Chapter 11

I’ve never believed something so complicated before. It sounds insane. He doesn’t even really know me. “I know enough.” Reed speaks but it’s not just his words that I hear. His soul is speaking to me on another level. I see his eyes glowing amber in the moonlight. I’m not as scared as I should be. There’s an instant trust between us. I can feel his energy in a way that I can’t with Ava.

His brows furrow, “Ava?” Shit! I carefully say, “I’m still not used to everyone being able to hear my thoughts.” Reed looks to the moon in deep thought. I peer down to my feet trying to focus on the rain. Images from the past few days flash through my mind. “You can’t be with her anymore.” He looks down at me.

“What do you mean? You don’t own me. You can’t tell me who I can and can’t sleep with.” He backhands me across the face, “I just did.” The pain I feel from the blow is more than just physical. All of my emotions are raging. I’m anxious and disappointed. I also want to knock him out. “Go ahead!” He prods.

That just pisses me off. I lunge forward towards him. He reaches out his hand to stop me with a choke hold. “I don’t want to hurt you Aster.” He claims. “ Then let me go.” I sputter. He lets go. Reed literally sweeps me off my feet and runs with me in his arms. He brings me out behind the bar and throws me into the bed of an old pick up truck. Rain is pounding down on me. He leaps onto the truck.

I back myself up to the window. He crawls to me and brings me up to my knees. Reed stands up and drops his jeans. His cock is huge. He takes my head into his hands and forces himself into my throat. I gag a few times before he lets me breathe. He picks me up and turns me around. I panic. Gasping for air as he forces my body face down onto the roof of the truck.

He pulls my pants down to my knees and kicks my stance open with his foot. I scream as he puts his cock in me. Fuck that hurts. I try to move out from under him but he’s too strong. He grabs a fistful of my hair and holds my face to the truck. I try to zone out and think of Ava and how gentle she was washing herself in the shower. That just makes him fuck me harder. I begin to cry and scream.

Reed wraps his hand around my mouth to shut me up. I Bite his thumb. “You fucking cunt.” He throws me down onto the slippery truck bed. I try to fight him as he’s ripping the rest of my clothes off. He lifts my legs up into the air and squeezes the tender spot behind my knees so hard. I can’t free myself.

There must be something wrong with me, “I think I’m gonna cum.” I scream at him. “Fuck yeah.” He slams himself into me even harder. Which I did not think was possible. “Oh fuck yeah!” I moan. He lets go of my legs and lifts me by the ass as I’m about to blow. He pulls me onto his lap and bites the tender area between my shoulder and my neck. I cum so hard on his dick.

My neck is burning. I scream in pain and euphoria. Reed lifts his mouth off my neck. He’s smiling from ear to ear. “Go ahead.” He says. My eyes are glowing. I feel my wolf. First come the claws. I dig them deep into his back to hold him steady. My fangs shoot out and I bite him. Instantly I feel his pain. I ride him through his pain until he finishes.

I kiss the spot where I bit him. The rain picks up. Tears are running down my face. I try to find my clothes. Reed jumps out of the truck leaving me in the darkness. How convenient. I manage to pull my soaking wet leggings on. My shirt is nowhere to be found.

Aster. Put this on.

I turn my head and hear Reed but his lips aren’t moving. He’s holding a jacket for me. I totally just heard his thoughts. He nods. I jump out of the truck topless and slide my arms into the leather jacket. He puts his arms out for me to jump into. I let him carry me to the back of the building.

You smell like sage and lemons.

I smile. It could be worse I suppose. The back of the bar is setup like a motel. He carries me through door number four. I like how they used the word instead of numbers. He plants my feet down on his apartment floor. The jacket he gave me i soaked. I hand it to him and fold my arms across my chest. Looking around at his room, I’m shocked. It’s clean. I half expected him to live like a frat boy.

Reed hands me a t-shirt and a pair of his sweatpants. “Thank you.” He takes my hand and leads me to his bathroom. He lifts the hair off of my shoulder in front of the mirror. “Your mark. It’s a moon.” My mark? I look up at his. We both have moon shaped marks with lightning bolts scratched through them.

“Did I do that?” I ask him.

You sure did.

He wraps his arms around my waist, “Thank you.” He says to me out loud. “What are you thanking me for?” I ask him. “For making me yours.” I wonder if that’s what Ava was trying to do to me when she bit my neck that night in the car. If so, she never left a mark. “Then it wasn’t meant to be.” Reed said.

A vision of Reed fucking Ava flashes in my mind. It’s so real, like watching a movie in my head. “It’s not like that.” He says to me. “So you didn’t fuck Ava?” I ask him. I’m not mad about it. Just curious I guess. “Oh we fucked.” He admits.

But I never loved her.