“Fucking shit,” Anani muttered.
“Why didn’t you say anything?” Ledger asked roughly.
“I’ve known you all for four days. I may be naive, but sharing my abusive mother problems off the bat seemed like a bad idea,” I muttered.
“I want him taken care of,” Marco spoke softly, his body frozen with this dark tension.
“Not tonight!” I whipped my head back to look at him, “please not tonight, I don’t want to escalate anything until I can legally leave the house. Please, please, Marco. If I get sent back there, it is only going to be worse if we do something.”
He inhaled and searched my face before nodding. I rested my cheek against Anani’s chest as my dry and sore eyes sighed relief. A very small part of me was thrilled to be going to bed in the large, truly, massive bed upstairs.
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I woke up to a room bathed in darkness and I panicked for a moment, only to have a true sigh of relief leave me. My head was surrounded by the softest pillows and the blanket over me sheltered my freshly washed skin. I had stood in the shower for at least an hour before even washing my hair. I’d used this rosemary mint shampoo and then proceeded to shave, like everywhere. That sounds weird, but my mom had no reason to teach me how to shave, so before school started I’d done a botched job of it after seeing all the women in Cosmo. This time around everything was far smoother. Even down there. That’s right, Vogue called that ‘trimming the lady bush’ which I had to admit, made me laugh so hard I nearly cried. Who the heck came up with these titles? Maybe I needed to work for Vogue.
My body was cocooned in warmth and I was glad I’d asked the twins to stay. I wasn’t sure why, but something about what I’d gone through had really messed with them. Both were shirtless and laying facing me, their dark lashes brushing against their stark skin. I could see their tattoos now and Holy Christ, were there a lot of them. I wanted to touch them but I worried I would never stop, which was a problem because I was really thirsty.
I unwrapped myself and crawled towards the end of the bed, letting my toes press against the floor. Before leaving the room, I walked towards the massive panel of windows and looked over the thick forest area highlighted by moonlight. I was surprised my mother and Jed had yet to say something or show up with the cops. My mother didn’t really surprise me actually.
My feet barely made a noise as I walked downstairs and I was surprised to find, a figure in the living room. Was he having issues sleeping?
“Sai?” I asked softly as I tiptoed into the living room. I knew it was his dark head tilted down and a bottle of something sat in front of him.
I tried again, “Sai? Why aren’t you in bed?”
He groaned in a pained voice and looked up, his dark eyed red rimmed and jaw tense. I froze because he seemed angry and I couldn’t gauge at what.
“Maya,” he said softly. “You should go to bed.”
A shiver went through me as I stepped across the flooring into a plush rug, my arms wrapping around my center. I was glad I had put a robe on over my large shirt now.
“Are you okay?” I ignored him and approached carefully.
“No,” he admitted, “I had no idea you’d been living like that…”
“Sai,” I whispered, approaching him and looking down worried. “How could you have known? It doesn’t matter anymore, anyway, I’m here and I’m okay.” I felt the need to reassure this man, to make him understand that everything was okay.
He braced his arms on his knees and looked up at me, starting at my toes and up to where my hair laid in a messy bun. He grunted, “fuck.”
“What?” I asked, authentically concerned as I sat next to him, except he lifted me instantly to sit on his lap. He nuzzled my neck and took a deep breath, I looked down at him and grasped his face. I turned and found myself far closer than before, my chest meeting his. I felt my legs clench at how hard he was underneath me.
“This is dangerous,” he whispered softly, almost to himself. “You aren’t ready for any of this.”
I wasn’t 100% positive what he was talking about, but my guess was his physical form of hitting on me? I mean, his erection was pretty freakin’ apparent and a small shiver of something began to crawl through me. I could still imagine how freakin’ big he was and I’m sorry, but that was just interesting to me. I was curious.
“You don’t know that,” I spoke slowly as he met my eyes in disbelief.
“Maya,” he mumbled.
I cupped his jaw and spoke softly, “I don’t know a lot, Sai, and I’m not ashamed about it. I know I like you though and I just thought…”
I paused and realized what I wanted from him.
“What?” He asked softly.
I smiled softly, “will you be my first kiss?”
I mean they said we are mates, right? I’m assuming mates will want tomateeventually? Like how animals do? So I should probably get that kissing part thing down. I was really interested in getting to that other part, this was a good start, right?