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Writer's POV

Joshua waited until he's sure Stacey is out of hearing, he turns to Ray.. both him and Dylan bows their heads slightly.

"Rise!" Ray pause. "I believe you have something to say to me!"

Josh nod.

"Go on!" He permits him.

Josh clears his throat a few minutes and begin.

"With all due respect Alpha, I know Stacey is your mate and it's naturally that you'll love only her all your life... but she's my sister too, my only sister... and I don't want her to suffer or go through any heartbreak!"

He pause and studies Ray's face to know if he's speaking out of line... But Ray's expression is neutral.

"Continue!" Ray said.

"Alpha, please treat her right. She has always being our princess, Dylan and I have always tried our best to provide her all she wants... we've always been there for her and we love her more than we love our lives... in fact, she's our life and we would do anything and everything for her!"

He adjusts on the bed and clears his throat.

"Truth be told alpha, I won't spare anyone that makes her cry or feel sad.. and that includes you!"

Ray growls warningly at that statement but Josh doesn't seem to mind, he continues speaking.

"Alpha, don't make her cry.. we're leaving to you now but please don't disappoint us.. if she ever cries home to me.. even if you're the alpha, even if you're ten times stronger than me.. I'll still fight you until my last breath!"

Ray shuts his eyes, trying to calm himself down... His wolf doesn't like the tone in which Josh is speaking to them.

But he's their brother-in-law after... There's nothing they can do now!.

"Alpha, please take care of our little princess!"

"I heard you Joshua, I will always make her happy and I'll be there for her!" Ray said.

He turns to Dylan who's being listening to Josh's speech with a smirk.

"Dylan, do you have something to say to me too?"

Dylan quickly shakes his head and smile.

"No, no, my dad just said it all" he replies.

Josh glares at him but Dylan only blows him a kiss and mouthed "I love you dad!"

"Good! If there's nothing else, I'm leaving!" Ray said and leaves.

Josh pounce at Dylan immediately Ray leaves...but Dylan had seen this coming, so he's prepared.

He moves from there and Josh catches an empty space.

They stop fooling around when they see Ray standing by the door with a deep frown.

"A-alpha?"

"You two come with me, there's an attack at the orphanage!" He orders the brothers.

"Yes, Alpha!" They said and follows him immediately.

Karl, Henry and Jerome joins them at the parking lot.

"Alpha!" They greets Ray.

"Karl, did you tell your mate to stay by Stacey?" Ray asked.

"Yes!" He replies.

Ray nods.

"We're going by motorcycle or we're taking the woods?" Jerome asked.

"We're taking the woods!" Was Ray's reply before he races towards the woods.

Stacey's POV

I was in such a hurry to get to class, that I didn't pay attention to where I'm going and I bump into someone.

"I'm sorry, I didn't look where I...."

"Of course you didn't watch where you're going, blind bitch!" Juliet cuts me off.

I rolled my eyeballs.. of all people, it had to be Juliet.

"Juliet, I'm really not in the mood to argue with you! Excuse me, I wanna go to class!"

I try to walk past her but she pushes me back.

"Don't think you've succeeded because Ray marked you, there's still chance for me to come in!"

I smile.

"That is only if I give you the chance to come in!"

She scoffs and flips her hair in my face.

"I can always sneak into his room and I swear with this body of mine, Ray won't resist me and.... "

I cut her off with a laugh. She stops and stares at me... no, glares at me.

"You think I'm funny? You're not taking me serious?"

"I can't take you serious when what you're saying are nothing but jargons!"

"You.... "

"I what?!" I cut her off again. "Oh, don't forget to sneak into our room today, you can watch us f$*k each other today again... after all, you weren't able to watch it to the finish last time!" I told her.

Now it's my turn to flip my hair in her face... she just stood, gaping at me speechlessly as I walk away.

This Juliet is a pain in the ass, I'd have let the king banish her the other day!

"Stacey!" I hear Jason's voice call me.

I lift my head and sees him walking out of my math class.. I frown.

He doesn't have math, what is he doing there?

"Stacey, longest time!" He tells me when he finally reaches me.

"What were you doing in my math class?" I asked.

"I was looking for you!"

"Looking for me?"

"Yeah, you know, I haven't seen you for some days now and I don't know what happened, so...!" He trails off.

Days?! Yeah, thinking about it now, it should five days or so since I started living with Ray.. I almost forgot I'm staying there temporary.

"Hey, you've got yourself a tattoo?!" He exclaims and touches my mark.

I finch away from him as his finger touches it... It's like an electric shock.

"Did you just electrified me?" I asked.

He shakes his head.

"No, I think it's your tattoo that did that!"

"My tattoo?!"

I wonder. But Ray touched it this morning and I wasn't electrified.. how come it's electrifying now?

"Let me see your tattoo!" He said.

I nod and shows him, he stares..no, glares at it with a clenched jaw... like my mark offended him.

"What's that look for?" I asked.

He quickly breaks into a smile.

"Nothing, I'm just thinking if I can get something like this done on my neck too!" He said.

I ignore his statement and touch the mark by myself to know if it'll electrify me but it didn't.

Then why did it electrified me just now? I asked myself mentally.

"That's because he's not our mate!" Karen said.

"Huh?"

"That's a mark given to us by our mate.. to show his territory.. others can't touch it" She explains vaguely.

I sighs and shut her out, I'll ask Ray to explain it better later when I get home.

"... so I want you to come with me to a place!" I hear Jason say.

I guess he's being talking but since I was talking with Karen, I didn't hear him.

"I can't come with you, I have math!" I told him.

"Your math class is cancelled"

"Cancelled?! Why?!"

He rolls his eyes and smacks my head gently.

"Your math teacher just put to bed!"

"Oh!" I said.

I forgot she was pregnant. Jason laughed.

"So are you coming with me?" He asked.

"Where is that?" I asked him back.

If it's somewhere far or outside the school premises, I won't go with him.

"I.. I.. sick..."

"Sick?"

"Yeah, I have been having fever lately and I don't know why.. so I want you to go to a hospital out of town with me!"

"Fever?"

He nods. I reach forward and feels his temperature with my palm...his temperature is normal.

"You don't seen to have any fever!"

"I have, I went for check up two days ago and the doctor said I should come back today!"

"But there are hospitals here, why not visit one?"

He shakes his head and sigh.

"I don't know anyone here, so, I went out of town to a doctor I know!"

Right, he doesn't know anyone here. Which makes me wonder if he's also a werewolf or not.

Now I'm kinda realizing that I know nothing about him...where did he come from? Is he human or werewolf?

Does he know about werewolves?

"Please come with me, accompany me!"

"I can't!"

"Why?"

"Nothing, I just can't!"

"But you're my friend and you're the only one I'm familiar with here!"

He's right... I'm the only friend he has here, what if something happens to him?

But something keeps telling me not to go with him... He's someone with an unknown origin.

"Please, Stacey, I wouldn't bother you if I have someone else to accompany me... please!"

He starts coughing lightly...I study his appearance.

From his paled skin...

To his paled lips...

To his feverish yellow eyes...

His unkempt hair...

He really does look sick but I don't know if I can go with him.

When he first approach me.. before I knew I'm a werewolf.. I didn't read much or question his arrival.

But now that I am, I'm finding it hard to trust him and I honestly don't know why.

"Please, Stacey!" He pleaded helplessly.

Hmm...I don't know if I'm should go with him or not!