Stella Canali's POV

What the hell?

I did not know what had happened as Xavier just took off like that from me. He was in a hurry as well. Maybe he was being guilty as he was having a tryst with me.

Oh my God!

I was his side chick. Maybe that's why he ran away, trying to avoid going in public as I was eating by myself in the cafe. The breakfast that he got for himself was sitting there, cold as the time passed on.

I saw the waitress that talked to Xavier and I waved at her. Luckily, she saw it as it would be embarrassing if I was waving at nothing.

"Yes, what can I help you, miss?" She said in English as she knows that I might not be from this area. After all, I was not like her.

Bronze skin.

Long, brunette hair.

Grey eyes.

Was it me or does everyone here have grey eyes? I cleared my throat as I was trying to control the urge to ask that question. That would be fucking rude.

"Yes, um, can you box that up? I don't think my…companion would be coming anytime soon," I said as she took the Breakfast Bulge of Xavier's and she was smiling at me.

"Oh, don't worry, I can take care of this and I will give the phone number of his," she said as she winked at me. I was dumbfounded because she thinks that I was with Xavier. I don't want his girlfriend to know that I was meeting his boyfriend.

Wait a minute.

I thought Sam was his girlfriend but if she was willing to give me his number, maybe Xavier was not running from that. Maybe he was having diarrhea and that's why he was running away. He needs to use the loo very badly.

I chuckled. I was worried for nothing. That waitress was not his girlfriend but I see the familiarity of it. Was she his ex? My heart ached at that notion. I never had any boyfriend, well except for that lying bastard when I was in college but he was nothing but a knot in my life.

I think I might be thinking about my future with Xavier right now.

Oh my gosh! I wanted Xavier to be in my life. I thought I was done to search for someone to have the similarity of a monogamous relationship with but it turned out that I was still searching.

Maybe that's why I was on this island in the first place.

I wanted to get away and I found the cheap ticket to this island after that conniving thief of my money was coming to light. I needed this. I have to do this.

Maybe I was being too hopeful as well.

As I was in my thoughts, the waitress came to my table as she put the box of Xavier's breakfast and mine on the table as well as the phone number.

Xavier's. I felt wrong to get it from someone else.

"Thank you, but you don't have to do this," I said as I was giving the number to her. I don't feel right about this. It was his privacy and I was prying it from someone else.

"No, I insisted," she said as she was gleaming at me. I sighed as I smiled at her. Maybe she thought we looked good together and I think that I liked it.

"Okay, thanks for the help then,"

"No problem, if anything, just tell me right away," she said as she went away to get some orders for the upcoming customers. I just finished my breakfast before I took the boxes and went out into the streets. Xavier was nowhere to be found.

I sighed. Well, maybe I was being too hopeful that he was the one that will be my salvation but I think not. So I headed back to my hotel with his breakfast in my hands. I wanted to say thank you but he was not here and I think I might miss his cologne after all.

It was all woody and musk, the scent of a man, not like that conniving thief who smelled all rose and jasmine. I might think that he was gay actually.

But the past was in the past.

I have to focus on my future if I wanted my heart to recover from that broken heart when I was too young to know anything. But now, I was ready and matured enough to make the right decision.

And I know that Xavier was the right decision for me.

I went inside the room as I put the breakfast on the countertop of the small kitchen that I have in the room. It was not much but I can get by with it. There were a small stove and some cookery for me to use if I wanted to cook something.

I went to bed as I was tired of the big breakfast that I was having just now. Maybe if I was to lay down for a bit, I can get it off from my daze of the big meal. As soon as I started to put my head on the pillow, I was drifting to sleep, not knowing that something was lurking in the shadows of my room.

Xavier Marchand's POV

I was huffing and panting again as I was on my four. I was looking at the hotel that Stella stayed as I wanted to get close to her as much as I can. But I can't. I have to get away from her. She was an outsider and I don't deal with them.

'Yeah, keep telling yourself that. She's ours. We need her,' my wolf snarled at me as I was looking into the room that Stella was sleeping on the bed. Everyone was cautious of the woods as they know about the legend.

But not Stella.

Maybe if I was to show her who I was, she can accept me for who I was. I wanted her to understand and yet I wanted her to stay away. I know she was a human and we cannot risk our exposure to them.

'But we can make this one exception,' my wolf purred. I was almost giving into that idea before I shook my head. I need to clear my head. And I need to sort this feeling of mine out. I have to seek someone.

And who knows it better than Caleb? After all, he was my best friend so he must know what was the feeling that I have been feeling toward that little blonde stranger that I was lurking in the shadows to see her.

Pathetic.

I grunted before I ran toward the community territory as I was running on my four. It felt good once in a wild to run like I don't have a care in the world. And I certainly don't have care for I was running in my wolf form in broad daylight.

Caleb will be pissed.

I was huffing in front of the change room before I transformed and went inside to get my clothing. I put on the sweatpants as I was carrying the clothes that I wore before in my hands.