I really can’t remember his name and it is not like I give a shit. I don’t suddenly care about the wolves. The only one I seem to be interested in is the kid. I don’t even know what this sudden interest is. I don’t think it is romantic. I don’t suddenly have feelings for him. There is just this protectiveness. This longing within me. He looks very fragile and I want to see him smile. I want him to be happy. Fucking hell.

I rest my back on the wall as I watch the scene play out. Jabi raises a brow with a smirk. He is the only one that talks to me freely. The conversations we had in his community made me feel like I was human. There is no pressure when I am tailing to him. I felt at ease and happy.

I smile because I don’t want to be noticed yet. Placing my index finger on my lips I shush him. He smiles even wider.

"Isabelle has been away from home for days. She has been looking for him. I spoke to her yesterday. She is still searching but there hasn’t been any progress. He was seen at a bar last night but he left pretty fast and no one could trail him. She is waiting to see if he will go there today."

Everyone is searching for Beau, but the only person that has everything to lose if he is not found is Alanis.

"I saw Beau today," Alanis blurts out and everyone is shocked.

I was with him all day. We both went to Maddie’s house. We didn’t see Beau. The only person we saw earlier was Cassius and he didn’t go there to fight. He is playing a game and everyone is giving him what he wants. They shouldn’t have gone to him. It was an obvious trap and I am surprised that Alanis will fall victim to that. He should know better than that. He shouldn’t have carried his Link with him, especially when he knew Beau’s kind was being hunted by this same man. I don’t want to let him know how I truly felt about the whole thing because he is going through so much right now.

Maddie shouldn’t have been his priority at that time. She is a bitch. I have always hated her. Never fancied her even when Alanis was so convinced that he could make her is Link, I knew it was all bullshit. I don’t want to be the guy that says ’I told you so’ but I actually told him so.

"In my head," he mutters like it even makes any sense.

The guy is losing his mind

Slowly.

"What do you mean?" The other wolf asks.

Alanis runs his hands through his hair and moves around the room, pacing. Eligio watches him curiously and I remain in my position like the creep I am. They don’t trust me. At least I am sure Alanis doesn’t trust me. He has never trusted me but suddenly I want to gain his trust. I want to be a real brother to him. The hatred I had for him was jealousy. I have always known.

"He said you’d know about it. A mind link. What is that?"

"Our minds are connected. We communicate through each other in our heads. We haven’t been able to communicate with Beau for the past two weeks." Rex explains.

Alanis seems to be grasping all they are saying. Is it possible for a vampire to have a mind-link with a werewolf? At this point in my life, I don’t even know what is possible and not. From the beginning of time, werewolves and vampires have been mortal enemies. There was a war and a lot of lives were lost. The contention was the only way that we could all live peacefully. Having the contention didn’t mean things were suddenly cool between our kinds but now there is mating going on between us. There are connections--I fucking want to pull the little kid closer to me. That is how badly whatever is going on in my head is.

"Did he tell you where he is?" Eligio asks him.

Alanis shakes his head "He doesn’t know where he is. He is in some kind of dungeon. The place is dark and dusty, there is a door that looks like a cage. He is in a fucking cage like some sort of animal." he cries.

If this was the old me, I will make some silly joke about the fact that he is actually an animal but I can’t right now. I have somehow learnt to read the room and the tension in this room is high. I can not be making silly jokes; not especially now that I want to make my relationship between Alanis better.

"It’s a good thing that you can communicate with him," I use this opportunity to speak up and all eyes turn to me. "Eligio can use this to see something, he just has to get into your head, somehow Beau is in there. It can show him something."

It is just a suggestion but here I am wanting to impress Jabi. Just the fact that he is here, watching me makes me want to be better. I want to protect him; I want to be someone he can look up to. I want to be his EVERYTHING.

"He is right," Eligio declares.

I smile feeling a sense of accomplishment. Jabi smiles at me and my cheeks redden from pure joy. Here I am blushing like a fool for this kid. He is a kid and I will never ever get involved with him in that way. At least not until he grows up—holy shit, what am I thinking? Do I want to get close to him in that way? This is not me, thinking about someone else so deeply. There is a thought in my head that I am not ready to admit, at least not to myself.

I am not ready to even go there.

"How will this work?" Alanis asks.

"I just have to get into your head, we can try this in my room," they all look at me and Alanis direct his request at me "Can you stay with Jabi?"

Frankly, I think this is intentional because deep down he is suspicious but he hasn’t said anything "Sure," they all walk out fo the living room and I am suddenly alone with the little kid. I don’t mind being alone with him. He is the only one I want to be alone with. I want to get to know him, ask him why he is so skinny?

"How are you holding up?" I ask as I take closer steps to him. I notice the rip on his jeans and this is not the stylish kind. I guess you can call everything these days fashion, but this was not intentional.

"As I can be," he shrugs and manages a faint smile.

He might be acting like he is okay but I can see right through him. He is hurting and I want to get to the bottom of whatever is going on with him.

"Why do you look so much skinnier than the last time I saw you. I thought werewolves re supposed to be really buff," I ask him cheekily. I am adding light humour to this because I want him to be comfortable with me. I want him to want to open up to me. Tell me his worries, his fears and the rest.

"I am not an alpha."

His words are blank like I am supposed to understand what he means. Is he telling me that only alphas eat?

"So?" I raise a brow. This is a challenge.

"I can’t hunt without an Alpha and Beau is missing. So I have no one to hunt with?"

I furrow my brows "Hunt what?"

He giggles at my curiosity and I roll my eyes. He is amused that I am such a novice when it comes to his kind.

"Hunt for food," he explains.

"You mean meat?"

He nods.

"What happens if you go alone?"

"I die," he tells me.

My heart races in my chest at his words. He can’t be serious about dying. Just the thought of him losing his life is heart-wrenching. I cannot imagine it, I don’t want to live to that day.

Fucking hell.

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