Chapter 3 Episode 3: WE NEVER SHOULD HAVE MET

ARRDE

Immediately our eyes met, the feeling of my blood boiling circulated through my veins igniting pain once more. The feelings I thought had been left behind six years ago were renewed the moment Alpha Myron appeared in my life again, memories I had long forgotten flooded back as I sat still wondering why we had to meet again and right here in the meeting room.

The management team leader had been talking for approximately thirty minutes, but none of what she said made sense to me, because there was no reason I could work with Myron. Still flabbergasted, my thoughts had journeyed farther as I was in the process of racking my brain for a solution to get out of this mess.

Sara tapped my shoulder lightly and I jerked back to reality. I don't know how many minutes I had spaced out in the middle of the meeting but trust me, its the first time such a thing has happened to me and I know who had me like that. Urrgh!

"Ma'am, you were spaced out for quiet a long time Should the management team repeat what they said earlier?"

That damned voice made my skin crawl, it was Myron's and I hated myself for sitting in there with him in the first place.

I threw him a do not provoke me kind of glare, only if eyes could stab, I would have stabbed him a million times with mine.

"The team is done with the presentation," Sara answered gesturing towards the screen.

"Oh! There's no need for that anymore I paused to read Myron's expression but he sat there as calm as ever, one of the things I disliked about him, I no longer care about this anymore, Mr Myron we're cancelling plans of partnering with you." I blurted and walked out of the meeting room without hesitation.

"Myron, we should never have met in this life," I said staring at one of his pictures on my phone.

Memories of how I left the pack that was home to me on that cold nights walked through my head like the hot summer breeze slowly hurting me. I was broken that night and it would have been worse if my mom had seen me, so I ran away with no destination in my mind.

It dawned on me the next morning that I was in Los Angeles, far from home with nothing on me except the dress I wore to flee. Sigh.

"Arrde, you have a call." Sara interrupted.

"A call? From who?"

"A lady, she says she's an acquaintance and would love to speak with you about something important."

"I don't have an acquaintance. Tell her I'm busy."

"Okay, ma'am. "

I've been stressed out today, and don't want anything more complicated. I need to clear my head.

I rested my head on the car's head rest, closed my eyes and sighed. "I need a break seriously."

The rays of sunlight kissed my skin as I peeled my eyes to behold the sneering gaze of the daylight. Sighs. It's morning again.

I checked my phone, and a message read: I'LL BE BACK BY NOON.

A strong wave of relief washed over me. Alex, my roommate and partner would be back. My stomach building the feels of butterfly within at the mere thought of seeing the one person I can rely on around.

A text message from Sara interrupted the moment. YOU'LL BE LATE FOR THE MEETING.

Oh. It's Friday, and I have a board meeting to attend.

I hurriedly prepared.

"What's next?" I asked Sara who was behind me and practically running to catch up with my pace.

"Nothing else. It's just that you have a dinner party to attend with the Aurora Pack."

"Call them. Inform them about my absence."

Before Sara could spit another word, I was out of her sight.

"Hi, Alex." I greeted from the receiver end.

"Hey, sweetie. How's it going with you?"

" I've been stressed and now I'm exhausted."

With one hand still in the phone, I grabbed my car keys, packed some important stuffs that I would need to go through over the weekend, with my already full hand I snatched my bag and walked out of the office.

"Hey, I'll call you back when I get in the car."

"Cool. What would you like for dinner?" Alex asked over the phone.

"How about a date? I need to get some air and cool off my head."

"Sure. I'll text you the location." He said and we hung up.

I dialed Sara's number.

"Ma'am..."

" Sara, make sure everyone is out. Don't forget to call me when you get home, we have things to discuss."

" Yes, ma'am. I called the..."

" Enjoy your weekend, Sara." I intentionally interrupted and hung up. I'm fade up with the demands of the Aurora Pack.

I glanced at the picture of me and Alex on my phone screen and smiled. Alex has been my backbone since the day I met him, he saved me from thugs that night that I was nearly raped.

****FLASHBACK****

I lived in the streets of Los Angeles for almost a year, moving from one part time job to another for survival. Gangsters would bully me and take away everything I worked for in a day, so out of frustration and as a mean of survival I dated a gangster. Eric was his name.

At first it was cool, he was the most dangerous and meanest gangster and the leader of all the gang, but he took care of me and sometimes he would take me on their adventures but one day he caught me drunk kissing a guy at the bar and that was the end of the story.

I tried explaining things to him about how I was forced to drink and since I'm bad at holding my liquor, I got drunk and the rest happened so fast that I could barely recall the whole incident when I woke up.

Eric refused to listen to all my explanations and please even when he saw the truth, he had warned me not to work at the bar, yet I went ahead to work there and that night he happened to be there with his friends. We broke up, but he would always sneak into my shabby room at nights when he's drunk to threaten me. Other gang members used the opportunity to take out their hate on me.

One night, he came in drunk as usual with a few other guys and I was busy sleeping when I felt a hand touch me. I woke up to see myself surrounded by drunk and mean looking guys, so I panicked and ran out of the room while they all chased me.

I got caught as I tripped and fell. While struggling to be freed from their grip, a car pulled over and they scampered for safety thinking it was the police. Alex saved me that night, but he has never asked me what happened neither does he know the full story because the last time he tried asking I bluntly shut him off.

"We shouldn't have met, not now, not ever." I kept muttering with quivering lips.