Torn between two

Chapter 25

Dunya’s POV

My coworkers suggested we’d go out for lunch, we had 45minutes, so plenty of time to find some place to eat. We headed out and found a cute little Gyros restaurant near our office. We ordered and chatted of work and our new lives in Athens. Everybody seemed happy with their current situation, and we decided we’d take a long weekend trip back home together.

As we were finished, I headed to the bathrooms to wash my hands, as it turns out a pita gyro isn’t so easy to eat. I washed my hands, looked in the mirror to fix my face and hair. Someone enters the bathroom and I’m being pinned to the wall. “The f*ck!?” I squeal before I lock eyes with Kristopher. “Missed me?” he grins and licks his lips.

“Get the f*ck away from me! What the f*ck is your problem!?” I try to squirm out of his hold, but I’m no match for this giant of a man.

“Why are you always resisting me? I know you like it, when I touch you. Did you like my gift?” he says and sniffs me again. What the hell is up with the sniffing? Did he say gift? My eyes go wide as a sudden realization hits me; the lingerie was from him. “I hope you’re wearing them now.” he licks his lip again and slides his hand to my stomach to lift my top.

When his hand touches my skin, I hear a hissing sound. I squirm and try to kick him in the crotch, but he sees it and blocks my leg. He grips tighter and the hissing sound grows louder, he yelps and releases me. Before he can hold me back again, I stomp his leg and kick his groin. He doubles back in pain, holding out his hand; it’s burning red.

“Try to touch me again, I swear you it will be the last thing you do!” I hiss and walk out of the bathroom. I hear him say something as I walk out “What did you do?” I freaking kicked your ass, asshole; I thought to myself as I walked out.

Could Amelia be right, that I have powers? How did his hand burn? If it wasn’t for that, I wouldn’t have managed to escape...

I shake the thoughts out of my head and quickly catch up to my coworkers and head back to the office. I really should do something about him, he doesn’t seem to get the message that I’m really not interested. And how did he know where I lived or work? He’s freaking stalking me!

The rest of the work day, I tried to figure out a way to handle this situation. I thought, maybe I’d talk to Layla about it. She is his cousin and less aggressive than Daniel, maybe she knows how to handle him. Mr. Whitlock was as usual waiting for me outside, as I got out. Thank God. I really don’t want to walk home, knowing that asshole knows where I live.

Daniel’s POV

I haven’t been able to concentrate on anything lately. My father is pushing on the subject of me taking the Alpha’s position, because I finally found my mate. Amelia’s pushing on the subject that I should tell Dunya everything, because she believes Dunya has powers and so, she’d accept me because of the mate bond. And my wolf Axel is pushing me to claim her. I have too many things on my mind and all I want to do is see her and hold her, even her hand. Just to feel the sparks from our touch.

Her touch always seems to make me heal, our bond is really strong, even though she doesn’t fully know it yet. She will see, that we’re meant to be together and I’ll even wait for years, if that’s what it takes. Layla told me what happened at the spa; she used her Luna tone with her, which is really weird. Layla has alpha blood, so she shouldn’t be affected, but it somehow did, when she used it. She isn’t supposed to be able to use it, not now, only when she truly becomes my Luna and has the pack blood coursing through her veins. That is enough proof for me, that she really is my true mate and Luna, and that she will choose me.

I can handle the pain that comes, when she sleeps with the leech, I just hope it ends soon. I need to show her, that I’m the one for her, even though it’s through friendship first. I will do everything to make her mine.

It’s Saturday and she’s coming over. I woke early to get things ready; we’re having a pool party. Layla, Amelia, Mickael, me and Dunya of course, will enjoy the hot summer weather around the pool, good music, good food and company. Layla went to pick her up and they should be here any minute.

I put on the music, instructed the chef on the menu and went to change into my swim trunk. As I got back, I saw Dunya already by the pool. She slowly takes off her loose dress, to reveal the bikini, I bought, underneath. Oh Goddess, she’s tormenting me and my wolf; she looks mouth-watering good.

I make my way to her and give her a hug from behind, surprising her. Her skin is burning hot, not normal burning. The sparks are still flying around, but I wonder what’s wrong with her skin. She relaxes in my arms and wraps her hand over mine. “Hi Daniel.” I quickly release her and pull my hand away, the burning stops. What was that about?

“Hi Dunya. Glad you could make it.”

“Wouldn’t miss it for the world.” she says as she spins around and gives her beautiful smile.

“Hey, about the other day... I hope I didn’t make you uncomfortable.” I say and scratch the back of my head. She just takes a good long look at me, well more like my abs and bites her lower lip. To be that lower lip right now, would be a dream come true.

“No, of course not.” she clears her throat and mumbles. “I was in a weird place, but I’m fine now.” She smiles. She just keeps staring and I can smell her arousal. f**k, maybe this wasn’t such a good idea.

“Good” I say and quickly jump into the water, before she can see my hard-on. Everyone else jumps in too, except for her. “Come on, the waters amazing!” She hesitates and walks to a sun bed.

“I want to get some sun first.”

“Do I need to remind you, what happened last time when you didn’t come for a swim?” I ask her and swim to the side of the pool, closer to her. She blushes and backs up a little bit.

“Don’t you dare!” she says shyly. I’m about to hoist myself up from the pool and go to her. When she sees me getting up, she suddenly runs to the pool and jumps in, making a cannonball and splashing us all.

Everything is perfect, we swim, eat and goof around. She seems really happy around us all. We sunbathe around the pool, and just talk about random stuff.

“We should do this more often.” she says with her face turned to my side. She’s lying on her stomach and her hands are supporting her head. Sweat glistening on her tan body suddenly making me thirsty as hell.

“Definitely.” I smile and just keep staring at her. Her round ass looks amazing like this, so firm and toned. I want to smack it, squeeze it, bite it and lick it all over. I shut my eyes and imagine all the things I would do.

“Well, well, well. This is just the perfect view.” I open my eyes to see Kristopher standing close to Dunya, drooling over her. She flinches at his words and turns around on the towel. “It even got better now.” he smirks and looks at her.

“What the hell are you doing here Kris?” I grit my teeth in anger. Dunya stands up, covering herself with the towel and walks to Layla. She seems pretty shaken up about Kristopher and suddenly all I want to do is murder my own cousin.

“Well, cousin. You didn’t invite me to your little party.”

“That’s on purpose. What do you need?”

“I came to talk to your father.” he says and looks at Dunya, smirking and licking his lips. I jump up and push him towards the back door. “She’s MINE! You keep your filthy eyes off of her.”

“I don’t see your mark on her, so she’s fare game.” he just smirks and walks inside.

Dunya’s POV

I can’t believe this asshole shows up wherever I go! I really need to talk to Layla about this. I pulled her to her room telling her I needed to say something important to her. Once we were there, she sat down on her bed and I was pacing the room, trying to figure out how to say the things I needed to get off of my chest.

“Dunya, just spit it out. You’re making me worry.”

“I need your advice... No, help... I don’t know.” I kept pacing around. She stood up and stopped me, holding on to my hands. “Just say it.”

“Your cousin, Kristopher... He’s been...” I stop to think what to say, she furrows her brows. “I think, he’s been following me...” I continue and wait for her to say something.

“What do you mean, you think he’s following you?” she says with worried eyes.

“I know he’s been following me... He sent me lingerie to my house... and he followed me to a restaurant when I was having lunch...” I mumble and pause. “And there was this time when I was at the beach… He tried to... Well, he uhh...”

Her eyes widen with shock. “He did what!?” she yells and grips my hands tighter.

“He didn’t do anything, well he tried to... twice... But I stopped him, kicked him in the nuts.”

“Why are you telling me this now? You should’ve said something sooner!” she says furiously. “That son of a b***h! Wait till I get my hands on him!” She stomps to the door, but I stop her.

“This is why I didn’t say anything... I thought, he’d stop after the first time... But he keeps showing up everywhere, and he doesn’t seem to understand that I’m not interested at all.” I say and look at my hands. “I thought that if you’d talk to him... Make him understand...”

“Oh, sweet baby.” she says and hugs me. “I’m so sorry.”

“There’s nothing to be sorry about, you didn’t know...” I hug her back.

“I know, but it would be so much easier if Daniel just manned up and did what was right.”

I pull away from her and look at her confused. “What does Daniel have to do with this?”

“Nothing, I’ll handle this. He won't bother you anymore, after I’m done with him!” she says reassuringly.

“I don’t want any trouble... He’s your cousin after all...” She hugs me again and I feel relieved. I’m glad I told her; this was the best thing to do. We break from the hug, when we hear a loud growl and someone yell; NO! SHE’S MINE!

Daniel’s POV

There’s something going on with Kristopher and Dunya; she felt so uncomfortable when he showed up and wanted to talk to Layla alone. Kristopher went to see my father for some reason and was there for a while, when father mind-linked me to his office.

I knocked and waited patiently, until he allowed me in. Father was sitting behind the table and Kristopher and grandfather were sitting across from him. He motioned me in and I took a seat on the couch.

“Daniel, Kristopher came here to tell us something.” Father said and turned to Kristopher. He had his smug grin on his face as he turned to me and all I wanted to do was punch it off of him. “As Alpha of the Midnight pack, I want to announce, that I’m going to claim my future Luna and mate.”

“Why am I needed here for this?” I say annoyed and look at my father, he just shakes his head and turns back to Kristopher.

“As I am Alpha here, I can claim whomever I want. I’m going to make pretty little Dunya my mate.” he says with a grin.

My blood starts to boil, right when I hear Dunya’s name come from his mouth, Axel takes over and growls “NO! SHE’S MINE!” I’m about to bolt to Kristopher and rip his throat out, for even suggesting that, but I’m stopped by my father and grandfather.

“You haven’t claimed her, I can do that. I will mark her, mate her and make her mine.”

Axel is getting more and more furious, struggling to get to him. Father and grandfather barely able to hold us in place. “Daniel, Axel, calm down! This is an order!” My father uses his Alpha tone, but it doesn’t affect me.

“Daniel! Let’s talk this through like gentlemen. Violence is unnecessary.” My grandfather tries to calm me. It takes every last nerve in my body to control my wolf from attacking and killing Kristopher. I finally get control back from Axel, but I’m far from calm.

“She is my mate. You will not touch her, you will not look at her, you will not come near her!”

“Daniel, by werewolf law he has the right to claim her.” My father says and I shoot an angry glare at him.

“F*ck werewolf law! She is mine! She’s my rightful mate!”

“She might be that, but she hasn’t chosen you.” Kristopher smirks. Axel stirs in my mind angrily; he wants to kill Kristopher for his smugness.

“The girl will choose herself.” Father says in a monotone voice. “Neither of you will force yourself on her, she has to choose.”

“How can she choose, when she doesn’t even know about werewolves?” I glare at him.