Forbidden Alliance: A Werewolf's Tale (Forbidden Alliance Trilogy) (53 page)

“Wait
,
what?
” I interrupted her. “You are
not a werewolf,” I argued.

Jay Dee looked at me curiously.
“What?” she
asked and
scratched her head
.
“Tanis, what in the hell do you think I am?”

“Human…” I looked at her blood-smudged stomach.

It was completely healed.

“Oh my god,” I choked, “
you are
a werewolf.”

“No shit, Sherlock.
And they accuse
me
of being a blonde,” she
scoffed and
rolled her eyes
.

“
Stop joshing! This is not funny in the least,
” I
yelled
.
“
You are a bloody
a werewolf!”

“Yes.
I was one at birth, and when you met me, and today, and will be tomorrow as well, and the day after that, and the day after that.
I thought you knew,” she
said, sounding completely confused, so she
r
eached out for my hand
but I pulled it away from her.

I rea
ched up and touched the nap of my neck which was still sore
, where she h
ad bitten me while we made love,
and the realization became clear: she marked me as hers.

“
You marked me!” I yelled. “You lying bitch!”

“No
...
well, yes. Y
ou agreed when I asked if you wanted to be with me till the end of my life
.
I didn’t
lie to you
,” she whispered
.
“I thou
ght you knew
and understood what I was asking permission to do.
I’ve never pretended to be something or someone I’m not.
Why do you think the pack doesn’t like me or the tribe, or….oh my god.
You don’t
like me because I’m a werewolf
!?
”

She started hyperventilating.

“Oh my god, oh my god, seriously?” she choked as tears rimmed her eyes.

I
wanted
to hold her
and
to tell her it’s okay,
and
to wipe away her tears, but I
couldn’t
.

She
is
a bloody
werewolf!

Every story
I had
ever heard about the
filthy beasts
, and the
havoc
they’ve caused on the world and in
vampiric
society
, and those of the moment,
were suddenly
r
unning rampant through my mind
, and the words left my lips before I could stop them.

“
You are
a filthy dog, an inferior species that should have never been released from servitude.” I shook my head, disgust more than apparent on my face.

“Please don’t,” she whispered, reaching for me again.

“
Do not ever
touch me
again,
” I snarled.
“You filthy lying
bitch
, do you have any idea what
you have
done?” I
yelled,
holding
my throbbing neck.

Why was I yelling? I honestly didn’t know, but
it
felt
like the right thing to do
at the time
.

“I loved you, and I saw a future with you!
But you had to ruin it by being a deceitful bitch
, no didn’t you?!
I hope you are happy; you
broke me heart.
” I shook my head and ignored the tears streaming down her cheeks. “
What is wrong with you?” I rhetorically asked
in a scoff
.
“I expect this from that lying bitch I married, but not from you.”

She
looked at me with pained eyes
.
“Wrong with me?” she whispered
, as if repeating the question would translate it for her
.
“There isn’t a goddamn thing wrong with me, you self-righteous prick!” she
yelled.

I guess she finally found her voice.

“I never pretended to be anything other than what
and who
I am,
” she snarled
and stalked towards me and I hastily retreated
. “You’re
the one who was trying to force me into
something else, something that was
never my own!
All I wanted was to be loved, for someone to accept me for who
and what
I am,
someone
who
could fill the void that has been in my heart and soul since before I took my first breath,
and I thought I found that with you.
”

Oh, this is bad
.

Jay Dee shook her head. “
You act as if I was intentionally looking and waiting for you!
I didn’t set out to fall in love with a goddamn vampire, it just happened.”
She stopped and choked,
then bit
her lip to the point that it started to bleed.
She
laughed once humorlessly
.
“I should be thanking you,
Mr. Ashton
.
Five days of happiness and love was more than a mutt,
a bitch of inferior birth
, like me deserved.”

Sarcasm noted.

“I never want to see you again,
” she snarled. “Y
ou do not have permission speak to me, touch me,
or
even breathe on me. Y
ou are dead to me,” she
spat
through clenched teeth.

Jay Dee turned, and in three quick strides
,
her body phased into a white wolf and
she quickly
disappeared into the night.

I stood t
here watching the only person
I had
ever truly loved walk away from me.

“
What in the hell did I just do?
” I stammered.

d’A
rtagnan laughed from the stage
.
“Oh my god. That was so much better than soap operas.
My little brother
screwed
a dog!
That is too funny.
Sadly, it
looks as if I owe Georgiana ten grand
; she warned me that you were banging a mutt
, but I didn’t believe her
.
The
bitch wasn’t that hot anyways
,” he mumbled before bringing his beer to his lips.

“You will watch your tongue,” I
warned
.

“Or you’ll what, sic
your dog on me?” he
mused
.

In a blur
,
I
was on the stage
and
my h
ands wrapped around his throat
.
“I swear to god I will kill you.
Family or not, you will not speak of her in that way.
Werewolf or not, she was way out of both of our leagues.”
I slammed his head into the stage for good measure and sulked off into the night.

I am such an
arsehole
!
I
cannot
believe I just did that.
Never once did Jay Dee lie to me about what or who she was.
She
had
been nothing but open and honest, loving and kind.

Oh God;
I am such a pillock arsehole.

In over three hundred years,
I had
only met a few werewolves, and most were rather rude and short-tempered, but
they
never
once did
anything to me personally.
How could I let my species, a species
which
I
do not
even like most of the time, push their prejudices on me?

There is something seriously wrong with me.

“Please tell me you didn’t just do what your brother said you did,” Romeo said, appearing next to me.

I groaned
and looked at my feet.

“Oh my god, you’re retarded!”
he said and punched me in the arm.

“I know!” I
yelled
.

There
was
no reason for me to be
yelling
, b
ut I
apparently couldn’t
stop randomly yelling at the people I love
d
.

“Do you think
she will permit to
me apologize?” I whispered.

He shrugged.
“I don’t know.
You screwed up hardcore.
It doesn’t matter if they are humans, w
erewolves, vampires, or witches
.
Love is love
,
and you loved that girl and she loved you.
You pushed way
the greatest gift any immortal
...
hell, any man, could hope to have.”

“Lovely, that
does not
fill me with a warm fuzzy feeling.”

“It shouldn’t.
You were a prick, a real piece of shit
bastard
.
She should have kicked your ass a few times over for what you said.”

“I know
,
”
I mumbled.

Romeo
walked with me in silence back to Jay Dee’s house.
Along the way, we passed Jarvis ripping the throat out of the w
erewolf who stabbed his sister
while
the pink and black haired wolf
circled
them
,
waiting for her chance at him.

“Do you think she
is
here?” I whispered, looking up at her darkened bedroom window, the curtains
were hanging
out of the open window.

Romeo sniffed
.
“Yeah, she’s here.”
He turned to me and unknotted my tie before unbuttoning the top buttons of my dress shirt and jerked it back from my shoulder. “She marked you as hers,” he whispered.

I nodded. “I did not realize that her feelings for me ran as deeply as mine ran for her,” I admitted in a pained whisper. “She was the first and only person I ever contemplated turning, simply so I could have forever with her.”

Romeo
nodded and buttoned my shirt back up before smoothing it out for me. He forced a smile
that fell before it even began. “Turning was obviously not needed in order to spend eternity together,” he reminded me.

“Wish me luck,” I tried to
josh
but failed
miserably.

After a couple of deep breaths,
I knocked on the front door and held my bollocks and breath.
After a minute
,
I knocked again, harder
that
time.

“I know
you are
here, Duckie
. P
lease talk to me!”

“Go to
H
ell!” she
yelled
.

“No, I
a
m already in
H
ell.
I am so sorry
. Please,
allow
me feebly
attempt
to explain my actions,
” I pleaded.

The front door flew open and she glared at me.

“You’re sorry?” she scoffed.
“Sorry?
Screw you, you animated corpse!”
she yelled and
stalked
towards me
and I retreated backwards, away from the fuming
woman
.
“Don’t call me
. T
ake your damn car back
...
take everything back that you bought
!
I don’t want you in my life, or anything that reminds me of you!” she
yelled
.

“Please,” I stammered.

“Don’t,” she
snarled.
“Need I remind you that
I
am the one of inferior birth, thus you shouldn’t be lowered to groveling or pleading to the likes of a bitch mutt like me!”
she said so venomously that I was terrified. Then s
he slammed her open palm into the center of my chest, sending me flying through the air, my progression
only
stopped by the windshield of my
Range Rover
.