Chapter 2
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With a quick glance at his boss, Collin turns to the unknown woman and her children on the floor at the door.
“Miss, uhm, it might be best if you leave…”
“NO! She stays!” Darius’s voice cuts through whatever else he might have said.
“But Sir…”
“No buts! Take her to the visitors’ room.”
“Of course, sir. Right this way, Miss.”
Sheara looks towards Collin up for the first time. “Okay thank you,” before bending down to pick up her son from the floor. However, someone else’s hands roughly push her hands away before she can even touch Rudi. Glancing up she sucks in her breath in shock at the sparks traveling from her hands up her arms.
“Yea I know, I’m blind. If you’ve stopped staring let’s go, the kids are tired. Collin get the other one.”
Letting her eyes travel to her daughter who has dropped off to sleeping dripping wet on the couch. Sheara tries to make sense of everything that has seemed to be happening around her. While doing so she notices the man named Collin’s face as he picks up her dripping wet daughter.
“I’m so sorry! Please let me do that, you don’t have to get yourself wet as well!”
“No Miss, it’s fine, don’t worry” Collin answers while pushing past her, trying to avoid looking at her directly.
It’s only then that Sheara realizes in what a state she herself must be. Glancing down she notices how her wet dress clings to her body and how exposed she looks. Blushing furiously, she follows the men to a room decorated in different shades of purple, apricot and pinks. The two single beds and toys neatly stacked in a corner, pronounces it as a children’s bedroom. When entering the room, she notices that both men are standing still with the two dripping wet children. “Uhm…”
“The bathroom is through there, if you wouldn’t mind fetching us some towels, please Miss?”
A few moments later she returns to the room with the towels, taking in the two men’s stoic facial expressions she spreads the one towel on the bed and turns towards the man holding Rudi, who’s name she doesn’t know yet. “If you can just put him down for me, I’ll be with him in a moment.” She whispers self-consciously before assisting the other with Kendy as well, watching them both leave as soon as they don’t have the children in their arms anymore. Undressing and drying of Rudi first, before wrapping him in a blanket.
After undressing Kendy, then drying her off and getting her into bed, she turns her attention back to Rudi. Worry lacing over her face, she fetches their bag from where she dropped it next to the door. Feeling extra thankful that she had thought about putting his medication into a plastic bag before their trip, she checks his fever before giving him everything possible to get him settled as well.
By this time Sheara herself is shivering from her wet and cold clothes clinging to her body. However, everything in their bag is soaked through and she really needed something warm to eat before crawling into bed with one of the children, so she decides to find her hosts and ask if she would be allowed to at least get herself something to eat. Walking out the door towards where she can hear voices.
“She will need to leave as soon as possible Sir.”
“I said, she stays!”
“She’s human, we can’t have her stay here!”
“I am still the main Alpha-male here, and your pack, INCLUDING your Alpha and Luna has agreed to serve me!”
“With the agreement that no humans will enter onto our lands.”
“MUST I remind you, that this land belongs to ME!”
Suddenly Darius’s continence changes and his eyes momentarily flashes gold before turning towards the door.
Following the sound off raised voices, Sheara find’s the two men in what she can only describe as the house’s study room. With shelves of books reaching from the floor to the ceiling on one whole side of the room, then a glass double door at the end leading out onto a patio. There is a dark mahogany desk situated in the center of the room with a black chair behind it and a glass lamp on the table. But what really catches her eye is the piano that is in the front corner, just around from the door from where she entered the room.
For the first time since arriving she is able to actively observe both men. Although both is strongly built, her eyes are drawn to the dark-haired man that is clearly the more dominant of the two.
He is well over 6 feet tall and although the blond-haired male has wider shoulder’s and more pronounces muscles, the darker haired man seems to hide a subtle strength in his body that can outmatch the other. Especially if you observe how, almost subservient, the other acts towards him. Almost like that of a dragon vs a wolf, she think's before shaking herself. Dragon’s doesn’t exist Sheara, and neither does shape shifters for that matter!
Hearing only the final words of the dark-haired man, Sheara feels confusion washing over her. Alpha’s and Luna’s? And weren’t they all HUMAN?! Suddenly a vice-like feeling of panic washes over her, wanting to grab her children and run, again, when two dark blue eyes, the color of the deepest parts of the ocean flashes towards her. Suddenly making her feel safe, until she sees the flash of gold that have her heart constrict in her chest once more.
“I am so sorry to intrude; I was just wondering…”
“Come with me, you need to get dressed!” A vice-like grip on her arms leaves a feeling of electric sparks running up and down her arms, making her feel even more confused as she gets pulled out of the study behind the dark-haired man to what she assumes is his own bedroom.
A dark oak bedroom set decorates this room, with color shades of brown through to deep wine red and a lion skin in front of the bed have her suck in her breath in shock. It was a truly masculine room, where no women can be allowed.
Upon entering the room, he finally let’s go of her wrist before walking to a walk-in closet and exiting with a large shirt, clearly one of his own, and a woolen robe to put over it.
Softly touching her chin, so entirely different from before, the man in front of her whispers “This should be sufficient to keep you warm.”
“I…I don’t even know your name?” A feeling of dismay settles in her stomach when he drops his hand. What the HELL Sheara! You barely KNOW the man! You can’t run from one, just to get into the bed of another!
“Darius. My butler’s name is Collin. It would be best for now, if you stayed in the room we showed you to. It wouldn’t do for things to get out of hand, you know. I’ll have Collin bring you something to eat and drink to the room in a few?”
Now what the heck does that mean? Get out of hand? Huh? “I’ll… uhm… I’ll keep that in mind. Thank you.”
Feeling extremely confused, she leaves the self-declared blind man behind before heading to her room. Pausing in front of the door of the room assigned to her and her children she casts a quick glance back to find Darius’s stoically facing towards her, and she could have SWORN she saw a flash of gold in his eyes.
So weird! She best gets herself in the shower, washed and fed and then in bed. It must be her tired brain making her imagining things!
Closing the door firmly behind her she heads to the shower to do just that.
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