Love Grows In The Dark by Eli Lowe (ebook offline txt) 📗

heavy footsteps that were surely coming my way.

Even before I could take another big step to increase my pace, a pair of strong and muscular hands pulled me back only to fall right into his chest and hugged me tightly from behind, in the middle of the darkest alley.

“Mate” that was what I heard before he buried his head on the crook of my neck from behind.

Episode 11

Kaith's P.O.V

Since when I have parted my ways from them in front of our school gate, I kept feeling anxious and desperate for some unknown reason.

I couldn't even concentrate much on my practice session for the beta training at our pack. My mind kept zoning out every now and then.

I didn't know why.

As if I should be somewhere else.

As if I need to be with someone important.

And...And my wolf was going nuts at the back of my mind. Once I had felt him almost at the verge of coming out in between the training.

Fuck.

A realization struck all of a sudden.

Mate?

Is it a mate's call?

Is she thinking off me?

How do I know?

What should I do?

Soon I was engulfed with a lot of questions without a single answer.

The only thing I knew was I needed to go out and look for her as soon as possible.

And I had a slight hunch about who could it be. So I took my bike out of the packhouse only to turn my wheels towards a familiar dark alley where night becomes alive but survives as a wild savage.

Yes, the club.

The night club where Jenny works.

I always had a feeling that she is my mate, at least that makes a reason for my inexplicable stupid behaviour around her. My hearts doesn't listen to me anymore when she is before me, neither do my eyes as they insist on staying fixed on jenny all the time without any intention to see other things around.

She must be my mate.

She has to be.

On my way, I kept wishing to find her at last.

It's good that I had waited.

Yes,

I waited for my mate.

I wanted to love her only and I needed the same only from her as well.

Even though I knew that it wasn't time yet for Jenny to get off from her work, still I chose to go there. Because staying here at the packhouse would do nothing better, instead of making me even more impatient until I got crazy.

Time had stopped for me as every second seemed like an eternity. The road ahead looked even longer creating an infinite distance between me and my mate, all of a sudden. But still, I am not losing hope even for a second to get to my mate, no matter how much time it needs, no matter how long distance I have to cover.

But why?

Why now the time had to stop to torture me even more?

Even in the cold night, I was sweating due to the immense effort that I kept giving on myself to control my anxiety.

But one thing I didn't understand, why am I feeling like this now? Why today? What changed?

No, I didn't have an answer.

So I kept my eyes straight on the road again. The road that would lead me to my mate.

To jenny.

I mean I think it would be Jenny.

After an eternity I was about to reach, but...

But, I stopped.

I stopped my bike all of a sudden in the middle of the road due to a certain smell.

The smell?

Yes,

The most intoxicating smell for me, and I knew the meaning of it.

It was the only smell that could calm me down. But strangely the scent was coming from somewhere which was not at all the club that I was heading towards.

How?

I freaked out.

Is Jenny out already? But I couldn't see anyone because the night was dark and the alley was even darker. The alley which was pulling me inside with some kind of invisible string only to merge with the darkness.

I parked my bike at the side of the road and got down right after, as I couldn't ride my bike in the alley because the road seemed under construction.

My heart beats raised expecting something unexpected, because as far as I could think, jenny could never get in this dark alley at this late hour of the night without any reason. Then why? Why is the smell still coming from there?

And why is it having this much effect on me, as if I am compelled?

Who could be in there?

I took a step only to pause once again. Various uncanny thoughts kept colluding my mind. And in no time, I was left with so many what-ifs.

The chilled air of the cold night couldn't stop me from sweating even more as I kept fighting with my own self. But still, at the end of everything, I wanted my mate. No matter who she is, how she is.

Finally, I was determined enough to take the next step as I went into the darkest alley. I could see nothing except the pitch-black void all around me but the very smell was becoming even closer with each of my steps ahead. Not a single sound I could hear but only of my loud footsteps along with my pounding heart.

For a moment I forgot everything that I should be doing. Like I could have called Jenny, or Sam but I didn't. Even I could have gone to the club to see if Jenny was still there or not, but again I couldn't.

My mind became blank, only my legs and my heart kept moving, arousing all my wolf senses with each passing moment.

The silence around me was horrifying, reminding me of the dead. But I