Chapter: Eight

Xavier was irritated, annoyed, mad, furious – his emotions were all over the place and he knew it was all because of that stupid human. It made him hate her even more. If he could, he would end her life in a heartbeat. He felt like he was losing control of everything which made him even more unpleasant then usually. His brothers couldn’t even provide him comfort because they were in the same boat as him. The brothers were also fight more and more intensely than they used to. The more Xavier felt annoyed and the more he saw his brothers bothered by the bond, the more he wanted to punish the human and soon he couldn’t take it anymore.

One night, Matthew and Raymond were still shouting at one another about something that really didn’t matter, after hours of listening to them acting like children, he lost it and stomped down to the cells.

“Move!” he growled to the guards. In a blink of an eye, they were out of the way, Xavier ripped opened the door and stomped inside, before he slammed the door shut, he made sure to tell the guards that they were not allowed to tell anyone about his visit. As he neared, her cell he walked slower and more softly, like a predator approaching its prey. He stopped as her scent hit him. He had never really paid attention to her scent, but it was sweet and refreshing – like cotton candy and the sea. The longer he stood there the more relaxed he got, honestly it was the most relax he felt in weeks, it almost made him forget about his anger. He shook his head, trying to focus back on his goal. He slowly made it down to her cell. He stared at her sleeping form. She was wearing something different form the last time he had saw her, she now wore black bike shorts and a big white tee, it smelled of Sarah. Her hands were both under her head as she laid on her side, facing Xavier. She looked so peaceful, like she had no worries. It annoyed and comforted Xavier at the same time, but since he was already annoyed to begin with, that emotion was more present than anything else. He didn’t like that she was getting all this rest, while he and his brothers where barely keeping their sanity in check. He wanted to take that away from her and he did.

He moved a bit down the hall and moved onto his ankles. He elongated his middle finger’s claw. He dragged it down the concrete, letting the sound echo of the cell walls. From his position he could see Jess start to stir in her sleep. He elongated two more claws and dragged them down the floor as well. The echoes were twice as loud as before, which made Jess jump out of her sleep. She looked around hastily, but it was useless, she couldn’t see anything.

“Hello?” Her soft sleepy voice rung out in the halls. Xavier held his breath as he heard her voice. He had heard her speak a few times at her interrogation, but this soft innocent voice made him want to hold her, protect her. He curled his hands into fist, he hated that he reacted the way he did, it was only when he smelt blood that he got pulled back into reality. He had cut himself with his claws. He took the sleeve of his jacket and cleaned up the few drops that had fallen, he didn’t want to leave any proof that he was here. He had to keep his plans a secret from everyone. With his mind put back together he dragged his claws against the concrete again, this time going deeper to make an even louder sound. Jess was sat upright in her bed, as the noise grew, the more she began to fear what was to come. She pulled her thin blanked up to her chest.

“Is anyone there?” She called out with a shacky voice. The noise seemed to stop for a while but soon she saw something even scarier than the noise. There was a pair of golden eyes lurking at her from a distance. An animal – that’s what Jess though, but as the pair of eyes moved silently closer to her cell the more scared, she felt. Jess held her breath as the eyes stopped right in front of her cell. She tried to comfort herself by telling her that it was just a small animal, but the eyes moved again. This time they didn’t move closer to her, but instead they moved from the low ground to the tall celling. Jess moved up the wall as the eyes moved higher and higher, as she stood on her bed, they pair of eyes were in line with hers. Her chest was rapidly rising and falling. What was watching her? That’s all she could think of. The stood there for a minute. Jess pressing herself against the wall and the pair

 of golden eyes staring into her soul. She was completely surprised when something hit her cells steel bars, Jess rumbled the blanket in her hand in a heartbeat and throw it in the direction of the eyes. As the blanket fell the eyes were gone, which scared Jess even more. She was so scared that she could not move, she just stood on her bed. Listen and watching. Her heart was beating a mile a minute. Sleeping was no longer an option after what had happened.

When the dim hall light tuned on, Jess screamed again as she was surprised, but there was nothing to see. Nothing was in front of her cells. She stepped down from her bed and went to pick up her blanket. She stared at the steel bares surprise to not seen them bent or broken after the force they were hit with. Jess didn’t understand what had happened, but she knew it made her feel unsafe.

Xavier did this every night he was irritated or angry, he would sneak down to her cell and freak Jess out. Once he scared her so much that she had started to cry, he denied that it made him feel bad, but it took him almost a week before he could convince himself to come back down to her cell. Jess had already hated night, but now she feared and hated them, she couldn’t sleep, sure that ever noise she heard was the arrival of the monster.

Xavier had hidden his interaction with the human, by only visiting her at night and making sure to wash up after visiting the cells. When Sarah had eventually caught him, he thought that he was done for, but he was an Alpha, he simply just ordered her to not mention anything to anyone, that included the other alphas. So, with nothing in his way, he kept on terrorizing his mate. Making her cry didn’t affect him the more he did it either and soon he was Jess’s biggest fear down in the cells.