Amber’s POV
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Lily made sure to keep me beside her all the time at the same time, I too made sure to stick around her like a shadow. I had already found those werewolves in the party but I was not sure whether they were here just for the reason of having fun or had any hideous plan.
I was surprised when I found that the birthday girl was herself a werewolf. I was sure she would have sensed my wolf as well.
“Happy Birthday, Aurora.”, Lily wished her and handed over a small gift to her.
“Thank you.”, She smiled but the fake one. My wolf could sense that. But her eyes were on me all the time. “Who’s this girl with you?”
“Oh, sorry! Where is my manner! Aurora, she is Amber, my brother’s future bride, and Amber, she’s my best friend, Aurora.”
“Happy Birthday, Aurora.”, I wished and glared at her, when Lily was not looking at me.
“Thank you, Amber.”
I was not sure but a part of me was telling that Aurora had an idea about Lily, being a part of a hunter organization. And what I was thinking was true then Lily was surely not safe here.
“Lily, I want to try that drink.”, I pointed out toward the orange juice near the counter. Well, that was not true exactly. It was just I wanted to ask something from her and for that, I needed to take her away from Aurora.
“Sure!”, She said and excused herself from there.
“Does your friend, Aurora, know what the occupation of your family is? I mean the hidden one?”, I asked the very first question when we were away from there. I knew that all the werewolves present at the party could hear us if their whole attention would be on us. And I could feel the eyes of four werewolves on us already.
“Why are you asking this out of nowhere?”,
“Just out of curiosity.”, I tried to lie smoothly.
“Yes!”, She nodded her head. “I told the secret of my family to her recently after realizing that she's the kind of person on whom I can trust blindly.”
That’s it.
We had to leave from here as soon as possible.
I opened my mouth to ask her to leave the party but my phone started ringing, displaying Alex’s name on the screen.
“Don’t tell me that brother came to know that we’re not at home.”, Lily muttered, looking at the screen. Truth to be told even I was scared of this fact.
In the last two weeks, I came to know a lot of things about Alex, and out of them was his anger issue. Though I had never seen it, as per Lily, he has to attend anger management sessions at least twice or thrice a week to keep his anger in check. She had used some words about this problem, yeah, Intermittent Explosive Disorder (IED).
“What should I do now?”, I asked her. “How about if we don’t receive his call?”
“Bad idea. He won’t spare us if he will have to come here by tracking our location.”
“Then?”
“Talk to him and try to handle the situation after realizing why he is calling you!”, She guided me. “But before that, let’s leave from here where he won't be able to hear the background music.”, She added.
We both were about to leave when one of Lily’s friends called her name.
“You have to go alone for a while. I will be right here waiting for you, okay?”, She said and walked toward that friend. I didn’t want to leave alone but then Alex was calling me for the second time. I left from there unwillingly and swiped the screen to receive the call.
“Took so much time to receive the call. Where were you? In the washroom?”, There came his concerned voice.
“I’m sorry.”, I apologized. “Yeah, I was in the washroom.”, I lied and heard him chuckling from the other end. “What’s so funny?”, I asked to know the reason behind his chuckle.
“Just wondering when did I build two washrooms in my room.”, He said in a sarcastic tone and immediately the color of my face drained.
“Whe...Where are you?”, I asked, praying in my mind that he was not home.
But Moon Goddess was not in the mood to hear my prayers.
“Don’t you think that you’re asking my part of the question?”, He mocked, making my mouth shut.
“I…I…”
“Where are you, Amber?”
‘Should I lie to him?’
‘Nope, he will eventually find out the truth and then he will be very mad and hurt.’, My wolf suggested.
“We’re leaving from here.”, I replied in a low tone.
“Where are you, Amber?”, He asked again and his words were dipped in anger.
“We’re at Lily’s best friend, Aurora’s Birthday party. And we are about to leave from here.”, I quickly said in one go and heard him take a deep breath.
“No. Stay there for a while. I’m sending the car.”, His cold tone sent chills down my spine. I wanted to apologize to him but it seemed like my voice was not at all working. “Do you want to say something?”, He asked, surprising me.
‘He always gets to know about my feelings even though he is a human.’
“I…I am so…”
“You should save it for when we will meet. And trust me, I’m not….very happy about you two sneaking out without my permission.”, Saying this he disconnected the call. Oh, Moon Goddess! He would surely kill me today for disobeying him. Whatever I have heard about him, I could tell that he was dead furious now.
‘I can’t smell Lily’s scent nearby.’, My wolf said, bringing me back to my current situation.
Oh, no, no, no!!
I quickly ran inside to check on Lily and tell her all the conversation between me and her brother.
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Lily’s POV
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I asked Amber to receive my brother’s call outside the house while I stayed back in because Stella called my name at the last moment.
“Hey! Are you leaving already?”, Stella asked when I reached near her.
“I think I have to. You know how strict my brother is when it comes to late-night parties.”, I said, rolling my eyes.
“Yeah! Yeah! I know.”, She laughed and passed an orange juice toward me. “So, how’s that pretty girl with you? James was asking about her wondering if she’s single.”
“Oops! Sorry. She’s already taken. She’s my brother’s future wife.”, I said, sipping the juice.
We talked about the random things and at the same time, I kept checking on Amber as well. She was busy with her brother. She was taking a lot longer than expected. It seemed like the couple started their lovey-dovey conversation.
Suddenly I started feeling dizzy, I blinked my eyes for a while and the people’s faces around me started getting blurred. Something was wrong.
Why was I suddenly feeling like this?
I couldn’t think clearly, in fact, I was seeing double, or was it triple?
“Excuse me, Stella”, I muttered and tried…really try to walk in the direction where Lily was. I made sure not to fall. But before I could have reached near her. I felt like I started flying. My legs were no longer on the ground. I tried to speak but no words came out of my mouth.
All I knew was that someone was taking me away and for some reason, I couldn’t stop him, my body felt numb like I had no control over it whatsoever.
What the hell was happening to me?
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#TBC