Chapter 19
Lola’s POV
I woke up in the early hours of the morning with a massive headache and I did not want to get out of bed for the fear of being a laughing stock in the pack. People can be so mean and I did not feel like being an object of ridicule today.
I felt Lyla waking up beside me and I acted like I was sleeping so that she’d let me be in peace.
“I can hear your uneven heartbeat, Lola. Why are you pretending to be asleep?” She asked. Damn werewolf hearing.
“I’m still asleep, I don’t know what you’re talking about“, I said with my face buried in the pillow and she laughed before sitting up in bed.
“I see you’re still really asleep. What’s the matter, Lola? Is this about the question you asked before we went to sleep yesterday?” She sighed when I nodded my head.
“The pack might have known about all that happened….or not, but I promise you that no one will make you feel less of yourself just because of that. And even if they tried, they’ll have me to answer to“, she said while cracking her knuckles, earning a giggle from me.
“I don’t know what happened in your last pack and I won’t be pushing you to talk, but I want you to know that you belong here now and I won’t let you be bullied. Betlst friends,
remember?” I looked her in the eyes at that and she smiled at
me, making me smile too.
“You know what will make you feel better? A long, hot shower to clear your skin and I’ll braid your hair afterwards. How does that sound?”
She asked excitedly and I nodded in excitement
too.
“I noticed that you avoided touching my things the last time you had your bath here. Lola, I’m not going to get mad if you use my things, I can easily replace them. I order you to wash your hair and b*dy thoroughly this time around“, I nodded at her before I remembered that I don’t know what is what and
how I’ll use them.
“Uhm, Lyla? I don’t what is what nor how to use them. I’ve never used them before“, I said in shame and her eyes widened before she masked her facial expression.
“That’s not a problem, chica. I’ll show you, let’s go“, she held my hands and led me towards the bathroom. She walked over to her shelf of girly products and she removed about 7 bottles from the shelf and placed them on the counter.
“This is shampoo, you lather it into your hair to wash off grease and dirt“, she said, holding up a bottle. She did the same for all other bottles and I was excited to try them all by the time she was done.
She offered to wash my hair but the possibility of having to remové my clothes and have her see my nude b*dy, made me refuse her offer. She seems to understand where I was coming from and left me to do my business.
I had so much fun washing my hair and getting cleaned up. For the first time since yesterday, I heard Jasmine purr in pleasure in my head.
“At this rate, you might as well be a feline“, I said to her with laughter, she only purred in return.
I exited the bathroom to find the room empty. Jasmine wasn’t in the room but there were clothes on the bed. I dried my hair with a towel and brushed through it. I looked in the mirror once I was dressing up and I liked what I saw. I was slowly learning to appreciate my appearance.
I steeled my heart as I left the room in search of Lyla. I sent a quick prayer to the moon goddess that I wouldn’t meet any pack members on my way to the kitchen, where I knew Lyla will be.
I had almost made it to the kitchen undetected when I collided with a wall and fell flat on my ass. I held in my whimpers of pain and tried to stand up when I saw the wall was infact, a man.
I was about to start apologizing when I heard my name from. the stranger’s mouth. Hooked up at his face but I did not recognize him. I took some steps back to out distance between us.
Does Grayson have men planted around this pack? How did this stranger know my name? My thoughts were running at miles per hour and I thought of ways to escape when I heard his voice again.
“Lola, it’s me, Jace. Do you not remember me?” His voice cut through my thoughts and I felt myself coming back to the present.
“Jace?“, I repeated, the name sounding familiar to me.
“Yeah, your best friend from ten years back. We used to be
inseparable back in Moonlit pack before my mom decided to move another pack with her chosen mate. Do you remember me?” He said.
Memories of young me and a boy of not more than 12 running around our house back in Moonlit pack. I was heartbroken when he left with his mom, but Mom said he was going to somewhere he can be happy with his Mom.
“Jacey“, I ran towards him and engulfed him in a hug, taking both of us by surprise. He laughed and gently patted my head. I pulled back from him and smacked him on the chest, surprising myself yet again.
“Ouch, what was that for?“, he whined while rubbing his chest. I crossed my arm and glared at him.
“You promised to always write to me. Your letters stopped coming a year after, do you know how heartbroken I was?” I pouted and he pulled me into a hug again.
“I’m sorry, Lola. I heard you were killed in a rogue incident alongside your parents. If not for your unique hair and eyes and the fact that I know what you smell like, I wouldn’t have known you were the one“, he apologized and I totally understood his point.
Moonlit pack made it their life mission to make me forgotten, the whole wolf world thought I was dead.
“What exactly happened, Lola?” He asked. Not wanting to reply him, I hugged him again. He understood that I did not want to talk and was patting my back when a loud growl tore through the room.
I jumped from Jace and looked towards the direction the
growl cane from and saw a fuming Adrian. He was looking at Jace and I with so much venom that I wanted to crawl into a hole and die.
The next words he spoke broke me and broke the self esteem I was slowly building.
“Maybe your former Alpha was right after all. You’re just a slut that’s not worthy of love“, he spat with venom and hate.
And with that, he stormed out of the pack house.