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“I think I am going to go back to my room and change my pants since they got wet. Then I’m going to the library to search for her book.” I made a move to get off the bed, but Zev stopped me.
“I think maybe you should rest,” he said, looking at me like he was expecting to find something wrong with me.
“Zev, I’m fine. I’ve warmed up and I think this grimoire is going to be our ticket out of here.”
“I’ll go look and you stay here, just tell me what I’m looking for.” He stood up ready to leave me. “I also wanted to tell you that this room is ready for you and the guys.”
“What do you mean it’s ready?”
I looked around the room wondering why he was giving us this room. I knew the bed was abnormally bigger, but it felt wrong to take it from him.
“This room was for Vivienne, it was our pack room but well, that didn’t happen. Now that you are mated to them, this room should be yours.” He walked to the double doors to the left. “The closet should be big enough for all of you, I’ve added shelves and the bathroom is bigger too. I’ve moved all my things—”
“Excuse me? This is your room,” I said frustrated, the rejection that he would not be my mate irritated me and made me want to throttle him. “I won’t take your room whether or not I’m mated to Aeon and Lucien.”
I got off the bed, slipped my shoes on and got ready to walk out. It shouldn’t have bothered me; he was an angry asshole. All he did was bring me pain, but I still felt a pull to him like a magnet. My body craved him while my heart wanted to claim him. It didn’t help that even though I had two amazing men who loved and cherished me, our group still felt incomplete.
“Katarina,” Zev called out to me as I left the room.
I ignored him as I walked down the stairs.
“Katarina.” He reached for me, but I moved away quickly.
“Leave me alone, Zev, I have more important things to do instead of arguing about that stupid room,” I snapped, running to my room, shutting the door and locking it.
There was no way in hell I was taking that room. If I remembered correctly, that room was for them and Vivienne; it was a pack room. If he was going to reject me then I definitely wasn’t going to be in that damn room, no matter how much I loved the thought of all of us having a room together. They made that room for her, and it felt wrong to live there, especially if it wasn’t all of us.
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ZEV
Katarina called the room I spent all my hard work on ‘stupid’. I knew it shouldn’t have stung so much, but it was all done for her. Keeping that piece of information from her was probably a really dumb thing to do, but admitting it seemed like it would give her the wrong idea.
It would be the wrong idea, right?
Who was I kidding, I had an insane need to take care of her. If she couldn’t be my mate, then the next best thing would be to provide for her. I could do that and not be mated to her. At this point, I forgot why I couldn’t have her, but I was so stubborn that I didn’t want to give in.
You can’t trust her.
She was infuriating most days, a pain in my ass on her worst days, and always a sex witch weaving her spell around me because I was always hard around her. Just smelling her close by would make me start to become erect.
I ran my hands through my hair as I hid in the shadows, waiting for her to leave her room. Her reaction left me even more grumpy, but I had an idea to just move her things into the room with Lucien’s and Aeon’s things too. She would have no reason to move back out, and I knew she liked the room. She looked at it with appreciation, especially that chair I had taken from the library.
Katarina left her room in a rush. She had on her usual big sweater and those sinful pants she called leggings. I had no idea who invented them, but the way it made her legs and ass look, damn, I was grateful. That person deserved a fucking award.
She hadn’t found the grimoire yet. Each night she came back to her room or Lucien’s drawing room looking more and more frustrated. Yesterday I spent the night trying to find it on my own. Her vision hadn’t said where it was, so we were blindly looking for a grimoire. All we knew was what coloring it was.
After I finished what I wanted to do, I would go down and help her. I knew this was not the way to go about it, but my need to take care of her was overriding my practical brain. Once she went down the stairs, I waited a few minutes to make sure she didn’t come back.
Listening one last time before I made my way to her room, I opened the door, assaulted with her delicious scent. It was so strong, inciting the hard to ignore need to bring myself to a release. Maybe I could steal another pair of her underwear and I could finish early at the library, or I could take care of business before I went down.
I shook off the need, going straight to her trunk to open it. Grabbing all her books, and all her clothes, I loaded them into it as neatly as possible. She had a lot of clothes, but she also had things in her bathroom too. The amount seemed unnecessary, but it looked like she liked a lot of things for her face and body.
“What are you doing?”
I turned around, dropping a few bottles of things.
Aeon and Lucien stood in the doorway of her room. I wanted to lie but I knew I had to come clean to them.
