BEAUTIFUL TEMPLE

VALERIE After hanging out in the beach a little longer, Shawn and I decided to go to the temple. Well he did, he said he had to show me something there. It was around 12:30 in the noon when we reached the temple. I was wearing a light green drop hem dress while Shawn wore a shorts and a t-shirt. He held my hands in his and we walked inside the temple. I smiled looking at the reflection of our hands together in those crystal clear tiles. When I raised my head to look at the statue, my breath got caught in my throat. The statue of the goddess was illuminating like a bright diamond. The hot afternoon sunlight fell directly on the statue through the opening from the dome making it shine like a million diamonds. I stood frozen in my spot staring at the beauty of the temple. "How is it?" Shawn asked me. "It's... uh, I mean no words can describe the beauty of this!" I said sighing. "Is it the same every afternoon?" I asked him and he gave me a nod. "It's more beautiful on a full moon night." he said, "Wow!" I exclaimed in surprise. "It's.... just, wow!" I was left speechless. I've been to all the temples from different Packs but none of it could match the beauty of this temple. Simple and elegant. "It is the first building I designed." Shawn said to me and I was surprised to hear it. "When?" I asked him. Even though I was with him, I never really asked him about his life in the past six years and it made me feel guilty now. "I was in my high school, senior year. I got bored after watching the same shoe-box design for the temple in almost every Pack and that is when this plan popped in my head." he said and I smiled. "I am glad you liked it." he said. "How can I not? It's so blissful!" I said and held his hands and began walking towards the statue of the goddess. After lighting the candles, we knelt down and began to pray. When I closed my eyes, all I could see was the cliff. There were images of cliff coming one after the other. It was secluded. There were no screams or anything but the cliff was there. I opened my eyes all of a sudden and looked at the statue that was glowing. Gulping, I turned to look at Shawn who was still praying. After looking at him, I too closed my eyes. Fortunately, there were no images in my head this time. After Shawn dropped me at the Pack House, I directly made my way towards the main door. Everyone around was staring at me with a knowing look. I ignored it the first two times but when I passed Ivan and Cherry, Ivan hoot whistled at me. "What?" I asked him. He didn't reply instead, he just grinned and roamed his eyes over me once but not in a lustful way, it was more like teasing me. Cherry who was sitting on his lap was also grinning at me. Frowning, I shook my head at them. "Is Edith up?" I asked them. "Yeah. Up and Out of bed baby." he said still grinning. I just stared at him for a whole minute to find the other meaning behind his words but I couldn't. "You are an idiot!" I muttered before going upstairs. When I went upstairs I could hear voices coming from Edith's room so I pushed the door and went inside. The first thing I noticed was Edith who was still in bed but she was awake now and Nathan was sitting beside her. Evie, Oscar, Jasper and Sheila were also there in the room. "You woke up!" I said and they all turned to look at me and started staring the same way like Ivan. "And you mated!" Edith said and I stood frozen on my spot. How the....? Oh dear Goddess! That is one of the cons of being a werewolf. You can always smell your mate's scent mixed in you after you mate. I remembered how we had teased Edith and Nathan for a whole week when they mated for the first time and realised I'm never going to get the end of this from my friends. I slowly glanced at Evie hoping her scent was different since she was cozy with Jasper last night but no such luck. She wasn't mated to Jasper yet. "Guess, I'm going to become a godmother first!" Evie teased using my words from yesterday. Kill me, kill me now. My cheeks were on fire and it was difficult to even try keeping my head straight. Everyone started laughing at me. "Hey... you cannot tease me like-" I began but Nathan cut me off. "That's right people, you cannot be mean to her!" He said and I sighed for only a second because he spoke again. "Did you use protection?" Nathan asked grinning. "Nathan!" I screeched while everyone burst out laughing except Jasper who looked like he wanted to throw up, after all they were talking about his sister's sex life which was none of their business by the way. "He's right because I'm too young to become an uncle." Oscar said pointing at Nathan and I decided it was enough. "That's it. I'm leaving!" I yelled, stomping my foot like a child and slammed the door hard for extra effect but of course they were laughing even then which only added color to my cheeks. I was going downstairs when Oscar called me, "Valerie, wait." "What? Not done yet?" I snapped and he just chuckled. "It's not about that. Uh.... I did the job." he said and I immediately stiffened. But I was surprised because Oscar didn't look so angry. "Where is it?" I asked him. "I mailed you." he said. "Not a word to anyone!" I said and he nodded. I reached the house and found Shawn in the living room. "Back so soon?" he asked me. "I'm not going there again, ever!" I said recalling the way they made fun of me. "What? Did the sun rise from west?" Shawn asked grinning. "They mocked at me!" I whined and he just closed the distance between us and placed a lingering kiss on my neck. Before things could get heated I pulled away and went to the room. I could literally see the dust all over my laptop. In a writers laptop. I had not typed a single chapter properly ever since I came here. I was constantly occupied with one thing or the other. Ignoring all other thoughts, I opened my mail box and started going through the mails Oscar sent me. What I read disturbed me. "Why are we even watching this?" Shawn snapped at me. "Shh... I am watching." I said. "And repeating the dialogues. Seriously how many times have you watched this movie?" Shawn asked me. After he sensed my mood he kept asking me what was wrong but I refused to tell him. Finally he gave up and suggested that we watch a movie after dinner to which I eagerly agreed and here we were now watching The Wolverine that had my handsome Hugh Jackman in it. I was repeating all of his dialogues and it was pissing Shawn off, who firstly didn't want to watch this movie and secondly because I lied to him that I had never watched this movie and wanted to watch it. "Uh.... I lost count!" I said honestly and he just stared at me. "What? He is my favorite, okay. I mean look at him. Who cannot love that handsome face, that hot body, that husky voice, that- WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?" I shouted because Shawn had removed the plug from the back. "I was watching the movie!" I said growling and he just rolled his eyes. "BULLYING RHINOCEROS!" I screamed and threw the remote at him. I growled louder when he caught the remote with his hands. "Are you done?" he asked me while I threw another cushion at him which again he caught calmly. "Connect the plug now" I said glaring at him. "No. I'm not watching that stupid movie with a stupid actor whose face looks like a mouse." He said and I narrowed my eyes at him. "You didn't just say that!" I said and pointed my index at him. "I did." he said smugly. "You are sleeping on the couch!" I said and that wiped the smug expression from his face. I mentally did a self-five at that. "Now be a good boy and connect the plug!" I said smirking and he did just that with a huge scowl on his face. Just when the movie was about to start, Oscar called for me through the link. "I've got to go!" I said and got up from the couch and ran into the woods with Shawn following me. "What are we doing here?" He asked me. It was close to midnight and we were hiding behind a tree near the border of the Silverstone Moon Pack territory. "Shouldn't we be doing something... interesting?" Shawn asked me. "Interesting? Like what?" I asked him. "Like Uppie downie.." he said and I turned beet red when he used my words at me. "Shh... later." I said and he nodded with a grin. 'Oscar?" 'Ya?' 'There yet?' 'No. I think heading towards your direction.' he told me through the link. Just then I heard the ruffling of the leaves and sounds of panting and I knew it was her. "Going somewhere?" I asked her and she stopped dead in her tracks. I came out of my hiding along with Shawn who was staring at her. A look of horror spread in Bella's face when she saw me. I stared at her while Shawn growled at her. He figured it out when he looked at the bag pack she was carrying. He took a threatening step towards her but I held his arms and stopped him. "Alpha." she whispered with teary eyes and collapsed on the ground with a thud. "Bloody-" "Shawn!" I snapped and stopped him from speaking further. "Don't!" "She betrayed you by spying for those rogues and you are just letting her go?" he snapped at me. "It's not like that." I said and bent down and slightly shook Bella. Just then, Oscar arrived. "Can you please carry her to our house? I need to talk to her." I said to Shawn. He scowled at me but Oscar quickly picked Bella up. "Evie knows." Oscar said and I raised my eyebrows. "She was with me while I was watching over Bella." He said and I sighed. I didn't want to go to the Pack House because Nathan would definitely kill Bella if he knew she was involved in the attack on Edith and the last thing I wanted was hatred against each other in my Pack. Everyone will undeniably start hating her when they come to know that she was working for Mark Ambrose but i didn't want that especially when I knew why she was doing so. Bella didn't deserve that. I had suspected her involvement with the rogues yesterday after the nurse had told me about the bruises in her body. Nobody in my Pack would dare to hurt anyone so cruelly, so that meant only one thing.....someone else was hitting her. Someone like Mark Ambrose! I knew Bella might have been in contact with him and if I came to know where the hell he was hiding, then I'd go and attack him there! I just wanted his address and that was when I asked Oscar for a favor.