8. An Intervention

**Narrator’s POV.**

Desiree was still shocked that the stranger had kept to his words by coming, she had expected him to be a no-show; not that it would have surprised her any less, “Wow”, the word of awe left her lips before she could stop it,

“Wow?”, Harrison repeated with an eyebrow cocked up in question, what did she mean by wow?

“Yes, wow”, she placed a smile on her lips, “I am just surprised that you came”,

“Well, as I said earlier, I made a promise and…”, he walked towards a boulder in the middle of the clearing and wiped it with his hand before sitting down. He patted the space beside him, signaling for Desiree to sit, “It would be rude to not honor the werewolf princess’s wishes”, she paused in her steps,

“How do you know?”, she folded her arms over her chest, she was trying to hide the fact that her father was the alpha king from him,

“Really? It is pretty obvious; purple eyes, demanding and you had guards looking for you the other day. Plus, I kind of heard when they yelled princess”,

“And yet, you still came”, amusement was written clearly on her face as her smile had turned into a smirk.

“Well, you could say I have a death wish”, he patted the space again and this time, she successfully made it to him, “A very big one”, he muttered under his breath but she heard him.

The atmosphere was silent for a few minutes, both of them waiting for the other to say something or start a conversation. Desiree, clearly not as social as she seemed had no idea how to do either, so she said the first thing that came to her head, hating the silence, “What are you?”,

His body became rigid at the question, “I am whatever you want me to be”, he answered and looked away from her. Her eyebrow rose up at his absurd answer,

“What does that mean?”, she placed her hand on his shoulder and felt him shudder at her touch, she retracted her hand quickly and placed it on her side, was he still afraid of her?

He let out a sigh and turned back to her, “I don’t want to talk about what I am, okay? You would not like it, so its better if you don’t know it”, she would like it? If she was not bothered before, she was definitely bothered now.

“Is it that bad?”, her curiosity had increased from one to a hundred way too fast,

“I am not ashamed of who I am, I just don’t feel comfortable talking about it”, he shrugged defensively. Something then crossed his mind, “Plus, I don’t even know your name”, it had never come up between them,

“Desiree”, she said all too quickly, “My name is Desiree”.

He nodded, appreciating her beautiful name, “So Desiree…”, her name sounded so wonderful coming out of his mouth, “You are a princess, huh?”,

She let out a grieving sigh, “Unfortunately, I am”,

“What do you mean by unfortunately? You are the werewolf princess, you are living the life”, he pointed out while stretching out his cramped up limbs.

“The term is luna princess, not werewolf princess- that sounds like too much responsibility”, she said as she got up from the very uncomfortable boulder, sitting on the floor would have been ten times better for her fragile butt, “Also, I’m living life with an overprotective father, so yes, unfortunately”, she began to pace in front of him, letting blood flow to her legs,

“He is overprotective because he loves you. You are his only daughter after all”, Harrison stood up as well and went towards her, he held her hand to stop her from digging a manhole with her feet. “You also seem like a rebel”.

“Oh, really? What makes you think that?”, she placed a smirk on her lips once again,

“You are dressed in all black, you have more than three piercings and I am very sure you snuck out of the castle”, he pointed out with a smile. She could not help but notice how his eyes became brighter when he was smiling, “What?”, she had been staring at him for long- way too long,

“Your eyes”, she was still staring at him intensely, “They are unique”, he answered her with a scoff,

“I don’t think you are in any place to tell me that, purple eyes”, he said teasingly, “But, I do get a that a lot”,

“From your clan?”, she asked excitedly, so there were more of his kind?

“Yes, from my clan, especially the females”, a pang of jealousy ran through her veins as he mentioned the other females that were in his life other than her,

“Oh”, she took her hand from him and looked away, shoving them into her hoodie. Of course, he had other females going after him, if he had managed to capture her, he had probably captured all the females in his clan with his unique features.

He somehow noticed the change in the atmosphere even without extra senses like she had, “But, I am not interested in any of them”, he was not lying, he could have decided not to see her tonight but there was reason he came, “You have been in my head for the past two days”,

“You are lying”, it was too good to be true, he was also thinking of her like she had been thinking about him?

“I am not, feel my heartbeat”, he took her hand and placed it on his chest, where his heart was. Any sane person would know never to let a werewolf that close to their heart, any small threat, the heart would be on the floor beside the owner of it. His heart was steady and even so, it was either he was an insanely good liar or he was telling the truth.

A wide grin formed on her face, “You are not lying”, the last time she had been that happy was when her mother had said that she was not having anymore pups after her when she was younger, she could not stand the thought of being the middle child,

“I am not lying”, he declared, taking her hand off his chest and squeezing it,

“Does your clan know you’re here?”,

“No, just like you, no one knows and I think it would be better that way”, he did not say it to offend her and she knew where he was coming from, if her father or mother found out that she was meeting with a mysterious stranger in the night, she would be locked up till she died.

“I understand”, she took out her phone from her pocket, she had put it on areophane mode so no one could reach her even if they found out she was gone, “Can I have a number?”,

“What is that?”, he looked at the device in her hands curiously,

“Are you serious?”, her eyebrows furrowed in confusion, was he playing tricks on her, how could he not know what a phone was?

“Yes, what is that?”, he crossed his arms over his chest, acting defensive again,

“A phone; it is a communication device, if you had one, I would be able to talk to you when you are far way”, she explained still not believing his obliviousness to such a common device. Where was he living? Underground?

“Wow, that would make things much easier”, he said as he tried to figure out how the device worked,

“I would teach you how to use one when next we meet, it is already getting late”, she checked the time on her phone and it was past midnight; time flies when you are having fun.

“So, this device of yours tells the time as well, sweet”, he became very excited for their next encounter, “How does two days from now sound? This exact spot”, he suggested,

“I would be here”, she promised and he smiled, “I am actually happy that you showed up today”, she admitted,

“I am happy that I showed up”, he bent down and placed a small peck on her cheeks.

She tried to hide the blush that crept up her cheeks with her long hair, “I should really get going, goodbye Harrison”, she said but he stopped her before she could walk away,

“Can you do me a solid favor before you leave?”,

“Sure, what is it?”,

“Well, my clan actually sent me out to hunt today but I suck at it- badly, do you mind?”, he scratched his neck sheepishly but to her, his sheepishness looked extremely cute.

She rolled her eyes and pulled off her hoodie with her shirt, left only in her bra, “Fine, but you owe me”, she said before morphing into her beautiful silver wolf, a single diamond placed in the middle of her head. Harrison’s eyes nearly fell out of its sockets, he had never seen a werewolf morph before, neither had he ever seen one up close- she was absolutely beautiful. Subconsciously, his hands went to her fur and he began to rub the soft hair, a purr left her snout,

“You are beautiful”, he told her, she made a happy sound and leaned her massive head down then barked at him before dashing into the thickness of the forest.