Chapter 4: TALON

Stephanie and Skylar were prattling on about some upcoming bio test and didn't seem to notice that I'd joined them, but I would've sworn Skylar seemed more alert somehow. Huh!

"Hey Steph, why don't you introduce Skylar to Talon?" Good guy Kevin.

"Hey Talon, great game last night." She smiled up at me.

"Thanks Steph." I was still eyeballing Skylar.

"This is my best friend Skylar, we grew up together in Rhode Island." She made the introductions in a blasé way as if she had no qualms about introducing the kitten to the tiger.

Maybe I'd been worried for nothing, I felt sure Stephanie would be reticent to let me anywhere near her friend, not that that would've stopped me. But I was expecting a little resistance on her part.

She could have no way of knowing that I'd lost my damn mind on the football field and was suffering some sort of out of body experience. I had a sneaky suspicion that I knew what was going on here but I couldn't jump the gun. If what I was beginning to suspect was true then life as I knew it was dust.

"Hello Skylar." She turned those eyes on me and I damn near buckled at the knees. All sound ceased to exist, there was only this moment, and this girl, with her amazing fuck me eyes and fly away curls. In a flash I saw myself covered in those curls as she rode me. My body heated under her shy gaze and I literally had to bite my lip to hold back the groan that threatened to escape. Fucking aye.

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"Hi." Man what a voice, like smoke and honey, and that blush; damn is she for real? I suddenly became aware of the loud silence that fell on the cafeteria; it was as though every breathing soul in the room was watching us.

I felt my hackles rise, and a strong possessive and protective anger overcame me. I had the uncharacteristic urge to stake my claim here and now. To challenge every man in the room until the whole world knew that she belonged to only me. What the fuck? I blinked rapidly trying to clear my vision and my fucking brain but that shit wasn't working.

"We need to talk." What the hell am I doing?

After making that asinine statement I grabbed her hand pulling her from her seat. She threw a panicked look over her shoulder to her friend but I wasn't letting go. The way I feel right now I would probably knock Stephanie the hell out of the way if she tried to stop me.

She seemed to sense my mood and did nothing more than purse her lips while giving Skylar a worried look.

I practically dragged the poor girl out of the room amid murmurs and rampant speculation.

We barely made it out the door before I had her pressed up against the wall. Thankfully I'd had the sense to choose the wall farthest from the windows as I had no doubt every head was turned in our direction.

"Do you have a man?" Real smooth there Talon, I'm pretty sure I didn't give a fuck and that hadn't been the first thing I wanted to say to her, but whatever.

She shook her head in confusion at me. Before she could finish shaking her head in denial I was kissing her like a starving man at a banquet. I couldn't help myself okay; I'd wanted to taste her since our eyes connected across the field last night. I'd waited damn near twenty-four hours already I think I should be given points for that shit. Last night there was a time or two when I'd come close to going after her and dragging her back to my lair so this was way tamer in my opinion.

It didn't matter that I was acting like a madman, that I'd only just met her. Everything that was in me screamed that this one woman belonged to me. There was no obstacle I wouldn't obliterate to claim her. Knowing that there was no one with a claim on her made things easier but if things had been different I would've fought to claim what's mine. Fuck it I'd been zapped, there was no other explanation for this brand of crazy shit going on inside me right now.

"Mine."