Emma was appalled, and for a minute she couldn't move or say anything. The words which Derek had spoken hung heavily on her, it numbed her actually for a minute.
Of all the things the stupid jerk could attribute to her; a mistress? And the way he looked at her, like she was some piece of trash.
"Hey, are you dumb too??" He asked with a gibe, unfolding his hands from each other. Then removing an imaginary tint from his hair, he looked at her in disgust, from her hair which she knew was cripsy with dust, to her feet which were not faring better either in those tight white tennis shoe. He hissed after the eye travel, and put his hands into the front pockets of his denim jeans, still staring down at her in contempt.
That look again, Emma thought as she cringed unknowingly to her, weakened her, maybe because she had always been attributed to the goddess Venus.
Her beauty had got her out of alot of troubles back in Florida. She even liked to think sometimes, that her father disliked her because his associates get taken to her at first sight than Amelia. But then her sister never acted out like she noticed it, or perhaps she hadn'tcared. But this is some weird place in England, and it seems that her beauty potent has faded. Emma sighed worriedly at the thought.
"Clem get me the phone! Seems we have a case of an intruder or whatever in Mr Jason's place" Derek called out to the guy closest to the tail of the truck, while turning around to look distastefully at Emma.
He had watched the girl zone out in thoughts, and thought that, perhaps, she was looking for a lie to buy them over with. He believed that she couldn't be the owner of this beautiful house.
Clem, a tall lean guy got the phone out of the driver's seat and brought it to Derek, while looking at Emma pitifully.
He thought the human girl looked lost and innocent, but beautiful even though she was clothed in dust. He still wondered what she was doing out here alone.
'Was she a spy?' He thought.
No, she looked too innocent for that.
She might be a runaway from home, and he promised to help the human find her away if she was actually lost.
But for now, he stayed and watch to see what his best friend, the alpha's son will do.
Derek dialled the company's hotline, without hesitation, still staring at the girl in front of him. It rang for a while, and picked.
"Hello, Peipei company here" A female voice said over the phone.
"Yeah, it's Derek" He said impatiently..
Wondering again why his dad sent him to this company for his punishment. He could have just told him to run 50 laps around the packs' training ground. It wouldn't have been easy, but it was better that working with humans for 2 months.
"Oh Derek, what's the issue?" The voice now sultry, cooed.
And Derek knew at that moment, that it was Cassey that was on the phone. The bitch has been all over him since he arrived at the company last week.
"Nothing much Cassey. Just wanted to really confirm the house on No 13 moonway. There is a girl that we saw loitering around the house, claiming to be Mr Jason's daughter, but she seems deranged and…"
This off-handed insult snapped Emma out of the haze she had been in, and she wondered again if she was really okay. If she was alone, she would have smacked her head herself. Her anger now rising, she thought how she could have let a guy from nowhere speak that way to her. She's Emma for godsake!, and she wasn't respected by her peers for nothing!
With that reinstated knowledge, Emma hurriedly grabbed the phone from Derek's ear, threw it on the floor, and smashed it underneath her shoe. She looked up at him, and smiled devilishly, feeling a bit content.
"What the hell" Derek screamed, walking closer to her. He felt so annoyed at the human girl, and wanted to hold and shake her, till she apologizes.
She wasn't a wolf, else she would have been dealt with accordingly. He thought.
But before He could carry out his thoughts of shaking the life out of her, Clem held him back, and shook his head negatively.
Derek hissed loudly, running his hands on his hair while restraining himself. He looked at the girl in anger.
'She was lucky', he thought.
He didn't want to get in trouble with his dad over a human again. He didn't know what the punishment would be this time around.
But Emma, not knowing Derek's short temper and inner turmoil, threw him a smirk, keeping her hands akimbo.
Derek couldn't hold it in again. In the fit of rage, He swatted Clem's hands and stretched out his hands to hold Emma, but to his greatest astonishment,he found himself on the floor within few seconds.
Derek winced in a pain, and although it disappeared after a few seconds, it left him feeling bewildered. He couldn't explain what had just happened. Whatever had just happened, occurred very fast. He snapped out of his thinking haze when Maru, his wolf started laughing at him.
"Shouldn't you be on my side, a girl just tripped us.." He said, forgetting that he was still on the ground.
"Nah, she tripped you,not me. It was funny to watch,but I'm actually disappointed." Maru said
"I'm going to kill her then" Derek thought, determined.
"It seems you want to work in a sawmill, this time around. But she is actually beautiful, and smells very nice..very nice for a human" Maru said, not sure if he should tell Derek that the human girl might be his mate. He knew the guy would throw a fit.
Derek scoffed at Maru's words and looked around to see his colleagues near the truck still rolling on fits of laughter, and remembered that he was still on the floor.
He wondered what his father would say if he had seen this, and shuddered.
He looked up to see Emma folding her arms
across her chest, with a disdainful look, and then she whistled.
Derek saw red, he would deal with her in a minute.
He tried standing gracefully as a human, but tripped clumsily for a reason he couldn't tell. Today's wasn't just going well, he thought while holding the door frame and standing up. Jumping up like the usual might let the girl in on what he really is. He wouldn't want that. His father might kill him.
"What did you just do?" He asked Emma in an angry voice tainted with a little amazement, as he dusted off his jeans. The human was really something, he thought.
But Emma didn't reply or look at him at all. Her attention was on Clem.
"What are you hotties doing here?" She had asked Clem, battling her eyelids and smiling.
'Did she just tune him off? Did a human just tune him off, for the first time' Derek thought, gritting his teeth.
"Yeah,she sure has guts.." His wolf said.
"Shut up " He said, as he could tell that Maru would soon start taunting him.
He could see Clem talking, and Shane bickering with Leo by the truck.
"We were contracted by Mr Jason to clean this place" Clem replied, blushing.
Derek scoffed. The girl already had the beta's son wrapped around her fingers.
"Okay" She replied. "Mr Jason is my Father, You guys should come in, the place is a real mess" She stated, and walked into the house, with her head up high.
Shane whistled.
"Where's Derek?" Emma asked Clem.
She had turned back to see Clem and the other two guys walk into the house after her, but not Derek. She refused to think on why she was searching him out.
'What's there, if not to trouble him the more'She thought, smiling to herself as she remembered the look on his face when she double tripped him.
"He might be outside" Clem replied, staring at the ceilings of the living room.
'Outside?'Emma thought. She could feel herself boiling up again. She concluded that Derek was a real piece of work.
"What's he doing outside?, can't you see we need more hands here?. She asked Clem, her hands on her waist.
This whole house is in ruins, one of you guys should get him" Emma stated finally.
Clem was perplexed. He couldn't deny that the human girl intrigued him greatly. Looking at her, he could tell that she was fuming, silently. Not wanting to get on her bad side, for he had seen what she was capable of, he asked Leo to get Derek.
After Leo left, Clem turned back to Emma, in a bid to make small talk until Derek arrives.
"Where are you from?" , He asked.
"I'm not from around here." She replied.
"But where..?" Clem queried, getting more curious. The human girl was so secretive, He thought.
" Don't worry about it, I'm not a spy" She said, chuckling.
For a minute, Clem panicked. He thought she might actually have a clue on what they are really are. But then looking intensely at her, he discovered Emma was just making small talk, just being vague as usual, and he got more interested in unraveling her.
"Well, I wouldn't be surprised if you were a spy, you got good moves babe! How did you learn that?" Clem inquired, noting the blush that appeared on the new girl's cheeks.
"Dad enrolled me in a martial arts school while I was younger. You know, for protection." Emma replied.
She didn't think he needed to know the truth of how she learnt taekwondo. How she defied her father's orders, sneaking out every night to Mr Tammy's place to learn it.
"Okay, cool" Clem said, looking at her with open admiration. When he saw a speck of dust on her cheek, he thought it an opportunity to feel her skin texture.
Her skin was soft, he thought as he rubbed off the dust from her cheek with his right thumb. And as he watched her closely, he saw a blush taint her cheek, and he smiled.
"Clem, He's here now" Leo said,coming into the room with a still annoyed Derek.
Emma shifted away from Clem, at the sound of Leo's voice. Now noting how close Clem had been to her, and the feel of his thumb on her left cheek, she blushed again.
His touch was sweet, and she had to admit that he was a handsome guy, although Derek was more handsome.
'Wait, did I just think of Derek as the handsomest? No way" Emma said,and scoffed.
She turned back to see Derek looking at her weirdly.
Derek had seen Clem touching Emma's cheek, but had scoffed. Clem is a puppy, He had thought. But when he saw the blush on Emma's face, he was out of it for a second.
His insides tightened, but he had brushed it off as a feeling of resentment for her and betrayal for Clem.
'He shouldn't be fraternizing with that little witch' He thought, as he remembered how she had double tripped him few minutes ago. It got him curious. She's only a human female teenager.
'So where did the strength and skill come from.?'Derek asked himself.
"So how are we gonna do this" Shane asked, holding a vacuum cleaner.
Derek snapped out of his thoughts at Shane's words, and looked around the house properly for the first time.
" Was this a drug house" He shrieked, as he pondered on the colorations on the wall, and the messy furniture.
" Exactly my thoughts, when I met it" the witch,like he termed her replied, like she hadn't tripped him some minutes ago. Derek scoffed.
" Leo call Mike, tell him we need them at No 10 moonway now" Derek said.
"Okay" Leo replied, taking the cell phone and walking out the front porch.
Emma didn't know what to think of that. It was obvious Derek commanded Leo. His voice was..but...well it's best she minds her business. She doesn't know the relationship between the guys.
" You both should start carrying out the furniture, I will check out the kitchen" He said, referring to Shane and Clem, while walking towards the kitchen.
Emma followed him. She didn't know why she did, but she found herself also walking towards the kitchen.
Derek sweared,as he walked into the kitchen. Everything was a mess, from the cupboards to the dirty sink.
"Dirty right?" Emma asked, with a chuckle.
Derek looked at the little witch, and wondered whether she was taunting him or making a statement, for the kitchen was beyond dirty obviously. The knowledge that she might be mocking him,made him cringe and curse silently. If not his father's nonsense punishment, he wouldn't be here cleaning up this mess.
"Cockroaches!!." The little witch screamed and jumped on him.
For a moment, time stood still for Derek.
He had been fast enough to catch her, more of a reflex action. But the feelings that assailed him made him immobile. They were so foreign and unacceptable to him.
Her scent was so intoxicating, a mixture of finely brewed coffee smell, plus chocolate and some sweet flowery he couldn't explain.
"Mate!" Maru said.
"No no" Derek thought. He couldn't have anything to do with this witch. It was cool he could communicate with his wolf since he was 16, a feat that pleased his father much. It was a rare gift, and it was believed that the so wolf would be very powerful. But not this, He can't deal with a human mate. He would wait till he was 18 in a month time for his initiation ceremony, to confirm this. But then, his body had a mind of it's own. He found himself holding her so tightly to himself while stepping around the broken plates on the floor.
Looking down, he found a couple of cockroaches running around, and smiled. The little witch was scared of cockroaches. His smile metamorphosed to a full blown laughter.
This seemed to catch Emma who had found Derek's body more comfortable than her bed for reasons unknown to her. She cursed herself silently, and tapped Derek to drop her, which he did, ungracefully. He dropped her like she was a bag of onions on the floor. She looked up to see him smirking.
"We're even now" He said
Emma cursed again, and tried standing up, but her legs which were sprawled on the floor were numb and couldn't move.
Derek seeing that she was actually hurt, felt bad too. He could feel his wolf annoyance at what he had done. And so he stretched his hand towards her, hoping that she would drop her big pride and take it. She did, to his relief and stood up, staring at him.
They looked at each other intensely,still holding hands until Shane came in.
" The boys are here". He said
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