Thanks for the reviews Kelly & EC Brenway!
Kelly - glad you loved the last chapter, hope this one is nearly as good...nothing beats Chelly steamy times, even I know that!
EC - So much to look forward to with the Chelly reunion! Could be omegaverse, the wolf dynamics might have some surprises along the way!
The Chemistry In Darkness
Chapter Fifty-Four
Monday 16th December 2024 – The Night After The Full Moon
Elly ran her fingertips up and down Chloe's arm. The pair had laid curled up in one another's arms for some time after they'd made love to one another. How long, neither of the women knew. They'd lost track of time. Time was meaningless when they were in each other's arms.
Too many thoughts were plaguing the pair of them.
Elly wondered if she had truly managed to convince Chloe that she was deeply in love with her. It's not like she was able to explain just how true it was and that the pair of them being mates meant for them. Elly knew on some level Chloe would be able to come to terms with who she really was, knowing that whilst possible it was incredibly rare for a human mate to reject their werewolf mate.
But now that Elly had given into her feelings for Chloe completely and Chloe had been more than receptive, there were two massive things on Elly's mind.
When would be the best time to reveal the truth to Chloe? About her being a werewolf and that Chloe's her mate. Should she be honest about who she really is before Chloe and her ended up together so Chloe knew what she was getting into to be with her? Or wait until Chloe and Pierce's marriage inevitably collapsed and she and Chloe were solidly together as a couple before revealing all? Risking the entire magical community's existence came every time a human learned the truth. How would Chloe truly react to the truth about werewolves and how being with one whilst is perfect with her mate, is still complicated?
And how does Chloe actually feel about her?
Elly knew Chloe loved her, even if Chloe wasn't able to admit it to herself. But Chloe's inability to express her feelings during their love making session and now as they held one another silently, left Elly wondering if Chloe was too busy worrying about what their time together meant for her marriage to Pierce. Or if Chloe was doubting her own ability to leave the controlling man for her.
Meanwhile, Chloe was indeed questioning what giving into her feelings for Elly meant for her marriage. Was this just another betrayal of Pierce that wouldn't go anywhere because her life was too complicated to think she could possibly start a whole new life with Elly?
Yet, there was no denying for Chloe that making love to Elly as they had hadn't felt like the best experience of her life. And she felt it just as strongly that it was the best experience of Elly's life too.
Elly finally broke their silence, "How are you feeling, Chlo?"
Chloe closed her eyes for a moment, "A million different emotions that I don't even begin to know how to describe."
"I get it, Chlo," Elly reassured, "And not to create a million more emotions for you…I need you to know that I want a future with you. With you and Aster, the three of us."
"I can't even think about the future," Chloe replied quietly, sensing Elly's sadness as soon as the words were out of her mouth. Pressing her lips to Elly's neck, trying to reassure her that the idea of a future with them was still something for her to consider.
Elly reveled in the feeling of Chloe's lips to her skin, every inch of her was on fire, holding the woman in her arms.
"The future is something I can't think about now," Chloe repeated, "But we do need to talk about this…what happened here tonight…the past few nights actually, Elly."
"We do," Elly confirmed, then frowned, "What's the time?"
Before Elly could lift her arm to look at her watch, Chloe lifted it for her, looking at the watch face herself, "Few minutes 'til 8pm."
"What?" Elly's face fell.
"Well, we did spend a great deal of time making love to each other, Elly. And we've probably been laying silently in one another's arms for a couple hours now," Chloe pointed out, suddenly wondering if Pierce was worrying over where she was, "I should text Pierce, tell him I'm hanging out with Bea and Yashvi, so we can have some time to talk about all this."
As Chloe was rambling, Elly wasn't listening to her as she was beginning to have a full-on panic attack for letting herself be completely taken over by Chloe once more that she'd forgotten the full moon would be setting in the sky soon, "I have to go."
"Wait, what?" Chloe was confused.
"I've got to go," Elly repeated as she quickly withdrew herself from Chloe's embrace, standing up and looking about for her clothes.
"Are you seriously doing this to me again, Elly?" Chloe demanded, feeling this was reminiscent of Elly's behaviour after they'd kissed two nights ago.
Elly gathered her ripped up clothes and began putting them back on her body, "We'll talk in the morning, I promise you, Chlo."
"No, we need to talk about this now," Chloe insisted desperately, standing up and dragging her own ripped up clothes on, "Elly, we made love to one another. We can't avoid talking about this and what this means."
"I'm not avoiding, we'll talk tomorrow," Elly decided, rushing out of the greenhouse.
Chloe took off after the brunette.
In the kitchen at the Kennedy's, Yashvi was curled up standing behind Bea with the older woman in her arms, dressed in nothing but their slinky dressing gowns.
"That was amazing, Bea. You should be pissed off at Elly more often if hours in your bed with you is your response," Yashvi smiled.
"You know it was more about us than me been pissed off at my sister for doing the one thing she told me she wouldn't. Probably won't get to talk to Elly 'til the morning, whilst we were in bed together, Elly and Chloe probably-" Bea trailed off when Elly and Chloe came storming into the house from the back door.
"Elly, we're talking about this now," Chloe demanded.
Bea stared at the state of the two women in partially ripped up clothes, "Christ, did the pair of you forget that you can be capable of sleeping together without tearing your clothes apart!?"
Elly looked at Bea abruptly, slowing down from rushing through the house, "It's not what it looks like, Bea."
"It's exactly what it looks like," Yashvi pointed out, "Besides we both kinda saw the pair of you in the greenhouse and it couldn't be more obvious what it looked like you were doing."
"How could you do this, Elly? You swore you wouldn't get in the middle of a marriage like this," Bea accused.
"You spoke to Bea about us?" Chloe asked in shock.
Elly glanced at the clock in the kitchen, panicking at how little time she had before the moon was high in the sky, "I don't have time for this. I've gotta go. I'll sort this out tomorrow with you all."
"Elly, don't run away from me again like the other night," Chloe insisted.
"What happened the other night?" Bea wondered.
Before Elly could stop her, Chloe revealed, "We kissed the other night and Elly ran away from me."
"Elly!" Bea scolded her older sister, "You told me you wouldn't do this! I thought maybe tonight was just a one-time thing. I didn't think this was an ongoing thing! It needs to stop! Cheating is wrong. I thought I made that clear to you to wait until Chloe's single…if she ever is because she's married…to Pierce!"
Don't remind me, sis…
"Chloe and I both got ourselves into what happened out there, Bea. We know cheating is wrong…it just happened, okay? And I…we will deal with this…tomorrow. I have to go!" Elly pressed.
"Not even gonna ask about Aster, Elly?" Bea accused, her annoyance at her sister growing by the minute.
Elly stared at the clock once more, "Is Aster okay?"
"Of course, she is, she's with Karl & Suze. They are purposely tiring Aster out for us so we're not up all night with her again. Which considering you never actually ended up going to see your other family, why have you still been disappearing the past couple nights?" Bea wanted to know.
Elly gritted her teeth, "Bea, I don't have time. I will talk to you about this in the morning. Tell Aster I love her."
Chloe wrapped her arms around her body, once again demanding, "Elly, we need to talk about what's happening between us now! I'm not waiting for tomorrow."
Putting her secret staying unrevealed first, Elly didn't respond to Chloe as she instead rushed out the front door.
Chloe threw her hands down to her side, telling Yashvi and Bea, "Don't tell anyone what happened between Elly and I today. I know it was a mistake and I don't really know how I'm going to deal with it right now but I need to talk to Elly before I can. If she would just stop taking off and disappearing on me. I'm going after her."
"Okay," Bea replied, without able to say much more before Chloe was already out the front door running after Elly.
Yashvi glanced down at Bea, "Your sister sure knows how to avoid problems. Just give her some time, talk to her tomorrow like she promised. If she still refuses, then you can go off at her about whatever it is that's going on with her and why she couldn't stop what happened with Chloe today."
"Yeah, guess you're right," Bea agreed.
"Aren't I, always right?" Yashvi teased.
"Maybe," Bea grinned.
Meanwhile, Chloe tore down Ramsay Street after Elly who had a pretty decent head start, but Chloe refused to give up as easily this time compared to the other night.
"Elly, wait up, we need to talk," Chloe demanded.
Elly ignored Chloe as her feet pounded the pavement out of Ramsay Street. She hated running away from her mate, hated the thought that she'd left Chloe so utterly confused after their spent hours making love to one another and holding each other in their arms.
I don't know what was more perfect…the love making or the laying in Chloe's arms…just picturing our entire future together in love with one another and raising Aster together… Except now it feels like you are running away from that future as you're not ready for Chloe to learn the truth about you…
"Elly!" Chloe shouted again as Elly turned down another street.
But Elly didn't stop running. Within another minute, Chloe was no closer to catching up to her but she refused to give up.
As Elly turned down another street, her skin bristled as she felt the moon rising in the sky. She knew the transformation was coming. She felt that Chloe was still at least one street behind her, even though she knew it was still a risk that Chloe was following her, she couldn't stop Chloe wanting answers. And she couldn't stop changing into a werewolf.
Within another minute, Elly leapt up from the ground, her tattered clothes tearing off her body completely and when she landed back on the footpath she did so on all fours as WolfElly.
WolfElly shot off to the end of the street as Chloe rounded the corner to the street. Chloe still saw the dog up the end of the street, curious as to where it had come from as it seemed to still be randomly around her the past few nights.
As WolfElly sat at the end of the road, watching Chloe come to a stop in her run after Elly, instead staring off at her.
WolfElly soon turned around and padded down the street, wondering if Chloe would continue to chase her. But instead, Chloe didn't follow the dog. Chloe frowned heavily as on the path ahead of her was something that caught her attention.
Chloe walked forward until she crouched down and picked up the remains of what she recognized to be Elly's torn up clothes, that seemingly had been destroyed even further with more rips and shreds to the clothes. Chloe stared at the clothes in her hand, then glanced up towards where the dog had been sitting, "What the?"
Chloe kept the clothes in her hand as she went back to walking down the street towards where the dog had been sitting, still hoping she could find the animal.
An hour later, back at Chloe and Pierce's house, Pierce looked at his personal chef, Rene, and a friend of his that Rene had called in for help, Roman, "You understand what we're doing?"
Rene cocked the shotgun in his hands, "Animal control aren't particularly interested in your accusations that there's a wolf hanging around your area the past few nights. We don't want a dangerous wolf on the loose despite the animal not attacking your wife last night. If we find it, we shoot to kill."
"Wolves pelts sell for good money," Roman chuckled darkly.
"Should never have left that wretched animal alone with my wife last night. Too busy trying to do whatever Chloe asks of me. But when Chloe skipped dinner tonight, I went out walking the neighbourhood in frustration at what's been going on with Chloe for the past month or two. Saw Chloe following the damn wolf. Should've confronted her and told her to leave the damn thing alone but I think we need to make sure that wolf will never cause trouble for anyone again. I don't care that it never showed any aggression, I want the animal destroyed," Pierce decided.
"Let's go hunt a wolf," Rene smiled gleefully at the other men as he handed them each a handgun.
Next time - Will Chloe interrupt Pierce's wolf hunt before it begins? Or will WolfElly find help from an unexpected source?