Her Vengeful Lycan Alpha
Chapter 389: Bothering

Chapter 389: Bothering

Chapter Three Hundred-Eighty-Nine – Bothering

Bebe turned to the Princess when she heard her sigh tiredly. Her mate wasn’t a bad offer to Bebe. The Alpha definitely changed from all the things he did.

She didn’t expect the Princess to forgive him easily but she should really reconsider and try to give him a chance. "The Alpha isn’t bad though and—"

"I don’t want him." Laurel released her face from her hand. "He’s nothing like the man I dreamed about that’d be nice and soft. My first impression of him is very—"

"Your first impression of me wouldn’t be very nice, would it?" Bebe held her hands to her own chest. "I was a dirty little thing you took pity on." She smiled.

Laurel frowned. She didn’t think so lowly of Bebe when they first met. Her concentration was more on who made her like that than what she was like.

"Stefan is also a Lycan." Laurel reminded. It wasn’t about being racist but about putting in consideration the differences between their races and challenges it’d pose.

"Yes, but also a creation of the Moon Goddess." Bebe reminded. "The Moon Goddess has her reasons for pairing you up and obviously she doesn’t differentiate Lycans from werewolves. We’re all the same to her."

Laurel shrugged, looking away from Bebe. Bringing the Moon Goddess to the argument wasn’t fair.

While she could understand the moon Goddess, it felt as if the Moon Goddess didn’t understand her. She wasn’t the Moon Goddess that’d give and accept love blindly.

"I hope you didn’t tell anyone this?" She peered into Bebe’s eyes. "I am not ready to start anything with him and I’m sure he—"

"If I think of it, the Alpha had really acted like you meant more than just... you know, to him." Bebe began pacing around her room.

That wasn’t what Laurel wanted to hear from her at the moment. "What should I know? You are the only one that noticed that because your head’s always in the clouds and jumping at the thought of romance or a good-looking man." It reminded Laurel of Lena and she became bitter and sober. "I never felt like I was being treated like more so that doesn’t count at all."

Bebe stopped moving and sighed. "I guess that’s true. If you never felt it, then it wasn’t there."

Laurel nodded. Why should others be the one to tell her that someone treated her well when she had only been abused by him and that’s all she could remember?

"That’s all you want to remember." Elma added. "Stop stopping yourself from accepting—"

Laurel cut their connection immediately. She didn’t need to hear her part of the story since her wolf already made her mind up to accept her mate.

All Elma needed to do was let her make up her own mind up on what she wanted to do with her life. If it involved accepting Stefan, so be it. If not, so be it as well.

"I’d be on my way and please, really keep this information secret till I make my decision, understood?" She said sternly.

Bebe nodded slowly, keep her hands behind her. "Understood."

Laurel left the place and while she walked out, Jessika noticed she had a frown on her face. When she had arrived, she looked happy so Jessika wondered what went wrong. She left to Bebe’s room to know what had happened.

Laurel headed for the forest immediately to clear her mind. She strolled to a tree and immediately shot out her claws, and slashed on the tree.

She didn’t expect the impact to be so deep on the tree bark and she hugged it immediately. "Oh no no." She rubbed the tree hoping that it would go back to normal.

Then an exasperated sigh left her and her annoyance slowly crawled from her mind. Was she now taking out her annoyance on innocent trees?

But her annoyance returned quickly when she caught his scent and her claws twitched. Was there a reason he had to be everywhere she went to?

Then she remembered, he also liked staying here sometimes. Maybe she was the one in his space. She hadn’t also spoken to Marino about their misunderstanding, she hoped he wouldn’t ask about it.

"Did you do that to the tree?" his deep voice asked.

She rolled her eyes even if he couldn’t see it. Why was she registering how his voice sounded in her head. "I already feel guilty, okay?"

Stefan smiled. For one she was speaking casually to him and didn’t try to run like before. "Why though?"

He only wanted the conversation to keep on since somehow the Moon Goddess gave him a topic of discussion. "Is something bothering you?"

"Someone had been bothering me lately. I’d like to be alone to think it over." She bent down and rested by the tree. It was hard and not very comfortable but the clean breeze passing through her hair and dressed was soothing enough to ignore it.

As expected, she saw Stefan stoop under a tree, opposite hers, but keeping a good distance.

Since they weren’t anyone around, then she would speak informally as he’d always wanted. She sighed. "Don’t you have anything to do, Stefan?"

Stefan looked up, stunned that she called him by his first name. It made his ears redden for some reasons and he thought of what to reply quickly with so the silence wouldn’t grow weird.

"I finished them early to be here." He nodded at his choice of words, that proved his capability. He picked up some leaves under the tree he was under. "And you?"

His eyes looked at her direction discreetly, she didn’t look tired like before and whatever bothered her might only be mentally and emotionally but not physically.

He’d been hoping for good health for her when he noticed himself getting insomnia and stuff bones, that’s why he took these compulsory walks outside.

"Not really." Laurel replied. "I have capable people."

Stefan hummed. She truly did. They may be antagonistic to him and his officials but that showed how much they valued her. They were probably only sharing her dislike for him. The silence tarried for long.

Stefan regretting not continuing the conversation but there wasn’t anything he could say again.

"Ask her to follow you to a new restaurant! Baxter discovered that small pack by the south of Silent River Pack, didn’t he?" Kai suggested.

Stefan cleared his throat. That was a bit too forward but it was a new topic of conversation he could speak about.

He looked up at Laurel and smiled. He didn’t even mind just seating by her side for a while. "That wouldn’t improve your relationship with her, would it?" Kai remarked.

Stefan sighed. His judging wolf was back at it again. He left where he sat and carefully moved towards Laurel.

He watched her reaction and she didn’t make any move till he was standing in front of her.

"What?" Her voice was flat.

He bent down in front of her. "What is your favorite color?" He could hear Kai screaming in his head as that wasn’t the question he should be asking.

He didn’t care, it was a question he wanted to know. He had plans to gift her something when her birthday comes again.

She might not celebrate as happily as before but he wanted to help in making it even if a bit joyful since he was the reason it wasn’t happy the first time.

Laurel looked up into his blue eyes before looking away. Sometimes she didn’t even know what went on in his head.

Unpredictability. She’d been feeling that way with him of recent. "I don’t have one." She didn’t want to think of it or be cooperative. He should just let her be.

She noticed that he sat besides her, and her fist balled. If someone saw them now, they’d think that they were all good buddies.

"What did you actually want to ask?" there’s no way that’s all he wanted to know. A part of her expected more and the other part didn’t.

"Baxter found a small pack besides us." He turned to her. "It’s active and has a tourist site of mine stones."

Laurel frowned deeply. Her father never tried to take packs that were peaceful and doing well on their own, so that must be why that pack wasn’t one of theirs. In that case, he shouldn’t even think of having it.

She scoffed audibly. "So it was a political business you came close for?" she left where she sat and looked down at him. Why did she expect more? "Do you want to raid the place and take it under Black Claws?"

Stefan had already began panicking internally when her tone changed. Did he say his words wrongly? "I’m confused. I never said I had an intention to raid it." he said calmly.

"Okay then, you want Green Valleys, your loyal babysitters to take over the lack for you? What are you getting at?" Laurel lowered her voice as he seemed to be genuinely confused.

"Not that either." Stefan said. "My emphasis was on the tourist site. Do you want to see it... with me?"

Laurel leaned back. "Oh."

"Oh?" Stefan repeated. Was that a yes?