Wolf-less Omega Luna novel Chapter 39

Alana’s POV

I couldn’t tell about Axel since the high of our marking process plunged me into a long, long sleep faster than I could have said moonlight.

But when the sun slid through the tiny opening in the curtains and my eyes fluttered awake, I found his’ staring at me intently.

One would think that by now I would have been very familiar with the feeling I got whenever Axel’s deep blue eyes were scanning my body but that was far from the case.

Whenever he looked at me like that? Caging me with his eyes? Sizing and accessing me down to my soul, I somehow remained glued to the spot under his scrutiny.

“Luna, you look good enough to eat this morning.” His lips barely moved, but his low and predatory voice reverberated in the air.

I swallowed and let my eyes dart away from him to anywhere other than his face.

“Don’t be shy.”

“I’m not,” I blurted out the lie with far less confidence than I intended to.

“I can feel it, Alana. Whatever you feel, I feel.” His lips tilted into a lopsided grin.

“Oh.”

His long, straight, thick fingers reached out and grazed the spot where his teeth drank from me last night, letting a visible shiver run through me. He cupped the back of my neck and pulled me closer to him, his other hand snaking around my waist and grabbing skin from under my shirt.

“You smell so good, baby…” he wearily dragged the words to exaggerate his point, making me as stiff as ice.

A raspy knock on the door and an annoyed grunt from Axel caused his thick fingers which were now squeezing my thighs to retract.

As a relieved sigh escaped my parted lips, I felt a pang in my chest as he took one, two, and three steps away from me.

I’ve never wanted him closer to me than I did now.

I made out Tyler’s voice from the other side of the door but not what he was saying.

“Handle it.” Axel’s partially annoyed voice commanded.

More talk before Axel slammed the door shut and walked back to me.

A part of me was happy that he was back and my basest instincts were pushing me to make him continue what he started.

The other part noticed the crease on his forehead which could only mean one thing —he had “Alpha duties” to handle.—

“What is it?” I asked as my eyes darted from the mark on his neck to his full lips and his ocean-blue eyes.

His eyes. They’ve never been prettier. Now, they were just the shade of the purest parts of the ocean. Radiant and giving off a natural glow.

The crinkles around his eyes only made him more handsome and I wanted to jump his bones right there and then, even with Tyler still on the other side of the thin wall.

“I have to go,” he said with a sigh. “I’ll be back before dinner. Will you be okay in Coral’s company?”

“Yes.” What I intended to say was no. No. No. I won’t. I want you here. But I nodded my head as I said the word. What was wrong with me?

He only gave me a small smile. Maybe he knew what I really wanted. Seeing as we could grope each other's thoughts and feelings.

Giving me one last peek at his heavenly abs, his perfectly chiseled ass, and his cut-out V line, he threw on a pair of jeans twice my size and a plain white shirt and left the room barefooted.

As I moved to the dresser and sat in front of the mirror, my hand simultaneously moved up to the spot on my neck that had now bonded me to Axel for life and I repeatedly ran my thumb over it.

It didn’t look so bad from the reflection in the mirror. It resembled a fading tattoo and from what I’d heard, there’ll be a permanent scar but it’ll be almost invisible by the twenty-fourth hour after the marking.

Axel was mine, and I was his. Forever.

What Axel had said to me when we first met kept looping in my head. — Now should be a good time to tell you that you’re not leaving my sight. Forever. —