Chapter 33
Zoren
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As soon as I stepped into the room, I felt a stab of her scant slap me in the face, pushing through my lungs and instantly making me grow dizzy. I panted through my teeth after pushing the door close, instantly dwelling on the fact that being in here right now has reduced the pain in my chest drastically.
Looks like we’re really fated mates after all.
I waited for a wave of displeasure to come over me as I slowly walked towards the bed, but it didn’t come and I assumed that was cause her scent was starting to mess with my head. My wolf was all over himself within me and he was eagerly urging me to take her tonight while remarking her. That thought completely startled me.
“The fuck? We aren’t fucking her, Xan.” I growled at my wolf but he only snorted at me.
“Speak for yourself. Can’t you smell how hungry her body is? Her body craves us- our touches and our bite because we’re fated mates, you dummy.”
I growled in annoyance at that tone just as I arrived at the side of the bed. My wolf was testing my patience so I was gonna ignore him on moving forward. He was saying a lot of nonsense, I won’t be taking Ciara, not like he’s thinking.
Accepting to remark her to prevent her from dying and also to prevent myself from suffering because of the bite severement was one thing, and then going ahead to fuck her whike at that was a completely different thing.
I wasn’t doing that one.
However, merely standing this close to her right now was making my cock bulge up and making my head spin to my utter disbelief. She was tossing around a little, like she wasn’t comfortable, but she was also panting, her chest heaving through the sheets. My eyes fell on that movement instantly and my cock twitched in my pants at once, shocking me even more.
What the fuck is wrong with me? Nothing was gonna concern me and her body tonight. I wasn’t gonna think about it, about how she’d feel under my hands or how she’d taste. None of that was importsnt right now. What’s importsnt is me helping her regulate her temperature, then I’ll give her my mark again, and after that’s done, we’d go our separate ways while I go think of my next move.
That’s what gonna happen.
Now that a clear plan was in my mind, I pushed the cover and slid into the bed, breathing though my mouth cause breathing through my nose was making arousal swirl in my stomach through waves. Seconds later, I turned sideways and regarded Ciara. Her face was twisted in discomfort and she was still moving around here and there in her sleep. Despite seeming like she was in pain, she still managed to look ridiculously beautiful that my heart ached at the sight. Her face was curved beautifully and her cute nose looked so kissable, while her luscious looking lips..,
On realizing where that train of thoughts was heading, I was quick to end it, feeling furious at myself for already spiraling from my initial plan and ten minutes had barely passed.
With a sigh, I reached out and touched her forehead, then my eye widened at how much she was burning. I didn’t realize it was that bad, she felt like a hot furnace!
I slipped off the bed fast, rushing to the fridge in here to get some ice, and after wrapping it in a towel, I went back to the bed and placed said towel over her forehead. At once, her face seemed to relax and she stopped tossing, proving that the ice calmed her down. However, when she moved to press her face into my palm in her unconscious state, I felt a stab in my chest as I watched her. Perhaps what is really helping her right now isn’t the ice, but my close presence like the damn doctor had suggested.
The ice didn’t seem to be helping, she was still burning up and I feel worried that this might end up hurting her. However, slowly, the hotness started to reduce. With a relieved sigh, I laid beside her again, keeping some distance between us for my
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own sanity, but also not tsking my hand off her cheek for some reason. I watched her as the seconds went by, wondering how the last five years has gone for her. My mind instantly soured at the thought of the amount of men she’s undoubtedly been with in the past. The thoughts of those fools having her like I once did, infuriated me so much and filled me up with so much possessiveness, and my wolf also growled in annoyance within me.
I tried to remind myself to not feel possessive because she wasn’t mine, but at the same time, it hit me again that we’re fated mates. That means I have a right to be posessive, don’t I?
But does this that I’m fully accepting her as my fated mate? That I wasn’t fully sure of where I stood. My beta advised that I do just that, but I still feel skeptical, cause I believe there’s so much about her that I don’t know yet, and I’d still like to know what actually happened five years ago before she and her family fled. With a sigh, I forced myself to stop thinking about any of that. I’ll focus on all of this later, much later when I’ll be able to think with a clearer head, without her scent messing with my head.
I kept watching her, feeling like I needed to be closer to me her. The urge was pressing hard in my chest, to take her fully in my arms. But I wasn’t sure I wanna do that, cause I feared having her body pressed against mine might make me lose control. All my life, I prided myself on having the strongest self control, especially in the last five years aftet I took over the throne. However, right now, I feared that if I take her in my arms, I would lose control, and if that happens, I’ll end up doing the unthinkable. For the first time in five years, I didn’t have confidence in my own self control.
All because of Ciara.
Which was why even though I wanted her closer, I kept that distance between us and just continued to watch her, my hand still agsinst her cheek which was now a warm temperature, then sleep finally pulled me under.
When I came to again, I felt a lot of things register in my brain at once.
First, she was pressed against my chest, flushed against mine, and my arms were wrapped around her body, pinning her tightly against me. Second, my leg was between her thighs, and she was presently grinding against it while whimpering right into my throat, soft, breathless cries as her body trembled and shook against my chest.
Third, I was rock hard and throbbing in my pants.
Fourth, everything felt hot. The air felt hot, stuffy and filled with her cloyingly sweet scent, filling up my entire pores and clinging on my tongue as soon as I deep breath.
“Fuck.” I swore, as my grip tightened around her even more, automatically pulling her even closer to me, and it wasn’t until after I had rolled over and pinned her underneath me that I asked myself what the fuck was going on.
But her leg was already wrapped around my hips and she was whimpering again, whimpering out my name.
“Z–Zoren.”
My head spinned and I felt my self control wane, teetering right on the edge of a dangerous cliff.
I breathed through my nose, trying to rein in my thoughts, cause all that was on my mind right now was pinning her down right now and fucking her through this mattress, that and the urge to sink my teeth into her throat and claim her as mine.
I shook my head hard, trying hard to stop those train of thoughts, but they seem to instead worsen when she whimpered my name again, while still grinding against my leg which was still between her legs. The spot between her leg felt so warm and hot as she kept grounding her core againt me, and I want to do nothing but bury my face right there. My head spinned hard again and I cussed just as my hold on her tightened.
Breathing in her sugary scent through my nose wasn’t helping and I tried my mouth, then instantly regretted doing that because now I can taste her heavy sweet scent on my tongue, which made me pant harshly as my hold on her tightened. I let out a low growl before I could stop myself, and when she let out a breathless cry and shuddered hard against me, my hold on her tightening even harder. Tasting her scent on my tongue right now just made me want to taste it from the source, to bury my face in her throat and suck on that mark.
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Before I could stop myself, I leaned right into her throat and did just that. As my mouth closed over that spot which I’ve once bittten, whereby her scent was gathered in the most at her throat, I sucked hard on the spot just as another repellent my mouth and as her taste exploded over my tongue, so did my head spin even more.
“O–oh!” She cried out when I growled again as I scrapped my teeth against the spot before sucking hard on the spot again. Her scent thickened in the air, growing thicker and seeeter, almost like an omega in heat…
As my brain short circuited at that thought, I curved myself to pull out of her throat, then I regarded her panting face. Her lips were parted, looking swollen and well bitten, and so fucking kissable… her were were glassy snd half lidded, and her face was flushed. My self cottol tethered at the edge again and I took that as my sign.
I should pull my leg away from between her lush thighs, then I should let go of her and completely pull away at once, then after putting some distance between us, I’ll be able to gather myself together and get myself under control. But it was like my brain my and my body wernt functioning together anymore. Despite all the rational thoughts going through my mind right now, my body was doing the complete opposite.
My leg between hers was grinding over her core instead of pulling away and she moaned again, the sound filling the air and making me grow harder in my pants. My hands were still tight around her body and instead of pulling away, I was leaning right into her face, like an invisible pull was tugging me downwards, to kiss her, to claim her….
At the very last moment, I pulled away fast, growling.
“Stop moving.” I growled out, but she shuddered hard against me, whimpering out my name like a prayer and that finally did it.
Before I could think it over, I smashed my mouth over hers.
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