Side Story 2.3 Lost

Jhoanna's POV

Our friends and even my brother let out a loud and overacting gasp when Hans told them I'm his mate. If only we could record their reactions. Samuel was terrified, while Rio was the happiest. The rest only laughed at my brother's frozen state.

Dad reprimanded the life out of me for his car when I returned to Blood Moon during one weekend. Mom just giggled about it. She was quite pleased and, well, ultimately teased me regarding the 'Hans is my mate' thing and dad, well, dad is being dad.

"How dare he be mates with my daughter!?" He growled. His hands formed into a fist.

"My Alpha.." Mom cooed. "Do they have a choice?"

"He's been fighting with Jhoanna ever since!"

"We've been at that phase too. Besides, even if they've been at it for years, your reason is even deeper than their fights. You know that, right? Yet, here we are.."

Dad clicked her tongue and turned away. Mom looked at me and winked, like telling me that she had won. Well, she always wins the arguments with dad, no matter what. More like, dad lets him.

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One day after class, Hans was waiting for me by the door. Despite the man being busy as he's the captain of Woodhill's basketball team, he still makes time for me-lots of time at that. Numerous she-wolves swoon over him when he's playing, but he would flat-out ignore them all. As he should! He ain't the only one who's famous! I'm also a captain! Of the women's volleyball.

Now's the busiest time for the sports department, as we're competing with other universities in our city.

"Hey, love!" Hans yelled and I glared at him. My classmates snickered, as Rio shook his head. "Young master, you're embarrassing our future Luna."

"Rio's right, Hans." I sighed. "I fear I might run away."

Hans' eyes flickered in fury, and he didn't wait any longer at the door. He walked inside our room and picked up my bag as he growled, "Try, my love. Let's see if you can really run away from me."

I smirked at him, but deep inside, I wanna kiss the fuck out of him. Hannah tried to get out and do it. And because of that, I buried my claws in my palm.

That didn't escape Hans' and even Rio's notice. Of course it won't; blood's literally dripping to the floor. Rio quickly wiped them as he pretended that something fell and he injured himself.

'Hannah..' Hans cooed and released his pheromones. 'My love, please don't. Not right now, but we'll let you come out later, okay?'

Hannah grumbled and paced in my head. She keeps on telling me that she's in pain and needs to get out and let herself loose. Promised her that she would, and that's when she stopped clawing her way out.

I gasped. Inhaled and exhaled a huge breath of air and didn't even notice that I was now in Hans' embrace.

"Oh dear, I shouldn't have released my pheromones. Now my love can't get enough of it, hmmm?" He chuckled and lied just so people around us wouldn't know the truth. My classmates laughed until they're gone and only the three of us are left.

"You okay, Jhoanna?" Hans asked as he scooped my face in his hands. I nodded despite my headache's attempts to say otherwise. Hans sighed and lifted me up. "No volleyball practice for you today, young mistress."

"No!" I gasped. "You know a captain's responsibility, Hans! I cannot just leave my teammates alone! We have our semi-finals this weekend!"

"And it's still Monday, Jhoanna. I'll let you go tomorrow. For now, we'll let Hannah come out." He brushed my cheek with the back of his before turning to Rio. "Tell her teammates that their captain's in my grasp."

Rio nodded and immediately wolfed out to get there.

"What a nice way to say that I cannot go to practice today," I grumbled. He smiled at me, and kissed my nose. "Of course. No dumb wolf would dare disturb a bonding time between mates."

We arrived at the garden, and I immediately wolfed out, letting Hannah take the reins. Pure white fur fluttered, and Hans stared at us the whole time.

"Did I ever say I liked the color of your fur?" He praised before wolfing out. Plain ash-gray fur was displayed just in front of me as Joseph licked Hannah. They both howled in glee as we let them take over.

'I'm afraid it's too late to collect brownie points, Hans. You literally called me a bunny when you first saw me wolf out!' I humphed. He chuckled that sexy chuckle of his and defended himself, 'That's because of your ears! It really looked like a bunny at that time! Not to mention, you always eat carrots! How could such a wolf exist with one who has carrots as her favorite!?'

I was taken aback by what he said. Not because of his comments, but the fact that he knew I always eat carrots means one thing. One single thing: it might not mean too much to him, but it does to me.

He always looked at me this whole time..

I secretly smiled knowing that.

'Mom loves peas, so there you go! Two wolves that love eating vegetables.'

'What!? Aunt Sophia loves to eat peas!?' His voice was so shocked that I was surprised he didn't know. Everyone always teases mom during dinner time. Hans' parents also teased mom about it. How come he didn't pay any attention to it?

'He only pays attention to you!' Hannah whispered only to me. I blushed and ushered her to focus, 'Shush there and spend time with Joseph!'

She whistled and laughed before sprinting so fast that I even forgot to talk to Hans. By the time they're done taking a run, it was dusk. Hannah quickly retreated and slept almost immediately.

"She's out," I laughed and told Joseph. "Sorry, you didn't get to say goodbye to her."

Joseph pranced and circled me while releasing his pheromones. With a deep voice, he sweetly growled, "No need for sorries. Don't ever be sorry for anything," he stopped just in front of me and licked my wolfy face. "Both of you are mine. Are ours. I love the both of you just the same."

He cuddled my neck, and I was ecstatic about it. Joseph must've sensed that the word 'sorry' that came out of my mouth was because I was sorry that I was the one in control right now.

Who would've thought that I would care this much about what other wolves thought of me?

But Joseph isn't any other wolf but my mate.

I smiled and licked his face too. "Thank you, Joseph."

He nodded and smirked. Gesturing me to keep snuggling with him and to continue licking his face, so I did. Until Hans emerged, at the same time, my tongue swept just the side of his mouth. I stopped and froze in place as our eyes met. He flashed an evil grin and licked me too. The same place as I did to him. I unconsciously shifted back and turned around because I was too embarrassed.

Felt him return to his human form, and he asked, "Why are you looking away?"

"It's just.. too awkward!" I honestly said. No point in lying when he could feel everything through the bond. Heard him smirk and place his two hands on my shoulders as he slowly turned me around.

"Jhoanna," he mumbled. Voice so husky and greedy and urgent. He trailed his fingernails at the side of my face until they stopped beside my mouth. "I licked you here."

I shuddered at his honesty. Did he really need to tell me that!?

He wolfishly smiled, seeing my eyes quivered. My mouth parted, trying to say something, but didn't know what. Then, he softly held my hand and traced the outline of his face, which stopped at the side of his mouth. His tongue came out to lick my fingertip. I gaped as he muttered under his breath. "You licked me here too, Jhoanna."

I gulped and got lost in his words. Lost with the way he made me feel right now. Feel like I'm losing myself and my sanity, especially when he said..

"I want to kiss you right now.."

He stared straight at me as he slightly tilted his head.

"Can I?" He sweetly cooed. "Hmm?"

Was breathing hard when he let go of my hand and instead held my chin. Brushing my lips with his thumb.

When I didn't answer, he tried to pry it open, and I just let him.

Goddess, I just let him do whatever he wanted to.

"Jhoanna?" He asked again. "I won't do anything unless you give me permission."

He knows I wanted it too. He fucking knows, but he's deliberately teasing me! He smiled. His Goddess forsaken evil smile as he stopped touching me.

I whimpered unconsciously and pouted. He slowly leaned in and asked for one last time whilst staring at my eyes and then at my begging lips. "Can I?"

"Yes.." I barely said those words, and he wasted no time in claiming what was his. Hans nibbled his teeth at my lips, seeking entrance, and I let him. Once he entered, his tongue traveled everything there was to land. I gasped, and he pulled my waist closer to him. Then, I unconsciously wrapped my arms around him. Deepening the kiss. Savoring every moment. Making it last until we could barely breathe, but we still continued to taste each other's sweetness.

Then we both pulled back. Panting as we stared at each other. Our noses touched, and we both smiled then laughed. Even if there was nothing in particular that was funny.

Hans gave me one last quick peck before offering to come back or else our headmistress would punish me.

That would mean no volleyball practice for me.

No spending time with Hans. Now, I wouldn't want that.

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Today marks our semi-finals. Which coincidentally is Hans' semi-finals too. The worst part is, theirs is at Woodhill while ours is at another university three hours away. It really sucks, but there's nothing we could do about it. We planned that whoever finished first would go to the other's competition.

Then, just as our match was about to start, Hannah whined and kept telling me it hurts again. That she wanted to go for a run to knock herself out and forget the pain.

"We couldn't!" I said. "It's our match right now, Hannah, the others are already waming up!"

"But.. but!" Then she screamed, and I got alarmed. Told my teammates that something's wrong with my wolf, and they immediately understood. Thinking that it's about my heat. I hesitated in mind-linking Hans because he might be in the middle of the game right now. But I thought that if he knew about this later, he would hate himself more. So I mind-linked him and told him about Hannah. He said he's coming right this instant. Tried to tell him that he should play his game first, but he insisted that he didn't care.

That his priority will always be me.

"Hannah," I cooed. "Transfer all of your pain to me for the time being."

"No!" She gasped. "You cannot bear it, Jhoanna. There's a reason I kept it for years without letting you feel this pain."

"I'm part witch, silly. I could try and transfer it to a safe place or something." I confidently told her, and she hesitatingly let me.

The moment she delivered her pain to me, I immediately crushed to the ground. Holding my chest as I kept on gasping for air.

WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS!?

This is unlike any ordinary pain! How long did she suffer with it!? How long have I let her!? Just disregarding her feelings and agony, and actually, at one point, got annoyed with her because she keeps on trying to take over just to alleviate the pain.

I cried. Both in agony and the emotional feelings that swept over me when I thought of Hannah's sufferings all this time. All these years..

She tried to get it back, but I blocked her off. She gasped and screamed, "Jhoanna! No! No! Please.. Please transfer it back to me. Shit. I shouldn't have let you take it in the first place." She wept and cried for me. Begging me to let her suffer in my behalf but I wouldn't let her. My eyes got blurry and I feel like dying. Could hear Hans' mind-link trying to reach me.

With the little energy I had left, I tried to use my witch's power to do something. Anything. Just to make this pain go away without letting my wolf hurt.

Then I heard one demonic chuckle. It was distant and familiar, but I swear I didn't know who he was.

He squatted in front of me and asked, "Do you want the pain lifted off of your chest?"

I weakly nodded. Could hear my wolf say no, but I didn't mind her. It's more important that this pain be swept away than letting her suffer alone. Hannah's right, I cannot bear this kind of pain.

The man smirked and gave me one bottle. "Transfer it here, little devil."

I hesitated for one moment and bravely asked, "Only the pain?"

"Yes. Only the pain. You can control what you give, and I cannot touch or force you. Your great-grandmother is quite a meddler, you see."

I placed my finger on it and used every bit of what I have in me to pass all of this agony into one mere bottle.

"Good. Good little devil." He laughed and laughed until I heard his voice slowly fading away, and there goes my consciousness too.