Sexting With A Vampire
Chapter 58

Stella

I'm carrying Leonora on my back but stop in front of a large oak house with two floors and lights in every window.

Oh my...

With a garden of wildflowers lining up a path up to its doors, it looks taken out of a fairytale. It is beautiful.

"This is the packhouse," Leonora slides down from my back. "Raphael is the alpha, and Elias is his beta. You don't have to fear either one since you saved my life. I'm sure they want you in the pack since you're such a powerful werewolf." Elias?

Um, I don't think I remember Raphael ever mentioning his name in the past. Did he die or something?

There are so many questions spinning around inside my head...

"Hopefully, Elias and Raphael are back home from their pack training and the scheduled hunt..."

Leonora knocks on the wooden door rather than opening it since she wants the werewolves to come out into the garden.

I stay in my wolf form and keep my gaze on her. For some reason, I can't shake the feeling that something is wrong with this timeline. If Leonora was attacked in the past, how did she survive?

It makes no damn sense to me, and the more I think about it, the more it feels like my brain might explode.

Did someone else save her in the past?

Maybe everything isn't already decided, and things happen as a chain reaction to my time-traveling?

Shivers creep up my spine at that disturbing thought. I'm not sure what to believe. Perhaps the demons are randomly appearing? Either way, my brain can't handle the logic. Or the lack of it...

"The boys should be out soon. I can hear footsteps!"

Leonora is smiling at me from the porch, looking all pretty and angelic with her blonde hair and elven complexion. She is gorgeous.

"Oh, the door is opening!" Leonora announces. "Get ready to say hello!"

My attention travels to the door, and Raphael steps out on the porch with a little yawn. Sweat glistens over his skin, and he is shirtless. It seems he has been working out.

Abs.

Pecs. Damn.

Where do I even look?

"You're home," Raphael says, smiling at Leonora before freezing upon seeing me standing down the stairs.

I turn to stone upon absorbing him.

Blonde hair, not as long as in the past. Broad shoulders, tanned skin, and bulging biceps.

His eyes widen.

My heart stops.

What do I do?

I'm unsure how to react. Seeing Raphael's beautiful face and emerald eyes forces me to shape-shift back into a human. I can't stay in wolf form when I'm already close to choking on sobs. He is alive.

And he looks... Ripped.

I might be making assumptions now, but I think something happened at this packhouse in the past. Maybe Elias died? Because those haunted rings around Raphael's eyes are gone. He definitely takes care of himself and works out. I feel all sappy and confused. Raphael looks so...

Happy. Strong.

Beautiful.

I'm fighting like hell not to tackle the damn alpha to the ground. I know Raphael and I weren't that close in the past, but I'm happy to see him alive. I want to touch him... Talk to him... Wow.

Honestly, I didn't expect to be so overwhelmed to see him.

"Who is this?" Raphael asks.

"A rogue," Leonora explains. "Her name is Stella, and she saved my life when I was attacked by a demon bear. She is a very powerful werewolf with psychic abilities." "Hi..." I lift my hand and attempt a smile. I'm close to tears but fight to hold them back.

Raphael's lips quirk into a smirk. "Stella, huh?"

Without warning, the tall alpha walks forward, ignoring that I'm standing there naked. Raphael focuses on my eyes and reaches out his hand for me to shake it.

I reach out mine and hear a whisper inside my head.

'This is my gift to you.'

The moon goddess?

Raphael grips my hand in a steady grip, and every memory with Raphael from the other timeline flashes past my eyes.

It starts with me hearing Raphael's name in the cafeteria.

It then fast forwards to me meeting Raphael for the first time, to him trying to force himself upon me. We are discussing women and men's roles in his Bloodmoon pack. The Spring Festival.

I discover I have two mates.

And then...

All three of us are in Evan's car.

The scenes speed up.

Raphael quarrels with Evan. Raphael saves Evan, and then we train in the forest, laughing, and... I see myself touching Raphael in the middle of the night when I mistook him for Evan.

I witness Raphael rejecting my rejection in the lake, and then we are in Lunaris. That purple, disgusting gigantic spider stands above us. It kills Raphael and Evan, and I'm sent back in time. "Oh, shit..."

I'm brought back to reality by Raphael's voice and replace him staring at me with an odd, curious expression. Did he see everything?

"Who is the rogue?"

We both turn around.

A person I've never seen before comes rumbling down the stairs with a sneer on his face. His hair is dark, scars cover his face, and his whole demeanor screams hatred. Raphael replaces his voice. "Elias, this is-"

Elias pushes past him to glare down at me. "Why does the damn rogue smell like a vampire has touched her?!"

Raphael growls. "Elias, calm down."

Elias doesn't listen. It seems the two of them are a bit undecided about who is the alpha. Elias is supposedly the beta, but he walks forward until I'm forced to back up from him. He is large, around Raphael's size, and breathes into my face. His nostrils are flaring, and his eyes are glaring daggers at me.

Intimidating.

Powerful.

Yet I'm trying to keep my ground.

"Why do you smell like the enemy?!" Elias demands to know.

I wet my lips, and his patience snaps.

"Talk, for f**k's sake! I asked you a f*****g question. Are you deaf or challenged? Because if you don't start explaining, I will force the answer out of you, rogue!" Holy s**t, the guy is aggressive.

My heart slams against my ribcage. I open my mouth to yell at the imposing beta to back off, but I'm interrupted by a gigantic cream-colored wolf jumping at Elias. What the heck?

Snarls fill the air, and I stare as Elias shape-shifts into a black wolf to battle Raphael, the cream-colored one.

"You don't have to worry," Leonora is back by my side. "They fight all the time. Elias wishes to become the alpha, and Raphael is forced to show him the ropes daily."

I blink up at her. She is tall. "It takes a lot of strength to put up a fight against an alpha."

"Elias comes from an alpha family, but his siblings were murdered by a demon, and he was forced to join Raphael's pack."

"I see... I'm shocked Raphael took in an alpha."

"Me too, but Raphael is kind... It's one of his weaknesses."

I study her in silence before asking my new question. "Do you think accepting Elias into the pack was a mistake?"

"Yes," Leonora's expression seems to darken. "I told Raphael not to accept another former alpha into the pack. The black wolf is older and only growing stronger. And if Elias replaces his mate, Raphael wouldn't be able to win against him in a duel." "He is that strong?"

"Sadly, yes..." Leonora glares at the black wolf, and then she says something which shocks me to the core. "That's why it's a shame the black wolf didn't die earlier today."

I squint at her. "Excuse me?"

Leonora smiles at me. "Oh, it's nothing... Anyway, do you want to head inside? You must be hungry."

"Yeah, but..." I peer back at the fighting werewolves. Raphael is winning, but he seems exhausted. "What about them?"

Leonora laughs. "They will come inside once they are done with their stupid games," she takes my hand, smiling. "Anyway, come with me. I have so many things that I want to ask you!" Reluctantly, I let Leonora lead me inside the oak house. It can't be harmful to bond with her, right?