My heart hammered so loudly I swore he heard it. His long dark hair streaked with that impossible silver fell over his face as he lowered his head. His gaze dragged over my features slowly as he lifted his large veined, terrifying hand, brushing his thumb gently across my wet cheek.
His touch too gentle for the monster everyone says he is.
"Mira"
His voice echoed again but this time it wasn't him, it was Hades "his wolf's" voice deep, gravely ancient, a voice that rumbled like thunder inside a cavern.
Oh my God!...… I wasn't speaking to the Alpha king, I was speaking to his beast. My knees weakened at the realization.
"W...….who hurt you?" Hades growled lowly.
"Who.... Did.... This?"
"I....I..... it's nothing." I whispered
He moved faster than blink with an inhuman speed. One second he was inches from me, the next my back slammed softly against the wall, his arm caging me in, eyes now blazing molten gold instead of blue.
"You ran away" he snarled, breath hitting against my ear.
"You left and now you come back?"
I stared at him completely lost.
"I don't, I don't know what you mean, I didn't"
His head tilted like he was studying a prey.
"I told you, that if you ever come back... I wouldn't hold back again and I would claim what's mine."
My heart stopped
"What conversation? When did we ever…..?"
" you don't remember" he cuts in.
It wasn't a question, it was an accusation soaked with something underneath.
But then his eyes fading, Rhage is fighting for control but Hades isn't letting go which intensifies my fear.
Then he continued but this time with more venom.
"Are you crying over a human boy?"
My breath left my lungs.
I shook my head so fast it almost fell off my neck.
He didn't believe me, his hand slid into my hair gripping a fist full not hard enough to hurt but firm enough my knees weakened instantly.
" I'll find him" he whispered viciously mouth brushing my cheek.
"And I will kill him."
" No...…..." I gasped in shock but he cuts me off again.
" you should've been mine from the beginning. You should've been right here by my side."
Heat exploded in my stomach, fear, desire, shame, emotions I didn't have names for. His touch too soft for how harsh his words were.
His knuckles grazed down my cheeks like he was memorizing it.
"I would kill anyone who touches the strand of your hair." He murmured, thumb sliding across my lips before I could turn away.
" you want to protect your human boy? I'll just make him bleed slower".
A sound escaped me, something between a gasp and a chocked breath. My whole body felt hot, shaky, stupidly sensitive, like every nerve was waking up.
His mouth brushed the corner of mine, I didn't move, I hated that I didn't move instead my head fell back against the wall, breath shaking out of me.
Everything in me reacted, every inch of me betrayed me.
His fingers trailed down my throat, my knees almost gave out.
I hated him, I wanted to pull him closer, I couldn't think, I couldn't breathe, his presence hit me like heat rolling off a wild fire. I don't know what the hell was wrong with my body, but the second he stood in front of me close enough for his breath to ghost over my cheek, my chest tightened and a wave of heat surged through my core.
"No..... don't" I whispered backing further into the wall like it could save me.
But he didn't touch me the way a man touched.
He touched me the way a beast claims, his hand slid down slowly mapping the shape of my trembling body through my clothes and every nerve in me reacted humiliatingly alive.
My breath broke as a sound slipped out of me before I could stop it, soft and shaken.
His wolf responded with a deep, rumbling purr that vibrated against my skin, as if my reaction fed him.
Heat crawled through me so violently I squeezed my legs together, trying to ground myself, trying to stop the ache twisting low in my stomach.
"What is wrong with me? I wondered.
I should be crying over Damien, I should be heartbroken, not this, not acting like a whore under the hands of the Alpha King, my best friend's father.
My eyes widened as the realization stabbed through the haze.
Amy..... shes my best friend and this man in front of me shirtless and sexually appealing is my best friends dad and my worst nightmare for years.
And here I am breathing like I'd just run a marathon and reacting like some desperate girl in heat.
The shock snapped through my body so abruptly that before my brain could catch up my hand flew up.
And I slapped him..
The sound cracked through the small cabin like lightning.
His head barely moved, but his eyes locked onto mine with fascination, like I'd just done something intimate instead of violent.
My anger flared hotter, everything about him, my reaction, his scent, the heat….... was twisting me into someone I didn't recognize.
My thighs pressed together again involuntarily and the beast purred.
"Why do I feel like this around you? Why can't you just leave me alone? Why? Why do I feel this way" I whispered breathlessly.
Hades purred, voice dropping darker, silkier, dripping with possession.
"Don't be hard on yourself little one." His eyes lowered to my lips.
"I belong to you alone."
My breath stuttered.
"I am yours to please" he murmured voice a husky growl of seduction.
"And I would pleasure you in ways you've never imagined."
My pulse jumped violently, mouth running dry.
" when I'm done with you," he continued.
"You'll forget the name of every human boy you've ever looked at."
My breath stuttered sharply as another wave of heat rushed down my core, my heart fluttered like it was trying to escape.
Every breath was a struggle, every thought tangled.
I shoved past him in panic stumbling towards the other side of the room, one hand scrambling over the table searching for anything to break the spell.
My fingers closed around the lamp and I yanked it with up with shaking hands, pointing it to him like a weapon.
" stay away from me!" My voice cracked.
I was confused, scared, furious and damn close to losing my mind.
I thought of Amy, how much she hated her father being with other women, how betrayed she felt for her mom's sake. How would she feel if she found out her best friend was....
"You don't get to touch me! I don't know what's gotten into you or what you think we are but I don't belong to you!"
His expression shifted, a small crack in his eyes and suddenly it wasn't Hades staring at me anymore.
It was him, The Alpha King, Rhage.
His jaw tightened as he took in everything his wolf had done but he didn't apologize didn't explain didn't even look ashamed.
He just exhaled like he expected this, turned slightly in a low voice and said.
"There are clean clothes upstairs, a sweater."
My eyebrows shot up
"what?"
His jaw flexed.
"A blizzard is hitting tonight, the roads are already closed, pack members were warned this morning, no one leaves this area for three days."
"Three days!" I screamed horrifically