THE ALPHA’S ADDICTION

Maya dropped down on the bed ungracefully as she heard Derek’s declaration.

He has lost his wolf? No, not good at all.

She already knew that it was the aftermath of his interaction with the orb which Melvina had told her about. The object that had almost killed him. It hadn’t succeeded, but it had managed to silence his wolf. She hoped that it was a temporary problem.

Turning aside to look at him, she noticed that his shoulders were dropped low, his head bent. He looked like a lost child, and a worried old man at the same time.

Sighing, she drew close to him, and enclosed him in a hug, the type that she had always reserved for him whenever he ran to her crying over something when they were still kids.

“He will come back.” She muttered intermittently, as she held him to herself, patting him slowly but steadily on the back.

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“You know when you left, I had almost lost it.” Derek said, after a while of being enclosed in Maya’s hug.

He had forgotten how it felt being enclosed in his cousin’s hug until now. She had been his safe house then. They had had a special bond that even surprised their parents. That’s why he had been beyond heartbroken when she had betrayed him.

Now back in the safehouse, he felt a bit calmer than before, a bit less worried. For that minute, he believed that everything would be fine.

“I’m sorry that I left. If I could go back in time, I wouldn’t have betrayed you or your family.” She said, disengaging from the hug.

“I’m still grateful that you found a way, somehow, in your heart to forgive me.” She stated.

“Who said I have forgiven you?” He asked, his tone deviod of emotion, as he stared at her unblinkingly.

Maya was knocked off balance. For some seconds she was speechless, not knowing what to say, until she saw his lips twitch.

“Scumbag…” She stated, hitting him on his shoulders as he began to laugh.

“I had you there. Hadn’t I?” He said, smiling as she scowled at him, and shifted far way from him.

“C’mon I’m sorry.” He commented, trying to hold her hands, but she shifted hers away from him, sulking.

“I was joking, Coz. C’mon. Can’t you overlook your little brother again?” He asked, tickling her by a short hurried taps on her ribs. And in time, she was laughing alongside with him.

“Yunno, Anthony and Shane would laugh their heads out if I tell him what you did this night…” Maya said, after their laught must have died down.

“You wouldn’t dare. It wasn’t my fault. My wolf wasn’t available and I thought you were Emma.” He said.

“By the way, where is Emma? It’s been ages since I last saw her. She hadn’t even come to see me when I was weak? Did mother forbid her to? Did you exchange rooms with her?” He asked, already getting out of the bed, and picking his polo from the chair.

“I have to go see her. I know she would be missing me.” He said, smirking as he wore his polo, as he expected his cousin to make a funny remark, but his questions and statements were greeted with silence.

That was an alarm.

He knew one when he saw it.

Swivelling around speedily, he felt his heart drown to his stomach when he saw Maya looking down on the bed and pinching her fingers.

“Maya…” He called sharply.

“Where is my mate?” He asked, when she looked up at her.

“She… was… taken.” Maya managed to stutter out, as her heart trembled for her cousin. He had just lost his wolf. He wouldn’t take this one easy. She didn’t think she would be able to comfort him this time around.

Derek laughed wildly in unbelief, causing Maya’s fear to worsen.

Getting out of the bed, she slowly trudged towards him, her hands stretched out horizontally to the ground.

“Derek…” She called tentatively.NôvelDrama.Org © content.

“I’m sorry I joked with you earlier. I have forgiven you. You know that right? So, please tell me where Emma is.” Derek stated, his eyes pleading with her not to repeat her earlier statement, even as a faux wide smile was on his lips.

“Derek…” She sighed, looking away from him. The look in his eyes was hurting her. She hadn’t seen him this way in a very long time. He didn’t even have this look when he had, under the influence of drug, cheated on the redhead. The last time he had this look had been seven years ago, when he had caught her sneaking away from his father’s room with the Kasinky sword.

“Tell me!!” He shouted, startling her a bit.

“She was taken, Derek. She was taken.” She said hurriedly, hugging herself, while rubbing her arms intermittently with her hands.

“By who?” He asked steely, a cold haze masking his deep blue eyes which had earlier been playful. She wasn’t entirely shocked at the transformation. He was addicted to the redhead. She was his mate.

“Nobody knows.” She said, about talk about what had happened, what Shane had told her had happened, when he suddenly screamed and pushed the bedside lamp to the floor.

“Derek… calm down…” She chanted, wishing that Melvina or Anthony would come to the room.

She couldn’t deal with a rage-full Derek.

But either he didn’t hear her, or he was too angry to reckon her statement, because in the next minute he was punching the wall and grunting, tears falling from his eyes.

And because his wolf wasn’t available, he started bleeding from his hands.

Maya was scared.

She had to call Melvina, but she was unsure of leaving Derek alone here. He was unstable in this state, and might do something harmful to himself.

She had heard of wolves that had gone crazy because of the loss or death of their mates.

She couldn’t bear the same happening to her cousin.

As she watched him injure himself, she decided to shift to her wolf and knock him out.

But before she could do so, a sharp knock was heard on the door.