Book Chapter63
“He hasn’t found her yet?” task
“Not yet, seems she gave him the slip for now. Used the water to hide her scent. Very smart wolf he’s dealing with. He just needs to be smarter than her “I watch Cash. He’s slowly walking away from our view, hands in his pockets, looking at the waterline for clues.
“He’s insane,” I blurt out.
“No, he’s just hurting, probably worse than her. I think he always imagined that his mate would fall at his feet. It’s hard if your mate is in love with a wolf of greater power. He feels inadequate against Clayton. How can he compete against an Alpha? He’s of alpha blood, but he isn’t as strong as him, and that’s hard on a male wolf. You females look how beautiful another female is; males look at how powerful another male is.” He’s sitting on a chair, looking around the room, looking at the walls that have no pictures hanging on them. A blank canvas of white that I really need to paint with colors that I love
“Are you afraid of Clayton?” I’m curious of what he thinks of my mate. “No.” One word spoken with a conviction of feeling that I know is his truth. He reaches his hand out for me to take. Ido, and he pulls me on his lap, so I’m straddling him on the chair, feet dangling.
not touching the ground.
We sit there in quiet for a while I’m in my own thoughts as he just watches me. His face changes slightly with the emotions I’m feeling How can I hide what I feel from him?
“Have I told you that you smell like blossoms on a fruit tree in the springtime? Do you have any idea what you do to me now?I can feel inside of you, Rya.” I see the hairs on my arms now angling toward him. He’s affecting me on a primitive level, my needs, my wants, my desires. He gives me a low growl that makes my body respond naturally to him. I can feel the little sparks of electricity that run along the length of my body, pooling into my lower abdomen.
His hand gently brushes my hair, bringing the ends to his nose as he takes in the smell. His other hand rests on the curve of my hip. I kiss his neck, his ear, his jawline, rolling my body into his. His hands go up my shirt, finding flesh that wants to be touched. I moan into his mouth as the door bursts open
I jump off him. We see Cash carrying Kennedy in his arms. He’s soaking wet, as if he’s been swimming. Her lips are blue, barely breathing. She smells cold. Her heart rate is very slow, her breathing very shallow and slow.
“Put her on the couch, Cash. Rya, light a fire. What happened?” Dallas is incomplete control of the situation as he assesses her.
“She’s really cold. How did she get so cold?”
“I found where she was hiding, that island in the middle of the lake. She must have seen me and tried to escape. Just plunged into the water and started to swim. I couldn’t get her into the canoe. She overturned it.” His teeth are chattering, and he’s shivering with how cold he is
“So we started to swim back together. Midway, she just started sinking in the water. She started panicking, that she was getting too cold, that she couldn’t make it. She said her muscles were starting to cramp up.” I notice Dallas’s hands start to shake slightly. Some kind of memory flashing behind those eyelids–fear.
The fire starts to rage in the fireplace, not hot enough yet to produce the heat that they need. I get my duvet from my bed, putting it on the floor next to the fireplace so that they both can lay on it next to the heat I will have to burn it afterward; I can’t stand her smell.
He picks her up as he lays down. With her back facing the fire, she’s pressed tightly against him. Covering them up, I get a spare pillow for their heads so they can share it. I’m going to burn that as well.
“She’ll be
Il be fine, b
but you can’t move her until she warms up,” Dallas instructs his brother.
“You need to be careful around the water, Cash. How many times have I told you?” Dallas raises his voice, and Cash winces slightly
“I know, Dallas.”
“No, you don’t know! You could have died. She could have died!” He’s full–on yelling at him.
Turning away from them, I have to do something other than gawk. I decide to start on the soup while Dallas keeps yelling at his brother. Going into the little cellar, I gather up the root vegetables that I have saved in wooden crates. Taking what I need, I make my way upstairs. Filling a big pot of cold water, I put it on the stove. Hot soup to heat them from the inside out. I can’t believe she’s in my home. The wolf grumbles she doesn’t like her, it takes a certain kind of focus to clamp her down inside me. She wants to have a nice short talk Dhaski Chapter63
with that female
sun the wolf’s fur.
Cash is looking my way. “Get that wolf under control or I will control her for you.” His words are a threat that tiles up
“You need to be able to back up that look, Rya. You can’t, so put her away.” Cash’s voice is harsh against my skin. She looks like a beautiful sleeping doll in his arms. No wonder my mate loved her. I could never compare to that.
