"Who was that?" Deepa asked.
"Nastya, his older sister."
"She seems nice."
"She's a bitch," Luke snorted. "And she's going to chew him to pieces."
"Why?"
"Because he's been playing hookie with me instead of doing his job." Luke gently led Deepa back into the house and closed the door. "Our family has some very ambitious goals.”
"Oh. What kind of goals?”
“Take over the world, destroy human society, make a werewolf utopia…just the usual crap.”
Deepa nodded and took a seat at the table. Trying to calm the storm of emotion in her chest. She'd only known Axel a fewdays, but it felt the same as when she watched Parker die. Tears started to flow down her face before she could stop them.
"Shit." Luke passed her a box of tissues. "Here."
Deepa sniffed, taking the tissues and dabbing at her eyes. "I'm fine.”
"Yeah, you're clearly doing great." Luke’s tone was light and joking. "How long has it been since you were bitten?"
"I don't know, maybe a month, or two. I don’t know how long I was a wolf the first time."
"So you're still a baby werewolf. We'll have to get you some lessons, so you don't accidentally eat someone's pet rabbit."
Deepa grimaced.
"Just kidding," Luke said. "I went to school with some guys like you, so I saw how hard adjusting can be."
"You were born a werewolf?"
"Yep, same as Axel. Our family doesn't let many turned ones in. They think that all the interbreeding keeps them pure or something.”
Deepa nodded. Born werewolves didn't suffer from the same mental instability as those who were bitten. Their human and wolf minds were perfectly intertwined.
"The first thing you need to know is that it's just better to go along with whatever wolf brain wants,” said Luke. “If it wants to eat steak, then just eat steak. If it wants to go frolic in the forest, then try your best to make it happen. You start running into problems if you try to push back too much. The wolf will just take over and do what it wants."
Deepa nodded. It sounded like her current situation. Her human mind wanted nothing to do with Axel, but her wolf brain was obsessed with screwing his brains out.
"There used to be a medication that would suppress the wolf brain almost entirely in humans, but it's been hard to get for awhile. Neither side has any interest in human turned werewolves hiding under the radar."
"That would be nice." Deepa glanced out the window to where Axel disappeared moments earlier.
"Don't worry," Luke said with a gentle smile. "He'll be back."
"Thanks, but no thanks," Deepa muttered, trying to ignore the gaping void in her chest.
These weren't her real thoughts. It was all just the sex crazed psycho wolf in her head.
They were not a couple. She did not have feelings for him.
Not him.
Not the man who murdered Parker and destroyed her life.
Never.
