Chapter 16

I fold the clothes that I pulled out the dryer into my suitcase and scan my room for any item that I may be forgetting before zipping it up. I struggle with the two suitcases as I come down the stairs.

"I can't believe that I'm stuck with you for almost six hours"

"I will haul my suitcases back upstairs to my room and cancel this trip if you're not polite"

He looks at me and the big suitcases before chuckling, "you're struggling with them", he states and for some strange reason, I actually think that he'll help me, "so you won't be able to take them back upstairs", he simply says and leaves the room.

"Typical", I mutter and walk around the apartment switching off all electrical appliances and checking if I'm forgetting anything.

When I'm done, I drag my suitcase out of the apartment and lock the door behind me.

"let me help you with that"

I shake my head at Sebastian, "I can do it"

"I don't mind, my load is really small"

I look at the black bag he has over his shoulder but I still shake my head.

"It's no problem really"

"Oh fucking hell", alpha Casper exclaims and he grabs my suitcases and steps into the elevator.

"Hurry the fuck up", he growls.

I roll my eyes as Sebastian and I step into the elevator. The elevator ride is silent except for the soft music playing so I hum bit.

"Can you stop that? The elevator already has a sound system it doesn't need you", alpha Casper snaps.

I ignore him and continue humming as I gloat over seeing his annoyance and Sebastian tries to hide his amusement. The elevator opens and Sebastian steps out and as I'm about to step out, alpha Casper yanks me back.

"Remember that I'm an alpha odetta", he tells me in his alpha tone.

I scoff , "one, I'm not in your pack, so, your alpha tone shit can't fucking work for me and two, I'm the daughter of an alpha so I'll have you know that it won't work so easily on me"

He releases his grip on my arm and I glare at him before giving the receptionist my keys.

"Did you return your key?", I ask Sebastian as he puts his bag in the trunk as alpha Casper's driver puts my suitcase in the trunk too.

Alpha Casper and I sit in the back seat while Sebastian sits in the passenger seat. I glance at alpha Casper to see that he is on his phone and a huge stack of file sitting beside him. I don't even try to peek at what the file says and mind my own fucking business.

After thirty minutes, we arrive at the private hangar that alpha's are allowed to keep their private jets. We go in and I sit as far away from alpha Casper as I can with Sebastian beside me.

"what's the tea between you and alpha Casper?" Sebastian chuckles.

I raise my eyebrow at him, "tea? Are you fucking kidding me? How old are you?"

"I'll have you know that I'm 29"

"Where is your mate?", I gasp, "don't tell me that you left her behind"

"If I had a mate,I wouldn't dream of leaving her alone for any amount of money. I'm here because I don't have a mate"

"Oh"

"So you and alpha Casper", he reminds me.

I sigh, "it's nothing much except the fact that he really hates my guts and I tend to reciprocate the feelings"

"You know that you two could actually tolerate each other right?"

"Like he would let that happen", I scoff.

"How long are you staying there?"

I shrug, "who knows?"

"I'm going to take a long six hours nap", he says and puts an eye mask over his eyes.

I pass the six hours away by watching any movie that I can watch because sleep just decided not to visit me. I got bored of watching movies a couple of times so I turned to watching alpha Casper. He didn't sleep once through out the trip—he was so focused on the file and when he did mistakenly doze off , it wasn't even up to five minutes. He didn't even eat when the air hostess brought food for us three while I wolfed down mine and half of Sebastian's.

"Finally", I stretch and buckle my seat belt as the air hostess gives the speech before we land. I wake Sebastian up and he grudgingly buckles his seat belt and goes back to sleep.

When we land, I wake Sebastian up and we step out if the private jet after alpha Casper. There's already a sleek car waiting for us. We wait for the driver to put our bags in the trunk and step into the car.

My ring tone blasts through the car and I scramble for my phone. I give alpha Casper an apologetic smile as I answer the call but he scowls at me.

I ignore him and put the phone to my ear, "you didn't tell me you were going to the capital"

"It was a last minute decision"

"But you told Quinn and mum", he accuses.

"In my defense I did tell them to tell you in seven hours because I knew you'd make a fuss"

"Are you sure about this?", He lowers his voice

"Noel you worry too much. You have a mate who is pregnant and alpha duties"

He sighs, "I know, I know but I just don't trust alpha Casper"

Alpha Casper let's out a grunt, "you do know that he can hear you"

"I don't fucking care"

"Tell your brother not to disrespect me"

"I'm not on your land alpha Casper", he snarls.

"How about I call when alia has calmed you down"

"Okay but don't forget to greet both our grandparents for me"

"I won't and I'm sure they'll be so excited to see me"

"I wonder who else would be excited to see you besides my son" alpha Casper murmurs.

I hang up and glare at him, "are you ever not childish?", I'm starting to regret my impromptu decision to travel six hours away from my home with him.

"Me?—childish? Never"

"Don't pretend to not know what I'm talking about"

He doesn't answer me and keeps on using his phone.

"Stupid alpha", I hiss and press my forehead against the window.

I can feel him burn holes at the back of my head and I smile in victory. I knew that would get his attention. I spend the next ten minutes counting the big buildings that we pass by.

"What?", I snap when my phone rings and I see Noel's name as the caller's ID.

"What did I do wrong?", Noel laughs.

"You do know that you're annoying right?"

"You hung up on me"

"Oh sorry"

"I just wanted to tell you to be safe and I love you"

I raise a brow at no one in particular; "are you sure?is that all?"

"Okay so—", He sighs "—alia just kicked me out of the room"

I roll my eyes, "why?"

"Because I'm frustrating"

"It's been almost ten minutes"

"I know but..."

"Did you purposely call me first or did everyone reject you at home"

"Mum and dad are doing the devil's tango and God forbid I interupt them, Faye is sleeping and Quinn is too busy oogling boys"

"I'm sure that the servants will listen to you"

"Odetta" he warns.

I ignore him, "I can't play therapist right now with you so please call me tomorrow or the next cause I've had enough of you for one day"

I hang up and quickly block him.

"Is that guy always a pest?"

"I don't know who suffers more between alia and I", I groan.

"Well you'll get to relieve your stress with Javier cause we're less than a minute away from our premises"