Chapter 63: Chapter 63

Elari

His mouth smashed down into mine. Tongue swiping against the seal of my lips as he forced my back against the tree and trapped me there with his much bigger body.

There was a moment of shock. Just one single split second where I didn’t know what was happening and then my body relaxed against his. My arms went around his neck so I could tangle my fingers into his dark hair. Lifting myself up on tiptoes I opened my mouth to him. Deepening the kiss until we were nothing but a tangle of tongues and needy panting breaths.

Kade groaned and it sounded like my name. His hands roved down my side to slide under the thick material of my sweatshirt and skirt against my rib cage. And everywhere his fingers touched my body felt like it was burning.

I arched into him as my body came alive with more feelings than I had ever experienced. My breasts felt heavy under the sports bra that trapped them, and I couldn’t help but press myself into his harder and with more force.

Kades hand tangled into my long ponytail and with one firm jerk he had my head tilted back so he could let his lips wander from my lips to the pulse point hammering against my throat.

He flicked his tongue against it, in time with it and the sound that came out of my mouth could only be described as a moan.

The sound startled me, my eyes flew open. Only to find his open and on me.

“Kade.” I whispered. Why did it feel like my heart was breaking now his mouth wasn’t on mine. Why did it feel like my life was shattering around me. Somewhere deep inside my chest my wolf whined and an answering whine escaped his mouth.

“I know.” Breathing heavily he leant his forehead against mine, not breaking eye contact. “I know Lari. I don’t know what to do.”

I knew what we should do. He should kiss me again. My wolf demanded it. And so did my human and very turned on body.

No, I sucked in a breath. Hoping it would settle me but all I did was breathe in the fiery scent of him and that just made it worse.

“We should-“ I began to tell him for the hundredth time that this shouldn’t be happening, that we shouldn’t kiss and want each other the way we did.

His lips found mine again, softly at first and then harder and harder until I was kissing him wildly and my legs were wrapped around his waist as he pressed me against the tree trunk and made love to my mouth with his tongue like one day I knew he would want to do to my body.

I knew he wanted me. Just like I knew he had more experience than me. Hell most of the school had more experience in that area than I did. But he didn’t try to go further.

Kade seemed content to just kiss my mouth and wrap me in his arms right now.

“I need you.” He nipped at my mouth. Pulling my bottom lip away from my teeth and nibbling on it. Which pulled another moan from my mouth. His eyes flashed at the sound. “But we need-“ soft lips brushed against my jawline. “We have to be careful. We have to keep up appearances.”

I knew what he meant. No one could ever know what our relationship had morphed into. Or that we wore each others marks and that meant he had to been seen with Serephina.

A low grumbling growl escaped pathetically from my lips and his chuckle vibrated through my body. “I’m not happy about it either, Lari. Seeing you with Rivan. Knowing he wants you. Knowing he thinks that one day he thinks you will be his entirely makes me and my wolf crazy.”

I didn’t bother to ask how he knew or at least suspected that Rivan wanted us to mate because his lips were brushing against just the right spot and I couldn’t think of anything but how right this all felt.

“It’s all just an act.” I mumbled. I meant my old relationship with Rivan. Although I wasn’t sure that was true now.

“Yes.” Kades lips dropped lower. Nuzzling into the skin where my throat met my shoulders. “Yes it’s all an act. We are the truth. I need you in my life and when you have come of age I will mark you as mine.”

“Kade we can’t-“

He growled and I moaned. “I will claim you Lari. Not Rivan, not any of my fathers cronies. They all want you but only I get to have you.” The hand up my top skimmed higher but not high enough to be inappropriate. It was just like he was trying to touch as much of my skin as possible.

“On your birthday I will take you as my mate. No one came break that bond. Not even my father.”

He sounded like he had it all worked out and who was I to argue with him. I wanted that. I wanted to be his.

“Come to our place every night. At eleven. It will mean you have to sneak out but-“

“I’ll be there. I don’t care about sneaking around.”

Chuckling under his breath he found my lips again. “I know that and this sneaking around will be worth it. It means we will be together but the others can never know. Not until you’re claimed. I mean it Lari. You can’t even tell your friends. The world needs to think we are indifferent to each other.”

“I can do that.” I murmured but for the first time since he had kissed me this morning I had my doubts. Not that we were mates. There was no denying that but about how we were going about it.

I didn’t like keeping another secret from my friends and I didn’t like leading Rivan on. He didn’t deserve that.

“I love you.” Kades tongue plunged into my mouth and all thoughts of anyone but him disappeared. We fell back into kissing and desperately clawing at each other.

Off the trail a twig snapped.

“What?” I pulled my head away. Eyes darting every which way.

“It’s just an animal. Kiss me some more, we only have a few more minutes.” He tried to capture my lips again but I was nervous now.

What if it wasn’t an animal?

What if someone had just seen me kissing my step brother?