“What bothers you most?”
“She had her hands on him from the moment we got out of the facility,” Lucy said with a growl, and my lips tugged up slightly.
“When did it bother you?” I asked her.
“When I caught them together in your room,” she said, confirming what I thought, just before she left for boarding school.
“Why did it bother you then, though?”
“Because he was mine, and she was touching him,” she said before realizing what she’d said.
“You were jealous?” I asked her, and she seemed to think before shrugging.
“You were both always with me, and then he started hanging out with her,” Lucy said.
“But you weren’t like that with Tara,” I told her.
“She didn’t reek of you, and you didn’t reek of her. I knew Ace was with Melana back then,” Lucy said, and I realized Avery was right and that everything Ace said was correct. Lucy had been able to feel the bond from the moment we met her. She just wasn’t sure what it was, yet she had always been drawn to us and us to her. Yet it was only recently that she realized what it all meant.
I tugged my shirt off before undoing my pants. Here we thought we were waiting for her when in reality, she waited for us longer. She was just unaware of what it was she was waiting for. But that left another thing to think about. Avery told Ace that she thought Lucy’s wolf was dormant, not dead. Now the question was, how were we going to wake her wolf?
Opening the shower screen, Lucy moved over, and I smiled down at her, pulling her to me. Her hands moved to my chest, her breasts squashed against my abs. I gripped her thighs, lifting her and wrapping her legs around my waist. She smiled before wrapping her arms around my neck and pressing her lips against mine. I felt her smile against my lips, and I pressed her against the cold tiles earning a shriek from her. As I nipped at her chin she sighed.
I used one hand to turn her face, exposing her neck to me. She shuddered, and her nails dug into my shoulders where she was holding me. I ran my tongue over her neck, and she moaned, making me chuckle.
“Tyson?” she whispered, and I felt bad that I didn’t mark her right away after hearing the desperation in her voice. She was after the same assurance that I wouldn’t toss her away.
My canines grazed across her skin, and I felt the sharp points press against her delicate skin, and she shivered against me. I sealed my lips over her neck before sinking my teeth into her, my canines embedding into her flesh. She made a strangled noise that sounded pained before turning to a moan as I pulled her closer, letting my teeth tear through the tissue and muscle until I felt them hit bone.
I felt relief rush into me from the bond as it formed and snapped into place, followed by exhaustion and an overwhelming urge to sleep. I slowly pulled my teeth from her neck, and she slumped heavily against me, going completely floppy. I felt silence through the bond and knew I’d knocked her out. I shut the water off before hoisting her up and scooping my arms under her legs that had fallen down my sides.
“Maybe we should have marked her in bed. Now we have to figure out how to dry her and hold her upright,” Tyrant told me, and I rolled my eyes at him before snatching the towel off the towel rack. I dried her back while I leaned her against me before scooping her up and laying her in bed. Then I dried the front of her and tucked the blanket around her.
“Man, you really want to torture us, don’t you?” Tyrant whined at me when I didn’t bother to dress her, and I found myself repeating what Lucy had always said.
“It’s just skin,” I told him. I quickly dried myself before slipping some boxer shorts on and climbing in beside her.
Chapter forty-three
Ace
I drove all night for Avery to turn around and say no. I thought she would be happy, it was the most selfless thing I could do. I let her go, letting her be free of me and all the pain I had caused her. Yet Avery turned me down, refusing to remove the mate bond. Still, she took Lucy’s mark when I marked her. I hoped to plead with Aamon, but he wasn’t home. She removed the bond for Lucy, but now she wouldn’t take the bond for me, saying it was for Lucy to decide. Decide what? She fucking hated me, and I knew the only reason she hadn’t rejected me was her fear of upsetting Tyson.
Her being mated to me was making her miserable, and my brother too. Walking out of Avery’s house, I got back in my car. This was fucking bullshit. She didn’t want me, so I didn’t see the issue with Avery snapping her fingers and relieving us both of the bond. She was not only punishing Lucy but Tyson by leaving her tied to me.
“Ace?” Avery said, chasing after me as I slammed my car door shut.
“Bloody hybrids. Aamon, where are you?” I heard her say just before I started my car. I tore out of the driveway before racing down the street toward the highway. Atticus wasn’t even talking to me, convinced I’d fucked everything up, and he was right.I fuck everything up. Anything I touch becomes ruined. I refused to be the reason they both suffered. I refused to be the one that ruined their lives. I didn’t deserve her, and now realizing that, I’d just made my mind up completely.
Driving along the highway leaving Avalon City, I knew there was a bend with a sheer drop. If Avery didn’t save Lucy from the bond, I would save her myself. I floored it, pressing the pedal all the way to the floor, listening to my car rev as it picked up speed for the sharp bend. I unclipped my seatbelt just as I smashed through the barrier, and the car was suddenly falling. It smacked the side of the cliff and tipped, and I was suddenly looking up the cliff as it started somersaulting when burned almonds invaded my senses.Great! I am going to hell! I thought, knowing that usually meant a demon was near. Demons came from hell, and I was sure that was where the Moon Goddess would send me for hurting Lucy. I saw the ground coming toward me at an alarming speed and closed my eyes, bracing for impact, when I felt a hand touch me.
“Fucking idiot!” I heard Aamon yell at me, before feeling a whoosh motion and a vacuum-like suction rush over me. My eyes opened to see Aamon standing in front of me while I was sitting on the hard ground near the busted barrier. I touched myself, shocked that I was alive. Then I heard the loud boom of an explosion, and a billow of smoke and flames filled the sky behind where Aamon was standing.
“I didn’t believe you would be so stupid. Do you have any idea how fucking stupid that was? You could have died,” Aamon snapped at me. It was the first time I had seen him angry at me.
“That was kind of the fucking point,” I growled at him, getting to my feet, only for him to shove me to the ground. I growled at him before feeling his fist connect with the side of my face. My head whipped to the side. Black dots danced in front of my vision, and I shook my head to clear it before glaring at him.
“How fucking dare you. Do you have any idea how many people that would have destroyed? Your brothers, Your mother, And what about Lucy?” Aamon screamed at me.