The beast and the blessed novel by Ashley Breanne novel Chapter 26

Twenty-Six: Killian

Killian’s P.O.V.

Natalie looks terrified and confused at the same time. I hated that she flinched away from me, but the way she was standing up for herself was admirable. There were only a few who had ever stood up to me, and all of them were the women in my family. My mother, my sister, and my childhood best friend.

She fit right in.

“No one is going to lay a hand on you!” I growled, feeling my beast fight for control, wanting to eliminate the threat that we had yet to be exposed to. Something made our mate worried for her life.

The anger pouring from her doubled as she reached up and grabbed both sides of her head, shaking it back and forth as she moved from the chair and began to pace back and forth. “Then why did you bring me here?!”

My jaw dropped open to yell back, but watching water pool along her eyelids caused pain to form in my chest, and I reached up and rubbed at the area.

“Joselin said it herself that I was brought here for the battle, that I was being trained so I would be strong enough to save you! Why else did you bring me here then?” Her chest moved rapidly as she stopped. pacing and glared at me with her little hands clenched into fists in front of her chest as if she was imagining wringing my neck.

“No one said anything about you dying. You save my life, yes, but she never saw you *.” I explained as I stepped forward slowly. Her face relaxed, and her eyes widened as her hands dropped to her side.

“What?” The disbelief in her tone caused a scoff of amusement to force its way from my chest, and I took another step forward.

“Where did you even get that idea?” I knew Joselin wouldn’t keep something that big from me. She had never lied to or betrayed me before, and I doubted she would start now. If she did, I would rip her heart. straight from her chest, and she knew it.

“I…” Her eye flickered back and forth across the ground as if she were reading words that only she could. see as she thought back.

I had known that when women went through heat, they were more easily triggered. I *that knowing about the battle before her heat or finding out during her heat, would have caused her thoughts to spiral out of control. I had seen women be locked up in the dungeons while they suffered because of their *state.

Most women are marked right away and don’t have to struggle through the heat. Those that do, reacted similarly to Natalie. Their beasts would control their emotions, and they would have a harder time remaining neutral.

They would be more possessive, territorial, and sometimes paranoid. But they would also feel positive. emotions more thoroughly. Love, lust….pleasure.

Just thinking about how wet Natalie had been for me last night, how she had rubbed herself against me shamelessly, looking for her release had my body tensing, and I glanced at the bed. She had been impacted by her heat greatly.

But this was exactly what she was talking about. She didn’t need me trying to *her again when we were finally having a serious conversation. Especially when I couldn’t give her what she wanted after we had finished. I still didn’t quite know what she wanted. I *she was expecting us to ride off into the sunset and live happily ever after.

That’s what mates normally did.

But we were different.

“I guess no one did.” She whispered. “Huh. I had thought that… Joselin said there would be a battle, and that I would have to save you, I just figured that as a human in a battle against vampires, I would *.”

“She did not see you *. She saw you save me.” I shook my head as she turned her back to me and began to walk further away. But this time, it was me who was not done with this conversation. I pushed forward, grabbing her hips and spinning her around until her chest was pressed against mine. “Do not turn your back to me, little one. We are still talking.”