Chapter 224

Davyna's POV

We get back downstairs and I immediately head to the bar and grab a

vodka cranberry. Sage isn't far behind me, and comes up just as l gulp the drink down in 2 mouthfuls.

"Okay take it easy there, D." I hold up my finger to her as I finish my last mouthful. I sigh as I feel the tingle of the alcohol hitting my stomach.

"That's better. Needed to calm the nerves." I order another and just start to sip it slowly. Sage orders a sex on the beach and sits beside me as we start to see people coming in for the party. I take a moment to scan the room and I find Vincent and Caleb sitting in the same booth they were in when I first met them, Do they sit there for a reason?

"Honestly you really need to take a leap of faith and get over there." I choke back my current sip of my drink.

"Sage I told you. Not happening!" I hit my chest lightly, trying to clear out the alcohol that i just almost aspirated.

"Then why do you keep looking for them?" I look at her, and my face

drops.

"I don't know, honestly." Sage looks at me with a saddened

expression just as the music starts up and more people pile in. Yeah okay, small party my ass Marcella. Almost the entire floor of the club is packed at this point. Not too much so that you can't move around, but you would have to squeeze through in some areas.

"Feels like I should be working." I say and Sage chuckles.

"But you don't have to! That's the best part!" Marcella says as she

comes up to Sage and I at the bar. She orders a drink which I don't recognize, chugs it and then grabs my hand and looks at Sage.

"Lets go dance!" go to protest, thinking just had to perform in front of Vincent and Caleb and I need a break, but I know i can't voice that out loud. I wouldn't hear the end of it.

Troll my eyes I sigh and finish my second drink and place the glass down on the bar as Sage finishes hers and does the same. "Okay, fine" The moment I reply, I'm pulled out to the dance floor, which I didn't recognize was cleared away of the tables and chairs that usually are on top of it. Sage and Marcella start to dance right away and then I feel the alcohol starting to hit me and I join in, worries going away for the moment

Caleb's POV

I see out of the corner of my eye Davyna talking with Sage at the bar. I chuckle to myself having heard them earlier upstairs. Sage is pushy, but she just might push Davyna into mine and Vincent's direction if she keeps at it so there's no problem there. I like her. I then see Marcella make her way up to them and after some exchange of words -I don't bother using my wolf hearing the three of them head out to the dance floor, and unknown to them, Marcella stops where Vincent and I would have a straight shot view of Davyna.

"Marcella is just too good at this did see her chug a drink down real fast when she first got down here maybe the alcohol is lowering her guard a little." I nod towards them. .

"I think you're right there, as usual." Vincent looks in her direction and looks back at me,

"To quote you earlier, this is torture!" He puts his hand on his face and pulls it down and then rubs his temples.

"Cold shower tonight for me."

"Same here, Vincent. Same here."

A bit of time passes and I see the girls leave the floor and head back to the bar. I finished my drink long ago.

"Want another?" I say to Vincent as I grab his glass.

"Yes, thank you." He replies and I get up and make my

way over the bar. Marcella sees me and slightly moves out of the way so I can stand right beside Davyna, I sense her body stiffen at my presence and then she turns around, her straightened hair flowing down her back as she stops to look up at me,the straw of her drink in her mouth as she takes a sip. I see her eyes widen slightly and she quickly pups her mouth away from her straw but

it falls out of her drink and onto the floor.

"Oh.." she says as I grab another from over the bar counter and place it in her drink.

"Thank you." She smiles at me. A full smile. I feel my own heart race and I smile back at her. My wolf howls in my head.

"You're welcome."

"Why do you and Vincent sit over there all by yourselves?" Here we go, an actual conversation. Finally.

"That's our booth. It's reserved for us." She keeps looking at me, "Are you guys important or something?" I laugh. The alcohol is totally hitting her, she's getting bolder then usual

"You could say that." I nod at the bartender to refill mine and Vincent's drinks. She watches intently.

"That's the same drink Marcella got. What is it?" She points to Vincent's glass, clearly intrigued.

"It's a whiskey sour, with plasma in it." She looks at me, while wrinkling up her face in distaste.

"There's blood in there?" I shake my head.

"No, just plasma. Vincent could probably explain it better if you really want to know. I don't drink the stuff.!"

Just then, Sage puts her head on Davyna's shoulder from behind and

whispers something in her ear. Obviously I can hear it.

"Go over there. you know you was want took." I see Davyna blush slightly and then try to cover her face.

"Sage!" I pretend not to notice, but it's highly amusing.

"You're all welcome to come sit with Vincent and I. I state, pushing the boundaries a little in hopes Davyna will cave. Marcella jumps up,

"Yeah let's go, I want to sit down anyways." I hear Marcella quickly through mind link.

You're welcome. send her a look and grab mine and Vincent's drinks and signal for them to follow me over to our booth. As we get back, I see Vincent's eyes widen as he see Dayyna and the o

the others.

"Here's your drink Vincent. The girls wanted to come sit with us, that okay" he smiles.

"You girls are always welcome, and thank you Caleb, appreciate it." He holds up the glass and then takes a sip. I sit down and

sit beside Vincent, then Marcella, Sage and finally Davyna sits down. It's a circular booth so she's pretty much right across from Vincent and I at this point

"Davyna wanted to know if there was blood in your drink" Sage says

and Davyna looks at her surprised.

"Sage! Can you shut it?" Her tone is slightly embarrassed, but man am I ever liking Sage more and more.

Keep pushing her! Vincent looks straight at Davyna. She then turns her attention to him and I hear her take a quick sharp inhale and her heart beats faster.

"It's a She relaxes a little as she nods and leans in to listen to Vincent's explanation.

"There isn't blood in my drink at all. It's plasma. Plasma i:

a part of blood yes, but it's not red like blood. For being mixed with drinks, it is isolated and is actually more yellow in colour. Perfect for a whiskey sour. It blends right in and doesn't affect the taste."

"Why do you have plasma put in your drink?" Davyna asks, her grey eyes intuitively fixed on him.

"Plasma consists of a lot of nutrients that which helps sustain us as vampires. We use the plasma with alcohol so that it's easier to consume and tolerate the alcohol. Blood in it's entirety isn't very good in a drink. It makes it muddy in colour and doesn't taste that great. Blood on it's own it's fine for us as I'm sure you know, but if we want to taste the alcohol and enjoy it, plasma works best,

"That's interesting. I didn't know that. So it's like an infusion." She leans back against the booth. Vincent leans back as well,

"Yes, that's a good way of putting it"

We all carry on some small conversations, and I see Davyna look off to the side towards the dance floor and her entire body stiffens. I immediately follow her gaze and I see Asher.

"Oh fuck. Vincent." interrupt his conversation with Sage and Marcella, and he peers over the top of the booth and sighs.

"Asher" As it grows awkwardly silent, Sage asks,

"Who's Asher?" Marcella fills her in.

"He's a vampire that attacked Davyna when she first got here. He

wasn't united Davyna I swear." Sage turns and looks at Davyna and

smacks her shoulder.

"Why didn't you tell me! You got ATTACKED?!" Davyna looks at her.

"It wasn't important, and shut up. Dad doesn't know. I made these guys keep it a secret" She goes back to watching

Asher as he makes his way around, her body getting more tense as time passes. At this rate she's going to explode.

"Davyna you're an idiot! Of course it's important!! I'm gonna go give this guy a piece of my mind!" She goes to get out but Marcella stops her.

"Sage, don't. Myself, Vincent and Caleb have it handled."

She looks at all three of us and after a couple minutes she sighs. "l guess I couldn't do much about it anyways. I just can't believe someone tried to hurt you, D."

"It's alright, I'm okay." She replies, but I can tell she's still extremely nervous.

"Davyna." I get her attention and those grey eyes once again

lock with mine.

"You're safe. He won't try anything with us all here and with most of the compound here as witnesses.!" She goes to turn her

head back and I grab her hand that she placed on top of the table. I feel the warming sensation of the mate bond and can only hope it will help calm her. She looks at me again.

"I promise. We've got you."

Her shoulders finally relax and she says,

"0kay."

As we predicted, Asher doesn't even approach our booth, but Davyna

still seemsa little tense as we continue our time at the party.

Vincent gets up.

"l'm going to get some more drinks, anybody want anything?" Marcella and Sage say yes but Davyna doesn't answer. Sage

her fingers in front of her face and she snaps out of her trance.

"Drink, Davyna?"

"Yeah, I'll have a vodka cranberry please, Vincent. Thank you." I let him out of the booth and then sit back down and look at Davyna.

"Can we go talk for a minute?" She looks at me and then Sage who says,

"I'l be fine here, D. Go ahead" and gives a slight wink. Smart human Davyna nods at her and stands up as I get up.

"Let's go upstairs to that practice room we were in earlier today." She nods and we walk together. Once we get back into the room, I close the door and she jumps slightly.

"Are you okay?" I ask her and pull up two chairs. She sits in one and I can tell she's got her guard up again by her body language. Her legs are crossed and she's facing away from me, avoiding looking directly at me.

"I'm fine." I sit down and pull my chair slightly closer to hers. She looks at me then.

"Why do you care?"

"I said we've got you, we're not going to let Asher control how you live here."

"You didn't answer my question. Why?" I pause. I won't tell her about the mate bond just yet, I don't need her panicking more about things she doesn't quite understand yet.

"You're part of a council members' family. You should be protected, and Vincent, myself and Marcella have decided we're going to do just that. We're the only ones you know relatively well enough to possibly trust, right?" She looks at me for a few minutes and then nods in agreement.

After another pause, she speaks again

"He would have killed me that night right?" She asks, a cold tone in her voice that I never want to hear again, and I'l do anything to make sure of that.

"Honestly, yes." She puts her face in her hands. "l'm not as strong as I thought."

"You're stronger then most humans I've seen. I mean your workouts in the gym are on par with mine." She looks at me, stunned. "So it was you that I saw in the gym before." I nod.

"l just happened to be there when,you were. I was pretty impressed." She turns in her chair to face me finally.

"You're just saying that. And there's no way l'm on par with you. Look at you. How are you even that ripped?!"

Hello, distraction. I laugh,

"it's not all from working out. I'm an Alpha blooded werewolf,

I'm naturally bigger then most and I gain muscle mass quite easily." Her eyes go wide.

"Uhm what? You're a werewolf?"

"You've never seen one have you?" I question. She shakes her head.

"No. I actually don't know much about any supernatural species,

although l really should since I live in a whole compound with them

now. I've just been..occupied with other things to have even bothered to look into anything much."

"Might be a good idea. Vincent, Marcella and I can answer any questions you have.. I pause. "..and if you want to get stronger...come train with me and Vincent."

Her face shows a look of surprise.

"You'd honestly do that?" I nod.

"Of course. But only if you want to. It's your choice."

She stands up and looks at me, determined.

"Only if you don't go easy on me" I stand up and take my opportunity to intimidate her playfully. I lean close to her and say close to her ear.

"Not a chance." She inhales sharply and I back away, grinning to myself as I turn around.

"Let's get back." She nods and we head back downstairs and to the

table, her heart racing as we go. Here you go! l enjoy the dynamic between Davyna and Caleb, you'll see more of their interactions as we get further along."16- Party, Party..... alpha unknown new4

Davyna's POV

We get back downstairs and I immediately head to the bar and grab a

vodka cranberry. Sage isn't far behind me, and comes up just as l gulp the drink down in 2 mouthfuls.

"Okay take it easy there, D." I hold up my finger to her as I finish my last mouthful. I sigh as I feel the tingle of the alcohol hitting my stomach.

"That's better. Needed to calm the nerves." I order another and just start to sip it slowly. Sage orders a sex on the beach and sits beside me as we start to see people coming in for the party. I take a moment to scan the room and I find Vincent and Caleb sitting in the same booth they were in when I first met them, Do they sit there for a reason?

"Honestly you really need to take a leap of faith and get over there." I choke back my current sip of my drink.

"Sage I told you. Not happening!" I hit my chest lightly, trying to clear out the alcohol that i just almost aspirated.

"Then why do you keep looking for them?" I look at her, and my face

drops.

"I don't know, honestly." Sage looks at me with a saddened

expression just as the music starts up and more people pile in. Yeah okay, small party my ass Marcella. Almost the entire floor of the club is packed at this point. Not too much so that you can't move around, but you would have to squeeze through in some areas.

"Feels like I should be working." I say and Sage chuckles.

"But you don't have to! That's the best part!" Marcella says as she

comes up to Sage and I at the bar. She orders a drink which I don't recognize, chugs it and then grabs my hand and looks at Sage.

"Lets go dance!" go to protest, thinking just had to perform in front of Vincent and Caleb and I need a break, but I know i can't voice that out loud. I wouldn't hear the end of it.

Troll my eyes I sigh and finish my second drink and place the glass down on the bar as Sage finishes hers and does the same. "Okay, fine" The moment I reply, I'm pulled out to the dance floor, which I didn't recognize was cleared away of the tables and chairs that usually are on top of it. Sage and Marcella start to dance right away and then I feel the alcohol starting to hit me and I join in, worries going away for the moment

Caleb's POV

I see out of the corner of my eye Davyna talking with Sage at the bar. I chuckle to myself having heard them earlier upstairs. Sage is pushy, but she just might push Davyna into mine and Vincent's direction if she keeps at it so there's no problem there. I like her. I then see Marcella make her way up to them and after some exchange of words -I don't bother using my wolf hearing the three of them head out to the dance floor, and unknown to them, Marcella stops where Vincent and I would have a straight shot view of Davyna.

"Marcella is just too good at this did see her chug a drink down real fast when she first got down here maybe the alcohol is lowering her guard a little." I nod towards them. .

"I think you're right there, as usual." Vincent looks in her direction and looks back at me,

"To quote you earlier, this is torture!" He puts his hand on his face and pulls it down and then rubs his temples.

"Cold shower tonight for me."

"Same here, Vincent. Same here."

A bit of time passes and I see the girls leave the floor and head back to the bar. I finished my drink long ago.

"Want another?" I say to Vincent as I grab his glass.

"Yes, thank you." He replies and I get up and make my

way over the bar. Marcella sees me and slightly moves out of the way so I can stand right beside Davyna, I sense her body stiffen at my presence and then she turns around, her straightened hair flowing down her back as she stops to look up at me,the straw of her drink in her mouth as she takes a sip. I see her eyes widen slightly and she quickly pups her mouth away from her straw but

it falls out of her drink and onto the floor.

"Oh.." she says as I grab another from over the bar counter and place it in her drink.

"Thank you." She smiles at me. A full smile. I feel my own heart race and I smile back at her. My wolf howls in my head.

"You're welcome."

"Why do you and Vincent sit over there all by yourselves?" Here we go, an actual conversation. Finally.

"That's our booth. It's reserved for us." She keeps looking at me, "Are you guys important or something?" I laugh. The alcohol is totally hitting her, she's getting bolder then usual

"You could say that." I nod at the bartender to refill mine and Vincent's drinks. She watches intently.

"That's the same drink Marcella got. What is it?" She points to Vincent's glass, clearly intrigued.

"It's a whiskey sour, with plasma in it." She looks at me, while wrinkling up her face in distaste.

"There's blood in there?" I shake my head.

"No, just plasma. Vincent could probably explain it better if you really want to know. I don't drink the stuff.!"

Just then, Sage puts her head on Davyna's shoulder from behind and

whispers something in her ear. Obviously I can hear it.

"Go over there. you know you was want took." I see Davyna blush slightly and then try to cover her face.

"Sage!" I pretend not to notice, but it's highly amusing.

"You're all welcome to come sit with Vincent and I. I state, pushing the boundaries a little in hopes Davyna will cave. Marcella jumps up,

"Yeah let's go, I want to sit down anyways." I hear Marcella quickly through mind link.

You're welcome. send her a look and grab mine and Vincent's drinks and signal for them to follow me over to our booth. As we get back, I see Vincent's eyes widen as he see Dayyna and the o

the others.

"Here's your drink Vincent. The girls wanted to come sit with us, that okay" he smiles.

"You girls are always welcome, and thank you Caleb, appreciate it." He holds up the glass and then takes a sip. I sit down and

sit beside Vincent, then Marcella, Sage and finally Davyna sits down. It's a circular booth so she's pretty much right across from Vincent and I at this point

"Davyna wanted to know if there was blood in your drink" Sage says

and Davyna looks at her surprised.

"Sage! Can you shut it?" Her tone is slightly embarrassed, but man am I ever liking Sage more and more.

Keep pushing her! Vincent looks straight at Davyna. She then turns her attention to him and I hear her take a quick sharp inhale and her heart beats faster.

"It's a She relaxes a little as she nods and leans in to listen to Vincent's explanation.

"There isn't blood in my drink at all. It's plasma. Plasma i:

a part of blood yes, but it's not red like blood. For being mixed with drinks, it is isolated and is actually more yellow in colour. Perfect for a whiskey sour. It blends right in and doesn't affect the taste."

"Why do you have plasma put in your drink?" Davyna asks, her grey eyes intuitively fixed on him.

"Plasma consists of a lot of nutrients that which helps sustain us as vampires. We use the plasma with alcohol so that it's easier to consume and tolerate the alcohol. Blood in it's entirety isn't very good in a drink. It makes it muddy in colour and doesn't taste that great. Blood on it's own it's fine for us as I'm sure you know, but if we want to taste the alcohol and enjoy it, plasma works best,

"That's interesting. I didn't know that. So it's like an infusion." She leans back against the booth. Vincent leans back as well,

"Yes, that's a good way of putting it"

We all carry on some small conversations, and I see Davyna look off to the side towards the dance floor and her entire body stiffens. I immediately follow her gaze and I see Asher.

"Oh fuck. Vincent." interrupt his conversation with Sage and Marcella, and he peers over the top of the booth and sighs.

"Asher" As it grows awkwardly silent, Sage asks,

"Who's Asher?" Marcella fills her in.

"He's a vampire that attacked Davyna when she first got here. He

wasn't united Davyna I swear." Sage turns and looks at Davyna and

smacks her shoulder.

"Why didn't you tell me! You got ATTACKED?!" Davyna looks at her.

"It wasn't important, and shut up. Dad doesn't know. I made these guys keep it a secret" She goes back to watching

Asher as he makes his way around, her body getting more tense as time passes. At this rate she's going to explode.

"Davyna you're an idiot! Of course it's important!! I'm gonna go give this guy a piece of my mind!" She goes to get out but Marcella stops her.

"Sage, don't. Myself, Vincent and Caleb have it handled."

She looks at all three of us and after a couple minutes she sighs. "l guess I couldn't do much about it anyways. I just can't believe someone tried to hurt you, D."

"It's alright, I'm okay." She replies, but I can tell she's still extremely nervous.

"Davyna." I get her attention and those grey eyes once again

lock with mine.

"You're safe. He won't try anything with us all here and with most of the compound here as witnesses.!" She goes to turn her

head back and I grab her hand that she placed on top of the table. I feel the warming sensation of the mate bond and can only hope it will help calm her. She looks at me again.

"I promise. We've got you."

Her shoulders finally relax and she says,

"0kay."

As we predicted, Asher doesn't even approach our booth, but Davyna

still seemsa little tense as we continue our time at the party.

Vincent gets up.

"l'm going to get some more drinks, anybody want anything?" Marcella and Sage say yes but Davyna doesn't answer. Sage

her fingers in front of her face and she snaps out of her trance.

"Drink, Davyna?"

"Yeah, I'll have a vodka cranberry please, Vincent. Thank you." I let him out of the booth and then sit back down and look at Davyna.

"Can we go talk for a minute?" She looks at me and then Sage who says,

"I'l be fine here, D. Go ahead" and gives a slight wink. Smart human Davyna nods at her and stands up as I get up.

"Let's go upstairs to that practice room we were in earlier today." She nods and we walk together. Once we get back into the room, I close the door and she jumps slightly.

"Are you okay?" I ask her and pull up two chairs. She sits in one and I can tell she's got her guard up again by her body language. Her legs are crossed and she's facing away from me, avoiding looking directly at me.

"I'm fine." I sit down and pull my chair slightly closer to hers. She looks at me then.

"Why do you care?"

"I said we've got you, we're not going to let Asher control how you live here."

"You didn't answer my question. Why?" I pause. I won't tell her about the mate bond just yet, I don't need her panicking more about things she doesn't quite understand yet.

"You're part of a council members' family. You should be protected, and Vincent, myself and Marcella have decided we're going to do just that. We're the only ones you know relatively well enough to possibly trust, right?" She looks at me for a few minutes and then nods in agreement.

After another pause, she speaks again

"He would have killed me that night right?" She asks, a cold tone in her voice that I never want to hear again, and I'l do anything to make sure of that.

"Honestly, yes." She puts her face in her hands. "l'm not as strong as I thought."

"You're stronger then most humans I've seen. I mean your workouts in the gym are on par with mine." She looks at me, stunned. "So it was you that I saw in the gym before." I nod.

"l just happened to be there when,you were. I was pretty impressed." She turns in her chair to face me finally.

"You're just saying that. And there's no way l'm on par with you. Look at you. How are you even that ripped?!"

Hello, distraction. I laugh,

"it's not all from working out. I'm an Alpha blooded werewolf,

I'm naturally bigger then most and I gain muscle mass quite easily." Her eyes go wide.

"Uhm what? You're a werewolf?"

"You've never seen one have you?" I question. She shakes her head.

"No. I actually don't know much about any supernatural species,

although l really should since I live in a whole compound with them

now. I've just been..occupied with other things to have even bothered to look into anything much."

"Might be a good idea. Vincent, Marcella and I can answer any questions you have.. I pause. "..and if you want to get stronger...come train with me and Vincent."

Her face shows a look of surprise.

"You'd honestly do that?" I nod.

"Of course. But only if you want to. It's your choice."

She stands up and looks at me, determined.

"Only if you don't go easy on me" I stand up and take my opportunity to intimidate her playfully. I lean close to her and say close to her ear.

"Not a chance." She inhales sharply and I back away, grinning to myself as I turn around.

"Let's get back." She nods and we head back downstairs and to the

table, her heart racing as we go. Here you go! l enjoy the dynamic between Davyna and Caleb, you'll see more of their interactions as we get further along."