Chapter 4

Drake’s POV

   Toni is a bloody fucking git! I wanted to pound him into the floor, but Azalea managed to make me laugh several times while helping her load her belongings and I couldn’t miss that whenever I did she would clench her thighs together a little and I could smell that delectable sweetness that pooled between her legs. She gets turned on by my laughter and smiles…oh, this could work out really well. I cock a brow at her as she tosses a backpack on top of her trash bag of clothing and box of miscellaneous items. “That’s all?” I ask her as she hops in the passenger seat.

   “Yeah, I never intended to stay so I didn't want to accumulate too much stuff” she shrugs and the action raises her ample breasts a fraction. Goddess how I want to bury my face in her bosom. ‘I can think of other places we could bury our face, or cock for that matter’ my usually silent wolf, Grey, speaks up. ‘Fancy you having an opinion’ I chide. ‘I always have an opinion, you don’t listen, so I don't talk, but we agree on this one and you know it’ he wags proudly. ‘Okay I fucking concede, but I have to drive our sexy mate home right now’ he walks to the back of my mind but his wolf grin remains. The fucker used to be chatty always telling me shit I didn’t want to hear. Especially when I’d go to the clubs and let human women suck my cock, which i did for a while after my little nymph ran, but eventually I just lost interest in anyone that wasn’t her…yeah, I fucking love sex and I tried all my favorite kinks, but I knew what I really wanted. 

   We pull onto the highway and she turns to me “ how old are you anyway? You kiss me in the alley and you grab my waist like that, you whisper sexy things to me, but you know how young I am, so…”

    I scoff “Not that fucking old, but yeah, you are younger than me. I’m 24 as of last month.” I glance at her.

     “You look younger than you are, but something about you seems old, much older, so I wasn’t sure, especially since you are half vampire.” she chirps casually, like you meet a half wolf/ half vampire every day. 

      “I’m sort of one of a kind, Kitten. Yeah, there are plenty of hybrids, but my mother told me that I would eventually find out exactly how rare I was. I’m still not sure what she meant, but I know I am stronger than the few other hybrids that I have met” I run my hands through my hair. “I’m sorry about the kiss, about all of it really…I just kind of lose my senses around you.”

      “Wow! You managed two whole sentences without using the word ‘fuck’ “ she teases me and places a hand on my shoulder as she turns in her seat.  I swallow hard as the seat belt cuts a line between those perky tits of hers and her eyes rest on my face. “You know I might not mind you kissing me if you asked nicely, but I won’t be a tool for you to gain or hold power.”

       “You never were to me, the power is all yours, Kitten! I’ll even install you as Alpha on the next full moon. I will be your humble servant” I smile at her and her thighs squeeze together tightly. “You might want to keep your thoughts clean, Kitten. I can smell you from here!” 

        She sucks in hard “I…well…you..” she stammers. I pull off on the shoulder of the highway and grab her chin between my thumb and forefinger and turn her face to mine.

    “You are so cute when you're flustered. I don’t want to do anything to you that you don’t want me to, but the scent of your arousal sets my wolf on edge, Kitten. “  she licks her lips and my

eyes follow her tongue. She leans in just and bit and my lips land on hers, just briefly before I pull away. We’ll never get home if I deepen that kiss. 

    I pull back on the highways and soon we are at our exit. I try to keep my eyes on the road and she is fidgeting with a ring on her finger…her mother’s engagement ring, I notice when my eyes art her way. 

   “My father killed your mate, didn’t he?” she finally asks, looking at the ring on her finger.

“Yeah, she was my mate and I loved her but being the stupid git that I am I never asked her to marry me” I sigh.

    “It must eat you up inside, having lost your mate, not knowing if you’ll get a second chance mate or not. Sorry, I was insensitive by bringing up wanting to find mine back in the alley.” she says softly.

    “It’s fine and yes it sucks, the pain i felt both physically and emotionally were sickening, then i saw a light that has kept me going ever since. A gorgeous, but underage she- wolf who I feel unequivocally attracted to” I smile as I glance her way, but she isn’t looking at me, she is staring at the ring. 

    “When she is old enough will you claim her? Mate her even if she isn’t your second chance mate?” she asks, eyes fixated on the ring.

    I swallow hard “I will never do anything she doesn’t want me to, she may draw me in like a moth to a flame but if she sends me away, I will go. If she’d have me I would do everything I should have done for Sonja and more because as much as I loved Sonja, this girl is… well, she’s different.”

    “You should tell her how you feel if you care so much, stop messing around kissing girls in alleys and stuff” her eyes dart to mine and there is a hint of sadness.

    “What if I don’t have the fucking strength to be direct with her and I am really fucking trying, but she just doesn’t get what i am saying?” I ask. We’ve stopped outside the packhouse and my eyes search her face.

      She trunks to face me “You are the Hybrid Alpha , you are strong and scary of course you can be direct with a girl.” She rolls her eyes and hops out right as Zake runs up to the car. I let them have their moment and silently bring her things in the back door. I leave them to celebrate and go to my room.  

   I’m laying on my bed thinking about her when a knock on my door startles me. “Yeah, who is it?” I say sitting up and covering the evidence of the thoughts that had started making their way into my mind by tugging an oversized hoodie on. 

    “It’s Zeke, I brought you some chocolate dipped strawberries” he chimes in a sing-song voice. The tone he uses reminds me of his sister. I am glad that I could get her back here for his sake. I open the door to his enormous smile. “I wanted to thank you for bringing Azalea back. She explained about the diner and that you had figured out who she is. I was a little upset that you didn’t tell me yesterday but Azalea told me it was a package and letter that you left for her yesterday that made her come back. I just have one question…” Oh, fuck, kid, don’t kill me with this. “In the alley at the diner, did you fuck my sister or try to?”

    “It’s not like that, Zeke. I…I won’t lie to you, she…she …oh, fuck…I can’t have this conversation with you. I didn’t fuck your sister and I’d like to explain better, but …” I look at my hands.

    “What about that mysterious second chance mate that you saw at the club after my father murdered Sonja?” he asks.

     “That’s the thing…Azalea was at the club. She doesn’t know. I don’t know how or why I feel the bond and she isn’t old enough to feel it yet” I run my fingers through my hair and eat one of the strawberries. 

      “She likes you, you know that, right?” his sweet, young face full of innocence beams at me. “She really likes you even if she won’t admit it. She kept looking for you at the party down there. I saw her eyes darting around and not settling on anyone because she couldn’t find who she was looking for. I also saw her watching you when I first greeted her at the car, the way she looks at you is like how I look at these strawberries.” 

    “Funny, kid. Real fucking funny” I smirk. “So you really think that I have a chance with her? Or do you think I should stay away?” 

     “I think you got her here, she likes you but you scare her in some ways, she really doesn’t know you well. Let her get to know you. In two months she’ll be eighteen and the bond will kick in. Then if she doesn’t reject you, you're golden!” He laughs lightheartedly. 

     “This is gonna kill me! I’m going to fucking die waiting for your sister to accept or reject me, you know that?” I shake my head and grab another strawberry.