Part two- Chapter 13

“The best secrets are the most twisted” ― Sara Shepard, Twisted

DUNCAN P.O.V

After a long, hard, tiring day from work I decided to go to meet Sel. It was almost two weeks since I have met her and I already am addicted to her. Her delightful strawberry like scent calms me down immediately and when I look at that smile of hers all my tiredness of the day will vanish in a flash.

Look, how poetic I sound? I thought.

I want Sel with me. I want her to live with me but I didn’t ask her that because she lives with Darya who is a child and quite reliant on Sel. I have never seen Sel leave Darya and go anywhere. One or the other will always be with Darya. If Sel and I go out, Darya goes to stay with Cortez or Granel but she is never alone.

They all are very protective about her. I really find her strange. She smiles and talks to me but always maintain a good distance, it’s like she is still scared of me. I am not great with children but I don’t harm them either. I just stay away from them. But for some unknown reason I don’t want Darya to hate me. I always think it’s because she shares my mother’s name but I know there is more to it.

Coming back to Sel, the girl is enough to drive me crazy. My wolf always whines for her at night. Since I had already marked her I know she will go into her heat soon and the thought makes me excited and nervous at the same time.

Of course, I am excited at the thought of making her all mine, forever but I am nervous because I don’t want to hurt Sel in my excitement. What if she is not ready for it? What if she feels I am forcing her into this? She wasn’t very pleased when I marked her and she had told me that too. I just hope she doesn’t feel like she is being forced into anything because then I would die of guilt.

In past I could have any girls I want but Sel is different. I want her to want me, just as much as I want her. Just as much as I need her.

I don’t want her hurt, ever. The taught itself is painful and that is why despite her protests, I had asked Nick to guard her. She calls and complains about it every day but today she didn’t call me and it was bothering me.

‘Nick’ I called him through the link.

‘Ya?’

‘Where is Sel?’ I asked him.

‘She and her roommate just reached the apartment.’

‘Did she see you?’

‘She did, but she just smiled and waved at me’ he said in a scared tone probably afraid that I am going to growl at him for that.

‘Okay’ I said blocking him out of the link and drove my car towards her apartment.

While I was driving towards her apartment, my cell phone started ringing. Expecting it to be Sel, I smiled and picked up the call.

“Hmm… what?” I asked.

“Duncan” I heard a familiar voice calling. “Hello, Duncan?

“Yes Aunt, it’s me”

“Oh good. I had asked Granel to give me your number because I wanted to talk urgently to you. So, are you busy at the moment?” Aunt Isa asked me.

“Uhmm… I am going to meet Sel now” I told her.

“Oh” she said in a sad voice. “It’s okay. Just call me when you are free” she said.

“Is something wrong?” I asked in worry.

“No. I just needed to discuss something confidential with you.”

“You can tell me now” I told her.

“No honey, not in the phone. Let’s meet and talk. So, just call me when you are free okay?” she asked me.

“Yeah, I will.”

“Thank-you. Bye honey” she said and cut the call. I wondered with confusion what does Aunt wants to talk to me about. However, I decided to talk to her later because she said she could and I knew I couldn’t wait to meet my mate.

“Hey there beautiful” I told Sel as she opened the door. I stepped inside and saw Darya watering the plants.

“Did the flower bloom?” I asked Sel.

“No. I think it will tomorrow.” Sel said and I nodded. “Call me when it does, want to see how it looks like” I actually hate flowers because their fragrance is sickening but I wanted to see this one since this was a rare one, that blooms only at night.

“Darya, time for a movie” Sel said sitting on the couch. Sel and Darya always watch movies on Wednesday’s at home and i too sat with them last week and slept within half-an-hour of the movie. Movies bore me especially if they are not action.

“Which movie do you want to watch?” Darya asked me showing me the d.v.d’s of some romantic movies. I honestly didn’t know which one to select. I don’t watch romantic movies at all. It’s creepy.

“Actually, I cannot watch. I have to leave” I told her.

“Leave. Where?” Sel asked looking at me.

“I need to go meet Aunt Isa” I told scratching my temples.

“Why?”

“She called me and said she had to meet me urgently. I don’t know why though”

“Oh. Okay”

“Yeah, Bye. You girls have fun” I said and placed my lips on Sel’s. “I love you” I whispered and walked out.

Just one kiss was enough to drive my wolf crazy. He wanted to mate with her, which is also what I wanted.

“I am so glad you came Duncan. Please sit down” Aunt Isa told me. I sat on the chair in the other side of the table in her office room. She adjusted her black coat a little and smiled at me.

“Is everything okay?” I asked her furrowing my brows because I seriously doubted everything to be okay.

“Yes. It is. I wanted to inform you about Bill” she said me and I sat up straight.

“What about him?”

“He did belong to Sinew Pack” she told me and I frowned. “We here in the school carefully go through a pack members profile before accepting them as a faculty. It’s a new rule we added few years ago. Their forms must be signed by their pack Alpha. Bill’s was signed by Herrick himself. Since there can be a forgery of sign, we send a photograph attached with the form so that the Alpha can recognize their pack members and then seal it along with the sign” she said to me. “And Herrick had signed the form recognizing the photo” she said and I nodded.

“But he was found with a rogue” I pointed out.

“Yes. I think he was a traitor to his own pack and had something to do with Herrick’s death” she told me.

“You mean to say he was involved with O?” I asked her cocking an eyebrow.

“Yes” she said nodding. “I did feel Bill’s behavior suspicious” she said “and I doubted that he was involved in some messy business but I always thought he was a good person and it might be some petty problem. So I didn’t hire anyone to keep an eye on him”

“Then his death?”

“Maybe O was scared that he would leak information and hence killed him and the other rogue”

“Why did you come into such a conclusion?” I asked her.

“Because I think it’s because of him that O came to know Sel is your mate” she said to me and I looked at her in confusion. “Most of the staff knew that you and Sel are mates after you visited here and I saw through the camera that you bumped into Bill that day.”

“Yeah. I did” I said blinking. “It is where I saw Darya’s photo” I told her.

“Darya?” she said frowning.

“Yeah, Sel’s roommate”