Chapter 14 What did I just do?
Auren's pov
Alpha Dravik’s mouth on mine feels rough but soft, but I pull back, reacting more to shock than to the kiss.
Did he just kiss me?
He looked annoyed…..maybe frustrated, his hand clenching on my upper arm drops and he moved back looking at me intensely as if he was studying me.
My eyes widen as what I just did dawn on me
I freeze, my stomach twisting and my cheeks burning. Did I just reject him?
An alpha, no—a demon king alpha who clearly hasn’t been rejected by a woman before tried to kiss me and I just… pulled back?.
My lips still tingle where his pressed against mine and I refused the urge to touch my lips to be sure what happened was real.
His silver eyes hovered over me until I dropped my gaze, mortified.
This wasn’t how I had imagined my first kiss.
“You can go”, he snaps tuning and moving behind his desk
“Go… go where?” I whisper, dread curling in my stomach.
I expect him to throw me out of his pack, to banish me from this house or something.
“To our room,” he says, flipping through some files with one hand while the other waves me away.
I step out of the door, closing it behind me.
My fingers brushed my lips almost unconsciously. Nobody has ever kissed me before—not really. Not like this. There had been drunken hands at parties my uncle threw, groping and unwanted touches, but nothing like this. Nothing with someone like him.
Was it because he liked me, or… was it an accident? My thoughts whirl faster than my pulse.
“Are you okay?” a friendlier voice asks.
I look up, startled, to see Jace leaning casually against a wall.
I straighten, trying to appear collected, though my ears are still flaming and my lips feel too sensitive.
“I… I’m fine,” I murmur.
“You look like you’ve seen a ghost,” he teases, stepping closer. “The big scary Alpha back there scared you?”
I nod, unable to find the words, my heart still hammering.
“I haven’t had a chance to check on you yet,” he continues, stopping in front of me. “How’s it going? Need anything? Our pack members treating you fine?… you’ve met my twin sister, right?”
Twin sister? I glance at him, confused.
“Hope? Red hair, big mouth?”
“Oh… yes. I didn’t know you guys were twins,” I say carefully, still nervous.
“Yeah,” he grins, his eyes moving over me and lingering a little on my chest. “I’m the cute one. So what are you doing out here?”
“Trying to remember my way to my room,” I admit, feeling the need to cover my chest with my hand.
“I can take you,” he says, holding out his hand.
I blink at it, hesitating, unsure. Do I take it? Before I can decide, the door behind me wrenched open.
“You will do no such thing.”
I flinch and turn.
Alpha Dravik stood there, towering, his silver eyes sharp as blades. The tension between the two brothers is palpable, and I feel like I’m caught in the middle of some unspoken war.
“There he is,” Jace says, still smiling, though it’s more playful than confident. “Just about to show your bride around. Seems you’re too busy with pack business.”
“Drop the report you came to bring me, Jace, and go back to training,” Alpha Dravik says sharply.
“I will see you around then, darling.”
Jace winks at me, brushing past and entering Alpha Dravik’s office coming out immediately whistling.
Dravik signs as he watches him leave.
“ I love my brother but I will prefer it if you’re never alone with him.”
I glanced at him, the memory of the kiss still burning on my lips. I don’t understand him, he was the one who sent me away. Was this a test? My uncle and Seris test me all the time but mostly they catch me unaware.
He watches me, his eyes narrowing slightly. I can feel his scrutiny like a physical weight, and I shiver under it. I should be terrified, and yet… something in me is uncomfortably drawn to him, the intensity of him, the danger of him.
“If you have something to say, say it.”
Don't say it, I scream in my head. it’s a trap, keep your mouth shut. I looked down.
“Are you tired?”
“Yes,” I whisper.
“Come.”
He leads me through the house, up the twisting staircases and endless corridors of the mansion.
My steps are slow, my heart racing and mind spinning. What just happened back there? The kiss, the dismissal—how am I supposed to understand any of it?
We stop in front of a familiar door.
“I shouldn’t have kissed you,” he admits quietly. “I’m sorry about that. Sometimes… Shadow takes over me. I can control him, but he can break through once in a while. Don’t worry—it won’t happen again.”
“Shadow?”
“My wolf,” he says simply, as if it explains everything.
I blink at him, confused.
Now he is really not making any sense.
Why is he referring to his wolf as a completely different person?