Filed To Story: Veiled Desires of the Alpha King Novel
Was it possible…?
Talia could see only one explanation.
“I know you are listening.”, Talia said, and Dayson looked at her in confusion.
He whipped his head around, searching for an intruder, but his senses didn’t pick up anything in the wide area other than forest critters.
Dayson opened his mouth to ask what was going on, but she continued talking.
“Come on, I know you are there. Why are you not responding? Are you suppressing Dayson’s wolf? Why would you do that? Are you afraid that he will tell me something you don’t want me to know?”
Talia gasped when intense fury bubbled in the pit of her stomach.
‘WHO IS AFRAID!?’, a voice boomed in her head.
Part of Talia was delighted to hear her wolf, and part of her was scared because she hit a nerve by provoking her (not on purpose). Talia was also confused, why would her wolf conceal her presence?
“It is you, isn’t it?”, Talia asked.
‘You don’t need to use words. I can hear your thoughts.’, her wolf snorted.
“Kitten?”, Dayson called anxiously. He guessed that it was her wolf, and he was not sure if that was a good thing or a catastrophe emerging. Did her wolf come up with another crazy condition before he can mark Talia? Actually, even the first one (chasing away Marcy without revealing that Talia was his mate) was not completed successfully. Damn it!
He held Talia’s hand and gave her a squeeze, but he didn’t want to interrupt whatever conversation was going on in Talia’s head, knowing that his kitten was getting answers and that she will fight for them no matter what her grumpy wolf comes up with.
Talia was not sure what to ask first.
‘Since when are you sitting there and watching? Why would you hide your presence from me?’
Talia spent many lonely days in the Red Moon pack yearning to hear her wolf again. Since Talia got hope that her wolf might come back, she was eager for that to happen, eating, training, carefully listening, and she never imagined that her wolf would come back and pretend that it was not there. Was her wolf gone at all? How much did she see?
The more Talia thought about this, the more she felt betrayed, spied on, and uneasiness swelled within her.
‘Don’t’ go there’, her wolf grumbled. ‘Whenever you were getting close to that lecherous boy, I stopped watching. I’m not a pervert.’
‘But you are awake for a while. Right?’
‘It was on and off.’, her wolf admitted.
‘You saved us when the rogues attacked.’
Her wolf snorted. ‘If not for me, both you and that boy wouldn’t be breathing.’
Talia’s mood improved. ‘You healed Dayson in the hospital.’ If her wolf healed Dayson, that means she didn’t really dislike him.
‘Oh, I didn’t. That was you.’
A gentle squeeze on Talia’s hand reminded her that Dayson was right there, and she decided to focus on the pressing topic.
‘Why are you suppressing his wolf?’
‘What makes you think…?’
‘Stop pretending.’, Talia interrupted another question that wouldn’t give her an answer. ‘No games. Just tell me.’
‘Why would I tell you anything? So that you can find a way around it? Does he deserve to have his wolf?’
Talia cursed silently. Why were her thoughts exposed while her wolf kept everything to herself?
‘You need to learn to conceal your thoughts, Talia.’, her wolf said patronizingly. ‘If I’m not shutting down your mind-link forcibly, many people would get unobstructed access to your thoughts, and you wouldn’t want that, right?’
Talia was shocked. She had a mind-link? Dayson said that when her wolf awakens he can help her identify her mind-link if she had one, but now it seemed that her wolf prevented many things from happening.
And why would her wolf meddle with Dayson’s wolf? Unless…
‘This is not about Dayson. This is about his wolf.’ When her wolf didn’t answer, Talia continued pressing, ‘Why don’t you tell me what’s the problem? I’m sure we can clarify it and you will see that it’s a misunderstanding.’
Talia’s wolf snorted. ‘Misunderstanding?’
‘Yes. Dayson’s wolf is supportive, and he saved me many times. You know he can talk, right? He wants to meet me. Why are you preventing that from happening? Don’t you want to talk to him?’
‘There is nothing to be said between us.’
A wave of emotions washed over Talia. Grief. Yearning. Anger.
Talia’s mouth fell slack open. ‘You know him!’ And not just know him but know-know him. ‘How do you know him?’
‘It’s none of your business!’
‘But it is my business.’, Talia argued back. ‘You are my wolf. We share a body. Dayson is my mate. If you have a problem with his wolf, I need to know about it. Or are you going to prevent me from completing mating with Dayson because you have a grudge with his wolf?’
‘Stay out of this, Talia…’, her wolf growled. ‘This doesn’t concern you.’
Talia couldn’t believe this. ‘How can you say that this doesn’t concern me?’
Talia came here with Dayson so they can relax, enjoy time together, and seal their bond with marking, yet her wolf came in the middle, suppressed Dayson’s wolf, and is threatening not only to kill the lovey-dovey mood but also to stand in the way of Dayson marking her.
Talia had a feeling that something might go wrong. She feared that Dayson might see Talia as unworthy and change his mind, or rogues might attack them, or another delusional Dayson’s ex pops out of a bush and jumps on Talia to scratch her face, a swarm of locusts or a forest fire, anything was possible! But Talia never imagined that this evening will be ruined by her own wolf. Shouldn’t wolves support the mate bond?
‘What did I do to deserve this?’, Talia asked dejectedly. ‘I don’t care when you woke up and I don’t care why you didn’t help me when I needed you, but… didn’t I suffer enough? You are my wolf so you should know that Dayson is my mate. I love him with all my heart, and he loves me back. Maybe he didn’t complete your stupid condition to chase away Marcy without announcing that I’m his mate, but I don’t care because he proved that he was willing to learn and make me happy, and I believe him. Why are you doing this?’
‘You don’t understand…’
‘THEN HELP ME UNDERSTAND!’, Talia shouted in her head.
Talia didn’t want to yell at her wolf, but she felt betrayed on so many levels. Everyone either bullied her or ignored her, and then there was Dayson, a handsome Alpha who looked at her like she was the only woman in the world. Sure, Dayson made mistakes, but Talia took a few wrong turns also and Dayson always came after her and soothed her into staying with him until she recognized who he was, her other half.
Over the years, Talia really wished for her wolf to come back. She was weak and insecure among werewolves, believing that her wolf was the part she needed so that she can be complete, yet now Talia suspected that her wolf was one of the people who left her to fend for herself, and it’s not that her wolf was not helping, but it was standing in the way of Talia being with the only man who treated her as important.
Talia was sick of fighting against people who believed she was not worthy, and women who wanted to put their hands on Dayson, and now even her wolf was an obstacle.
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