MY TRUTH

**Dominic’s story**

I couldn’t wait to get out of my own house. Rebecca’s presence was driving me crazy, especially since the wolf in me hadn’t found peace since I rescued her. Not being a pureblood, I was skeptical even about that. I thought I could control my senses and not give in to desire. I couldn’t have been more wrong.
Although I had used my career as an excuse, I still called my agent and right now we were meeting at my favorite restaurant. I didn’t have any shooting, but I really needed to see Nick. He was a man of many ideas. Maybe this time he had one as brilliant as ever.
“You called Megan? The Megan I also know? To help you do what, Dominic?” he asked in a deep voice, almost standing up with the whole table.
The second we sat down at the table, Nick started questioning me. I’ve known Nick for over ten years. He was my best friend, almost like a brother. He also knew my other personality. Only I knew the reason I called Megan to help me, and maybe Megan herself knew it.
“I need her to help me, Nick!” I said firmly, gesturing to him to sit down and not draw attention to us.
“Who Dominic, who do you really need? Megan or the woman in your house?” he snapped, a little upset. “Look, I know, in fact I feel that this woman is more than just someone you saved. Am I right?”
“Yes, she is more. Rebecca is more than that. She is my Luna”
That I admitted for the second time something so obvious filled me with even more anxiety. Then Nick’s mood suddenly changed.
“Does she know that too?” even the tone of his voice was different
“No...”
“Great. Just great!” he swore through his teeth and pounded his fist lightly on the table. Nick was silent for a few more seconds until the waiter served us the coffee we had requested. Then he continued in the same tone. “Then you must find a way to wipe that smirk of a lovesick child off your face, or your secret will terrify her more than anything else in the world.”
“Is it that obvious?”
“Was it sunny in the morning?”
My friend’s statement made me realize and accept that I was truly in love with this woman. Beyond the fact that she was my better half in every way. If at first I denied my feelings, I thought maybe the wolf in me was making a mix-up. Now things were different. This lady rocked my entire world and every time I saw her or spoke to her, I stumbled over the words. I was afraid I meant to say something to her, but my mouth refused to listen to my brain and would say something else entirely. I was like a teenager falling in love for the first time. Or I was stepping on shaky ground, expecting at any moment to fall. “I was correct, wasn’t I? I can see the answer to your shocked and deceived face at the same time.”
“What am I supposed to do now?” I asked no one what my next steps should be. But I was at a crossroads, so twisted that my mind and my wolf refused to think for themselves.
“First, it’s a good thing you acknowledged and second, be honest with her as well!” Speaking from the sidelines, it was so easy to say that. My heart fluttered at the thought of having to come clean in front of her.
“How the hell do I tell her that? It would mean revealing everything I am to her. Nick, she’ s my Luna! You know the changes the wolf in me is going through.”
“Precisely because I know. I advise you to tell her the truth. This will shock, but if the attraction is mutual... I mean, she should feel the same way, right?”
“If she was the same as me yes, but she’s human” I continued in a lower tone, knowing I had been wrong not to have told him this small detail from the start which totally changes all the perspectives from which Nick saw the issue.
I have never been in such a position in my entire life. So many worries, so many shows with millions of spectators and people who loved me and cheered me wherever they met me, and now, with just one, my heart was pounding in a million different places; with just her presence, my entire being, my second self, turned into an unwilling one. They were becoming one creature I could no longer master. If sin had a name, Rebecca would be that name. I just couldn’t stop wondering how she was feeling about me? Or if she was feeling something at all. And then Nick changed his thinking. More like helping me to deal with all this.
“Look, Dominic, all you have to do is give her some time. She’s quite vulnerable right now. And yes, you are maybe right. Being human, we don’t know how she might react, even though she has feelings for you. She can’t see or walk. Her memory’s also been affected. You have plenty of time to sort things out”
“I know. Nick and I are counting on it. That is the main reason I waited a little longer. And don’t think I am taking advantage of her vulnerability, I am not. What I mean, she is living in my house, she’s not going anywhere... for now!”
“For now!” Nick reinforced my darkest thought.

I was sure Nick saw the shadow of sadness across my face. He was right. Even if her reason was as normal as could be, Rebecca was staying with me because she needed help, not because she needed me. She was trying to cope with what had happened to her. I was sure her world would fall apart when she found out about her fiance. And I would be the one to tell her. It couldn’t be anyone else. Would she hate me for that? “If I didn’t know you so well, I would have said you weren’t happy with your role in the new film. Be patient, things will work out, you’ll see” Nick always had a kind word and right now I needed one. But I also needed solutions to know what to do next. It’s going to be hard having Rebecca under the same roof with me. And there was no guarantee that the wolf inside would stay away.
“You know my head’s not in movies and roles right now...”
“And yet you’ll do it so you don’t get out of control. The further away from her until you decide it’s the right time to tell her, the better” Nick interrupted my chain of thoughts and somehow also read them precisely. Because that’s what I intended to do. To keep myself away as long as possible.
“You talk like you have something for me” I steered the discussion in the safest direction for now.
“Of course I do. It’s a romantic movie but sprinkled with action.”
“Hmm, pretty much like my life...” And this was just a thought in my head but one that I expressed out loud.
“It’s the only way to put distance between you and her, keeping you busy. I already have the manuscript at my desk. I didn’t come here with it to put you on your guard from the start, but it would do you good if you’d take it.”
Now what was I supposed to do? I knew it was the only method that would really work. I’d be away most of the time, filming God knew where.
But perhaps it was the wisest thing to do, and it was for that very reason that I did it without hesitation.
“What’s it all about?” I asked curiously, only on the surface. The truth was that I was cold to any movie subject right now.
“That’s my man! The classic love story between a detective and the victim’s sister.”
“Wow, impressive!” I sounded kind of indifferent and not very enthusiastic.
“Hey, just so you know, I checked it out, and the movie is going to have an impressive box office just because you’re going to be in it.”
I looked at him with deep, hollow eyes. Perhaps their blue had never been as sharp as I felt it now. I already saw this role as a way out and although it was okay, it didn’t seem moral to my fans. But who cared about that now? I was going to swallow this pill for the moment and see how it would affect my career and personal life.
“Let’s say I believe you. I need more space anyway and if accepting this role will keep me sane, then I’ll do my best to get it. When’s the audition?”
“In three weeks...” And though my ears heard it, my soul refused to accept that there was so very much time.
“So long? And what am I supposed to do until then? I can’t be away from home for three weeks. Under what pretext?” Already my stress level was rising. So was the wolf in me becoming anxious.
“Hey, calm down, we’ll figure something out!”
“It’s so easy for you to talk. You’re not in my shoes!”
“Then try not to get so involved” That really sounded like torture to me.
“And how do I do that? Have you thought of anything? Because frankly, I haven’t! I feel with every approach how my morals are leaving me and so help me God...”
“Oh, Lord, you are in over your head!”
“What do you want me to say? That ever since I first saw her, in the state she was in, so scared and fragile, I can’t get her out of my mind? She’s so deep in my soul every day and night. When I see her, all I want to do is hold her in my arms and kiss her like crazy? My body reacts to her every breath and I dream of having her in my life, in my bed! And that these last months I’ve gone completely insane because I can’t have her? Now help me fix that!!!”