“See how impossible she is?” He gestures with open palms at me, looking for someone to side with him and I shrug.
I gesture a cutting throat, wild hand waving motion at my brother to tell him to shut up and am met with a blank stare. These two butting heads is probably what I didn’t need to start my day.
I honestly don’t know if the fates were thinking clearly in pairing these two up like this. Both headstrong, stubborn, and feisty tempered on a good day. It’s wall meeting wall, although Jasper is obviously trying more than Carmen is.
“I can’t take this anymore. Move. It’s like listening to toddlers fighting over a toy.” Meadow’s harsh tone comes from behind Jasper as he is shoved ungracefully aside to allow my sassy queen to march on over to me. She shakes her head and catches Carmen by the wrist before turning and tugging her back again where she came from. Full on aggressive mode that I expect from Meds, and she wastes no time in hauling Carmen around.
“Here, this belongs to you, don’t leave your things lying around so carelessly or you won’t get given them back.”
I watch in silence as Meadow literally thrusts Carmen at Jasper, so he has no choice but to catch her before she falls and Meadow smacks Carmen on the back of the head with an open palm. The hostile affection she has with Carmen has always been a mystery to me, and the fact she just reduced her to an object.
“Listen you, skanky puta. I know how you’ve been hurt. I know how scared you are, and this idiot did the absolute worst when you imprinted. Rejection is a big deal to you, and we all know you have scars. He’s here now trying to fix that, and your pig-headed slow brain is too all up in yourself to think it through. Alora was rejected by that thick brain over there and look at them now. You love each other, the fates made it so. Go have some crazy sex, vent your anger, and then talk things out. Trust me, with your personality I think the only way to get through to you is if he mans up and takes the crazy from you while being banged.” Meadow again shoves Carmen into Jasper’s arms when she tries to step away and her scowl his way seems to flick the button in his head.
“I’ll let you do whatever you want to me, in any form.” Jasper catches her around the waist and doesn’t relent when she starts to struggle.
Meadow smirks, seemingly pleased with herself and walks off past them with a hand toss in the air as if to say ‘laters’.
“Let me go.” Carmen growls his way, eyes ambering and even I hesitate that Meadow has this right. I flinch and step forward to tell him to do as she says but Jasper spins her so he’s nose to nose with her. Now she’s in his grasp, he completely changes tact, and the impatient boy is replaced with dominant Lycan mate.
“I’m never letting you go. You can hate me, push me away, curse me out, fight me, and tell me you don’t want me, but I’m not ever going to leave you. I’m always going to be a step away, making sure I’m here to take care of you. Forever….. I was wrong. You’re not going to get rid of me, no matter what you say or do.” Jasper’s voice drops to a low intimate level, and it seems weird that we are staring at them like this. Tension sparking between them and little electrifying pulses signal through the air as the mate bond kicks up the sexual need between them.
I turn away and motion for Colton to come to me, to give them space and he sighs before getting up like an obedient puppy dog.
“I don’t like you.” Carmen pouts at my brother, but her venom has subsided quicker than the speed of light. Her voice is softer, her gaze no longer amber and her posture has deflated a lot.
“That’s progress. It was ‘I hate you’ a week ago. I see that as a positive step.” Jasper leans in closer to bridge the difference in height and slides his arms around her properly, pulling her into him in a hug even though she doesn’t return it. She struggles a little, but nowhere near the venom she had a few minutes ago and I can see her caving now he’s touching her.
I remember how that went. When the bond was so strong that a mere touch can mess with your mood and your head and weaken the strongest resolve. Meadow was aiming for that when she tossed her over there like a wet rag.
Carmen doesn’t really want to reject him. She’s doing what she does and pushing people away, being fierce so they can’t hurt her. There’s a little vulnerable girl inside who wants someone to stand up and fight for her, because no one ever has. She wants to be loved without conditions, and maybe my brother is exactly the person who will do it. He’s stubborn for sure and realizing he wants her in his life, he won’t give up at all. He’s someone who sticks to what he feels.
“I might dislike you for years yet. You’ll get fed up and leave.” She murmurs and I tug Colton’s hand and try to pull him towards the breakfast room to give them some more space. Meadow is nowhere to be seen anymore and I mentally high five her for throwing Carmen into his arms and kickstarting a real conversation between them when overpowered by the feel of one another.
“I’m going nowhere. I swear. I’ll follow you for an eternity, even if you keep me at arm’s length and never say a nice word to me. I’m hopeless when it comes to you and we both know this isn’t curable. You’re mine, Carmen, and I’m yours.”
“Let me go, I have things to do.” Carmen turns away from him, wavering and getting scared of it, but his hold never loosens, and Jasper follows her face with his. He can see through it, and I relax knowing that he knows her better than anyone now and he will find a way to break through that wall.
“She’s caving.” Colton nods their way and wraps his arm around me, tugging me into his chest so I end up cuddling him as he leans against the door frame. Watching from a distance yet not leaving until we see where this goes.
“She was doing that before we even got here. I could feel it. She just needs that little extra push.”
“I’ll let you go and get back to work on one condition.” Jasper pushes his forehead against hers and even though she’s refusing to move her arms from her side or hug him back, I see the way she slumps into him with that intimate touch.
“What is that?” she plays along, no longer fueled by anger.
“You let me give you a goodbye kiss. Being this close is making me crazy and I miss that first kiss we had way back when we imprinted. I want to feel that again.” He breaks into a devilish smile, all good looks from our father, dimples, and a twinkle in his eye. Mr Confident comes from nowhere and slides right in. Jasper knows he isn’t on the losing side anymore. I bet every sense he has is tuned into her emotions and he knows she’s already his. The joy of the bond.
Carmen doesn’t respond. Her silence is unusual, and she turns her face to the side to avoid his eyes again. Her fingers twitch as though she’s contemplating a response, or maybe trying to find the will to say no. Jasper takes that as encouragement, and without hesitation, lets go with one arm to catch her chin between his fingers and tugs her mouth to his before she can refuse.
I stiffen and wait for the chaos to ensue because she can be a volatile wolf on a good day and pouncing on her with a kiss could end in violence, but nothing erupts. Instead, a sweet and gentle kiss on her lips leaves her completely still and as we pause and wait with bated breath, Carmen leans back towards him and kisses him back. A fluid, unhesitant response pulled out of her by experiencing the intimacy from him again. She’s lost in the bond.
I almost leap out of Colton’s arms with joy, but he hauls me back and yanks me backwards with him into the adjoining room. Pulling us out of sight and giving them privacy.
“We know what happens next. We don’t have to watch it.” He shrugs at me and continues pulling when I try to strain back to see. I want to know they are taking it further, for sure.
“You know how prickly she can be. I have to make sure she doesn’t still send him off with a sarcastic brush off and ….”
Colton silences my words with a kiss of our own, catching me in his arms and yanks me into him, so I am fully under his control. Lip to lip as he plants the most seductive kiss on me he has in a while, and I become Jell-o in his arms. Using his own gifts of prowess to bring me back under his control.
We kiss for what feels like long minutes, tongues intertwined, hormones hitching and then a link breaks into my mind and kills the moment dead. My girl using the pack link so we both get the message loud and clear. I swear, there are times I really do not appreciate Meadow.
Chica, those two just hightailed past me on the way to Jasper’s room, looking like they’re in the haze. Mission finally accomplished. We can celebrate a new mateship by dawn. Carmen finally broke.
I gasp in surprise, filled with warm enthusiasm, and do a little jump and yay, before planting another kiss on Colton’s mouth.
“Thank god. Can we now go back upstairs and get back to what we were doing? The haze sounds appealing.” Colton picks me up princess style without waiting for a response and elicits a giggle from me at his impulsiveness. Bouncing my palm on top of his head and kissing him lightly on the nose while shaking my head at his naughty antics.
“Lead the way, lover.” I giggle as I am hoisted higher, and he doesn’t wait around for a change of mood. Or more interruptions.
Meds, take Carmen and Jasper off any duties for a few days and leave them to get everything out of their system.
Colton’s reply makes me snort laugh, knowing fine well this is not for their benefit but his. I think the one who needs to get a lack of something out of his system is the mate of mine who’s hauling my ass upstairs faster than a rocket.
The Future.
I wake up to the gnawing and strange aching sensation travelling across my belly and try to turn over to relieve whatever it is. Struggling now my bump is fully formed and weighing me down while Colton’s arm across me isn’t helping any. The room is completely dark and silent, so it must still be the middle of the night and his even, peaceful breathing signals he’s out cold.
I maneuver his forearm up over my boobs and manage to roll sideways away from him, so my butt is jutted against his groin to stop my stomach hanging over the edge of the mattress and get frustrated at my inability to move around like a normal human anymore.
I have reached that stage where I’m just begging them to come out quickly because I can’t take much more of this endless beached whale sensation. It has limited any kind of movement and being independent. I feel like my days consist of peeing multiple times, being eternally hungry, cranky, and uncomfortable and burst into tears over the most insane things.
I still haven’t quite settled into sleeping in our new room over here in the valley either. New surroundings, new atmosphere, and new bearings to get used to once again. It’s been three weeks after the renovations were done and yet, I still don’t feel like it’s home. I miss the homestead, where Sierra and Radar decided to stay and govern in our absence now they are planning to produce pups and live happily ever after. In their cocoon bubble of love where life is rosy, and they want to raise siblings for Colton under the shadow of the now vampire free mountain.
The pack split and some stayed over there for the peaceful rural life they have nurtured, although a vast amount came home to be reunited with the valley wolves, and things have been slowly becoming normal. Rebuilding, fixing, bonding once more.
“Ahhhhh.” I let out an involuntary groan as shooting stabbing pain rips across my lower pelvis and grip Colton’s arm so tight I almost pierce him with my nails. It’s bone achingly awful as pain goes and try as I might to bear down and grit my teeth, I can’t hold it in.
“What is it? I’m up, I’m awake…. What’s going on?” Colton’s frantic scramble to upright, his eyes instantly amber as he scans the room for danger and realizes I am the one assaulting him as he relaxes back down. Pulling me to him in a protective hold.
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