Spurned Luna’s Return: On Your Knees, Alpha Chase

“Do you want to die?” he yelled and suddenly alighted. He got into a fighting stance and Rolandro simply retreated.

“Get Lavana.” Mel cried.

“No, just take him to his mate or someone will get hurt.” Rolandro commanded.

Dante walked closer to Phoenix and held his hand.

“Calm down. You’re going to sit with your mate for the rest of the trip. How does that sound.”

“Good.”

“Alright. Just the two of you will be in the jeep. We want you guys to have privacy. The rest of us can fit into this other jeep.” Mel pushed Phoenix toward the other jeep and made him sit in the driver’s seat.

“You know the way? Or you wanna follow behind us?” Mel asked.

“Don’t worry. I know the way.” Phoenix gave a thumbs up, wearing a smile.

“But um I want Lavana to be in the other jeep.”

“Why?”

“Because she’s been with you guys for long. I want to become closer to you guys. After all, I will soon become a pack member.” Phoenix explained.

“That…”

“Rolandro, Mel and Dante, pls join me. Zehelina, please take my mate to the other jeep.” Phoenix requested.

“Okay. If you say so.” Zehelina carried Lavana out of the first jeep and placed her at the back seat in the other jeep.

Rolandro sat in the front seat of the first jeep while Mel and Dante sat at the back.

“Be careful, man.” Rolandro advised.

“I will.” Phoenix replied as he started the engine.

…

5 minutes later.

“AHHH!”

“SOMEONE HELP US!”

“PHOENIX, ARE YOU CRAZY? IS THIS HOW TO DRIVE?”

“You didn’t ask me if I could drive and just shoved me into this seat. Well, this is the consequences.” Phoenix replied with a shrug.

“Please stop. I’ll drive. I beg you.” Rolandro pleaded.

“No. I think driving is fun.” Phoenix replied and increased the speed again.

“Phoenix, you’re a demon.” Dante cried.

“Now you know.”

“It seems the other jeep is possessed this time. They are so close to us despite Phoenix driving like this. Zyair would never drive this fast. Phoenix, did you do something to the vehicles?” Mel asked with a shaky voice.

“Why do you care? Reaching the venue and lodging a hotel with a nice bed to rest, isn’t that what you want?”

“With your bad driving skills, I’m sure the grave would be our resting place.” Dante spat.

“Well, you guys happily put me here. I’m not getting out till we reach the venue.” Phoenix chuckled as the others screamed at the top of their lungs.ConTEent bel0ngs to Nôv(e)lD/rama(.)Org .

****

An hour later, all of them got out of the vehicles. Except for Phoenix and his mate, the rest looked like they’d run 3 marathons!

Dante sat on the ground in the parking lot of the hotel.

“I’m tired. Please, no one should let this bastard control any car.” he said with labored breath.

“You guys have suffered.” Lavana said with an apologetic look.

She offered them canned water to refresh themselves. Then she walked to Phoenix who immediately retreated.

“I know I was wrong. Don’t pull my ears.”

“I won’t. I just want to hug you.”

“Why all of a sudden?” Phoenix kept retreating.

“If you move one step backward, I’ll rush at you.” she warned. Phoenix did not retreat any further.

She walked to him and asked him to close his eyes.

“This… You won’t hurt me right?”

“Stop feigning fear, Sullivan.”

Phoenix closed his eyes and he soon felt his feet were off the ground. No, he wasn’t flying. His mate had carried him over her right shoulder.

“Put me down, Lavie.”

“Someone got a tape?” Lavana asked.

‘Yes.” Zehelina brought one to Lavana.

“What are you going to do? Let me down, alright.”

“He talks too much. Seal his mouth with the tape for me.” Lavana requested and Zehelina happily did so.

“I’m sorry for the way he behaved. I’ll teach him a lesson. You guys will surely be satisfied tomorrow.” she said with a smile.

“Okay. We’ve all been refreshed and the trouble-maker is in good hands. Let’s go get our rooms to lodge and relax.” Rolandro said as he carried his luggage.

“Lavana, this is your bag. Carmelia had us buy some stuff in case.” Zyair said.

“Thanks. Give it to Phoenix.” Lavana smiled.

“Okay.”

Now Phoenix was holding a bag while being carried by his mate.

“This is embarrassing.’ he muttered.

“Serves you right.” Dante made funny faces at him.

“We’re all set. Let’s go. Thankfully we reserved the 4 rooms in time. Or else, we would have had to get tents and a location to set them up.” Mel said as they walked towards the reception.

“Honey, please put me down.” Phoenix begged his mate through mind link.

“What did you promise me?”

“I’m sorry, mate. I kinda got carried away and then after being shoved into the driver’s seat I wanted to frighten them a little.” he explained.

“I’ll carry you like this to the competition grounds tomorrow.”

“No, don’t. I’ll do anything.”

“Anything?” she asked with a raised eyebrow and he nodded vigorously.

“Anything, my dear mate.”

“Okay. I”l think about it and tell you tomorrow. We are exhausted. What we need right now is a good bath, maybe some snakcs and then sleep.” she said as she walked along with the others.

People in the hotel were surprised when they saw Phoenix situation. It looked so funny. At the same time, they had admiration in their hearts for this lady who carried the man. She looked skinny but was actually this strong enough to carry a grouwn man without stress. The females wanted to be like Lavana- strong and beautiful.

…

10 minutes later.

The 8 people had settled into the four rooms. Zehelina and Lavana were in one room. Dante and Mel were in another. Zyair and Oliver, the quietest of them all were paired together and finally, Rolandro ended up with the sulky Phoenix.

Currently in their assigned room, Phoenix sat on the sofa.

“I’ll sleep here. You take the bed,” he said while looking away.

“Don’t be childish. Let’s share the bed. Here, I use the pillows to separate us. Come on.” Rolandro urged.

“No.” Phoenix refused and rose from the sofa. He started taking off his clothes.

“Man. You tooK Lavana away but couldn’t prepare a set of change clothes. Your lucky I prepared another set.”

“Hmph. I planned to buy everything once we arrived.”

“But as you can see, we’re all tired.” Rolandro lay on the bed and covered himself with the blanket.

“Goodnight.”

“Yeah. Goodnight. And um… I’m sorry for what I did earlier. Sometimes, there’s this part of me that makes me do annoying things.”

“It’s fine. Go take your bath and sleep. I’m off to la-la land.” Rolandro said. Soon his snores could be heard. Phoenix picked up the clothes that he’d taken off and walked into the bathroom. He put them in another ring that appeared in his right thumb. Then he took out a towel and other necessities from his main spatial ring.

Rolandro who was asleep was awakened by the pungent smell he perceived.

“Gosh! Where’s this awful smell from?” he muttered, pinching his nose as he got off the bed.

He found it was coming from the bathroom.

He walked to the door and knocked. “Phoenix, are you in there?”

Phoenix answered. “I am. Any issue?”

“Of course. There’s a big issue. What’s this awful smell that snatched me away from my beautiful dream?”

“What smell?”

“Don’t play dumb. The smell’s from the bathroom. If you don’t tell me, I’ll break in.” Rolandro warned.