Aries Blackwood

Just where could she be?

My blood was boiling at this point as I walk back and forth. My surrounding an utter mess of broken glass and pool of blood and alcohol. I had been on a hunt since the moment I caught a whiff of that sweet aroma. I had been looking everywhere for her like a crazy manic. But I still couldn't get a whiff of that presence from that night.

The fuzzy image of her that I got from the cctv footage was the only thing keeping me sane at the moment, keeping this rampaging wolf at bay. But he was not a wolf anymore, he was something more powerful, deadlier and he had finally decided that he wanted more than a part of me, he wanted complete control. He seeked the one whom he had lost in time and in return lost himself.

All these decades without her had wrecked this monster and made him hibernate deep down, but her presence had called him forth, to push past the fragile glass cell that he was imprisoned into. Any more force and the glass cell will come crumbling down, and he will break free.

"Just how long is it going to take them damn f***ers to locate a single car?" I throw another punch on the wall, creating one massive hole along with many others. They better hurry or I'll end up destroying this place like I did the penthouse.

I searched everywhere possible, every corner of every street. Too tired and too disappointed with my non-findings, I had finally decided to indulge with the last bit of memories of her, in this place.

Trying, though unsuccessfully, to calm this monster in me, I close my eyes replaying the image of the night. That sleek black hair, that heavenly scent and that magical surge in the air. If I knew that this was where we would be reunited, I would have never stepped a foot out of here.

A knock on the door pulls me out of my thoughts once again, angering the monster further. Just how many times do I have to point out that unless it's about her, I don't want to see or hear anyone or anything. At this rate the monster in me will be unleashed sooner that I would have preferred.

"Mr. Blackwood? You have a visitor-"

"How many times do I have to say it to you for you to understand, unless it's about her, do not come and disturb me." I call out harshly, more like growl my annoyance to the human behind the door.

"But Mr. Blackwood, she insists- wait Miss-" An angry growl escapes my lips just as the door bangs open and the music outside comes flooding in, and I close off all my senses as my head starts ringing. But I see a known face in the midst of my blurring sight. Even time couldn't do her any harm, she looked just the same as I last met her. How long had it been since?

I lost track of time.

"Thank you for your help, Tim. I'll be fine from here." She lightly pats Tim, her voice as calm and clear as ever, even with all the noises. But I knew of the intentions behind that innocent touch all too well as Tim gives her a smile and closes the door behind her, leaving us alone.

I breath out loud and turn to face away from her, somehow holding the beast back in its cage. But my dark eyes and ragged breathing proves to be guilty of my failed attempt. "It's nice to see you again Aries."

But I don't answer her. Although I preferred her company more than my silence over the decades of our encounter, but not this time. This time I preferred to be left alone.

"I guess I came at the wrong time huh?"

The clicking of her heels sounds louder on this glass decorated flooring as she moves into the room and comes to stand beside me, her arms folded across, her eyes outlooking the floor below us, swarming with intoxicated bodies.

"What could possibly make the great Aries this distressed-"

I close my eyes and exhale loudly. The tone of hers held an emotion that I knew well, loneliness hidden within those playful words. But I just couldn't find it in me to answer her. "It is her, huh." She answers her own question and confirms herself.

"She was this close."

I place my palm over the glass, to where I last saw her before she disappeared right in front of my eyes, unclogging my senses once again as if trying to breathe her in. "But I wasn't quick enough..." I clench my jaws tightly and clasp my hand into a fist as I stare at the exit with a hooded vision. "She was this close, but I lost her. Again..."

The silence sits heavily in the air for a while. The quiet thumping of the music outside was the only sound in the room, even our heartbeat stayed quiet as if grieving our loss. My loss.

"If I can do anything to help, just say it out."

I chuckle darkly as I shake my head. "We hardly keep in touch. Even if I need your help, where is the first place I can look? Where do I even begin?"

"Just spread the words. The wind carries every whisper no matter how silent they are, Alpha Aries. Always remember." She brings her hands out, wriggling her fingers, reminding me of her deadly gift as if I could ever forget, not only can she erase but she can go through one's thoughts, memories, and manipulate them as she wished. She was just lethal.

And I had nothing to say to that since she had always been the one to find me, just like how she found me today. "Until next time, Aries." I had nothing to offer her apart from my silent goodbye as she turns around to leave. But the second, the door opens, the sweet scent of hers hits my now cleared senses and that glass cell holding the beast in comes crashing down, letting him finally come forth.

I speed out the door in inhumane pace and across the crowded floor, sniffing, inhaling her. My eyes craved to see those midnight black hair once again. To feel it. I swim through bodies after bodies, hoping that it will eventually lead me to her.

My heart hammers inside my chest, throbbing painfully so as I become unsuccessful in finding her. And the more agitated I become, the more I start to lose control and the more I become the monster I am. But just as my vision starts to double in anger, in disappointment, I see a silhouette. That midnight hair, that tall figure and those endless legs-

My eyes hungrily watches that body, swaying along with the beat that was now mute to my ears. But when a realisation hits me of that short skin-tight dress she was wearing and the fair amount of skin, she was exposing for everyone, I become blind with rage and even more so when those sick, dirty leeches starts to latch itself on her. On what was mine.

She was mine and mine only.

Intentionally or not, I growl loudly warning them. The only warning, I was capable of giving tonight. But it was enough for these weak humans as they scatter around in fear of someone inferior to them.

And now that she was free for only my sake, my predatory eyes watches her still body frozen in place. Consciously or not, I inhale deep breaths in as if I wasn't already doing so, but it wasn't enough. So, I finally let him, let myself to hold her in my arms.

Millions of currents zaps my body but I only tighten my hold onto her slender frame. At last, she was in my arms. At last, I found her.

I bury my head on the side of her bare neck, loving the feeling of her skin against mine. The strong vanilla and lavender with a hint of roses now wafted into all my senses, making me go crazy. I was an addict now if I already wasn't one.

I missed this. I missed her.

I missed this feeling of hers against my body. I missed her touch. I missed everything.

"Mate."

The word escapes my lips as I squeeze my eyes close, a trail of tear, a relief, flowing down the valley of my face. At last, I found you.

But a moment later, her body goes limp against my tight hold and I start to panic but I keep holding her tight. I will never let her go again. I pull her flush into my body and take my coat off to wrap it around that slender waist, covering her exposed legs from everyone else's sight.

She was light as a feather as I pull her up in my arms, her head on the crook of my neck. She fit perfectly in my arms, like it was only meant to hold  her. She was my perfect fit. Only mine.

"Let her go."

The command in the voice angers the beast in me, and a feral growl escapes my lips one more time as I turn my head slightly to face the intruder whilst keeping her tucked deep and safe in my arms, away from him. A possible threat.

"Mine."

I growl out again, declaring that she belonged only to me. That I wasn't going to heed to anyone's command. Showing my true dominant nature and forcing him to back off.

Because she was mine. Mine only.

"Hold on, Alex." I hear another male voice. But what perked my ears was the name that I heard. He had clearly called him Alex. I look at the woman in my arms.

Did he return as well?

As my curiosity grows further, I slowly turn around to face them while still blocking her body from them. And there he was. Alexander Knight, in all his glory, looking exactly like his previous self, but now stood with a killer intent to his eyes, a need to attack, but a greater need to protect. Even in this life, he was born beside her. To protect her, to forever be her warrior.

"Alexander."

I acknowledge him, but the furrow starting to draw on his face, tells me that he had no knowledge of me nor the recollection of his previous life. "How do you know my name? Who are you?" His dark eyes tries to look past my arms, probably hoping to get a glimpse, and knowing him, or the him from before, wanting to make sure she was safe.

"Don't worry, I'm not going to hurt her ever again." I try to assure him, but fail to do so. "Again?" He snarls, taking a step forward but the other guy holds him back. "So, you did hurt her before? Let her go before I make you."

"We'll talk later Alexander. Althea needs to rest right now. I'm taking her with me-"

"Don't even think about taking a foot out of here with her. I won't let you."

"Who are you to stop me?" My voice goes a tone higher, deeper. The monster calling to get full control again so he could eliminate the obstacle that was between him and his mate. "She is mine." I snarl out.

"And mine only".

Tension fills the silence as those brown in his eyes starts to turn black, reflecting my own pool of darkness. But something halts him, and he remains frozen still, only inhaling silent breaths, he turns his head up, to the floor upstairs, where people now stood by the railing, watching the exhibition of the night.

Some held the look of horror on their faces while some still intoxicated, hallucinating under the influence of alcohol and whatnot consumed tonight. But his eyes searches deeper and further, away from the crowd. They were not the ones he was looking for. And as if he could filter the rooms with his naked eyes, he stares at the vacant space like he hoped to see something there. Like he just missed the person standing there.

"Alex, let her go for now. He's her mate. She wouldn't want to wake up and see him hurt. Let's wait for her to wake up, alright." The same man once again speaks, pulling onto his arm, and also away from his thoughts but he doesn't budge.

"Alex?"

He finally exhales, coming out of his trance. But the clenching of his jaws showed otherwise. And when he turns to face me, I see promises of his words in his eyes. "If you do anything to her, I swear to the goddess, I will find you and kill you in the worst way possible."

"And I swear to your goddess, I will never hurt her. Ever. I promise Alexander." I give my word to him, more like make a promise to my own self. I will never be that fool again. I'll kill myself before I let the history repeat itself.

Tightening my grip on her, I leave the crowd and pass by a pair of bright green eyes and the ever so familiar scent. But my mind was a jumble of mess right now so I couldn't remember nor cared enough to remember them as I walked away.