Deadly Desire

Elena's POV

I arrived late at the party, and everyone was in high spirits, chatting, dancing, and celebrating. 

Devon signaled to me to join him and Elijah in the VIP room, which I did without hesitation. When I got into the red lighted up room, with sofas and naked girls parading themselves, I was in shock, when the reality which why Elijah couldn’t come pick me up dashed on me.

She was unimaginably beautiful, she was blonde with blue eyes and a pointed nose, and her name was Judith Smith. I had known that she and Elijah had been talking, but I never guessed it would be deep since I had known Elijah to be the serious-minded kind. I guess he ended up developing a rather profound soft spot for her. I sat down, trying so hard to hide my emotions.

 “Sorry I couldn’t come to get you as scheduled, Elena. Judith made us wait longer than expected, so I couldn’t come over but I promise to make it up to, my treat.” Elijah apologized with the utmost innocence in his voice, but I noticed Judith felt torn by his action, she didn’t say anything but I’ve been known to read expressions better, I suspect she deliberately made him wait.

“You don’t have to make it up to me, Elijah. I am not pissed,” I said to my friend, and he thanked me. Elijah has always been kind-hearted and nice to me but as a friend. It hurt—It hurt so bad, but there was certainly nothing I could do about it. I had a huge crush on him since we were teenagers l, but I guess he never took notice of that.

 He was always all about his career, work, and business. Elijah had a lot of tension, anxiety, and uncertainty growing up, he was always pressured to want to make something out of himself and most of this was because his older brother was careless, reckless, and unreliable, so he felt a strong need to step up and prepare himself to take over from his father as Alpha when the time was right.

 His mother was always equipping and training him, she made sure he was in no position to disappoint his father. She was difficult on him most of the time but it seemed to pay off. He did excellently in his Alpha assessment, and his father accorded him praise for his renowned efforts.

 I wasn’t interested in becoming a combatant until the day Elijah told me about his plans to attend the Alpha training. We were sixteen at the time and I immediately enrolled and desired to finish the first spot so that I could finally take my place beside him as his beta, and Elijah and I would finally have in common.

I hoped that would bring us closer and he would eventually see me. If it weren’t for Elijah, I would have trained as a surgeon instead, but I wanted him so much that I did everything possible to spend as much time as I could with him.

 That was well over four years ago, four years of crushing on someone who didn’t even see me, who didn’t even notice me, four agonizing years of pain and yet he never saw me, even now out of the Training academy and we will soon be appointed to our different duties to serve our Clan yet I was still nothing but a friend while another woman just walked in and is already resting in his arms.

The party continued with Judith cuddled up all around Elijah’s arms. Devon, the toughest and strongest wolf of our set at the Training Academy and Elijah’s beta, asked me to dance, and I obliged, but I had eyes and hearts fixed on only Elijah.

 He had grown into a handsome young man, but his looks and appearance weren’t what drew me to him. He was caring, loving and honest. He was respectful, responsible, very well-cultured, and very selfless. The pack will be in great order with him as Alpha. I knew I had fallen deeply in love with him. Sure he did not know and would never find out about how I felt. I had imagined that maybe when we start running the pack, he will appreciate me and probably even fall for me deeply but not anymore. I wasn’t dumb. If Elijah couldn’t fall in love with me all these years, there was nothing that could make him fall now.

 Except for the goodness of the light decides to grant me this wish. I would keep longing for him. But, at this instance, I just want to be totally over him and erase every feeling, but it seemed to be quite difficult. The heart always knows what it wants, but I was certain it was a dangerous combination.

Sore from dancing, Devon and I retired back to the VIP room, where Judith was trying so hard to get intimate with Elijah, rubbing his body slightly and sticking her tongue into his ears, but he seemed to have the situation under control.