In The Arms Of The Bad Boy Alpha
Chapter 19

Lily's

P.O.V

I have been looking forward to Bella's arrival for the past four hours, but then I realised that she wasn't going to come. If the teacher punished her by making her write all those notes, then she might still be in the library. However, Bella was a smart girl so it could

also be that she had already finished the notes and just went home.

Bella had appeared very tired today, so I hadn't bothered her by calling, but without her here the whole store seemed to be very incomplete and boring. She and I always passed the time easily if we were together. The number of customers was far more than usual as Valentine's Week was about to begin tomorrow and all the part timers worked hard to decorate the shop together, I had done Bella's share of the work too.

The entire shop was filled with the couple's gifts and at the same time, all the preparations for Rose Day were also done. Today the crowd of young people were mostly girls. I was listening to everyone, they were very keen on Rose Day. They were all preparing for how and when they would give a rose to their boyfriend. On the other hand, the boys were also thinking about giving a surprise to their girlfriends.

Hearing all this, I just took a long deep breath. I could only listen to all of these plans as I am not lucky enough to have a boyfriend. It was ten at night, while I was working before they left the manager gave me the key to lock up for the night. Bella Usually has the responsibility of closing the shop every day, but tonight the responsibility lies in my hands. A half an hour later the manager left, I was the only employee in the store. Slowly the customers were becoming fewer and fewer. I was putting everything in place so that I could close the shop and go home. There was only ten minutes left to close the shop when a customer entered. When I looked up, I saw that it was none other than Leo. I was quite surprised to see him here as today I had not even seen him in school. Asher was the only one there and Leo was not with him.

"I want a big cup of noodles." Leo ordered, using a monotonous voice similar to that of a king and took his place at one of the three chairs placed there. Hearing that, I became irritable and I glanced at the clock. Why did he always come when it was time to close the shop? I could not refuse him even if I had wanted to, otherwise he would get angry. Thankfully I had ten minutes left. Pressing my anger down with a deep breath, I went to the side where the cup of noodles were kept. It was not my job. God had given him two hands, with which he could easily get it himself as it was not far from his reach. It was kept on the shelf behind him, I thought to myself, really wished that I could say this out loud to him, as I put the cup of noodles on his table

"Just noodles? Get me hot water. Did you think I would eat it raw?" Leo asked. I quickly brought him hot water, putting it in front of him. I did not know that he was thinking of sitting and eating, but if he had to sit here and eat, he should have come sooner. Now I did not know how long I would have to wait for this alone.

"Now make it for me quickly because I don't know how to make it." Leo demanded, again ordering me. What the? Now that was enough. Couldn't he just come up with a good excuse? How the hell does he not know? He just needs to add water and wait for 2 minutes! He glared at me as if he had predicted what I was thinking.

"Do it." He again ordered. I just sat in one of the chairs, added water to it quickly, so that he would eat it and leave the store as soon as possible. After adding water in it I covered it for two minutes and began waiting. But waiting was not that easy as I could feel his eyes on me. Why was he looking at me like that? He was watching my fingers which were fidgeting with my other hand as I was trying to hide my nervousness.

"What's wrong? Why are you sweating so much?" He asked, I swiftly wiped my sweat.

"Nothing. It is just because of the weather." I lied, getting up from there, going to the gift shelf and starting to shelf the items. Honestly there was nothing to do, but it was better than sitting in front of him.

"What kind of shitty things are these?" Leo asked as he came up behind me and was looking at the Valentine's gifts. What was that shitty?!

"What? What do you mean by shitty things? You know that today all the boys and girls have bought a lot of gifts for their boyfriends and girlfriends from here. Valentine week starts tomorrow and tomorrow is also Rose day. These are all very beautiful gifts. LOOK CAREFULLY." I told him. After listening closely to me, he picked up a gift from there. It was me and you, king and queen couple rings. They were so beautiful and really expensive.

"What do you think? Aren't they beautiful?" I murmured, trying to expand his mind. He was looking at the rings very carefully and I could not understand whether he liked them or not.

"I still replace it shitty and stupid." He grumbled, I gritted my teeth in anger.

"Give them to me. You would never be able to understand." I coldly stated, snatching the beautiful rings from his hand. I didn't know why I explained it to him. He could never understand their beauty.

"What is so great about these rings? Apart from being expensive there is nothing special about them. Girls only want expensive gifts from their boyfriend." Leo claimed, walking over to his table and making me angry, but the way he talked it seemed like he had only been with those girls who were after his money and expensive gifts.

"What do you mean? Yes, I admit that some girls are only after expensive gifts but not everyone. No matter how cheap your gift is there should be emotion and love behind it. Girls can sense love and even if you are not giving her any gift you should still make her feel your love. That is also enough." I explained giving him the noodles, which were ready to eat. Hearing me he crossed his arms over his chest getting up from his chair.

"Why don't you tell me and satisfy my curiosity?" He asked, causing me tol raise my eyebrows.

"What do you want to know?" I curiously inquired, as I did not know what he was curious about. There was nothing about me that would make him curious. He leaned down to my face.

"Why don't you tell me what gift you bought for your boyfriend?" He questioned me softly. I really saw curiosity in his eyes.

"My boyfriend? Who?" I asked, confused.

"I am talking about Oliver." Leo admitted, as soon as I heard him, I rolled my eyes.

"Just tell me one thing, why the hell are you so curious about Oliver? You have only heard his name from my mouth and seen his name on my phone screen. Why the hell are you curious about my personal matters? Didn't you understand that I do not want to share my personal details with anyone?" I demanded and he moved a little away from my mouth.

"I think you have a misunderstanding. Why the hell would I be curious about a human like you?" He countered, as he was about to sit. Before he could I grabbed his hand and put the noodle cup in his hands.

"I am too glad to know that you are not curious about my personal matters sir. As you can see it is time to close the store. Would you please exit the store so that I can shut it? It is rather dark outside and I want to go home." I stressed to him with a little irritated smile on my face, but he had an evil smile on his face.

"Don't tell me you are scared of the dark!" He sneered and I let go of his hand.

"Yes, you are right. I am scared of the dark. Today Bella is not with me and I need to walk to my house alone. More than darkness, people are scary." I replied to him honestly, but upon hearing me his sneer changed into a normal expression. He rubbed his neck and put the money on the table. I saw him walking out of the store quietly without any argument. As he was near the door, suddenly two boys entered the store.

"Excuse me sir. I am sorry but the store is closed. I cannot sell you anything." I informed them politely as Leo watched everything, standing near the door while eating his noodles.

"We just want a Coca Cola lady! Just give it to us and we will leave." One of them said while placing Coca-Cola in front of me.

"Forgive me sir but I cannot do this. There are cameras all over the place and the owner will know that I have broken the rules and sold stuff to the customer even though it is after hours. But you can buy Coca-Cola from the store opposite this shop. The shop is open 24 hours a day." I explained my voice filled with humility, but one of them just put the money in front of me.

"Do you know what, beautiful? My mood is spoilt as I could not f**k my girl. If you do not want to be a substitute for her then quickly do as I am saying." He ordered, using a sadistic tone with an evil smirk. He warned me and hearing his words I felt as if Oliver was talking to me. Fear swiftly captured my mind and I was looking at Oliver's face. I took the money with my shaking hands and I was looking for the change in the till.

"Hahaha.... That's how we should handle these part timers." They laughed and I did not look at them.

"And where is that other beautiful chick who had growled at us like a little b***h! Today I would also teach her a good lesson. How dare she talk back to me?" He said, asking for Bella. The day they had come to the store doing the same thing, Bella had covered me. She really growled at them in anger like she was an animal. I stopped her or she was going to slap them. CCTV is everywhere and Bella could not do anything or she would bear the consequences after slapping Asher, but she had still defended me. They were drunk that day but luckily not today. As I was about to give them change I saw a hand on my hand.

"Did not you say you need to close the shop?" Leo calmly said from behind me. I was shocked to see him. How did he appear behind me? I was so lost in my thoughts that I had not noticed him.

"What? Did I hear right?" The same man asked, glaring at Leo.

"Yes... you heard, right fucker!" Leo growled. I saw the smiling face of that man turn into a scared one. Why are they scared? Their eyes were fixed on Leo's and they were shaking in fear. I looked back at Leo and gasped in terror. His... his eyes... were looking like animals!

"THE CHICK WHO GROWLED AT YOU IS EXTREMELY PRECIOUS TO SOMEONE. IT IS GOOD HE IS NOT HERE. HE WOULD NOT ONLY TEAR YOUR WHOLE BODY IN PIECES BUT YOUR WHOLE f*****g FAMILY! IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO FOLLOW THE PATH THAT I JUST DESCRIBED TO YOU, GET OUT OF HERE!" Leo shouted and his dangerous voice echoed in the whole store. They backed away quickly and one of them fell on the floor while running away.

He scared the hell out of them. But I was also afraid. I saw Leo's eyes return to their normal forest green color as I backed away from him in fear. In front of the principal 's office his eyes had shined like an animal and right now I saw his eyes that were fully turned into that of an animal. What was he? He turned his eyes away from me walking out of the shop without saying anything. I was too terrified to say anything. I pulled myself together and locked the door. I did it quickly as it was very dark, taking big steps away from the store I headed to my house. From time to time I checked over my shoulder as I felt as if someone was following me.

Was it only my imagination or was someone really following me? I started to walk as fast as possible. After some time I reached home I shut the door immediately and peeped from the keyhole. No one was there. I took a deep breath. "Why the hell are you late?" Oliver demanded, a loud scream escaped from my mouth in fear as Oliver touched me. He was standing right behind me.

"Oliver... what are you doing here?" I asked, thinking that he would be sleeping as it was so late, but he was too drunk.

"I was waiting for you. Did you bring money?" He inquiered, snatching my purse from my hand. I could not stop him like always. While searching my purse he gave me a deadly glare. When he only found a few dollars he looked dissatisfied. "How will I buy alcohol with only a few dollars?" He commanded, putting it in his pockets.

"The manager has not paid me yet, but since valentine week is starting I am hoping I will get some pay. I will give you money after that." I quickly answered. He pulled his cigarette from his mouth, walked over me and blew the smoke in my face. I was coughing because of it.

"Do you have a boyfriend?" He asked and I shook my head. Suddenly he roamed his hand over my head and I closed my eyes in fear. Only I know how badly I want to shove his hand away.

"It's good. Don't let me know you are lying or I will break your legs then that will make you useless to him, but you will be useful in bed." He whispered, biting my ear and I nodded quickly. I saw he had my phone in his hand. He was still suspecting that I had a boyfriend. He was going through my phone's call details, history, messages, he was searching everything. Suddenly his facial expression changed as he saw something. What had he seen? I had no boyfriend. I felt my legs go weak as my eyes went to all the dangerous objects around me that were going to harm me like a hockey stick, belt, glass, wine bottles.

"Who is she?" He asked me as he showed me a photo of Bella.

"She is my friend." I replied. It was good that in this photo we both were wearing school uniforms or he was not going to believe me. He was looking for more photos of the two of us and there were so many single photos of Bella and I. The photo he was looking at carefully was the one we had both taken near a big shopping mall, it was on a Sunday and we were wearing nice clothes. That was when I noticed he was doing something. "Oliver... what are you doing?" I asked him in pure panic. I saw that he was sending Bella and my photo to his phone.

"Do you really know what I am doing?" He asked and raised his brows, I was still shocked to see him doing it.

"Yes, tell me. Why are you sending yourself a photo of my friend and I?" I questioned and he smiled at me. He handed me my phone and again blew the smoke in my face.

"I am quite tired today. Let's go to my room, there I will tell you whatever you ask." He said and I immediately ran away towards my room. I locked my door, thanking God that he did not follow me. What the hell was I doing? Why was I daring to ask him questions and pushing his buttons? What if he had dragged me to his room? I lay on the bed covering myself with the blanket in fear. He was more dangerous than I had thought. What would he do with our pictures? I threw the blanket from my body and deleted each and every photo of Bella. I do not want her in any trouble. I also deleted mine in fear.

I walked near the window and peeked outside. Why was I feeling as if someone was following me? I was also thinking about what happened at the store. How could Leo's eyes turn into an animal's? It was not my imagination or only in my minf. Not only Leo, but Bella, Asher, the principal and all his friends were the same. They talk about something different and I listen to them carefully without asking any questions. But the way I see things was Asher was like a king and Bella was his queen, Leo was his minister and all his friends were under Asher's rule.

They use the word pack and call each other Alpha, Beta, Luna? It was all so strange. I took out my laptop, deciding to search for information. Until now I had not paid attention to all of these things as I had not wanted to be involved with their matters, but after seeing Leo's eyes I needed to know the truth. First I searched for packs, then Alpha, Luna and Beta. My jaw dropped as I read everything. It all referred to wolves! They were humans that could shift into werewolves!

So Asher was Alpha and Bella was his Luna, Leo was Asher's Beta and the others were pack members. It was written that werewolves are possessive of their mates and could kill anyone to protect them. Now I understand why Asher went crazy when he came to know about what his pack members had done to Bella. Bella had not seen it, but I was there to witness his face when he was giving them their punishment. He was exceedingly dangerous at that time. She could not recognize and he also would not show it to her, but I could see that he was crazy for Bella.

I also think that Leo was well aware of this due to the fact that he said all of those things to those men at the store who called Bella a beautiful b***h. I don't even want to think what Asher would do to them if he came to know about them. I began to read more. They live in a pack, on their own territory, then I searched to see what rogues were. Now I understood why they were all ready to receive hard punishment in order to avoid becoming rouges.

I also researched about lone wolves. The principal had called Bella a lone wolf. Does that mean that they are werewolves?!

Oh my god!

Am I living among werewolves?

If someone found out that I was researching this then they would think that I was crazy and would send me to a mental asylum. But every word on the internet matched with Asher and his pack, as well as Bella. Now what should I do? 'Are you my brother's mate?'

Suddenly I remembered what Noah had asked me and I decided to search what the exact meaning of what a mate was for werewolves. The ground disappeared from under my feet as I found out it was referring to the other half of the wolf's soul, their soulmate! What? Soulmates? Leo and I?

No! What the hell was I thinking? I had gone crazy. There was nothing like that going on. I should just sleep!