Chapter 12 Chapter 12
Ty
Blood coated my face and chest and at the smell and feel of it my beast rose up, tearing a howling roar from my human lips.
Blood and the sweet sweet smell of my mate, it was going to be almost impossible to stay in control. But I had to, I had-
The guard stumbled away. Cowering and whining into the hallways as they ran from their alphas' anger. I didn’t go after them although I wanted to.
Each one of them was complicit in the harming of my mate. But none more than the ones who lay dead and staring sightless on the floor at my feet and Silvera, Eirian would deal with her. Maybe not in the way I would but he would see her punished.
A wet heart wrenching sob filled my ears and the growl died on my lips. Turning towards Sloane I felt the beast in me calm and go into a full on rage all at the same time;
She was bleeding. Not a lot but enough for me to smell it.
These women; who were meant to be loyal to me and they had made my mate bleed. They had tried to kill her like taking her away from me would force me to choose one of them.
“Sloane.” Her name sounded weird because my human mouth was full of monstrous wolf teeth. “Come-“ another growl when she didn’t move towards me quickly. I forced my teeth to shrink, and pushed my beast down. And this time he went easily.
One final whine that slipped from my human lips and he layed his head down in the prison of my mind.
Strange.
He had never retreated so easily before.
“Come here Sloane.” I tried to keep the barking order out of my voice as I reached into the cage for her hand. Blood dripped on the cages floor and for a second she stared at it with horror on her face and then her small hand closed around mine and I pulled her free and into my arms. Crushing her shivering naked body against my chest and pushing her cheek into the blood that coated me.
“Are you ok?” Hand flat on her cheek I kept her locked to me. “Did they hurt you?”
She tried to shake her head but my hand on her face stopped her from moving. “No. I’m ok.” She mumbled and her hot breath flowed against my skin. My nipples hardened, and my breath caught in a hiss in my throat.
“What?”
Glancing down I saw her wide eyes and her rosy nipples pebbled up. She had felt what I felt. When her breath had caused me to groan with pure need and lust , it had gone from me to her, to-
I glanced over at my brother: his hand curled into Silverado’s hair he was staring at us and panting,
So he had felt it too.
We were linked.
It was true.
She was the one.
“I’m going to-“ he said and paused. His eyes on us and his lips parted. “Don’t break her.” He said finally and dragged the wayward treacherous she wolf out of the room and slam the door behind them,
My room fell into almost silence, the only sound was our mingled breath and the fluttering of sloanes rapidly beating heart.
“You’re afraid.” I said breaking the silence.
“Yes, they tried to kill me.” She murmured, her lips brushing against my naked chest with every word,
And by the goddess they fell amazing on my skin.
“Yes they did but I meant are you afraid of me?”
“Yes, no.” Her lips quivered in a grimace. Loosening my grip on her I let her slip from my arms so I could study her face.
“I don’t know.”
“You don’t know?” Tilting her chin up I left a smear of blood on her chin to match the smudges on her cheek.
“I know I should be afraid of you, Ty and I was but I’m not now. I don’t think I am anyway,”
My eyebrows shot up. Had she just called me by my name?
Catching my look she lowered her eyes quickly. “I’m sorry:” she mumbled. “I meant alpha. I didn’t mean any direspect-“
I brushed my thumb over her lips and silenced her, “You can call me Ty. And I will call you Sloane.”
Or mine, I added silently.
“If that’s ok?”
It might have been my imagination but she seemed to smile.
“Your brother didn’t ask.”
“And what does my brother call you?”
Her eyes darted away. “Little rabbit.”
I couldn’t help it I threw my head back and laughed, “I like that. It suits you. Our little rabbit.” Over and over again I smoothed my fingers over her cheek. Streaking her with another wolf’s blood.
“I should take you back to the bath house. We are both-“
Her eyes darted toward the door and the butterfly flutters of her heart turned into a thundering drum.
“You don’t want to bathe?”
“It’s not that, it’s just-“ again she looked at the closed door like she was expecting someone to burst through it and hurt her again.
The sweet scent that always surrounded her turned bitter.
Fear.
My little rabbit was afraid.
“No one will hurt you, no one but me will touch you.” Taking her by the hand I led her to the bed. Gesturing het to sit down.
“You can sit and I will bathe you.”
She didn’t move, her hand still loosely holding mine she shook her head.
“No thank you.”
I did a double take. “What did you say?” This time I couldn’t help the growl in my voice. I wasn’t the kind of alpha that was used to being told no.
“You need it more than me. And I am-“ her wife terrified eyes were full of something I couldn’t read. “I am not used to be being waited on. I would much rather-“ a blush crept up her cheeks.
“You want to bathe me?”
Silently she nodded. Chewing on her lip she looked down the length of my body almost like she had just realised in was naked and her whole face went as red as a beetroot.
Keeping a hold of her hand, I sat on the edge of the bed. “You can do that if you like.” I said softly.
“You saved me and I would like to-“ again her eyes darted downward and it hit me in a rush. She was looking at my cock.
Nudity was such a huge part of our world that it didn’t bother us at all but to a human as sweet and sheltered as Sloane? It would be unnerving.
She probably had never been around a naked man before.
“I’ve never touched a naked man before.” Her eyes darted away. “I’ve never been so close to-“
Drawing her hand towards my chest , I ran her fingers through the drying blood. “There,” my body trembled from the feel of her fingertips. “Now you have touched me.” Lifting my face to hers , I smiled. “Now what?”
For a second she looked confused. “What do you mean?”
Another chuckle rumbled through my chest. I loved her naive innocence as much as I loved her sweet scent.
Loosening my grip on her arm, I hooked an arm around her waist and pulled her between my parted thighs.
“What part of me would you like to touch next, little rabbit?”