CHAPTER XXVII: Time

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After hours of being closed with Andrea in her bedroom, I went downstairs to make us something to eat. After our bath together we didn't speak again about Kyan, I knew her and I was well aware to drop the theme.

Once I put on some gym pants, I made my way towards the kitchen. I didn't care if I was shirtless, the house was pretty hot, probably someone turned on the heating and light up the fireplace in the living room. Victor had a very good taste when he decided to build the house, it was also well organized inside.

I went directly towards the fridge, my upper body was bent downwards looking for something to cook when I heard a growl behind me, which, in a first moment scared me shitless. Briefly I thought it was someone gay, since I was bent over, but no. Instinctively, I sniffed the air and I knew it was Andrea's mate.

When I was about to turn around a hand made contact with my left shoulder and did the work, now I was facing an angry Kyan. His eyebrows were furrowed and an angry scowl replaced his normal features. He was followed by Benjamin and Mason, Logan and Oliver were turned around on the couch, watching us from above the back, with their arms on it.

"Why the hell are you smelling like Andrea?!"

I shoved his hand away from my body. If everything was about Didi I was okay to discuss it, but I hated when someone put its fingers on me. Closing the fridge's door I acted as if nothing had happened so, I opened a beer and took a pasta package.

"First of all, calm down. Second, I didn't do anything with her, okay? Third, you should ask first and then show your guts, even if that kind of tricks don't work with me."

"Sorry, you're right. I didn't think about it. I'm just..."

"Worried? Thoughtful? Culpable? Yeah, I can imagine it."

He sighed, so I just hit the winner spot. I knew the guy was trying his best to affront this as an adult but dealing with Didi wasn't something as easy as to say it. He pulled his hand back, seeming a bit stressed and lost of words, while Benjamin sat on one of the black dinner table's chairs, followed by his brother.

"You see, Andrea it's a very difficult person to deal with. Put yourself in my pants, when I first came here I wanted to kill her, I just hated her so much, and it was everything for her shitty personality. But when she opened up to me about her past, I instantaneously understood her."

"I know! I know she had to deal with terrible things, but she doesn't trust me. I have tried but she's just so hard, at least to talk tome, but she refuses."

I was laughing internally at what Andrea was doing with the poor guy. I felt between the sword and the wall, I understood Kyan, the need to be with his mate, it felt as real as to breath. But for another hand I knew why Didi was doing it, if he just knew he would have understood it immediately. He needed someone who gave him a little help, if not he could have gone crazy.

"I know you're not stupid, you can imagine she won't trust you that easily. Just hear me out, she needs time to think alone, now it's not the time to stress nor to press her to tell you about her past. Best advice? Give her some days to clean her mind, you should do the same. Cold down, so you can think things straight."

Okay, I didn't have a mate, but I knew Andrea as my own body, as the palm of my hand. When her demons tried to take control of her mind she always was under unbelievable pain, fear and anxiousness. She had a lot of problems, but that didn't mean I wasn't going to help her mate to, at least, understand her in a better way. She was difficult, yes, but not impossible.

"You're right, after this morning I can't think about other things than to force her to talk to me."

I smirked, because, well, a submissive Andrea? Not in a million of years. Taking another sip of my beer I started cooking our lunch, I was pretty hungry and meanwhile I could have fun with the guys, hearing how they ended their night. Because for what I could remember Logan and Benjamin ended up with three girls, one for the Alpha and two for the Gamma.

"Anyway, you did a good work with Andrea."

"What's that suppose to mean?"

Looking back at him I almost laughed, he seemed so innocent, but maybe it was for the fact that his packmates didn't know what happened between them, but I didn't care, it was just time for them to know. Knowing Didi they would discuss in the living room and realizing they were making an unnecessary fuss they would go outside, if not, we would see. It was perfect for make a winning bet.

"She can't walk. I didn't know you were that rough and savage."

"Are you for real? How is she?"

He was half snickering, bastard, in a good sense,- don't get me wrong. He was sick worried about everything, I could see it in his eyes, but he was about to laugh his ass off from the news. Well, he should have felt proud since not anybody fucked with Andy and let her half invalid, make impossible for her to walk.

"She could be better. I had to brought her to the bathroom, she's in pain from her lower half down."

"God..."

Kyan started pacing worriedly around the kitchen, pulling his brown curls back. In that moment I got it, the face of his friends, they didn't know what happened between them. Maybe I could be a bit late for our lunch, because I wasn't going to leave when things were going to be more interesting. His packmates shared some confused glances until Benjamin decided to speak with a surprised look on his face.

"Man, did you fuck with Andrea?"

We all heard how Didi's mate groaned in annoyance, keeping walking around the room. He seemed stressed, probably looking for the right words inside his mind to describe how everything went. I turned briefly around when I heard the water boiling, I put salt on it and then, the pasta. Not wanting to lose a moment of the show, I faced the guys, just a second before Kyan started speaking. What a timing!

"Yeah-Well, sort of. No, I mean-Yes, but it's complicated."

I had never seen a guy in so much trouble as him, he seemed as if he was telling a girl he liked his feelings the first time ever. If he was afraid of Andy being furious, well, he should be since an angry Andrea wasn't a good thing. Best advice? Run.

"Holy shit! One more time and he will win the bet!"

"What bet?"

Suddenly they all shut up, looking at me as if they just got caught. Logan and Oliver hid behind the couch while Benjamin rubbed the back of his neck and, his brother, Mason, was looking around, making himself look as if he was crazy. Kyan froze, and opened his mouth few times trying to tell me what was wrong. Cocking an eyebrow, waiting for a damn answer, he sighed and explained himself.

"We made a stupid bet about me fucking Andrea more than twice in this month."

For an instant I was freaking shocked. The guy surely had a dead wish. I shared some glances with his friends, but I wasn't able to read their emotions, only Ben, who was trying to hide his laugh. Andrea was so going to kill him, well, them, if one day she would found out. I have seen Didi raging, to a point to even lose control, and something inside my body was telling me to run as far as I could because something like that was going to happen.

"You're fucking dead, dude!"

"I know..."

He let out a heavy sigh while I tried to not laugh at his face, how a good way to improve a relationship, making a bet to fuck his mate. Surely they were crazier than me. For a moment I thought about betting too, but thinking about a possible beating made me step back.

I gave my back to them and tasted the pasta: it was ready to eat. Turning off the fire, I took from under the sink a metallic strainer, and with some dark green kitchen gloves I threw the water and the food on it. Once I put on the tray the two plates, forks and glasses, I started to make my way upstairs, not before stopping side by side with Kyan.

"Kyan, Andrea is only afraid to fall in love again. Give her few days, time is the answer. Okay?"

Even if it wasn't loud his packmates heard,- werewolves have a good damn hearing! The guy needed some help, and I wasn't going to sit down and see how Andrea played with him. It wasn't my problem, but giving a little help or advice wouldn't have hurt anyone.

"Then that means if she keeps pushing me away, maybe she already feels something for me. Is that right or I'm just raving?"

His eyebrows crocked together once I sighed, the guy hit a good point. He held a bit of hope, if I was him, I would have done the same.- You see, for males has always been important to have your soulmate by your side, even if you had to fight for her, or him in some cases. -Andrea was giving into him bit by bit, but we still had to see how everything was going to end.

I nodded, making a small grin appear on his face. I wasn't one to give hope, it was better for everyone to think of what they thought it would be better, and the last thing I wanted to happen was to be involved Kyan and Didi's problems.

"Don't be so happy. We don't know how Andrea will react, so it's better if you start thinking negatively too."

"Okay..."

Dismissing him with a nod and a tight smile, I said my 'See you later' to the guys and went upstairs, to Andy's bedroom again. Without knocking I made my way inside, just to see her on the bed, with the covers till the middle of her stomach, where I left her. She was reading a book with her glasses on, but when she heard me, she closed it and a bright smile formed on her lips.

"Smells good."

"Obviously. It was me who cooked."

She rolled her eyes making me grin, as she usually said, like an idiot. Didi made me room and I took a seat besides her, with the tray on my hands I tried not to spill our food. She covered me and took her plate, but before digging in, she kissed my cheek to thank me.

We didn't talk that much, sometimes we just said stupid things, but we ate in silence until the dessert. I brought for her Straciatella ice cream since it was her favorite and for me Chocolate, even if we were in winter, we loved to eat them in the middle of cold seasons.

"Why do you smell like Kyan?"

It hurt when I swallowed in one go the gelato, but it was hard not to since I wasn't expecting her question. I took a side glance at her but she seemed too busy digging in on the ice cream, don't minding me. Taking a bit more of my Chocolate one I thought it was time to answer and explain her what had happened downstairs, in the kitchen. I didn't like to keep secrets from her, she didn't deserve it.

"I ran into Kyan and the guys in the living room. Your so beloved mate wanted to beat my ass just because I had your scent on me. But everything is good now, we talked a little, and that's all."

For my own sake and the guys, I skipped the part when I found out they had a bet about he fucking Andrea, and they becoming aware of what happened yesterday night. Probably if she had known, the hell would have torn apart for Didi's rage, letting all her demons go just to kill us or, in the worst of cases, to castrate us. Sometimes I feared the girl, she was a little crazy thing.

"He didn't say anything about yesterday, did he?"

"Erm-N-No, he didn't."

I felt her eyes glaring at me sideways, even if I said previously I would never have lied to her, the only exception to did it was to save my balls. The fucker was always serious when she threatened me to cut them. Nervousness grew inside my body, making my stomach to knot, I swallowed hard while I tried to keep my cool, making her believe I was telling her the truth.

"I can tell when you're lying to me, Abello. What the fuck happened in the kitchen?"

She was no longer eating her ice cream, it was left on the trail on her hips. Her eyes were digging daggers on me, she was the only one along with Victor, and, sometimes Emmett, trying to make me have a heart attack. And, most of the times, if Andy had me in her sights, our Alpha had me too. Little manipulative bitch, but she was my bitch.

Few seconds after I couldn't contain anymore and spilled the beans. I told her everything, every detail and word exchanged, and all thanks to her freaking glare, she knew how to get me so nervous to seem like a pussy. While the words left my mouth I could witness all the expressions on her face, and there were two or three I didn't see since a long time.

"So, they know, and you stupid prick told them."

"Me? No, no, I didn't told them anything."

Her features darkened, making me shiver in fear. It was a very bad signal. She was worse than my mother and sister put together.- Astern look of a mother makes you nervous, but Andrea's? -It was as if the Evil itself looked at you from the hell.

"Well... Maybe I started the discussion, but nothing major."

"Nothing major?! Say goodbye to your balls because we're cutting them off."

I swear my breath got caught in my throat, my heart stopped for a moment and sweat started to form on my forehead.- Maybe you think it's a joke, but no. -As I said a time ago she had a very dark past, and one of her hobbies was when it came to make prisoners talk she tortured them, and if it didn't work she cut went always for their weak spots,- but that's another story for a different time. The worse thing, was that I knew she was serious and she really did it since I was the one allowed with her in the cells, and I saw things I would prefer not to share.

The last chance for me keeping my ego, dignity and sexuality intact was to run away so, slowly I stood up, at the end of the bed. Leaving my ice cream with the spoon inside, on the tray on Andy's hips, I ran as fast as I could towards the door. I opened it, not shutting it closed, and made my way to my room. I could hear Andrea's screams from the hallway, telling me to not to escape and face my fate like the man I was. The hell I would let her cut my balls!

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21/01/2017

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