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“I’m assuming you take what he wants into consideration?”
“I try to, but sometimes he lets his emotions get the best of him. He’s smarter than that, but Aeon has a big heart which is why he and Lucien do so well together.” He rubbed his nose with mine as he ran his hands up and down my arms. “I want you so bad.”
He pushed me back until a wall came up behind me, not letting me go. His arms came up on either side of me, caging me in.
“My mate is so beautiful.”
“Why do you call me your mate?” I asked, trying to distract myself.
“Because you are mine,” he stated, matter-of-factly.
“But Aeon doesn’t want me to be his mate.” I was hoping I could get some answers out of his wolf since Aeon was tight-lipped about why he was pushing me away.
“Aeon is protecting himself,” he said, kissing next to my lips. “The visions he sees aren’t the most comforting either.”
Of course he would be vague as fuck. He kissed down my neck, pressing his body to mine, where I felt every delicious hard surface of his body, including his growing erection.
“What does he see? I asked, not turning my head to give him better access.
“Everyone and everything, but he never knows exactly what he sees,” he whispered, before sucking on my neck.
“But if he doesn’t know… then why is he… scared,” I said, running my hands through his hair, while I hooked a leg around him.
He growled, picked me up, and pressed my back into the wall. He thrusted into me and had me panting like we had been making out for the last twenty minutes. His kisses on my neck grew into bites. Each time he would nip at me, my body would tense up at the possibility he might make me his.
“He might call you his Kitten, but to me you’ll always be my lioness. Lethal, cunning and nothing less than a queen,” he said, pulling away from my neck to look at me. “I feel it in my soul that things will work out, but the human brain can make things complicated. Don’t give up on him.”
He gently set me down, stepping away from me. I tried reaching for him, but he shook his head.
“He’s worried I might mate you,” he said, looking irritated. “If I don’t step away now, I won’t be able to stop myself from burying myself in you and making you ours.”
I wanted to protest, get mad, but I stayed quiet, still not wanting to upset Aeon. If his wolf mated me, then he might resent me.
“Don’t give up on him, we’ve lost enough, he’s afraid of losing more.”
He turned away as a tear fell down my cheek. The more I learned about these men the more I realized they were just tortured beasts, trying to survive in a world that had been against them from the start.
* * *
“Katarina?”
I looked up to see Lucien looking at me with his brow furrowed.
“I’m sorry, did you say something?”
“I asked if you wanted a nightly run after we give thanks to the gods and goddesses.” He searched my face like he was looking for something.
Before my run-in with Aeon’s wolf, Lucien and I had discussed doing something for Samhain which was now only a few days away. We talked about our last harvest feast, honoring our past loved ones and doing an offering to the gods.
“Yeah, I would love to run with you,” I said, thinking about the last time I ran with all of the guys.
“Ok…” he said, grabbing my hand. “What do you need?”
I looked at his hand grabbing my own, and realized how right it felt. This simple contact between us felt like home. Even though Lucien made me happy, I still thought about Aeon. Lucien’s head perked as I figured he felt my internal struggle.
“Aeon is a complicated man. He’s always been frustrating. He’s spent two hundred years being stubborn, denying he had any feelings for me.” Lucien ran a hand through his hair, looking like the young man he was. “I know he’s burrowed his way into your heart, he’s done the same thing to me. All I can say is the lull before the storm is the hardest part, but when he gets his head out of his arm, it will be worth it.”
I laughed that he used the wrong term, but that made me love Lucien more. Love? Yeah, it was definitely starting to feel like love.
