::: THIRTEEN :::
The movement of something under my body woke me and the sharp sun coming through the window made my eyes slam shut again to feel a pair of hands threading in my hair, twirling it around their finger. "Morning." He gave me a simple kiss on he lips that made me smile.
"Morning, you hungry?"
"Aint I always hungry." I went to get up though Derek held me place and this time it wasnt a simple kiss but something that seeked more. My hands went to his hair and saddled his waist, making a growl escape his lips while his hands seem to touch every inch of my body making the heat between my lips sweep me breatheless- there was no deniniung that I wanted more.
As I gathered up the confidence I started to grind against him when there was a knock at the door and we paid my attention to it under the nervous voice sounded behind it. "Um...Derek the..ahh..packs leaving for a run." Derek let out a low growl, he gave me one more kiss before getting up and adjusting his jeans as he went to the door.
The young wolf was shifting from one foot to the other, looking as if he would rather me else where. "Are we leaving now?" Derek's voice didn't betray anything that happened a few moments ago but with the ability of being a werewolf, Chloe didnt doubt that the younger man knew what had happened.
"Five minutes and we'll be leaving." The young wolf ran off before anything else could be done. Derek shut the door and headed to the bathroom, he was brushing his teeth when I walked in and sat on the bathroom bench near him.
"Who was the boy?" Derek raised his eyebrow and I realised how interested I sounded. "Derek, his a young boy, maybe ten. I'm noting going to leave you for him." Derek stopped brushing his teeth and gave me another look. Oh god. "I'm not going to leave you for any other human, wolf, witch, supernatural person. Calm down." He stared at me for awhile before going back to brushing his teeth- Thank god he had teeth paste in his mouth or that agreement wouldn't have finished so quickly. "You nervous about changing in front of everyone?" Derek shrugged. "Do you think you can change?" He finished brushing his teeth and rinsed his mouth, he came and stood between my legs resting his head on my shoulder.
"I don't know, we'll work on it. Samuel, James, Travis and Luke are going to be there." He started giving my neck love bites.
"Derek, enough." I lightly pushed him away and he looked up at me, I knew I probably wasnt going to like what he had planned.
"I'm going to be away for a couple of hours," He was searching for the right words. "I don't want you alone with the other wolves, stay with Tara or Ben and please don't wander off. The other wolves probably won't come near you because your mine, but I haven't marked you so you never know."
"No one is going to take me away from you, not even the Edison Group." I tried to make it as a joke, but he didn't even crack a smile.
"I'm serious, be careful. And try not to broke a bone or fall over well I'm gone." Derek gave me a small smile to let me know he was joking but I knew that he was almost equally serious as well.
He started nipping at my throat. "Derek, that's enough. You need to leave." He groaned and walked into the lounge room so he wouldn't be tempted.
"Alright, I'm leaving. Tara will be here in half an hour, so get dress and you'll be staying with her til I get back and don-"
"Derek go, I'll be fine." I stood on my toes and gave him a kiss, pushing him out the door. "Have fun." I watched him leave until his body dissapeared in the swamp of trees.
Walking back into the house I took a large steady breath- I was shaking, it was the stupid nerves. Derek is going to do great, he always does. I took the direction to the bathroom to get ready for the day but as I entered and focused on my own reflect I couldn't believe my eyes- from my shoulders to my neck were covered in small red bites - Not daring to take a second look at what my mate had done to my neck, I got into the warm shower.
There was ten minutes remaining before Tara came to the cottage- I had freshened up, had breakfast and even made an effort of cleaning up the house. The sensation of feeling the walls close in on me again making my heart speed up, i did the only thing i knew that would help- I left the cottage.
Been outside was wonderful, to feel the heat of the sun on my skin without having to worry about the Edison group or the missing posters. I started to relax as I entered a garden with the lush green brushes and open flowers- it seemed I wasnt the only one with the idea of spending the nice day outside as a few couples laid out on the grass and the thought of whether Derek and I appeared like that entered my mind.
There was no mistaking what season it was as the ones who weren't mated were shamely flirting with the opposite sex - the thought remembered me of Tori as she would no doubt jump at the opportunity of having a male that handsome without in her reach. As i caught sight of a couple getting rather intimate together, I went to turn around only to bump into somethiing or someone. The guy had blonde hair with blue eyes and a striking body built holding a cocky expression as he held out his hand. "I'm Ryan, and you must be Chloe." When I didn't shake his hand, he took it back and ran it through his hair. I could feel the panic rising within me as i didn't know how to respond in the sitsation- maaybe waiting in the house for Tara would have been the best idea. "So your Derek's mate right?"
"Yeah, how did you know?" curiosity always won out.
"Samuel told us at Breakfast, we don't have many secrets in the pack." He shrugged like it was no big deal, when in reality i didn't like the idea of my personal life being broadcast.
"You have a lot in the pack." They did as in they had the main house and the cottages spread out with the miles of land to top it off.
"Their not all a part of this pack. There is another pack a few states away and we get together for mating. Better chance of finding the right mate for yourself with more of us aroun and the females' usually follow the male, so the females go with the male back to their pack. Makes sense right?"
"Ahhh...I guess."
Ryan shrugged his shoulders. "It does to me. Do you and Derek have the same effects as us with our mates, I mean I know you're not human and you two haven't become fully mates because he hasn't bitten or had sex with you. Is everything the s-"
"Ryan I think you should leave now." Tara came and stood beside me, without further questioning Ryan gave Tara a slight nod of respect and walked in the opposite direction of them. "Sorry about that Chloe but than again Derek isn't going to be happy when he hears about you wandering off." Tara raised his eyebrow at me, looking just like Derek when he does it. Tara turned around and started walking towards a building, I quickly followed behind her as we threaded through the garden.
"Could you not tell Derek?"
"Derek may not be Alpha but if he lived here, he would take my spot in second in command. Anyway, what he says goes."
"Doesn't Samuel feel threatened of Derek?" I followed Tara into a building that appeared to be a spa room.
"Samuel is well aware of what Derek is doing, they have had their father son talk about it already."
"How are you second in command?" Is Samuel and Tara related, mates, friends, what?
"I'm Samuel's sister and Derek is my nephew." Well that explains the looks and personalities they bothed carried.
"Do you have a mate?" For a second I saw an expression on Tara's face other than the usual stern smile.
"Luke, I have a son called Ben." Tara smiled again at a thought. "Ben came to your door this morning."
"Does Derek know?"
"Of course, we smell similar." That would explain why Derek didn't bite Ben's head off this morning. "Any way enough talk about me, I would like to know more about my sister in law." Tara handed me a towel and bathers.
"Sister in law?"
"Well it going to happen sometime." Tara laughed at the look on my face and pushed me into a changing room. "I'll meet you in the spa."
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PUBLISHED: 06/10/2010
REVISED: 26/05/2013