Alpha's Return Mate

CHAPTER SIX

AYITA’s POV.

Letting out a heavy sigh, I pushed my tired body on the chair before opening the can of soda I was holding. Who could have known that this would be as stressful as it could get and I was still not done with the process yet.

I leaned back against the chair and closed my eyes for a brief moment.

All I wanted to do now was just go home and lay in bed.

A call came through and my forehead creased into a frown when I saw the caller ID, rolling my eyes,I clicked on the receive button.

“Hello”

“Miss Ayita” the landlord’s voice filtered into my ear, “the heating system is already here and you are not home yet”

“s**t!!” I looked at the time and it was already past three, how long was I in my professor’s office for?

“Twenty minutes and I will be there” I told him before grabbing my things and just as I made to move, I came in contact with something hard and a gasp escaped my lips.

“Can’t you watch…” the words hung in my throat when my eyes came in contact with the man in front of me. His hazel eyes looked like the waters of a deep ocean and his well sculpted face made me gulp, how could he look so good despite all the ruthlessness that was emanating from him?

“Clave?” His name rolled out of my lips as I continued to stare back at him, why was he here? This was the last place I expected to meet him and what did he say? I shouldn’t ever show my face to him again so why was he here?

A huge scowl appeared on my face as I continued staring back at the man who had a huge frown on his face.

For a moment we both kept looking at each other but I was not sure if he was looking at me with love or contempt because he had an expressionless look on his face.

“Out of my way” he hissed and I flinched before jolting out of my train of thoughts.

“Why are you here?” I couldn’t help but ask him.

But he completely ignored me and continued on his way. I could understand the fact that he could go and come as he pleased because he was a major supporter of the school but was it necessary for him to come here? He could have easily sent one of his men.

“What happened that night?” I asked him again, “I keep having weird flashbacks about that night but I was drunk and I can not remember what happened” I further explained and he halted in his tracks, his back to me.

“You just appeared out of nowhere and gave me a check and told me never to show me your face again, tell me what happened?”

“I do not have time for your tantrums now, Ayita” he answered while slowly turning to me, “and what did I tell you? Not to show your face to me again”

“You came in front of me” I snorted in anger.

“Talkative”

Clave rolled his eyes and made to leave again but I halted him.

“I am going to return your money to you, Clave” I told him, “you rejected me and told me never to show my face to you again and I respect that. No matter how much I love you, I will not act like a stuck up lady because of that. You do not want me and i respect that but I will return what I you gave me, I genuinely do not need it”

“Very well then, return it”

Not bothering to wait again, he walked away leaving me sighing to myself. No matter how much he didn’t want me, I couldn’t stop myself from drooling over him.

His immeasurable height, his well built physique and his hair which he always has in a scarf was something to admire.

To me, Clave was like one of those Greek gods that I read about in books and someone straight out of a painting, he was surreal.

He didn’t even turn back until he disappeared into the school building and I let out an angry snot, such a broad. He told me not to show him my face and he was the one coming in front of me….how pathetic.

Turning around, I hurried towards the gates and I was surprised to see the man from earlier leaning on his car and waving at me. Who the heck was this bastard and why was he waving at me? I made it clear to him in the morning and now he was here.

“I have been waiting for you for quite some time now”

He told me but I completely ignored him and continued on my way. I never knew Los Angeles housed all these creeps.

“Hey” he grabbed a hold of my hand and I immediately shoved him off before sending a slap across his face.

“How dare you touch me and who the hell are you?”

For a moment we kept staring back at each other, anger brewing within me,

“How could you randomly just touch me like that”

“Technically we are not strangers” he answered as a smirk crept up on his face, “I brought you here in the morning and I am here to take you back”

Shouldn’t he be upset that I slapped him? Rather he had that sleazy smirk on his face.

“And on what basis are you doing this?” I was already getting frustrated, “who are you and why do you keep following me?”

“I was paid a huge sum to keep an eye on you, Ayita” Mr creepy answered and a scowl wound its way onto my face.

“What do you mean and who paid you?”

My mind drifted off to everyone I knew but none fit into the map and I didn’t even have an issue with anyone who would want to keep me in check.

“Just get into the f*****g car” he blurted after a while.

“And like I said, I am not coming with you”

“Must we do this the hard way?” He slowly began to advance towards me.

“What rubbish?”

“Get in the f*****g car” he raked his fingers through his hair, “I am a busy bush man and I don’t have time for this rubbish”

“Creep”

As swift as lightning, I ran off not bothering to look back even as he called for me.

I hadn’t gone far when his car caught up with me and he brought it to my abrupt halt in front of me making me almost fall to the ground but I was fast enough to steady myself.

“Watch it”

“I am not leaving until you get into the car and maybe I can do a formal introduction, what do you say?” He asked with a wink and I could feel the hair on my neck stand on edge.

“Please” he went ahead to open the car door for me and after a while I reluctantly entered it. It wasn’t like he was going to hurt me, he didn’t do that in the morning and I am sure he would not do that now.

After a while, he zoomed off with a smirk lingering on his lips and with the way he was chewing the gum in his mouth, I had an inkling he was not a good person.

“Why are you staring at me like that?” He turned his head to me for a moment before returning his focus to the road ahead, “you sure have a lot of questions on your mind”

“Why don’t we start from who exactly you are” I asked him, “and you made mention of the fact that someone paid you to keep an eye on me, tell me”

“I will only tell you this once Ayita, my name is Lorenzo and I am here to take care of you. Anything you want at all, give me and call”

“What?” The frown on my face intensified, what the hell was actually happening? How did I get entangled in such a situation?

“Give me your phone” he ordered after a while.

“Are you being serious right now?”

He brought the car to a halt and turned to me, his teeth clenching together.

“I didn’t realize that a day would come that I would have to babysit a twenty five three year old girl, you understand that don’t you? Give me your f*****g phone” he demanded and snatched it off my hands before hurriedly typing his number into it.

“Here” he flung the phone towards me and I caught it mid air with a frown still lingering on my face.

Not saying anything again, he jerked the car back to life before zooming off.