Chapter 32- Let's Hear It For The Midnight Shadows

Zara's POV

Do I have the right to say that I absolutely hate Hayden right now? He's being a complete ass. All I asked for was one drive in his precious sports car and you know what he told me? I didn't even finished the sentence before he responded with a flat no. We pulled into the Redwood Pack's driveway and I leaped out of the car.

"Oh, come on Zara," Hayden said amused by my behavior. No, I refuse to talk to him after him being so mean. It's not like I would crash his car or anything. I knocked on the door and Bryon answered almost immediately.

"Why hello, Ms. Ferrari," he greeted with a British accent. I chuckled and shook my head.

"How do you do, good sir," I played along. He winked at me then did a man hug with Hayden as he came behind me. I pushed Bryon away and went inside the house.

"Zara, come on, stop being mad at me," Hayden said laughing at me. I turned around and glared at him.

"Jonah, where are you?!" I shouted through the house. I sat down on the couch and noticed that Bryon was watching The Notebook. I laughed and fell back on the couch. Bryon and Hayden then wondered in the room.

"Bryon, care to explain why you're watching The Notebook?"

"We...uhh...Nat and I....she was just..." Bryon stuttered as he blushed.

"Oh my gosh, you're blushing!" I squealed at him and Hayden laughed at him.

"Whatever," Bryon said then went upstairs. Minutes later, he was followed by Natalya and Jonah. My eyes widened at Natalya.

"Bitch, what are you doing here?" she asked me with a big grin on her face.

"Nothing slut, question is what are you doing here?" I replied with the same grin on my face. I really missed her. She walked up to me and we hugged.

"I miss you around the house, girl," I told her.

"Yeah? Well I miss you guys too," she responded. Jonah sighed dramatically.

"Well, I guess no one missed me, huh?" he asked while opening his arms. I rolled my eyes but hugged him anyway.

"I missed you too, Jonah," I said to him then pulled back and turned back to Bryon.

"Are you guys packed for the camping trip?"

"Yeah, we are," he said and I turned and looked at Nat.

"But I didn't see you at the house. How did you get clothes?"

"I...Bryon bought me some new clothes for the camping trip," she said quietly looking away guiltily. I raised an eyebrow at her then turned to look at Bryon.

"well, share the gossip then girl," I said to her, "first you're all hating him and then suddenly after the night at the club, I barely see you around." She got up then motioned for me to follow her. I turned to the guys.

"Hayden and Jonah, make yourselves at home," I said walking behind Nat.

"Sure, Zara, because it's your house now," I heard Bryon say making me laugh. I was lead to a room painted aqua blue. The bed was in the center of the room then a closet at the left, and a bathroom not the right.

"Who's room is this?"

"Bryon and I's," she replied as she sat on the bed.

"So, what's up with you two?"

"Where should I start?" she asked me laying down on the bed with her eyes closed.

"The beginning would be nice," I mumbled and she sighed then began.

"Bryon found out I was his mate when I was with Hayden. I told him I was in love with Hayden because of the history we had together and I rejected him. That was when he was about sixteen and I was fifteen turning sixteen. Of course, he tried to talk me in breaking up with Hayden and being with the one that was made for me but I just couldn't do that to Hayden. And what he was going through while we were together made me think I was in love with him. Two years from that is where you come in, and in my defense when you first walked through the door that night when the guys brought you...I was kinda jealous,"

"Jealous, of what?" I asked laughing at the idea.

"Because you looked amazing, and I heard the guys talking about how much of a fighter you were and how strong and fast you were, then I thought you would have been the perfect one for Hayden because that's what he was looking for his whole life. The only problem was that you were a rouge and Hayden and I shared a hate for rouges. I guess that's one of the things we had in common,"

"Why do you hate rouges?"

"Well, that's a different story completely but if you must know...they killed my parents," she said smiling sadly. I cleared my throat uncomfortably and looked at her apologetic.

"I'm sorry, I shouldn’t have---"

"No, it doesn't bug me as much as it did back then," she said, "Anyway, I'm guessing he chose to ignore you or whatever then I heard this big commotion that Tom and Lloyd had almost killed you. That's when he finally lost it and kicked their asses out of the pack house. Bryon had found out that Hayden had found his mate and he came looking for me, so I went and stayed at a hotel for a while. Long story short, he found out where I was staying, came looking for me to beg and plead for me, I rejected him yet again and we had a very...disturbing fight,"

"Disturbing?"

"Well, it wasn't disturbing but it was just...really weird. We were fighting and I said some things I shouldn't have and he relied by saying some very hurtful things then out of nowhere, he lunged at me and kissed me. The kiss was absolutely amazing and I found myself wanting more and more, but I know I couldn’t do that to Hayden so I kicked him out of the room," she said laughing at the memory and I laughed with her.

"You kicked him out or he willingly came out?"

"Ok, fine I didn't kick him out but I ordered him out so it's like the same thing anyway," she said then stuck her tongue out at me. I rolled my eyes at her childishness and waited for her to continue.

"Then, the next time we saw each other was at the club. That's why I was avoiding his stare at me. He was expecting me to come running into his arms, but he just didn't get it. The only person that understood the pain I went through about my parents was Hayden. He was like my best friend, the best friend I could always count on back then,"

"But you still could've let him in, Nat, " I said to her quietly. She sighed.

"I..I just don't want him to look at me like I'm a charity case or something, because I'm not,"

"He won't treat you like that, believe me. From the time I've known Bryon he doesn't seem like the type to do that,"

"I don't know what..."

"I'll tell you a secret, a secret that I've never told anyone before. You wanna hear it?"

"Yeah, sure," she said.

"Well, too bad because if you don't tell Bryon how you feel about him then I won't tell you," I said cheekily. It was her turn to roll her eyes, "Anyway, continue you're story."

"What's there to finish? I mean I told you basically every---"

'What did you guys do after you guys left the club?"

"Oh, that," she said blushing like crazy. My eyes widened at her.

"You did not!" I gasped grinning from ear to ear.

"No, I did not have sex with him, I'm sure you would have smelt it on me. We just had a little...fun with each other,"

"Doing what?"

"Zara," she whined putting the pillow over her blushing face. I laughed at her.

"Come on, tell me, tell me, tell me," I pleaded. She groaned but answered anyway.

"He carried me to his house, much to my request to take me home but he said it was better that we both had the company. There was an awkward silence when we were sitting on the couch then I decided to leave. As soon as I stood up and told him I was leaving, he grabbed my wrist and spun me around to look at him. We stared at each other then we just kissed. The clothes started getting...less and he took me in his room and we just made out for a bit, and before you ask Zara, we kept on the underwear,"

"You kept on all your underwear?" I asked as I folded my arms and raised my eyebrows.

"Ok, fine my lower underwear didn’t come off, are you happy now?"

"Most definitely," I said laughing as I stood up, "We should probably go downstairs--"

"Wait, Zara I wanted to ask you something,"

"Yeah, shoot,"

"What's it like being Alpha Female?" she asked me curiously.

"How does everyone know that and it hasn't even happened a day yet?" I asked skeptically then sighed and answered, "well, I haven't had the title much but from what I can see it's pretty simple. It's just like you have this strong urge to be the mother of everyone,"

"Oh, well alright I guess that's ok," she muttered more to herself than to me.

"Wait, Bryon asked you if he could mark you?"

"He asked more than that but for now, he'll have to settle for the marking," she said, "He wanted me to stay here with him permanently and be the Alpha Female for this pack."

"And you said yes, right?" I asked. Please, say yes, please make her say yes!

"I told him that I couldn't take up such a huge role just like that," she said and I glared at her, "What? It's not like I could've just done that. He understood that I can't just leave my own pack---"

"Natalya, can you cut the crap. You like him right?" I asked and she nodded, "then stop doing shit like that. He really cares about you and I know it must hurt that you're mate rejects you every time like that. Just give him a chance,"

"But I can't be Alpha Female. Do I look like I can lead to you?" she groaned.

"Yes you can, do I look like I can lead people?"

"Yes, because you were born in it!" she said dramatically waving her hands at me. I chuckled and shook my head. Stupid stubborn girl...

"You're too stubborn for your own good," I said to her making her laugh, "just think about it. If you asked Bryon to do something for you like...uhh take you out on a date or something and he told you he'd have to think about it, wouldn't you be upset?" She nodded and I smiled, "Well it's basically the same thing. it's just a while e before he gets upset and starts taking out his anger on his pack. Don't worry about the Alpha Female thing, you'd do fine. Just look at me, I'm perfectly fine."

"Zara, considering the fact that you've been in it for one day, I don't think you're at liberty to talk," she said and laughed as she stood up from the bed. I looked over at the clock and saw it was six o'clock.

"We better get back to the pack house," I said. She nodded sadly and followed me downstairs. The guys sat down talking and as we stepped in the room, all eyes went to us.

"Hey, Bryon where the rest of your pack?" I asked him.

"Their playing football outside," he replied then his eyes fell on Natalya, "Why, what's wrong?"

"Nothing, it's just the house seems really quiet," I said then looked at Jonah, "ready to go camping?"

"Will James and Logan be there?" he asked and I nodded, "then no, I'm not." We all snickered at his behavior.

"Jonah, you won't stay mad at them forever you know," I sang to him childishly. I saw the corners of his lips tug as he fighted a smile.

"Yes I can, they're being a pain in the ass,"

"Well, we'll see this week then," Hayden said making me look at him. I narrowed my eyes at him and he chuckled.

"Come on, you're still mad at me?" he asked his voice coated with amusement. I looked away from him and crossed my arms.

"Ok fine, you can...you can drive my car," he said and my eyes widened.

"Really?" I asked my voice filled with excitement. He gulped and nodded.

"Yes, Zara if that's what it takes to get you to stop being mad at me," he said handing out his hands with the keys. I ran up to him and slightly kissed him. Then, I grabbed the keys out of his hand before he could change his mind.

"Let's go, Jonah!" I exclaimed as I ran though the door.

"I'm praying for you man," I heard Bryon say as he laughed.

"If I don't make it back dude, I just want you to know.... I stole your PS3!" Jonah shouted then ran out the house and hoped in the car. He was being dramatic as usual, I thought as I rolled my eyes.

"You did what?!" Bryon shouted angrily as he walked through the front door. Hayden came and sat in the passenger's seat.

"What are you waiting for, Zara? Let's go!" Jonah said and I grinned at Hayden who held on the seat. I revved up the engine and Hayden turned to look at me.

"Z...Zara?"

"Sit tight you guys," I said and I was off.

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"Never again, Zara," Hayden growled as he took the keys from me. I grinned wickedly as I followed him though the front door.

"Hayden, come on it wasn't that back," I said wrapping my arms around him.

"Wasn't that back? You clocked 196 in a thirty-five zone!" he said turning me so I was in front of him.

"It was actually 198 but whatever you seem comfortable with," I said with a shrug. He growled and we went to the lounge. As we entered, everyone stood up.

"Where's Jonah?" Lilly asked.

"He's right here," Jonah said from behind us. As soon as he said that, everyone rushed to give him a hug. Well, everyone except James and Logan.

"Don't ever scare us like that!" Abi said as she hugged him.

"Was just angry I guess, but I don't think it'll happen again," he replied, "well if it does, I'll just tell Zara or Hayden."

"We really missed you," Maya said as she hugged him.

"Yeah? Well, sorry about that," he said hugging her back. He got a few more hugs and a man hug from Conner, welcoming him back. Then, there was tension thick in the air as Jonah stood and stared at James and Logan. Logan walked up to him.

"Look man, I'm real sorry for the way I treated you and everything, I didn't know Jenna was your mate, I was just fooling around," he said holding out his hand. Jonah looked at it then looked back at Logan's face.

"Friends?" Logan asked.

"Friends," Jonah said. Logan smiled and they did a man handshake or whatever. All attention shifted to James waiting for him to apologies.

"Jonah, can I talk to you outside for a second?" he asked. They both stared at each other then Jonah walked through the door, James following after him.

Minutes past and they both walked in smiling and shaking their heads.

"So..." I trailed off waiting for an explanation.

"We good man?" James asked holding out a hand.

"Yeah, man we're good," Jonah said shaking his hand. They did a man hug and everything was back to normal just like that.

"Man, this is one messed up pack," one of Lucas' friends said and snickered. Everyone chose to glare at him, making him raise his hands in surrender.

"Zara, what are we gonna do about them?" Hayden asked me. I raised my eyebrow in confusion and he explained, "Don't you remember that you invited them to this little camping trip of ours, or did you do that just to annoy me?"

"Uhh...I mostly did that to annoy you, I didn't really know you'd say yes. Then again, I didn't think they'd be up for it," I said looking at Lucas and his crew.

"That hurts, little sis," Lucas said mocking hurt. I smiled innocently winking at him.

"Well, they very well can't come as rouges," Conner said.

"Well they could always join the pack---"

"No," both Hayden and Lucas said in sync. They both looked at each other glaring

"Why not?"

"No offense to your...mate and everything, but I don't think me and my boys would like to be under his control," Lucas said winking at the girls in his crew as they protested about the 'me and my boys' part of the statement.

"Yeah, I don't think Alpha boy here would take things too likely, I mean we just met him," one of them, I think his name was...uhh...ok, I don't know what his name was. Hayden growled at him warningly and the guy looked at me.

"You see what I mean,"

"I didn't do anything you---" Hayden said but I quickly covered up his mouth. He instantly quieted down. He sighed against my hand and removed it from his face.

"Well, how about we make our own pack?" one of the girls suggested. Hmm, that didn't sound like a bad idea.

"That's a great--"

"Zara, how is it gonna work? They would have to have an Alpha and their territory to become a legal pack,"

"Well, we could vote Lucas as our Alpha," one of the other guys said. Man, I need to know their names. All I'm saying is one of the guys or one of the girls.

"Yeah, and if Alpha boy isn't mean enough, he'll give us some of his gracious land,"

"In your dreams," Hayden replied scoffing. I turned to glare at him and he looked at everyone else, noticing that they were glaring at him.

"Ok, I'll accept the glaring from Zara because she's my mate but I can easily kick all your asses for glaring at me like that so quit it," he said then sighed, "fine, you guys can have the smallest portion of land that I own."

"Thanks," Lucas said sarcastically while he rolled his eyes.

"Aright, we got the Alpha and the land, what else do we need oh high one?"

"Well you guys need a name for your pack so..." he trailed off. They all looked at each other thoughtfully.

"Well, we're gonna have to think about that so if you excuse us," Lucas said and they all stood and left the room.

About half an hour passed when they all wondered back in the room.

"Well, do you have a name now?" I asked them.

"Well, we were thinking about the Midnight Kings but---" Lucas said smirking when Hayden growled at him.

"Stop doing that," I scowled at Lucas and he winked at me.

"Fine," he said as he rolled his eyes, "But tell your Alpha boy to chill. Anyway, the real name we got was the Midnight Shadows. Midnight because we've been in the night all alone since we were rouges and Shadows...well, you know the reason for that Zara." I nodded at the explanation.

"Well, I guess they can come now, right Hayden?"

"Yeah," he grumbled. He added sadly in my head and I rolled my eyes at him.

"Aright, well...I only have one thing to say," Lucas said.

"And what's that?"

"All hail the Midnight Shadows," he said with a smirk on his face making me chuckle.

"You wish, more like all hail the Triton Kings, we are royalty after all," I teased winking at him. He laughed and we all chilled for a bit. At least they're getting along...well, except Hayden.

"Aright, so...uhh...introduce the members of your pack, Lucas" Conner said running his hand through his hand while he sat on the couch, Abi in his arms right beside him. I smiled at him for at least trying to start a conversation.

"Aright, well this is Oshane. He'll pose as my Beta and the girl next to him, that's Angelina, often times called Ange or Angel. She's his mate and they won't be afraid to have a little action in front of you...if you know what I mean," he said shuddering as if he remembered a memory. We all laughed and I saw Oshane kiss Angel.

Oshane was a brunette with light green eyes. I could see why my brother chose him for his Beta. He looked strong and hardworking, then again you had to be if you wanted to live in the 'rouge world'. Angelina had light reddish brown hair with beautiful hazel eyes. She had hard eyes as if she was inspecting the crowd to see if there was any threat in the room. Oh believe me, I used to be like that too.