The 'Rogue' at the End of the Tunnel

20. Mates and Buds

"Hey." I call out to Anna who was still lost in her trance.

"Hm." She hums in reply.

"Do you know Tyler's whereabouts by any chance?" I speak up the question that had been looming in my mind ever since she broke the news of Tyler's disappearance.

"Dunno." She mutters in a low voice still not facing me.

"Look at me and speak, damn it!" I finally snap at her, gaining her attention at last.

"I know you found your mate and all, but don't ignore me." I complained in a guilty voice since I didn't mean to snap at her.

"It's fine, and I am sorry for ignoring you." She mumbled apologetically.

"No, I shouldn't have snapped at you like that." I sigh.

"Come on, how long are you guys going to go on with this drama?" Triston groans.

"Um, so you don't know where he is?" I continue my question ignoring him.

"Nope. After that incident, all I know is that he became a rogue, Jason announced it. We all felt the ties breaking. The calls I made did not go through." She goes on while she elegantly chews on her steak.

Suddenly something seems to dawn into her, and she exclaims.
"If I remember correctly, he mentioned about going to train in the Wizard Kingdom."

"Ah, I see." I breathed chewing the last piece of meat on my plate.

I look at Blade whose food looked almost untouched. All this time I had been feeling his intense gaze. Why is he looking at me like that? I mean it happens a lot, but this stare wasn't lust or anything. It seemed like, he was enjoying looking at me.

"I would rather not waste the sight of you eating, baby." I heard him declare cockily in my mind and the smirk played on his lips and a glint of mischief passes through his eyes.

Aaah, my bloody fucking hell, he was teasing me, and I was falling for his antics all over again. But controlling your blood rush wasn't something everybody does every day. And I was flustered, my face was showing it all, without a doubt.
'Baby' had always been a cringe word until I heard it from him. This guy was going to be my death. He brings the red liquid to his mouth and starts sipping it.

"Stupid." Triston huffs.

"What?" I look at him.

"He is being all giddy at the thought of having you think about him all time, and soon it is going to lead to something I wouldn't want to witness." He responded, which was more confusing. What did he mean by witnessing something?

"Stop it damn it. Unlike you, I cannot block other people's thoughts, your sex life is the last thing I want to be seeing now." He exclaimed while Blade literally spat whatever he was drinking with his eyes wide mirroring my reaction. Anna's laugh ringing in the background. Nothing showed on his face until now.

"You are not supposed to say that out loud." Blade hissed at Triston smacking him on his head.

"It's not every day you get to see 'The Rogue King' lose his composure." He smirked to which Blade huffed.

"Traitor." Blade muttered as a sly smirk started formed on his face.

"You are playing with fire." Blade warned slowly. Triston's face twisted as he realized something, I had no idea what, since I was still processing Triston's words about Blade's thoughts about me.

"No, brothers don't backstab." Triston stuttered as nervousness consumed his face. Beads of sweat started to break on his forehead. It was fun watching these cold faced people bickering like highschoolers. I mean they seemed pretty close, and my mate was twenty-five for crying out loud.

"Brothers you say. Hm... You are allowed to as long as you are a victim. That's the rule. Don't tell me you forgot." Blade was totally enjoying this while I was not understanding a single thing.

"You wouldn't." Triston gave a nervous chuckle.

"Miss Evanna, you know your mate..." Blade trails of as his eyes fall on me. He stands up and walks up to where I was sitting. He moves behind me placing both his hands around my head covering my ears that I thought would be futile since I am a frigging werewolf, but as I wait for him to continue, I do not hear a single word. But judging by the horror on Tris's face and a very red Anna I knew he was saying something and I wanted to hear it so bad.

"NOOO, SHUT UPPP!!!" Triston cuts him. I heard that indicating, Blade wasn't going to speak any more about 'that'. Unfortunately.

Blade, then takes my hand and starts leading me outside, without giving a chance for me to bid goodbye to the very flustered couple. Awkwardness clear in the air around them. Now I knew what he meant by 'playing with fire'. I wonder how their conversation was going to end, to top it off, curiosity was getting to me right now, the urge to get all the answers consuming a huge part of my mind that Blade didn't intend to answer any soon.

As we reach his Porsch, I start my questions. Unable to shut anymore since everything had been registered by my painfully slow brain.
"What were you saying?" I throw at him as he opens the passenger side of the car and makes me sit, I keep throwing 'why' questions at him in different ways, as he continues to ignore me and pulls the seatbelt for me. After making sure I was in place he shuts the door while I am still throwing questions at him. He makes his way to his side and takes his seat.

"Why did you cover my ears? Why was I not hearing anything? Why didn't you let me bid them goodb-" I am cut of as he crashes his lips on mine. Everything stops. For a moment I am dumbstruck still processing what was happening- as always. And as soon as I realize, I start responding him. It was my first kiss, but I had no difficulty since our lips moved in perfect sync.

My body started to feel as if it was on fire. I wanted more of this, I felt him shift a little bit but his lips never leaving mine. I could feel sparks as he continued to nibble on my lower lip passionately and slowly. We kissed like that for God knows how long before breaking apart to catch our breath. We look at each other, his hot breath fanning my face before reconnecting our lips like either of us would die without it.

After a while, we break apart to catch some breath. My gaze meets his as a small smile graces his face and a contended one on my face.

"You still owe me an explanation. I won't forget." I whisper breathlessly with a knowing smile.

"Curiosity still killed the cat." He comments with a smug smirk on his face as he starts the engine.

Everything felt just too good right now. I had my friends, my best friend, Linda and most of all my mate by my side.

Little did I know, when everything's going too well is when trouble decides to come knocking on your door.

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