Page 7 of Reclaiming His Lost Mate (Secret Legacy #3)
I didn’t bother to respond to his question as I caged him in, blinded with so much fury that my wolf lunged for the surface, battling for control over my physical form.
He wanted nothing more than to gut this scumbag of the earth and feed his insides to the vultures, and I wasn’t so opposed to the idea.
“How dare you touch her!” I growled, my insides boiling in rage.
A prickly feeling on my limbs caused my eyes to dart there, and I noticed sprouts of yellow patches of fur splayed across my arms. My fingernails were slowly being replaced with my wolf’s claws, letting me know that my wolf was forcing a shift.
I’d never been rattled enough for something like this to ever happen to me.
I growled, advancing to the prick, but just then, I heard Selina whimper behind us.
My head whipped to where she was, and her eyes were open now, staring vacantly as her body violently convulsed in fright.
My rage disappeared, and I was beside her in a second, my features restored and panic creeping into my bones.
“Where did he hurt you, Selina?” I asked in a croaked voice, fearing that the worst had happened within the time I had left that man alone with her. She didn’t respond, but her eyes tracked something behind us, and I turned to see her attacker by the wide-open door.
“This is far from over,” he sneered, and I growled in response because he was right. It was far from over. He zoomed off with his heightened speed, and I quickly turned to face Selina.
There were so many things wrong with this pack, and if it was the only thing I did, I was going to make sure that this guy didn’t breathe in the same direction as Selina henceforth.
That thought must have pulled me back to reality, snapping something in me on realizing that I had done exactly what I’d tried to avoid for days. I abandoned everything out of my concern for Selina.
Clearing my throat, I stood, reining my emotions in.
“Why would you be here at this time of the night, Selina? You were supposed to be out of here hours ago, but your kindness would not let you see past people’s masks,” I scolded, if only in an attempt to disguise my slip-up.
“Are you trying to get yourself harmed?”
“What do you know about my kindness?” Selina snapped back, standing and squaring her shoulders in front of me .
Goddess, she was stunning.
I shook my head, cautioning myself. “I know that it has clouded your sense of wariness in men like Simon,” I said through gritted teeth.
“Why would you stay here till no one else is around and still accommodate someone who was clearly faking his limp? Are you that naive to not know that the world is not safe? What if I wasn’t here?
Do you know what trouble you could have brought to those around you who care about you?
” By the time I was done, my chest was heaving, eyes wide, and so were Selina’s, but she looked nothing short of beautiful.
The only difference was that Selina’s eyes were wide in raw anger, and it was all directed at me.
“Don’t get me started, Alexis. What the hell is wrong with you? How long have you been watching me?” She asked angrily, and I groaned with the realization that I messed up even more by admitting to my deeds unknowingly.
“That’s not the point,” I still managed to chip, but Selina took off from there.
“Then what is? Because I know fully well that it’s not about anyone caring about me. Nobody does, Alexis, okay? Nobody cares about me. Not your fiancée,” she sneered. “Not my father, no one in this pack, and certainly not you.”
“No, that’s not true,” I shook my head saying.
“Spare me the crap,” Selina shot back, taking a step into my personal space and filling my nostrils with her peculiar scent of herbs, spices, and that flower.
Her chest heaved in front of me, her exposed cleavage gracing my line of sight.
Blood rushed from my head to my cock in an instant.
“Then what is? Or are you talking about yourself?” She asked with a cocked eyebrow, hands tucked at her sides, pushing her chest further up, and I scrambled for something to say.
“What are you talking about?” My voice was low, loaded.
“You know that there’s an attraction between us. A crazy one, Alexis,” she drew out with conviction, heat trickling into her voice. “My wolf wants to be close to you all the time, ever since we first saw you, but you push us away even though I know you feel the same way.”
It was only then I realized that my erection had found its way to show through my pants, and Selina saw right at it. I groaned out in frustration, fighting the urge to pull at my hair.
“It. Is. Just. The. Fated. Pull!”
Selina paused, processing her thoughts, and she nodded, looking far too calm for this situation while my emotions scattered all over the place.
“I hoped you would say something different,” Selina spoke with a small, bitter laugh, but she was so close to me now…
too close…and her breath fanned my face.
“But I can’t keep up with this, Alexis. I’m sorry.
Why will you disregard me at half our interactions, then proceed to stalk me and show concern when I’m attacked? Why would…”
I shut her up, slamming my lips on hers in a kiss because that was all I could think of right now, and I could swear that a piece of my void heart molded back into place with that.
Just like that, flames set ablaze from the touch point, covering every inch of my skin, and I readily fell headfirst into the hell that was Selina’s charm, consequences be damned.
Selina stood frozen, but only for a split second, because she soon moaned into the kiss, inhaling a breath from me while I did the same from her.
One of my hands threaded through her golden hair, tilting her head to deepen the kiss just as her lips parted, and my tongue slid inside her mouth, ravaging every inch and corner of her mouth.
My free hand snaked around her lower back, pressing her body flush against mine, and she greedily rocked against my length as both of her arms wrapped around my neck, consuming me.
My cock throbbed painfully, fighting to get out through my pants and needing to have her. I needed her now!
I groaned into the kiss, exploring Selina’s taste, which was a million times better than what I’d imagined daily, and Selina moaned, deepening our kiss even more, clawing at my chest now.
“Alexis,” she purred, and the sound of her voice alone let all hell loose. “I want you. Please,” she murmured again, and with that, a bell rang in my head. I pulled away from the kiss faster than a shadow followed.
“This is a fucking mistake,” I groaned out, panting like a rabid dog, fighting to keep my rattling heart from giving out .
I didn’t bother looking at Selina. I just turned away from her, exiting the treatment hut like it was on fire.
As I zoomed away from the scene like a madman chased by a demon, only one thought occupied my mind, and that was whether Selina was going to be the utter ruin of me or not.
Some part of me already knew what the answer to that was, but was I going to accept it?