Chapter 11: The Ex - Part One

*Roharu*

I climb into the car and we start moving. I am angry and I could kill anyone who crosses my path. I don’t understand how she can resist the mating pull, being only a human. The willpower she has is just outstandingly stronger than mine.

-‘Are you afraid she is going to reject you?’- Xavier asks and I growl at him.

-‘For a moment I thought she was… but I am giving her time, and this is just what we need. I need to focus on the other things I came here for, and she needs time to think things through,’- I tell him as he already knows I am frustrated.

-‘I saw the way she looks at you, and how she behaves with you… this time will be what she needs to understand that a mating pull is something stronger than her, than you,’- he shares with me.

I nod at him and try to calm down. ‘What else have you found out?’

-‘The stalker outside her building the other day is her ex-boyfriend. She filed a restraining order against him because he was violent and possessive. And, guess what…’- he tries to joke about it.

I am clenching my teeth and holding my rage. -‘I am in no mood for jokes Xavier,’- I warn him.

Of course, he continues. -‘You will love this, he is a bodybuilder. They dated for two years and then she separated from him and after that, I guess he kept harassing her, so she filed for that restraining order. She moved to the apartment after, but it looks like he found her again. Humans are useless; the guy has already a history of domestic violence. After Sienna, he dated two other girls and both filed for the same document and legal measure.’-

This explains, in a way, why she has been so careful and why she is being so distant at times. -‘Double the security on her, and make sure they let me know if he gets back. No one touches him; he is mine. I will personally tear his heart out if he so much as looks at her again,’- I give my order and Xavier passes it to the pack members I left behind watching from a distance.

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*Sienna*

I haven’t had the will or the strength to get up for more than the basics; I have been on my bed since yesterday. My stomach grumbles and I do my best to ignore it. I barely get up to go to the bathroom at all. Maybe I am being too stubborn and this is really stronger than me. My body is in pain and I can’t stop sobbing.

Missing Ro has been draining me and I am not sure if I can survive this pain again. When I found out he was getting married, I cried for a full day, but I didn’t let anyone see me. After that, I convinced myself that our kiss was nothing special and that we were just meant to be friends and nothing more.

Yes, I am being proud, as a woman, of getting to where I am. My independence, and my ability to survive on my own, all of that is now at risk if I take Ro’s offer. But what exactly is Ro’s offer? Did I rush too much? He didn’t actually offer anything; he was taking me out on dates! I bury my face on the pillow and cry some more, I am a trainwreck of emotions. The conflict inside my head is one I should learn to fix.

I already wasted a full Saturday in bed, and it seems I am going to do the same with this Sunday. Perhaps it is for the best, as I can’t allow myself to look this bad in front of my students. Those are my thoughts as I fall asleep, again.

I hear some knocking on my door. I frown and pull my phone next to me. There are no messages from Ro, and I never receive any visitors at all. I ignore the knockings and try to just stay in bed, but whoever it is, is being insistent. After several more loud knocks, I finally manage to get up from the bed. I move some steps and my phone rings. I left it next to my bed, and I can see it is Ro’s number. Is he the one knocking? I am not sensing him like I usually do before I meet him. Or perhaps, I am too tired. I walk to the door and open it.

“Hello there, baby…” I look up to see Theo, my ex, smiling at me.

I try to close the door but he pushes it open and I fall on the floor. Adrenaline shoots into my system and I crawl back some feet away from him. He pushes the door to close it but it doesn’t. I get up fast, ready to run, but he gets a grip of my wrist and pulls me.

I cry out as a sharp pain runs through my arm and shoulder. Then I hear and see two men holding him against the door. He grunts as he tries to move and finds himself unable to. He looks stronger than them, but he doesn’t know these men are not human. With tears in my eyes, I smile. My Ro didn’t leave me all alone after all.

I lay down on the floor and feel the floor against my back. The pain is sharp and I struggle not to faint. I hear footsteps and then Ro’s voice. “Take him away, we will do justice with our own hands,” and then a couple of seconds later, he kneels next to me. I see the worry in his eyes and I still smile like a goof. “This is enough, Enna… you are coming with me, I am taking you to the hospital and then to my place. I don’t want to hear any complaints.”

I am too happy to see him to complain. He does his best to lift me up from the floor. He notices that everything hurts, but he doesn’t care if it takes forever to move me as long as he gets me out of here and away from Theo. “I think he pulled more than a muscle.”

“Don’t worry, he will suffer ten times more.” His words are threatening, and I start to worry. But the pain is strong, and it distracts me again.

Xavier walks in and looks serious and worried. “We have him and are heading to the house,” then he looks at me and gives a step closer. “Let me help you, Luna.”

I look at him a bit in surprise because he calls me that already. Between him and Ro, both help me get down the stairs and I feel my arm swell and a bit of fever. Theo was always violent but never like this.