When We Were Mates (Demetra and Emris) novel Chapter 56

Chapter 56

Demetra.

And that’s when I see males. Lots of them. Looking at me. Whispering to each other with me in their eyes. It’s obvious the way their heads turn when I move, the way they nudge their friends, the way they stare openly like I’m supposed to be flattered. I pretend I don’t see them.

All of a sudden, I catch a scent that commands every nerve in my body.

Emris.

For all the time I’ve perceived his scent, it’s been real so I stop moving and look around the dancing floor.

Bodies and bodies and bodies are everywhere with lights flashing too fast. I can’t tell where he is but I know he’s here. I can feel him the way you feel a storm coming.

I keep searching, hand going to my chest like I can calm my own heartbeat, and then I see someone.

In the corner of the club, near the edge of the VIP area where the lights barely reach. A figure in a hoodie… blue hoodie. pulled up over their head. Body wide like a mascot, broad shoulders….standing completely still while everyone around them

moves.

Watching me.

I can’t see his face. His hands are in his pockets. But the way he’s looking at me…even without seeing his eyes, I feel it. That look that says it’s me. You know it’s me.

And if it’s him? Why don’t I make this look worth his while.

I turn deliberately toward the men who’ve been checking me

and I start dancing.

I caress my hands over my thighs….up, down, bending slightly to let my back arch. My ass moves. I bring one hand up to my chest, trailing over the curve, pretending I’m lost in the music while I know exactly what I’m doing.

I keep my eyes away from the mountain in he’s there.

the blue hoodie. Don’t look. Don’t give him the satisfaction of knowing I know

All of a sudden, his voice pierces through our mind link channel.

“Demi. Stop it. Now!”

My head snaps toward the corner. I don’t see him there anymore. The club lights blink into darkness for half a second, then flicker back. Black to blue. Blue to-

The light comes back and shines on his face but I already know it’s Emris is right in front of me.

His eyes are burning like he doesn’t know whether to drag me out of here or devour me on this floor.

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Emris.

“What are you doing here!?” She speaks back through our mind link….the one that’s become stronger with each subsequent

connections.

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“Came to check if you were right” I say, but even as the words leave my mind, I realize how and they sound. A per who’s heard about the names of her park’s territory with Arangase

bone in my body on Friday earning

Shaking her ass in front of these damn viure

Ace that aggravates every prosesse

Especially not in front of Karl Voss. That arrogant prick from the Shadow Crest pack who is standing right there at the edge of the VIP floor, drink in hand, watching my mate like she’s a piece of meat he’s about to order. He’s got that mark on his face cause thinks he’s heaven’s gih to every woman with a pre

I’ve hated him since the first Alpha summit we both attended

That’s just one of them.

Alright? Pretty little Demetra pouts at me through the link, and I feel it everywhere.

Her white, lustrous hair is pulled into a flowy long tail while the rest is swept into a low bun and it’s somehow the sexiest thing I’ve seen all my life. In that black outfit, I can see her pale white ass, White as her hair. Warely covered by that scrap of fabric she calls a dress.

I can see it.

All thes

men here can see it!

m for looking at her thighs. At her cleavage in that provocative halter–top

ys sexy in every form. I have always obsessed with her body and I’m a grown wolf enough to know that birthing ges a female’s body. And Demetra? She’s changed into a fucking goddess. Hips that don’t quit. A waist that ow got smaller while everything else got more. Breasts that are fuller, softer, made to be touched.

hy wouldn’t I be alright? How did you know I was here, Squirrel Alpha?”

raise one cheek in laughter at that. Squirrel Alpha. She’s still calling me that.

“Heard Teddy over the phone?

I try to frown again cause I don’t like this scene.

She tries to walk past me, but I step into her path. Where the fuck does she think she’s going? To dance some more? To let more men look? My hand is twitching to rip the lungs out of these bastards if she’s not on her best behavior

I know she saw me before she decided to walk in front of those bloodsucking idiots and massage her curves in front of Kari specifically, She knew I was watching. She wanted me to watch.

“You’re blocking me, sir

It’s intentional. I’m possessio

“How can an already

fve had under

woman?” Her eyes flash. “I’ve told you you’re not the only Alpha

Her chest mushes into me and the wensation of

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winan a word, she walks around me.

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Sobat want the dancing area where more males are moving, but they’ve seen me. They know who I am by scent, by in the way the archanges when I enter a room. I’m an hybrid Alpha. Something even other Alphas think twic about They know our

The ve seen me

her and they make a choice.

One by one, they turn away. The guys near where she’s heading suddenly find their drinks very interesting. A group of thre who were watching her carlier melt back into the crowd. Kael Voss puts distance between himself and my mate like she’s contagious

he stands alone

the edge of the dance floor as men literally walk away from her.

Demetra turns back to look at me in pure beautiful anger.

I fix a smirk on my face and watch her storm off the dance floor.

“You’re ruang my fuur She yells at me now that the music is thumping lesser near the booth area.

“Fun? I rabe at eyebrow “You call that funt I didn’t know you could dance so provocatively like that.”

you do koow anything about me, Alpha Emris.” She walks to a booth and picks up her purse. “You didn’t even know I ** *****

I will stond someone who isn’t scared of you that I can take home tonight-”

Demand 1 vd you lens and 1 don’t love each other. Well…I don’t love her. I married her for Milo. And still you don’t care. Wha do 1 have to do for your forgiveness: More barghests? Fine, let it happen. Let them eat my arm off-

Okey, what am I supposed to do with that information?”

She tries to walk past me again, and this time people are passing by, bodies pushing us together. Her hip edges into mine. I

Demers ander

‘W’s now Wer you’re going to leave your family” She faces me. “You wanna chase me back… what does that even mean? So I

your secret sidekick again?

61 dep into her space. Just like I should ha

ould be my mate. The mate that you already are. Solidified. The one I bond with.

de you my Luna. Rightfully.”

way it with

with me just to be with me?” Her voice is smaller now like she’s feeling gully

Gold hes gaze. I be the best father to him, but one day he have his own mate And hel

then I forgive me but I swear to the noon, the earth, and the stars in the sky. I will mov

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