"Alexander's not safe to be around.."
Those words went through my head again so vividly I had to glance towards Victoria to make sure she didn't speak just now.
You know, provocation is a funny concept overall.
It's the one thing not to do yet it achieves so much in terms of finding out people's true natures.
Alexander walked into the room, eyes pinned on me. Dangerously.
I lowered my head. I put him in one hell of a mood yesterday and it looked like it was still lingering. Maybe today was not the perfect day to be sassy.
"Care to explain?", he simply said. His voice was so cold. I've never heard that tone from Alexander before. He was always slightly amused and sly. He was dressed in a black shirt, black pants and a grey coat. He looked like he hadn't slept all night. In fact, Jay didn't look like he slept either this morning. I swallowed.
Let's be nice. Jay works for him and Victoria enjoys poking him sometimes but she still kind of obeys his orders for some unknown reason, and because of me; they could both be in trouble since they were openly disobeying him.
I took a step forward.
"I asked to see the wolf again..", I simply answered before anyone moved so that I could take all the blame. I sounded like a guilty toddler who just broke a vase.
He took a step forward and I kind of got shivers. Victoria stiffened.
Wait, why were we all so scared? This was our fellow classmate. Even the wolf behind me stood up on four legs.
"You panicked yesterday and then had an asthma attack...", he stated and I rolled my eyes.
"Those were both caused by you, along the insomnia and crippling anxiety I had for the last couple months!", I whined and he eyed me for a second before he crossed his arms on his chest, visibly annoyed. The wolf nuzzled me in the shoulder. I turned around the minute his cold runny nose made contact with my skin and I rubbed the top of his head with the tip of my fingernails.
Just don't look at the claws and teeth and this would be the cutest being in the world.
Alexander noted that quick exchange and twitched in irritation. Victoria frowned like something just came across her but stayed silent.
"Come here, I'm taking you to school!", he gestured for me to come to him and I frowned.
First of all, I was planning on going with Victoria, not him. Second, it was 7:30am, still too early to leave for school. And third, I wasn't done here!
"I'm not done with the wolfie!", I crossed my arms on my own chest. I was aware that I sounded more and more like a bratty toddler as time went by, but I couldn't help it.
Oh, how the tables have turned, from me being the frustrated mom to Alexander being now the angry dad.
I just wasn't ready to leave! I've spent a total of five minutes with it and god knows when I will get the chance to see it again. At least let me snap a picture.
"Wolfie hm?", he tilted his head to the side, his eyebrows knitting together, "You said you hated wolves..", he took another step until he reached me.
I completely ignored Alexander and turned towards the wolf. For some reason, I felt him twitch even thought he didn't move a single muscle. He eyed me from above, his pupils getting narrower and I couldn't help but feel he got offended by what Alexander just said.
Now that I think about it, this thing could fit my entire head in its jaw.
"I don't hate you !", I cooed at the wolf, maybe I looked crazy, defending myself to an animal like he could understand or hold a grudge, but this one was so smart it almost seemed like it understood English. I reached for his fur to pet it again when my hand was caught by Alexander's grip of death.
I jumped and turned around. He looked like he was ready to flip the entire house upside-down. He was towering over me, his hand strongly clasping my fingers. Warning me not to touch it. Sending warm tingles up my arm. He tugged me so I slammed against his chest and then eyed the wolf quickly.
What the fuck was up with him?
"Too close!", he warned and the wolf took a few steps back confused. Victoria groaned.
"Goodness, you're not seriously getting jealous over this?", she threw her hands up in the air, annoyed.
Did she just say "Jealous"? Jealous of me petting the wolf? What the...
"Are you really alright with letting another woman touch him like this?", he simply said and Victoria rolled her eyes.
"Unlike you, I'm aware that all she sees is a dog..", she sassed and he turned around and started dragging me behind him.
"But is that what he sees?", he contradicted and Victoria gave him a bored look, and this conversation made about zero sense to me.
"HEY!" , I yelped as he was shoving me outside the door, "Where the hell are you taking me? Stop!!", I tried to claw at the door frame but with no success.
I was being dragged to the driveway. He opened the passenger's seat and threw me inside. I noticed my school bag was in the back seat. Did he grab my bag pack himself from the kitchen?
He got in the driver seat and eyed my chest.
"Seatbelt, you difficult pocketsize female!", he grunted while turning the engine on and I frowned.
"Oh, boohoo!", I shook my hands in the air ironically before grabbing the seatbelt and forcibly shoving it into the buckle. I didn't like Alexander yelling at me.
No need to be condescending you hell damned entity.
He drove on for about 10 minutes and I kept quiet because he seemed pissed and I didn't want to provoke him.
"It's 7 am, where the hell are we going?", keeping quiet wasn't a skill I had mastered yet.
"Far from the wolf so you don't get tempted to molest him again!", he continued and I spotted Eastwell's school gate in the distance.
I had nowhere to go in school this early, was the library even open?
"I was petting it!", I barked and he grunted.
"Just don't push him..." Victoria's words echoed again in my head.
Yesterday, he was angry by my comment about wolves. Now he was angry at me touching the wolf?
He got inside the parking lot and surprisingly, it wasn't as empty as I thought it would be. There were a few students in the distance and already a lot of cars.
Should I ask?..
"Don't push him..."
Fuck that!
I leaned towards him. He noticed but kept his eyes on the road, not wanting to look at me.
"Xander..", I murmured while tilting my head, "Were you jealous of me petting Jay?", I asked sincerely.
I wasn't trying to poke him. These were Victoria's words. I was just repeating the question. First of all, why would he get jealous over me of all people, and second, jealous of a pet? It sounds stupid as hell but Alexander is far from a normal guy.
He slammed on his breaks and thank god he patronized me into putting on the seatbelt because I'd have gone through the windshield.
He turned my way like the fact that I even knew the wolf's name pissed him the fuck off.
"You're on first name basis now?", he asked and I blinked.
"With the..wolf?", I raised my eyebrows at him. I didn't know the wolf's last name, sorry!
I was trying to help him understand that that was an animal and not another guy. Not that he needed to be jealous of another guy anyway. We aren't in a relationship.
He kept quiet for a moment then breathed out.
"I'm not jealous, just outraged!", he continued.
"At what?", I yelled. He was outraged? Well then I was outraged too.
"You were stroking another male..", he grumbled and I threw my hands up.
Is this conversation going to make sense soon? Because he lost me and I'm getting frustrated. I feel like I'm conversing with an alien.
I usually manage to understand where people are comming from, but right now, I was confused as hell.
"It's god damn animal!" , the fact that I needed to make this statement to begin with was odd, "You were shoving me into its face yesterday and asking me to touch it"
"Touch it, not fondle it!" , he groaned and I breathed out.
"I was rubbing its ears! IT'S A FLUFFY WOLF!", I repeated. I wasn't getting through to him at all.
"He's male, there's pleasure in being touched by a female.." , he informed and yeah, I agree. For a furry pet, there's pleasure in being petted overall.
Now, what kind of pleasure? That's a whole other story. A wolf having its ears stroked by a human is not going to cause arousal. What the fuck was wrong with Alexander that he was insinuating this to begin with?
"Are you insane? IT'S.AN.ANIMAL! ", I yelled again and he grabbed my arm and yanked me to him.
"It's a grown male wolf...", he grabbed my waist and pulled me on his laps and I needed to back off quickly, quickly!!!
I could't let him do this again. Not anymore! He can't just put me on his lap like I was some cat he found in the gutter.
This was school ground too. Somebody could see this!
I crawled back to my seat making sure to avoid eye contact but he grabbed me again and shoved me into the steering wheel. The car honked and god damn it, we didn't need attention drawn to us. Especially with the position I was in. He put both his hands on the wheel on each side of my waist and stared at me. His eyes a darker shade of blue.
"Listen to me; you're a defenseless, young little female with a pleasant smell to her..", he announced and even though there were about two insults in that statement, it got me flushed, "he let you all up in his personal space which means he doesn't mind you, and a wolf that doesn't mind you, likes you, and a wolf that likes you is soon going to want to have you!"
We were not on the same page at all because i was still stuck on the fact that this was an animal. So what if he liked me? I'd love it if he liked me. I'd gladly be the fucking wolf whisperer.
It's. A. God. Damn. Animal.
AN ANIMAL!!!
I blinked at him.
Oh my god, he was beautiful but he was an idiot...
Suddenly, I kind of realized something; Alexander always lets me in his personal space. And yesterday, he admitted that I could decide to live in his bedroom and he wouldn't mind.
I was on his lap just now. Really close. Basically in his arms too.
Too bad he's not a wolf, because by that logic, it would mean he likes me.
I sighted. This was dumb. This entire argument was stupid. So stupid yet Alexander's behavior was reminiscent of something I had dealt with before.
Simba used to be a possessive dog. There's training for that as that behavior can get dangerous and toxic. Whenever other dogs would try to approach me at the park, he'd shove himself between them and I. pushing their body away or muzzle-punching them from me and then asking me to pet him instead. As if he wanted all the cuddles for himself. Like a bratty little toddler.
I reached my hand out and put it on Alexander's head. I ran my fingers through his hair and he widened his eyes at me, confused. I patted his head gently and he blinked at me, but didn't stop me.
"What are you doing?"
"I'm petting you!", I answered like it was normal. Since he insisted on acting like a possessive dog, this should work right?
Side note, his hair was so damn soft.
"Good wolfie!", I praised at the fact that he was just sitting there, silently taking my mental abuse. I was being mostly sarcastic and treating him like I would have treated the wolf earlier and expected that gesture to do nothing but piss him off, but his entire demeanor changed.
He chuckled at my last statement then shot me a very, very amused look. Like I was an idiot. Like I was unaware of a lot of things but he found it amusing and cute. He gently grabbed my hand out of his hair then held it in his while grinning at me.
" "Good wolfie"? ", he repeated, amused and I nodded.
"I feel like you'd make for a good wolf!", I sounded stupid. But I was trying to change the subject since this entire fight was pointless.
And I meant what I said. You know those wolf eyes wallpapers found on Google images? Those were exactly Alexander's eyes. Piercing blue and smoldering with a hint of ferocity and melancholy. It's bizarre! Whenever he glanced at me, my heart raced.
Was I crazy? Maybe...
I just felt like saying it.
"Is that so..", he leaned in closer, wrapping his arms around me tighter, that statement had a bigger effect on him than I had realized, "Do you think I'd make for an alpha?", he grinned. still very amused.
The school bell rang, bringing me back to the reality that we were in the middle of the road of the parking lot. Not even parked correctly.
"God no" I shook my head. "those are probably my least favorite of the pack!"  I hopped off his lap and grabbed my bag out of the back seat before opening my door.
Two things I missed while I was busy getting out :
1-Alexander's face when I said those words...
2-The girl across the parking lot who was watching everything...
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This is the last part of "Dealing with wolves", We're finnally done, YEEET!
Thank you guys so much for the support. I'm so happy to read all the messages of you enjoying the book so far. I'm done with finals so i'm probably gonna go back to uploading normal full chapters instead of broken pieces here and there. Don't come for me! I'm a broken human.
Your comments make me wheeze. Because most of y'all are just posting memes now and I'm living for it.
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