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Tracy laughed. “Now try it with ginger ale,”
she said.
I brought the ale to my mouth and sniffed it. “Have you mixed alcohol with it?”
She shook her head. “Stop it, Astrid!”
She pointed at others in the party. “Look, everyone is doing it. Don’t be such a baby. It’s not like I am going to drug you!”
She rolled her eyes and looked annoyed. “Anyway, I won’t force you, but don’t be a wuss. I’ve given you only half the glass.”
I blushed slightly, feeling like I was the odd one out. As I scanned the crowd around me, I noticed that all of them had paper cups in their hands. The smell of alcohol lingered in the air.
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Tracy looked like she was disappointed in me. That wasn’t what bothered me. But I could sense a few others checking me out. Some snickered, while a few giggled and whispered, “Such a wuss.”
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I sipped a little to stop them.
“See? Was it so bad?”
Tracy said with excitement.
“Yeah! Come on Astrid!”
someone shouted from the pool. “Go on. Yes. Yes. Yes. People started whooping and clapping for me. Embarrassed as hell and feeling a little baby in the corner, I drank it all. Everyone cheered me and then laughed, returning to whatever they were doing. I giggled and shook my head, wiping my mouth. “It wasn’t so bad, was it?”
Tracy winked at me and said, “Do you want more?”
“Hell, yes!”
As she left with her friends, I felt a surge of adrenaline in my body. It was like someone had poured a heavy dose of it. My body felt heated. The clothes on my body felt like they would burn me. I removed my shirt and shorts and took a deep breath in. “Yay!”
I shouted, suddenly feeling excited and happy and having a burning need for something. The bikini top and bottom felt like they were scrapping my get out of them and I needed to do it now.
skin. I needed to
“Are you feeling hot?”
a warbled voice asked me from behind. My vision went awry. Like everyone was in a frame and they emerged and receded in it through dense clouds.
I licked my teeth and nodded vehemently. My breath was labored. I found myself unable to grasp the situation as the strings of my bikini top and bottom were suddenly untied. They fell to the floor, and I laughed at them for misbehaving. “Come back to me, you morons!”
I heard others laughing at me. I bent down to pick them up, and then there was a splash. Water surrounded me everywhere. Panic returned in slow motion when I tried to come to the surface.
My head bobbed up and then I went down again. Though the water cooled my body, I couldn’t breathe properly. My limbs seemed to work like my thoughts, in slow motion. “Please…”
I said to someone. “Water… I can’t swim…”
I found myself struggling for breath, with no one to save me. I started sinking deep in the pool, giving way to the darkness, numbness that was overtaking me slowly. It was impossible to fight it because my body was freezing up. What a way to die? Soon, I was resting on the floor of the pool, naked, waiting for the God of death to come. I think he came because he grabbed my hair and pulled me out of the water. After that, I don’t know what happened. I welcomed the darkness which surrounded me. It was so beautiful, so cold. Would I meet my parents? They would be very disappointed in me for dying like this.
“Astrid!”
Someone called me. “Astrid!”
I tried to open my eyes, but the weight of darkness crushed me, crushed them. It was a gargantuan effort to peel them open, s darkness.
my
I don’t know how many seconds or hours passed, or maybe days, but I heard that voice again. “Astrid, get up!”
There was panic in the voice. It was mixed with desperation. “Please get up,”
he said. “Fight it!”
A warm hand squeezed my shoulders as warm breath fell on my face. Warmth beckoned me to the light. I felt my shoulders being shaken, followed by him cradling my face in his hands. “I know you can listen to me. Come back!”
I peeled open my eyes, gasping for air and responding to that plea. My eyes locked with the dark ones of Kael. His knees were straddling my body, his palms cradling my cheeks as he looked at me with wide, panicked eyes.
“Oh, thank goddess!”
he rasped and pulled me up in his embrace. “Thank you, thank you, thank you!”
Bewildered, I remained in his embrace as he rocked me. After he pulled away, with his breath caught in his throat, he carefully examined every inch of me, checking to see if I was truly alright. “Are you hurt elsewhere?”
he asked.
I didn’t know. “No…”
He closed his eyes and tipped his head up. Then he hugged me tightly, and we remained like that for a long time. His embrace, like a soothing balm, silenced the thousand questions swirling in my mind. When he pulled back, I asked, “What happened to me?”
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Kael POV
Over the last two days, Astrid was trying to elude me. And she succeeded. Whenever I tried to go near her, she would take off… crazy. He was forcing me to go near her.
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I knew I had made a blunder by sleeping naked with her. For werewolves, nakedness was hardly an issue because we shifted a lot and when we shifted back in our human forms, everyone could see us naked. However, that wasn’t the case with humans. They liked to stay in the confines of societal norms.
Obviously, Astrid was spooked. I had berated myself for losing control that night, and I was constantly edgy with my wolf and others around me. How could I behave like that with her? She had just met me a few days back, and I lost control of my emotions. I was better than this.
So when she would run in a different direction or not sit with me, I willed my wolf to stop making an ass out of himself. She needed time, but how much time? She had emailed me her plan to teach me math.
On the second night, I just couldn’t take self–abstaining anymore. I needed to smell her because she was my drug. I needed to feel her body because she was all I wanted. Only then my wolf was going to settle.
The night I had spent with her was the best night of my existence. It was the first time I realized I was wasting my life without her. Was there a way she could merge into my body?
“Do you want to go for a run?”
Toren asked, touching my shoulder. I had drowned a bottle of whiskey to contain my wolf, but nothing worked. He was an Alpha wolf with both parents being Alphas. What did I expect? He was a fucking force to reckon with. Containing him was like containing a lion in a cage.
“No,”
I replied and closed my eyes. The three of us were sitting in our house. Tracy used to come here every evening, but she had been avoiding me for the past two days. Good, because I didn’t want to see her.
Toren sat beside me. “Kael, what do you want to do? I know it is difficult, but I can’t see you in this state. There has to be a solution for you.”
“There is no solution other than feeling the agony,”
I replied in a low, defeated voice.
“Do you want me to talk to mom and dad about it?”
I scoffed. “And tell them what? That I am obsessing over a human girl, who isn’t even my mate?”
Toren shook his head. “Man, you need to get out of this slump. The team is suffering because of you and your mood swings. We have a main match coming up next week. If you will continue being sappy, we will lose it.”
Aiden, who was watching his Instagram, suddenly gasped. “Fuck!”
Toren and I snapped our gaze at him.
He continued to stare at his phone and then slowly lifted his head to look at me, his complexion going pale.
“What’s the matter?”
I asked, studying him.
He got up. “I think you should see it.”
He handed me the phone, pointing at the video. What I witnessed left me absolutely stunned. A hand pushed a very naked Astrid into a swimming pool. She struggled to come up, but couldn’t. It only meant one thing–she didn’t know how to swim. I knew which that place was.
Everyone else was laughing at her. Someone commented that the new girl loves skinny dipping. Two boys came to her and tried to touch her.
The world narrowed.
Adrenaline surged through my veins, and my vision sharpened.
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