His Rejection, page 10
“Maxon,” she moaned as she gripped and pulled roughly on my hair, causing me to growl in pleasure.
I was licking on the spot where my mark would be. Nova was naked; her scratches were taken care of and bandaged. Although we heal fast, we can still get infections and diseases. Where that myth about us being indestructible came from I don't know. I ran my fingers along her waist and up across her breast and watched her shiver. My wolf and I grew with pride, knowing that only our touch could make her feel this way.
“Yeah?”
“Do it now,” she said. I smiled.
This time we had no interruptions. I had told everyone not to bother us and told Alex and Noni not to wait up for us and that we would see them at some human's pool party. So, it was now or never. I pulled my boxers down, and I had positioned myself at her core and on the spot where my mark would be forever. She cooed and moaned my name.
This is our moment, my wolf started, to be one with our mate. For her to be ours and ours alone. I nodded my head, thrusting forward and biting down on the skin.
My eyes open wide as she bites down into me. I moaned it was a deep manly groaned that caused her to moan in return. As she drew some of my blood, I drew in some of her blood and then withdrew her skin from my mouth. I licked it to close the wounds continuously thrusting in and out of her core. She was moaning my name causing me to pick up the tempo and momentum.
“Maxon. Maxon. Maxon. MAXON,” she said.
“Yeah,” I answered all huskily.
“Could you stop daydreaming and get ready? I need to get into the bathroom.”
Fuck me, it was all just a dream.
I didn't even remember getting in the shower but there I was. The water had gotten cold, and I still needed to rinse the soap off me. I braced myself and threw myself under the water, sucking in sharply. I rinsed the soap from my hair and then my body making sure I was squeaky clean.
When I stepped out, I didn't even wrap a towel around myself. Why? Because we had already seen each other naked so what was the point. I brushed my teeth and blow-dried my hair. Nova was banging on the door, yelling for me to get out.
“Damn Maxon you take longer than me and I'm a girl,” she shouted. I guess I was supposed to take that as an insult, but I just laughed.
“I can't want to be clean,” I asked still laughing.
“According to Alex, you went months without wanting to be clean. What's so different now,” she asked as I opened the door. Once she noticed my nakedness, she giggled blushing then turned away.
“Well I'll have to have a little talk with Alex, and I can't want to look and smell good for my mate?”
“Yeah yeah. You're probably just trying to look good for some girl,” she said. I knew she was joking, but I wanted to set the story straight once and for all.
“Nova. There is no other girl. There is only you and it's going to be that way forever,” I said.
My tone was serious, and she must have noticed it because she turned and looked at me smiling. She nodded her head in understanding. I bent down for a kiss, causing her to reach up on her tippy toes only to fake me out and push me out of the way.
“Move! It's my bathroom time,” she giggled.
I slapped her butt before she kicked the door closed. I smiled at how happy we were and how much I wished my Mom was here to see my mate and how happy she made me. Before she died, she had seen me at my worse. Never wanting to do any pack activities, never going anywhere other than school and my room, hell, I barley ate, but now look at me.
All in the course of one day my life has completely changed, and she isn't here to see it. A stray tear fell from my eye, I quickly wiped them mentally changing the subject deciding to throw on clothes and wait for Nova. I walked over to my dresser and searched through it to find some swimming trunks. Once I had found the ones, I wanted I tossed them on and threw on a black beater.
“Someone looks happy,” Noni said. Opening the door. I didn't even hear a knock. “That's because there wasn't one,” she added.
“So, you're a Special too huh?”
I already knew the answer. Like Nova, she wasn't a part of the pack so there shouldn't have been a way for her to hear my thoughts unless she was a Special. Confirming my thoughts, she nodded her head.
“Look, Maxon, I don't want to start any trouble between me and you or you and Nova. I just came to warn you,” she said.
“Warn me of what,” I asked, my curiosity immediately being piqued. Maybe she had some sort of fling back where she had come from.
If he ever came around, we'd kill him for touching our mate, my wolf growled.
Or what if there was something truly wrong, and I had to be cautious of Novas’ surroundings and who she associates with.
Must protect mate at all costs, my wolf promised.
“Maxon! You and your wolf must calm down. Yes, you must be especially careful with her considering who and what she is, but that's not what I was talking about,” she soothed. I relaxed a little, still on edge about this conversation.
What was she getting at?
“What I'm saying Maxon, is that if you hurt Nova again, I will make your life a living hell. She is a great girl and doesn't deserve what you put her through,” Noni growled out.
“Noni. You, Nova, Alex and whoever else may not believe me, but what I did was a bit of an asshole move, but it was for her own good. Being my mate would only bring her danger and make her a target. She needed to be able to handle herself if I couldn't get to her in time. I still wanted her even though she was that size. I loved her then and I love her now and I promise on my Mother that I will never treat her like that again.”
Noni looked at me for a moment more, probably going through my mind trying to find a lie in my words, but I already knew there wasn’t one. Those words were true, all of them.
“I'm trusting you with her Maxon. That girl in there is more than my best friend. She is my sister more now than she ever was. Treat her right,” she said. She turned around and headed for the door.
“Noni,” I said before she could leave. She turned away with her eyebrows raised, “the same goes for Alex. Don't hurt him.”
“We're a family now Maxon and trust me. I couldn't hurt that boy if I tried,” she said winking at me. I knew the hidden meaning behind those words. She already loved him so much that he could hurt her before she would ever think about hurting him. I knew how she felt because I felt the same way about Nova.
“Nova are you almost ready,” I called through the door.
“I know you aren't rushing me,” she replied. I laughed at her funny ghetto-like accent.
Who did she think she was, I wondered to myself.
“As a matter of fact, I am. Alex and Noni wanted to ride together since we're all going to be related soon, anyway.” I knew that the last statement would pique her interest. She cracked open the door showing her black bikini and boy was I blown away.
Stay focus--, my wolf tried to finish but once I gave him a view of what she looked like it he stopped.
Uh-huh, I said.
“What are you going on about,” she asked.
“Well me and you are mates and Alex and Noni are mated and soon they are going to be on the verge of getting married and then it's our turn. So, in a way we are all family, so why can't we do family like things and ride together,” I said rambling.
“Uh-huh.”
“You ready? Let's go,” I said dragging her out of the bathroom. I stopped to let her grab her things, but after that. I called Alex and told him to meet us at Novas’ truck. We were riding together.
Unknown
“So, what's the plan,” Natalie asked. She had been bugging me about this Maxon guy. He was obviously Novas’ mate, well her ex-mate because that all was changing soon.
“What do you mean? We've been over this at least twenty times since you asked the first time,” I shouted at her.
“No wonder Nova beat your ass.”
“She didn't beat anything I let her win,” she lied. “I thought she was on to me.”
Can we just kill her, my second in command asked. He was telepathic.
No, we can't kill her. We need her. If she had the power to shift into anything, then she can help us do the same, I explained to him. He nodded slightly understanding my logic.
What do you want with this chick, anyway? It's not like you can have a real-life with her. No kids, no white picket fences, no nothing. She's a werewolf, he wondered.
I wasn't angry at this question. A lot of my men all wondered what I wanted with her what with me being a General in a hunter's regiment. But hell, what can I say? When it's love, it's love.
I can change that.
Change what, he asked.
Her being a werewolf, I said smiling evilly.
“Charlie!”
With blinding speed, I gripped her by her neck and threw her up against the wall. God, she was so annoying if I didn't need her she would already be dead. I looked at her for a moment, wondering if I should break my cover for the first time in my life. I decided against it. I didn't want to have to fight my way out of all these humans and werewolves. She was clawing at my hand trying to get me to loosen up but that only made me grip her tighter.
Nova, my second said in my mind. I reluctantly let her go.
“The only reason you are still alive is to help me get what I want,” I growled at her. “If you want to get Maxon when this is over then you need to remember my chain of command.” She nodded pathetically and sulked away.
This was going to be easy.
chapter 15
Charlie
“I need you to disguise my scent,” I said.
“Disguise it to what?”
“Human,” I whispered quietly. I didn't want anyone else to know I wasn't human.
“You want to be a human in a party full of werewolves. You'll stick out like a sore thumb,” she said cautiously.
“Natalie. The point is to stick out to her, to give her something to think about to keep me in her mind. And there will be plenty of humans there you idiot.”
“I still don't think that will work. When will you have time to talk to her? Maxon will never leave her side.”
“Damn it, Natalie just do it,” I shouted at her.
She nodded quickly and closed her eyes concentrating. She started humming whatever it is her kind hums, while I waited for the spell to start working. Whatever she was she was good at it because I could feel the glands in my body temporarily shifted and giving my body a whole new smell.
“Are you done,” I asked her, snapping her out of her little trance. She nodded. “Let's go test it out then. Do you know what party they will be at tonight,” I asked her.
“Some pool party. I heard them talking about the bikinis that Nova had just bought.”
“Is there any way you can find out the specific party,” I asked her with an exasperated tone. She nodded and went to grab a phone, dialing a number.
“Faye? Anna? Look I don't care which one of you it is, I need you to do something for me.” She was quiet for a moment listening to what the other person was saying.
I thought I would be able to make it out but Natalie wasn't stupid. She needed leverage so I wouldn't just kill her like I was planning on doing, anyway. I told her she would be able to have Maxon, and I wasn't lying. Her and Maxon could be together when they were dead and buried in the ground decomposing.
“Did you figure out yet? Banks, human Banks? What about that other thing I asked for? Did you get that?” I looked at her with a raised eyebrow. She waved her hand as if to say it's nothing. There was something she wasn’t telling me, and it wasn't nothing.
“OK, I have it. Thanks, Faye. I'll see you at that party, remember the plan,” she said softly hanging up the phone.
“What the fuck was that,” I shouted at her.
“That was nothing. And look I'm sick of you talking to me like that! You need me, remember that without me you wouldn't be getting this close to her without Maxon ripping you to pieces, so I'm going to need a bit more respect from your side,” she demanded.
I looked at her like she had just lost her damn mind. Where she got all this courage was beyond me. I closed my eyes before I could reach out and grab her by her throat and wring it dry.
Keep it cool Charlie. She's right, we do need her for the moment, I said to myself. Nodding and breathing slowly, I opened my eyes.
“Your right. I apologize for making you feel like you were anything but important,” I struggled. She looked at me with wide, open eyes and nodded. She was lost for words. She should be, I don't apologize to people and it was obvious she could tell.
“OK, can we go now,” I asked walking out of the door. She followed. I smiled to myself.
This is the first step, Charlie. After tonight we will have what we have always wanted.
Nova
We pulled up to this huge house and parked on the lawn. Noni and I were gawking out the back-seat windows while the boys jumped out of the front seats and opened the doors for us. Now I'm not trying to sound conceited, but when we stepped out of the car, I knew we were smoking hot.
It was like that part in Not Another Teen Movie where the girl walks in and everybody must freeze until she moves, that's how we felt. It seemed like every guy and girl that was parking their car and walking towards the house stopped and watched as Noni and I hopped out of my truck.
Why are they staring at us, Noni sent me.
I think it's because they have never seen us before. It was more of a dumb guess because I was just as lost as she was. But in the back of my mind, I was tooting our own horns.
Hell, we deserved it.
Noni and I always worked out to keep our bodies in tip-top shape. While I was in their pack, I learned how to cook. So now that I knew how to throw down in the kitchen it meant that I could also throw down in the dining room. Being a werewolf left you constantly hungry.
Or maybe it's because we look like idiots, she suggested. We looked down at our bodies, then at each other’s, and then we looked each other in the eye.
“Nah,” we sang together. The boys looked at us like we had lost our minds. Maxon pulled me close and kissed me passionately on the lips.
I think they know I'm with you Maxon, I said reassuring him.
“I'm just making sure that they know. I don't want to break any faces,” he shouted loudly for the guys we had walked past. They were staring at my body like I was a piece of meat.
Truthfully, I didn't understand why Maxon was so upset about guys looking at me. This was what he wanted in the first place. He wanted me to have this Top Model body that he could show off and flaunt wherever we went.
As we walked towards the house, I got that eerie feeling that I was being watched again. My hairs immediately began to stand on end and my senses heightened. I grew panicky and paranoid. Picking up on my change of mood Maxon and Noni turned to me with concerned eyes.
“What's wrong,” Maxon asked sweetly. There was concern dripping from his voice.
I shook my head. “Somebody is watching us, or me. I don't know who they are watching, but I know it's one of us four.”
“Babe. Everybody is watching you and Noni,” Maxon said trying to laugh it off.
I looked at Noni. She was focusing on the crowd. Her eyes landed on a medium height, pale human. He looked eerie, and to make matters worse he had Natalie on his arm. He had deep chocolate hair and his eyes were the same color. His lips were a dark red color, truthfully, he reminded me of a Vampire.
Obviously sensing our stares, he pulls his eyes directly to me. His eyes instantly lit up when he saw me looking his way. Maxon growled and wrapped me in his protective embrace growling lowly at him. The pale guy's face immediately dropped, and his red lips pulled into a thin line. He looked angry that Maxon was touching me.
That’s because he is sweetie. He’s planning on kidnapping you, Noni linked to me.
What the hell? Why me, I asked dumbfounded. I had never seen him before in my life.
I don’t know sweetie. I’m just telling you what I am getting from his mind.
Well, just keep checking in on him, I told her.
Are you going to tell Maxon, she asked.
Instead of answering I just shrugged my shoulders and leaned into Maxon more which made the guy step forward and Maxon growl, immediately throwing me behind his back.
“Calm down lover boy,” I whispered to Maxon, making him turn to me so I could plant a slow and lingering kiss in his lips.
“How can I when that guy is eyeing you like there is no tomorrow? He's here with Natalie for Christ's sake.”
“What are you trying to say? She's prettier than me,” I said faking an angry tone.
“Babe you know I didn't mean it like that. I was just saying that--”
“Babe I know I was just kidding. Let's go dance,” I told him pulling him, Noni and Alex along so we could all go to the dance floor.
Twenty-Five Minutes Later
“Damn baby. You keep grinding like that then I'm going to have to go find a room,” Maxon whispered sexily in my ear. I shivered and giggled.
“Is that a promise,” I asked grinding harder and slower into him. I could feel his package growing harder.
“Yeah, it is.” He spun me around and kissed me roughly. Letting all the desire and lust pour into my mouth and dissolve into my body. I moaned into his mouth and pulled him in closer to me.
“Go find a room,” I whispered.
“I'll be right back,” he told me nodding. He went to walk away and then turn back. He looked worried. I just smiled at him.
“Go. I'll be right over there with Alex and Noni. Come and get me when you find a room lover boy.” He hesitantly nodded and sprinted into the house. I walked over to where Noni and Alex were sitting and plopped down into a seat.
“Where'd Maxon go,” Alex asked. I blushed and smiled hard.
“To go find a room.”
“It's finally happening,” Alex asked.
I don't know if it was because he was a Beta or because he was Maxon's best friend, but he didn't seem the least bit thrown off that we were about to mate. I know we are werewolves, but I mean it was still a bit shy talking about mating to my brother of all people.
