Klaus
‘Jenny, meet me in my room,’ I sent the message to my sister. She had studied the medicines so she must know the answers to my questions.
I paced in my room while waiting for her. I had locked Scarlett in the quarters of my room where I used to hide in my childhood when I played with Marcus and Jenny. She slammed the door for a long time and finally got tired so maybe dozed off.
‘For Scarlett, please come,’ I sent another message, knowing my stubborn sister very well that she would ignore me for eternity if she hadn’t cooled her anger.
“What happened to her?” The next minute, I found Jenny casting me a disdainful look.
I walked toward the door and locked it before she could escape. “We need to talk. I need your help.”
“Fuck off, Klaus. I’m not helping you to get her back so you can hurt her again,” she spat at me, shrugging off.
“Let me get straight to the point, Jenny,” I sighed before adding, “I don’t remember anything about that night though I wasn’t drunk. The last thing I can recall is being with Scarlett and Amber’s red eyes.”
She sneered at me, “you absolutely were drunk. Amber doesn't have red eyes and just because you can’t recall, it doesn’t mean that it never happened.”
“I wasn’t drunk, Jenny. Trust me,” I shrieked out, feeling annoyed at being accused of the thing that I didn’t do.
“Raising your voice at me won’t undo it. In the end, all the Alphas are the same,” she said coldly before turning her heels on.
“Please, send the medicines and herbs that will help Scarlett heal sooner,” I pleaded without turning to look at my sister who just had hate to offer me.
“I’m capable of healing only outer bruises, not the wounds of betrayal in heart,” Jenny said and closed the door with a thud.
The feelings of loneliness and suffocation washed over me. I knew that I had fucked up, I shouldn’t have left her alone. If I would have asked my sister for help, she would have but I was too engrossed in grieving my mistake. I should have fixed it earlier but I’ll do it now. I won’t let her leave me at any cost.
“Klaus?” Her voice used to make me feel happy in my childhood but now, it was bothering me. I wasn’t ready to deal with her yet.
“I forgot that a wife doesn’t need to ask for permission,” she burst into my room though I had warned my mother to make her stay in another room.
“Leave, Amber,” I warned her in a dangerously low tone. She didn’t know that she was tasting my patience while my reservoir of patience had dried up.
Amber took a few steps ahead with a playful smile on her face. “We're a man and a wife which means whatever is yours is mine, too, and mine is yours, too.”
She leaned in to kiss my cheek but I pulled my face in another direction. Her hand crawled over my neck and stroked my chest.
“Enough, Amber. You need to understand that I’m not your mate and I find this marriage utterly stupid and a perverse demand of your family,” said I as I pushed her hand away.
I was on the edge of losing my temper, she needed to leave, otherwise, I might kill her for touching me.
“But we’re married and mated now. You’ll have to forget your mate and move on with your life. I love you, Klaus,” she whispered the last words with shimmering eyes and a tear escaped her eyes. “I have loved you since childhood. You were the only thing I ever wanted.”
Letting a loose breath out through my mouth, I calmed myself down, trying to recall what my mother had told me, it wasn’t her mistake either. “I’m sorry, Amber. I wasn’t aware of your feelings but I’m not responsible for your heart because you’re not my mate and you’ll have to understand that. I’m not your mate so you don’t love me, you’re just obsessed with me and I’m not a thing to get in the first place. I’m a werewolf and I have a heart that beats just for Scarlett and just because of Scarlett.”
“No. No. No.” She shook her head gravely. “I love you and I want you. Just because you don’t love me, you can’t tell me that my feelings are an obsession.”
I shrugged and folded my hands across my chest. “We’re not humans. We’re werewolves and we’re given a mate by the Moon Goddess. You can’t love anyone who isn’t your mate even if you want to because you’re capable of loving your mate only.”
“You can’t love her, we’re married now,” she whined, throwing her tantrums. I knew her, she was used to getting whatever she wanted since childhood. Anyhow. Even if it cost pain to someone else.
“I don’t know how many times I would have to repeat myself,” I raised my voice. “We’re fucking werewolves. We didn’t have weddings like humans in old times, since the beginning of our kind's existence. One thing you need to learn is that I’ll never love you or accept you. A few fucking fake vows can’t bind my heart with yours, can’t make you my mate instead of Scarlett.”
Amber fell to her knees and her lips escaped a heart-rending scream. “You’ll reject your mate and then, Moon Goddess will mate you with me since we’re already married,” she sounded like someone who had lost her mind.
Her blind obsession with me was driving her mad, I could see that.
“Enough drama for today,” I raised my hand in the air and motioned my hand to the door so she could leave. “Never ever mention rejecting my mate, otherwise, your father could call a war upon us for all I care but I won’t let you live.”
A devilish smirk spread on her lips as she wiped her tears off and rose to her feet. “You can’t afford to risk your pack’s safety. I know that you have agreed to marry me just because you didn’t want a war among our packs, knowing all well that you don’t stand a single chance against the Alpha King.”
The scene that she caused in my room was all just her act to get me, I had anticipated that but didn’t expect her to admit to that so quickly and shamelessly. I had respect for her because of my mom’s pep talk but she had lost her respect in my eyes after this drama.
“You knew everything very well yet took advantage of my situation?” I couldn’t help but ask her inquisitively.
“Everything is fair in love and war,” she smirked. “I’ll come back soon to our room. Don’t miss me too much, sweetheart.”
Amber left my room and I could finally breathe in relief. I would deal with her later. My first concern was to get Todd and Scarlett back.
I wanted to consult doctor Asher about my wolf’s absence but if this went out, the pack members would talk and freak out so I needed to keep it a secret. I could count on Jenny and Marcus only but both of them had turned their backs on me.
The servants brought the lunch to my room as I had instructed them. I opened my quarter and found Scarlett sleeping on the cold floor. I felt regret for locking her but it was the only option left for me.
Putting the food on her bedside, I pulled her in my arms and she yawned cutely before opening her eyes. Her brows shot up as soon as her eyes met mine and I didn’t even realize when my leg stumbled on the bed and I fell on the mattress with her beneath me.
I could hear her heart rabbiting within her chest and my body flooded with sparks and tingles as soon as my skin came into contact with hers. Our eyes locked and her lovely aqua-blue eyes filled with fury and remorse, she tried to push me away.
Climbing out of the bed, I offered her a plate of prawn crackers, pork skewers, and beef burgers. She snatched the plate from my hands, surprising me. I hadn’t expected her to eat that easily.
Scarlett ate like she hadn’t eaten in months and I couldn’t help but chuckle at her messed-up lips due to the sauces. She narrowed her eyes at me and neglected me before nibbling on her food again.
“Don’t look at me,” she uttered with a mouthful of burger.
“I plan to watch you eating like a little girl till I get a little cute version of you who can divert my attention from you,” I retorted, wiping her face with my thumb and she stared back at me as if I had grown two heads.
A deep scarlet blush crept onto her cheeks but it disappeared as soon as she spoke, “my children will be called bastards so I don’t want any.”
Her words rendered me speechless and I was feeling her pain, too. As I opened my mouth to say, my sister’s link halted me- ‘you should touch your mark on her body, it’ll ease her pain.’ Jenny cared though she was upset with me.
I stretched out my hand to touch her marking spot but she jumped into her place, moving her body away from me.
“Don’t touch me,” she warned me.
“It’ll help you heal,” I protested.
“The person who gave me pain can’t be my healer,” she said coldly, not knowing how deep her words could cut into my heart.