Chapter 3 The True Love

Thorin shifted to his side when the sunlight started seeping inside the room through the windows. He ran his fingers all over the bed to pull the sweet girl sleeping beside him in his arms. His whole body was aching with a sweet pain. He slept with a girl for the first time, and he loved every single moment of it. He wanted to touch her again, smell her again. She smelled like a valley of flowers, every scent sweet.

But suddenly, he realised that he was unable to smell that sweet scent. When he first met with the girl, there was no smell, and suddenly the whole room filled with the scent he could never forget, his heart filled with the scent he was never going to forget. If the girl, Eve, was still in the room, where was the smell?

He again ran his fingers all over the bed, but there was no one. He frantically opened his eyes and saw that the bed was empty. He was lying on it with the blanket covering him up to his waist. He panicked. Not like a boy losing something precious to him, no, he panicked like he was about to lose all the oxygen from his lungs. He threw the blanket and jumped out of the bed.

“Eve! Eve!” shouted Thorin, almost on the verge of hyperventilating. “Where are you?” he ran to the bathroom to check if she was there. But the door was unlocked. He pushed it open, and it was empty. He felt as if someone was crushing his heart. An absolute punch knocked every bit of air out of his chest. He clenched his chest and fell to his knees.

“Where are you!!!??” he shouted at the top of his lungs.

“Thorin! Thorin!! Open the door! Are you okay?” A voice attracted his attention. He knew it belonged to Corvin, his best friend, his future beta. He suddenly realised that he was not wearing anything. All his clothes were scattered all over the floor.  He gasped when he realised that the green dress he had taken off the body of that goddess was not in the room. which really meant that she was gone.

But how? Why? Why would she leave him alone? He professed his love for her last night. Did she use him and run away? No, no, she was sweet, hurt, polite, all in all, a good human being. Did she find out that he was a werewolf? But no humans were privy to that knowledge. No humans knew that the family of Blackridge Corporation were werewolves.

He grabbed his shirt, pants and his underwear and dressed himself as fast as he could. He ran to open the door but didn’t see the tiny piece of paper under the table. The moment he opened the door, the draft from opening the door pushed the paper even deeper. The contact details Maeve had left him were under the table, lost to the world.

“Where is she? Where is she?” shouted Thorin the moment he opened the door.

“You idiot! You left us out here all night, and this is the question you ask first!!” snapped Othvarin Zayandhra, a friend of Thorin.

But Corvin saw the worry, confusion, fear on Thorin’s face. He looked like he had just lost his heart. “What happened, Thorin?” he asked.

“Corvin! Concentrate! Tell me where she is,” shouted Thorin. Frantically, he moved his fingers in his hair and started pulling his locks in frustration.

“Thorin! The whole night, we sat outside your room. Um… we… we heard your noises… and didn’t want to disturb you. But no one came out of the room. no one! We were here, sitting right here, well, sleeping… but we would have seen her walking out. Who was she? What was that aura? What was that smell?” asked Corvin.

“Moon Goddess! Corvin! I don’t know! I don’t know! She was… she was… something else. Her smell… ohh… I have never smelled anything like that in my life. And her skin, her lips, her eyes, Corvin, I cannot forget her eyes, so big, so brown, I… I… I love her! She is my true love, Corvin! We have to find her! We have to find her!” shouted Thorin. It looked like he was going mad.

“Thorin!” shouted Aguilar Emerson, his other friend, and he held his shoulder tightly. He had to shake it to bring Thorin out of his madness. “Don’t tell us about her physical features. We all saw her. We know what she looks like. Tell us about her. Tell us her name, her address, her contact number, anything!”

That jolted Thorin out of his mad land. He gasped loudly, “Her name? Her address? Her contact number? I… I don’t know anything. Her name… yes… it was Eve. It is Eve.”

“Eve, what?” asked Corvin.

Thorin’s face fell again. He really had no idea who that girl was. Where she came from and where she went. He abruptly looked at his friends and said, “Her friends! Her friends were here last night.” His face again lost all colour with dejection, “I don’t know which room or what their names are. How am I going to find her? But I saw their faces.”

“And you plan to barge into every room to find them?” snapped Aguilar.

“No, I can’t. I know. But how am I going to find her? I will die without her. I will die,” Thorin was on the verge of crying.

“Find her? Love her? True love? What are you even talking about? Moon Goddess gave you your fated mate, Vespera. What about her?” snapped his other friend, Rupdred Duskclaw.

“Rupdred! Not now! We all know Thorin has always denied the mate bond. He doesn’t believe in a fated mate. He has even talked to Vespera about it. They have decided that if they can’t find their true love, it is then they will accept each other. If Thorin says that he has found his true love. We have to find her. That girl… that Eve… she has something about her… something I cannot explain. All I wanted was to protect her last night. My mind kept shouting ‘protect her’, ‘protect her’, over and over again. And when those men touched her, I wanted to rip them apart!” shouted Corvin.

“Wait! What happened to those men?” asked Thorin.