A Beauty to His Beast 2: An Urban Werewolf Story (14 page)

“Are you a virgin?” I asked her.

“Yes, I am. I guess that really turned you off. I will see you later. I need to get dressed. Today will be the first day I work in a real place,” she said, then scurried off.

“
Stay away from her
.” Keora was speaking to me inside of my head again.

“
Go to hell and leave me the fuck alone. If we weren’t concerned about Adika, you would’ve been dead by now
, I thought. She didn’t respond. I needed to tell the pack, but I didn’t know how to tell them. She cursed me, making me feel things for her I shouldn’t. Was I betraying my pack?

Naobi

I walked to the end of the temple with a hooded cape over my head. Ammon was asleep when I snuck out of our bed. A woman wasn’t supposed to roam around alone at night in Anubi. Out of the darkness at the end of the hall, Jalesa stepped out.

                 She bowed her head down to me. “What did you find? Did you see Saka?” I asked her.

                 “No, I haven’t seen him or felt his presence around Keora’s sanctuary. I think her heart is getting pure; she is in love. If she is in love, then Saka would no longer have someone to use as a puppet. His time as a spirit is running out. I put an invisible shield around Goon’s house. No outsiders will be able to get to the pack or the pups,” Jalesa said.

                   “Keora needs to be put away in an immortal prison for eternity, but it will take a very strong spell to put her there. It isn’t easy putting a demon witch inside of a prison. We need to hurry. Your spell is going to wear off soon, and you won’t be able to come back and forth between earth and Anubi.”

As I spoke to Jalesa, A warrior marched down the hall with a fire torch. I pulled Jalesa into a small room until he passed us. After he went down the other end, I whispered, “Demon witches feed off anything to become powerful. Whatever you do, stay away from her until you know she is easy to capture.” Jalesa nodded her head in response.

                    I smiled at Jalesa, but my smile quickly faded. “Your time on earth is limited. Do not hurt yourself by falling in love because it isn’t going anywhere,” I said to her. She put her head down.

“I know, but Amadi has a heart of the finest gold. Our first date was amazing. He gave me flowers then fed me fresh fruit. He even massaged my feet. For the first time, I felt like royalty. I need to tell him that soon before I no longer exist to him,” she said.

                     “NAOBI!” Ammon’s deep voice roared throughout the halls. Jalesa disappeared. He wasn’t happy that I had left our bed. I stepped out into the light of the fire torches that decorated the aged stone walls.

                  “Yes, Ammon,” I answered him.

                   “What are you doing roaming around the temple this late at night?” he asked me. He crossed his strong arms over his broad chest and looked down at me like a child misbehaving. His eyes turned blue; his beast was angry with me.

                    “I had a vision,” I said, walking away from him.

He grabbed me by the arm, lifting me up off the floor. “Are you meddling in Akua’s life again?” he roared.

                    “No, now put me down,” I said to him. He snapped his fingers, and then five warriors came running down the hall with spears and shields.

                   “What are you doing?” I asked him.

       Ammon threw some dust on me that made me weak. It was a punishment for witches who misbehaved.

                    He held up my secret spell book, the one I used to send Jalesa back and forth to Anubi and earth.

                     “This is what you have been busy with while neglecting you duties as my mate? You have been over stepping your boundaries. Akua is the son of Ammon. He has the heart of a warrior. You shame me when you try to fight his battles. Is my blood that runs through his veins not good enough?” Ammon yelled, causing the temple to shake.

                   “Why are you doing this?” I cried.

                     “Akua will fight his battles like a warrior! He will not have his mother interfere with centuries of tradition. His wolf will lead him through whatever problems he has to face, and he will defeat it. He will be who he was made to be.”

                   “You will regret this,” I seethed as the warriors picked me up.

“Take her to the tower. She will be locked away until she learns how to be a mate. It’s over Naobi,” he said to me, as they carried me away. He looked at me with sadness in his eyes. He didn’t want to do what he was doing to me.

                    They put me in the tower then locked the gate. “When I get out of here, I will turn all of you into beetles then step on you!” I screamed. Ammon is king, and his orders overpower mine.

                  “Oh no, Jalesa will be stuck on earth,” I said to myself. I had to warn someone, but I couldn’t. I was in an immortal prison.

                   “Ammon, I will never bed with you again! Do you hear me! Find another mate because I’m going to kill you when I get out.” I screamed loud enough so he could hear me. I flopped down on the prison floor. I needed to find a way out. I closed my eyes then concentrated on widening the rails.

                    “ARRGGHHHHHHHHHHH!” I screamed as my head pounded. The rails widened a little, but it weakened me. I fell down onto the floor then lay there. It was going to take a while, but I was determined, even if it weakened me.

                     Baki, one of the younger warriors, came to the rails. “This is an immortal prison. How did you do that?” he asked, with fear in his eyes.

                      “I am Naobi. I created all of this. If it wasn’t for Ammon getting bit by a wolf, my curse upon werewolves would’ve never existed. Now, you can either let me out, or I can sit here and break out,” I said to him.

                 “Ammon would not approve,” he said. I reached my hand out in a squeezing gesture, and Baki fell down, grabbing his neck. Two warriors ran to him.

“This prison is supposed to make immortals like humans,” one of them said.

                     I squeezed my hand tighter until blood dripped onto the floor. Baki’s eyes rolled to the back of his head then turned red. I was getting weaker as I forced my powers, but I wouldn’t let them see it.

                   “Stop it!” one of the warriors screamed.

                    “Get me out of here, or all of you are next,” I said as Baki struggled to breathe. I didn’t want to kill him, but I wanted to frighten them. They pulled out the weird shaped key—a key I made many ages ago. The warrior put it into the lock, and then it opened. When I walked out, I collapsed…

*****

                    I woke up and looked around. I was in a different room. I hurriedly sat up. “Be easy, my queen,” a familiar voice said.

                    “Ammon hurt me,” I said to Kofi. He wiped my forehead with a wet rag.

“Ammon needs to give more attention to his mate. He is ready to have another pup,” Kofi said to me.

                     “I don’t have the desire,” I said, sitting up and stuffing grapes inside of my mouth from the tray that lay beside me. Opal walked into the small room; she’s Kofi’s mate. Her hair was braided down to her hips with gold and blue beads at the end. Her gold silk robe clung to her figure. Kanya looked identical to her ancestor. Opal was born a thousand years ago with jackal blood, the same blood as Kanya. Opal bowed her head down to me. “Morning, my queen,” she said. I reached my hand out to her, and she took my hand then pulled me up.

                 “I told Ammon that not even immortal prisons can stop you,” Opal said to me.

                    “Where is he?”

                    “He went out hunting. He has been gone for a while,” Kofi said.

                “I’m going to curse him,” I spat. Then they laughed.

                    “You have done so millions of times. You know when I see you and Ammon, It reminds me of Goon and Kanya,” Kofi laughed.

                   “I want to meet Kanya,” Opal said.

                   “She is just like you. She even looks a lot like you. I’ve heard that she can be a little feisty,” I told Opal.

                “Your bath is ready, my queen,” Kaira said to me. She was a servant. I wasn’t too fond of her, and nor was she fond of me. Opal left the room with Kofi following behind her.

                   Kaira shut the door and poured water into the small hole on the floor that served as a tub. “When will I be allowed to tell Kofi about our son?” she asked me.

                     “You seduced a mated male. You are lucky you didn’t get punished,” I told her as I undressed.

                     “He doesn’t even know I was with child!” Kaira shouted with her eyes changing; she is a werewolf. She seduced many wolves, all of who had a mate. Some wolves could resist, but Kofi couldn’t. Opal was raped by a gang of wolves many ages ago. Her scent was like Kanya’s. Her scent previously turned many wolves into lusting beasts. Kofi was turned off by Opal’s scent after the incident, and he turned to Kaira who was in heat.

                    “Pups that are born to wolves that are not soul mates cannot live in Anubi. You mated with a wolf who had a mate, which is not acceptable! You want to be a Jezebel, then go on earth to do that with some of the humans who don’t take traditions seriously!” I shouted at her.

                   “I just want to see my pup.”

                     “Dash is fine. He even has two pups now. He is the Alpha of his pack. Just be thankful that shifters raised him as their own on earth,” I said to her, as I stepped into the water.

                     “You evil witch!” she screamed.

                     “If I were evil, I would tell Opal what you did. Opal has a mean bite.”

                   Kaira was ready to yell at me, but before she could, I snapped my fingers, and her lips sealed shut. I laughed as I relaxed in the tub.

“I can’t hear you or your thoughts. Now get out!” I said to her. She headed to the door, and then I turned around. “Stay away from my mate. I can see that you are in heat again,” I said to her, but she couldn’t respond.

                     After my bath, I got dressed then went into my hidden room. I looked at my crystal-like globe that not even Ammon knew about. I wanted to see what I have been neglecting to see. It was my extra pair of eyes. I could see Akua’s and his pack. I could even see Ammon running through the grass field while chasing a gazelle. Kaira was standing there watching him, and he sniffed the air because of her scent. I could hear his thoughts; he was aroused by her. She was tempting him, but he walked away. Ammon had thoughts about bedding Kaira. While I was watching our son, Kaira has been watching my mate.

*****

      We all sat down at the long table awaiting our feast. The servants came into the feasting area to pour us wine. I watched Ammon. No words have been exchanged since he locked me away. Kaira poured wine into his cup. I watched her gestures. Her scent was tempting him; I could see it in his eyes. Werewolves are loyal to their mates, but even they get temptations when they aren’t getting pleasure. Werewolves are very sexual beasts. When Kaira walked away, Ammon’s eyes turned because of how badly he wanted her. Everyone sat down and ate, drinking wine as Egyptian music played.

    
              Thousands and thousands of years ago, you and I became one. I have never seen you look at another wolf with pleasure
,” I said to his thoughts. He sipped his wine.

Thousands and thousands of years, you never neglected your duties as my mate
, Ammon replied back.

                   I pushed myself away from the table then walked past him. He followed behind me into our room.

“I’m lonely, Naobi,” he said to me, while my back was turned towards him.

                     Tears fell from my eyes. “I can’t have any more pups. Akua almost killed me when I had him. Not even the strongest witch can give birth to a werewolf. I begged my father, Saka, to give me strength so I could have Akua. I promised him that I would give him Akua’s soul after a few years. He said Akua’s soul would make him stronger. I created Adika and Keora to watch over Akua so I could come up with a curse to put Saka away so he wouldn’t take Akua from us,” I said to Ammon.

                    Ammon threw my spell book at me then walked out of the room.

                  
How much longer do I have to wait for you, Naobi? I need to hold you. I want to feel the inside of you. My dreams of you are just dreams. I need it to be reality
, the voice said.

                 
Your wish will be granted soon
, I said to him, with a tear falling from my eye.

Goon

Kanya and I were walking through the mall as Kanya pushed the double-seated stroller with the pups in them.

                “Look at these outfits, Goon. Wouldn’t the twins look adorable in them?” Kanya asked me. I shook my head. I had almost ten bags in my hands because Kanya liked shopping.

                   “Can we leave? Damn,” I said.

                   “Give me five more minutes, baby. Let me run in here for one second,” she said, pushing the twins into the store.

                   “Mr. Prince,” I heard a voice come from behind me. When I turned around, it was Dash and two new wolves that might’ve joined his pack.

                 “I see you had to replace the slaughtered ones,” I chuckled as they growled. The two new wolves that stood beside him looked to be young; they were rebels. Young wolves kill just for the fun. Some of them even kill humans too just for the taste of blood. They were both dressed in hoodies with sagging pants. The one with the cornrows grilled me then growled. “Who is this lame, Dash?” The dark-skinned one asked.

                    I looked at Dash and noticed he had on expensive clothes. “You found a job I see.” Dash started to sweat, and the vein in his neck popped out; he wanted to shift. Kanya came out of the store. “That sexy bitch belongs to you?” The loud-mouthed wolf with the cornrows said to me.

                     “Kanya, take the twins to the car,” I told her. She didn’t want to leave me, but we had our pups. She grabbed all of the bags I had in my hands then stormed off, pushing the stroller. If she was human, she wouldn’t have been able to do that.

                   “Damn, and she got a fat ass,” The one with the cornrows said, grabbing his dick. I punched him in the face causing his body to fly into the glass window of the store’s showcase. I jumped into the window. He tried to get up, but I hit him again. People screamed as his body flew into a cash register.

                    “Run that shit by me again, muthafucka!” I said, punching him again. His body started to shift; young wolves couldn’t control when they shifted. One lady fainted after the young wolf’s ears grew out, and his teeth sharpened. His face grew into a snout, and then he growled.

      “It’s a wolf!” someone screamed. I used my mind as I concentrated; everyone in the mall froze. The wolf charged into me while I was in human form. Dash and the other wolf tried to all attack me at once. All three of them were in wolf form. I shifted then started to attack them as they jumped on me. We knocked over a few people who were still frozen. All three of them bit me viciously. I shook them off of me then attacked Dash since he was close to me. I sank my teeth into his neck as he bit my face. Dash and I rolled out of the store and into a bench. One man was stuck with his melted ice cream cone in his hand. The other two wolves bit my hind legs to slow me down, but it only made me more aggressive. I slammed Dash then knocked the two of the other wolves over, biting the both of them. The one who had the cornrows charged into me. I caught him by the neck then crawled up the wall with him inside of my mouth. I burst through the ceiling window then leaped into the parking lot. Cars slammed on breaks, and people started running until they froze in place. When they come to, they won’t remember anything that they had seen. Our identity is to remain a secret; humans couldn’t know we existed among them.

                 I snapped the young wolf’s neck then bit into it. I shook him by the neck until his neck was mangled with his head slightly attached. I dragged the dead wolf body into the nearest woods and waited for Dash and the other wolf to find me.

                  
Are you okay? Where are you
?  Kanya’s voice panicked inside of my head.

   
              In the woods by the mall. Get my pups home like I told you
!”  I shouted.

                   
You want me to leave you
? Kanya asked me.

                 
Go the fuck home, Kanya, before I get madder
!” my voice boomed. I put the dead wolf up in a tree then leapt from tree to tree and waited for a few moments. Dash and the other wolf ran into the woods sniffing.

    
              Do you think the other wolves are following his mate? Didn’t Keora say to distract them so she could get to whatever it is that she wanted
? The young wolf said into Dash’s head.

                  
Shut the fuck up! He might be near, and he can hear your thoughts dumbass
, Dash said into the young wolf’s thoughts.

    
              Goon, I’m being followed by a big group of wolves while I have the twins in the truck. We were set up
, Kanya said.

I left Dash and the young wolf roaming around in the woods. I took off towards my home, running as fast as I could.

                  When I got to the house, about fifteen wolves had Kanya surrounded by the gate. Dayo, Amadi, Elle, Izra, Adika and Anik were all leaping over the gate to attack. I charged into the wolves, biting any wolf that was close to me. I needed to get to my pups. Kanya shifted then burst out of the window with the twins in her mouth, clinging to them by their clothes. They screamed and cried as she leapt over the gate then took off towards the house. The wolves tried to leap over the fence, but a force was turning them to ashes. Our house was shielded; they couldn’t get over the gate. Three wolves were left alive after we viciously attacked the other wolves, killing them like flies. The three wolves took off running, and the pack and I chased them. When we caught up to them, we ripped them apart. Dayo, Elle, and I pulled a wolf apart as it howled, our teeth piercing through its flesh. Blood dripped from our mouths as we howled. Our deep howls could be heard miles away; we were warning the other pack that it was war.

                    Moments later, everyone in the pack sat around me. I was glad that Kanya’s parents left to go home before the wolves came to our house.

                  “What the hell was that?” Anik asked.

                     “We were distracted so that Keora could take Akea, but her plan didn’t work. This pack is stronger than twenty wolves together. We are bigger and we are stronger,” I said, pacing back and forth. Kanya held onto the twins, shaking. Her teeth had put wounds on them. I had to give them my blood for their wounds to close up.  My blood boiled. “When we go onto their territory, we will kill anything in sight! Even if they surrender, we still kill! Fuck pack rules. They are dead!” I growled.

                      I kneeled down in front of Kanya and moved the hair out of her face. “You were only trying to protect them,” I told her. She squeezed the twins closer to her.

“I almost killed them,” she said.

                      “It’s in our nature to grab our pups with our mouths,” I told her. The pack was in an uproar as I tried to calm Kanya down.

                    “Why is this happening to us?” Kanya asked me.

                     “We discussed this after we found Dayo; Saka wants Akea,”

                      “He isn’t getting our damn baby. Where can we find him?”

                      “Only Keora knows. Don’t worry. We will find her. I bet Dayo knows where she’s at.”

Dayo stood up. “What the fuck does that mean?” he asked me.

                   “You marked her didn’t you? She pops up in your head doesn’t she?” I asked Dayo. We went to Keora’s house a few times after we found Adika and Dayo. Keora could sense when we were coming.

                   “No, she doesn’t,” Dayo said.

                    “She knew where we were going to be. I would’ve known if Kanya and I were being followed. I told you where we were going before we left, and she heard me through your visions. She can see and hear what we do through your fucking visions. She is probably hearing us now,” I said to him.

                  Everyone looked at Dayo, and Anik growled at him. I noticed over the past few weeks that they have been getting close.

                    “Come on, bro. Don’t tell us you still fucking the witch,” Elle said to Dayo. Dayo sat with his head down. “Muthafucka, I should kick your ass! You mean to tell me you are still fucking that bitch, and you couldn’t kill her?” Izra said, charging into Dayo. Elle and Amadi pulled them apart.

“I can’t! I feel a connection to her. I can’t help what she did to me. The bitch cursed me! I get urges for her,” Dayo shouted.

                     Anik grabbed Arya’s hand then walked out of the room.

“Anik!” Dayo called out to her, but she didn’t answer.

“As bad as I want to rip your fucking throat out, I can’t. If you marked her, it’s only natural that you feel this way about her,” I said to Dayo.

                    “We have to keep you out of our plans,” Elle said to Dayo.

                      “WHAT! I’m still a part of this pack,” Dayo fussed.

                     “You will always be our brother, but Goon said Keora can see us through you. That means she knows all our plans that we discussed as a pack. She knows everything, bro. She is using you to get an inside look into our lives,” Amadi told Dayo.

                 “Goon, I told you what you should do to me,” Adika said.

                   “Would you shut the fuck up? Nobody is going to kill you. Damn, you say stupid shit when you get mad,” Izra yelled at Adika.

                      “Adika, please don’t say that. I need you right now. There has to be another way to get rid of Keora,” Kanya said.

                   “What other way? An immortal prison would keep her and strip her from all of her powers. Naobi is the only witch that can put her there, but Naobi cannot stay on earth long enough to do that. Goon can do it, but he doesn’t practice spells or curses,” Adika said.

         The next day, Kanya stayed home, and Anik went to the Beastly Treasures to keep the business going. Kanya said that Anik’s down-to-earth personality and aura drew in more costumers. I cut up pieces of raw meat to take to Kanya. When I walked into our bedroom, she was packing her clothes and the twins’ clothes.

                   “What are you doing?” I asked her.

                     “I’m going to stay with my parents for a while. I feel like the pups cannot be protected here,” she said to me. I never showed real aggression towards Kanya, but at that moment, I wanted to attack her.

                      I snatched the suitcases away from her then tossed them across the room; her clothes flew all over the place.

                    “I’m tired of this shit with you!” I yelled at her. My body temperature rose. I wanted to attack her. I was ready to forget that she was my mate, and she gave me pups.

                    “I’m scared. There is an evil warlock preying on my damn baby!” Kanya said.

                    Adika came into our room then grabbed the pups out of their cribs. I guess she knew that Kanya and I were about to shift. Adika called for my pack brothers to come and get me before things got out of hand.

“You can go, but leave my pups here. They are safer here than at your human parents’ house. If a wolf gets a hold of them, they are dead! You would put them and our pups in jeopardy!” I yelled at her.

                   “You can’t protect us neither, so what fucking difference does that make?”

                     “That’s how you feel about me? If so, then you can get the fuck out and leave my pups here, bitch,” I seethed with my fangs withdrawing from my mouth. Black hairs pricked through my skin. I was ready to shift, but I couldn’t. If I did, Kanya wasn’t going to be safe around me. She seemed to be against me. In our beast nature, we targeted anything and anyone who seemed to be an opponent. Kanya’s beast looked at me like an opponent as well. Even if she didn’t want to attack me, she couldn’t control it. She shifted then charged into me, but I had already turned into a wolf. Her canines pierced through my neck, and I bit her shoulder then slammed her into a wall. She charged back, clawing into my face. Kanya is the only one who could possibly kill me. I wouldn’t heal as fast as I usually did.

She sank her teeth into my neck, locking her jaw. I bit her as hard as I could. I could feel the pain I was causing her, but her beast wanted to kill me. In the animal kingdom, real wolves and jackals fought. They are natural born enemies. But in our tribe, she is my soul mate. I avoided biting her neck. My jaw was stronger than hers. If I bit her neck hard enough, I could snap it and kill her. I wouldn’t be able to live with myself if I did that.

                     The other wolves charged into our room, pulling us apart and bum-rushing us. Izra pulled me by my hind leg with his teeth piercing through my leg. I howled out in pain. It looked like Kanya and I were being attacked, but we weren’t. I felt blood dripping from my neck onto the floor. I loved Kanya so much that I was willing to let her kill me because I couldn’t bear killing her. Since I met Kanya, I have been able to control my beast. If I didn’t control him, Kanya would’ve been dead. Kanya’s jackal neck isn’t as strong as a wolf. Even though she is part of me, I would’ve killed her in seconds.

                      I lay down on the floor panting, losing my blood. Anik put pressure on my neck with her paw. Izra shifted into human form.