475 THE THIRD ENCOUNTER

Emily felt someone shook her body and Eros’s voice called her name.

“Emily, wake up, we need to leave now.” Eros shook her shoulder to wake her up. She fell asleep an hour ago, she must be exhausted because she did not use to this long journey.

Emily opened her eyes and rubbed her face groggily, she was a little bit disoriented and wanted to sleep a little bit longer. The journey truly exhausted, though all she did was sitting on the car, but somehow, her whole body ached so badly.

“We need to leave in ten minutes,” Eros told her. He had prepared everything and once Emily woke up, she just needed to wash her face and put on her jacket.

“Ah!” Emily immediately sat down and looked startled. Ten minutes?! “I have not yet made a preparation!” she said in panic, but Eros ruffled her hair calmly.

“I have prepared everything for you, now wash your face and we will leave.” Eros nodded to her backpack, this time, this was smaller than the one that they brought. Inside of the backpack, there were all things that Emily needed, Eros had asked about it before she fell asleep.

“Oh, thank you,” Emily said sheepishly, she felt like she was not competent to take care of herself, but then there was not a moment when Eros didn’t take care of her.

“Wash your face,” Eros repeated it again, as he tied his shoelace.

“Okay.” Emily got off the bed, but before she closed the bathroom door, she stole a glance at him. He didn’t look disturb, he looked very calm like usual and this made her uneasy.

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Emily remembered what she had done before she fell asleep with Eros played with her hair. She was nervous when she kissed him and felt like her chest was about to burst, she didn’t even dare to see him in the eyes and she thought Eros would feel the same way like her.

But it seemed the same thing didn’t happen to Eros. He looked exactly like usual. He didn’t look embarrass or nervous or anything, as if there was nothing happened between them.

Or maybe it was only her wishful thinking? Maybe Eros felt something, but because he used to hide his feeling, he didn’t show it to her.

But, it would be nice if what happened between them slightly bothered him, in the good way of course.

Emily flashed water to her face and slapped her cheeks, as she looked at her own reflection on the mirror.

She asked too much. Eros didn’t reject her advance was already a good thing for her, so why she had to whine?

Eros must have the same feeling like her, it was Eros that they were talking about after all. He was very good to put on poker face.

She knew him more than anyone, because they only had each other.

“Put this.” Eros gave a jacket and then waited for her at the doorframe, patiently waiting for Emily to put on her shoes.

“Okay, I am ready to go,” Emily said, as she approached Eros and hugged his arm. This would be fine, right? Touching him like this wouldn’t make him uncomfortable, right?

Emily lifted her head and looked at Eros gingerly, but he didn’t show any sign of discomfort and this made her smiled.

historical

She felt like a teenager, who fell in love for the first time.

Oh, she was a teenager and this was her first love..

Emily just remembered that because it was hard to think that she was like any other teenager around her age when she had gone through so much.

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“I need to take a pee,” Josh said, he was sitting uncomfortably in his seat, while Eros drove the car and Emily was sitting next to him.

“You should go to the restroom before we set off,” Eros literally growled at him because he didn’t want to pull over.

“I drank too much, I have gone to the restroom before,” Josh grumbled in low voice, he didn’t dare to raise his voice toward Eros, even though he was upset right now.

“There is a convenient store in front of us, we can pull over there for a while,” Colton said, he didn’t want to have another fight inside the car. “I need to buy something to drink too.” He didn’t want to buy anything, but he did this to appease Eros’s agitation. “Do you want to buy something Emily?”

Emily shook her head and then looked at Eros. “We will wait inside the car.”

And with that, Eros pulled the car over and Josh and Colton went to the convenient store, while he waited with Emily inside the car.

“Who do you think we will meet?” Emily asked, she fiddled with the strap of her backpack, as she looked at outside, she was fascinated with this city. This place was beautiful, especially when all the street lamps illuminated the road and there were many people roamed around this area.

Compared to their pack, this place was way more advance.

“I don’t know. Colton only said that she is someone that will give us an important thing that you need to check.” Eros tilted his head and then looked at her closely. “Is that serum about the thing that you are working on with Ariana?”

Emily nodded. She just knew about it when Colton told them about this mission. She and Ariana were talking about something missing in their experiment and who would have known that the alpha took this matter to his hand personally, so they could find it faster.

“Did you already know why Liam wants to create a serum that can kill the beast for a shifter?” Eros looked at his surrounding and found a street stall that sold grilled sausage, Emily loved this kind of food.

“No.” She shook her head and tugged her hair nervously. “I don’t know why the alpha wants us to research something like this.” Emily then looked at Eros. “You don’t think he wants to hurt you, right?”

There was no way she wanted to continue this project if this could hurt Eros.

Hearing that, Eros raised his brows and the tousled her hair, while smiling. “Why do you think Liam wants to hurt me?”

Emily loved the way he smiled at her, but she didn’t like it when Eros took this matter lightly. “Because.. I think.. you are stronger than him now.”

Eros was surprised to hear that, he looked at her as if asking her to explain what she was saying earlier.

“I don’t know, maybe it is my bias opinion.” Emily really thought this was her bias judgment. “But, I think you are way stronger than the alpha.”

Was he? Stronger than the alpha? If he was stronger..

Eros clenched his jaw. That was a dangerous thought. He couldn’t go there, because if he entertained himself with that thought, he would think about it more seriously, since he had flashing idea about it even before Emily said anything.

“Don’t talk like that in front of the other, they will misunderstand you and you will be in trouble.” He didn’t want to see her in trouble because of this.

“Of course not.”

Eros nodded. “Good.”

“Where are you going?” Emily was surprised when Eros opened the car door.

“Stay there, I will buy that for you.” Eros nodded at the food stall next to the convenient store.

If it was not because of Eros, who mentioned it, she wouldn’t realize it, but right now, her eyes gleamed with eagerness.

“Ah, I want that!” she said joyfully.

“I know.” Eros smiled and walked over to the stall.

However, when he was about to walk toward the stall, that scent hit him hard. He needed to halt his step and out of instinct, he started to look for the source of this scent.

And there she was, a woman with white hair, her hazel eyes stared at him and it struck him like a lightening when both of them realized what was happening between them.

Without them realizing it, the word formed in their lips, as they whispered it like a the most beautiful word that they could say, yet it was terrifying the moment reality hit them hard.

“Mate.”

The word was simple and brought a lot of meaning to a shifter’s life, but it was not that way for both of them, because it only complicated the thing between them. it would be more complicated than anything that they had gone through.

The woman in white hair shook her head, she looked mortified, so did Eros. He had never felt so afraid in his entire life like right now, even though he was not sure what he had to be afraid of.

Was this the uncertainty in the future?

Both of them just stood there without saying anything and stared at each other, as if there were no people around them. Everything ceased to exist and time stopped.

Eros wanted to approach her, but he didn’t know what to say to her, because they shouldn’t be together. This silly bond pulled them too hard.

They should know this since the very beginning, right? They were mate, the pull was there when they met for the first time seven years ago, but this encounter was something that Eros had never thought before.

“What are you doing?” Colton approached Eros with Josh was right behind him.

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