Focus. I needed to pay attention.
A freshly made bed was in the center of the room and I headed over there.
“Change of plans there Kiara, Dev here has a good point about everything. So You’ll have a tv, a bathroom, and uh, yeah. I’ll be back over to pick you up. Do you-“
I snapped.
“The hell you will. She isn’t going with you. Or anyone. Kiara you will stay here. Someone will bring her food.”
Kiara’s ass had barely hit the bed before she sprang up and was pushing her finger into my chest.
“Don’t you talk to him that way. I can tell your friends and it’s obvious he’s the nice one. So yes. He will pick me up.”
I glared at her and one thousand words ran through my mind.
“It would be safer if you just stayed here. You will stay here,” I said. My wolf was growling now. Half mad at me and even more pissed that she was considering Colt.
“You will stay here,” I added for good measure.
She wrinkled up that cute little nose of hers and put her hands over her hips. The stupid hospital gown shirt thing rode up and I couldn’t ignore the way I was looking down to see where it hit. I was certain Colton noticed too by the way his eyes darted to the door the second I glared at him.
I needed to give her ground rules. I’d told her she was mine, and she still didn’t get it. Did I have to spell it out to her that she was my mate, not just my property? Maybe I should do a lot of things, but the way her eyes flicked between Colton and me? My wolf was pushing his damn way to the surface, and I wasn’t sure I could control the need surging inside us. We needed her. We wanted her. She was ours. I should say something, but the only thing I could do?
I reached down and pulled her chin up, forcing her to see me and only me and then I claimed her lips tasting her like she was my last meal.
If I couldn’t solve tonight's issues? Couldn’t cancel this marriage contract? This might be the last time I could kiss her as a free man. As her mate.
Even if she didn’t know me yet.
CHAPTER10
Kiara
What was happening?
He tasted delicious and I wanted more. I’d never understood how a female could ever want this, until now. The way my arms fit around his massive shoulders as I tried to pull him closer seemed so natural.
I breathed him in and tried to memorize the way his lips felt against mine. The way my entire body became alive with just a single touch? This was better than my dreams. A foreign tingle within me grew. I wasn’t certain what it was and I didn't care. I wanted more of him. I let him pull me in closer. Hell, I was trying to practically climb him.
I gasped against his lips as the tingling inside me grew and changed. It was my wolf. The more he kissed me the more I could feel her. I pressed myself against him, letting his hands touch whatever and wherever they wanted. I shouldn’t want him like this, but I wanted to feel her and if i were being honest I wanted him.
I wanted everything.
Deep down, I wanted to be wanted even if I wasn’t willing to let that out yet. He was still the boy who had promised to save me all those years ago - the one I’d dreamed about for years. He was here and he was kissing me and it surpassed every dream or nightmare I’d ever had.
Could I give in and just let this keep happening? It would be so easy to pretend like this is what my life should have been.
Something long and thick pressed against my stomach and I found myself confused and turned on. The tendrils of heat flowing through me making me wet, had me pressing myself against him looking for pressure, a release.
He pulled away, his hand caressing my cheek. The look that flashed across his eyes confused me. The need coursing through me blinded to what I should have done.
“Did I do something wrong?” I asked.
He backed up and stopped at the doorway. I tried to reach for him. There was war inside me. One side that wanted me to run far away and one side that could find it possible to let myself be happy. Maybe, but doubtful.
“You have done nothing wrong, but you are not coming tonight,” he said.
I blinked at him.