Unscented (Emilia and Wesley) novel Chapter 24

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The bell rang and I practically bolted from the room. My hair whipped behind me, and my eyes jumped from person to person. My mother usually threatens the pack, but she put into detail what she would do if she saw me speaking with any wolves. She gave me names, methods of torture, and even small details about the

pack’s schedule that terrified the hell out of me.

I shut my locker door to find Andrew leaning against the locker beside me, my heart thumping wildly in my chest. I spun and began walking to my next class, trying to get to art as fast as I could. I needed a paintbrush, and I needed it now.

“Wait, Emilia! Why are you avoiding us?” He gripped my shoulder, causing me to flinch bigger than I had meant to. His eyes widened as he looked at my big ones, the same ones he unfortunately had. “What did she do.” He growled low, causing a few humans and a warrior wolf to cast their glances outway.

“Nothing, I have to go. I’m sorry.” I turn and rushed to

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my class, leaving a heartbroken and trembling Andrew behind me. He was my brother, the closest thing I had to a family, and I left him in the hallway. I wanted him to help me, I wanted to get out of that hell hole more than anything, but I couldn’t leave the pack to my

mother.

She broke and tortured me for years, I couldn’t let her do it to them. I spent the entire next period in art painting, sketching, and constantly moving my fingers. It just seemed no matter what I tried drawing, the only thing that came from my hands was his eyes. The ocean blue eyes that sent me into a frenzy, the same eyes that could tear me down but build me up instead.

I walked out of class with my head low, my feet making their way to my next few classes. Eyes were cast my way by wolves and humans alike, and my comments to the teachers were extra snarky and sarcastic. I couldn’t help it, my bad mood just affected

everyone.

Lunch came, and as I entered the cafeteria to use the last couple of dollars I had to get water, a fight broke out. My eyes widened when I saw who it was, Wesley

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was on top of Andrew punching him directly in the face. Andrew was just taking it, not even using his hands to block his punches. “Wesley!” He didn’t even acknowledge my shouts, my body pushing itself through the circle as I tried to pry him from Andrews’s body. I fell in front of him as his fist came barreling down and connected with my jaw, causing me to fall

back onto Andrew.

“Oh god, Emilia!” He scrambled off of Andrew when he realized who he hit, my eyes shut from the pain radiating through my jaw. “What the hell!” Andrew shouted as he stood up, gripping my arms as he pulled me into them. Wesley growled, ripping me from Andrew’s grasp as he put his face in the crook of my neck. “Mine!”

I stiffened from all of this contact, the sparks erupting from being in Wesley’s arms knocking me out of my daze. I backed out of his grasp, my eyes looking at both of them. “What the hell! Seriously? You guys got in a fight and I got fucking punched, what were you idiots even fighting over!?”

Wesley looked down at his feet with guilt splashed

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across his face, Andrew simply had a red blush

spreading across his face. “Well uh-” “You see-” I rolled my eyes, turning to look at James. He stood off to the side with an amused expression, his brown eyes watching the show before him. “What the fuck happened James?” “Oh! Loverboy over there heard about Andrew touching you this morning-” “You got

mad because he touched me?” I whirled around to

Wesley, whose face had grown a lot redder in the span

of ten minutes.

“Well, uh, erm.” I rolled my eyes, rubbing my jaw self-consciously. I flinched when pain exploded, Wesley’s eyes darkening when he saw me. “I’m so sorry Emilia, it’s all my fault.” “No, it’s all my fault.” Andrew griped, his eyes dark as well. “You know it’s my fault, Emilia, I should’ve saved-” “Andrew,” I warned, Wesley’s narrowed eyes staring at me. “Saved you from

what?”

Andrew glanced between me and his Alpha, taking a deep breath. “Saved her from-”

“Andrew no!”

“-you. I should have pushed her out of the way.”

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Wesley looked at me with guilt again, before walking and grabbing Andrew in a weird guy hug. “It’s my fault, I’m sorry Andrew.” I rolled my eyes, grabbed my bag from the floor, and walked out the room without anyone even noticing me slip away. Stupid wolves.