Kirra
She woke up with a start. She opened her eyes and looked around confused. Where was she? What happened?
She tried getting up from the bed and realised that she was naked. Where are her clothes?
She closed her eyes again and tried to jog her memory.
What was she doing? How did she end up here?
One by one the events started coming back to her. She remembered her pride and happiness when she got the title of Alpha.
Then the tiring party. The uneasiness when she realised that Scarlet was avoiding her. The hurt and pain when she realised that Scarlet had found her mate during her Aussie trip. The confusion when she met Jade and liked her. She did feel that Jade was the right person for Scarlet and that was like a knife pierced into her aching heart.
The feeling of being utterly miserable when she realised that there was someone better than her who could make Scarlet happy.
Her desperate run into the forest, to escape the barrage of emotions. The attack! The shift, the torn evening gown, the injection, the male voice, the inability to shift again… All the memories overwhelmed her.
She tried to look for her wolf, that bold voice who was a part of her. The alter ego, who kept her company through the loneliest nights, her best friend, but couldn’t find her.
Her wolf was strangely silent.
What did this mean? How much time was she out? What did this mean for her pack?
She felt her head hurting with the constant questions and the confusion.
“Stop doing that!” She heard a man talk and froze. Who the f**k is that? Was she kidnapped? If her wolf was absent, she couldn’t shift! How was she going to get herself out of here? Where are Scarlet and Jade? She had seen them fight with her.
Her heart warmed up to Jade, a little, as she remembered how the green-eyed beauty was fighting to save her, but she did feel a sharp pain when she reminisced how Scarlet looked at Jade with ardent devotion in her eyes when Jade met Kirra at the party.
“Hello!! Are you alright?” The same male voice asked again. She looked around but the room was dark. Her wolf senses weren’t working. Where the f**k was her wolf when she needed her?? She thought with frustration and anger.
“Hey, hey, hey, don’t do that okay! Look towards the door. You are disoriented so it might take a while for you to focus. Just relax,” the same male voice. But why was this voice so alluring and sweet? Why did it feel like music to her ears? She looked around and realised that she was in a campervan.
She looked towards the door which was only half-open. She saw a man’s silhouette. He was standing with his right shoulder against the wall next to the door and his left leg was crossed over his right. He looked tall and fit.
“There is a switch for the light next to your bed. Do you want to turn it on? I want you to feel in control and not be scared,” he said slowly in a low voice.
Oddly, she didn’t feel scared hearing his voice. It sounded quite comforting. She felt for the switch with her outstretched fingers and found it on the right side of the bed.
Turning it on, she held her bedsheet tightly around her. The scene took her breath away.
It was a luxury campervan, better furnished than her new room in the packhouse. It was done up in grey and black interiors. It reminded her of Alpha Waru’s office but this was a little different. While Alpha’s office was unapproachable, this space here, appeared to belong to a powerful person, but someone who knew warmth.
She looked at the man who was still standing against the door in the same pose. She was staggered by his looks. He looked tall with a sexy physique. His muscular arms looked prominent under his white T-shirt. His ripped blue denims hug at his waist showing zero ounces of fat. He appeared well endowed. A blush crept up her cheeks as she realised what she was thinking.
She looked at his face. He had a tilted smile on his perfect lips, his dark blonde hair was pulled back in a man bun and his eyes… They were the most beautiful shade of green she had ever seen. He looked like an amused sexy dreamboat.
“Do you want to continue gawking or would you like to talk?” he chuckled.
She blushed again. She was tongue-tied. Her heart was beating at a fast pace. As if it had a destination in mind and was planning to reach there before her body did.
She still felt confused and disoriented. She stared at the handsome face in front of her as it changed. The smile was replaced with a concerned frown and he was no more standing against the wall.
He was still at the door but had his hands in his pockets as he said, “are you alright? Are you very badly hurt? Can you talk? Are you mute?,” he rubbed his neck with his right hand and looked embarrassed. “Sorry, that was a dumb question. Sorry, I mean a tactless question,”
She smiled at the blabbering s*x God.
Seeing her smile he let out a sigh, “I am James. A filmmaker from Melbourne. This is my campervan and we are in Myponga right now.”
His voice!! She was mesmerised by the sexy baritone. She felt confused again. She had never felt attracted to a man before. Scarlet was the only one for her. What was happening?
“I am Kirra from a local clan. I live in a village not very far from here.”
“Hey, Kirra! Nice to meet you,” he gave her that tilted smile again. She couldn’t help but smile at this strange man who was still standing at the door of his own caravan.
“How many days have I been out?” She asked, dreading the answer.
“About a day. I found you in the morning and it is almost dinner time now.”
It was her time to let out a sigh of relief. That meant she could still save her pack. She had to get her message to them somehow.
“Do you want to call the cops?” he asked.
“No. I don’t know who attacked me. Cops won’t be able to help. Our clan manages our own safety. We stay away from the cops,” she said crossly.
He appeared to be taken aback. His frown deepened as he said, “I am sorry. I didn’t want to offend you,”
She regretted lashing out at him. After all, he had saved her, “sorry, I didn’t mean to be rude. Thank you for saving me.”
“No worries. You must be hungry. I have made some chicken soup. You will like it.”
As if in reply, her tummy let out a loud rumble. “Sure,” she said and he laughed.
“I will get it in a tick. Why don’t you look through my clothes and see if you could find something to wear? Sorry, I don’t have any feminine clothing,” he said and instead of entering the van, went out again.
She let out her breath. The man looked like Michaelangelo's David, chiselled out of stone. She called out to her wolf again but nothing changed. She got off the bed and rummaged through the overhead cupboard. She found a white T-shirt and a dungaree. She didn’t touch his undies.
That would be too much for her.
She headed to the small bathroom and was surprised to see herself in the mirror. Someone had definitely cleaned her. Did he do it? She felt embarrassed thinking of how he must have seen her naked.
She tried to put that behind her and observed the different wounds. With her wolf gone they weren't healing quickly. She still had trouble opening her eyes completely.
She showered, letting the hot water run over her skin, soothing her wounds. She could hear the gas tanks light up with a click and a whoosh just outside the bathroom wall. One hell of a campervan! As the wall of hot water streamed between her legs, she felt his fingers at her gash and started to enjoy it. The intensity of the feeling jolted her out of her reverie. She gasped and turned the water off. Blocking out any more thoughts, she dressed and stepped out into the awning.
He had laid out a nice herringbone area rug, 2 folding chairs and a small wooden camping table. One side of the awning had 4 monitors and each monitor had 9 screens on it. They showed the forest around them. The other side was lined with an oven, some books and a stack of few weights. That's where he got those drool-worthy muscles, she thought.
The aroma of chicken soup reached her and her tummy growled again. This was surely glamping!
A/N
Hey,
Do you like the twist? To know how a lesbian could feel attracted to a man, please keep reading :-) I have some plans for both of them!
This is the first book where my protagonists meet after 10 chapters.
I will also be writing a little more about Jade and Scarlet.
Have fun. XX
KK