Twisting Her Fate
Chapter 35

Leilani laughs as she walks with oddly uneven steps. Connor's arms are wrapped around her tightly. His strong body pressed against her back, masking spray covering his entire scent.

Leilani usually goes for a more complicated way of covering her scent, but this way is a lot more enjoyable, Connor's embrace working as the scent blocker so that Gabriel can't follow the trail.

They maybe cut that one a little too fine. Only just managing to walk in the door before they had to turn around and escape really quickly before Gabriel was on top of them. Connor kisses her neck as he walks. His steps are all clumsy with their legs so close, but he can't even bring himself to care as he holds her tighter and tighter. "I hate you leaving that glorious scent for that piece of scum. I want to smell it all"

Leilani laughs as she tilts her head to the side, exposing her neck, letting his kisses get more and more over the top. They attract the eyes of many passers by.

The large handsome man's body nearly engulfing the petite woman, but her breathtakingly beautiful face lit up with a joyous smile. It is hard not to look.

"My scent for him is nothing like what it's like for you"

"Woman, are you rubbing it in my face that you would smell even better to him than you do to me? Is that what you're trying to do? Are you trying to make me jealous?"

Leilani moans slightly as Connor speaks into the skin of her neck, his hot breath igniting her whole body.

"Are you jealous?"

"That he gets to smell your divine mate scent?"

Connor lifts Leilani easily, hooking her legs around his waist as he carries her forward like she weighs nothing.

"You smell so good as it is. I can't even fathom how good your mate scent would smell like. It'd be like some crazy addictive drug and I would be so busy snorting it all day that I would get nothing done, maybe have to go to rehab and come back out just to get on it again anyway, it would be a vicious cycle of addiction and rehabilitation and the whole stormy pack would fall in the process"

Connor jokes about it but there is nothing he wishes more than to have Leilani as his mate. Leilani wriggles out of Connor's grip and lands safely on the sidewalk.

"You exaggerate so much"

"It is not even an exaggeration"

Leilani leads Connor in to Gabriel's next location. They have a bit of time to spare this time. Hudson has already found out which private room the meeting will happen in.

So Connor and Leilani order a quick bite to eat and sit down, casually enjoying themselves as they chat. Fifteen minutes before Gabriel is due, Connor distracts the waitresses with his handsome face while Leilani sneaks into the room, rubbing herself against every surface she can manage. Leilani laughs as she drags her back over all four walls, rubbing her front all over the table. She even licks the rims of the glasses for good measure. If she knew which one Gabriel would be using she would probably sh*t in it for good

measure.

Leilani walks out of the room and waves for Connor to join as they sneak out.

Gabriel walks into the venue once more, taking a deep breath in as he looks around the place.

Why can he smell it again?

What the f*ck is wrong with him?

Gabriel shakes his head and continues into the private room. He is meeting another alpha, not for anything in particular, they just meet up monthly to keep in good contact. When he walks into the room, it nearly knocks him backward, the room is like a concentrated chamber of that scent. He looks at alpha Drake. "Can you smell that?"

Drake looks around, taking in the scent of the room. It smells quite pleasant, a near apricot smell that sits perfectly on the nose, a near tantalizing smell, but it is nothing out of the ordinary. Drake shakes his head and looks at Gabriel who is gasping for air, looking like he is seconds off having a mental breakdown.

Gabriel walks out and grabs the closest waitress by the collar.

"Has anyone been in that room?"

Gabriel gestures wildly with his hand, the waitress looks in fear at the handsome man that has an insane look in his eye.

"I......I haven't seen anyone"

"Are you sure?"

Gabriel roars, his whole demeanor is threatening and the girl shivers in fear.

"There was no one"

"No girl?"

"No, only the man that is in there now"

"I want to see the security footage"

The waitress can only call over the manager. Gabriel sits in the manager's office watching the security vision that shows nothing. Hudson is busy lounging by the pool with his laptop on his lap wiping off any evidence of Connor and Leilani being anywhere near the place. Gabriel stares at the screen that shows no one entering the room except for him and Drake for the whole day.

"What the f*ck? This isn't possible"

"I am sorry sir, this is it"

The manager is shaking, Gabriel is about double his size and looks like he is ready to tear someone's head off. The small managers office seems to disappear with the presence of Gabriel's large figure.

The space compresses and the oxygen seems to disappear, a fine sheen of sweat appears on the manager's forehead. He has always kept a calm head in most situations, but this is beyond what he can deal with.

How can this ridiculously handsome man be so scary?

Drake walks in behind Gabriel, squeezing him on the shoulder. Drake doesn't get along with very many other alphas, but he and Gabriel are cut from the same cloth. Very similar in a lot of ways and seen as Gabriel is more than willing to share his chosen luna Drake actually gets along with him quite well.

"Are you okay man?"

Gabriel is running his hands through his hair, so much that it is looking ragged, staring in disbelief at the at the screen. He doesn't know what he was expecting. He was just expecting something. How can a scent that strong come from nothing? Gabriel doesn't answer Drake, just looking straight at the manager.

"Is there a new cleaning fluid or is there a new air freshener or someone here wearing a tropical perfume?"

Even if he tries to make all these excuses for himself? He knows unless someone spilt an entire bottle of perfume in the room that it wouldn't have the same effect. But if he got a second chance mate, wouldn't their scent be different? Would it be exactly the same if that is even what this is?

Gabriel can only admit defeat and have a quick meeting with Drake, who keeps looking at him strangely. Gabriel composes himself the best he can but manages to talk Drake into catching up in the main space to avoid going back into that room.

Gabriel checks his schedule, there are only two more. He wants to call off the next thing, but the next thing leads into the following thing and the following thing he has no intention of skipping at all.

The call of his final task is the only reason he dragged himself out for the day. Even so, the way the day is shaping up, he should have just stayed in his study nursing the insane hangover that just keeps lingering. Gabriel can only drag his aching head and body to the next location. The moment he walks in the door, he is hit with the smell again.

"WHAT THE F*CK?"

Gabriel roars, making everyone in the place turn to look at him. He steps back outside and he can only smell fresh air, but as soon as he enters the door again, the scent hits him like a punch in the face.

Connor and Leilani sit in the shaded corner of the venue, close to the rear exit. Connor holds Leilani close as they watch Gabriel breath in looking so angry that he is about to explode. Leilani whispers to Connor. "I think he has noticed the scent"

"You think? He looks nearly unhinged"

"Who would think it would take so little to unsettle the demon?"

Connor nuzzles into Leilani's neck. He asks a question that he is not sure that he wants an answer to, but he is just curious.

"You don't want to go over there and soothe all his troubles?"

"I will soothe all his troubles with my fists until he is unconscious"

Connor laughs a little too hard, he grabs Leilani and takes them both out the rear exit before Gabriel spots them. Connor laughs as he puts Leilani on his back and starts to run toward their next destination. Leilani spraying them both with masking spray before they walk in.

Connor doesn't put Leilani down as they walk up to the counter of the high-class looking hotel. The people behind the slick marble counter are dressed to perfection but they have lustful looks in their eyes as they look at Connor. The whole place is dripping in opulence, looking like only the richest of the rich would walk in through the doors.

"We have a booking for the twentieth floor"

They give him a knowing look before directing him to the closed door away from the publics seeing eyes. Hudson doesn't even need to do anything to this one, because as soon as someone enters the door, all evidence that they were ever there is erased. They stand in front of the next receptionist that is scantily clad in lingerie.

"Ahh yes we have a booking for Leilani right here"

Connor nods as the girl approaches him, rubbing her hand straight over his crotch as Connor tries not to cringe.

"Did you need any extras?"

Connor tries to keep the disgust out of his voice, sounding a lot more calm than he feels as women on each side of the glass walled hallways press their bodies against the glass. "No, I will be fine"

The girl looks at Leilani with an unimpressed expression.