Jace's POV
"Lucian uses a distinct chocolate oud". She said as she looked at the perfume bottle labels on my dressing table.
My brain acted faster than I thought it would "I don't know but I used the dressing room and I found a body spray there and used it. Maybe it could be the same. Who knows".
"Yeah". She said her eyes swayed back to the novel she was reading.
"Are you gonna spend the night here?" I asked nervously. I just wanted to be away from her presence. I needed to think things out.
"Ohh, no. I think I would have to go now…. I have got some things to do". She was standing up. "And I'm very sorry about your relationship break-up. I can see you're not in a good mind frame to talk about anything now… I would talk to you tomorrow". She touched my cheeks lightly.
"Thank you".
"Bye. Have a good sleep". She kissed me on my cheeks before she left.
I took off my clothes and hurried to the shower. I thanked God that she didn't notice the injury on my collarbone. I allowed the warm water wash the dried blood on the wound till it became fresh again. One thing that kept me astonished was the fact that I couldn't feel any pain.
Although I was drunk, I could remember every move, every touch.
It all felt right then until I found out that it was Lucian.
But why did his touch aroused me so quickly? Why did he say I was a vampire? And he was a werewolf.
I tried to connect all of these to make sense but it didn't.
I'm just a twenty-one year old rising junior at Stanford university majoring in Human Philosophy. I met Lyra, my best friend in the school library two years ago and our bond had grew till we became best friends. Although she was a little bit reserved and I was extroverted, we made a very good match.
Two months ago she had introduced Lucian to me as her fiance and I had seen him a couple times since then.
She always talked about him every time she could; she seemed obsessed with him.
Did she know he's a werewolf?
As I toweled my body, I remembered that I left my phone in the hotel room. I was irked because I didn't want to have anything to do with him. Infact, I didn't want to see him.
"I would only go get my phone and never talk or have anything to do with him". I said to myself.
When I was done dressing up, I walked to my refrigerator and took an apple. I picked up my laptop and sat on my bed. I searched….
VAMPIRE MARKS
My heart skipped a beat as I saw the same black crescent mark I had. I typed…AND THEIR MEANINGS
My hands were shaking. A vampire's mark on my lap? And I have had the mark since I was a child.
"This must be a coincidence because I'm clearly not one".
I had no one to ask because I lost my Mom four years ago to Cancer. I don't who or what my father looked like because Mom said he died while she was still pregnant.
"Hmm". I gasped typing WEREWOLVES BEHAVIOR…. 'cause I really wanted to know why he marked me.
I looked at the search results, flabbergasted.
"What the hell is....."
THIRD PERSON POV
Lucian's Beta, Ashford Reed knew that there was something fishy about his boss so when he left the room he went straight to the security department of the hotel.
"I want a video cast of everything happening in room 217". He said to the security media manager. His voice, authoritative.
"Sorry sir but that is against our clients' privacy and safety rules". He replied politely.
Reed was certainly a man who would do anything to get what he wanted.
He brought out a card from his jacket pocket with Alpha Xander's signature on it with a tag 'WORKER'
The man immediately froze. "Ohh…. okay" His hands moved quickly, back to his computer.
Alpha Xander, Lucian's Father was one of the most influential persons in the country with strong ties in the political, economic and social sector.
He could get any one or any barrier cleared within minutes. His name always brought fear to commoners. Many people referred to him as "The Mafia King" due to his powerful influence.
So when the security manager saw the name, he didn't hesitate to heed.
But little did he know that the person whose privacy he was invading was the only son and heir to the Xander family corporation.
For some reason, Lucian kept his real identity hidden from the public. Very few people knew he was Alpha Xander's son.
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Reed stood outside the hotel in a dark corner watching the brown-haired girl waved a taxi and entered heading south.
"Who's she?" He asked himself. "Lucian doesn't have an attraction for women. That isn't his fiancee either so who is she?"
Lucian was not attracted to women since he was a child. He had been discovered to be gay when he was sixteen and his father, Alpha Xander had carefully arranged his gay partner murder. So when Lucian heard the news of his gay mate's death some weeks after they were caught together, he knew it was his father's handwork.
Since then, Lucian hadn't been seen in any suspicious relationship with a male. He however knew that he was still being watched closely by his father's spies so he decided to court Lyra…. a final year student at Stanford just to clear his father's doubts.
"This is my job, I must do it well". He said as he walked back inside to the security department.
"Here's it". The security manager said handing him a video tape. "That's what I have got so far".
He grinned "Nice job, man".
He walked to the lounge, settling down he inserted the tape into his phone.
"Whaaat??" He gasped.