Hey everyone! Welcome to the new year! I've decided to make my resolution about writing at least once a week on my stories, as I feel bad with all of this stop and go with my stories.

I hope everyone had a lovely few days off from work or school and that you enjoy this chapter! I'll try to have another one up in the next day or so, maybe sooner.

xoxo


She was going to kill him.

How many days had it been? How many exhausting, horrendous and infuriating days had it been since he took over her life? Rin looked down at her watch for confirmation.

4 days, 14 hours and 37 minutes (give or take) of pure hell.

Not only had Sesshomaru seen it fit to kick her cat, Chewy, out of one of the spare bedrooms, Chewy had let him. Chewy had even licked his hand as he let him take over his own little bedroom. The little traitor. Now Sesshomaru was a room closer to her and each night she had fallen asleep, it had been with the everythingness of him crammed inside her mind. It was impossible not to take every single piece of his essence and bring it with her each night, no matter how hard she attempted to resist the allure of him.

It was not just the smell of him; like forest, pine and a slight scent of musk. No, it was also the sight of him, so rigid and disciplined as he moved throughout her home, almost as if he could make it his own. It was the faint sounds she heard as she tossed and turned for countless hours in her bed each night. An almost nonexistent shuffling or a quiet murmur of sound that she could have sworn she was imagining if the rest of her didnt hone in on the noise, wanting to experience whatever she was capable of with him.

He was EVERYWHERE around her and Rin felt completely overwhelmed with it all.

It was unnerving, how her own body betrayed her, how it came alive at the mere thought of him making noise in her home. It wasn't as if he were stripping down to nothing in the other room each night to sleep; her restless body had determined on night three that the man did not sleep.

At all.

In fact, Rin was very disturbed by what the demon actually did during the hours she feigned sleep and instead tossed and turned about in her bed each night. She never heard the door to the house open or close, the TV was never on and she never heard him on the phone with anyone.

So what exactly did he do during the night?

Rin looked down at her watch, squinting in the darkened room. 4 days, 15 hours and 6 minutes.

Deciding there was no time like the present to spy on her guest, Rin dressed in a midnight blue satin gown that reached just above her knees and exited the room as quietly as possible. She didnt bother to shut her door, knowing he could hear the faint click even from a suitable distance. He could probably hear the beating of her heart from across the house.

Lord help her if she farted anywhere near him. Talk about mortifying.

Taking light and easy steps, Rin tiptoed down the hallway and into her living room. She did her best to be silent, like a damn ninja, but Rin wasn't fooling herself. No way she could make the drop on someone like Sesshomaru. She came to a standstill, eyes zeroing in on a piece of furniture, two animals and something that did not belong to either of them out on display.

What she found both surprised and enraged her.

Sitting on her couch in a very stiff manner, Sesshomaru was using one hand to pet the black and white cat in his lap. The little traitor was lapping it up and she could hear him purring like a maniac at the demon stroking his fur. Sesshomaru's other hand was holding one of her books, his head bent studiously over the pages as if he were dissecting each and every word. And by one of her books, she meant one of the steamy romance novels that she had written.

HE WAS READING HER PORN BOOKS.

"What are you doing," Rin practically squawked out at him in embarrassment. Not only was the cover of her book of a mostly naked man, the story was full of sex she had written about. He was reading what she had essentially fantasized about!

She felt her cheeks heat as he looked up at her slowly, hand still petting Chewy, the fat little bastard. An even more traitorous part of her mind whispered, 'oh pet me, pet me!'

Rin shook off the thought and instead narrowed her eyes at the demon smirking in her direction. What had they been talking about?

"I had thought it obvious." Oh God. The book.

A fresh wave of humiliation swamped Rin to the point where she was half tempted to flee back to her bed and convince herself it had all been a dream.

Deciding it was better to come to grips with reality instead of delusion, Rin finally clicked the pieces of his constant nightly silence together, wanting to crawl under a rock and hide forever.

"Oh my God. Please do not tell me you have been reading all of my books each night I leave you alone."

"It is not in my nature to lie about such trivial matters."

Trivial matters? Trivial matters?

"It isnt trivial when its my life." She stomped forward, feeling an awful moment of deranged glee when Chewy ran away from the impending tornado of her emotions. Combined with her lack of sleep, Rin had a feeling she was going to lose her collective shit on a demon who could rip her in half without breaking a sweat.

"You mean to imply this is an autobiography?" He raised an eyebrow at her jaw slacked face, no doubt feeling as superior as usual.

"What?" Her face burned, a less than subtle reminder that her embarrassment was increasing exponentially, with no clear ending in sight. "No, no that is not what I meant. Oh my God. Are you saying that you thought those sex scenes were about me and other men?"

He stood abruptly, returning the hardback book onto its shelf. Rin stepped back a moment to give him even more space from her, although her body distinctly remembered the feel of his hands on her.

Rin's breath caught when a sudden swell of desire hit her out of nowhere, her body tightening in anticipation when Sesshomaru turned to face her, inhaling slightly more than he usually would.

He was smelling her.

"You have a very descriptive mind. It is not difficult to assume you were originally the one in the throes of passionate sex." Sesshomaru took a step towards her, causing Rin to back up quickly, nearly smacking her backside into another bookshelf in her haste to escape him.

Did she have to be such an avid reader? There now seemed to be shelves everywhere, blocking her from salvation and keeping her trapped with such a broody, awful, sexy beast.

"It might come as a shock to you, oh ancient one, but not all of us are giant whores. I wouldn't expect you to understand, given how I barge in on you in 'the throes of passionate sex' a few weeks ago," Rin spat his words back at him. Thinking about him with that other woman only caused a fresh wave of something that seemed to trap itself inside her heart and nestle in.

"That was not passionate sex. That was a quick fuck." His words slid down her spine, much like his hand did as he reached for her, gently pulling her toward him. "There is a difference." Rin felt the heat of his hand practically burning through her nightgown. If his touched hers she was sure the electric current that seemed to run through them both would light up. She could almost feel the buzz of it, could almost grasp it to her, it felt so real.

Did he feel the same thing? Or was it just her, with her little human mind, coming up with this nonsense? She'd obviously read about the voodoo mating signs, but she couldn't remember if it affected demons in the same manner.

"Glad to hear you know not all fucks are the same." Rin patted his chest one time too many, quickly removing her hand after it decided on its own that caressing the muscles under his shirt was a much better idea than remaining by her side.

"The affect I feel is much the same, although more amplified as the bond is created through the demon."

"I thought we agreed you would just pretend you couldn't read my mind?" Rin bit out before stepping out of his almost embrace, needing to be away from him to gather her thoughts.

It was a good time to retreat back to her room. The thought alone made her angry with herself and with him. It was her house, Rin shouldn't have needed to run and hide. This was supposed to be her safe space and instead, she didn't feel comfortable anywhere because everything was beginning to remind her of him and to be honest; Rin didn't want it to.

"Rin," Sesshomaru said darkly, obviously having read her thoughts yet again. Rin didn't bother turning around, instead just waving at him over her shoulder and heading back to her room.

"I'll see you in the morning Sesshomaru."


Day 12

The barbarian has slowly taken over my lands, conquering everything in sight. He is menacing, dark and dangerous. He lays waste to anything that attempts to destroy him, but that isn't what disturbs me.

The ruthless conquerer has found a sick fascination with me. Perhaps it was my lack of fear and my brazen attitude that drew his gaze to me on our first encounter.

It was easy to determine that he wanted me for himself when he took my home hostage and declared that I would become his bride, willing or not. In that moment I decided to play his game, to give him what he thought he wanted and to use that against him.

What I wrongly assumed would be easy has now turned into an impossible mission. When once I thought to seduce him, to bend him to my will in the hopes of escaping whatever sinister plans he would have for me, I now find myself thoroughly perplexed by both my desires toward him and his apparent resolve to claim me for himself.

The barbarian seems content to roam my lands for an indefinite amount of time, pillaging my supplies and turning my allies into enemies. I see him at length throughout the day, his greedy gaze filling my eyes and making me uncomfortable with how much I find myself hoping for even the most brief of contacts. At night, however, is when I am haunted by him. He is everywhere, always, surrounding me, filling my head with his obsession to become everything to me. Friend, lover, tormentor. Nothing is safe from his watchful gaze.

My faithful steed has even been corrupted by the dark influence of the rogue barbarian, giving in to his dark aura and blatant charms.

I often find myself staring longingly in his direction with the hopes that he does not feel my gaze on him and an even more perverse hope that he does. To desire someone so fierce, with such an animal magnetism is frightening in every sense of the word and I know now that is what I feel for him. Drawn, like a moth to a flame.

I fear -

The cell phone on the desk rang, startling Rin out of her thoughts. Hands falling from the keyboard, she picked up the sleek phone and answered the call, smiling to herself at Kagome's voice.

"Rin! Inuyasha and I are in town. What are you doing tonight?" Her cousin's excited voice makes Rin smile happily, although she felt uncomfortable with how the conversation will no doubt end.

"Well. I usually spend my evenings avoiding Sesshomaru like the plague, but I've got a sinking suspicion that isn't going to happen tonight."

"Sesshomaru has been seeing you a lot?" Kagome asks with mild curiosity.

"Well, considering he decided to move into my house, I'm going to go with yes, I see him a lot."

"YOU'RE LIVING TOGETHER?!" She shrieked on the other end of the line, causing Rin to wince a bit at the shrill tone. In Kagome's screeching defense, Rin had been having trouble with noises the past few days. It was almost as if her normal senses were beginning to amplify. Her eyesight was more apt, her sense of smell more keen and Rin could swear she could hear Chewy purr from at least two rooms away, sometimes on the other end of the house.

It was as annoying as it was startling. Yet another wonderful side effect of the mate bond. It wasn't bad enough that Sesshomaru could hear Rin's every thought if he focused hard enough, she had to gain a few of his attributes that were shocking, but not unpleasant. No, what was unpleasant was the overwhelming arousal Rin had begun to feel over the past week. Along with her senses, her emotions were fluctuating all over the place, which she knew was an unpleasant side effect of being near her mate, but not bonding.

Her mate. God, that word. Mate. It filled Rin will all sorts of dread every time she used it. Lately, however, it was starting to fill her with a different sort of emotion, which was even worse than dread. It was affection, which she realized she was begrudgingly beginning to have for the stubborn dog demon. At every turn, Sesshomaru was breaking down her defenses, though Rin tried valiantly to ignore every move he made toward her.

The mere thought of Sesshomaru had Rin's cheeks flushing. She shifted uncomfortably in her seat, pressing her thighs together to hopefully ease some of the tension that was building in her body. God, she wanted him more than she had ever wanted anything before.

Luckily Sesshomaru was out working, at one of the local offices that his family company owned, otherwise Rin had no doubt he would have pounced on her like a crouching tiger had he sensed her thoughts.

"Earth to Rin! When did that happen?"

"What?"

"You living with Sesshomaru?"

"Well, it's him living with me. And I'm not sure. About two weeks now. He just showed up one day, told me I wasn't taking care of myself properly and moved himself in to one of my guest rooms."

"Wow. Inuyasha is going to love this. The honorable dog demon Sesshomaru shacking up with a human?! Inuyasha was right when he said you two were mates."

"I guess," Rin agreed reluctantly.

"So how's the sex?" Kagome asked unabashedly. Rin's cheeks heated again at the question.

"Um. I wouldn't know. We haven't actually had sex at all."

"I'm assuming that's not at his insistence."

"You would assume right," Rin sighed. Chewy sauntered into her office, purring loudly as he wrapped his body around her ankles, rubbing his face into her jeans and meowing lightly. "Oh sure, you little traitor. Sesshomaru leaves for one afternoon and now you're back here begging for my attention."

Kagome snorted out a laugh. "Are you talking to your cat? I thought dogs and cats didn't get along."

"Tell that to the two of them. Thick as thieves, I swear. What did you have in mind for tonight?"

"I was thinking dinner and maybe we could go out to a club afterward or something."

"Okay, that sounds good. I haven't left my house in a while anyway. Too much time writing. I could use a night out."

"Do you want to see if Sesshomaru is alright with tonight?"

"Nah. I'll just send him a text message and let him knows what's up. He can come with or he can stay home with Chewy. No skin off my back either way."

As soon as the words left her mouth, Rin knew she was playing with fire. He could come with or stay home? He barely let Rin out of his sight, today aside. She doubted he would be fine with her out clubbing without him, even if she was with family. He was way too possessive, sometimes even irritated when she paid more attention to her cat than to him, which was laughable as her cat only had eyes for Sesshomaru.

"What are you doing right now? I need to go out and find something to wear. Believe it or not, pretty much the only dress I really have was the one I wore to your wedding and somehow that doesn't really scream 'night out on the town'."

"Yeah, you're right. How about we meet at the mall in the city? I can be there in about 30 minutes?"

"Give me about an hour and a half. I need to get ready and my house is out of the way of town."

They hung up after making solid plans. Rin sent a quick text to Sesshomaru before leaving her phone behind and going to get ready.


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