My Secret, My Bully, My Mates (skylar) by Miss l Free novel Chapter 649

His rumbling laugh shook my whole body. “According to everyone else it was obvious. Apparently I was only good at hiding it from you. I thought you might be mated to the twins, that match seemed pretty cut and dry. So I figured when I found my mate it wouldn’t be a problem because that part of my focus would belong to her. Turns out the Moon Goddess likes me a little and gave me to you along with the twins.” He wrapped his big arms around my waist, holding me close.

“When did you know you had feelings for me?” It’s been years and he never said a thing. I guess I understand why, kind of.

“We all thought that maybe the attraction was because you were the only other female in our group since Sam and Sierra hit it off immediately. You were one of us, it wasn’t about status for you. Then the trials came and that was seriously the second worst experience of my life. I broke one of the chair handles in the Alpha’s box.”

“What?! What do you mean?’”

He laughed again. “Yeah, none of us did well watching you go through trials even though we knew what was going to happen. Lucas gave us a heads up right before the trial started. Now, I think it was to keep us in our seats and not to try and jump in to save you. Then the threat came and you had that scare in Ava’s room. I knew the moment I kissed you I was f*cked. There was going to be no other girl for me.” His stormy eyes swirled with emotion, looking at me but not seeing me. “Then the night of the mating ball happened. That was the absolute worst moment for me, for all of us really, but I got to you first.” He took another deep slow breath and it shuddered out, but didn’t look away from me. “You couldn’t open your eyes and there was blood everywhere and you told me… told me to… to just let you die…” tears rolled out of his eyes as he took a shuddering breath under me. “I almost didn’t get to you in time.” He squeezed my hips and pressed me tighter to him, like he was back in that moment and couldn’t let me go.

I sat up quickly, straddling his torso. Cupping both of his cheeks in my hands, I forced him to look at me. “What was your response to that?” I raised my eyebrows.

“Never.” It was almost a whisper.

“You did get to me in time and you are the reason I am still here.” I give him a gentle kiss putting all of my feelings for him into it. But I don’t linger, he needs to process this too.

He growls low, pulls me back in, and he deepens the kiss, but it isn’t hurried or dominating like usual. I want him to feel what I feel for him through this kiss. I have no idea how he feels my emotions, but I think about opening that pathway and my wolf is reaching out to his, strengthening their bond. Soon the kiss turns from sweet to needy.

My hands rake through his thick hair as his hands run under my shirt up my back. I gasp and pull away. I can’t help it. My scars are a part of me. I’m not ashamed of them anymore, but something about them being touched pulls me out of whatever moment I am in. Then a thought dawns on me.