"Eloped?!?!" Amelia screamed, horrified.

"Look sweetheart, we don't really have time-" Jake tried.

"Since when have you started calling her sweetheart?" Isaac growled.

"Yeah, I mean look at her, she resembles those weird dead people from insidious more than a swee-" Iris argued rolling her eyes.

"Says the zombie cheerleader from hell," Amelia walked towards her.

"Yeah? You want to go there? Let's go ther-" the red head cocked her head with a smile.

"OK EVERYBODY SHUT UP, I HAVE AN ANGRY GRANDMA ON THE PHONE AND SHE'S SCARING THE SHIT OUT OF ME AND I'M CONFUSED AS FUCK SO SOME ONE TAKE THE GODDAMN PHONE BEOFRE SHE MAKES ME A VOODOO DOLL" Jake shrieked, tossing the phone towards Amelia like it was poison.

"NO WAY, I AINT TALKING TO HER, SHE'S ALREADY GOT MY VOODOO DOLL!" Amelia yelled, recalling all the times her grandma had blackmailed her into brushing her teeth and eating her broccoli as a child. Threatening to shave off voodoo Amelia's eyebrows always did the trick.

"FOR GOD'S SAKE! SHE'S JUST AN OLD LADY" Isaac bellowed, snatching the phone.

"You have the Alpha of the Blood hounds," he greeted in monotone "Listen ma'am- you're misunderstanding, nothing like that happened- really- wait no! I'm telling you- well she wouldn't have wanted to elope with me if you weren't such a pain in the ass!"

And at that moment Amelia knew Isaac was an intolerable bastard. I mean she already knew before but now she really really knew. She tried to grab the phone from Isaac but he was unrelenting.

"Yes, we've been having an affair for the last six months! She came to me because she thought she was pregnant and wanted to make sure it was mine! What was my name again? Uh Jake?Jake...Jake Ryans" Isaac stated, naming his best friend as he smirked, dodging a frantically cursing Jake while Iris snickered in the background.

"No I will not go suck a dic-" Isaac continued arguing with the seventy five year old lady, trying to rile the old hag up.

Finally he ended the call with a beep, looking quite pleased with himself.

"What did she say?" Amelia asked, afraid of the answer.

"Something about making sure I never grow eyebrows again?" Isaac answered, extremely confused.

"Oh no. The eyebrow card. That's when you know she's serious. What did she want?"

"Her granddaughter's virginity," Isaac joked.

"Well call her and tell her she can have it! I don't know how they found out I was here, I don't know how they came to the conclusion we eloped" it was probably stupid Ashton "and I certainly don't know what my parents will do now that it's all out in the open" crucifying me is certainly an option "But what I do know is that I'm not eloping with a guy without eyebrows so call her back and apologise."

"Not happening babe," Isaac declared "voodoo isn't even real, for fucks sake."

"I mean you have to meet them some day, you don't want to get off on the wrong foot," Jake argued but Amelia reckoned this had more to do with the fact that he was terrified of his name being given to a pissed off voodoo master.

"Huh? Jack, you scared?" Amelia teased.

"It's Jake," the Beta hissed.

"Cake?"

"We all know you know my name."

"Jane?"

"J.A.K.E" he spelled out agitated.

"GOT IT! I remember now, Jackass! How've you been? last time I saw you I was being dragged up the stairs by a psychopath. Ahh good times" Amelia recalled this morning's events, sighing as if remembering childhood birthday parties.

"OH LOOK GUYS THE LAWNMOWER'S BROKEN, ALL IM HEARING IS A WEIRD SCREECHING SOUND," Jake hollered, covering his ears.

"YEAH, WELL THE LAWNMOWER'S TELLING YOU TO WATCH YOUR BACK, MY GRANDMA'S GOING TO HAVE A MILLION BABY VOODOO JAKES BY SUNRISE!" Amelia declared throwing her hands in the air in maniacal gestures.

This obnoxious pack was so going to get it.

"HA! I KNEW YOU KNEW MY NAME! I KNEW IT!" Jake jumped as he pointed an accusatory finger at Amelia.

"APOLOGIZE TO THE MAGIC OLD LADY ISAAC!!" The Beta plead sounding like a little boy. This was a side of Jake Amelia didn't know existed. He wasn't in Beta mode right now. He was just being himself.

What a two faced, cry baby.

"It hasn't even been a week since Amelia got here! We have to get things settled first, she still has to meet all the pack members, there's the initiation ceremony, even if that's just a formality. When we have all that done, we can deal with this family drama." Isaac waved off confidently "now get the hell out of my way before I rip your throats out."

Amelia wanted to tour the vast pack grounds some more since she was never allowed to leave her pack territory. But Isaac said he'd let her go if she took Iris with her. It took one hell of a fight and a series of profanities, amazingly, none from his side. But Isaac saw potential in them becoming friends.

They were both head strong, stubborn and two females you didn't want to get on your bad side. They would either become lifelong friends or tear each other's heads off.

And just like that, the day proceeded normally, The event they had hosted in the morning to introduce pack member officials was long forgotten.

The broken vase was cleaned up, and Amelia had snickered when she noticed Isaac trying to hide all the hazardous items away from her reach.

Everything was as normal as it got at the Blood hound's pack, the occasional rogue being taken into the dungeon to meet Gloria, a couple of packs they needed to piss off and the oh so often 'your pack member kidnapped my child again accusations', Isaac still had to look into the last one.

Everything was ordinary until he reached his office and tried to sit on his chair before it dissembled. It just fell apart. Lucky coincidence he thought to himself. But then later a tree branch fell on him, then Jake's brother's cat tried to bite off his finger.

That little shit ball didn't have the nerve to look him in the eye and now it bit him?

When it was time for bed, he waited for Amelia to get in with him but she just stared.

"There's no way I'm sleeping this close to a cursed man, I don't want to be collateral damage. You did technically kidnap me, refuse to let me contact my family, pissed off my grandma and now you refuse to apologize, this one's all on you. You can get cuddles when you stop being a moron," she huffed and stomped along to the next room.

Whatever, who needs her anyway, I can sleep alone, nothing new, gives me more space anyway Isaac reassured himself, but unfortunately his words were in vain as he tossed and turned all night in bed, unable to get any sleep with the idea that his mate was out of his reach.

He woke up tired and confused after getting a whole fifteen minutes of sleep last night. The pillow he tried to pretend was Amelia did little to comfort him. The sun shone from the wall of massive glass windows illuminating his grand bedroom.

Everything was just like it always was. Yesterday was just an off day Isaac thought with a cocky smirk as he got out off bed to go look for his mate. He was still irritated at her for rejecting him last night. He'd show her what she was missing. With a sly smile Isaac took off his shirt, displaying a set of abs Greek statues would kill for. He ruffled up his hair, pulled down his pajama bottoms until you could see his waist line.

She was going to be begging him for his attention. He was about to leave until he accidentally glanced at his pillow and found a few locks of his black curly hair scattered all over it. The old woman's curse came back to him, no fucking way he thought.

Just then a strong aghast of wind pushed open the window, sending another tree branch flying in.

Amelia came running into his room after she heard the sound, as she too could not catch a wink of sleep without Isaac by her side. The mate bond was obviously getting stronger the more time they spent together.

"Oh no! It is so happening" she shook her head disapprovingly "this is just the first day, I heard you go bald in a week."

Isaac looked at his reflection, horrified. Not the hair. Anything but the hair.

"You know? I was thinking, maybe I was a little rude, why don't we talk to her again?" Isaac tried, trying to keep his composure.

"You think? Nooo" Amelia exclaimed sarcastically.

Isaac approached her until another tree branch came through, but this time smashing through the glass of the window.

A sound of a loud crash was heard and shattered glass covered the floor as Isaac shielded Amelia with his body.

"AMELIA CALL THE OLD HAG!!!" Isaac yelled, running towards the mirror to check his eyebrows.

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