36. At Roman's territory part 2

Kathy.

It was way past midnight. The one named Roman Cortega had locked me up in my new room, with a proper bed this time. Despite there being a window in this room. I was in no position to flee from it. Not after knowing the supernatural truth about them. I couldn't still couldn't believe werewolves were real.

Vincenzo unfortunatly hadn't been able to hang out with me after he dropped by the dining hall where Roman's personal chef made me a tasty meal. Since Vincenzo had to be on patrol duty the whole day another guard had kept his eye on me whilst I had my meal. I was then escorted back to this room and only let out during dinner time. The mission that I'd supposedly had to do was postponed, due to Roman's sudden urgent business meeting he had to attend to.

I sighed out getting bored out of my mind. I was still on egde with my captors, since they hadn't exactly specified why they'd kidnapped me. I was given soft slippers to wear and placed them on my bandaged feet. I walked to the door and knocked. The guard then unlocked the door and gave me a stern look.

"What do you want?" He asked in his gruff voice.

"May I go down to the kitchen?"

"Why?"

"I'd like to have a glass of milk, it'll help me sleep better, please?"

"No." He then slammed the door in my face and I sighed out. Rude.

I sighed and flopped my self on the bed, and slipped of my slippers. I laid on the bed staring back at the ceiling with boredom, wondering when I was going to go home. Mother had no idea I'd been kidnapped, nor did my boss Hulio. I couldn't afford to loose my job. I was working very hard to save money for art school.

A couple of minutes later, the door knocked and a voice came through.

"Tesoro, may I come in?"

My attention flew towards the door and I rushed towards in in sudden excitement ignoring wounded pain in my feet. I opened the door myself and gazed up at my werewolf guy.

"Vincenzo?"

"I just took over Raphael's shift, and I over heard what you said before he rudely closed the door on you."

"You caught that, huh?"

Vincenzo pulled open the door for me.

"C'mon let's go to the kitchen."

My eyes lit up at his warmness towards me and I nodded, slipping on the pair of soft slippers that eased my pain for a while. Vincenzo then escorted me down the stairs. We walked past a huge lounge area where I heard the sounds of laughter coming from a crowd. Jazz music sounded in the background as we drew closer.

There were atleast more than eight long white couches. Among the couches sat men in their attires consited of dark suits. I saw a group of women wearing short dresses and pouring drinks for the men, whilst they conversated with them. Some of the women had men on their laps, and a few were making out with them in the corner of the room.

As I walked by, with Vincenzo's hand resting upon my lower back, I caught sight of my previous captor making out with a girl on the couch. He then sniffed the air and paused in his make out session, directing his sudden strict eyes upon me. I held in my gasp and averted my gaze from Matteo. Despite Roman being his boss, I was more afraid of him.

Seeing Vincenzo with me, Matteo then ignored me and went back to making out with his girlfriend who crashed his lips in an eager way. We were just about to leave the lounge room, when a two girls with skimpy looking outfits blocked our path.

"Cenzo." The curled blonde girl with the height of 5ft11 then threw her hands over Vincenzo's shoulder and pulled him in for a hug. She kissed his cheeks and smiled up at him.

"Elaina."

Elaina was suddenly pushed to the side, and a red head girl took Vincenzo's face and smashed her lips to his.

My heart broke. I looked away towards the ground. Ofcourse he had a girlfriend. A girlfriend who was 3 times taller and hotter than me. She wore a short red outfit with matching stelitos.

"C'mon I have a room waiting." Gloria started leading Vincenzo away, but he paused in his step and shook his head.

"Hmmm, Gloria, not tonight."

"But, I need you my heat will kick in about 10 minutes, or do you want me to wait if you want to finnish with her?"

"Finnish with me?" I asked puzzled.

Vincenzo cheeks went rosy when I said that.

"Yeah, he's the best in bed when it comes to releasing our heat." Elaina complimented throwing a hand around my shoulder. Releasing their heat? What did she mean by that? Then she sniffed my head.

"Hey, you're not a she-wolf?"

Gloria then grabbed me next and I sniffed my face.

"You're a lamb?"

"Correction, she's my lamb whom I'm in charge of tonight."

"Awww, she's so cute." Elaina said cupping my face and gave it a little kiss. She gave me a strong hug and I almost choked.

"Careful Elaina." Vincenzo said pulling his friend away from me.

"Sorry, I forget my strength around the lambs sometimes. They're so cute." Elaina pinched my cheek and walked away making towards another group of curious looking people. I felt suddenly overwhelmed by the fact that most of them had glowing deadly eyes.

Gloria on the other hand ignored me.

"All night Vincenzo?" She seemed annoyed, flustered and desperate for Vincenzo's attention.

"Yes, you see Kathy here is Alpha Roman's human guest."

"Oh no not again. You remember what happened the last time when we had a human guest right?"

Her words sent chills down my spine especially when she let out a little warning growl. I gasped out in fright and cowered behind Vincenzo back, clucthing his suit jacket, with my heart hammering away. I felt like the odd one out. Like I clearly didn't belong in their special k-nine club.

"Gloria behave. Don't scare my little bird like that. Now if you'll excuse us, me and Kathy have to be somewhere."

Vincenzo then took my hand in his and guided me away from the lounge.

We soon made it to the kitchen. Vincenzo switched on the light and took out two empty glasses.

"A glass of milk, always helps me sleep well at night, but a glass of ice cold chocolate helps me sleep better. Oh, wait, do you like chocolate if not I can make strawberry too?"

"Oh yeah, chocolate is fine. I'm not a big fan of strawberry." I honestly addmitted, making him chuckle.

"So, Miss Kathy is not a fan of the strawberry? Out of curiosity, what fruits do you like?"

"Hmmm, oranges, guava, watermellon oh and the rambutan is my favourite."

Vincenzo gave me a puzzled look with the last fruit I mentioned.

"Rambutan? I havn't heard of that one before. What does it taste like?"

"Juicy and sweet. It grows out in South East Asia and part of the Lychee family."

I watched in amazement as he quickly made us both mouthwatering looking milkshakes.

He added a straw to my glass and handed it over to me.

He clinked my glass with mine and added a cheers, with a short wink.

I sipped on my milkshake and ran my tongue over my bottom lip. The delicousness hit my taste buds coldly.

"How do you like it?" Vincenzo asked looking at me like I was about to give him a bad grade on a Maths test.

"It's really good." I smiled and took another longer sip.

I shut my eyes. Damn, it was cold.

"What's wrong?"

"Hmmm, but it's really cold it's giving me a brain freeze."

"Me too." Vincenzo admitted reacting the same way as me when he did the same. I couldn't help but chuckle.

Vincenzo smiled and then stared at me for a while whilst I blushed looking away from him.

"W-what?" I asked.

"Nothing, want to have a stroll outside before I escort you back to your room?"

I smiled loving the idea.

"She's not allowed to roam outside the pack house." Matteo said, making me get up from my chair. I quickly hid behind Vincenzo's back. He was the only one I seemed to be comfortable around.

"She can't sleep Matteo."

"Then give her a sleeping pill, or I can knock her out in *other ways*?" Matteo cracked his neck muscles and knuckles with a stretch. He looked at me like he wished to haul me over his shoulder in the next minute and take me somewhere private where no one would be able to hear my cries.

Vincenzo let out a very low dark growl, making me feel very cautious and frightened of him, whilst Matteo smirked.

M: You're so whipped.

V: And you're dead if you ever speak of knocking her out like that.

"Oh let him be with the lamb Matteo, it's not like she can out run Vincenzo, even if she tries." A girl in a short dark green skimpy dress, then pressed her body against Matteo from the back. She wasn't the same girl on his lap before. What was going on here?! Was I in some kind of a whore house. The thought didn't settle well with me.

"I...I won't!" I said holding Vincenzo's hand in mine bravely. A weird tingle came through me as I did and Vincenzo ceased his low growl that disturbed me to my core. Once he did so, I calm relaxed.

Vincenzo looked down at me. I should have let go him, but I didn't want to. He was the only one in the room that made me feel safe.

"I won't run from him. I promise."

Vincenzo rubbed his thumb upon my hand as I met eyes with his. He seemed to acknowlege the fact that I was telling him the truth, which made him smile warmly at me.

"See, she won't, and she promised too." Green dress said, smiling briefly my way.

"She better not, or I'll lock her for the whole day." Matteo warned, making me nervously gulp. My heart raced with trouble with the way he watched me.

"Ok, she gets the warning tough guy. I'm in heat and I need you Matteo." The girl said in her sultry tone, rubbing her hands up and down his arms. Matteo hoisted her in his hold the next second and smashed his lips with her.

"I know you are, I could smell you when you stepped out of your room." The girl giggled as Matteo then took her away.

Once they were gone I relaxed.

"Are you ok?" Vincenzo asked looking down at me.

"No, Matteo scares the crap out of me every time I see him."

"You don't have to worry about him, when you're with me Kathy."

Realising that I was holding on to his hand, I blushed and let go.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to hold your hand like that."

"Hey, it's ok. C'mon let's get some fresh air."

I nodded in response agreeing with him. Fresh air would do me good.

Vincenzo then led me out back from the back kitchen.

We walked side by side, and strangely Vincenzo kept brushing his hand against my free one. I was tempted to hold his hand in mine but at the same time I didn't want to give him the wrong idea. After all, I was their temporary guest. A temporary prisoner.

After opening a small gate, we came by the pool side.

Vincenzo offered me a place to sit down by a nearby bench. He sat next to me and we both had her refreshing drinks.

We soon started talking about me again. I told Vincenzo about my adoptive mother who ran an orphanage. I spoke about my likes and dislikes again which seemed to intrest him more than anything else.

"So you like art?"

"Yeah. I'd been drawing since the day I could hold a crayon."

Vincenzo chuckled. His laugh was delightful, and for some strange odd reason I didn't feel scared of him.

"May I ask you something?"

"Shoot." He said placing a hand at the back of my bench side and sipping on his drink.

"What does going into heat mean?"