The air stunk with heat from the overcrowding and popping buttery goodness. The place was packed. People here were with their families; husbands, wives and some a few with kids. Others, especially the ones in their teens were here with their gang of friends, some with their boyfriend or girlfriend looped through their arms.

"A Quiet Place or Truth or Dare?" Lia asked, her red french beret flopping to her side when she turned her head in my direction.

"Huh, say what?" I reply, snapping my eyes from a young couple seated in the tables by the concession stand with their hands linked under the table, staring into one another's eyes as they sipped their coffees.

One arm loomed around my waist, the other hand's finger were busily twirling the glass of my pendant like I did always when I was zoned out. I had nearly forgotten we were standing in line to purchase the tickets to a movie we had yet to choice.

"For Christ's sake. Have you become deaf living in that Pack of imbeciles?" She grumbled, flicking my head with her fingers.

"Ouch!"

"You should be enjoying my company Nora, not ogling couples who are ready to go full out in making love over the table in a cinema hall," She frowned, seeing my cheeks blushed. The couple were now sucking at each other's face despite the table separating them, coffee forgotten on the ground. You could visibly see the movement of the couples' tongue bulging in one another's mouth, no wolf sight needed. Parents covered their children eyes as they passed. "Your sex life cant be that sad."

"It's beyond complicated. Dont get me started." I sigh, adjusting my bag's strap on my shoulder. It was impossible to keep my bag from sliding down from my sweater. It was a medium sized red knit sweater I wore with spandex tights, leather black skirt to mid thigh and honey ankle boots.

"I drove 4 hours in traffic from the SilverRose Pack to come here into this forsaken Pack to be with you and you can't share express what's bothering you besides saying it's too complicated." We stepped closer to the booth.

We were in a town on the borders of RedBlood Pack and where the SilverRose Pack under Ryan's justification began. Lia had to be sneaked in. This was the only most safest place for both of us to meet without suspicions and inquiry from both Packs. I had told Leila I was meeting some new friend I had made in one of the neighboring Pack houses. Luckily the name I created turned out to be an actual person whom Leila knew.

"Lia I never meant it like that. Everything about Damon is naturally complicated. He's either here, caring for me like I mean the world to him and the next, he has me disposed and forgotten to be with his ex. He's making it complicated. Every second is torture with him! Why can't he just love me like my Mate, that I don't know but it wouldn't hurt him to give some damn respect. His ego be damned, I just want him to treat me like a person.

"A person with real emotions and feelings not of stone, a person who can get wounded with words just as much as actions. Not any an object he feels free to break whenever he desires. I'm just as human and breakable as he is. Nothing I do will ever help him. It's like a never ending game of pleasing the heartless Alpha you know."

"Oh Nora. Im sorry." Lia squeezed my fist by my side, sympathy softening her face. "For the future know this, I will beat him into a pulp before burying his sorry ass in a grave of dog shit."

I laugh, smiling sadly at her. "Oh my God Lia."

"That's the least he deserves from me. I should be giving you some exterminator's number so you can get rid of that pest yourself." Lia pointed, advancing in line. "Okay enough about horse face. A Quiet Place or Truth or Dare? And don't you dare think of saying Fifty Shades Freed if you still want both of your eyes to in their sockets"

We both share the laugh but was interrupted by the voice at the cashier. My stomach cramped, I slipped a hand to the area and felt it instantly loosen. "Two tickets for...er, Avengers: Infinity War please..?"

She turned to me questionably and I gave an encouraging smile. "Of course"

"Alright ladies. Your total comes to 17.99 with taxes."

"Jesus Christ! Establishments like this were made to rob you I swear." She rumbled through her bag, producing a card after the line had made a good length. The cramp returned in full force tightened my insides. I hiss in pain, turning to catch the queue line post.

"Come on Nora! We got our self 10 minutes to get the popcorn and to get to our seats!" She grabbed my wrist, pulling me to the concession stand. Movement seemed to lower the pain for now, but not by much.

Lia went for the super sized popcorn, extra buttery with a side 4 bags of whole peanut M&M's, a large nacho plate and foundation sized Pepsi. I passed, feeling suddenly wanting to retch from the scent of food. Lia gave a shrug and paid.

"I swear that dude back in the cashier was definitely checking you out," Lia slurped her drink, carrying the popcorn and M&M's towards the screening hall. I held her nacho plate for her, feeling as if the world around was swaying on it's axis. The pain hadn't recede this time as we walked down the hall. "Did you see him turn to his buddy in the blonde afterwards? He was checking you out just as much, especially those legs. Man, I'm jealous of you. I wish I had those legs of yours to catch the guy's attention."

"Lia-" The pain tightened and loosened but from the concession stand to here, it was only contracting more by the second. I reach for her wrist with a hand, the nacho plate falling to the ground from the other.

"Nora! How could you! My nacho-Nora? Whats wrong? Holy mother of pricks, you're burning up!" Lia exclaimed. She kept her food and drink on the ledge by the window, catching me in time before I fell to my knees.

"Do you have a fever?"

"No," I reply breathlessly. My body weakened with every throb making it very painful to stand a foot. My skin felt scorched, sweat drenching my clothes. The cramps in my lower stomach intensified. I groan, doubling over if it weren't for Lia holding me.

Luckily it was just us two, not even a person from the staff crew in the halls. I felt Lia harden in place, seeing her eyes widen in shock with an inhale. She paled as if she saw a ghost. "We need to get the hell outta here."

She dumped me on the ground, running to where she kept her food on the ledge. Grabbing the bags of M&M's she stuffed two bags under her coat and beneath her shirt and into each cup of her bra, with the remaining two bags in each of our bags. "Lia!"

"You can't just abandon the M&M's here for them to eat when I paid! Besides, I trust no one in this Pack! Except you of course but I expect that you'll return those M&M's or you can forgot we were even friends!"

Looping an arm over herself, I transferred most of my weight on her. Half carrying and half hauling me, we took the back exit staircase down to the underground parking lot. Conveniently, it was found empty too.

We were half way through, when Lia gave a string of curses. "W-what is i-it?"

"Fuckity fuck! I left my phone on the ledge with the popcorn!"

"L-Li-" "Ill be back! Dont die on me now!" Keeping my back to the side of the closet car, a white gleaming BMW X5, Lia sprinted back through the exit, slamming into the door and breaking the lock with her inhuman strength.

My vision blurred, probably from the tears numbing my eyes. I had nearly missed the sight of two preying eyes if it weren't for the car's rear mirrors. By the time I twirled around to confront him, I was surrounded by a gang of men, about 8 of them in casual everyday clothes and their leader by the looks, in his spotless dress shirt and vest striding in from behind the car.

"Well well, don't you smell divine my love," He spoke quite softly, the tears in my eyes making his face a blur. I felt as if I met him before. "All preserved and prepped to my liking are you now?"

His freaky grin went from ear to ear. "Remember me? Probably not, but I can give you a hint. I wasn't so fortune to be dressed on the day of your wedding," said the rouge who had attacked me on the day of my wedding in the back alley when I had fled and nearly made it, if it were this piece of shit here.

He walked up, shoving me up against the car with his chest. "Get the hell away from me."

"Oh amore mio. Never," His face was quickly replaced with Damon's. Everything about him was transformed into Damon. The same dark hair, the same twisted pits of darkness. He grabbed my shoulders and threw me across into the closet pillar.

I felt my back crack in several places, but my wolf healing kicked in soon after. I was sprawled on the cement ground, groaning and blinking the birds away when I felt someone turn me to my back, straddling me in place before planting his lips on me.

The internal heat only grew. He sucked my lips dry with his metallic tasting lips, trying to slip his tongue through my pursed lips. His hand was reaching for my inner thigh when the whooping and cheering of his men began. Some I heard even asked for a try.

I cried and cried, trying to my best to push his away but the heat within had receded my strength. Even my bond with June was feeling distance. His lips went away, and I felt a sharp sting on my cheek from where his hand struck me.

He stood up, reaching for me again and shoving me into the car's side and holding me in place with his body pinning mine. This time he went for the mark. I felt his lips lick the mark making it sting uncomfortably with the warmth flushing the area.

His canines were extended, and I felt the pressure of his palms on my waist. His canines were an alarming distance away when he was yanked away. I collapsed to my knees with the help of Kaden guiding me down, panting, sobbing and waving him off.

His eyes were a storm. A blend of green accents behind washed grey storm clouds, making them both dark with fury. "You shouldn't have done that James. Now I'll be sure to rip your head painfully slow so you can feel it sting in your grave."

The man, James, wheezed. "Let's pray you die in the process before getting the opportunity then."

The men both lunged for each other, grabbing each other's neck. Kaden crashed James into a few cars before thrashing him to the ground and punching him as if he were a punching sack. James's men had vanished to thin air.

"Nora." Kaden couched down besides me resting a hand to my shoulder. "Can you walk?"

I give a weakened nod, and he takes my arm around his neck. Sweating quite profoundly, I wanted to avoid all interactions but couldn't because of my condition of being unable to walk. Unlike Lia, he carried my weight more than hauling me.

We hadn't made 5 steps when I felt a hand on my shoulder from behind. Twirling us around, he gave James a kick in the chest. Resting me over the hood of a car to lean on, Kaden excused himself for a brief second with the promise to crack his head.

I saw him walk directly up to the staggering James, who could hardly stand on his feet without swaying, and gave his neck a good effortless twist side to side. Bones scrunched, even as he fell to the ground but not as much as when Kaden leaped onto Jame's crippled body, cracking open his skull and the brain matter.

Unable to hold anymore, the bile rose to my throat and I threw up on the car's windshield. Sweeping me off my feet, Kaden carried me to and into a royally maroon Cadillac parked at the end of the opening. Buckling me in, I heard him whisper, "Just hold on some more Nora."

His face was distance, unfocused like everything else. He didn't waste a heartbeat in getting in and speeding out the exit into the night lit by city lights, his grip tightening on the steering wheel by the second.

"W-w-where are you taking me?" I ask groggily, feeling my limbs slum into the shape of the seat. God bless Kaden for having the sense to open the air conditioning.

Kaden smirked. "Where can the best place on earth be to preserve your virtue from the entire male population in a time of heat than to your own protective Alpha brothers's?"

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Hey Owls!

I dont know why but I love this chapter from them all so far. Maybe because it something to do with me a bowl of wrapped chocolate roasters at 3am. Who knows? It's happy hour!

Whats your favorite chapter so far?

(And yes. For you dirty minds on Wattpad (as moi -no need to deny it as you shouldn't either), I will incorporate a chapter for smut)