37: On Roman's territory part 3

Vincenzo spluttered out his drink on the side and coughed out.

I patted his back.

"Oh, are you ok?"

What am I doing?! He’s the enemy! Stop. I internally scolded myself and retracted my hand away from his broad back.

After placing his drink to the side, he cleared his throat and looked back at me. He'd gone suddenly rosy on his cheeks.

"Did, I say something bad?"

"No, sweetheart not at all. What made you say it though?"

"Curiosity, I guess? I heard the girl who was with Matteo just now mention it and also your girlfriend Gloria and Elaina mention it too previously?" I asked honestly whilst sipping on my drink.

"Woah, wait a minute Gloria and I are not boyfriend and girlfriend."

"What? But she kissed you like you were a moment ago."

Vincenzo shook his head, surprising me.

"Yeah, I know what it looked like. But sweetheart we're wolves and we're very social and intimate animals. Gloria and I have been friends for many moons and we simply share a different kind of relationship with no strings attached."

Then it finally clicked.

"Oh, she's like your sex buddy?"

"More like friends with benefits." He offered trying to make it sound suttle.

I shot him a cringy face.

"Sorry but that's gross and messed up."

"Not in the werewolf world."

A world I’m still puzzled about, I internally thought.

"So, you guys are into polygamy?"

"Yes and No."

I shot him a puzzled look.

Vincenzo then continued, whilst tucking a piece of my loose hair behind the back of my ear.

I shortly blushed at his contact and slowly shifted away from him. Vincenzo sighed and placed his hand away from me then continued.

"Yes, in a way that although we sleep with different she-wolves with their consent we do not get attached to them during 'Heat'. The same rule applies

to the she-wolves. They choose the male they'd like to sleep with. However, we have rules that we do not sleep with each other if we are taken and

marked by our mates." Vincenzo explained.

I nodded in understanding finding his explanation fascinating.

"So, once you find your mates, you guys stop sleeping with a hundred girls."

Vincenzo let out an amused laugh.

"Yes tesoro. We stop sleeping around, because once we find our mates, they are ours to love cherish and protect for the rest of our lives. No one else

matters in our world."

He looked at me deeply and my cheeks caught heat of their own.

"C-can you tell me, what ‘Heat’ exactly is?" I asked in my short nervous tone, after finishing my drink.

"Well, Kathy it's basically when a she-wolf gets horny. This is caused by the restlessness of their inner beasts who haven’t found their mates as yet. Their

Heat usually hits after the age of sixteen. If the she-wolves do not calm their heat spell down, they get a very high fever which results into them phasing

and going on a mad hunger. When that happens it’s pretty bad."

"You mean their beastly sides take over them?"

"Yes. Infact Male wolves also go into heat."

"Were you in heat when you were in your true form?"

"No. I was on my patrol and hunt then. I usually get my heat which occurs on the full moon nights, like the rest of the male wolves.”

“If you can’t find a she-wolf to calm you down. Do you have to lock yourself up in the basement and be chained down with iron shackles?”

Vincenzo laughed. I cracked a short smile, like I amused him.

“No, we used to many centuries ago, however we have found a solution around it. We no longer need to be locked up and chained up like they show in

the books and movies.”

“What’s the solution?” I asked

“This.” He pulled out a small pill from his inner pocket.

“It's called a Moon Pill." He gave it in my hand.

I looked at it closely. It was oval in shape and blue in colour.

"It's very important to take them especially for male wolves. If we don't sedate our inner beasts they can become restless, and worst case our wild sides

can take over the human part of us for a long period of time, before we manage to take the control back which in some cases can take weeks and

months."

I shot him a puzzled look and handed his pill back over to him.

"I'm sorry, I don't understand. Are you saying you have two personalities?"

"Yes."

"So, who am I talking to now?"

"Vincenzo."

“Then how do I know when I’m talking to your other half?”

“When I do this.”

Vincenzo then closed his eyes and let his wild side take over him.

I gasped out when he re-opened them glowing his green eyes at me.

“Hello, tesoro my name is Rion.”

“H-hi Rion.” I was caught up in his eyes. They looked so beautiful and mesmerising, I couldn’t stop staring at awe. What was happening to me? Why was I

saw attracted to him, even when he was glowing is illustrious eyes at me.

“Tesoro, are you ok? Your heart is racing?”

“I-it is? Wait you can hear my heart?” Who was this man, no beast?!

Rion cracked a smile and closed the one seat gap from between us.

“I can hear you coming from a mile away, thanks to your scent.” Rion then inched closer and I froze on my spot as he placed his hand behind the back of

my neck. Those wonderful tingles played through out my body. He inhaled deeply by my neck, making my heart pound louder than usual, when he

whispered close to me.

“P-please, don’t hurt me.” I nervously gulped, since I realised, I was dealing with his other personality that I hardly knew about.

“I wouldn’t dare dream of it, tesoro.” He softly kissed the base of my neck and pulled back, closing his eyes releasing me from his hold tender hold.

I relaxed seeing Vincenzo non green glowing eyes.

He then got up from the bench and looked at me troubled.

“I’m sorry, Rion is my very wild side part of me. I hope he didn’t cause you too much trouble?”

“No.”

Other than the fact that he kissed my neck just now, and called me tesoro, which made me get butterflies in my belly. Rion didn’t seem so bad.

“He didn’t. Please sit down Vincenzo, I’m ok. It was nice meeting him, he seemed friendly.” I rest assured, making him features relax. Vincenzo then sat

next to me and smiled.

“So, do you have any more questions mia amore?”

I was just about to reply when suddenly I felt something crawling over my shoulder. My eyes darted down and I freaked out seeing a huge spider

crawling on me.

I screamed at the top of my lungs and shot up from the bench. I slapped the spider tripped from my sudden panic, edging towards the pool.

My body leaned back and just when I thought I was about to splash in the pool, strong pair of arms got to me so fast and held me by the waist.

“Woah, there. It’s gone.” Vincenzo pulled me back from the pools edge just in time. I was so shaken up by the creepy crawling bug, that I held my arms

together.

Vincenzo then took of his coat and placed it around my shoulders.

“Thanks, but I can’t.”

“Why not?”

“Then you’ll be cold?”

My werewolf friend let out a short grin.

“Thanks for your concern tesoro, but you don’t have to be when it comes to the cold.”

He made me wear his suit jacket properly without any fuss from me this time, and then took hold of my hand. I froze when he led me back to the bench.

“What’s wrong?”

“C-can we not sit there please?”

“Are you scared of the spider coming back?”

I nodded, and Vincenzo changed his direction to another bench on the opposite side of the pool.

“Have a seat, I promise I won’t let any spiders get to you. You have my word, Kathy.”

I relaxed my nerves and sat next to him. We both sat in silence admiring the stars. I couldn’t help but notice that Vincenzo was staring at me from my

corner of my eye. His presence made my heart flutter.

“May, I ask you another question?”

“Only, if you sit on my lap.”

Vincenzo looked at me with sudden hooded lusty eyes, that made my heart leap like a frog on a lotus leaf in my chest.

What did he just say?