“Lucy, please. Just …”
“Ace. Let me go,” I told him, and he nodded, dropping his hands from my face and stepping back. I jumped off the countertop. I started walking down the hall, my eyes burning with unshed tears, when I felt warmth pressing against my back as I stopped at the spare bedroom door.
“No. I am not sleeping without you again tonight. My room, Lucy,” Tyson said behind me, his hand on my hips, steering me toward his room.
“Be mad at him all you want. But please don’t hide away from me,” Tyson whispered below my ear before opening his bedroom door. He pushed it open before pushing me inside.
Chapter forty-two
Tyson
She was angry at Ace, but I refused to let her hide away again. She could be angry all she wanted. She could throw shit, break shit, but not run and hide from me. I hated it when she suffered in silence. There had been enough silence, and I couldn’t handle her silence anymore. She stumbled forward as I pushed her into the room. I managed to grab her before she fell over, jerking her back against me as I closed the door with my foot.
“Did you know?” she asked, looking at me over her shoulder.
“No. I didn’t. But it does make sense,” I admitted. I wanted to kill him, but he was my brother. I just hoped this wasn’t the tipping point that would make her reject him.
“I’m not rejecting him. I am just mad,” she states, and I almost forgot she could feel my emotions now and sense what I was thinking.
“You are allowed to be mad. You have every right to be, Lucy,” I told her, turning her around in my arms. She wrapped her arms around my neck, standing on her tippy toes, and I smiled, leaning down so she could kiss me.
“Going out,” Ace said through the mindlink.
“Where?”
“Avalon City,” he said before cutting off the link, and I heard the front door slam. .Lucy pulled away, looking behind me.
“We have the house to ourselves,” I told her, wondering if that would bother her.
“Is he mad?” she asked, and I shrugged, not sure what was going on with him. Though I knew it was killing him seeing Lucy and I get closer while he was pushed out.
Lucy sighed before stepping away and walking into the bathroom. I followed, watching as she stripped off before turning the shower on.
“Ace was talking to me earlier. Did you say something to him?” I asked her, and I saw her confusion as she looked over at me.
“Say what to him?” she asked while checking the water’s temperature with her hand. I looked away from her, my cock twitching in my pants at the sight of her plump ass, heavy breasts, and small waist. She was perfect and curvy in all the right places, yet not completely smooth. I liked that she wasn’t all hard and toned like most she-wolves. Lucy was still soft and not as skinny and athletic looking like most of the pack’s she-wolves, who spent most of their lives training.
“Ace asked why I hadn’t marked you,” I told her, and she looked at me, chewing her bottom lip.
“He may have mentioned it,” she said, stepping into the shower and closing the door. I moved further into the bathroom.
“What did he say?” she asked, wetting her long golden hair. I watched her breasts jiggle and groaned at the sight of her before readjusting myself. I then looked up to see her watching me with an amused smile on her lips, while I tried to stop my dick from pitching a very obvious tent in my shorts.
I cleared my throat, folding my arms across my chest and looking at the ceiling. “He said I should mark you, even if you haven’t marked him.”
“And you obviously don’t agree,” she replied, and I could hear her annoyance.
“It’s not that. I just don’t want to be the one that forces your hand.”
“You think if you mark me, I will just toss Ace aside and give up on being with him?” she asked, and I nodded, looking back at her.
“I won’t reject him,” she answered, though she didn’t sound so sure herself.
“What bothers you the most? The fact he was with someone? Or that it was Melana he was with?” I asked her.
“Both. It being Melana was just the fucking icing on the cake. He knows how much I hate her,” she said, and she was correct. I warned him when he first got with Melana that it wasn’t a good idea.
She and Lucy used to get along until Lucy caught them together when she was eleven, and suddenly a switch flipped, and they became enemies overnight. Making me wonder if that was the first sign of the bond kicking in for her. Even though she was underage for a wolf, she instantly turned on Melana when she walked in on them fooling around. Yet when I was with Tara, Lucy didn’t seem to have an issue. But in saying that, we never really did anything together. But now I was wondering if the bond kicked in first for her with Ace.