Chapter 160
DARIAN’S POV
“You need to calm the fuck down or you’ll scare her again,” Onyx growled. Like I hadn’t thought about that myself.
Hazel was sticking her chin out, her brows were pointing down when her frown deepened and I knew that laughing wouldn’t make the situation any better but she was too fucking cute. This was the Hazel I met at the Hunt, the one that I saw through the window of the car when I drove through her pack…the one I broke until the defiance was stripped from her core and she submitted.
I can’t win her trust back by making rules for her to follow, I knew that, but I also couldn’t keep myself from wanting to kill my own brother for laying his
hands on her.
Maybe it’s the bond, maybe it’s the knowing how fragile she is right now, or maybe it’s the fact that I knew I could lose her but the thought of someone else taking her away from me was causing a turbulence of rage that I couldn’t let show, but the more I kept it in the less control I had of it.
Look at her, standing tall with her lips pressed tight. That girl had no idea how fucking bad I loved her, a foreign feeling to me and I bet to her as well.
I don’t think she knows that I feel how she reacts when I touch her, despite the shitty memories that come to mind of what I’d done, my touch still sends her body into a frenzy.
There were certain things she didn’t know about the mark, things I couldn’t tell her until she trusted me again and I would let that take the time it needed.
Being gentle wasn’t in my nature and it wasn’t something I cared for in anything I did. Nothing was done gently in my world, not the wars, not ruling over Valeria, not love, and not sex. Restraint and control were two different things for me but with her, I had to practice them both as though they were similar. I had control over everything, It was necessary- control was what allowed me to breathe but restraint- fuck that was hard. Restraint in not killing every person on a war field, or when it came to the cockroaches on the other side of the border; especially restraint when it came to not grabbing Hazel and ripping her clothes to shreds, spreading her legs, and climbing between them. I wasn’t gentle. I didn’t do gentle, but with her, I had to learn restraint and become someone worthy of her love.
How did I teach the monster in me to be gentle? Just looking at her standing there, strong and with purpose, refusing to be the docile little puppet that I forced her into reminded me of the girl she was underneath all the pain.
Her skin under the light was smooth like velvet and her eyes lit up when they looked into mine, something I don’t think she noticed.
That girl had been on my mind since the first time I saw her by the lake and the more time went by the more of my thoughts she consumed.
I knew my ways with her weren’t sustainable, I couldn’t kill any man who touched her but that didn’t mean that I wouldn’t; if she could only feel a smidge of the possessiveness I felt over her, the urge to protect that girl with everything I had, she might understand.
Then again she might not and the last thing I wanted was to give her another reason to leave, I’d already given her enough reasons to pack her things and
“She can’t,” Onyx growled.
“She won’t,”
Okay, a deep breath and hold it.
One.
Two.
Three.
“Compromise, huh?” I said and watched her eyes flicker to Nora.
There was an uncertainty in her gaze whenever she looked at Nora, something that came to her mind and I can think of a thing or two that would bother that pretty head of hers.
“I hear it’s all the rage right now,” she said in a monotone.
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“Fine. Gabe is the exception,” compromise sucked.
But seeing those lips on her face rise in a smile and her chest swelling with pride made it worth it. She’d won, and she was proud.
Hazel stepped back and let her shoulders drop but it was the details that she couldn’t control that caught my eye; her lips parted in heavy breaths that she tried to slow, her throat bobbing and fists clenching and unclenching.
She was nervous, a pearl of sweat formed on her temple and her heart was beating faster than normal. My mistake, she wasn’t nervous- I licked my lips and her eyes fell to my tongue.
Good girl.
I wouldn’t do anything until she was ready, the next time I fucked her she’d feel safe and loved. When she was ready I’d show her a world of pleasure. I never had to wait before, the Bell’s had always been on my beck and call for as long I could remember but this was oddly more fun.
“Go find Mathilda, show her around the palace. I’ll find you later,” I said and walked out.
Nora stayed with Hazel while I left to get some work done and maybe the two of them could figure out whatever it was that was causing the newfound
tension between them.
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