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“Oh shit!” I turn to Cole and from the look he gives me he gets exactly what I’m trying to convey.
“Can someone fill me in here?” Callie snaps. I don’t take my eyes off Creed as I answer.
“Belle doesn’t meanher, as in me. She wrote H.E.R which I believe stands for our son.” Creed stumbles back a step and stares at our boy in his arms as he whispers.
“Harlem Edward Reeves.” Gasps sound out around the room, and everyone begins to shout and demand things, but my soul focus is on my mate and our child. Meg rushes over to us with Callie in tow, Meg wraps her arms around me, and I can’t contain the sob that breaks free.
“I am so sorry Meg, I never––“
“Shush, that is enough of that. We can talk about what is going on with you later, but right now we have to work out what we are going to do and how we are going to protect my grandson and get Kane, Shelley and Dela back from the council.”
Chapter
Forty Two
Jessica
I don’t recall feeling seasick on the way to the island but right now I don’t feel so good. This boat is much nicer than the one we come over in, this is an actual cruise ship, so everyone has their own rooms and there is actual food on board. We were told it would take a few days before we dock. Davina put me, Creed and Harlem in the same room and honestly the tension between the two of us is suffocating. I’m sitting next to Harlem rubbing his back as he goes down for his nap and Creed sits by the window refusing to even look at me. I’m not used to being the one that has to do the making up, I have spent so long being the one in the right that I have no idea how to be the wrong one for once. Everything he said earlier is right, I had no right to hurt Meg the way I did, and I feel sick just thinking about it. Once Harlem is finally asleep, I stand and move toward Creed, leaning against the wall and staring out the same window he does. The silence is tense and uncomfortable but at least we are in the same room for a change. Neither of us speaks, we just gaze out the window lost in our thoughts for a long while.
“I have never had to worry about a woman or their feelings before.” I turn and face him, but he continues to stare out the window. “As eat ass as it sounds women always wanted to please me,” An irrational surge of jealousy spikes inside me. “They just wanted to bed the alpha and hope I would choose them, but I never wanted that. I have been following you for years, ever since I saw a picture of you for the first time, I think a part of me always knew, that you would be it for me. When you came to Rosewood I had a plan, albeit a bad one but a plan none the less. But that all went to shit when I first laid eyes on you and Corbin uttered that word.” He finally turns to look at me as he says. “Mate.I knew then that I had to have you and no matter the cost I would never let you go.” The longing and love in his gaze steals the very breath from my lungs.
“Creed––“
“Let me finish please, I need to say this, or I never will.” I nod my head and drop into the other chair as I wait for him to continue. “That day at the summit when I watched you break because of your mom, something shattered inside me. It was the first time in my life that I wanted to take away another’s pain and make it my own. Then when I realized you had run I…I lost it, I searched everywhere for you Jess, I knew Cairo had helped you in some way, when I reached out to him, he refused my calls, and when I learnt that the twins fled with you as well, I died a bit inside, my own blood chose to run with you because I fucked up so badly. Every time I got a lead on where you might be, hope spiked inside me, then when it turned out to be a dead end, another part of me would fall away and die. I became angry and bitter that my own mate fled, little did I know she fled while she was pregnant with my children.” Guilt rears its head inside me. “I slacked off as alpha because my only focus was on getting you back, dad had to step up and help. Me being distracted meant that I wasn’t on my game when Jacob and the council started to take away our land and in turn some of the pack begun to switch sides and I honestly… didn’t blame them. I mean how could I? When Shelley called and told me she had a ping on your location and had spoken to you, I was already on the road searching––“
“Searching?” He smiles sadly.
“I searched for you every day, two days a month I would spend with the pack and help with issues and then the rest of the time I was on the road trying to find you.” An incomparable amount of guilt swarms inside me, Creed put his life on hold for five years scouring the country trying to find me. I stand and then kneel in front of him, his eyes widen in shock as I grip both his hands in mine and stare into his hazel eyes. I didn’t realize I could feel more for him than I already do but I was wrong, I misjudged him and held so much of my past anger against him. I have to let that all go if we are to ever move forward and try to make things work between us.
“I fled because I thought I didn’t have another choice. I had no idea who or what I was to you, I wish I could have trusted you then, like I do now.” He drops his gaze from mine, so I reach up and cup his cheek forcing him to look at me. “I am so sorry that you missed meeting our daughter or seeing our son grow. I wish I could say that if I had of known that day at the summit that I was pregnant that I would have stayed but I won’t lie to you. I would have still run, we both made mistakes, and we will spend years trying to make up for it. I don’t want to be away from you anymore and I sure as hell don’t want to stay away from our son. I know I have been reserved and pulled away from not just you but Harlem as well, everything you said is true. I have a lot of trauma I need to work through and I’m going to do it. But please be patient with me, I need you––.” He doesn’t let me finish, he bats my hand away and cups my face and smashes his lips against mine. This kiss isn’t soft or slow, this kiss is his way of branding me as his own and I’m not even mad about it. He yanks me up and settles me in his lap so I’m straddling him, I can feel his erection growing beneath me and moan into his mouth. Before I can deepen the kiss, he pulls back, both of us are panting and breathing hard.
“This can’t be like the other times Jess. If we do this, we need to be all in, no more bringing up the past or blaming each other for shit. I-I can’t do it anymore, I won’t be shut out or second guessed. I want you to be straight with me and tell me if you can do this or not?” The way his voice wavers as he gives that ultimatum breaks through my last wall of defense.
“I promise, I won’t shut you out or drag up shit from the past. I also swear that I won’t second guess you as a father, you’re an amazing dad Creed.” I smash my lips against his and explore his mouth while I grip the strands of his hair and pull. A growl reverberates in his chest sounding out his approval which just bolsters my ego. I grind down on him and moan into his mouth, he runs his hands down my back and grips my waist keeping me pressed down on his hardening cock. Creed stands and I wrap myself around him without breaking our kiss, he presses me against the nearest wall and presses into me, electing a moan of pure pleasure from me. The heat that has always been present since the first moment Creed touched me is nowhere to be found, I’m pulled back to the here and now when Creed breaks the kiss and begins to lick a trail down my neck.
“You’re wearing way too much clothes for my liking.” I wheeze out between pants. I feel him smile against my neck before he pulls back and meets my gaze.
“That can be rectified in about point two seconds.” He grips his shirt and hauls it over his head without dropping me, the eagerness he is displaying is turning me right the hell on. Without being a shifter I’m sure any human would be able to scent my arousal, the ache between my thighs is growing to be unbearable. He grips the end of my shirt and pulls it off chucking it over his head with a triumphant smirk on his face. My bra is the next to go, he places me on my feet and it’s like a race between us to see who get their pants off first. Once we are both standing here naked, he grips the back of my thighs and lifts me, I wrap my arms and legs around him. My back is plastered to the wall and my gaze is locked on his, we don’t move as we get lost in each other’s eyes. I reach out and cup his cheek, I feel my tears begin to build as I look into his eyes.
Mate.
Yeah Sheba, he is ours.
“We can stop, I didn’t––“He goes to pull away and set me on my feet but I hold on tighter and shake my head. “Then why are you about to cry?” he sounds so perplexed.
“Because I just realized how madly stupidly and crazily in love with you I am.” His face breaks out into the biggest smile, I feel his hard cock pulse against my ass. He positions himself at my opening and begins to push inside me slowly as he says.
“I have loved you from the first moment you called me aneggplant” The fact that his dick is pushing inside me is the only reason I don’t sass him back about that comment. Ripples begin to roll through me as he finally sheaths himself balls deep inside my pussy. We both moan in bliss at the feeling of being connected again, he maintains eye contact as he begins to move. My eyes roll back, God he feels so good inside me, he hits that elusive G-spot without even trying.
“Eyes on me princess.” I snap my eyes to him and without letting them waiver, a loud moan comes from me, and he quickly seals his lips against mine to hush my cries of pleasure. If not for him being able to maintain rational thought my moans would have woken our son that I forgot was asleep in the room. I break the kiss and throw my head back biting my bottom lip to mute the sounds that want to escape me. Creed licks the mark on my shoulder and an inferno builds inside me, I feel my orgasm cresting and I try to latch onto it, just as I think I’m about there, it keeps moving out of reach.
“Creed––“
“Oh, you want to come, do you?” I meet his stare open mouthed, he didn’t?
“You’re doing it on…” I moan. “On purpose.”
“You can come when I tell you to come, not before princess.” The command in his voice has more liquid gathering between my thighs, the growl that comes from him tells me he knows and approve of my body’s reaction to him. He kneads my ass cheeks between his hands and memories from our night on the beach replay in my mind. As if he can sense where my mind has gone, he pulls out of me and walks us toward the chair he was sitting on, he places me on my feet, and I stare up at him waiting. “Brace yourself on the seat and spread your legs on the arms of the chair.” Eager to please and see what is about to happen I do as he says and balance my legs on either of the arms and clutch the back of the chair. I feel Creed move in behind and shiver as he runs his hand down the backs of my thighs. With my legs spread wide and my pussy open I know he will be able to see how wet I am and a part of me loves the fact that he will know he is the reason for my growing wetness. He runs a single finger through my lips, and I lean down and bite the back of the chair to stop myself from crying out when he pushes that finger inside me. “Quiet!”
