Elijah was currently trying to lose himself in excercise and was at this precise moment, doing so on the treadmill. It's the same place he had spent a good portion of his days, since Colt had stopped accepting his calls, four days ago. He had kept trying, calling and leaving at least three voice messages a day, ranging from pleading and begging her to call him back to getting annoyed that she wouldn't even deign to let him know she was okay.
Originally, the first afternoon and then the morning after his last call with Colt, he had tried running in his wolf form to blow off steam, but he found his paws kept taking him to her cottage. He was also finding the allure of never returning to his human form was becoming stonger, rather than dealing with the loneliness that was beginning to consume him.
So, instead he worked out in the gym located in the building attached to the spa complex. In this part of his session he had been maintaining a steady pace for about forty minutes, and was enjoying the feeling of sweat emanating from his body, as he burned off his excess energy.
He left the gym area about an hour later, having switched from the treadmill, to lifting weights, then onto the excercise bike. Once he was done, he decided he would go for a swim, down on the groundfloor level to loosen off his shoulders. As well as allowing him to kill more time, where he couldn't try Colt's cell again.
After he was changed into his loose black swimming shorts, he went to the poolside and climbed down the steps entering the water. As he supressed the shiver, which he presumed was from the temperature change, he recognised the feeling of several sets of eyes on him. It wasn't an unusual occurrence, as he was a strongly built man, with the defined musculature of a carved marble statue, that was Herculean in it's nature. He had broad shoulders with strong thick arms, and muscular thighs. To top off his physique, he sported sandy blonde hair and blue eyes, above a strong chiselled jaw, all of which garnered him a lot of appreciative looks and longing glances from both women and men.
It was because of the regularity of this occurrence, that he didn't pick up on the one particular set of hazel eyes, staring harder than the others from the hot tub area at the back of the room.
Colt was lounging in the water and enjoying the heat blasting into her sore muscles from the jets of the hot tub, when Elijah walked in. While she was home, she had requested that her Dad did some sparring and training routines with her, and they ended up fighting twice a day. She liked that her Dad never held back now, *'because a real attacker wouldn't'*, allowing her to really test herself. But as such, she left home this morning, practically bruised from head to foot, with a severe ache in her ribs. After her Mom insisted she went to the emergency room to get checked out she was pretty sure Isla was relieved to see her leave while she could still stand upright.
When she got to the resort, she knew exactly where her second location would be after dropping off her bags and groceries quickly, before she checked in on Solaris. Next, she was headed to the extra strong jets in the hot tub area of the pool. The heat and the massage from the water streaming at her body was exactly what she needed right now.
Colt had been in the hot tub for forty minutes when Elijah arrived. Thankfully, the strong chlorine scents and the fact that she was mostly under water, apart from her shoulders, and her head, with her thick black wavy hair, plopped up on top of her head with just a few tendrils and whisps escaping about her face. This situation seemed to be working at concealing her identity from her mate, when he walked in; wearing nothing but his swimming shorts and a frown, giving off a broody sexy vibe. She begrudgingly admitted to herself, as she brazenly watched him, that he was getting far too many adoring looks from those around him. She was wrankled because not only was he getting them, but she seemed mightily agitated about it at all.
Colt sat there in silence, her eyes trained on Elijah, watching him like he was an animal to be preyed upon, instead of the mighty predator he was. She watched as the muscles in his arms and legs effortlessly flexed and released, propelling him swiftly through the water like he was born to it. The water rippled over his skin as his limbs cut through it, then fanned out into a jet stream behind him, while he completed each lap, Elijah totally obliviousto her scrutiny. When he started to slow from his front crawl and swim at a more leisurely pace on his back, Colt would be lying if she tried to say she didn't have visions of inspecting all those muscular grooves his body was adorned in, from a closer angle. Preferably in the shower cubicle afterwards, with her tongue, as she helped clean all those harsh pool water chemicals off of every little inch of him. Although, she didn't doubt there would be much little during her close up examination of him. She finally broke her motionless state, to shake that image out of her head, before she got carried away, and jumped him in the pool.
Meanwhile, Elijah was doing his best to ignore the eyes on his back as he swam, but it was hard as they were almost searing into his skin with their intensity. Eventually, after ten more laps on his back he had had enough, and got out of the pool, deciding it had been long enough since this morning to attempt another call to his stubborn mate. As soon as he pushed himself out of the water and onto the walkway that surrounded it, he was confronted by a cute brunette, she was a rabbit shifter by her smell. She was all bust and boy, was she using it to try and win his attention. She was barely concealed with only two triangles and a piece of string being what held the yellow fabric together to avoid exposing the woman's chest. It brought a smile to his face, especially as she brushed her scantily clad breasts against his chest, to lean up and whisper in his ear, attempting to be seductive.
"Hi, there I'm Lola." she giggled, bouncing against him.
Wrapping his arm about her waist to steady her he responded "Well hello Lola, I'm Elijah." He smiled looking down at her, enjoying the view as well as the light flirtation as a reprieve to his current feelings of loneliness.
"So, I think the hot tub will be free any minute, if you're up for, I don't know, maybe getting to know each other better?" She smiled biting her lip suggestively.
"Damn, little bunny you are forward." he laughed, turning to glance at the hot tub area.
Elijah froze.
His eyes had connected, with a pair of hazel orbs that were watching him intently. She was back, she came back like her Mom said she would. His world suddenly felt a bit brighter as he strode around the pool to get to her, with his new, but forgotten bunny friend following along excitedly behind him.