I said, stepping toward them.
“And if I don’t tell you?”
“Then I’ll make sure you feel every agonizing pain and make your death long, and slow,”
I said, my tone darkening with each word I spoke.
“You are wasting your time,”
Xander seethed. “I’m not telling you shit.”
“Wrong answer,”
I growled, still keeping my tone low.
At this point, the claws of my wolf broke through the flesh of my human and swiped at Xander, slicing through the soft flesh of his cheek and drawing out an assessive amount of blood. He screamed out in pain and agony as blood dripped from his wound.
I grabbed his shirt collar and made him look at me so he could see how pissed off I truly was.
“Lies will always surface,”
I said through my teeth. “Yours are no different.”
I stepped away from him, looking at Ethan and the warriors that stood behind him.
“Beat him until he talks,”
I muttered, turning on my heel and walking towards the doorway.
I shut the door behind me, but not before listening to his frantic screams and his pleas for help. He deserves this, I keep telling myself. He deserves everything coming to him and more.
Before I went upstairs and to my bedroom, I went into the bathroom and took a shower first. I had a bit of blood on my clothing and hands from punching and scratching Xander, and I didn’t think that was something Lila would want to see.
I didn’t really get a proper chance to speak to Lila since finding her in the barn and I didn’t want her to be frightened of me upon seeing me.
But once I was cleaned and changed, I went straight to my bedroom where I knew Lila would be sleeping. Or at least trying to sleep; I could feel her restlessness and it tugged painfully at my heart.
It wasn’t a surprise that when I got into the room, she sat straight up and looked at me through her large and beautiful eyes.
“You’re back,”
she breathed, giving me a relieved smile. “I thought sensed you… but I wasn’t sure.”
“It’s the wolfbane. Once it’s out of your system for good you’ll get your senses back,”
I assured her as I went to the other side of the bed and slid under the covers. “How are you feeling.”
“Better now that you’re here…”
she said, snuggling against my arm. I wrapped my arms around her and held her close to me. She felt comfortable in my arms and instantly relaxed into me. “Did you see him?”
She asked softly, burying her face in my side.
I knew who she was talking about so I went ahead and answered her.
“Yes,”
I said, swallowing hard. “He won’t talk.”
“I want to ask him questions, but my father won’t let me in the interrogation room,”
she murmured.
“And I agree with him; you shouldn’t be there,”
I said, shaking my head and holding her close.
“I figured you’d agree with him,”
she muttered; I had to fight to hide my grin. “I wanted to ask him why he chose me…. was it because I’m a Volana wolf? I wanted to ask why he was training me like he was preparing me for something… what was the point of all of this?”
“I think for starters we need to find out who sent him. The rest of those answers will come in due time,”
I assured her gently. “Try not to stress too much about it right now.”
“I need to go back to the school… I can’t miss any more class,”
she said peering up at me.
“I agree. I’ll take you back tonight. For today, I need you to sleep. Your classes were excused for the day because of everything that happened.”
She looked at me for a moment longer, eyeing me carefully before placing her head back down on my chest.
“So, I’ll be able to return to class tomorrow?”
She asked.
“Yes; we both need to report to the school tomorrow,”
I told her, a little hesitantly.
She lifted her gaze to meet mine again.
“Both of us?”
She asked, furrowing her brows together.
I sucked in a sharp breath and nodded.
“Yes,”
I said slowly. “I agreed to help out for the rest of the semester as the Professor for Shifting and Combat,”
I explained.
Her mouth dropped open at my words.
“Y… you’re going to be my professor again?”
Lila’s POV
Once Enzo and I had spoken, I was finally able to sleep.
He was returning as a professor, and I would be lying if I said I wasn’t a little worried about it. I was nervous that somehow, we would be found out. I mean last time he was my professor we weren’t planning on a future together.
Yeah, we were mates, but he was going to reject me after graduation, and it wasn’t going to be anything more. That was before our trip to Monstro, and everything changed. That was before I realized my true feelings for him and gave him a part of myself that I could never get back, nor would I want back.
That was before he marked me, and I had to walk around hiding the very mark I was so proud of. I wished I could wear it loud and proud, so everyone knew who I belonged to and who belonged to me. But I couldn’t do any of those things. I had to keep our love in the dark and it was going to be torture for me.
It was doable when he wasn’t a professor, and I could just go about my day, but now he was going to be at the school all the time. Teachers and students were going to flirt with him as they always did, and I was going to have to keep my mouth shut.
It was such a terrible feeling in the pit of my stomach that I couldn’t help being worried. But as I lay beside my mate and peered up at his beautiful, sleeping face, I had no worries at that moment and that was enough to calm me to sleep.
And sleep, I did.
……
I only slept for a few hours because I didn’t want to screw up my sleep schedule too much. I’ll be able to sleep once I get back to school tonight.
The packhouse was ghostly quiet when I emerged from Enzo’s room; Enzo wasn’t in bed when I woke up, so I assumed he was interrogating Xander with the others. I wondered if he got any answers from him or if the entire thing was becoming pointless.
Dee was in the kitchen and the smell of delicious food made its way to my senses. She gave me a large smile.
“I was just making dinner for the pack. Care to help?”
She asked, peering over at me.
“Sure,”
I said, grabbing an apron off the rack and joining her at the counter.
“Good; can you chop those veggies on the cutting board?”
She asked.
“Of course,”
I said, grabbing a large knife and chopping the veggies.