Chapter 40 Chapter 40
Alpha Jacob's POV.
I hesitantly stepped into the ballroom which was packed to the fullest with the remaining people.
The music played was loud and electric and I noticed a few people dancing while the rest had their backs turned watching someone or something interesting.
"Excuse me, what is going on?"I asked one of my Betas who could not give me a proper answer.
"I have no idea, Alpha."
I walked into the crowd of people who gave way after noticing me pushing my way to the center of the fiasco being scrutinized.
I arrived in the middle and lady Bella
My mate was dancing wildly amid the people while the male wolves marveled at the sexy moves her hips made and to make matters worse she kept lifting up her high slit almost revealing her underwear, with a glass of red wine in one hand.
What is going on with Bella? Is this the kind of behavior I will have to put up with whenever she gets drunk?
"Everyone, move away from here, there is nothing to watch," I growled out loud in a commanding voice and everyone moved away.
"Hey everyone, it's the feared Alpha Jacob Shephard of the midnight," Bella spoke in a slurried speech, with a giggle, and saluted me, with her free hand.
"Oh my, our new Luna, is a wild one."
"Where did the Alpha find this one?" Two ladies giggled standing on my left-hand side.
Suddenly, a waiter walked behind me with an empty tray tucked in between his arm and side rib cage.
"Hey, you, how many bottles of wine did lady Bella have?"
I wondered how drinks she had to start acting like that…
The waiter examined Bella for a few seconds before giving me a response."Just that one glass she is holding Alpha."
"What?" I frowned upon his statement because wolves are known to have a high tolerance for alcohol, so what happened to my Bella to get this drunk with just one glass?
"That will be all for now." I signaled him to walk away because Bella was dropping some gracefully, smooth movements and well-controlled dance moves with her hips without dropping any drop of wine from her glass.
I was impressed but I needed grandma to like her, therefore if she saw Bella like this, it would make matters worse than it was.
The waiter hesitantly walked away with his head fixed on my Luna…but it was not his fault because her moves had all the other male wolves around in a trance.
I need to put a stop to this now.
"Alpha, come dance with me." Bella swayed her hips more seductively to the beat of the song playing in the background.
"Come here, Bella."
"No, I won't. Just come dance with me." She answered back.
"Please Bella, stop that."
"Alpha, stop being a party popper."
"That's it, turn off the music." I turned my attention to the DJ playing the music which motivated her to dance more... The DJ switched off the stereo immediately heading to my command.
"No, don't. Don't destroy everyone's fun" She took another sip of her almost full cup of wine and cringed her eyes shut as though she was drinking bitter whiskey and continued dancing without music playing.
Suddenly from nowhere, she just paused midway while holding onto her head with her free hand then plunged into the floor, spilling her drink but the glass did not break by the impact.
I rushed to her and grazed my hand on her beautiful peaceful face.
Why did you behave like that? I darted at the wine glass and picked it up, and the weird stench coming from it caught my nose.
Umm, that's not how wine is supposed to smell like. With flared nostrils, I sniffed up the scent and something was disgusting about it.
Did someone try to poison Bella again?
I quickly straightened up with her in my arms bridal style and instantly got out of the room to take her to bed to sleep the wine out of her system.
Someone wanted to harm Bella for reasons best known to themselves, hence getting her out of that place was the best plan possible.
I got to her room and it was locked, where can I take her to sleep? I looked around the hallway for a while before deciding to take her to my room.
Don't blame me, I could not think of another room because I had never spent or walked in other bedrooms apart from the two bedrooms among the many bedrooms in the mansion.
We got to the room and I gently placed her on the bed and removed her shoes. I looked at how peaceful she was knocked out then I stepped closer to her and leaned in to kiss her forehead…and that was when she opened her eyes.
"What do you think you are doing?" She blurted out loud.
"Nothing." I quickly jerked up and took a step backward.
I knew she had a bit of resentment toward me because of the kiss I had shared with Samantha hence I wanted to give her space to forgive me before officially marking her as my mate.
She looked at me suspiciously with a raised eyebrow for a few seconds...
"Fine, please help me remove this dress." She toiled to get out of her red mermaid dress.
"Umm, let me get Zoey to help you." I stuttered because I knew that once she was naked before my eyes I would not be able to resist mating with her…and that's not what I wanted to do when she was intoxicated with an unknown substance.
"No, you do it" she got up from the bed and reached her hands for the zip behind her but she could not reach it.
"Please Alpha, I can't breathe." She toiled some more until she fell off the bed with a loud thud noise.
Oops, I quickly rushed to her and her eyes were tearing up with trembling lips.
"Alpha, why can't you help me?" She pouted her lips.
Upon seeing her sad for unknown reasons, I finally accepted her request.
"Ok, I will help you." I got up and tugged her up too then turned her around. I hesitantly touched her zip and pushed it downwards revealing her spinal code line perfectly aligned on her back which led to her butt line which divided each butt cheek.
I swallowed hard with beads of sweat forming on my forehead.
Goddess, please help me resist this unwanted temptation at the moment, I cringed my eyes shut because I did not want to see her naked body. I veered around with quick heavy breathing and counted up to ten to distract myself from the edge to mate with her.
Seconds later, I hear Bella shifting recklessly into my bed. What is she doing? I hesitantly turned around and she had put herself to bed without my help.
Phew, I sighed softly and quickly strolled out of the room... because I did not want to be tempted to touch her beautiful pale skin.