"We need to pack out now, we have to go away!" I see him drop the phone on the bed and begin to panic. His face a bit shaky and bloodshot.
"What's going on?"
"I gotta explain later, we need to go now." He rushes me into the waiting helicopter, I get curled up in his arms so as to get covered. After he places me on the helicopter, he rushes back to the house where he takes the bags back into the helicopter. "For your clothings!" He sharply says before retreating to the house where he gets his phone and rushes out. I squat under the back of the helicopter seat to prevent the pilot from seeing my uncladded body. Aiden closes the helicopter door.
"Let's go!" He growls at the pilot and the helicopter starts, it ascends slowly into the air and then into the high sky. I feel my heart beating hard against my chest. He opens one of the bags and it's filled with different clothes.
"Which do you choose to wear?" He asks with some care in his voice.
"Never mind!" I say with disinterest. I stretch the bag wide, selecting among the vast beautiful clothes in the bag. I smile inside me, they're so beautiful. I finally settled on a grey hoodie and black joggers, they look more attractive to my eyes and I decided to put it on. Aiden grins at me with a it's-nice-on-you glare. I manage to mutter a 'thank you.' I can't be ungrateful.
"Shoes?" I would laugh at myself or should I say him, if I wore such pretty clothes, then I don't have a shoe to slide into. He opens another bag where I find a set of shoes, as pretty as the clothes. I go for a plastic heavy-heel fashion combat boot, then I realize it wouldn't suit my dressing, it would be better for a jeans trouser rather than joggers, I remove it and place it back inside the bag. I come out with a pair of black snickers with a white design on the body, and a white sole.
I'm good to go!
"Aiden what's going on? Why would you just hurry me out of that estate like that? Are you being pursued?"
"Yes," he manages to say after a while. "I'm being pursued." "By who?"
"A rival gang." "What happened?"
"I think you're asking too much."
"But I need to know. Don't you mind tell me?" My voice comes forth authoritatively and since he wants to please me, he's inclined to spit his secret out, whatever it is.
He breathes out heavily, then shifts his body to face me. "It's a complicated story. While I didn't get to be with you, I came across this girl, I met her at a night party, we got into a hook-up, I really liked her, not for love but lust, I wanted the whole of her and we started a secret affair but I didn't know much about her until I went to visit a rival gang leader to settle another case we had and I found her with him, I got shocked. She pointed fingers at me as the one that impregnated her, her mate rose up in fury and attempted to attack me but my men countered it, in the process, the man was shot. I was whisked away. I thought he died but after a while information reached me that he's still alive and haunting for revenge. One of my men just got information that he's coming after me. I don't know if he traced me to the estate but I swear I'll bring him down so we can have peace."
"What do you mean by bringing him down?" "Taking his life away."
"How will you achieve that?" "Never mind, it's my job."
"That's one of the major reasons I fear being with you, I don't feel safe with you."
"Please don't say that," he snaps. "You're safe with me and you should feel that, I can't continue with life without you, what would be the essence of living. I need you, you're my world, you're everything to me."
"Well, I think that would never work. The only thing that brings us together is sex and after that I feel this burning desire to revenge, I can't let my parents down."
"Then we can try out our luck, this lust might make you come to love me in the future, who knows?"
"I can't see that, it isn't my dream. I feel we should stay apart from each other. What of my son?" I snap, wanting to get rid of being-together talk, I'm only interested in my son when it comes to another human, just like Aiden claims that I'm the only one that keeps him alive, I believe that it's my son that makes me happy and see the reason to struggle in the midst of life's challenges and uncertainties.
"He's at the other estate?" "What?" I scream.
"Why are you shocked, what is wrong with that, he's well taken care of."
"With that evil being of a sister there. I can't agree to my son being where she is, just like I wouldn't be safe, seriously. I can't let that happen, please if there's any way you can bring my son out of that place, I'll be so glad."
"Worry not, baby, he's alright. I'll do as you've said."
I hiss, you don't mean it. I chuckle. He's calling me baby. He places his hands on my lap. I shift apart from Aiden to the window where I gaze down, enjoying the beautiful scene down. He shifts towards me.
"Don't crowd me, I need space." "Hmm, please?"
I snub Aiden refusing to answer him, I lean against the wall resting my head on the walls of the helicopter. I feel relaxed as the helicopter steadily transports us to a destination I don't know.
Soon I start to feel sleepy, I didn't realize when I got into a trance but I just feel off consciousness, I begin to feel some touches, then I wake up to find myself curled up on Aiden's laps.
"Are you trying to pressure me to love you?" "No, I'm not."
"Then leave me."
"Wait Chelsey, I have something to tell you." "What's it?"
"I kidnapped you because I want to be an Alpha, I can't officially become one because I haven't gotten official with my mate which is you and my son. I wouldn't force you, you hate me and I think you might never love me, so I just want to sign this deal with you. I don't know if you'll agree to it."
"What's the deal?"
"I'll pay you ten million dollars for an official engagement with you, you'll be my luna for a certain period of time whereby I'll assume the Alpha seat, you will bear me a second son, if you don't wish to carry it for me, your egg would be fertilized with my sperm and I'll have some other lady carry it. Agreed?"
I think about this and it seems juicy, ten million dollars is enough for me to take care of myself for the rest of my life, it wouldn't be my wish to abandon my son to some other person, I'd want him to be under my custody. Let me see if I can make him amend this aspect of the deal.
I breathe out heavily. "Hmmm! The aspect of Sunshine being under your custody would imply him to be taken care of by who? Chloe?"
"You seem to be so jealous of her, well I wanted to break up with her if you agree to love me but it seems that's not gonna be possible?" I roll my eyes, a smirk follows. This seems like a question, what does he expect me to say at this point? Well, he can't tease me into saying something I have no interest in. That's not what I asked.
"Can you tell me how Chloe came to live with you?"
"I can't, so sorry about this. It would be good if I could but if I do, things will get worse. I think I just have to keep that to myself." Suspicion flies into my mind as I hear this. It'll be good if I…? What will be his good, why is he saying this? I sigh.
"Are you sure there isn't something you're hiding from me about her?" "Yes, there is but it's something I can't share. I apologize."
"Well," I nod my head in determination to get to know whatever is hidden from me when the time comes, my interest returns to Sunshine, I wouldn't accept this deal no matter how much he is willing to pay if Sunshine will be under Chloe's custody, or any bit close to her. He wouldn't be safe.
"Whatever, I don't care, you can keep it to yourself." I hit him hard on the skull with this. I fling my face away and I sense that he's quite hurt with this, it's what I wanted. "All I want to know is who my son will stay with, he's my only concern."
"I'll employ a nanny to take care of him." "Where will he live, same estate as Chloe?" "No, as you wish. He'll stay somewhere else." "Can you make me understand something?"
"Yes, what?" His gaze steadies rigidly on me, I sense him itching to hear the question I have to ask. I keep a little bit of silence in between to put my thoughts in order.
"What's your intention of keeping two sisters at the same time when you claim you want me to stick to you to be Alpha?"
"Let me shock you, I broke up with her."
"Tell me you're kidding, I can't believe that. That means my son is safe then." I say almost to myself. I notice Aiden frowns, I'm confused with his reaction. "Is there anything wrong with what I just said?"
"No, no! I thought you would be happy about this."
"I can't be happy, but I'm happy for my son. He's my only happiness."
"I can change that about you, I'll give you seven months to fall for me, I'll do whatever you wish but if you don't fall for me after the said months, then you are free to go marry anyone you wish."
"That's all about the contract you said earlier?"
"But more to that, I need to be Alpha and I need you by my side to become Alpha, you'll be my luna for the seven months, we'll live together and…."
"Cancel everything, I don't agree to such. I can't sign anything that will bind me to you, not interested. Now let me be. I need to be on my own." I withdraw to the part of the wall where I lean my head against it, closing my eyes. I can't sign anything that would bind me in such a way
that I don't know. I have limited time here and during this time, I'll take my revenge, take my son and go away to live my life, with no enemy or rival. I got to focus on what is in front of me.