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2024-10-29 19:42:56Eddie is silent as he stares down at the current dying alpha. He glances at Alicia, who motions for him to start talking.
"I don't agree." Eddie replied, and he saw Alicia stiffen next to him.
The sickly man stares at Eddie blankly, before roaring in laughter, a laugh so loud, and forceful, it shakes his frame.
"You are the perfect choice for the pack." he replied, after he was done for laughing.
At that, Eddie took a step forward, a scowl on his face. "You didn't even speak to me about it. You just went ahead and did it! I have a life, you know." Eddie responded, hands balled into fists.
"Bah! A life of poverty." the old man said, sitting up, a frown on his face.
Eddie darted forward then, grabbing the oldster by the front of his shirt, shaking him a bit.
"How can you say that when you have a similar background as me? How can you say that when the first time I shifted, I might have eaten a friend of mine?"
The old alpha is wheezing, and weakly pulling away, and Alicia is on Eddie, trying to pull him away from the dying man, all the while slapping his back.
It is a bad idea. Eddie snarls, an animalistic snarl that freezes Alicia. She backs away, torn between wanting to protect the sickly alpha, to wanting to stay alive.
Self preservation wins out though, and she stays away.
"I outta have your head mounted to my wa-"
"Get off of alpha Isan! Can't you see he's not well?" Alicia screamed, causing some bodyguards to come in and haul Eddie off of Isan.
Isan is coughing, waving off the bodyguards who dumped Eddie on the floor, stepping on his bare feet.
"What the hell is wrong with you? You came here asking for help, and this is how you behave?" Alicia said, running over to Isan, and attempting to calm him down.
"Did you not hear anything he just said?" Eddie replied back, getting up from the ground and walking towards her.
"Yes and it's a high honor to be able to reign as alpha for the pack-"
"You don't fucking get it, pinche pendeja! This was a choice that was made for me. I had no input whatsoever! And yeah, although I didn't grow into wealth like this," Eddie motions at Isan, "I was free to live my life how I wanted, not how I'm not going to be because of this fucker!"
Alicia is silent, her body shaking, and Isan looks taken aback, looking up at Eddie in silence.
"And even though all of this shit was put on me, I possibly murdered my an innocent person. And his blood is on you." Eddie said, shoving his finger in Isan's face.
Without another word, Eddie walked out of the room, slamming the doors with full force.
It has been several hours, and Eddie has walked along the gardens in an attempt to clear his head. He gently touches the flowers, looking up at the sky. His life is a mess. From start to middle, with each day looking a bit worse and worse.
Alicia was roaming around the outside of the house, searching for him, and calling out for Eddie. He simply hid up in trees, where he watched the scenery in peace.
Isan is very wealthy, Eddie will admit. But the sight of how the illness is taking his life away more and more each day doesn't really make Eddie wish he had his life.
Eddie wished he had his back the way it was.
If he hadn't done the heist back in New York, if his wallet hadn't fallen out of his pocket revealing his I.D, and address...
If only, if only...he though bitterly to himself.
Eddie wanted to go home.
Jumping down from the tree, he startled a maid that was watering the flowers. She was a different one, having crazy orange hair, a freckled face, and bright hazel eyes that shifted to green whenever the sun hit them differently.
"Sorry, didn't mean to scare you like that." Eddie apologized, picking up her watering can from the grass.
"It's alright, I'm a bit jumpy when Mr. Isan has business partners at the house." she replied, smoothing out her skirt, and then her hair.
"You look very young. How old are you?" Eddie asked, and the young maid flushed, her face going red.
"I've just turned twenty-seven this year. Oh, I'm Elaine by the way." she said, sticking her hand out for a handshake. Eddie took it, his hand covering hers.
"My name is Eddie." he replied, and at that the girl's eyes widened.
"Y-you're the future alpha of the pack! Forgive me." she hurried out to say, bowing and dropping his hand.
Eddie sighed, helping her to stand straight again. "I haven't accepted the terms. Nor do I want to." he told her, and her face dropped.
"Why not? Mr. Isan deemed you worthy-"
"Not this bull shit again. He took my life from me. I know it wasn't good before the 'wolf' powers, but it was mine at least. Now, I find out that I'm being stuck to be responsible for a pack I never knew? To be in charge of strangers? To watch out I don't wolf out to the point where humans become my meal?"
At the last sentence, Elaine flinched back. "I...well, when you put it like that, it does sound kind of awful. I thought Mr. Isan would have asked you, not make that choice for you."
Finally. Someone who wasn't blinded by their loyalty to that sick bastard to be able to properly see that he was indeed in the wrong.
Eddie didn't have anything else to say, and Elaine bowed again, before disappearing around the corner of the house.
In a way though, Eddie did feel bad. Not to the point where he would accept Isan's offer, but he did kind of understand the old man's line of thinking.
Isan had been desperate to find someone to take over his position. And for some reason, he thought Eddie was the best choice.
Something that bugged Eddie was how the hell had Isan figured out what kind of person he was? What made Isan decide that Eddie was the chosen one?
Eddie was thinking about it for a while, brows furrowed when Alicia walked back out of the mansion, her face tight with stress, but composed.
"Eddie, I know you don't wish to speak to either of us, but we need you inside now...please." she said, her voice faltering at the word please.
He stared at her for a moment, sighing as he motioned for her to lead the way.
The expression on Alicia's face never changed, and as she walked, her shoulders were stiff. Eddie didn't try to soother her worries away.
No words could change the outcome of Isan's illness.
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