Nicholas’s POV
"I don’t know what you’re talking about." I said almost immediately, stepping back and he stared at me for a moment.
"No need to get all defensive about it if you’re innocent. Unless you’re hiding something." Elijah muttered with his arms crossed over his chest and I swallowed.
"You should learn about privacy. Don’t go around invading my space." I retorted and without waiting for him to say a word, I walked into the room and slammed the door shut.
I haven’t even spent one hour in this mansion and I was already in trouble.
"Fuck." I whispered as I relaxed against the door, trying to make my breathing steady.
What the fuck was happening with my wolf? Why weren’t the inhibitors working as effectively as before?
Without hesitation, I dropped my bag to the ground and knelt, taking out the injection in my bag and injecting myself with the inhibitors once again.
"Shit." I almost cried out in pain as I dropped to the ground, biting down on my bottom lip so hard that I could feel blood in my mouth.
By the time the pain was gone, I was breathing heavily as I remained on the ground for as long as I remembered. There was something about the way the four brothers stared at me earlier downstairs.
Their words were filled with contempt and displeasure, but the way they stared at me was different. Like they could see through me.
Stupid alphas.
I managed to unpack and made the room look like my former room did so that I would at least feel comfortable in here. By the time I was done, I collapsed on the bed until someone knocked on my door.
I froze, not knowing who it was until I heard Mom’s voice, making me heave out a sigh of relief.
I opened the door slightly and she looked at me with a melancholic expression as I let her into the room.
"Oh, look what you’ve done with the room!" She exclaimed, but when she turned to me to see that I wasn’t in a good mood, she sighed.
"Did you really have to drag me to a house of all alphas? I nearly couldn’t breathe out there. You knew this. You could have left me back at home." I complained and she walked up to me with a sad expression on her face.
"I couldn’t just let you live alone. Trust me, they don’t bite—"
"Mom, it won’t be long before they discover my secret. I’m scared." I confessed and she pulled me into a hug.
I didn’t hug her back, I just stayed still as she rubbed my back gently.
"There’s nothing to be scared about. Trust me, even if they discover your secret, you’re safe in here. I won’t let anyone hurt you. I’ve protected you for nineteen years, I’m not stopping now."
With that, I wrapped my arms around her and buried my face in her hair.
"I love you, Mom." I whispered and she chuckled, pulling back to gently caress my hair.
"I love you too. Will you come down for dinner?" She asked but I shook my head. "I’ll have someone bring the food upstairs to you then. Better still, I’ll bring it myself."
With a kiss to my forehead, she walked out of the room and I turned the lock. I spent the rest of the evening on my laptop, doing nothing but scrolling through social media aimlessly.
I suddenly felt my skin crawl and slammed the laptop shut as my breathing grew heavier. Again, my wolf was awake and obviously protesting against staying hidden.
"What the fuck is wrong with you?" I groaned in frustration, grabbing my hair as I rolled around the bed uncomfortably.
I already used two inhibitors in one fucking day which was very abnormal because I could keep my wolf asleep for three days with just one injection.
I should have known this would happen. The house was filled with alphas, how could my wolf stay asleep?
"Fuck." I whispered, rubbing my arms to see goosebumps across my skin. The worst part was that I wasn’t cold, I was freaking hot.
In frustration, I pulled off my shirt and turned the air conditioner to the highest setting. It did nothing. The heat I was feeling was coming from inside me and nothing was quenching it.
I had no choice but to inject the last inhibitors I had, but even as I curled into a ball because of the pain, the heat didn’t go down at all. My wolf finally relaxed but I was still hot as fuck.
I glanced at the time. 12:03 AM.
Everyone should be asleep by now. I needed new inhibitors fast and I had to find a way to sneak out of the house to get more. Even though I knew it was mission impossible.
I pushed the door open gently and made my way out of the room, looking left and right to see if there was anyone across the hallway. It was empty and silent.
Good.
I walked down the stairs as silently as I could and when there was still no one on sight, I reached for the door.
"Where’s the little one going?" I heard someone call out from behind me and I stiffened, my hands freezing over the doorknob.
I turned slowly to see Roman standing at the bottom of the stairs, staring at me with his brows raised in amusement.
"I... uhm... just wanted to take a walk." The lie slipped out before I could stop myself and he chuckled, walking up to me.
"Really?" He asked as he stood in front of me and I nodded. "You weren’t planning to run away?"
"Why would I even do that?" I asked shakily, looking away but he only leaned closer, his lips curved into a smirk.
"You tell me. You hide up there in your room and refuse to come down. And now you’re sneaking around. What should I think?" He questioned and I let out a sigh, backing away from him.
"I just wanted to walk around."
"In the middle of the night? Suspicious."
"If you’ll excuse me—"
"Oh, no, stepbrother." He held me back and I froze. "Why don’t we take the walk together? We could get to know each other a bit more."
As he spoke, he stepped closer to me until my back was against the door and he leaned closer to me.
"What do you say?" He whispered, his fingers brushing my hair from my face gently and if I hadn’t bit down on my tongue, I’d have let out a shaky whimper.
"I gotta go." I said hurriedly as I brushed past him and ran back upstairs, my heart pounding harshly in my chest.
What was that about?
My hormones had spiked even more after that encounter with Roman and I could feel my hard dick straining through my pants, making me groan in frustration.
Without inhibitors, there was only one way to calm my fucking hormones down. So without wasting time, I turned off the lights and pulled down my pants, freeing my hard cock.
Biting down on my lips, I started stroking my cock, my back against the door as I tried not to moan so loudly.
"F-fuck..." I whimpered softly as my movement became faster and my back arched in pleasure.
Precum was already leaking out of my cock and I rubbed it over the tip of my cock, making me jerk forward in pleasure as I slapped my free hand over my mouth.
Muffled moans and the sounds of my wet cock filled my room and as I closed my eyes, Roman’s face came into view, his deep voice making my knees buckle.
"Roman..." I moaned before I could stop myself and that was the push I needed to finally orgasm as my cum shot out of my cock.
Why did I call out his name?
I collapsed to the ground, breathing heavily as the heat in me finally subsided. But then I froze, holding my breath for a few seconds.
I could hear someone else’s heavy breathing followed by a soft growl. And it was coming from outside my door.