Marked by the Alpha Team (Luna Merrick) novel Chapter 58

Chapter 58

Luna’s POV

I don’t know when exactly everything changed, but I know it didn’t stop, and it didn’t slow down. It didn’t give me a moment to think or breathe or even remember who I was supposed to be. One second. I was just standing at his door, confused and overwhelmed, and the next. I was inside his room, pressed against him, kissing him like I had been waiting my whole life to do it. It didn’t make sense, and deep down, I knew that, but the more it happened, the less I seemed to care about making sense of anything at all.

The kiss didn’t stay the same either. It changed, grew deeper and more intense, like something was building between us that neither of us wanted to stop. I could feel it in the way my heart was racing and in the way my body felt too warm, too sensitive, like every little touch meant more than it should. I didn’t even realize we were moving until the back of my legs hit something soft, and suddenly, I was falling back to the bed with Theo coming down with me, still not breaking the kiss. My mind should have been screaming at me to stop, to push him away, to get up and leave, but it wasn’t, or maybe it was, but it was too quiet compared to everything else I was feeling. My thoughts felt far away, like they were happening somewhere outside of me, while my body stayed right there in the moment, completely focused on him.

There was this strange feeling spreading through me, something I had never felt before, something that made my chest tight and my breathing uneven. It was like a restless energy, like something inside me needed more, even though I didn’t fully understand what “more” meant yet. All I knew was that I didn’t want to stop. I didn’t want him to stop.

Theo didn’t slow down either. If anything, he seemed just as caught up in it as I was. When I first kissed him, there had been something almost teasing in the way he responded, like he was watching me more than anything else, like he wanted to see how far I would go, but now that was gone. Now, it felt different and real, like he was just as pulled into this as I was, like whatever was happening to me was affecting him too.

My hands moved on their own again, sliding up and under his shirt, and I felt the warmth of his skin under my fingers. The muscles there were firm and solid, and the feeling sent another strange wave through me that made my breath hitch. I didn’t know why something so simple could affect me this much, but it did, and it made everything feel even more intense.

A soft sound escaped me before I could stop it, and the moment it did, I felt something shift again. Theo responded almost immediately, and hearing that small sound from him, feeling the way he reacted to me, only made everything worse in the best and most confusing way possible. It was like I was feeding off it, like the more I noticed him reacting, the more I wanted to keep going, to see how far this would go, even though a small part of me was still trying to understand what I was even doing.

My thoughts were a mess. One part of me was still aware, still confused, still trying to make sense of everything, but the rest of me… the rest of me didn’t care. It was focused on him, on the way he felt, on the way everything inside me seemed to respond to him like he was the only thing that mattered.

I had never felt anything like this before.

I had never even come close.

I had always stayed away from things like this, from boys, from anything that could lead to this kind of situation, because I didn’t want the complications, didn’t want the distractions. I had always told myself I had better things to focus on, and I meant it, but right now, all of that felt so far away, like it belonged to a different version of me that I couldn’t reach anymore, because right now, all I could think about was him.

My fingers moved again, gripping his shirt, and before I could stop myself, I started pulling it up, needing it out of the way. It didn’t even feel like a conscious decision. It just felt necessary, like something I had to do.

The moment the kiss broke, I barely noticed. My breathing was uneven, my head light, and then his lips were somewhere else, moving along my neck, and 1 felt it immediately. A sharp, overwhelming sensation that made my body react before I could even process it

I gasped softly, my fingers tightening against him as my head tilted slightly to the side without me telling it to. It felt like

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Chapter 58

everything was too much all at once, like my body didn’t know how to handle it, but at the same time, it didn’t want it fo stop either.

I had never felt like this before. It was like something inside me had been switched on, something that had been sleeping until now, and now that it was awake, it didn’t want to go back to sleep.

Theo shifted slightly, and before I knew it, our positions changed. He was above me now, his weight pressing down just enough for me to feel it, and I looked up at him without thinking.

That was when I saw his eyes, and they weren’t the same.

The green I had noticed before, the one that looked normal, maybe a little dull, was gone. His eyes were brighter now, almost glowing in a way that didn’t feel normal but somehow didn’t feel wrong either. It made my breath catch for a second because it was so different and so intense, and yet I couldn’t look away from it.

Everything about this felt strange, but at the same time, it felt like it was meant to happen, like it had always been waiting for

this moment.

His hands moved then, pulling at the sweater I had on, and I let him. I didn’t even think about stopping him. I didn’t think about anything at all. My body felt too heavy and too light at the same time, like I was floating but also stuck in place, completely caught up in everything that was happening, and then…

The door opened, and the sound of it broke through everything like glass dropping to the floor and shattering, and for a second, it felt like time itself stopped.

I didn’t move right away, I didn’t even react immediately. It was like my mind needed a moment to catch up, to understand what had just happened, to realize that we were no longer alone.

Then I heard a voice. “What the hell is going on?”

My head turned quickly, and that was when I saw him.

Ryder.

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