"See? I told you; this is the best outcome. Finally, you open your eyes," Rachel said proudly to her son. She kissed both of his cheeks and looked at him with happy tears in her eyes. "I know that Nadia is the perfect mate for you. Finally, you can see that too, right?"
Shayne didn't say anything, but he let his mother kiss him as if he was a ten-year-old child.
"Have you told Nadia about your decision to take her to the capital city? It will be her first time to be there. She must be excited!"
"Not yet."
Shayne remembered how he promised Fenja a day before he left for the battle against the Winterbreeze Pack that he would take her to the capital city one day because she had never been there before. But as it turned out, she had gone there without him.
"I will call Nadia over so you can tell her yourself, okay?" Rachel was too excited; she didn't notice the change in Shayne's expression.
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"Is she living here?" Jaxon scowled when he saw the building where Fenja rented an apartment. It was an old building with the cheapest rent around this area. "How could she manage to find the cheapest and the ugliest building?"
Jack was standing behind Jaxon. He looked defeated. Since he couldn't persuade the Alpha's desire to meet with this girl, he had to do all the legwork to get information about her.
There was not much, but one that stood out was the fact that she was Alpha Shayne's former mate. She was the one who was supposed to be introduced as the future luna, but it was another woman who filled the position.
"She can't live here." Jaxon strode towards the poor building. "Buy the entire building."
"Alpha, you are being impulsive."
"And the area around it."
Jack: "…"
The old man was speechless; he didn't know what to say anymore when he was acting like this. He knew once Jaxon snapped out of it, he would be furious for what he was doing right now, but Jack could only follow his order in the meantime to appease him.
"Stay here; don't come with me. I am going alone."
The Alpha entered the building. He looked upset because that woman was living in this poor place.
Currently, he was wearing casual clothes that looked comfortable and homey, but at one glance, you could tell he didn't belong in this dirty apartment building.
He looked surreal for this place.
While Jaxon went inside the building, Jack was busy arranging their men to make sure there wouldn't be any news about it.
Jaxon had been away from any news and stayed inside the pack house for more than a month now. All the problems related to business with humans would fall onto his beta's plate, while all the things that related to the pack and shifters would be taken care of by his gamma.
This happened because Jaxon was not 'stable.'
Jack prayed that nothing would go wrong and that the Alpha would come back quickly.
"Don't you want to call for the beta, sir?" Alex, the driver, asked. He was also a shifter and was close enough to the Alpha to understand his condition.
Jack contemplated. "No. I don't think it's necessary." He didn't want to incur the Alpha's wrath by calling his beta, because Tace would have dragged him back to the pack house.
The butler didn't want to see the two of them fighting.
"Let's wait." Jack closed his eyes and prayed.
Meanwhile, inside the building, it was easy for Jaxon to find Fenja's apartment, and he immediately knocked on the door. He smiled when he heard her voice from inside and her little footsteps.
She was so adorable; even the sound of her movement was very cute.
"Alpha… Mr. Thorne?" Fenja was surprised, but she immediately changed the way she addressed him. "What are you doing here?"
Once the door was open, Jaxon could smell delicious food from inside. "Are you having dinner?" He asked excitedly. "What a coincidence! I am also hungry!"
And without waiting for her permission, the Alpha walked into her small apartment.
Huh? What was going on?
Fenja couldn't comprehend the oddity of the situation and only stood there, watching the Alpha enter her space and settle himself down at her small table with a bowl of instant noodles.
"What is this?" The Alpha asked. "It smells good."
Fenja looked at the corridor; she wished to see the old man, but he was nowhere to be found. She couldn't call him because she didn't have a cellphone.
"What is this?" Fenja muttered under her breath and then closed the door behind her. She approached the Alpha, who had started to eat her noodles. "Alpha Jaxon, what are you doing here?"
Jaxon raised his head and looked at Fenja with his innocent eyes. He looked so adorable. But Fenja couldn't get rid of the image that had been engraved in her mind: the moment she met him for the first time.
"Come, sit down. Eat with me. Can you make one more, so we can eat together?" Jaxon asked as he patted the chair next to him.
"Alpha, you shouldn't be here…" Fenja said. She looked worried. "Are you okay? How can you get here?" How did he know where she lived?
Jaxon didn't listen to her: he continued eating the noodles, and it didn't take long before he cleaned the bowl.
"Do you have one more? I am still hungry. I am so nervous to see you, so I have not yet eaten anything since this morning."
Fenja was speechless. "Alpha, can I borrow your phone, please?" She didn't know what kind of situation she was in right now, but she really needed an explanation.
"I don't bring my phone."
"There is no way you don't bring your phone." Fenja had felt something was off with the Alpha, but she couldn't put her finger on it.