Chapter seven
Adrian walks up the stairs just ahead of me giving me a perfect view of her glorious, perfectly rounded bottom as it sways seductively at eye level four or five steps ahead on the staircase. I try to look anywhere but at her ass but it's such a dam good ass I can't help but steal occasional glances until we reach her door and I force my eyes to behave.
She unlocks the door and leads us into the living area I settle onto one of the sofas and she fetches the bag of brownies and two bottles of beer. She passes me the beer then pulls it back just as I reach for it "Oh is this ok you're driving?" she says concerned and I chuckle, I'm a shape shifter one won't even do anything to me.
"I'm a pretty big guy I think I can manage one" I assure her she laughs it off but the way her eyes trail over my body doesn't go unnoticed.
We tuck into a brownie each and get talking about how my parent's met. Nobodies ever asked me that before so I have to think on my feet, she already thinks Ness was sixteen when she had me so I work around that. I tell Adrian that my Mom and Dad met in high school and married when she found out she was pregnant with me. it's all a complete lie but what am I supposed to tell her my Dad's a shape shifter and he knew my Mom would be his wife even when she was a baby, they met because the former alpha thought her an abomination and tried to kill her but Dad protected her because he used to be in love with her mother. Jesus no way that was to messed up to get your head around even if you understood the imprint,the wolf gene and knew about vampires. Even I still got weirded out if I thought about it too hard for too long.
She needn't have worried about me driving after drinking that beer because my beer is now sat two thirds full on the coffee table practically untouched while Adrian and I make out on the sofa like a couple of teenagers. She pulls me on top of her and wraps one leg around my waist her skirt now ridden all the way up to her hips. I feel her small hands move from around my neck to my shoulders where she runs them down my arms and squeezes both of my biceps, she lets out a small appreciative 'mmm' sound in my mouth and I delve my tongue in deeper. She moves to start kissing my neck then moves her hands to start unbuttoning my shirt I let her get to the maybe the third button before I realise what she's doing and where this is going.
"Adrian wait" I breathe heavily against her lips.
"Why?" she pants her eyes still closed and she reaches up and nips at my ear lobe making me growl in frustration, I've never wanted anyone as bad as I want her, not like this, not this extreme.
"This is too fast?" I say more of question than anything. I'm scared of pushing her too far I know she can feel the imprint but she still doesn't know what it is or why she's feeling the way she is. The speed we're barrelling along at would be too fast for any normal couple and it only feels ok to her because of the imprint. I just don't want her to do anything she'll regret, I want her to be sure she wants this before we go too far to come back, she's my imprint, my life I could never hurt her like that. Next thing I know she pushes me off of her and sits up right straightening her skirt to cover herself.
"You're right I'm sorry" she mutters but I can see she's upset before I can get out an apology she stands up from the sofa. "It's kind of late and I'm tired so..." she trails obviously hinting that she wants me to leave "I had a really nice time with you, thank you for dinner" she says.
"You're welcome" I say quietly, I feel terrible and I'm not even sure where I went wrong or what I did that upset her. "Goodnight Adrian" I say. She folds her arms across her chest and refuses to make eye contact with me making it painfully obvious I shouldn't make any move to touch her or kiss her goodbye.
"Good night Riddoc" she says and then with a sigh I leave the apartment she doesn't even see me to the door.
I throw myself into the car and before I even shut the doors the heavens open. Fantastic, I just ruined the perfect date with my imprint and on top of everything it's raining. I growl angrily and punch the steering wheel being careful not to hit the horn then reluctantly start the car.
When I get home I head straight for the stairs, Mom comes out of the kitchen with a big smile on her face that drops the second she sees me. She tries to asks me what's wrong but I snap at her and tell her I don't want to talk about it. I was actually kind of rude, Dad is definitely gonna tear me a new one when he hears about it, nobody snaps at the Alpha's wife even if it's the Alpha's children.
I lock myself in my bedroom I can apologise later, I walk into the attached bathroom and start running the shower I shrug out of my shirt that was still unbuttoned the way Adrian left it, it smelt of her, her scent mixed with brownies and her arousal. I was such an idiot was that why she's closed up had I taken things too far or was that just the problem maybe she wanted more and I'd left her wanting. I was so confused I kept running over the night in my head trying to pinpoint where I had fucked up but couldn't figure it out. I stepped under the hot water and decided I would go and see her tomorrow after my patrol, I would apologise and beg her to keep our date for Sunday.
I stood under the water for a good hour before I heard a large fist banging on my bedroom door, I knew it was Dad and I knew he wasn't happy I was half tempted to try and slip put of the window but I didn't, I turned off the water got out and wrapped a towel around myself.
I opened the door and his disappointed Dad face was in place. "Riddoc what makes you think you can talk to your Mother that way?" he asks with one eyebrow cocked and I sigh.
"I'm sorry Dad I was in bad mood is she ok?" I ask and his face softens a little bit.
"She's fine, just worried about you, is there something you want to talk about?" he asks me. "Why don't you come phase and show me what happened?" he suggests but I shake my head.
"No I'm Ok, thanks Dad but I don't want to talk about it, I have patrol at six I just want to get some sleep if that's ok. I'll apologise to Mom in the morning" I tell him and he nods
"Alright, sleep well son" he says and ruffles my hair I laugh batting his hand away.
"Night Dad" I call and he leaves and shuts the door. I flop onto my bed backwards hoping that sleep will find me quickly but it's close to three by the time I finally drift off.
Miles: Duck what's with you today?
Me: nothing I'm fine
I wish Miles would get off my back but he just won't piss off, I've been running patrol with him since six this morning, my paws ached and my head banged from keeping Miles out of my head. That didn't stop him from yapping away though.
Miles: you're not fine, I don't know what you are but definitely aren't fine bro
Me: look I don't want to talk about it ok so just give it a rest
Miles: something happen with Adrian?
Me: it's none of your business
Miles: this is obviously about Adrian you're completely blocking all of your memories and thoughts of her.
I snarled at Miles and nipped at his flank hoping he'd just shut the fuck up, twelve o'clock couldn't roll around fast enough and the second it did I phased out so I wouldn't have to listen to him anymore.
Miles and Shila were twins but they couldn't be more different they looked pretty much identical and they were both assholes the difference was Shila was funny and lovable with it, everyone who met him loved him. Miles on the other hand was just annoying, and he was pretty much the bane of my life. Don't get me wrong I didn't hate the guy he was my pack brother he just had the annoying kid brother effect on me and we were the same age.
I arrive at the beach and make my way over to the pier it's a Saturday and I'm glad to see the surf shack is busy, I'm happy things are going well for Adrian and business is good. I let myself into the busy restaurant and I spot her serving drinks to a table of old men in fishing gear I chuckle when I see one of them checking out her ass, not that I can blame him it's a great ass. She stops and talks to another table a family of four then looks up and sees me I smile at her she doesn't smile back in fact she bites her lip and looks a little worried, she looks at her feet and mutters the word 'Shit' under her breath. I keep my face composed knowing I'm supposed to be human and a human wouldn't have heard that.
She walks over to me and I take in how gorgeous she looks today, her hair is tied back and she has no make up on but she looks beautiful anyway. "What are you doing here?" she asks and her tone stings me a little bit.
"I needed to talk to you about last night" I say
"And what you've never heard of a phone?" she sighs impatiently "Riddoc I'm working"
"I know I just... I wanted to apologise, I didn't mean to make you upset or angry" I start
"You didn't. You did nothing wrong so don't apologise" she says
"But if I didn't do anything wrong then can you explain what went wrong last night?" I ask. She huffs then checks behind her make sure nobodies listening to our conversation, next thing she grabs me by my t-shirt and pulls me back outside onto the pier.
"I'm embarrassed and humiliated ok" she hisses through her teeth "That's what happened last night"
"I'm confused" I say
"Do I have to spell it out for you? I threw myself at you and you said no. Maybe spending my adolescence in a rock band gave me too much of an ego but that's never happened to me before" she half whispers half shouts "God it was so humiliating"
"I didn't say no" I start and her eyes widen.
"Yes you did"
"No I didn't"
"Yes you did you stopped and then said 'Oh this is too fast'" she says doing a really terrible impression of me.
"Ok first of all I do not sound like that and second of all I meant that as a question" I tell her "It was our first date and things were happening so fast that I was just trying to be a gentleman about it and make sure it was what you wanted first" I say "Look I didn't want to jump only for you to regret it in the morning"
"Ok when you're asking a question you're supposed to make your voice go up at the end so people know it's a question" she says
"I'll try and work on that" I mutter and she laughs
"You're right, this is fast, that should bother me but there's no voice in my head telling me to slow down with you, I like you" she shrugs
"That's good because I like you too" I smile at her "Can I still take you out tomorrow night?"
"Only if you still want to?" she says and looks up at me with the most adorable look on her face.
"I want to" I tell her then move in to kiss her, she grabs the fabric of my t-shirt and her hands turn into fists as she pulls me against her, I thread my fingers through her hair and cup her cheeks. "Just for the record, I wanted to, you have no idea how much I wanted to" I whisper against her ear and I feel her tremble then I move my lips along her neck and jaw until I find hers again.