The Alpha Hunts

Chapter 42

-edited-

Lucifer POV:

On my third lap around the territory I finally spot Livy, silently sleep in the dent of a hollow tree, which blocked me from seeing her before. My debate for sparking a conversation is easily defeated with me just wanting to get her home.

I picked her up like a delicate flower, fitting her to comfort in my arms before walking back to house. I worry that anything I say won't be heard, that my moment of ignorance would spoil everything we've built.

Some people don't believe in love at first sight, they also don't believe in saying "I love you" before even a month. But what they don't understand is that, when you know, you know. I may not of known her for long, and we've only been together for a couple days but I do love her. Unfortunately I know how being with her can ruin my reputation, giving me a weak spot but I don't care. But I feel like none of that matters to her right now.

As I walk through the doors I feel the hesitant eyes stalk my every move until I disappear from their sight. I have no intentions of taking her to her room, I want her to stay with me tonight, where I know she's safe and sound. I can stay on the floor, give her the space she needs.

Lying her down on the bed, I tempt to leave her in the bed but she grabs my shirt in her fist before slightly opening one eye and gently pulled me to her. I climb in bed next to her and hold her as we both start go to sleep.

***

I hug tighter, securely, to Livy as I feel my self waking up. Loosening my grip as I feel her groan. I don't want to wake up yet, I know once I'm awake she'll wake up. Leading us to talk and our first fight.

Keeping my eyes close, she wrestles a little to get out of my arms. "Lucifer, I know you're not sleeping." Her tired voice speaks.

I reluctantly open my eyes, and when I resist the urge to smile at her bed head. Her waking up to me.

She sit herself up and waits for me to do the same. It's too early for this, I'm not ready. I don't want to go through with this because I fear the outcome. "I really need a shower and to brush my teeth, so I want to keep this short." She yawns. "If you love her, I can't stay, it wouldn't work. So do you love her?" She asks me.

"I love you Olivious." I tell her.

"Don't walk around this Lucifer. Do you love her, yes or no?" She asks simply.

"No." I tell her honestly.

"Ok." She crawls out of bed and walks to my bathroom. "Are showering with me, or after." She asks leaning in the doorway.

I walk over to her, my arms sweep across her lower back before I peck her lips. "I love you." I assure her.

"So with?" She asks.

I take my shirt off walking passed her. "With."

We step into the shower and I hug her. Placing my head on her shoulder, smelling her neck. I begin to hold her a little tighter, as I take in all of her. I want to mark her, to ensure everything will be fine to show her that she's my one and only.

I graze my teeth on her neck, like a heads up to stop me if she doesn't want this. But she doesn't stop me. I position my teeth, ignoring the sharp pain in my gums as my teeth sharpen themselves. Gently pressing on her skin, I feel her nails digging into my back the further my teeth get to breaking her skin. With the slight taste of her blood followed by her whimper then a moan, I inject my venom through her. Sealing her wound with my saliva as my tongue traces over open cuts. I look at it, the bright red markings making a oval, and then staring into her beautiful eyes. "I love you, Olivious May Cyrus. You and only you."

She kisses me, differently. "I shouldn't have let you do that." She turns and gets out of the shower, wrapping herself in a towel.

"Livy, what're talking about?" I say following her.

"Lucifer, I love you too... but I lied, everything we are is build on a lie because of me because I'm a coward. I let you mark me because I love you, but you shouldn't love me. I try to be angry and then I think of all the things that you should hate me about-"

"Livy what are you talking about? And you need to lower your voice because this place is filled with werewolves." I tell her.

She starts to cry. "You never saved me, you saved my sister. I'm not an Omega, I'm a beta. I can't get attached because I'm supposed to leave you, but I love you." She rants all but slow.

She walks over to my bed and sits down, trying to muffle her tears. "What?" I ask.

"The girl you saved all that time ago wasn't me, it was my twin sister. She died that day too. My mom had twins with the beta, I'm a mutt. Alpha beta, alpha omega. My mom died birthing us." She sighs. "Since the beta had an affair when she died it was swept under the rug, and when my sister died she was a Omega, almost as if she didn't exist anyway-"

"None of that will make me hate you. If anything I'm grateful because we'd be able to have a family without the fear of losing you." I sit next to her but she stands up.

"But I'm suppose to be a distracting until you can be with Cassandra-"

"But I don't want to be with Cassandra, Livy."

"But your family does!" She yells. "They want us to get married and have a family, but 'when the time is right', they'd kill Calvin and tell me to tell you 'that can't be with someone like you' and then leave. Just so that you can marry Cassandra and be an alpha... I think it was Jospeh's idea." She falls, to the ground and starts crying. "They said you're soft, and when the time was right for you to leave me you wouldn't be able to, so I'd have to leave you." She whispered. "I don't want you to love me under false pretenses."

"Livy... here's my truth." I start. "Max, Angel, Joseph and I came up with a 10 month plan to get Cassandra. I was in love with her, but she had a blind obligation to her husband. We were going to kill him, and make it seem like we had nothing to do with it so that Cassandra would come to me." I tell her. She looks up at me. "But then I met you, and I was ready to give it up because at the time I really liked you. And when I was around you I forgot all about Cassandra. They wanted me to use you as a pawn in a plan and I refused... so I guess they roped you in behind my back."

We fall into a silence, the secrets aired before it started to weighed on my shoulders. The silence begging one of us to say something. Hearing everything out loud just seems dramatic and stupid.

I kiss the mark on her neck. "I love you, Livy, and I don't think anything can change that."