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Carolyne

Chap 4

"Don't wreck my car, Samuel," Alex says closing her eyes as the car slides to the side.
"I won't," Samuel mutters as he turns into Aspen Creek's main road. "See main road, we're good." He mutters as they pull up in front of the hotel. "We could all stay at my house, but I know that Da is lending it out to Kara and Sage at the moment."
"Doesn't Sage have a house?"
"Yes, but it's too small for her and Kara," Samuel says stepping out of the car.
Alex watches amused as Carolyne steps out of the car and starts jumping around in the snow. "Careful, you're going to fall in."
Carolyne smiles at her as Samuel goes to get the keys.
"Alright," Samuel says coming out of the main office. "I'm in room 8, Alex and Carolyne you guys are in room 7."
"Where's your father?"
"She said he's out with a few of the wolves up near the Cabinets."
"Well, do you want to come hunting for them with me? It's been a while since I stretched my wolf legs," Alex mutters knowing the last time she did, she almost got her neck ripped out.
"Sure," Samuel says with a grin.

Alex puts her nose to the ground, her wolf growling in pleasure at the smell of forest and winter. She pauses as she hears growling in the trees. Samuel and Carolyne both lower their heads and growl. Alex takes a step back, she wasn't afraid of Leah, but she also didn't want Bran to get angry with her. She whimpers and buries her head against Samuel's back leg.
Leah jumps out from the trees and snarls. What a bitch. She had barely jumped out of the trees though when a brown wolf appeared flanked by a black wolf. Charles looks at Leah and curls his lip back snarling louder at her. Alex trots happily over to him and runs her muzzle over his neck before doing the same to Anna.
Leah whimpers and turns over onto her stomach in the snow. It always surprised Alex how Leah showed submissiveness in wolf form only. She took a quick step back, stepping on Carolyne's paw as Charles starts to change.
Charles looks down at Leah. "What are you doing? You know that Alex is always welcome here and you dare to growl at Samuel?"
Alex whimpers and lays down on the ground beside Carolyne, both of them succumbing to his power. Her ear perks up as another wolf enters the clearing, medium grey with a white tip on his tail. Charles looks at him and nods.
"He says that he's glad you made it in good time and that you can choose to hunt with us if you wish or go back to your hotel room."
Alex barks and stands up, wagging her tail and nuzzling Carolyne. Charles fights a smile as he changes back to his wolf form.

"This looks wonderful," Alex says looking at the tattoo on her hip.
"Thanks," Carolyne says flipping through the channels before pausing as there's a knock at the door.
Alex walks across the hotel room door, tightening her robe as she opens the door. "Bran."
His eyes lit up with a smile as he looks at her. "I brought food," he says holding up a few pizzas. "You hungry?" He directs the question at Carolyne.
The younger girl looks at him skeptically before glancing at the pizza. "Where'd you get pizza and what's on them?"
Bran smiles and puts the pizzas on the bed. "I have my means and an assortment. I didn't know what you ate, so I guessed."

Carolyne opens two of the pizzas before snorting and grabbing Alex's arm pulling her onto the bed too. "He brought your favorite."
Alex smiles at him and grabs a piece moaning as the cheese hits her mouth. Bran watches her hungrily.

Bran glances over at Carolyne as he hears the water in the bathroom shut off. "Do you feel like going to bug my son some?" He asks wanting her out of the room.
Carolyne raises her eyebrows before shrugging and grabbing a pizza. "Okay."
Bran watches as she leaves the room before he relaxes against the bed, not opening his eyes when the bathroom door opens and Alex steps out.
"Where did Carolyne go?"
"To mess with Samuel."
Alex walks forward and goes to the side of the bed. Bran reacts quickly, grabbing her arms and pulling her into his lap. He groans when she readjusts her body to straddle his waist, his knees coming up to rest against her back.
"Should we be doing this? Leah can find you."
"Leah doesn't care," he says watching her. "Now why don't you tell me about your girlfriend?"
Alex's lip quirks. "Carolyne? Well, let's see she's sexy, attractive, very reactive to touches."
Bran growls and unties her robe pulling open the object and staring hungrily at her body. "And you like being with her more than me?"
Alex shrugs casually, "I've only slept with you once," she says rocking her hips against his erection.
The man growls again pulling the woman down to kiss him. "We can fix that."

Carolyne smiles and holds up the pizzas as Sam answers the door. "Pizza?"

Sam raises an eyebrow but stands aside and lets her enter the room. He sits down on the bed before frowning as he hears Alex let out a moan from the other room. "Who-" He lets out a soft curse as he hears Bran coax Alex. "For an old man he's not very smart."
"Leave them alone," Carolyne says jokingly as she pulls a piece of pizza out of the box.
Samuel takes a bite of his own before making a face as Alex moans out harder and the bed begins to hit against the wall. He drops his head burying his face against Carolyne's breasts. He sits there for a while before realizing what he was doing and pulling back quickly. "Sorry," he murmurs and turns on the TV loud.
"It's okay," Carolyne says letting out a breath. "You know, Alex has been sleeping a lot."
"Really? How much?"
"Eh, fifteen sixteen hours a day. And when she's not sleeping, she's eating or throwing up. And then there are times when she'll wake up extremely horny, but then it'll turn into nausea. And it's odd."
Samuel clenches his teeth, he knew what was wrong with the woman.

Bran grips Alex's hips as he continues to thrust into her from behind. His wolf was sated and having more fun than he usually allowed. He inhaled sharply as she called out his name before coming. He loved the sounds that she made in bed. He couldn't stop the flow of his seed as she clenched around his body. He rested against her back waiting for the spasms to stop shooting through his body.
He finally pulls out and lays back on the bed, pulling her over onto his chest. Her rich brown curls flowed over his chest and he breathed in her scent, mingled with his own and sex. Her eyes were half-hooded and tired. He leans up slightly and kisses her forehead. "You can go to sleep if you want."
Alex shakes her head moving slightly so that she can kiss his chest. "No, I want to lay here for a while."
"I'm not leaving yet," he says softly against her head.
"You know, I've never really enjoyed sex, until you."
Bran frowns. "Why not?"
Alex sighs. "Don't tell anyone else what I tell you."
"I won't."
"I was thirteen and wanted to feel like a woman and I felt that sex was the way to do that. I sought out a member of my father's pack who had always shown attraction to me. We went to a secluded area to have sex. When he was about to enter me, I guess I got scared and I told him that I wanted to stop. I don't remember exactly what he said, but it was something about i shouldn't have started anything and it was too late to go back now. So, he didn't stop and my first time just wasn't enjoyable and it turned me mostly off of sex."
Bran's arms tighten around her. "He raped you."
"No, I wanted to do it."
Bran kisses her forehead. "No, you told him to stop and he continued. It was rape. Is he still a member of your father's pack?"
"Yes."
Bran thinks about the wolves in Adam's pack, only a select few had been with him when Alex would have been thirteen. He knew for a fact that it wasn't Darryl, he'd seen them interact and she didn't fear him.
"I haven't even had sex before you after I was Changed."
Her words jolted him from his thoughts and he looks at her. "You haven't had sex in ten years?"
She shakes her head placing her lips against his chest again. "No, like I said I don't-didn't enjoy sex very much." She wouldn't tell him that she enjoyed it because it was him, because he was the one that her wolf wanted. She fought back the urge to claim him as hers. It was one thing for him to do it to her, but a completely other thing with the situation reversed.
Bran goes to move and shifts Alex slightly, before he freezes as she lets out a sharp gasp of pain. "Are you okay?"
"Yeah, I think I did something to my back though," she says with a whimper.
Bran moves her gently off of him and climbs out of the bed. He pulls his pants on before heading to the door.
"Where are you going?"
"To get my son to look at your back."
"It's okay."
Bran gives her a short look. "Don't lie. And don't worry I'm not leaving. We still haven't discussed that tattoo on your hip." He leaves the room before she can say anything else. He knocks on Samuel's door unsurprised when Samuel pulls open the door a second after his knuckles touched the door.
Samuel was playing with a small tennis ball in his hand and Bran could see the black wolf sprawled across the bed in the room. Samuel pops the ball into Bran's hand and fixes him with a look. "Next time, gag your pregnant woman." He walks past Bran and goes into Alex's room ignoring his father's stunned silence.

Bran watches as Samuel leaves the room. Pulled muscle in Alex's back. His fault. He watches Alex on the bed, who was laying there naked.
"Are you okay?"
"When were you going to tell me that you were pregnant?" He didn't know why he was angry, but he was and the words came out harsh.
Alex pales as she watches him. "Pregnant? I'm not."
"Samuel says you are and he's a doctor."
"I didn't know."
Bran clenches his jaw. "Right."
"You know I'm not lying. Why are you angry? It's not like I will be able to carry the kid."
Bran turns away from her fighting the urge to curse. His control was always better than this, what was it about Alex that made him go completely unhinged. "I have to go home."
"Why are you leaving? This changes nothing."
"It changes a lot," Bran bites out as he grabs his shirt and pulls it over his head. "I need some time, Alex, stay away from me until the party."
His command shot through Alex like a bullet. She opens her mouth to say something before snapping it closed. There was nothing to say. Bran didn't look at her as he left the hotel room. Alex felt her heart clench feeling as if she had just lost him for good this time. She felt alone, but it only lasted for a few moments before she felt Adam rushing through her as well as the rest of the pack. Sometimes it really helped being part of a pack. She needed them and they answered. She saw the door open and smiled sadly as Samuel and wolf Caro come into the room. Samuel kisses her forehead before crawling into bed with her, Caro laying herself over the both of them.

Alex looks at herself in the mirror before she finishes pulling some hair back from her face. The curls made it hard to keep a good hairstyle. She let her gaze travel down her body taking in the light aqua strapless dress that flowed freely until just above her knees where the front cut off, but the back continued down to her ankles. Carolyne walks into the bathroom and smiles at her. Carolyne was dressed in a strapless pink dress, with a beaded strip under her bodice. It was free flowing and hung down to her ankles.
"What are you doing?" Carolyne asks kindly.
"Thinking that I shouldn't be going. Bran made it obvious that he doesn't want to see or speak to me." It was the second day since Bran had stormed out of the hotel room. Yesterday, Alex had spent the day with Samuel, Charles, Anna, and Carolyne. It helped, but didn't alleviate the rejection any.
Carolyn frowns and wraps her arms around her friend. "No, you should go, you shouldn't let him control you. But uh, don't go back to his house okay?" The younger girl states backing towards the door as she hears someone approach the door.
"Why?"
"Just trust me okay?"
Alex frowns but nods as Carolyne opens the door for Samuel.

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