Chapter 21: Their Eyes Met
The shiny sunlight that’s coming inside from the window is the reason why Anastasia slowly opened her eyes, still feeling sleepy and hungover.
" Agh." A groan escaped from her mouth as she supported her body with her arms and sat up to look around her room.
She is in her room but she doesn’t remember how she got here, the last thing she remembers is being in the kitchen with some man.
Anastasia sighed and grabbed a handful of her hair, trying to remember how she got to her room but nothing.
She gulped, feeling her throat so dry as she looked down at her body, noticing that she was still in her dress from yesterday.
This is when she noticed a cup of water and pills on her nightstand.
She did not think twice before grabbing that glass of water and gulping it down because she was so thirsty for some reason.
As she put the empty glass back on the night, she finally noticed a pink sticky note on the glass.
" What’s this?" Whispered Anastasia as she took that pink note and read its content.
" You got really drunk yesterday, sorry for carrying you to your room without your permission. I hope you aren’t mad. And oh, please take these pills before having breakfast."
Anastasia blinked multiple times and read the note over and over again, she even flipped it over, hoping to find a name but ended up with nothing.
She grabbed the pills and took one of them before standing in front of the mirror, only for her eyes to slightly widen in surprise when she found her makeup gone.
Whoever that man who brought her to her room, actually took time and effort to wipe her makeup without waking her up just so that she would not sleep with it on and harm her skin. fɾēewebnσveℓ.com
She touched her skin, only to realize that the guy even did her nightly skincare routine for her.
He did all that but did not try to change her clothes.
" Was it Scott?" She thought to herself before taking off her dress and heading to the bathroom.
A quick bath before getting ready to get her daily tasks done for the day.
She also needed to find out who the guy was.
Caleb met her by her door as usual, she would have gone downstairs just like she usually does but she stood there for a second, staring at Caled suspiciously, wondering if it was him who brought her to her room but this guy had never done such a thing as taking her makeup off.
" Who brought me to my room yesterday?" Caleb nervously glanced around at his friends who shrugged, not knowing who did that.
Caleb stared at the alpha and shook his head " I don’t know, alpha. We were responsible yesterday for guarding the gates outside."
Anastasia nodded because she had just remembered asking them to do that instead of standing outside her room.
Right after that, she got on the elevator, still internally wondering and trying to remember who the man from the kitchen was and if he was the same one who brought her to the room.
The moment she stepped foot in the dining room to have her breakfast, her parents along with Scott and his parents stared at her.
She is used to everyone’s attention being on her which is why she didn’t care much and just quietly sat down at the head of the long table.
The maids rushed to bring her breakfast and placed it on the table for her to slowly start eating while ignoring everyone’s stares.
" Anastasia, good morning. Scott and his parents will be staying with us in the packhouse for a while and I was wondering if you can give Scott a tour around the pack."
Suddenly and finally Elisabeth decided to open her mouth and talk to cut the silence that’s around the room.
As usual, Anastasia took her sweet time to respond.
She stabbed her pancake and slowly chewed and swallowed it before taking a sip of her juice as if her mother had not just asked her a question.
Her gaze boringly and sharply moved to look at her mother and Scott " I’m pretty sure he is a member of this pack and if not Caleb or any other guy here can give him a tour."
Her tone is as sharp as a knife.
" He has been overseas for a while, Anastasia. Don’t you think it will be nice to just tour him around? Please for me." Anastasia quietly listened to her father’s pleas before sighing and nodding.
Her nod made everyone at the table feel relieved because their plan was working.
After a while, Anastasia felt full which is why she stood up and walked out of the room with Scott rushing after her.
" Ana, hey. Seriously, how are you doing?" Scott hung his arm on Anastasia’s shoulders as if they were best friends, only to get pushed away by her.
Do you think that made him lose hope?
No, he just laughed and followed her to the pack ground where they found the pack warriors training " So what are we going to do here?"
" Teach them." She answered him monotonously before grabbing the iPad from one of the pack members who was supervising the warriors.
As Anastasia started scrolling down, reading about the warriors and what they still needed to learn.
" Did you take pills for your hangover?" Her hand froze as she stared blankly at the screen before quickly looking at him " Was it you who brought me to my room yesterday?"
Scott looked at her quickly for two seconds before chuckling " Yes, of course, it was me, don’t you remember?"
She shook her head " No, I don’t. Thanks, I guess."
He smiled widely and hung his arm around her shoulder " You are so welcome." Strangely this time she didn’t push him away.
She let him put his arm on her shoulders and even pull her closer to him, almost hugging her sideways.
This made his smile widen way more than before.
" Are you up for a fight?" Anastasia suggested suddenly which made Scott widen his eyes and laugh " Yes, yes of course let’s go."
He is so excited because finally, Anastasia is actually talking to him instead of just ignoring his existence. freёwebnoѵel.com
" Okay shift then." That was the last thing she said before walking to the back where she could take her clothes off.
Scott stood there alone with wide eyes " Did she smile at me?" She did kind of smile at him and he can’t believe this actually happened.
Something about Scott is that he used to and still has the biggest crush on Anastasia but she has never given him a chance to even properly talk to her since they were kids.
So smiling, talking, and inviting him for a fight sounds like a dream.
A fight between a female alpha and a male alpha isn’t viewed as humans view a man fighting a woman.
This is because female alphas have the same strength male alphas have if not more.
This is why fighting and training females with male alphas is very normal in the werewolf community.
Basically, it’s not viewed as the stronger fighting the weaker since both are strong.
They both shifted to their wolf forms, and since Anastasia is a true blood her wolf is three times bigger than Scott’s which means she went easy on him and also showed some new fighting techniques to the other warriors who enjoyed watching the fight.
" That was so cool. Your wolf is beautiful by the way." Scott spoke excitedly while putting his shirt on, in front of Anastasia who was standing there waiting for him to finish so that she could finish touring him.
She hummed " Yours isn’t bad either." His eyes glimmered in red for a second, he was really content and Anastasia could smell how happy he was through the pheromones that were around them.
" Thank you. I’m flattered." He whispered before hanging his arm on her shoulders again as they walked around the pack borders together.
" What’s this place? It’s really pretty." Suddenly Scott asked about the beautiful lake that they had just reached.
" It’s the moon lake. It’s cold and a lot of people like to have a swim here. You can try if you want." Scott nodded immediately and started taking his clothes off.
Anastasia instantly moved her gaze away because apparently, this guy had no shame in him.
She gets the point that it’s quite normalized to be naked in the werewolf community because of the shifting but she hates it when it’s not necessary.
Like now, he could have asked her to look away first instead of immediately stripping.
" Get in the water with me, Anastasia. You will love it." She watched him swimming in the lake and how excitedly he asked her to get in the water only to shake her head " No, maybe later."
He nodded and kept swimming as she watched quietly, in confusion.
Something doesn’t add up here.
After he finished his swim, they went back home.
" I’m heading to my room." She said that right after stepping foot in the house before hurrying upstairs.
She jogged to her room, completely ignoring the elevator as she kept climbing the stairs while her brain was working and thinking about what happened yesterday and today.
How can someone feel sorry for carrying her without permission when she really was in need of help and at the same time hang his arm on her shoulder without her consent especially after she pushed him away the first time?
If he couldn’t take her dress off yesterday, why would he ask her to get in the lake when he knew she would have to strip?
Nothing makes sense.
"Alpha!!!" While running upstairs she was too busy thinking and did not notice Liam who was coming downstairs and ended up bumping into him, almost falling down, only for him to catch her just like he caught her in the kitchen.
The second their eyes met, she remembered every single detail of what happened yesterday.