Scarred Luna

Kieran’s POV

A shudder raked through my body, causing goosebumps to follow suit. No matter how hard I tried to keep my body and it’s reactions in check, it just didn’t work. In fact, it felt like the more I tried, the more worse it became.

I pressed my eyes shut, not knowing what else to do. Even that didn’t help one bit. Instead, I felt my heartbeat pick up its pace, the vital organ threatening to tear its way through my skin. Maybe that wouldn’t be such a bad thing. Perhaps if that happened, I would finally get a hold of my senses again and know the right thing to do.

Maybe.

Right now, it all felt like wishful thinking. My mind fought against it, but my body gave in to it willingly. I felt the hairs at the back of my neck stand on end immediately. I gasped and my breath hitched in my throat as he pressed his lips close to my ear lobes. Who, you might ask?

Alpha Xander.

I willed my mind to not focus on what was happening right now, no matter how impossible it seemed to be. I pressed my eyes tighter as I thought of something else to distract me.

How exactly did I end up in this position? If someone had told me than in the course of my escape that I would end up in the Alpha’s room, I would have laughed my head off. Why? Because my resolve to leave was as firm as steel. Apparently, I wasn’t as strong as I thought I was. All it took for him to have me pinned down was his husky voice and his full lips tracing the outline of my ear.

Finished. I was finished.

This wasn’t supposed to be happening. By now, I should have been a far distance from deathshade pack. But instead, I was in the Alpha’s room, with the man in question being dangerously close. The last thing I’d expected was stumbling upon him when I did, but even at that, if I could change the wheels of time, I could bet my life I would gladly pick the path of running into him again.

My world had stopped when he’d called me out and said I wasn’t going anywhere. Even as he pulled me along the corridor that led to his room, a tiny part of me couldn’t help but feel excited at the outcome of it all. And now that I had seen it, I wanted more.

“Kieran.” I shivered again at the sound of my name, pulling me back to the present. “Did you hear me?”

Of course I’d heard. In fact, for the next few days, that would be my mantra, constantly playing and replaying again and again in my mind.

“Yes, alpha.” I croaked, my voice barely a whisper. “Yes.”

“Really?” Something in between a gasp and a moan slid past my lips as his tongue circled the tip of my earlobe. Alpha Xander was certainly a tease and he was more than aware of his effects on me. “So you wouldn’t mind saying it back?”

I gulped out loud. He was messing with me, slowly tearing up the wall between my sanity and my recklessness, and it was working.

“Say it, Kieran.” Xander nodded. “Come on, I want to hear you.”

“I’m yours, alpha Xander.” my voice was no more than a whisper, but he’d heard it very clearly. His next action proved it. “I’m all yours.”

Xander grunted out loud, before fisting his hands by his side. Something burned at the back of my chest that I was able to garner that kind of reaction from him.

Why was I feeling this way? Was this the mate bond at work? Was he aware that we were mates? Maybe that’s what was making us so irresistible to each other and…

“I want to kiss you.” Xander didn’t mince his next words. I blinked back a couple of times, as I tried to process what his sentence meant. As if he could read my mind, he repeated. “I said I want to kiss you.”

My brain went blank immediately. This was moving too fast, but that wasn’t even the crazy part. The crazy part was the fact that I wanted it. I wanted alpha Xander to smash his lips against mine and see where it would end.

My eyes darted from his face to his mouth and back again. Up close, he looked more handsome. He was the perfect embodiment of sin that I was more than ready to dive into.

My breath hitched in my throat as he slowly came closer. I parted my lips in anticipation as my heartbeat skyrocketed immediately.Nôvel(D)ra/ma.Org exclusive © material.

“Kieran.” His warm breath fanned my cheeks. He was so close, the scent of his cologne wafted through my nostrils. Maybe if he had quickened his steps, or perhaps I’d pushed my lips to his, the kiss would have been a reality. He was so, so close, until…

“Alpha Xander?” Three knocks at the door cut us short immediately. In one study motion, I jerked back, almost colliding with the vase behind me. “Are you in there?”

Shit.

*************

I turned to the other side of the bed, before slowly peeling my eyes open. The sunlight basked the insides of my room with a warm glow and I found myself smiling, but that wasn’t the only reason. Apparently, a particular memory had woken up with me too.

“Penny for your thoughts?” Someone’s voice caused me to jerk up. Immediately, I sat up, just to come face to face with the last person I expected to see. “You seem to be in a good mood this morning.”

“Sabrina.” I called her out. With my hand pressed against my chest, I took in deep breaths, hoping to calm my raging heart. “What are you doing here?”

“Good morning to you too.” She quipped. She’d just scared the hell out of me, so how was it supposed to classify as a good morning. “Or should I say, good afternoon.”

“What do you mean, good afternoon?” I glanced at the clock next to me and gasped. “I totally overslept.”

“That’s because you slept late.” Call me crazy but I couldn’t help but feel something else laced under her tone. “Am I right?”

“Maybe.” I shrugged, hoping my nonchalance would conceal the effects of remembering what happened the last night had on my cheeks. “I’m not sure when I slept.”

“I see.” Sabrina nodded as she made her way further into my room. Without asking my permission first, she sat at the foot of my bed. “Mind telling me why you slept late?*

“What?” I creased my eyebrows. “I don’t understand what you mean.”

“I saw you in Alpha Xander’s room last night.” she said and I paled instantly. “Why?”

After Sabrina had knocked on Xander’s door the night before, I’d hidden behind the wardrobe. I was scared and didn’t know what else to do. If it were up to Xander last night, I would have walked right past her.

“Kieran?” Sabrina’s voice brought me back to Earth. “I asked you a question, didn’t I?”

“Well, yes.” I drawled. “I did go into his room, but only by mistake.”

“Really?” She said, her tone laced with something I could not quite place. ” I’m listening.”

“I couldn’t sleep last night so I decided to do a little exploring.” I continued. I was a bad liar and for the sake of everything, I prayed she was buying it. ” When I came across the Alpha’s room, I had no idea it was his so I just walked right into it. When I realized my mistake, I apologized and was on my way out when you knocked.”

Silence reigned between us as she stared me down. I could feel the wheels in her head turning, but I had not the faintest idea what was going through her mind.

“Alright then.” She finally spoke up. In one swift movement, she was on her feet and on her way out. ” If you say so. You should freshen up and come down for lunch.”

Without so much as another word she disappeared from my room. I heaved a long sigh of relief, but somehow a strange feeling washed over me.

Did she really believe me?