A Diary of A Jumoke(web Series)8

•DIARY OF A JUMOKE #8

I lay sprawled across the bed wearing only a bum short and an alter neck. Arianna was pulling my weave frantically in an effort to style my hair. It was painful, but I allowed her.

The little thing seems to be having fun. From the corner of my eye, I noticed the notification light on my BlackBerry was blinking. I picked it up and saw that a text message had came in.

In my mind I thought it was one of those "If you want to be happy, send 1 to 3205" messages MTN was always sending.

I opened it and saw that it was a credit alert. The amount I saw made me gasp for air. Someone had transferred a whooping sum of 1.5 million naira into my account.

I guessed that was why Mr Ibu (make that Chief Ike) had been calling me nonstop for some hours now. I allowed his calls to ring off the hook. I was not ready to let him engage me in one of his boring tales.

Really, that man can talk for Africa. He promised he would "furnish" my account and he actually "furnished" it to the fullest. He deserved an Oscar.

"Awwwhhhh! Arianna you are going to pull off my scalp. Oya please leave it. Its fine already" I pleaded.

She examined the hair and she seemed pleased with what she had done.

"Lemme go and bring grandma's mirror" she said in her regular singsong voice and raced out of the room.

I decided to see the mess she left on my head as I fetched my makeup bag and removed a mirror. My reflection made me roar with laughter.

Even the witch of Oz doesn't have a thing on me.

I had been very close to my daughter these few hours after Noka's resurfacing from God-knows-where. When I saw him earlier, I felt thousands of unexplainable emotions rushing through me.
My heart was beating so fast I thought it would bust open. All this while and I still felt that way for him. I was furious though. I would rather die than allow him back or even allow him touch my child.

My mother instincts had been resurrected.

I was having a strong urge to go clubbing to get his selfish ass off my mind. No sob stories abeg. Hitting Club 44 was the first item on my to do list.

And come to think about it, I had been considering letting Chief Ike into the honeypot too. That was the best way I could appreciate him for his kind "furnishing" gesture.

And there was Dapo again,

"I really still wanna kiss him" I thought with a mischievous smile on my face.
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"Is she asleep?" I whispered silently.

Arianna had been tailing me since forever and I had to wait until she fell asleep before leaving.

I was sure she would cry her eyes out when she wakes up and discovers that I had left.

"Jumoke wa joko" [Jumoke, have a seat]
"We need to talk about something before you leave" my Mum said.

I sighed loudly. This was one of those reasons why I always shy away from visiting her. Her long talks about life and all could squeeze life out of a living person.

I had no choice this time or else I won't hear the end of the matter
.
"That guy I saw with you the other day...." I didn't allow her to finish, I knew where the whole issue was going.

"Mummy, Dapo and I barely know each other"
"Please don't start this marriage talk. Please" I interrupted.

I knew my mum; she would never back down. She pretended as if she didn't hear what I just said and continued.

"It doesn't matter oko mi."[my dear]
"You people can start from somewhere"
"I can see he is a nice and cultured boy" she continued.

"Okay Mum, I've heard you"

I had to agree with her if I wanted the matter to be laid to rest.

And just when I was thinking I had gotten off the hook, she dropped the bombshell.

"I think you should forgive Noka"
"He realized his mistake and came begging".

I have had enough!

I stood up, picked my bag and gestured that I was ready to go.

Before she could think of composing another speech on how I was supposed to be a responsible woman, I dashed out towards my car and I entered with the speed of light.

"I'll call you when I get home" I said and

September 30, 2016

A Diary of A jumoke(a web Series)7

DIARY OF A JUMOKE #7

"Musa,where your Oga?" I inquired.

I was at Freddy's house. I had called him but he refused to pick up. Even his gate man doesn't seem to know his whereabouts and the silly guy had been calling me all this while. Now that I needed his help, he was nowhere to be found.

The guy's sugar daddy game was just decreasing bit by bit.

"E be like say Oga Fred talk say him won go pick madam" his gate man said.

"Madam keh? Who is madam?" I asked a bit confused.

Instead of answering, the gate man just shrugged.

I walked towards his front porch. Even if he had gone to the moon, I was going to sit and wait for him.

The previous day had been a hit actually. Mike made reservations at a Chinese restaurant around town and he made sure we ordered almost all the dishes available. It seems he had planned to stuff me with food. We started with the sweet and sour pork and switched to the Gong Bao chicken and then the Mapu tofu to the Wontons.

I couldn't even pronounce the name of most of the dishes.

By the time we finished eating, I was feeling as if I had swallowed a whale.

That didn't stop me from showing my gratitude for the gift he had sent to me though. I pounced on him like a tiger the instant we got into his apartment. Dude wasn't expecting the move.

I undressed him like a pro, blindfolded him and tied his hands to the bed post. Oga Spartacus was chanting "Ohhhhlaaahlahhh" all through the show down. I showed him the real definition of freaky.

I won't be there waiting for Freddy if not for the call I received from my mother. She called to inform me of her plan to leave with Arianna later in the evening.

I was surprised when she didn't ask where I was. Shade must have covered me up. That girl was bae [Before Anyone Else].

I was feeling a bit bad because they were leaving so soon. I could not even spend quality time with my daughter and now that I don't have a car, how was I supposed to take them back home?

Making them take public transport was not even an option. For that reason, I decided to see Freddy. I wanted my car back already.

I had been sitting in his porch for like two straight hours and just when I was thinking he was never going to show up, his red SUV pulled into the compound.

I didn't see the woman with him until the car moved closer. Freddy sighted me and I saw the shock that was spreading all over his face.

"What is wrong with this one?" I thought.

The lady with him looked like she was in her late thirties. She was tall, thin and had a model like frame.
She could have passed for Rukky. They were both really thin, except that she was more beautiful. Her cheek bone was on fleek.

And I should also mention that she was a "Latino".

"This must be the madam Musa was referring to" I thought.

A small boy about seven years old was also with the pair. He had Freddy's face written all over him.

Even before being told, I did the math. The Latino must be Freddy's wife and the Mini-Latino [Half-caste],his son.

To be honest, I didn't care one bit. I was just his sugar baby after all. All I wanted was my freaking car.

"Hello Jumoke" he said in a shaky voice as he neared me.

The fool just called me Jumoke! What happened to all those pet names?

Oh I forgot, anty-fresh-Puna-Latino was around. Alaye had to act like a gentleman.

Next thing I knew he faced the Lady and said "Neesha, meet my cousin"

"Jumoke, this is Neesha, my wife"
"And Sam my little simba"

Mayweather's hammer blow could not have flattened me out like his statement just did. I flashed a cute smile at the lady and she smiled back.

"I’ve been shagging your husband, sister" I thought.

This guy is funny sha. What's my own with your wife abi the Mufasa son you have?

I was highly irritated.

"Freddy, I need to pick up my car"
"Can you hand over the key" I demanded.

He flashed me a smile full of gratitude. It seemed he wasn't expecting the calm way I handled the situation. He called Musa to pack some luggage into the h

September 30, 2016

A Diary of A Jumoke(a web Series)6

DIARYOFAJUMOKE #6

The look on Shade's face was priceless when she entered the living room and found Dapo Badejo sitting right there. She had been sleeping when he arrived.

After staring at him for what seems like ages at the door, I finally invited him in and he was sitting comfortably on my favorite couch. I wanted to ask him like a million questions. One of which was how he got to know where I was living. Noka's issue was laid to rest for a while as the anger I was feeling earlier had dissolved into something I couldn't understand.

"Dapo, this is my mum" I introduced.

I was actually expecting him to do a casual "Good Morning Ma"

But to my surprise, he dropped his phone and did a full Yoruba greeting by prostrating. I couldn't help but laugh.

"Ekaaro Mummy" [Good morning ma] he greeted.

"Kaaro oko mi" [Morning my dear] my mum replied with a wide smile and a face that showed she was making up funny ideas.

"I hope she won't start one of her long marriage lectures later" I thought.

"Jumoke, I'll be in the room" Mum said and left, giving me and Dapo privacy.

"Erm, how did you locate me" I asked, not knowing what else to say.

"I have a friend living close by"
"And I was visiting"
"I was on my way out when I saw you"
"You were still wearing the same cloth from yesterday, so it wasn't so hard recognizing you" he pointed with a mischievous grin.

I shifted on my seat. His remark about me still wearing the cloth from yesterday made me slightly uncomfortable. I studied his face from the corner of my eyes. He had a plump round face and I couldn't help but notice his pink lips. I was fighting the urge to grab and kiss it.

We chatted for a while after he caught me staring at him and I covered up my embarrassment by offering him a glass of fruit juice.

He was fun to talk with and we chatted as though we've been friends for a very long time.

"I think I should be on my way now" he said out of the blues.
“I have to be in Abuja by noon" he added.

I gave a curtly nod and smiled nervously. His presence was somehow giving me goose bumps. I didn't know if it was because of the fact that he was a celebrity or because I was crushing head over heels on him.

I followed him all the way to the gate like a lost puppy.

"What on earth is wrong with you Adejumoke!" I asked myself silently and gave myself a mild knock.

I was really acting out around this guy.

He asked if we could exchange contacts and I gave him my phone number while he did the same.

"See you soon Barbie" he said jovially as he brought his car engine to life and zoomed off.

I found myself fantasizing on how to nail him the next time we meet. His cute pink lip was just too sexy to ignore.

***

The loud buzz of my phone woke me up. I had crashed in Shade's room immediately Dapo left. I picked the phone to check who was calling but I couldn't recognize the number. I rubbed my eyes sleepily and I was about to continue my peaceful sleep when the phone rang again.

"Hi, who goes there??" I said into the phone, slightly irritated.

I really hated being disturbed when I sleep.

"Omalicha my pretty baby"
"How are you dear?" the caller asked.

I was lost for a while.

"Who is this alien calling my phone?" I thought.

Then my brain booted and I picked the Igbo accent. I had totally forgotten about this gaped tooth man. Chief Ike or whatever his name was.

But wait, I didn't remember giving him my contact.

"Hello Chief, good afternoon"
"I hope you are okay?" I asked.

Few seconds passed without him saying a word, he seemed to be struggling with what to say.

"Biko, Ada send me your account number, let me furnish it" he said finally.

I busted out in laughter. Did he just say he wanted to furnish my account??
Is that even English at all??

"I want to make you happy baby" he added.

"I'll send it very soon Chief. Thanks for the kind gesture".

"You are always welcomed Omalicha"
"Biko keep that face smiling" he replied and the line went dead.

This man should st

September 30, 2016

A Diary of A Jumoke(a web series) 5

DIARYOFAJUMOKE #5

Five Years Back

"Babe I really miss you and I want you so bad"
"Noka I miss you too. But I really need to talk to you". I answered in a very tired voice.

I had been feeling funny for the past one week. I wake up almost every day with a dizzy spell. That morning I had decided to confirm my fears by having a urine test.

The result I got threw me off balance. I discovered that I was pregnant. My mind was in deep turmoil.

What was I going to do?

I was so confused that I called my boyfriend Noka to tell him that I was pregnant. But when he picked the call and I heard his fruity voice at the other end of the phone, the words got stuck in my mouth.

All I could manage to tell him was that we needed to talk very urgently. He agreed and promised to pay me a visit the following weekend.

Noka was a guy I met when I traveled to Abuja to visit an uncle. He was in his mid-twenties and a bit older than I was. He was handsome, light skinned, with a tawny physique and an impressive athletic feature.

We met at the cinema, started talking and we ended up making love on our second date. Since then we had been sweethearts. I fell madly in love with him.

We met during his NYSC and he was stationed at Abuja. He didn't go into much detail about his life, but he told me that his father was an Urhobo man and his mother an American.

He said they both live outside the country but they come to Nigeria occasionally. He also told me that he was likely to travel out of the country too, after his youth service. He had promised heaven and earth and I was so gullible then that I believed he was my knight in shining armor.

As he had promised, he arrived in my school that weekend. We had fun, went to the pool to swim and we ended up lodging at a hotel later that night.

I was still a bit scared. I didn't know how to relate the news to him. So we had slept that night with me holding the news till the next day.

We had an early breakfast the following morning because he was leaving as early as possible.

I couldn't eat.

The rice we had ordered smelled like raw egg and all I wanted to do was throw up. He noticed my clumsiness but I told him I was feeling a bit feverish.

He was all set to go and he drew me up from where I was sitting and enveloped me in a tight hug while he planted wet kisses on my face.

"I'll miss you sugar bush" he had said in a modulated voice.

I knew I had to tell him now or I'll never be able to tell him again.

"Noka, I have something to tell you"
"I am pregnant" I finally said in a quivering voice.

The smile on his face disappeared.

"Jummy, you are what?" he had asked in a very worried tone.

At that moment, I wished the ground would open and swallow me up.

"How? When?” He asked.
“What are you going to do about it?"

I couldn't believe my ears.

"I can't abort it. I am scared" I answered.

He dropped my hand instantly.

"Jumoke, I don't have time for this" he had said in a shrilled voice that sent shivers down my spine.

Before I could say more, he bolted out of the room, leaving me all by myself.

That was the last time I saw him - the last time I heard from him. He had walked away from my life, leaving me to bear the burden myself.

My mother was devastated when she heard the news. We had both cried our eyes out. She expected more from me and I had disappointed her.

My Father died when I was just ten years old and since then she has been trying her possible best to give me a good education.

We were not rich, but she had always given me full financial support with her petty trade. I had dreams also. I had an ambition.

I was going to be an Economist; a very successful one. And I was so close to realizing that dream. I was in my 200L in school already. And now the pregnancy was threatening to shatter my dreams.

I had resolved to make the best out of my predicament. I was going to pull through no matter what it takes.

Few months after I gave birth to my baby, my mother's shop was

September 30, 2016

A Diary of A Jumoke(a web Series) 4

DIARYOFAJUMOKE #4

Soft bed, a lilac duvet and a man with traces of grey hair on his head was the first sight I took in when I opened my eyes.

At first, I couldn't remember where I was but when my eyes fell on the scattered furniture in the room and my bra which was hanging on the door knob, the memory of the previous night came flooding back.

I had left Club 44 with Dr Bassey after he led me to his Limousine and ordered one of the most expensive champagne. I had giving him a very exquisite lap dance and by the time I was through, I discovered he was as hard as a rock.

He told the driver to take us to the hotel where he was staying and on our way I had added to the fun by giving him a Mouth Gig he would not forget in a decade. He came in my mouth like a tsunami and I could see the pleasant shock in his eyes. Dude has never experienced anything like that ever in his life. I was proud of myself and my skills.

Never did I know that he was still caging his killer sex spirit. I was going to get the surprise of my life later that night.

We entered his suite and he called room service to bring us our meal. I had ordered almost half of the food on the menu,i was starving already. He had also ordered a plate of wheat meal.

He was engaged in some series of phone calls to his business partners while I chosed to freshen up. The food was ready by the time I entered the room wearing nothing but my bra and thongs.

I could see the greedy look in his eyes as he took in my body.

"You have a nice body." he had commented and I replied with a thank you and placed a kiss on his lips. I could feel the alcohol in my system. I was slightly tipsy from the champagne I had taken earlier. I wanted him to do things to my body already, but first I needed to eat.

Everything about this man displayed elegance, even the way he eats. I was impressed as I watched him transport his meal with easy strides from the plate to his mouth. He caught me staring and he smiled.

"Please eat your food dear." he added in perfectly accented English.

We were through with eating within few minutes and he excused himself. He said he needed to take his bath. I got on the soft bed and picked my phone. I had loads of unread instant messages.

My mentions on Twitter were the highest. Hian! What is it with Twitter Nigeria and silly banters? If I had known, I wouldn’t have joined this Linda Ikeji and Wizkid's fight. Everybody is trying to seek attention in their own ways. I don't have time for that biko. Everyone knows I hate Wizkid though.

I was so engrossed with my phone that I did not notice when Dr Bassey entered the room. I was lying on my tummy and I guessed the sight of my bum must have turned him on.

The way he grabbed my booty from behind made me shiver with pleasure; before I knew what was happening he had torn my thongs off with the speed of light.

Pinning me to the bed, he trailed his hand through the inside of my thighs like a pro. Dammmmnn!!! The pleasure I felt was too much to describe.

The tickling sensation was tantalizing as he worked his hand in and out of my wet honeypot. Watching me with a masculine smile as my leg vibrated with each thrust, I was moaning as loud as my voice box could allow me.

If the occupant in the next apartment were listening I was sure they would have heard the Shiiiiit, ahhhh, ohhhh, yeah babyyy! I was screaming, urging him to do more.

When he saw that I was close to exploding. He guided me over to the chair and instantly I got down as low as my back could allow, giving him unrestricted access. He plunged into me with force like a plumber trying to dig a borehole.

I could swear that I felt his dick stretched from my honeypot into my throat. But again, I could just be exaggerating.

I was surprised by his length. I was not expecting to see that kind of "weapon of mass destruction" on a man of his age. I climaxed few minutes later and he did too.

I crashed on the bed immediately because all my strength had been dra

September 30, 2016

A Diary of jumoke(a web Series)3

DIARYOFAJUMOKE #3

Rukky was touching up her make up when I got inside. The makeup and accessories didn't help her situation; she was still looking like a starved person.

Does this girl eat at all? I asked myself as I approached her.

"Jumoke, which levels nah?"
"What's all this? You were supposed to be here an hour ago!" she said, not giving me a chance to defend myself.

"I am really sorry. Something came up." I replied.

"No qualms."
"Let's go to the dressing room, you need to change your clothes." She added as she packed her makeup and headed upstairs toward the dressing room.

I was lost for a millisecond. What on earth was wrong with what I was wearing?

The micro mini gown I wore could buy half of her clothes. But as it is, she was the boss at the moment so I had to agree to every idea that came out of her twisted mind.

Few minutes later, we are in the VIP lounge with some top business men in the country. The man I am supposed to hang out with is a multi billionaire who owned the largest telecommunication company in the whole of West Africa.

Rukky had told me about him some weeks back; that he flew into the country about three weeks back and he would be needing a classy girl to keep him company while he was in the country.

Since he was not yet around, I decided to pick a seat in a corner of the lounge. I sat down cocktail in hand while I watched one of the strippers do a pole dance in the middle of the room.

I was still sitting there when I felt a gentle tap on my shoulder. I turned around and found this potbellied man smiling at me with an awkward gap tooth. I felt my stomach turned. I silently prayed that was not the person I had been there waiting for.

How was I supposed to endure his clumsy face for two good weeks?

"Omalicha, I am Chief Ogbonna Ike."
"I have been watching you from afar off for quite long."
"Why are you here sitting all by yourself?" he said with the thickest Igbo accent I have ever heard in my entire life.

My jaws almost dropped. Like we are in the 24th century; do people still talk with Igbo accents?

I heaved a sigh of relieve when I discovered he was not the one I had been waiting for. I gave him a forced smile and decided to string him and see what he could offer. There was no crime in killing two birds with a stone after all.

"My name is Jumoke." I said extending my hand for a handshake.

But instead of shaking me, he took my hand and gave me a rather unnecessary kiss. I was seriously praying for him not to dribble on my hand.

The width of his gap tooth was really too much to take in. I shifted uneasily on my chair while I fought the urge of snatching my hand from him.

Finally he let go of my hand and sat on the chair next to me.

"This man will crack this chair today!" I thought as the little chair creaked under his weight.

"Adaobi, has anyone ever told you how beautiful you are?" he said.

His thick accent was all I could hear. It was like he was speaking in a strange tongue. And it took me some minutes before I could decipher his sentence.

When I finally did, I gave him a genuine smile.

By now I was feeling uneasy. Where the heck was this man I was supposed to meet? Or was Rukky playing games with me?

I really hope that was not the case because I was going to show her madness in 4D if I find out that she had been wasting my time.

And this Chief Ike, or whatever his name was, will not stop engaging me in all kinds of stupid talks.

I mean what was my business with the fact that his eldest son was gay, and he had been trying to fix him up with a woman.

Why was he telling me this?

It was not as if it would put food on my table or add to the money in my account… or even buy me a car.

My mind did a quick flash back to the fact that I had abandoned my Range Rover.

"I really needed a new car ASAP." I thought.

The man invited me over to his house the next weekend and I agreed in a bid to get rid of him. But he just won't stop. The good news was that he was super ric DIARYOFAJUMOKE #3

Rukky was touching up her make up when I got inside. The makeup and accessories didn't help her situation; she was still looking like a starved person.

Does this girl eat at all? I asked myself as I approached her.

"Jumoke, which levels nah?"
"What's all this? You were supposed to be here an hour ago!" she said, not giving me a chance to defend myself.

"I am really sorry. Something came up." I replied.

"No qualms."
"Let's go to the dressing room, you need to change your clothes." She added as she packed her makeup and headed upstairs toward the dressing room.

I was lost for a millisecond. What on earth was wrong with what I was wearing?

The micro mini gown I wore could buy half of her clothes. But as it is, she was the boss at the moment so I had to agree to every idea that came out of her twisted mind.

Few minutes later, we are in the VIP lounge with some top business men in the country. The man I am supposed to hang out with is a multi billionaire who owned the largest telecommunication company in the whole of West Africa.

Rukky had told me about him some weeks back; that he flew into the country about three weeks back and he would be needing a classy girl to keep him company while he was in the country.

Since he was not yet around, I decided to pick a seat in a corner of the lounge. I sat down cocktail in hand while I watched one of the strippers do a pole dance in the middle of the room.

I was still sitting there when I felt a gentle tap on my shoulder. I turned around and found this potbellied man smiling at me with an awkward gap tooth. I felt my stomach turned. I silently prayed that was not the person I had been there waiting for.

How was I supposed to endure his clumsy face for two good weeks?

"Omalicha, I am Chief Ogbonna Ike."
"I have been watching you from afar off for quite long."
"Why are you here sitting all by yourself?" he said with the thickest Igbo accent I have ever heard in my entire life.

My jaws almost dropped. Like we are in the 24th century; do people still talk with Igbo accents?

I heaved a sigh of relieve when I discovered he was not the one I had been waiting for. I gave him a forced smile and decided to string him and see what he could offer. There was no crime in killing two birds with a stone after all.

"My name is Jumoke." I said extending my hand for a handshake.

But instead of shaking me, he took my hand and gave me a rather unnecessary kiss. I was seriously praying for him not to dribble on my hand.

The width of his gap tooth was really too much to take in. I shifted uneasily on my chair while I fought the urge of snatching my hand from him.

Finally he let go of my hand and sat on the chair next to me.

"This man will crack this chair today!" I thought as the little chair creaked under his weight.

"Adaobi, has anyone ever told you how beautiful you are?" he said.

His thick accent was all I could hear. It was like he was speaking in a strange tongue. And it took me some minutes before I could decipher his sentence.

When I finally did, I gave him a genuine smile.

By now I was feeling uneasy. Where the heck was this man I was supposed to meet? Or was Rukky playing games with me?

I really hope that was not the case because I was going to show her madness in 4D if I find out that she had been wasting my time.

And this Chief Ike, or whatever his name was, will not stop engaging me in all kinds of stupid talks.

I mean what was my business with the fact that his eldest son was gay, and he had been trying to fix him up with a woman.

Why was he telling me this?

It was not as if it would put food on my table or add to the money in my account… or even buy me a car.

My mind did a quick flash back to the fact that I had abandoned my Range Rover.

"I really needed a new car ASAP." I thought.

The man invited me over to his house the next weekend and I agreed in a bid to get rid of him. But he just won't stop. The good news was that he was super ric

September 30, 2016

A Diary A Jumoke(a web seris)

DIARYOFAJUMOKE

#2

Three Months Earlier

I met Freddy at a beach party organized by my flat mate's friend. Actually I hated the girl somehow. She always acted superior, like she owned the entire universe. She was not even as pretty as I was.

Shade my flat mate had convinced me that the party was going to be fun. Besides I could meet a lot of rich guys there. Meeting rich guys was what got me to agree to come. I won't be so stupid to pass a chance of swimming in a pool full of wealthy fishes because of one stupid girl who had bleached every part of her body, including her brain.

We were half way into the party when he arrived. He was tall and muscular and I would have mistaken him for Vin Diesel if not for his dark skin tone.

I had been watching his every move since he arrived and I noticed the way the muscle in his back moved elegantly when he walked.

"His name is Freddy. He is Tega's cousin." Shade whispered to my ear when she saw how I was gawking at him.

Tega was the name of her friend who was having the beach party; the one that I disliked.

Not that I was a fan of muscular guys but then this Freddy guy was Tega's cousin. That meant only one thing; he was definitely going to be rich.

Without wasting time, I stood up from where I was sitting and walked towards him flaunting my killer bikini body as I walked. Many eyes were on me, or should I say many eyes were on my booty.

Yes, I was aware that any guy would drop dead to touch my booty but this time I was not in for any kind of stupid hookups not when I had a candidate in mind.

"Can I have a seat?" I asked with a perfected British accent.

Anybody would have thought I was born and bred outside the country.

As Shade would put it, my packaging game was hyper tight.

He looked up from his phone and I could swear his eyes were squarely on my cleavage.

The sharp girl that I was, I tilted my body to an angle closer to his face giving him a full view of my assets. Instantly, he gestured to an empty sit beside him.

"Have a sit babe." he mouthed as his eyes surveyed my drop dead physique.

He seemed to be pleased with what he saw.

I could see the loathing look Tega gave me when she saw that I was with her cousin. I cared less though. I was going all the way down with this one.

We talked for quite a while and all through I had worn my Victoria secret model look.

During our conversation, I learned that he was an only child and the sole heir to his father's fortune. That piece of information inspired me more to stay in the quest.

After a while, he told me he wanted to be on his way home.

Seriously?

I was not going to allow him leave without giving him a delicacy from the honey pot. He was too valuable not to have a taste.

I stood up and pulled on his hand seductively, pressing my booty against him intentionally. I told him I wanted to see his car and he seemed to have gotten the message.

Five minutes later, we were inside his car tearing at each other like angry birds.

Damnnnn!!!

The dude was a perfectionist. He knew how to do his thing and I was impressed.

The fact was that he had gotten deep into the honey pot and he was sure going to come back for more. So we became a regular. He was a bit older than i was but not old enough to be called a sugar daddy.

On my last birthday, he had gifted me with a Range Rover. I was slightly annoyed though. I had actually thought he would buy me a new car instead of him giving me the one he had been using before.

But as the saying goes half bread is better than none. I had accepted the car in good fate.

Freddy on the other hand was a hard core womanizer. He kept women of all shapes and sizes. I won't blame him, he was just too handsome not to womanize and besides, as far as I was concern, all guys are womanizers. Every single one of them.

I was in for the money though so he could sleep with every girl on the planet for all I care. As long as the money keeps rolling in, I'll continue to be the best sugar ba

September 30, 2016

A Diary A Jumoke(a web series)

DIARY OF A JUMOKE #1

I dialed his number and it rang for the second time in a row; where the hell was Freddy and why was the mumu not picking my calls?

I had been standing on the highway for almost an hour. My Range Rover had broken down and I had no idea what had happened to the silly car. It had been working perfectly before.

Gosh!!!

My leg had started to hurt due to the fact that I had been pacing up and down in my 5 inches tall Zanotti heels.

Dialing Freddy's number again, I opened the car, got inside and wait for the idiot to pick up. I was so going to give him a piece of my mind. I just hope he was not busy banging any cheap kitten.

The call connected…

"Hello babe," he said in a shaky voice, like he had been running a marathon. I was actually right; the idiot must have been banging a chick while I was here suffering.

"What on earth is wrong with you?” I thundered.
"You abandoned me here with this second hand car"
"You refused to pick my calls"
"Are you mad already!?"

I was really boiling and when I’m angry I tend to over react.

He mouthed a quick reply barely audible to my ears and before I could say jack he ended the call with a "Babe I have to go. Send me your location and I'll come pick you up."

What the hell just happened?
Did that broke ass dude just ignored me?

I was still thinking of a way to get out of the mess I got into when my eyes fell on my nails.

What I saw fueled my anger.

One of my neatly manicured nails had fallen off! This cannot be happening! I spent two hours fixing those nails. I paid fifteen thousand naira for it. And in a bid to open the car's bonnet, when it broke down, one of my nails fell off. This is not happening.

I checked the time and it was past noon. I was really running late and I was sure Rukky would have my head if I don't get my ass down to Club 44 very soon. She was giving me an offer of a life time; I must not mess things up but again I was still stuck with this god forsaken car.

As if controlled by a higher power, I picked up my Gucci bag, my phones, dropped the car keys on one of the chairs, got out and banged the door after me. I won't let any car wreck my plans. The idiot would come and carry the yeye car himself. I was going to get someone to buy me a new one later.

Not minding the scorching sun, I elegantly stood like a queen beside the road, waiting for a "Mr Charming" who appreciates beauty to stop and pick me up.

Yes, I was beautiful! I knew it. I had everything a guy wanted in a lady - long legs, a contoured face, a banging booty... What else could a guy ask for?

I had everything I wanted at my beck and call. Money was not a problem; I changed cars like clothes. I fly in and out of the country whenever I wanted. I don't really have a fixed income or job. I had been "self-employed" ever since I graduated from the university two years ago.

As the saying goes, I was using what I have to get what I want. I am a proud sugar baby. People talk but f*ck that poo! Money must be made and I have the perfect tools to use - my body actually. My area sister Rukky, will be connecting me with some real sugar daddies later in the day and I was not going to mess it up for anything.

Just when I thought my legs were finally going to crack, a Land Rover parked in front of me and I did a super Shoki inside me.

He rolled down his window.

"Can I help you sweetheart?" he asked in a baritone voice.

I did a quick survey of his face; dude looked cute and rich.

He looked like a potential "investor".

"Yes please, I need a lift." I answered flashing him a Rihannah inspired smile.

*mumu - A Nigerian slang used to describe a person who acts daft.
*kitten - Jamaican slang for vagina.
*yeye – useless
*Shoki – a type of West African dance                           

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September 30, 2016

Aaron A Werewolf Story 3

"What do you want me to say? I've said I'm sorry. I've tried to ask how you're feeling. I've tried to tell you how happy I am that you're mine. You get angry every time I speak."

"I don't know, try the truth, I know you've never been a fan."

"Forget it." Aaron turned on the car stereo.

There's a rising on the street tonight,

Every woman, man, and child,

Through the struggle we will all unite,

Watch the cities running wild.

'Cause we've been lied to by the liars,

We've been sold what we can buy

In our hearts there's a fire,

You can see it in our eyes.

"Who told you to play this?" Kate asked angrily.

"It's my car, my fucking ipod, nobody told me to play it, nobody will tell me not to fucking play it either." He answered back in exactly the same tone.

"You like Jack Savoretti? Whatever."

"You know this song?" Aaron looked at her as she rolled her eyes at him. "Yeah I like his stuff."

"Can I turn it up a bit?" She chewed on her lip a little and he tried not to watch what she was doing to her lower lip.

"Yeah just keep it below a roar." He returned his eyes to the road.

"I'm sorry I just never pictured you listening to something I would like."

"That is such a stupid thing to say. We were friends don't you remember anything good about me?"

"Well Lexi told me about something."

"Not something someone else told you, something you know, remember about me? Anything good you see in me?"

The deafening silence was broken by him pulling over and getting out of the car. He glared at her and then ran.

He couldn't change into his wolf out here but if he had stayed in that car he would have lost it. Totally fucking lost it. She had known him since she was born and couldn't think of one, not one bloody thing about him she liked."

"Stay in the car Kate."

"I will not. I'm already out of the car. Where are you going?"

"I'm going for a run. I'll be back soon."

"Come back and lock the car, we can run together."

"I don't want to run with you."

"I am well aware." It was the touch of sadness in her voice that convinced him to stop increasing the distance between them. It wasn't however enough to make him walk back. He moved to a log and sat down.

"I knew you still hated me." He said quietly as she approached.

"I don't hate you. Never did, not really." She sat beside him and leaned against him needing to offer touch to comfort him but also seeking comfort herself. "I'm sorry I shouldn't have taken so long to reply, I was thinking."

"You couldn't think of anything."

"Moron, I was remembering. I remember when the kids at school teased me for being a freckle faced gingernut and you told them freckles were angel kisses and that everybody with a brain knew autumn leaves were more beautiful than summer ones. I remember when my mum left and you came and sat with me and told me I could have your brother and that your mum and dad loved me more than you anyway so I could have your spot in the family. I remember the night of my eighteenth birthday when I was so drunk and making a complete fool of myself you held my hair while I vomited and cried and never laughed even once at me."

"Oh." He put an arm around her then and they just sat in silence for a bit.

Aaron couldn't stop the small hope building. Maybe she didn't hate him after all. Maybe she would start to see how he had really felt and he wouldn't have to confess his secrets. Maybe she would work it all out on her own. His mate was so smart it amazed him she hadn't called him on his shit, way back then.

"We should keep going. Aaron, I see the good you try to hide. I just don't know why you insist on hiding it."

"I'm a moron remember?"

"Whatever." She laughed and gave him a kiss on the cheek. "You're my moron now."

***

"Fuck look at this shit hole." Aaron drove into town slowly. There seemed to be a mix of closed down store fronts and abandoned houses along the main street. He turned into a side street when he saw a person walking that way and as he continued driving past spotted a bar, it seemed to be pretty busy considering the time of day.

"Over there." Kate pointed out a row of portable homes. "I think that would be where she lives."

"Yeah okay let's go check into the motel and then we can go have a drink at the bar and meet the locals."

"Awesome babe, I totally can't wait." Kate tussled her hair and chomped on a piece of imaginary gum.

"Never do that again. I'll have nightmares for the rest of my life."

"Like totes muffin, no probs."

"I am going to die before this day ends aren't I?"

"If you're a big strong boy I'll make it up to you when we get back to the motel tonight." She twirled the end of her hair around a finger now and looked at him all sexy.

"I'm thinking that doesn't mean anything like what I am hoping it does." He groaned.

"I'm not one of your skanks Aaron so no probably not." She lost her character as her eyes flashed with her wolf. Then she fought for control and said politely, "But I will let you look at my playlist and top up you ipod."

"More like you just want to check out my playlist and steal a few new tunes."

"Oh look at my sexy man being all clever. So hot."

"Whatever."

"Yeah I am not going to be able to keep that act up so I don't think I'll bother at all. I'd want to claw my own eyes and tongue out by the end of the day."

"And cut off your ears, that whingey twang is worse than nails on a blackboard."

"True. So I guess we will just be fucked up versions of ourselves then?"

"Seems easiest to keep real. Oh fuck. Look at that." Aaron stared at the motel ahead of them. The sign called it 'Paradise' it looked like the gateway to hell. Directly under the large neon sign was a smaller sign offering overnight or by the hour room rates. "Classy."

"You think there's another motel in this place?"

"Not according to google. Shit this looks like the sleazy sort of place where the owner puts hidden cameras in the rooms and livestreams to a porn website."

"I'm sure he only does that in the premium rooms babe, too risky having all that dead air time for the overnight guests, he'll be focusing on the by the hour guests."

"Couldn't you have just said I'd watched too many b-grade movies and was being stupid?"

"You may be a moron, but this time..."

"Okay well don't be saying anything until we have checked the room out with the gadgets Carl and Mason gave us."

"Genius, Right there." Kate rolled her eyes as they drove into the space reserved for check in.

"Whatever." He leaned in and gave her kiss, a very thorough kiss, "Just go with it for the audience sugar."

***

Man he can kiss. Kate was damn pleased she was sitting because the way her legs were shaking she'd be on her way down right now. His tongue stroked along hers. Briefly played with the piercing in her own before tracing the roof of her mouth along the inside edge of her upper gum line. His lips were firm, moist enough to not be dry and hard but not overly wet. She had had a few good kisses in her time but between the one in the bar when she recognised him as her mate and this one, she was just about ready to bend over and beg him to take her. Shit. She couldn't let this get out of control.

She pushed him back, "Easy tiger."

"Sorry. I've never liked kissing much. I mean, I don't often do much kissing at all, but I can't seem to stop..."

"Aaron, stop lying. Everyone knows how much you've spread it around..."

"Sex. Fucking. Not kissing. I'll give you the number of every girl from the past ten years and you can ask them."

"Like you'd know their names let alone their numbers."

"Fuck. Forget it." He got out of the car and went to check in.

"He wasn't lying."

"Shut up wolf. What would you know?"

"You hurt him. Every time you accuse him of lying he burns with it."

"It's guilt."

"You're a fool. You better sort this out fast because once this mission ends if you haven't sorted things out with our mate. I'm going to."

"Whatever."

Kate watched Aaron come out of the motel office and climb back into the car. "I told him we were exhausted and had been travelling for days and wanted the quietest room he had."

"Yeah and?"

"We have a room at the far end, next to the cleaner's supplies."

"Good work." She chewed on her lip then caught herself and stopped, "Um Aaron, about the kissing, I like kissing you too."

"Just leave it Kate." He started the car and drove to their unit. "I'll check in with Thorn."

CHAPTER FIVE

"Yeah, we're looking for this little blonde tramp named LJ. She said she was from here." Kate spoke to the guy behind the bar but kept her voice just loud enough so a few nearby would hear.

"What you want her for?" A woman sitting at the bar asked.

"She and I have to talk. She tried to steal my man." Kate put a possessive hand on Aaron's arm. "I don't take that shit."

"If I had a man like that one I wouldn't either. You looking for Jolene's girl, but she never comes back here."

"Jolene, her mother?" Aaron asked in a sexy rumble. Yeah play up the hot guy role moron, not like I'm wet enough and jealous enough already, Kate thought to herself.

"Yeah, she's over there in the booth. No point trying to talk to her right now though. She's flying over the fucking rainbow right now."

"Yeah, well her skank daughter deserves everything she gets. Came into my room and climbed into my bed. Thing is I got lucky I was out. My twin brother... well yeah she got unlucky."

"Two of you?" The woman ran a tongue over her lips appreciatively at that.

"Look exactly the same, only Aaron here he's good ya know? His brother, yeah not so much, total slut. Keeps screwing all the girls he can, even though he knows he's going to kill them all."

"Infected eh? Yeah we got problems with that here too but some of these skanks don't even care who they fuck. Come to think of it disease is the least of their problems." The barman looked across the room at a poster on the wall. "They end up missing or dead, or like Jolene over there so hooked on drugs they can't even function."

"Yeah, welcome to Paradise." The woman said bitterly and down the last of her drink. "Get me another drink and I'll go introduce you to Jolene."

"Whatever she's having and a couple of beers for me and my girl." Aaron handed over the cash. "Send a couple more over in a bit, think we'll be here a while, had a big drive and I want to get shit faced and then sleep like the dead."

"Stick to the beer then mate, because the shit that lot are on never lets you sleep."

"Jo, Jolene, yeah that's right skank it's me Lou, these two here wanted to meet you."

"Fuck off Lou, I'm busy."

"Yeah well, they bought me a drink so now we're going to have a round or three with you and they can get to know what a bitch you are."

"I told you, it wasn't my fault. He paid like everyone else and what am I supposed to do turn down good cash?"

"He was my husband you slut and we were best friends."

"I gave him back to ya, not my fault if you decided not to keep him."

"Yeah well I guarantee neither of those two plan on paying so you may as well tell them to get back to wherever they belong."

"I've never paid for it." One of the two stood, "And I sure as fuck wouldn't pay for your crap ass. Come on bro I'm out of here."

"So now you see where the daughter gets it?" Lou plonked herself down in the booth as soon as the two men left.

"Well I'm not about to feel sorry for her."

"That's her mother? How the fuck did she end up so amazing?"

"Reign in the wolf baby, if you kill her mother now we won't learn anything and the mission will be a bust."

"Kill her? I'm too scared to touch her, ewww."

"Smells like she's doing a good job of killing herself anyway."

"You know the brat?"

"Ahhh fuck Jolene, pull your head out of your bum and think about it. She isn't a brat anymore, she done grew up, into a slut just like her mama. Makes ya real proud don't it?"

"Oh, right, yeah, I haven't seen her since... I dunno."

"Since her boyfriend killed himself after watching her fucking his father?"

"Damn, forgot that, man that was a big night in this hole. Full on."

"Yeah that bitch was getting a good hiding until the cops showed up."

"What was that about reigning in my wolf?" Kate teased Aaron but realising how close he was to actually losing it she leaned in and nibbled on his ear. "It wasn't like that, we know Luna. I know what happened that night, all the girls do..."

"I don't need to know, these filthy bitches saying stuff like that about our Luna, our alpha, our family... I can smell so much nasty in here it is like I'm fucking drowning in it. Fuck you need to stop me from drowning in it."

"Shhhh I've got you. Kiss me Aaron, breathe me in, fill, your body, with me."

"Fuck. Don't say shit like that."

Kate immediately sat back in the chair and put up all her walls. He'd fucked up again. He grabbed her and pulled her close. He placed her hand on his cock and leaned into her "I want to take you so bad. I want to drown in you. I want you to drown in me. I need you to be mine. I need to show you how much I..."

"Fuck you two are so hot together." Lou spoke across the table, which totally killed the conversation but not the feelings of either the man who spoke them in her ear or the woman who panted against him as she heard him making his claims.

"So you can see why my girl here isn't happy your daughter tried to break us up. But we aren't really here to tear her apart either. She's a bit of a fucked up mess, apple, tree, you know? Anyway we wanted to tell her it wasn't me. Warn her she's got to get to a doctor."

"Can you contact her?" Kate stroked a hand up and down Aaron's thigh, letting the edge of her hand now and then run along his hard length. He vibrated under her hand and on the next stroke his hand put a stop to her teasing and he clenched it tight against his leg, holding it still.

"Nah, I don't even know where the little bitch went. Well I heard about the murder, but nothing after that."

"Murder?" Aaron looked from Kate to Jolene and back again. Seeing how little Kate reacted he growled, "When we get back to the fucking room you better tell me everything I need to know about what she has been through. You hear me?"

"It isn't my fucking place. Thorn knows everything. Luna will share what she wants with you. Thorn will share what he wants or needs with you. I am not breaking her confidence. She is my best fucking friend."

"Just the stuff that is public knowledge then so I don't fuck up this mission."

"Yeah whatever."

"Said it was self-defence but we know better than that don't we Jo. That girl has been craving cock since she had her first lip gloss."

"She killed a man?"

"Yeah. Told everyone he tried to rape her but more like she'd been riding him hard and got carried away." Lou waved out to the barman for more drinks.

"Smashed in his brain." Jolene shrugged. "I get it, few men I'd have liked to kill too, over the years."

"I can drink to that." Lou raised her glass.

"You'd drink to anything, you whore." Jolene stood up, "You'll need to let me out, I need the bathroom."

"So you two going to be staying for a bit?"

"Well we need to do some work on the car and rest up some, be here a few days I guess. Maybe a bit longer if I have to get in any parts."

"You a mechanic?"

"Not officially, but I can handle a bit of grease."

"I bet he rocks a pair of overalls and a dirty rag, don't he?" Lou winked at Kate and then said, "She's gone to have another hit. You won't get any sense out of her now. You may as well head home. Not like she was able to help you much anyways."

"We'll finish this round then. You always lived here Lou?"

"Yeah, know everyone in this town. That bitch and I have known each other since kindergarten."

"Can you tell us where the supermarket is?" Kate interrupted worried they were pushing too hard too fast.

"Yeah if you're at the motel drive three more blocks and you'll find it. Not sure why they built it outside of town, bloody crazy."

"LJ's father still in town? Maybe he knows where she went?"

Lou's laughter was genuine, "That man left town right after that kid popped out. That's why Jolene's so fucked up. She loved him something awful. He filled her up with promises and lies and then fucked off."

"Who fucked off?" The barman dropped the drinks onto the table.

"John. Remember what Jolene was like back then? She wasn't perfect but she loved him."

"Yeah enough to trap him with the oldest trick in the book, not sure if I call that love Lou."

"She got knocked up on purpose. It isn't like she killed anyone." Lou shrugged, "We do what we gotta."

"Yeah and how's that worked out for any of you?"

"Fuck you." Lou's eyes went to the poster they had seen earlier, she raised her glass and appeared to be toasting to the girl on the wall. "I'm out of here. May see you before you take off. I'm here most days."

"Yeah, we'll be round again." Aaron looked at the poster more closely.

"Daughter?"

"That would be my guess?"

September 30, 2016

Aaron A Werewofl Story 2

byJanuaryMoon1©

"Once I know what is wrong with you Alex and I can go on the mission."

"You are bloody pushing me Kate. I know this has been a crappy day for you, and I cannot apologise enough for hurting you, again, but listen to me Katie, you are my mate and I will not let you leave here with another male, not even my brother."

"Fine, I can handle it on my own."

"Can you two stop arguing and just get to the house, I am starving and quite frankly I need to know what the fuck is happening."

"Oh well if YOU need to know, we better run along, because this is all about YOU." Aaron got up in his twin's face and added, "You even think of leaving here with her I swear I'll..."

"Fuck you Aaron, I don't need to steal your mate."

"I know you wouldn't steal her, moron, but I know you want to protect her, even if it is from me."

"I won't need to protect her from you Aaron, I'm not stupid. I know you love her. She's your mate."

"Alright you two go change and get dressed. I'll look after Kate." Maggie immediately took charge seeing the pain in the girl's eyes and the frustration in her son's. "I've run a bath for you Katie, go hop in, I'll be through in a second and we can chat."

"Aaron I said I've got this, get out of here."

"She might run again." His fear had him too scared to leave the room.

"Have a bit more faith in me son, you really think I'd let that girl out of here? Even if you weren't my son I wouldn't let her run. Aaron I love that girl and you, I know you're both hurting right now, but I've got some ideas already and I'm sure we will have this sorted by morning."

"She's okay though right? She isn't like, sick, or something?"

"Calm down. Of course she isn't sick. If she was sick we would have known. She's almost a qualified doctor. The pack doctor and I look after our whole pack. You think we would miss something?"

"Well no offense but everybody seemed to miss that she had no bloody scent so what do I know."

"She had a scent. Apparently it wasn't hers."

"What?"

"I am not saying any more until you are both human and I will tell you both."

"That bad?" He growled as she held up a hand in the international signal to stop, then used the same hand to point to his room. "Yeah, whatever, it's bad." He gave one more look towards the bathroom door which stood between him and his mate and then went upstairs.

***

"Kate, I'm coming in now, it is just me, okay?"

"Maggie, what is wrong with Aaron? Why didn't he know me?"

"Oh honey, stop crying, he's fine." Seeing where Kate's mind then went Maggie quickly reassured her, "You're fine too."

"Oh Mags, I don't know what I'm going to do. If he doesn't want me how can I stay in the pack?"

"Shhh, honey he has loved you for much longer than a day, and he will definitely want to be your mate."

"We haven't always been friends you know that. It has been a real roller coaster over the years. He might love me as a friend sometimes but sometimes he hates me too."

"He has never hated you." Maggie began to rinse out Kate's hair as she talked quietly to her. "When you were little he was jealous because he thought you were taking Alex away. But by the time you were in grade school he was jealous because you liked Alex more than him. By the time he hit high school he wasn't jealous anymore."

"That's why he stopped being mean to me?"

"Well sort of." Maggie sighed knowing she couldn't say more. "Now I need you to really wash every bit of your skin Kate. I've added some herbs and some baking soda to the water, I've washed your hair already but if you want to wash it again use this mix here." She pointed to a small cup of creamy liquid. "I'll let you have a bit of time but you can't hide in here all night. I'll go warm up some food and then all three of us, well I guess four if Alex joins us, will talk."

"Okay. Thanks Maggie." Kate closed her eyes and leaned back in the bath.

"Don't fall asleep. Scrub." Maggie said as she closed the bathroom door behind her.

"Is she alright?" Aaron and Alex were already standing there looking concerned.

"Kitchen, we can start to get the food ready while she washes up."

"Mum, please? Is. She. Alright?"

"Oh shit sorry, of course she is. I wouldn't have just left her in there alone if she wasn't."

"Should we call her mum?"

"Um, no, I've already spoken to her. As soon as she ran I was swamped with communications from all three of you. Then nothing so while you looked for her I started working it all out and then I called Alpha Maxwell and he called me back with confirmation of what I guessed."

Kate walked into the room wearing a light green sweatshirt and a pair of grey leggings. "What did Alpha Maxwell have to say?"

"Come and sit down honey." Maggie gestured to the chair between herself and Aaron.

Kate looked at the chair like it was a snake and walked around to the opposite side of the table and sat down.

"Your mother really suffered when she was attacked Kate. She never recovered as well as we hoped she would. When the rogue raped her he broke something inside." Kate nodded she knew that.

"Is there something about my father that damaged me?"

"No, no, you aren't damaged. This isn't easy Kate. When my mother took in your mum she watched over her full time. She tried to kill herself a number of times in those first few months but after she felt you move inside her she seemed to heal. She focused all of her attention on you. She loves you Katie."

"Even though I remind her so much of him she hates me around?"

Aaron stood raging at that, "You can't believe she hates you? Blames you for what he did?" He roared.

"Of course I do. She met her mate and left with him, but she left me here."

"She left you here because she thought you were safer here. Not because she doesn't love you. Mum tell her." Aaron ordered his mother.

"Shit. You're both sort of right. She loves you and wanted you safe Kate, but she also found it hard seeing you every day. Not because of how you were conceived, but because she was scared to death."

"Scared I would be like him? Scared I would see how much she wished I didn't exist? Scared her mate wouldn't want me, a reminder he wasn't her first?"

Aaron walked around the table and grabbed her before she could wind herself up further. "Stop it. Stop it. Katie stop crying. Stop crying like that."

It wasn't until he held her she realised how her words had morphed into sobs that shook her whole body. Sobs that had her struggling for breath. He lifted her into his embrace and then sat in the chair he had pulled her from his arms still around her.

"I'd love to say no. But I can't. But you need to try to remember even then, and now she loved and loves you."

"Okay so is there something genetically wrong with me?"

"No. Your mother began making good progress with all the studies she did with my mother. She was brilliant with herbs, she has the gift. She started making soaps, shampoo, lotions. We were pleased she seemed to be finding something that made her happy. Something she gave back to the pack too. Many of the women use her products."

"She put something in them?" Alex was quick to catch on. "She put spells on her products?"

"I don't believe she spelled anyone else's only the special supply she has made for Katie since she was a child."

"No." Kate gasped as the pain of what her mother could potentially have done to her hit hard. "She wanted me to be alone forever."

"You found me Kate. You found me and I'm yours. You aren't going to be alone. I swear we will be okay."

"She didn't want me to have a mate? Children?"

"She didn't want you hurt. She worried a wolf may find your scent and attack you. She worried she might lose you."

"Bullshit. She never wanted me anyway. Let me go Aaron."

"I'm not letting you go."

"Aaron, you need to let her breathe, digest this, Kate I'm not saying this isn't horrible, doesn't suck more than anything I ever imagined but you are letting your thoughts run wild on this. She does love you. I mean she might be totally fucked in the head and more damaged than any of us knew but she loves you. I remember how she used to be when she was here. Fuck she never let you out of her sight for more than a minute. Then after she left with her mate she wrote and called all the time because your mental link wasn't enough for her she used to send you those stupid countdown calendars for visits, remember?" Alex tried to get through the haze of pain surrounding her.

"Whatever." Both Aaron and Kate said at once.

"Sorry." Aaron said quietly. "Thought that was in my head, it slipped out."

"Not even worried about it Aaron. Besides I've had my family sorted for a long time now. Nothing has changed."

"Nothing has changed? Are you bloody kidding me?"

"Nope." She then asked, "Can you smell me now?"

"Not yet Kate. It will take a few washes to neutralise the products you've been using."

"I don't need to keep being reminded anyway I'll never forget how you smell."

"Well you still smell like a manwhore covered in cheap skanks so forgive me if I really don't care. I'm exhausted and want to go to bed. Let go."

"You need to eat." He growled. Then reluctantly let her slip from his hold. "I'll leave you eat."

"Go wash."

"Yes dear." He gave her a quick kiss on the cheek and left the room as she screamed at him.

"Don't call me dear, and do not kiss me."

"Okay sweetie. I'll wait till you ask next time."

Alex laughed so she threw Aaron's fork at him "Fork you Alex, fork you."

CHAPTER THREE

"Aaron, I know you and Kate are struggling to work together and I know neither of you expected things to go the way they have, but I am counting on you both. What her mother has done is being dealt with by her alpha. Can the two of you handle this?"

"Thorn, my brother, my alpha, of course I can. We can. She tried to get Alex to go instead. He decided me tearing his head off wasn't how he wanted to die and politely declined."

"Where is Kate now?" Thorn could not believe how much was going on in the pack right now. He had so many balls in the air and if one dropped the repercussions... well he just couldn't let any of the damn balls drop.

"A more immature, less intelligent man may reply, 'hiding from me'. Of course I'm a better man and I'm going to say she is taking a time out to adjust to the best news she has ever had."

"You are lucky I'm at the end of this phone Aaron or I'd likely smack you over the head right now. She isn't alone is she?" Thorn could not get his head around this latest news. He could guarantee Kate needed him and Luna right now, but if they went to her how could he proceed with what needed to be done? He had tried to come up with an alternative plan, but none would work as well. Kate had declined his attempt to remove them from the plan and proceed with a plan B. As an alpha he struggled to balance what the pack needed and what he needed regularly, but this time he was truly torn.

"Of course she's not alone. Fuck I know I'm not the bloody alpha but I'm not a heartless prick either. Mum and Rachel are with her. She will be okay Thorn. I will make sure she is okay."

"I know Aaron. I didn't mean to make you think I thought otherwise, I'm just feeling like I should be doing more. Like I should get Luna and myself there ASAP. Like when Luna finds out about this and why she was kept in the dark I am going to be getting my balls handed to me on a plate."

"So don't keep her in the dark. Kate needs her, and Luna will never forgive you if she isn't allowed to be there for her best friend. Kate understands the mission and the reason for it. Kate is too fucking smart for her own good. When she ran today she nearly made it."

"But you caught up with her. You got her to stay. It is a hell of a shock Aaron. I can't believe her mother would do that to her. To any wolf. But to her daughter? Mum tried to explain what she had been thinking but Aaron this would have left both of you alone forever."

"Do not even say that Thorn. She is my mate and I will earn her love and trust. She will be mine." Aaron growled down the line.

"I know brother. The good news is she has been shielded from the worst of your behaviour."

"Not shielded enough. She actually pierced one of my balls with a claw and growled at me. Her words were not exactly loving."

Aaron thought over everything that had happened the previous day, shit, over the last twenty-five years. "Thank God for the damn mating pull, because I need every advantage I can get."

"You'll both be fine, but if I don't get back home soon Luna will beat me there and I won't be home to see her reaction to you and Kate."

"I'll ask Kate very nicely not to ring until you give her the go ahead. Can you believe I have a mate? Alex can't stop laughing, but seriously I cannot wait till it's his turn. I have never felt so bloody complete, and we haven't even ... well you know."

***

Kate was on the phone to Luna. She was unsure how much her friend would understand but she really needed her to be on her side in this. She needed her so badly. If it wasn't for the mission she would be in fat pants holding a pint of ice-cream and watching John Hughes movies with Luna right now.

"Luna, I met my mate today. Well I didn't meet him. I've known him most of my life. I don't even know where to begin. I had to go to see some of the pack before I headed to see my mother. I walked into the restaurant and I smelled him straight away I followed my nose in almost blind lust. I was already about to pounce when I realised I knew the man my nose had lead me too. I hadn't seen him since I turned twenty-one. I'm not sure if your wolf lessons have covered that but we can't smell our mate until after that. Anyway I kissed him so deeply and smelled him and clung to his body, and he didn't know me. He didn't smell me. Didn't recognise me as his mate."

"Kate, I'm coming to get you. I'll kick his ass so badly and then I'm bringing you home and we'll find you a better mate."

There was a lengthy pause in the conversation then Luna asked, "Who is it? How do you know him?"

"It's Aaron."

"Thorn's Aaron? Thorn you tell him to stop hurting Katie and fix this."

"It wasn't his fault Luna. Remember how my mum makes me those soaps and body washes you all love so much? Remember how when she was on the phone and I said you adored them and were going to start using them, and she insisted on sending you your own so we would have our own unique scents? Turns out my supply was all spelled. She has been masking my true scent my whole damn life. You probably have no idea how big that is ..."

"She did what? You would never have found your mate!"

"Oh you do get it. Well that makes it easier for you to understand how betrayed I feel."

"Hold up, hold up. You basically jumped your mate, he rejected you and you worked out it was your soap? You seem to have missed a big chunk of the story."

"Shit sorry. Yeah I ran. I think he thought I'd gone loopy or something. Aaron and Alex came after me and insisted I come back. I refused, turned wolf and took off. It took a few hours for Aaron to find me. I know how to cover my tracks. When he found me in wolf form, after a strenuous escape plan, filled with adrenalin, anger, and heartbreak. Well he plunged his nose into my, um well he got a really good whiff and now he knows he's my mate. We went back and spoke to Maggie and she had a few ideas, ending in my mother confessing to her alpha."

"Oh honey, I am so sorry you had to go through that, and yet so happy for you too. Ahhh is Aaron a good thing? I know you avoided wolves, I am fairly certain based on one meeting, Aaron has never avoided anything female. Will you be alright?"

"That's why I rang. I'm taking Aaron with me and we're going to see if we can sort things out while I deal with the mother stuff. So I'm going to be a head case but I didn't want you thinking I'm not interested in the wedding, or forgetting you."

"Don't you dare worry about any of this, nothing going on here, you hear me? You just look after yourself and I swear Katie day or night, ring and I will come and get you. If his alpha won't sort him out his future sister-in-law will totally knock him flat."

"I love you LJ, and that bloke you're marrying. I know I'll love Aaron too, it just may take a couple of weeks. Besides Thorn is my alpha too, he adopted me and I'm no longer officially part of my mother's pack. So if I don't get things sorted and get back there in time for the wedding it might be my butt Thorn kicks."

"Thorn we're leaving in fifteen minutes, Aaron will contact you when we get there, shouldn't be too late. Thank you for letting me share my news with LJ, it wouldn't have been the same to go through this without her."

"I know I said it earlier Katie, but I am sorry it all went the way it did up until this morning. The two of you can turn this around now, be happy."

"He didn't want me Thorn. That hurt more than you can know. Then he basically decided I'd gone bananas and was a danger to everyone. Add in the fact he has screwed nearly every female not in his direct bloodline in this town ... well at least we're getting out of here tonight."

"Yeah, I know it isn't easy. For either of you. Worse for you of course. But give him and yourself a chance Kate. He will make you happy. He is already so sorry."

"No he thinks he's sorry. I don't think he understands at all yet. He is just an overgrown teenager who likes to get his dick wet. Now he needs to man up, and then he needs to realise the only way that dick gets wet is with my assistance, and I'm not a tramp like the bitches he's been screwing."

"Ok I'm not wanting to make his situation worse so I will let him dig himself out of that hole on his own. Luna can tell I'm talking to you so I better go, before she does karate chop me or something. Keep in touch."

***

Aaron threw the last few items into the bag he was packing. He knew Kate had finished speaking to Luna and to Thorn. He looked at Alex and saw his brother stared hard at him. "You need to tell her."

"I will. After we're mated. Until then she wouldn't believe me anyway."

"You're a coward Aaron. If she knew how much you've..."

"Not now Alex. Just not now."

"Yeah okay." Alex stood up. "You be careful on this one Aaron, I don't mean the Kate thing I mean the mission, I don't think this is just a meet the folks thing, it feels a hundred shades of fucked up to me."

"Well I'm an expert at fucked up so I should fit in just fine."

"I love you bro, take care, and please try not to screw up everything with Kate while you're away. Take it slow."

"Fuck you. When you meet your mate I'm going to tell you to take it slow. When you meet a woman you haven't known for years, loved for years, and you'll lose your shit at me saying it about a complete stranger, which gives you an insight to about a fucking tenth of how much I'm feeling right now, so yeah Alex, fuck you."

"Alright Mister Potty mouth, I'm only trying to help."

"Moron." Aaron gave Alex a quick hug. "I'm so pleased mum gave up on that swear jar."

"Shit, I'd forgotten about that. I might start one up again, you lot will make me a millionaire."

"You'd be paying in as much as the rest of us." Aaron called out as he left the room.

Maggie waited in the hallway and gave him a hug, "Be strong Aaron. It will be okay."

"Of course it will. I'm irresistible."

CHAPTER FOUR

Kate looked at Aaron for the hundredth time in the last hour. They hadn't spoken for at least two and they still had a while to go before they reached their destination. "You have nothing to say?"

September 30, 2016

Aaron A Werewolf Story

PROLOGUE

Twenty-five Years Ago

Aaron watched the little girl running screaming from the swan, and thought she was the stupidest creature on the planet. Alex of course rushed to her rescue. He was so sick of her stealing his brother from him. He spent more time with her than him these days.

"Stop running stupid. It just wants your sandwich."

"It's attacking me! Help me! Help me!"

"You're acting like a stupid little brat, aren't you a wolf?"

"Do I look like a wolf? I'm a little girl you moron."

Aaron shook his head confused and then seeing Alex had now fed the swan his sandwich and rescued her, walked over to his parents and his aunts. "She is a wolf isn't she?"

"Yes son, it just seems neither her nor her mother have really accepted that yet."

"So stupid." Aaron rolled his eyes and muttered to himself as he walked to his room, "What's to accept? You're wolf or you're not."

Twenty-one Years Ago

"I hate you Aaron, you're so mean." Katie tried to get the glue out of her hair braid. "What did I ever do to you?"

"Like you don't know." He hadn't been able to resist dipping the long braid into the pot of glue during their art class and then as she glared at him her nose all wrinkled up like that he decided it wasn't enough and upended the pot over her head. Before laughing and dumping a container of glitter over her too.

"AARON!" Oh shit now the teacher was coming and Katie was crying and turning as red as her hair.

"What?"

"Go sit in the naughty corner and think about what you've done." She took Katie in her arms, "Come on sweetie we'll go and wash this out."

"Don't bother he pulls my hair every day, puts paint in it, now he's poured glue all through it." Katie looked right at him as she dried her eyes and walked away from the teacher picked up a large pair of scissors and chopped through both her long braids right where they met her head before the teacher could stop her. "Here play with my hair as much as you want you moron." She yelled as she threw them at him and then stomped out of class. The teacher still in shock.

"I'm calling your father Aaron. Don't you dare move from that chair, do you hear me?" The teacher, picked up both long red braids and waved her finger at him before leaving.

"Why do you have to keep picking on her Aaron? She's my friend. She wanted to be your friend too and you ruined it." Alex was not impressed. Well neither was Aaron. Now Alex sat with Katie and he had to sit with that smelly boy Matt.

"She stole you. You were my best friend and now you're hers."

"You're my twin brother, you'll always be my best friend. She's right you are a moron."

"Whatever."

Fifteen Years Ago

"What are you doing?"

"Nothing, leave me alone." She never looked up.

"You ever going to forget that you hate me?"

"I don't hate you Aaron. I just don't like you." She looked up now, confusion in her eyes and he smelled it again. She was afraid what he was going to do to her this time. He hadn't done anything for three years and she still tensed up whenever he tried to talk to her.

"I know. I'm sorry. I've been saying sorry for two years now, can't you just forgive me?"

"I told you I forgave you two years ago." She went back to writing in her book.

"Yeah but you lied." He hated that she wouldn't forgive him. He'd been a moron. She was right. Alex was right. But he had been jealous and just a kid.

"Whatever."

Aaron looked at her sitting there in her pretty pale pink shirt and blue jeans and wondered why she couldn't just let it go. He looked at the way the shirt pulled across her chest and swallowed as he noticed he was staring. Shit. "Yeah whatever Katie, but I swear I won't do anything to hurt you again and I mean it, I'm really sorry."

"Just leave me alone Aaron. Please."

Twelve Years Ago

"I don't want to go to the dance with her. You're forcing me to go with her just to make her feel better and make her think she fits in and she's..."

"Fat and ugly and doesn't fit in." Lexi walked around the corner in a dress that was too big and covered every bit of skin from her throat to her ankles, and the ugliest colour he'd ever seen, and he could see her fighting back the tears. Shit. "Don't worry Aaron. I never wanted to go to the damn dance anyway. Katie insisted I had to go. Then she decided since everyone else had a date I had to have one too. You're off the hook." Lexi ran from the room and Aaron took one look at his brother and knew he wouldn't get a chance to explain because right behind his brother came a really pissed off red head.

"WHAT DID YOU DO?"

"I didn't do anything. I was trying to explain to Alex that I didn't want to go to the damn dance and she..."

"You hurt her you moron. You hurt her so bad."

"I know I saw, I felt it through the link, just like you, but I didn't say any of the things she thinks I was saying."

"Alex I don't know how you and he can possibly be twins." Katie glared at him again and then pulled her phone from her pocket. Texting furiously.

"She's gone to the lake. You don't need to text her to know that. She always goes to the lake. You go get ready for the Katie I'll come get you in the morning for school. Aaron and I will go sort things with Lexi. The dance is a week away we will sort this and the four of us will go together." Alex ignored Aaron's growl.

"Don't let him anywhere near her."

"He can't dance, he has been trying to get out of this all week, then we all came here to get clothes for the dance and he saw how much she hated being here and knew she was miserable, and he just wanted to run from the whole situation. You know he would never hurt Lexi."

"Whatever." Katie clearly didn't believe any such thing. Aaron knew Katie thought he went out of his way to hurt everyone around him.

"Yeah whatever." Aaron looked at her in the dress she was about to purchase. It was perfect on her. The hem just below her knees was lower at the back than at the front. The curved edge of the emerald green bodice showed the shape of her breasts and the pale skin of her throat and arms. Her red hair was growing long again and she wore it in a messy pile on top of her head. "I'll pay for her dress." He walked away. Calling back to Alex, "Get her stuff from the changing room and we'll put I'll ask for the sales woman to give us a bag to put it in."

Eight Years Ago

"This is nice." Katie sat on the swing and rocked gently backwards and forwards holding the bottle of beer loosely in her hand.

"Yeah it is." Aaron looked her over and saw she had on the bracelet that he and Alex had got her for her birthday. "Twenty-one Katie. How does it feel?"

"Not much different to twenty. Especially as my actual birthday isn't for another week. I didn't mean my birthday. I meant that we are friends. Three years ago you and I made our peace and it has been good having you as one of my best friends Aaron."

"Yeah whatever." He grinned as she started to laugh. He stood and began to push her on the swing. He watched her raise her legs to increase the movement. The floral dress lifting up on her thighs and her slim legs stretching out her toes pointing up to the moon and then on the backwards movement hooking up under her bottom. As she moved away again this time his eyes travelled upwards and he noticed as her toes hit the high point her head tipped right back and her twinkling eyes were looking at him, her smile wide and fuck he could see down the top of her dress. He thanked whoever it was that insisted that it was fashionable this year to wear loos shorts and long t-shirts as he went instantly hard.

"Best birthday party ever." Lexi, Rose and Alex all came up to them, and Aaron took the beer his brother passed him. "Right Kate?"

"Yeah, apart from the fact I leave tomorrow."

Aaron had forgotten that. Fuck. He downed the beer quickly and said, "Yeah well I'm glad we all got to have this party, but I'm out of here. Enjoy the city Kate." He leaned in and gave her a hug. "Kick ass."

"I always do. You going to miss me Aaron?"

"Doubt it, far too busy."

"Yeah whatever." She teased back. "I'll be back one day soon with my mate and you're going to be a broken man from missing me so much."

"Mate? Fuck are you joking? You're only twenty-one."

"Do you know Kate at all? She's been talking about when she finds her mate for about ten years already." Lexi laughed.

"Well good fucking luck with that. You should focus on school." He growled threw his now empty beer bottle at a nearby bin with a loud crash and stalked off.

"You coming to see me off?"

"No. I've spent enough time saying goodbye to people lately. Come see me when you come back."

"Yeah I knew it, you're already missing me."

"Whatever." He threw a one finger salute her way as she laughed but nobody saw the tears in his eyes. He couldn't believe while he was fucking hoping one day she might see him as more than a friend she was already looking for a mate.

CHAPTER ONE

He couldn't fucking believe it. She had come into the restaurant bar. She had walked up to him and kissed him like she wanted to absorb his very soul. Then she had buried her nose in his neck and growled "How can my mate be the biggest manwhore in the whole damn country? I can smell at least three bitches on you."

Then before he could even process the fact he was awake and in a crowded bar and this wasn't some fucked up variation of all the fantasises he'd had over the past thirteen years she'd dropped to the ground in front of him. She had run her hand over his groin and as she pierced one of his testicles with a sharp claw she spoke again, "When you meet your mate, you shouldn't stink like another bitch's dirty cunt." She then stood up again and looked him in the eye. "Hi Aaron."

"What the fuck are you doing? Are you high or something? I'm not your mate." He realised she was even more gorgeous than the last time he saw her at the same time he saw her eyes flash with the pain, and her skin go ghostly pale, and then before he could react he heard her yell "Whatever." As she ran from the room. She was fast.

'Shit. What just happened?" Alex looked at Aaron. "Mate? She's your mate?"

"No fucking way. I'd know." Aaron looked around him as he saw others as shocked, okay maybe not as shocked, as he was, "Shit she's gone loco."

"Let's go find her before she gets hurt." Alex started to head for the door. Aaron was still standing there stunned and trying to shake the image of her on her knees in front of him. "Aaron hurry up man."

They ran down the steps and seeing a flash of red heading into the woods gave chase. "Kate wait." Alex called out.

"No way." She screamed back. "I'm out of here."

"Katie. Stop. Shit Kate, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to hurt..."

"You never mean to hurt me Aaron but you just keep doing it. I feel so special. But after all these years at least I'm getting used to it. My mate just doesn't want me. Too happy fucking everything that moves."

"I am NOT your mate."

"Lucky for me then. Maybe your bi, been rubbing yourself all over any hot men lately? Because you reek of my mate and it is definitely all male."

"I have not been rubbing on any men."

"Maybe one of those whores you fucked has been screwing my mate? Alex would that transfer enough for me to smell my mate on Aaron?"

"You really smell your mate on Aaron?" Alex asked clearly doubting her words.

"Oh fuck you both. I am not some crazy bitch." She turned and ran and they watched her tearing off her clothes as she ran till she was only in scraps of cotton underwear and then she changed and they dropped to the ground, destroyed bits of fabric.

"KATE."

***

How could he not know me? There is no way he couldn't. He doesn't want me. My mate doesn't want me. Her howl bounced off the trees around her as she ran. She weaved her way through the bush as it grew thicker. She crossed through the creek and then the river, twisting a path through the wilderness that would make it hard to track her. She ran hard and her heart broke with every mile. She ran till she couldn't breathe and then dropped into a pile of pine needles and rolled in them thoroughly before running again. As night came she slowed and wondered how she would ever go back to the pack. She couldn't. Fuck she wouldn't. She almost missed the opening in the rock and sighed her relief when she spotted the small cave was empty. She curled up and cried.

"I hate him."

"No you don't. Go back he's ours." Her wolf growled at her.

"No way. He can die from some sexual transmitted disease for all I care."

"Werewolves don't get..."

"Whatever."

"You know you want to go back. That kiss was amazing."

"Until he realised it was me."

"He's just surprised, he..."

"He was already twenty-one before I left. He would have known, before, before we fucking left, do you get that?"

"Oh yeah. I hate him." Kate's wolf finally caught up with where they were at. "What will we do without our pack? Without the girls?"

"Hurt. Hurt every fucking day."

***

"Kate? Kate are you there? Please talk to me." Alex kept trying to communicate via their bond. "Are you calling her Aaron?"

"Of course I'm fucking calling her. I care about her too. She could be in danger. If this is the start of a heat thing..."

"She didn't smell like she was in heat."

"So what else would send her crazy?"

"I don't know. Maybe someone hurt her and she just needed a friend?"

"She has friends in the pack she is much closer to than either of us, and if she just wanted to claim a friend as a mate, it would be you. She's always been closer to you."

"Well then I don't know but she was fine. She was fine and then she just went straight for you like you were a fucking magnet or something. I don't even think she knew it was you when she first..."

"Then why?"

"There's only one answer moron. She really thinks you're her mate. She scented you and ran before her brain even worked out who she was running to."

"I have a track finally. She's getting tired."

"We've gone about twenty miles."

"It's getting dark. If we don't find her soon we'll have to call in the pack. We can't leave her out here all night."

"There, see the cave?"

"Yeah, um Alex can you back off, I think I need to go alone."

"Don't fuck this up."

"Too late."

***

Kate smelled him approaching before she heard him and knew he'd found her. Well fuck him. She didn't need him thinking she was crazy. She didn't need his fucking pity either.

The wolf came into the mouth of the cave and gave a little huff to let her know he was approaching. He moved closer to her and she couldn't just lie there. She stood and bared her teeth and growled. He gave a sharp bark telling her what he thought of that, and continued to approach. She didn't want to have him get any closer. She could already feel her wolf getting more excited as he neared her. She turned and tried to move deeper into the cave but before she could look for an escape he was on her pressing her to the ground and burying his nose in her ... oh no he didn't! "Get your fucking nose out of my vagina you piece of shit, dirty manwhore, you sleazy disease ridden..."

"MINE!" He began to lick at her and continued to inhale her scent deep into his body. "Katie? Katie you're really mine. I'm so fucking sorry. I couldn't smell you. I've never smelled you. Fuck you smell like the sweetest orange and then there's this spicy hit, it is so fucking good."

"Get your muzzle away from me or I swear to God I will tear your fucking cock off you..."

"Kate. Please, please listen... I have never smelled you. I've seen you as a wolf, but it was when you were younger, and I was younger, but since I was old enough I have never seen your wolf and as a human, I couldn't smell you. Why couldn't I smell you? Oh Kate, I could have had you as mine all this time."

"Don't bullshit me Aaron. You wouldn't give up all those notches on your bedpost for me. You've been dipping that cock in every hole you could find since you turned eighteen."

"Shut up Kate. You don't know anything."

"I know more than I ever need to. I will not be your mate. I am not your mate."

"Yes you are baby and I am going to make you love me."

"I hate you. I didn't hate you when you thought I did Aaron, but I do now. I hate you more than you can even imagine."

"No you don't Kate. Come on we need to get back to mum so she can help us work this out. Something must be wrong with you. Are you sick or something?"

"What do you mean something must be wrong with me?" She now shook with her anger. "There's something wrong with you Aaron. Something fucking major!"

"I'm serious Kate, you should have the same scent as a human or as a wolf. I should have been able to find you as soon as I turned twenty-one."

"You really didn't know?"

"Of course I didn't know. You still think so little of me? Still think I'm such an asshole I would ignore my mate? Ignore you?"

"Whatever. We can go back whenever you're ready."

"Kate I swear on all that matters to me, baby, I never knew, you don't understand now but you will, when we mate you'll know, I will prove it to you."

CHAPTER TWO

Kate, Aaron and Alex travelled slowly back to the restaurant. The three wolves were tired after the run and they were exceeding the number of miles they would ever travel in a day. They rested briefly at the river drinking in silence.

"You okay to keep moving Kate?" Alex asked gently seeing her trying to keep her distance from Aaron who seemed determined to piss her off by refusing to give her space.

"I can go just as far as you can." She growled and then began to move.

"You've been running on empty all day. You arrived here, haven't eaten, ran for twenty miles, this isn't about thinking you can't keep up, we're worried about you."

"Well I'm fine. You ran just the same distance."

"We've eaten. We didn't zig-zag all over the woods like you. We weren't suffering like you while we ran..."

"Whatever."

She didn't communicate with either Alex or Aaron again the rest of the trip. Her heart was ton open and her brain raced. He had rejected her. She didn't know of anyone that had been rejected by their mate. Well she had read about it, but she didn't know anyone. The few stories she had read were about wolves with human mates, or mates that had been damaged before they met. Neither her, nor Aaron, had been through anything bad. Neither of them were human.

Fuck what if something was wrong with her? Or could there be something wrong with him? After all he was the one that was faulty and didn't know her. She knew him. Shit now she had to add worrying about the moron to everything else going on.

It took them five and a half hours to reach the restaurant after they had found her. As soon as she could see the lights she realised she didn't want to see everyone there. She stopped and whined quietly trying to decide what to do.

"It's okay. We're going to mum and dad's place. Only Mum is waiting for us. She has some clothes and food for you. Alex and I will get dressed and we can talk. It's okay baby."

"Call me baby one more time I swear I will shove my foot down your throat."

"Sorry. Katie please, we need to work this out.

September 30, 2016