The Girl He Marked by Laila Callaway novel Chapter 2

Lexi's POV.

Eventually, the guests leave, followed by the girls. I help my parents clean up and then head back to my house, excited to see Rixon. I text him and meet him in the woods a few minutes later.

'I missed you,' he tells me as he pulls me into his strong arms. I open my mouth to say something, but words fail me as his eyes drop to my lips and darken considerably. A shiver involuntarily shakes my body, and his full, pink lips pull up into a smirk.

He knows what he's doing to me.

'I missed you too, look, in the kitchen today—' I begin, but Rixon interrupts.

'It was amazing,' he comments, and I smile shyly.

'Yeah it was, but about the ball, Mum wants me to take one of those guys as my date.'

'Over my dead body,' Rixon growls and I can only smile at his possessiveness.

'I'm not going to obviously, but I can't take you either,' I lean back against a tree and look at him, 'I could probably make the girls understand, they'd let me explain, Myra will understand the most because she's been in a similar situation, but my parents— I don't think they'll take it well, at all, my Dad has always been so protective of me and I'm just so scared to tell them because I don't want it ruining what we have, I don't like sneaking around, but it's better than them knowing,' I explain to him and he reaches over to put his arms around me again.

'Look, I get it, it's okay,' he kisses my forehead and I close my eyes, savoring moments like these when I'm with him and I'm not worrying about my family.

'I want you to come round to mine tomorrow, you can meet my sister,' he suggests, and I feel flattered.

'I'd love to,' I reply, a warning howl sounds out and I wince.

'You need to go; they know you're here again.'

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'Mum, I'm staying at Lucia's tonight,' I inform her as I sit down for breakfast.

I've lost count of how many lies I've told my friends and family, but as long as it's for Rixon, I don't care.