"I don't care, but if this weed is going to buy me some time, so that I can prepare for it somehow, I'm going to risk it. I'll never talk about who gave it to me." She said, showing the package in her hand.
Jenna looked at her hand and then stared at her.
"I wish I had more of this... Maybe some plant that causes impotence..."
"He's not human. These things shouldn't have any effect on his metabolism. And I... I don't want that. I want to have this experience, with him. With Adam. I'm just scared now. I'm a bit shaken..."
"Ah, Anna..." Jenna said and hugged her. "You've fallen in love with him! That's even worse than the green house, because I believe he wasn't born with a heart in his chest. I don't believe that a man who trivializes the lives and suffering of others can... feel anything."
"I have no illusions of being reciprocated." Anna said and walked away. "But I long for him, if only once, much more than he could ever long for me. If he's supernatural, what I feel is too."
Jenna understood Anna's feelings and left.
In the living room, while everyone was talking, arguing and laughing, Adam stood with his drink in his hand, listening to everything Anna and Jenna were saying. He couldn't hear, because Jenna was clever and had learned how to block his privileged hearing, but he saw when she handed Anna the poison.
He looked at Jenna as she entered the room bringing more drinks for the people there. His eyes turned yellow for a few seconds and soon after, two werewolves wearing black suits entered the room and invited Jenna to follow them, discreetly. She turned around and their eyes met, before she left with the men, without any attempt to escape. Adam then put his glass down and went upstairs to Anna's room. He was ready to consummate the marriage.
...
Adam entered Anna's room and when he went to approach her, he realized that she was already a little drunk, because while he was waiting, she had three glasses of another drink that was on the shelf in the bedroom, and she handed him her glass with the drink, in which she had put the herb that Jenna had given her. She raised the glass in mute invitation to a toast, and he accepted, downing the entire contents of the glass in one go, and Anna rushed to pour again.
"Are you drunk?"
"A little."
"I don't want you to get drunk to be with me, Anna." He said, watching her reactions carefully.
"Otherwise, it would be impossible for me..." Anna said defiantly
"Do you really think I'm that disgusting? Are you disgusted with me?"
"I'm disgusted by what you're thinking of doing to me. I don't stop to think about you. You're too insignificant to be able to penetrate my mind or be part of any feeling. I even thought about... but that was before I learned that you don't just have the instincts of an animal. You are an animal! Literally!"
He raised his head angrily and looked at her seriously.
"You don't know what I'm thinking of doing to you, but... I promise you, Anna, that one day I'll return those words to you, but when I'm in your feelings, when you can no longer tell whether what you're about to do is my will or yours." He said and his eyes turned to the bed. "You were so looking forward to tonight..."
"That was before I heard the things you said to Ryan. It was before I knew you were a monster."
Adam, in strides, overcame the distance that separated them and took her by the chin so that their faces were centimeters apart.
"I chose this day, Anna! Long before my conversation with Ryan, I had already made up my mind. I'm thorough. I'm not a man who acts impulsively, and you're forcing me to be the wrong way! The way I don't want to be! Every day a surprise! But today it ends! I'm going to unravel you, I'm going to remove this curiosity that's eating away at my soul, I'm going to... After I finish with you tonight, you'll need to stay in bed recovering for a long time, a time that I won't spare you from my advances, Anna. I won't leave your body until I've had enough of it! And maybe, in that time, I'll put an animal like me inside you, just to have the pleasure of killing it, and watching you suffer!" His anger was so great that Anna could see the vein protruding from his neck. "You don't ask what pleases a person if you want to surprise them. And I planned to surprise you!"
She looked at him defiantly, feeling pain from the tightness in her jaw that forced her to face him, but too proud to ask him to let her go.
"I'll feel relieved if you do me the favor of killing anything that looks like you from inside me!"
He stared at her for a while longer, his eyes cold as steel, and let her go.
"Carrying the child of an Alpha is an honor. You are a weak and decadent human, and I would never let my blood be born from a slut like you!" He said and began to undress.
"I'm flattered and relieved not to be considered for this burden!"
Adam stopped and looked at her, cuttingly.
"I can see the lust in your eyes every time you look at me, and it hasn't changed. You're still looking at me like that. But I won't let it be good for you, Anna. You've belittled me too much today. You don't deserve to know what it's like... sex with a young werewolf."
"I don't deny that I desire you. I'm disgusted with myself for it, believe me. Your body is tall, strong, muscular, beautiful... no woman could resist. But I know what lies behind those attributes."
He raised both hands in a gesture of impatience.
"Now it's your turn." He said in a slurred voice, and Anna knew that the medicine would knock him out. This filled her with joy.
"Please, you must lie down, sir! I'm a despicable, frail human. I won't have the strength to put you to bed." She said and stood back until she heard the sound of him falling heavily onto the bed and smiled, breathing a sigh of relief.