Dropping the book and cup of coffee on the coffee table in front of me, I stood up.My eyes were fixed on him with my lips in a thin line.He looked terrible, miserable even. But even in this state, he still managed to take my breath away.His hair was sticking out in ever direction, probably from incessant tugging. His eyes were bloodshot with heavy eye bags underneath. He looked like he could get some more sleep but he was standing there, in front of me.I subtly pinched myself to make sure I wasn't dreaming and that he was really standing there but he was.His eyes were thick with emotions and his chest heaved rapidly.“Tabitha,” he whispered and my stomach flipped, the feeling I always got when he said my name.He charged towards me and before I could register what was going on, his arms were around me in a tight hug that restricted my airflow.My arms laid limp by my sides as my mind swirled at what was going on.Nyx purred, cooed and jumped in my mind and I glared at how cheap s
The world spun around my head but somehow, the only constant remained Ares' striking blue eyes that stared back at me with a thousand unspoken emotions.“Say something. Anything!” I yelled in my mind but no words could come out of my throat.My heart leapt out of my chest and did a number of backflips as I stared at his parted lips.After a while of induced dumbness, my tongue soon connected with my brain and I remembered how to speak.“I…”“Shhh,” he interrupted me with a shake of his head.His calloused palm stroked mine in a firm, yet gentle caress.“Don't feel pressured to say anything back. I'm not telling you all of this so I can get a reply from you right now. I'm just tired of running, and I'm ready to face anything that happens from now heads on. No woman has ever made me feel the way you do and I want you to know how special you are. We're not going to rush anything until you're totally ready,” he paused and darted his tongue out to wet his lips. My eyes followed his moveme
I clasped my hands over my mouth but my lips quivered uncontrollably and another blood-curling cry escaped my lips.In an instant, a pair of strong hands gripped my elbows, pulling me into a hard chest.The murmurs around me began to grow and Ares was whispering things to me but I couldn't hear past the ringing in my ears as I stared at Candice's body hanging off the ceiling, held by a thick rope, with her dead eyes staring right at me.“Shhhh, you're okay. It's okay,” my senses came to focus and I heard Ares whispering.He tried to lead me out of the room but my feet felt like jelly and he held my sides to keep me up.My eyes traveled to the maids, some of them looking horrified while others crying hysterically.“Get this cleaned up,” Ares commanded the guards but I couldn't hear anything more as he simply carried me away, up the stairs.I bunched a fistful of his shirt in my palm as I needed to hold onto something to steady my steps.He pushed the door of his room open and led me to
“Are you okay?” He asked in a small, concerned voice.I stared blankly at the piece of paper in my hands after having read its content more than once.His voice brought me back to reality and I couldn't help the laughter that broke out of my throat.It started as a sound between a sob and a chuckle but soon turned into a full-blown laughter.Ares stared at me with furrowed eyebrows, concern written all over his features.He was probably thinking I had gone crazy.It didn't help that my hair was disheveled and my eyes most likely looked like that of a raccoon from all the crying I'd been doing.But after reading the letter, that was the only reaction I could muster.Candice couldn't possibly have ‘ended it all because her sister was gone and there was nothing else worth living for’ like the letter had said.It was all crazy and didn't make any sense.Tears spilled out of the corners of my eyes and I wiped them away as my laughing fit boiled down to small chuckles.I turned to Ares agai
Ares' pov Our tongues lapped against each other for dominance, which she soon gave to me and I took control of the kiss.Our chests were flushed against one another and we breathed the same air.Pellar jumped and howlered at being intimate with our mate and I smiled into the kiss at his reaction.Another member of my body stood erect as she moaned into the kiss.In as much as I wanted to get lost in the compelling passion of her kiss, I knew that if I didn't want things to go any further, I had to stop.I had promised her earlier that we wouldn't do anything till she was totally ready, and I was bent on acknowledging that.Besides, she was grieving, and even if she wanted this, it wasn't what she needed.I was ready to wait for her.Painfully and reluctantly, I pulled away.She whined softly and it made my heart swell that she wanted me as much as I wanted her.“You're not ready for this,” I answered the unasked question in her mind.“But….”I placed a firm finger on her lips but som
Ares' pov Morning rolled in painfully slow and the rays of sunlight filtered into the room through the curtains.I hadn't slept a wink all night.Not like I was complaining.I smiled down at the beauty in my arms, and I knew I would want to wake up to that sight every single day of my life.She stirred a bit and I was still wondering if I would seem creepy staring at her the way I was doing when she opened her eyes.My breath hitched like it always did when I looked into her honey eyes.Instead of the rebuke I was partly expecting for being a creep, her face broke into a smile, making me relax.“Good morning, baby,” I greeted and leaned down.Just before our lips could touch, she turned to the side, making me kiss her cheek instead.I pulled away with a frown.“Morning breath,” she answered my unasked question with a palm cupping her mouth.I arched an eyebrow and her loud laughter filled the room as I straddled her and started tickling her.“Stop…. please,” she said in-between laugh
Ares' pov I paced restlessly around the room while I occasionally turned my wrist to check the time on my watch.“Alpha,” the chief security guard greeted as he entered the room.I stopped pacing and turned to him.“Get me the cctv footage for yesterday,” I instructed him and he bowed and left.That girl's death was taking a toll on my woman and I wanted to get to the root of the matter.Did I just call her my woman?A smile crept up on my face and I knew I was whipped.It had been well over an hour since the head guard mind-linked me and my anxiety grew with each passing second.I had automatically suspended my work since I couldn't focus no matter how much I tried to.Pellar wasn't any better as we both waited anxiously for the men to come.Just before I snapped and ran into the woods to search for them myself, the heavy sound of approaching footsteps reached my ears and I calmed my racing heart.I walked around my half moon shaped desk and took my seat behind it.A single knock on
I watched the retreating back of the very strange man as he walked out of the study.Strange because I could feel a shift in the air as soon as I entered the room.He was by no means an ordinary werewolf.“Who was that?” I pointed my thumb towards the door.“Just…business,” Ares said.His hesitation made me raise an eyebrow but I said nothing about it.“Why are you here?” He smoothly changed the subject.I had turned in the bed for hours, contemplating coming to see him or not. Now that I was there, I simply didn't have an answer to this question.My mouth opened and closed a few times as I tried to search for an answer that wouldn't make me look desperate, but there was absolutely none“I'll just leave,” I pointed towards the door and turned around.His strong arms gripped my waist a second later, pulling me into his back and I relaxed into his touch.“I didn't ask you to leave,” he whispered.His breath against my ear sent a chill down my spine and I struggled to steady my breath.“