Mateless and Home Bound

Chapter 36: Nita

"Jane!" he yelled after her, "Can we at least try and talk this out?"

"No," she grabbed her things from his room. She couldn't believe that she had let him convince her to even sleep in there. She couldn't believe that she had decided to trust someone like him.

She couldn't believe she would trust someone who would let a vampire go, and have the nerve to say that it was her fault because she scared him off.

"Jane, please!" he begged, following her down the halls. She didn't care what kind of scene they made, she just wanted to be alone.

She swore if he used his authority on her again, she was going to reject him right there and then. She didn't care about the consequences. She'd just leave the territory before the Alpha tried to chase her down. She knew how to run away.

It's only what she had been doing her whole life.

Eric followed her all the way to the gym. She was so busy going as fast as possible to see any of the people stopping to stare down the halls. But all was empty in the gym. They were completely alone. Any other time, she would be scared of being alone with him because of all those other Alphas that she had met. This time, though, there wasn't an ounce of fear in her body. She would punch him before letting him try anything.

"Jane, can I just talk to you for two minutes?!" Eric said when the doors to the gym closed. She was about to head outside so that she could shift and run as far away from him as possible. But something in her told her to stop. There was so much pain in that voice that her instincts came over her.

She was so sick of this mate bond. It tied her down when all she had ever wanted was to be free. She was so angry from what had just happened that it turned towards her bond with this man that was supposed to be her childhood friend. This man that would betray his own kind for a vampire they knew nothing about.

"You just don't get it, do you?" She turned around to look at him. Those different colored eyes looked like a deer in headlights as she turned faced him. "Don't you know how dangerous those things are, Eric?! Do you really think that everything in this forest is good and all the things in the forest are helpful?"

"I just wanted to hear what he had to say," Eric frowned. "Jane, he knows more about this forest than anyone else."

"The only thing he knows is how to trick a gullible alpha into believing him," she spat at him. It hurt to say it, her heart still stinging as she saw her mate's reaction, but her anger overrode it. "All that man is, is another dangerous creature that has come into this forest and needs to be killed. If he doesn't, then more will come."

She had seen what those creatures could do. She had seen them kill hundreds of humans, along with her own people that her and her father were trying to protect.

"Vampires are nothing to think lightly about," she told him. "They fight well. But you don't know that. You haven't seen them kill hundreds of people, some of them the one's that you were trying to protect. You haven't seen them tear your own father into pieces and laugh as they played with his flesh. You haven't seen anything, Eric!"

"I've seen plenty!" Eric yelled at her. His own anger coming out now. "I've seen enough to know what someone really looks like when they're evil or not. But if that vampire was truly evil, then my dad wouldn't be alive right now! He would have killed him already, Jane! What kind of vampire just carries their prey right to a bunch of werewolves?"

"A manipulative one."

"He's not trying to manipulate me," he frowned again. She just couldn't get it through that thick head of his.

"Then why haven't you told your Pop about this?" she crossed her arms. "Why are you keeping this a secret from the very pack that you are set on trying to protect?"