DEJECTED.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure

may turn to glorious success

Elbert Hubbard.

Adoras Pov.

Blue moon pack was only four hours away, I knew that much, and from what I had heard about their alpha and Luna, I knew they were not going to be much trouble to work with. I was no longer worried or scared about this mission or any future turn of events, not after last night, my mind was completely blank at this point, the fact that my "long lost" mate had turned up from nowhere just to "punish" me didn't even bother me in the slightest, whatever made him happy I guess. I was fed up, I wanted to rest without having to worry about anything even if it was for an hour or two, I didn't want to be paranoid about my safety, or overthink every little detail down to the last bit just to ensure I didn't mess up, even though I rarely did, It was one of those days that I wished I was a normal she wolf, a rare day indeed.

Vona had been quiet all through and I totally understood her, she had just met her fated one too and even though we were one, I knew and acknowledged that she had feelings too, we loved and healed differently, she was a wolf after all and I a human, and I was going to give her as much space as she needed. Tony's car was quite comfortable and I soon discovered that I loved being a passenger 'princess', just sitting back, giving stop orders and enjoying the view. I felt at peace and I wanted to enjoy that feeling for as long as my subconscious allowed or Tony too apparently.

"Ahem"

I found myself instinctively rolling my eyes at his chosen dumb way of attempting to start a conversation, but then again it was Tony, no surprise there, and so I chose to ignore him and his lack of manners, well that was until he kept on going and his annoying voice had me rethinking on my decisions to come with him and whether it running would have been the better option.

"Ahem!, Ahem! Ahem! Ahem! Ahem!"

"OMG Tony!, Where did you learn to make such beautiful sounds, I could literally listen to you do that the whole day and still want more" I asked in an excited girly voice, making sure my sarcasm was clear enough, I hadn't turned around to look at him yet, God, I hoped I wouldn't need to I had seen enough of him for a day.

"Oh wow, Thanks Ady, that's literally the nicest thing you've ever said to me, thank you for your much needed validation, now shall I continue making my amazingly beautiful sounds or will you finally give me your attention."

I wanted to open my mouth in retaliation, but then I figured we would only go back and fourth since neither of us would willingly allow to lose and I still needed to enjoy the remaining two hours of my hard earned peace before we got to the Blue moon pack. I sighed in external defeat, feeling miserable inside for letting him get his way so easily, ''Its just a talk Dora, tone down the drama." Vona whispered to me, and I couldn't help but smile at the smile of her lovely voice, that was definitely much earlier than expected. "Well, hello to you too, my literal other half." I answered somewhat excited, but I never got a reply back, typical Vona, I take back anything nice I said about her.

"You have a really beautiful smile." Tony's voice brought me back from my trance, and my body jumped a little at the sound of his voice, damnit I had forgotten I had company for a while there, his comment really caught me off guard and all I could manage was a pathetic "hmmm?" in response.

"Your smile, it's really beautiful, it makes your eyes pop out and all that sappy shit, one could think you actually own a soul with a smile that, you should smile more or not, your choice," He shrugged nonchalantly, as if to show that his comment was completely meaningless and just a by the way, but I knew better.

"Thank you Tony." I replied sincerely turning around to face him this time and I am pretty sure I saw a corner of his lip curving upwards and I smiled back in response. "Its... its ..um.. its nothing." he managed to stutter out, and who could blame him, I mean it was the first time we'd had a somewhat decent conversation and also one of the rarest, where I'd actually appreciated anything coming from him or anyone else for the matter.

" How long have we left?"

"An hour and a half, why? You already got bored of being a passenger princess."

I laughed at his comment, it was a small one, but hey it was a big deal to me, I hadn't genuinely laughed in years, only to be amused by statement that wasn't even funny in the slightest, maybe this peace thing wasn't such a good idea after all.

"You noticed, huh?" I asked him while turning to face and lean my head against the window again,

"Duh! Anyone with good vision and a keen attention to details would definitely notice that." I nodded in response, ready to begin my amazingly awesome counting day, all this talk was beginning to make me feel anxious, I really needed to start going out more.

"One last question before you get completely comfortable and deem me invisible please."

"Yeah, what is it?"

"Is it really that awful, never being mated?"