Giving his father and hers, for that matter, food for thought, though he’d gotten an angry, annoyed look from Hayden himself, when he’d heard Slade’s opinion on the matter.
Now this?
He leaned on her car as he waited for her and Lindal to stop talking, and watched her put his stuff in that car. He wasn’t happy about it, he was not going to be at all comfortable in a Mazda 3, no matter how tricked out it was. He was too big and broad shouldered. Going back to get his Audi would be a better option. He could drive there, and she could drive it back, though he wasn’t allowed to. It was her duty to get him there and on time, she had actual rules from her own father, and he knew it.
He got in the small car. She was right, if they didn’t drive out of this pack in the next 5 minutes, her father would want to know why? That man knew how long it took to get out of pack territory.
Hell, that man had even driven himself out to the Alpha College Slade was attending and back, non-stop bar fuelling up. It was how she’d gotten that time limit of 13 hours there and back; the man was testing his daughter’s endurance and ability to stay awake and alert.
Ori fell into line at every test she was given, completed them without complaint, because she wanted her position as the pack Beta, and he knew it. Knew she also wanted to prove she could earn it, not just be given it by birthright. So, did all her father’s annoying and what he thought were unnecessary challenges.
He’d yet to see Hayden be given a single one at all. That boy, if he was older than Ori, wouldn’t have to jump through any hoops, would just rank up as per standard pack laws, from Beta to Beta. Ori got hell because she was a girl, and they all knew it.
They were out of the pack three minutes later and driving away, he watched her shift uncomfortably in her seat several times. Knew she wasn’t generally a fidgety person when driving, was actually relaxed behind the wheel. Had been having lessons here in the pack since she was 15, as they all did. Wolfen laws were different to human ones. And they all needed to be able to drive, and well by the time they were 18, in case it was needed for emergencies.
His mind moved back to his room as he watched her shift again for like the sixth time, how he’d felt, what he’d smelled upon waking up, nothing but Ori. “Sore are we?” he asked casually as he put the seat back a little and tried to make himself more comfortable. There was not enough legroom in here for him to stretch out like in her car, or his.
“No, why?” she answered, but sounded a little on the defensive side to him.
“What happened last night?” He asked, keeping it as casual as possible, even closed his eyes and rested his head back on the head rest as though he was relaxed.
“What do you mean?” she asked him.
“I woke up naked on my living room floor.”
“So? Is that not normal for you?” she murmured.
“No, I like my bed. Not only was I naked, my clothes were strewn about and…well, a little ripped and torn. The only scent I got in there was yours.”
“Yeah, so, I was the one to haul your drunk ass home.”
“My nakedness.” He inquired simply.
“Why ask me any of this?” she questioned right back, and he could hear the frown in her voice.
“I’m curious, you were there, Ori, so answer the question. My room kind of…” how did he put this without shocking the woman, and she was a woman now, not a girl anymore, she had turned 18 two days after he had. “Looked, let’s say, like I’d had s*x with someone. The furniture was out of place.”
He could feel her eyes on him now, and there was silence for a good 10 seconds. “And so you think what exactly? That we hooked up?” she snorted, sounded fully amused to him now. “We didn’t, just so you know, you were very drunk.”
“Hmm…that doesn’t really mean I couldn’t have sex.”
“I didn’t say that.” She shrugged it off as he looked at her.
“Then why avoid telling me what happened?”
“You really want to know all the boring details of me getting you to your room. So drunk you need me to fill in the blanks for you, hey?”
“Humour me.” He nodded.
“Alright, it’s pretty boring though. I hauled your heavy ass back to your room, and while I was trying to get you through the doorway, you tripped over your own feet, took me down with you. Freaking landed on me, you even thought it was very funny to boot.” He watched her shake her head. “I shoved you off, and you told me and I quote you here ‘You’re gonna miss me Ori, while I’m gone.’ All sweet like.”
That snapped his eyes wide, and he was frowning at her now, muttered “I seriously doubt that.”
“Oh, and what do you remember to refute me? I was not as drunk as you were. More than a little tipsy, that was a certainty, but not drunk off my ass like you.”
“Like I would ever state that, you’re not a girl to me, Ori, just my Beta and nothing more.” He muttered.
He watched her jaw tighten as she stared down the road, and saw her knuckles go white on the steering wheel, “Then you started just ripping your clothes off, even while I was trying to put your ass in your bed, you fell over again near the coffee table, and took me down with you a second time.
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