Chapter SIXTEEN

I waited for a chance to speak to Syrus but didn't get a glimpse of him for the rest of the day.
"If you're going to be like this all day I might as well just keep quiet",she said as we cleaned the driveway. I barely had any sleep last night.
Syrus was having some distinguished guests over ,some important members of the werewolf community; nobody has an idea of the reason for this short notice gathering.
"What are you thinking about", Jill flickered my forehead.
" Ouch! Nothing I'm just wondering what all this is about",I say dropping my broom.
" Jill and Eden get back to work!", An Omega supervising the work outside says.
We continued working for the rest of the day until it was noon,many wolves still didn't like humans so to avoid any accidents with humans being at the receiving end,we were all given a black lace mask to cover our faces,we were also given new uniforms.
"Dammit I can't see in this thing", Jill complains, I'm starting to believe she has eyesight problems, we'll have to visit Mark after this.
Before the guests arrived the head maid gave us rules to follow "don't look them in the eye, don't speak if not spoken to be as invisible as air, break these rules then you're on your own not even the Alpha will save you", she said and walked away.
Some of the wolves had smiles on their faces like they were waiting to see a great show. Some of them even bet on who would make it out alive at the end of the night.
I was worried about Jill,she is already bumping into people,so I spoke to a head servant that gave her the job of directing the guests to the restroom at least she won't have to carry anything around.
The guests started arriving and it was like a fairytale. These people were just too perfect to be true; they spoke money, beauty and elegance. We stood near the walls trying to be as invisible as we could.
Yadira too was attending this is the first time I saw her in a dress,her entire back was exposed and I got a glimpse of her tattoo of a dead tree.
Mark too was here,he looked amazing in his suit. This is my first time seeing him dressed so formally.
Vincent walked in with Roman and like he sensed my eyes on him ,he looked my way making my back stiffen, seeing my reaction he smirked and walked away following behind Roman.
Almost everyone had arrived but Syrus was nowhere to be seen, my thoughts went back to the tattoo on Yadira's back when everyone quieted down. My eyes followed the direction everyone was looking and saw Syrus standing at the top of the stairs.
He took my breath away,he looked amazing in the tux he was wearing,I could see the faces most of the ladies had, even those that came in with partners. I wanted to gouge out their eyes for looking at mine and desiring it.
Just then Tatiana joined him and wrapped her arms around his neck. She looked amazing. They both wore black and looked like they were a matching couple. A matching couple?.
They gracefully made their descent and it was like time stopped for me,I felt someone's eyes on me ,so I turned in the direction the scorching gaze was coming from and saw Vincent staring at me ,he winked at me and smirked but before I could think why he did so Syrus spoke.
"Thank you all for making the trip in such short notice, I'm grateful that you took time off your schedules to come and celebrate our engagement".he said and Tatiana showed her ring to everyone with excitement.
It took a while for me to process what he said and when I did my knees gave out and the tray with the glasses of champagne that I held slipped out of my hands.
All the glasses broke and everyone's attention was drawn to me including Syrus' that just coldly stared at me,I searched in his eyes for reassurance that he was going to explain later,an apologetic look anything but his eyes were still like pools of melted gold.
I quickly got down to my knees and started picking up the pieces of glass not noticing that I was clenching them so they cut into my flesh.
"Eden! Eden!", I didn't notice Mark calling me,he grabbed my bleeding hands and dragged me out of there.
"Careful Mark otherwise you'll start smelling like vermint ", a man said and the rest of them laughed.
"You must be careful",he said as he bandaged my hands ," are you okay?",he asked holding my face in his hands " you can cry if you want to Eden", he said but I just stared at him.
" I'm sorry to interrupt but she has to go back to work", the head servant said.
" Can't you see that she's hurt?!", Mark questions.
"I'm sorry but these are Luna's orders",she says and looks at me amusingly, poking me in my sore spot.
I wanted to scream, throw a fix and burst through those doors and demand Syrus explain what all this is,most of all I wanted to cry ,cry my the pain I was feeling inside away,I could do it inside this mask I wore and no one would notice. But deep inside I told myself there must be an explanation for all of this and Syrus was going to tell me, I'm his mate, I'm his mate ,I kept repeating over and over again.
I slowly stood up holding my crumbling self.
"You don't have to do this ",Mark said holding my arm,I slowly removed his hand and followed behind the head servant,we walked all the way to the piano room,I found Jill there and other humans too,I could hear music coming from inside and laughter.
"Are you okay?",she worriedly asked.
"Yes ",I said and took a deep breath,we took our trays and the double doors opened.
There were only men in this room, smoking and drinking. Collin sat by the piano playing a song for everyone.
"I'm surprised there are still humans in your pack Syrus,mine don't last a month", a huge man whose face was covered in tattoos.
"You have very interesting humans, Syrus",a lean British man in a purple suit says before grabbing me by the hand and pulling me to his lap. The tray in my hands slipped and everything on it broke.
"A clumsy one we have here",he said, slipping his hand under my skirt to move me closer to him,he was cold to the touch,I looked into his eyes and noticed that he was different, I've never seen a wolf with purple eyes.
"Like what you see darling",he continued sniffing me, grabbing my bandaged hands and squeezing them. My cuts bleed through the bandages as I screamed in pain and tried to rip them out of his hold.
I struggled to get away from him while the rest of them laughed.
After all of my bandages were soaked in blood he moved my hand to his mouth and sucked on it. He moaned in delight and continued squeezing and sucking on them.
"I knew it from the moment I smelt your blood",he said. " I want the girl brother",he says and turns to Syrus who hasn't said a thing this whole time.
"Let go of me you psycho!", I screamed.
"You have a little fire in you I'll enjoy breaking you",he smiled showing me his monstrous sharp fangs and rips my mask off. I struggled even more after the realization of what he could be dawned on me.
"You're a beauty to behold".
"No", Syrus says "let her go".
"I'll buy her",he offers "name your price".
" She is not for sale",he says coldly, staring at him.
" One million!",he says.
"The girl is one that I sleep with,she is not for sale",he says " so let her go Vlad",he warns.
" I see why you'd not want to let her go",the girl is sexy, he says, squeezing my hips " but I don't mind if you've had her,so I offer again ,three million", he says.
All I hear is a growl and I'm ripped from his arms and the man called Vlad has Syrus' hand wrapped around his neck threatening to crush it.
"She isn't just a whore you sleep with,now it's she, Syrus boy", the man says while clawing at Syrus'hand causing serious damage to it but Syrus seems unfazed and tightens his hold on his .
"Let him go Syrus!"The door bursts open and Yadira holds onto her brother " let's not do anything that we are all going to regret",she says trying to calm him "Roman take the human ",she says and Roman attempts to take me away from him.
"Don't touch her",he growls, I get a look at him, and his eyes have blackened,I can't conceal the fear on my face. He sees how scared I am and lets Roman take me out of the room.