Chapter 27: CHAPTER TWENTY SEVEN

When Sarah went back to the three-seaters, she picked up her phone and resumed playing the candy crush game since she could no longer return to her sleep after the little drama the redhead had displayed. Halfway through her first game, she remembered the weird way the woman had behaved earlier. Sarah wondered why the other woman would leave in such a horrid manner after she had asked Sarah if she was the one who bears the name.

Determined not to think about her, she resumed her game. After repeating the same level for the fifth time, Sarah knew that there was no way she could stop thinking about the redhead no matter how she tried. Hence, she dropped her phone down and let her mind focus on what thought could have run through the woman for her to run off like that.

Sarah thought that the woman could have run off because she had looked scary to her but Sarah shook her head, knowing that that could not have been the case with the woman since Sarah had not revealed any emotion to her. She remembered that she had even smiled at the woman when she had opened the door because she hadn't wanted one more person to report her to Adam about displaying bad behavior to them.

Sarah cracked her brain again and thought that the woman could have left because Adam wasn't home but she remembered immediately that the redhead woman hadn't even asked if Adam was home or not before she disappeared away from the door. This means that the woman hadn't left because she hadn't wanted to trespass when the owner of the house wasn't around. It had to be something else that had promoted such reaction from the woman.

She encouraged her mind to flashback to the event that had surrounded her and the woman. Sarah dwelled on the fact that the woman had looked very surprised when Sarah had opened the door for her. It was like she didn't expect to see Sarah there at all under any circumstances. Then, Sarah remembered how the woman had looked very angry when Sarah had affirmed herself to her and how she had turned away from the house with indignation.

Which would only mean that Sarah was the issue the redhead woman had for her to have left just like that. Sarah tried to think about the reason a woman would get angry just because she saw another woman at a man's house. The only thing that came to her mind was that the woman either had to be in love with Adam. Sarah thought that the redhead might be hoping to have something with him or they already had something going on between each other.

Her mind flashed into her mind once again the scene she had seen at the park and Sarah became afraid. What if they truly had something going on with them and Adam had merely lied to Sarah about their relationship? Now that she thought about it, she was sure that the woman couldn't have done all she did at the park if there was nothing between her and Adam.

Fear, jealousy, anger, and thoughts about murder began to recoil in her mind all at once and her nails elongated of their own accord. She took a deep breath in and a deep breath out to calm herself down. When she had succeeded in keeping the emotions in check, she picked up her phone and dialed Adam's number. He picked up even before the first ring was over.

"Hello, Sarah. I'm sorry I haven't returned home yet. I had to get to the main city to get some business done," Adam explained immediately as he picked up.

"Adam, a woman came over to ask of you," Sarah told him in a low voice.

"Who?" His phone beeped a low battery warning for him.

"The redhead I saw with you at the park that day." And because she couldn't hold back the question in her mind, she asked him what was truly bothering her. "Is she going to be your Luna?"

Adam's phone beeped another warning and he knew that would not be able to explain the situation clearly to Sarah at that moment. "Sarah, can I call you back later? I mean I'll call you later," Adam told her.

"Later? But I want to know now," Sarah shouted a little into the phone she held.

The answer she got next was the beep of her phone that signaled that the call had been disconnected from the other end. She looked at her phone's screen to be sure she hadn't daydreamed about the whole thing and sure enough, the call had been disconnected. Try as she could her thoughts together, her mind kept telling her that Adam had lied to her about not having anything to do with the redhead. Her emotions took hold of her and she screamed.

Adam looked at the screen of his phone and saw that it was dead. He pressed the power button until the phone switched on again but then, it died again halfway through its booting. He looked around the room he was in to see if he could find somewhere to boost the phone but he didn't see any. He dropped the phone into his pocket and walked out of the building to where he parked his car.

As he walked, he seethed with anger. Why would Xana have the mind to show herself in his house when he hadn't invited her over? He couldn't stop wondering what she had said to Sarah and knowing Sarah as he does, he knew how intuitive the woman was. Even if Xana hadn't said anything, Sarah could easily connect the dots and know about what was going on. Right but this time, Adam knew that Sarah would be boiling in anger. He got into the car and drove straight to Xana's house.

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Xana sat among her three friends, lost in thought about the woman she had met at Adam's house. When she had arrived at the house, her expectations had not included seeing a woman at the house, talking more, Adam's mate. Her head had flown out of her neck in amazement when the woman had confirmed to her that she was indeed Adam's mate. Even when she had turned back from the woman and left the place, she hadn't realized that she had done that.

It was only when she was almost by her car that Xana's wolf whispered to her that they shouldn't let the woman go just that and Xana had agreed with her wolf. She had gone back to the house immediately but she had found it locked. Not ready to cause trouble for herself, especially when she knew that she couldn't shift at will, she had turned away from the door and went back to her car and returned home.

She had still been sucking over the little fact that another woman got to live with her Adam while she couldn't when her friends had shown up. Xana was thankful they had come for a visit at the time when she was in such an awful mood, otherwise, she would have gone back to Adam's house and murdered the damn woman in cold blood.

"Hey, Xana babe, where's your mind at?" one of her friends asked and snapped her fingers in front of Xana to gain her attention.

"Your mind has been so far away from us since we arrived about an hour ago," the second friend said. She was the only other wolf in the group apart from Xana. The other two as far as Xana knew were complete humans.

"Is it a dude's matter?" the third asked.

When Xana blushed pink, the fourth of them pointed a finger at her in excitement. "It's indeed about a dude!'' she screamed, her voice echoing through the house.

At that moment, Xana was grateful her house was soundproofed or she would have died of embarrassment. Xana slapped the arm of her third friend lightly.

"Keep your voice down, will you?"

"What's he like?" the first friend asked.

"Is he a part of us?" the second friend who was also a werewolf asked. Xana nodded her head to answer the question.

"What kind of dumb question is that, Mercy? Are you expecting her to fall in love with an Alien?" the first friend retorted good naturedly.

"Girl, the question you should be asking here is if the dude is hot," the third friend said.

"Knowing how picky Xana is about men, I'm sure the dude is not just hot but damn hot," Mercy told the other two ladies.

Xana rolled her eyes at her friends. They were acting as if they knew who the guy was or even the fact that they knew just exactly how the relationship between her and Adam was.

"Hey, don't keep us in the dark anymore. Spill it, will you?" Mercy said and shook Xana by the arm, indicating her impatience.

"Okay, okay, you gossip mongers," Xana told her friends with a laugh.

"His name is Adam, he's twenty-five years of age, and he is the CEO of Better Life company."

"You don't mean it, do you?" the first girl said.

"CEO of Better Life Company?" the third girl asked, dazed.

"How on earth did you guys meet?" Mercy asked next.

Xana tsked at her friends before she replied to their questions. "His mother and my mom are best friends, so they engaged us to deepen their friendship."

"Wow, girl. You are one lucky bitch," Mercy told her and the other girls nodded their affirmation.

The doorbell rang and Xana looked at the camera to see Adam's face staring at her. Her face lit up and her friends saw the change in her expression. One of them looked at her with suspicion and Xana blushed again.

"Is that who we think it is?" the second asked.

"Damn right he is. Just look at how much love is radiating from the lover girl," the first responded.

Xana ignored them and looked back at Adam's face and wondered why he was in her house. She smiled when she thought that the woman she saw in his house must have told him that stopped by the house, so he had come to see why he had come.

"Alpha?" Mercy asked and Xana nodded.

"He looked damn well like an Alpha male, babe," the second friend said to Xana, oblivious to the private conversation between the two werewolves.

"You made the right choice," Mercy told Xana.

Xana smiled at her friends and stood up to attend to Adam but Mercy stopped her.

"You're going to see him like that?" she asked.

Xana growled and sat down again as her friends brought out their makeup kits and helped her touch up on her face. In two minutes, they were done with the task and Xana smiled her thanks at them. By the time she stood up to open up the door, her wolf was already wincing in her head about how loud the ringing had gotten.

Adam rang the doorbell again when he didn't get any response. His anger was beginning to escalate because Adam knew for certain that the redhead was in the room and was only choosing not to reply to him. He had almost turned around to leave when his wolf ears had picked up tiny sounds from inside which was why he was still ringing her bell.

When he saw that that didn't yield any results, Adam ignored the doorbell and he began to bang on the door. His fist was about to hit the door again for the fourth time when Xana opened up. His eyes fell on the ladies seated on the floor in the room and how excited they looked at him and their friend. Adam wondered if he wasn't the subject of their discussion before they saw him.

"Hi, Adam," one of them said to him, waving her hands at him.

"Oh, my god. You are so hot," another one said to him.

"Girls!" Xana cautioned her friends, then looked at Adam fully. "Why are you here?"

Instead of replying to her, Adam pulled her out of her friend's hearing and locked the door firmly behind them to stop them from listening in on their conversation. When he was sure that they were good, he let go of her hands immediately.

Xana stared at Adam's body features and she could tell that he was angry about something. She first noticed his friend when she had opened the door for him. Then, when her friends had greeted him and he refused to answer them or even behaved like he saw them at all, Xana knew that he wasn't here for a joke.

"Why the fuck did you go to my house without approval from me?" Adam asked her.

"Adam? Where's this coming from?" Xana asked in an astonished tone.

"I asked why you dared to go over to my house without my permission."

"I went there to see you. Is that a crime?" Xana asked him.

"Then, what did you say to Sarah?"

Xana winced and looked at the door. Once again, she was thankful that her house was soundproofed since she was sure her friends would have heard the conversation between the two of them.

"Anyway, the reason why I am here is that I wanted to tell you not to bother yourself about thinking of dating me or getting married to me. Sarah is the woman I love and she's the only one I want as my Luna," Adam told her and walked away.

For a minute after he left, Xana stood perplexed. She couldn't believe that Adam had dashed her hope just like that without caring about how she would feel. After all the years of waiting for an opportunity to be with him, he just busted her hope like that without even the slightest care about how she would receive the news.

She pushed her door open and saw her friends waiting for her to give them the juice of what had transpired between her and Adam but she just sat down on the floor. She was already listening in thought when Mercy tapped her gently.

"Hey, are you okay?'' she asked.

Xana nodded her head in confirmation and she smiled so that her friends would believe her. Through the duration when her friends remained with her, Xana smiled and laughed like she was happy when she was anything but that.