Wolf’s Bane

“Ummm… you want to join me later in fixing Scorpia, Macky?” invited Eron in an effort to shift his mind to something less disheartening and a bit more productive.

“OH WOW, DO I? I definitely will!” cried the young lad, his eyes shining with excitement.

“As long as you finish the dishes first, Mack. We already did the cooking…” Erica reminded him before taking a big bite of her steak.

“Awww, but I cleaned our rooms a while ago already…”

“And we cleaned Mama and Eron’s room so that doesn’t excuse you from washing the dishes, ok?”

“Shucks, but I really want to join Eron later.”

“You can still do that, Macky, after you’re done with washing,” the lumberjack piped in after he had swallowed a mouthful of the tender and juicy meat.  “I’ll still be down in the basement for a few hours, anyway. And I’m sorry if there’s still a mess in my room, girls. I was planning to fix everything up when I got back from the lumberyard.”

“Oh, that’s ok, Eron. We didn’t touch any of your stuff even if we did clean the room,” the oldest sibling said with a smile.

“Wait, wait, speaking of stuff!” the little girl chirped in and then went down from her chair and ran to the staircase.

“Katya, you aren’t done eating yet,” Diwana reminded her as she speared a bit of her eggs.

“I’ll be back, I promise…”

“Please, no running in the house. You might slip and fall!” the surrogate mother yelled so that the child could still hear her.

The cheery little girl didn’t seem to hear Diwana’s warning and was already back at the dining table within two minutes. Before she sat down, she shoved something into Eron’s hands.

Everyone at the table stared at the piece of fluffy cloth that Eron had in his long slender fingers. Upon seeing what The Charmer was holding, Di’s face instantly turned warm and crimson.

“We found it in Mama’s room. I don’t know how it got there but we did see it and remembered that it was the same towel that we gave to you when you moved in. That’s the right towel, right?”

The former assassin looked at the towel in his hand in surprise and at the same time in wonder at what he just heard from Katya. He wasn’t sure if he heard it right, but did the child just say that they saw his towel in Diwana’s room?

Judging by the mixed scents that wafted from it, which he could easily smell with his enhanced wolf senses, it seemed to carry Di’s body scent as well.

He instantly looked at his landlady who had suddenly left the table as she spoke…

“Just a minute guys, we forgot to get ourselves some dessert. I’ll just look at our stash for some. Wait for me, ok?”

The whole table fell silent as she started to look inside the freezer where most of the desserts were, wondering why she rushed off like that when the meal wasn’t even half-finished.

Meanwhile, D was hiding her face behind the cold ice box’s door, hoping that the freezing temperature would reduce her intense blushing.

“Yes, Katya, thank you. This is my towel, and I’m glad you girls found it. It must have fallen somewhere and your mama may have picked it up and forgotten about it, right Diwana?”

“Y-yes!” the widow replied from behind the door, swiftly selecting random dessert items from inside. “Yes, I’m sorry but I did forget about it… completely… Good work, girls… for finding it, I mean… Now, desserts anyone?”

The cheers around the table completely took over the room and Di happily handed out the treats to everyone. Upon finishing their meal, Diwana went directly upstairs to rest, leaving the other members of her ‘family’ helping out at the dinner table.

“Oh, before I forget, congratulations, Eron,” Erica said with a smile as she watched their new housemate going up the stairs so he could leave the towel in his bedroom.

The auburn-haired guy with the tousled bangs curiously looked back at the young lady. “Congratulations for what?”

“For dropping the Miss. Please keep it that way. She’s not much older than you are, after all.”

Eron stared at the two young females as they rushed up the stairs past him, giggling at the surprised and blushing face of their new housemate. He then walked up to the second floor with the towel still in his hand.

As he closed his room’s door behind him, he placed the towel against his nose and inhaled deeply, letting his senses drown in the mixed scents of her and his own body’s aroma. He swallowed hard as his own manhood also went hard.

Or should he say, harder?

“Ok, stop it, Eron. Leave the damn towel alone and stop disrespecting The Lady.  She doesn’t deserve that so just stop, ok?” he murmured to himself.

As he folded the towel and laid it on the bed, a thought came to him and he smiled on the way out of his room. Yes, that could work…

His thoughts: Well, I can still hug the towel while I go to sleep. That isn’t too bad, right?

No Eron, it won’t be too bad…

It won’t be “bad” enough for her, though.

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Time flies when you’re having fun. Soon, Eron was alone with Scorpia as Macky ran back into the house to help his siblings and his surrogate mom prepare Dinner. However, Jack would arrive within half an hour and would get busy helping Eron while they had their buddy talk.

“So how was work back at the lumberyard?”

“Well, other than a new applicant, it’s all the usual. What’s a little odd is the fact that it’s Max who recommended the newbie, and this one is really fresh around the gills if you know what I mean.”

“You mean, he knows practically nothing about being a lumberjack?”Property © NôvelDrama.Org.

“He knows practically nothing about wood. Period! I mean, you at least know a little carpentry… well, more with mechanical and automotive, as you told me before, which is why I let you try out the sawmill, but this kid knows nothing about chopping wood, cutting trees, or even holding a damn axe. And it’s Max who’s being his backer. I don’t know what the guy is playing at, but he hasn’t done anything like this before,” Jack explained as he held up Scorpia’s body while Eron loosened some screws.

“So, he’s never endorsed anybody who’s this inexperienced in the past?”

“Nope, never. He’s the kind of guy who wants to suggest really experienced guys so he can be credited for finding them and get bragging rights… But this Orlando guy, he’s everything that Max would not recommend at all.”

“Maybe he suddenly became compassionate after the little talk the three of us had in your office.”

“Really now? After you told me a bit about what happened between you and him? I’m surprised you even shook hands.”