10

Point of view: Etienne

I walk away from her reluctantly. I would have liked her to spend her evening with me instead of with the other idiot. Gab here, Gab there. I kick a can with my foot. Lou, I love her more than anything. I know that sometimes she is not well. What I do, my position, gives him the impression that everything separates us. She's not totally wrong: the Grande Réunion gives me free time that I have much less at home. But she's still wrong, if we're soul mates, it's not for nothing. We complement each other and I learn from her, she learns from me. I don't think she has yet fully understood that I am very attached to her. When I told her that I lived in London, she seemed sad to me.

Anyway, she has to come with me, she's my soul mate. I understand that it breaks her heart but she is the Luna. After a while, there had to be one.

If she really doesn't want to, I'll have to look for a Luna who won't be my soul mate. I already have a small idea of ​​who it could be. But until Lou accepts our bond (and so do I), we can't move forward. FYI, we both need to accept our link.

For example, if there, I accepted the link, nothing would happen, she must also accept it. From then on, our "union" will be sealed and we will be inextricably linked. I could also mark it but it is not essential.

I'm thinking about that now! I laugh inside.

I go back to the hotel, there is a meeting in about ten minutes between all the Alphas of the Continents. I learn that when I arrive at the hotel, it seems urgent given the tone of the lady who tells me.

I quickly go up to my room to get some papers to be up to date and I immediately go down to the second floor, to the meeting room. It's half past five.

I enter the room, the 3 other Alphas are already there. I greet them with a nod and go to sit on the vacant chair at the round table. I lay down my papers and ask the question that has been burning my tongue for a while now:

-"What's going on?"

It's the Alpha of America who answers me, personally, I don't like him very much and he knows it. There's just a deep respect between us, but that's where it ends.

-"Humans and wolves are revolting against society all over the world. But the worst thing is that these humans and wolves, by mating, are creating a new race, hybrid wolves.

Hybrid wolves are wolves that never transformed. Yet they have the abilities of wolves. This is a problem, if humans figure out how to make hybrid wolves transform, then there will be no more order and discipline on earth. Hybrid wolves have no concept of Omegas, Alphas, etc. so they will refuse to submit to the Alphas and slaughter the wolves."

He finishes his speech, I have had time to analyze the situation and my brain is running at full speed. We can't kill these hybrid wolves, so either we prevent the humans from figuring out how to transform them, or we sign a pact.

I express what I concluded in my head and the Alphas approve of the two solutions I proposed.

First we'll stop them from figuring out how to turn a hybrid wolf, then, if they find out, we'll make a pact. The only problem is that if they refuse, they will have to be killed, and none of the Alphas want to go to war. I look at my watch, it's 7:30, I was supposed to pick up Lou 10 minutes ago but I can't. I silently apologize. The meeting continues and we examine each solution in detail. There are not a lot. The Alphas estimate the number of wolves on earth at 3 billion, the number of humans at 4 billion and the number of hybrids at around ten thousand. When the meeting ends, it's 11:30 p.m. I pick up my papers and go put them in my room when I bend over backwards. The papers escape me and my heart hurts, I put my hand on it and sit down. I growl. The pain slowly dissipates and I finish putting away the papers I picked up, then I leave the hotel, at night, and go to Lou, to my Lou.

When I arrive in front of her door, I hear nothing, she must surely be sleeping, I turn the handle, obviously it's locked.

-"Are you searching something?"

I turn around and by reflex grab the hands of my interlocutor.

Gabriel looks surprised and I let him go. Anyway, if he attacks me, he doesn't measure up.

Finally, I answer coldly:

-"Yes."

At these words, he takes a key from his pocket and waves it in front of me. I'm boiling. I refrain from entering the key, I prefer to remain polite, I say casi beside myself:

-"Give me the key. Lou is my soul mate, you can't change anything about that. So why are you preventing me from going to see her?"

Gabriel seems to consider my question then smirks:

-"Lou loves me more than you, think about it, you will take away everything she loves, you will make her leave her town, her family, her friends, etc... while I will take nothing away from her. , because my love is sincere!"

I think about these words and then it's my turn to smile:

-"Give me the key.", I order him with my Alpha voice. His smile fades and he reluctantly hands me the key. I take the famous key and slide it into the lock, a few moments later I'm in the room. I look behind me, Gabriel is gone, I frown, that's weird. I'm sneaking in, hahaha (you get the pun)! in the bedroom. Lou is in her bed, I approach her when I see a pair of eyes in the dark.

"So?", Lou asks.

I hear sadness in her voice but also that she must not have slept at all, her voice is not sleepy.

- "I'm sorry, there was an emergency meeting that ended late."

She had turned on the light and I see her brown hair differently, sometimes with red highlights that cascade down her shoulders and wave slightly. Her oval face which has so much sweetness but which can also reflect so many other emotions. His emerald green eyes that shine with joy, compassion and kindness (admittedly, it doesn't reflect that at all right now). She was very beautiful, there, sitting in her bed.

"Ah," she replied.

I ask to change the subject:

- "Was it good with Gabriel?"

-"Great!", she smiles ironically.

My face breaks down, that was indeed a bad question.

- "Uh... what time did you go to bed?"

-"I didn't go to bed. You know Étienne, I was rather worried."

I let myself be softened but finally, I attack:

- "How is it that Gabriel has the duplicate of your keys?"

She smiles slightly before asking me:

-"You are jealous?"

I'm boiling, she didn't answer my question. I know I'm angry for some pretty stupid reason, but it's stronger than me. I can't control myself anymore, I have to get out of his room before my anger breaks out. I could transform myself and hurt her. I feel a hand on my shoulder and she asks me, worried and upset:

- "Etienne, how are you?"

I order him in my Alpha voice:

- "Get out of here, right now!"

She doesn't listen to me and steps in front of me, my face must be red with anger as she frowns. I'm doing everything I can to calm myself down, unfortunately my heart aches are starting again. I beg her:

- "Lou, please get out of here."

Once again, she does as she pleases, she reduces the gap between us. I want to step back but I can't, it's as if my feet were glued to the ground. She raises her beautiful eyes to me before sticking her head on my chest. I close my eyes and hold her against me then I kiss her hair. I don't feel sick anymore, I feel good. I don't see her lift her head until she kisses me. I like the feel of her lips on mine but each time I tell myself that she has already kissed Gabriel.