THE ALPHA’S ADDICTION

“The skies had been dark…” Emma started, then paused, her earlier resolve about to weaken. She still thought that the dream wasn’t shapeless, void and stupid. But then she had seen things recently that would make her dreams a bit not far from comparison.

“Yes, continue.” Melvina said, squeezing her hands again, reassuring her that it was okay to just talk.

“The skies had been dark, and I had seen some animals fighting.” Emma stated, darting her eyes from Melvina to her husband, to know what they already thought of the part of the dream she had just mentioned. But their faces were blank, as if she hadn’t even said anything.

That was a boost. She would just rattle the dream and be off to bed, at least to relish in the bed sheets for an hour or two, before daybreak. She was sure that the time would be between 1am to 3am.

“Animals? What kind of animals?” Alpha Peter asked, interrupting her thoughts of sleep.

“Wolves.” She stated. “Very big wolves. I don’t think I’ve seen that much wolves that are so big, even on the Nat Geo Wild tv channel.” She answered, noticing the sharp change of countenance of the faces of the couple in the room. What? Were they already finding her dream funny or weird? They should wait; she hadn’t even gotten to the best part, more like the weirdest part of the dream yet. She thought, folding her lips in.

“And you say that they had been fighting?” Melvina asked, her features coated with unbelief. She didn’t want to think that the human was what she was thinking. She had to wait for her friend to come back. She would wait well, and not draw conclusions yet.

“Yes, so voraciously. But they weren’t like the natural wolves. It was like….” Emma muttered, remembering the fight from her dream very well. Why won’t she? It had been so real.

“Like what…” Melvina asked calmly, not wanting to betray the emotions in her voice. She didn’t want the human to think that they were much affected by her dream.

“Like they had human instincts; knowing which wolf to attack, and which wolf to check on. They were acting like humans.” Emma summarised, looking elsewhere, away from the couple, as her mind was already immersed with the dream strings.

“Wow…” Melvina said with a smile, as if not moved by the dream, before turning aside to look at her mate.

“That is the war she had just foreseen, Melvina. Who is she really?” Alpha Peter asked her through their mind link.

“We don’t know that, Peter. It could just be…I don’t know… just a dream.” She replied, not wanting to make her mate worry. It might trigger him to investigate the human, and she didn’t want that.

“You don’t believe that. I know. I would have to find out for myself then.” He stated, before cutting off from the link, and shielding his thought at the same time. If she wanted to keep secrets, he would have no choice but to do things his own way, ways she didn’t have to know about.

“Is that all?” He asked Emma, after deciding what to do.

“Not really.” She said, darting her eyes between the couple. She had seen them exchange heated glances as if communicating through with their eyes, and she wondered why. Was it because of her dream? She wasn’t sure; she wasn’t sure about a lot of things in her life right now. She couldn’t wait for Zipfara to come. Oh yes, her witch friend had a lot of questions to answer, questions which kept piling up with each passing day.

“Go on then. What happened next?” Alpha Peter asked, his curiosity piqued to its highest level. He never believed that a human could ever be able to garner his attention this way in his lifetime.

“As they were fighting… a wolf had approached me where I had been standing on a higher ground watching everything that had been transpiring… well the first time…” She was saying, when Alpha Peter interrupted her.

“The first time? You have had this dream before?” He asked, sitting up gingerly on the sofa.

“Yes.” Emma replied. “Tonight was the second time.” She said, causing Melvina to sough loudly.

“Why didn’t you tell me?” She asked, still holding Emma’s hands.

“Nothing.” Emma replied, a little bit harshly, removing her hands from Melvina’s. It had been at the tip of her tongue to tell the woman her mind. The older woman had just reminded her that her and her family members had been lying to her all this while.

“Tell us what had happened in the first, and what had happened in the second.” Alpha Peter said, ignoring the scene that had just played out before him. It seemed to him that the human wasn’t happy with his mate for some reason. He would find out later. But for now, he had to get the full knowledge of what had happened in the girl’s dreams.All text © NôvelD(r)a'ma.Org.

“They are almost the same, except for how they ended.” She stated, looking at Alpha Peter who gave her a curt nod to explain and finish what she had started.

“In the first, there had been much fighting and bloodshed. Then a wolf had approached me. A very big black wolf, bigger than most of the wolves fighting in the large expanse of land. But before he could get to me, a man…I don’t know how ‘manny’ he is though…came up from nowhere and used his teeth…very long teeth, like fangs…like that of a vampire… you know those myths that exist in story books?” She asked, her gaze still on Alpha Peter who looked like he would drop from his seat the next minute. She wondered if he was actually sitting on the sofa, or on the air.

‘Wow, seems my dream sounds so enthralling. Who knows? I might write a short story from it.’ She thought, already thinking on what the plot could be about. Apart from eating, the other that she liked doing was reading and writing.

“Maybe. Continue.” Alpha Peter stated, cutting into Emma’s thoughts, not finding it necessary to point out to the human that vampires weren’t mythical creatures. They were as real as the waiters in a restaurant.

“Okay. So, the human with the long fangs had latched on to the big black wolf with his teeth, and killed him. He had wanted to bite me too; but I had screamed, and woken up.” Emma said, causing Melvina to sigh again.

“What about the second?” Alpha Peter asked, trying to still keep his voice steady and free from any emotion, his face too; even though he was actually getting scared in his insides. He wondered who the black wolf was, and why the vampire had killed it.

“Well, the second is just like the first.” Emma rambled on, not knowing that her words, or dreams rather, were making the couple in front of her highly uncomfortable and restless.

“But this time, the man with the long fangs had approached me first. He had wanted to kill me, but the big black wolf had come in between us, causing him to be a victim of death in the hand of the man with the long fangs.” She concluded with a sigh.

“Why would it do that?” Alpha Peter asked, his mouth dropping open in shock for a second, before closing it back as he noticed the redhead staring at him.

“I don’t know.” Emma answered. “I don’t know…” She muttered, biting her lips, remembering one last detail that she had missed out in her dream telling.

“Anything else?” Alpha Peter asked, as he noticed the hesitant look on her face, his voice coated with anxiety. This time, he hadn’t been able to keep it off his voice. The dream was in itself, scary. It was a nightmare, a nightmare about his pack. He was sure about it, for no apparent reason. He just felt that it was about his pack, in his guts.

“Not really…” Emma muttered, wondering whether she should tell him the detail or not.

“C’mon Emma…out with it.” Melvina said with a faux smile, attempting to coax the human into talking the whole thing out. She needed the full details.

“The wolf…” Emma said, then paused, looking from Melvina to Alpha Peter, taking note of his blue eyes. Does the wolf represent him or Derek? She thought.

“What about the wolf?” Melvina asked, her heart already in her mouth.

“He had deep blue eyes, very deep blue eyes just like Derek and….” She said, leaving her statement hanging, as she stared unsurely at Alpha Peter.

“It’s weird right? I told you that it was a stupid dream.” She said, after some minutes of dead silence in the room, a silence she was totally uncomfortable with.

Was it because she had mentioned Derek? She shouldn’t have. She thought, biting her lips and cursing her mouth in her mind, for being too free and stupid.