HUNTED-Chapter 405: Girls Night

Keira should be used to dressing up by now but she wasn’t. The pack hosted an annual royal ball, and she had been attending since she was old enough. However, her clothes were a little different to the traditional ball gown. Say like, the little black dress tightly hugging her figure, and leaving her back completely exposed.

With the dark make-up around her eyes- she honestly didn’t know what was what, it was all Rhea’s doing—yet her friend knew exactly what she was doing because Keira’s silver eyes twinkled like stars, popping with the dark make-up while her lips were glossed in light pink. She managed to convince Rhea to keep her hair down, all so she could still hide her features when she wanted to.

Getting ready with Rhea and Sora was certainly much more fun than when she had her royal duties to attend to. The girls drank and danced, giggling away as they got ready and played drinking games before their night out. Sora flopped herself down on the ground in the living room, crossing her legs.

She wore black frayed shorts, a baggy top, and a jacket, eyeliner flicked to perfection, making her cat eyes pop. The girl held her glass up, steadying it so it didn’t spill.

Keira envied her friend, wishing she, too, could wear something more comfortable. But she didn’t bring a change of clothes, and Rhea insisted she looked ’ravishing’—yep, a great idea when going to a vampire club. She sat cross-legged, waiting for Rhea’s return, announcing their driver had arrived.

Instead, Rhea returned with a tight smile, followed by her mother, Esme. Sora hid her drink behind her back, but the action was far too slow and useless, especially when Keira didn’t even bother hiding her own glass. If there hadn’t been any bottles on the glass coffee table before them, Esme Snow still would have picked up on their drinking anyway.

She was tiny but could be kind of scary sometimes.

"Girls…" Esme began, her expression schooled, tone scolding. "I hope you’ve had food before going out."

Sora and Keira’s jaws dropped, and Rhea smirked. All three of them nodded. "I was only here to check in on you, but I won’t stop you from going out. I know you can all take care of yourselves." Her gaze sharpened on her daughter. "Rhea…"

"Don’t worry. I have it." Rhea tapped the side of her thigh in response to Esme’s silent question.

"Good. Don’t be afraid to use it; your father and I can handle the rest." She kissed the top of her head and started to leave, sauntering away without a care in the world. "Make sure to text me when you’re in. Or else!"

"Yes, mum," Rhea said with an exaggerated sigh like it wasn’t the first time they’d had this conversation.

The door clicked shut behind Esme. Sora and Keira looked to Rhea, who was grinning broadly. "She doesn’t know where we’re really going, but… She probably knows we aren’t going to Jonny’s."

Jonny’s was a bar closely watched by the Vampire King’s men. Esme was scary, but she’d been a lone wolf, a rogue, before meeting the Vampire King. She understood the need to let loose every now and then.

"Still she’s seriously so cool," Sora grinned before finishing off her drink. "You have so much freedom here Rhea."

Says the girl who left for the summer away from her parents, Keira thought dryly.

Her friend did have a point. Gabriel, her father, owned the entire skyscraper, which was full of high-class apartments. At the bottom of the building was ONYX. The basement floor was for vampires, and the second floor was for humans. It was a classy place as well.

Rhea didn’t live in the Penthouse with the rest of her family. She stayed two floors below it, even though there was plenty of room above. She still went to her family home, but the apartment let her have some privacy, and her parents agreed to it.

Rhea said it was probably so they could ’get it on’ without being interrupted as much.

"Ladies…" Rhea tossed back her own drink and flipped her long, wavy brown hair over her shoulder. "Shall we?"

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The girls stumbled out of Mirage, a new bar downtown Rhea wanted to check out. It was fancy, and they had a VIP table. Usually, the trio mingled with the public because most were unaware of who they were, or if they caught on, it was too late before the girls had moved on.

Keira wasn’t much of a drinker, but she found herself almost keeping up with Rhea, downing shots and wiggling her hips to the beat where she’d remained seated. Now, the cold air made her clutch at her arms, snuggling closely to Sora, their heels and boots clicking against the pavement. Other partygoers passed them by shouting and dancing, unaware of who Keira and Rhea were; it made her smile.

Even in her drunken state, though, Keira felt someone’s gaze on her. She looked around but in doing so Sora almost stumbled along with her in a semi-circle, almost falling into the road. Keira and Sora stopped and looked at each other wide-eyed then burst into a fit of giggles that just wouldn’t stop.

Rhea sighed and dragged Sora’s other arm, pulling the pair towards her and she started directing them all.

The trio then began matching their footsteps and doing diagonal steps, giggling. Keira’s lips and jaw hurt from the amount she had been smiling and laughing. It was unusual for her to smile so much in public, but after this week, she didn’t really care.

Whoever watched her wouldn’t get much footage for the media as they were almost at Broken Fang. Keira tried to check again, looking in the direction she felt like she was being watched from before allowing her hair to fall over her features and hiding her once more.

That didn’t work on the werewolf who caught sight of the girls walking down the street earlier. Kodi pushed away from the wall where he had been talking with another rogue curious about the Cross Academy experience. It was as if an enchantment had been cast upon him; he couldn’t help but watch Keira from across the road.

What the hell was she doing here?

"Hey, hot stuff, where are you going? Why don’t you buy me a drink?" A woman tried to place her hand on his bicep, but he shrugged her off, watching the princess giggling with her friends.

He was utterly enraptured by Keira’s smile, the rosiness of her cheeks, and—what the hell was she wearing? His mouth dried at the walking temptation. The Princess’ back was exposed, revealing smooth, creamy skin, and the skirt of her figure-fitting dress barely covered her shapely ass.

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’Go to her,’ Blaze, his wolf, snapped fiercely.

Kodi ignored his wolf, feeling a surge of anger. He couldn’t stand seeing her smile, the effortless grace of her steps, and how utterly relaxed she seemed. All week, she’d been a tight bundle of barely contained anxiousness. T

o the world, the princess appeared calm and collected, but Kodi begrudgingly knew better.

He stopped by an alleyway, remaining in the dark and watched with whitened knuckles and clenching of his jaw as Keira strolled inside a fanger’s bar. Those in line had eyed her up like a piece of meat, their slimy, unworthy eyes ogling at her back and ass, ogling at what was h-

Kodi wiped his thoughts clean from that ridiculous notion even while his wolf paced back and forth, on the prowl, ready to shed blood.

He smacked his fist into the bricks, a growl vibrating through his chest, eyes shimmering a bright amber as he watched that silly little princess disappear inside the bar. His legs moved before he could summon any logical reasoning, and he, unlike his little entitled princess, had to wait at the back of the line, ignoring the glares of the leeches.