This morning, at dawn, started with a twenty-minute yoga type bunch of stretches, a warmup, followed by a two-mile run that was a major shock to my system. I’ve now added sadist to his list of less desirable traits, because he’s a bossy asshole who kept running behind me and pushing me along by my butt when I lagged behind, refusing to let me stop no matter how much I begged him. Or maybe it was just an excuse to put his hands on my ass. Either way, it wasn’t appreciated while I was panting like an old person trying to climb a stair.
“Can’t, the grass cutters come out at noon and I don’t think you would look good shredded and decorating the field. Come on, lazy, we need to go shower, eat, and head out this afternoon. We have things to do.”
That brings me back to reality and hits me with a note of seriousness. I know what it is we have to do and whether I want to or not, I’m being dragged along, as he has this idea that from yesterday, I became part of his sub pack. Luckily, his father hasn’t been around today to see me among his best, because I know he isn’t going to like this slow integration Colton has me doing.
The plan this afternoon is to split into trucks to start visiting the villages around the mountain. Juan wants us to issue notices, and orders, to ‘deal’ with disobeyers. Colton managed to convince him that force wasn’t needed, or advisable, in the end. I guess Juan slept on it, and this morning new orders were issued among the pack leaders.? We’ve to deliver face to face written notice that might give them time to come around to having them up and move the few miles to the Santo domain. I know it’s because of Colton standing up to him.
Colton has a good heart, and despite years of thinking him arrogant and careless of people below him, looking back, I realize he just stuck to his own kind, and in the old mindset that the packs were rivals. He had his close-knit circle and he didn’t like entertaining anyone new. He saw me as everyone else did, as one of the cast asides, and he made no attempt to interact with me. His defense of the people around the whole mountain tell me I had him all wrong.
I reluctantly roll over onto my belly and lay my cheek on the grass, enjoying the cool feeling on my previous overly warm skin. It’s a little stabby but a welcome relief to climbing nets, sprinting, and jumping hurdles again. The rest of the pack are still off in the distance, carrying on, and I keep hearing Meadow issuing commanding directions to them as they tackle a huge wall they’re climbing. As wolves it would be easy, but today’s training was human only. Stamina building, apparently.
“Just five more minutes.” I moan softly, truly giving up on any form of movement as my body shuts down completely, deflating with a heavy, dramatic sigh. I yelp when his strong hands slide under me at speed, around the waist, him jumping over me and planting a foot either side of my hips as he lifts me up in one short sharp maneuver.
My arms flail, my legs curl and swing under him before he pulls me fully with him and drops me on my own feet. Clinging to his upper arms, making all sorts of desperate sounds and end up with the back of my head in the crook of his neck, my butt imbedded in his groin intimately. He doesn’t let me go straight away, just pulls me in tight with a sneaky hug, and lowers his own face so his mouth comes level with my ear. As always, my body reacts even when I don’t want it to and I goosebumps all over, internal explosions and tingles going off inside my stomach so easily.
“You should never turn your back on your mate…. Gives him all sorts of dirty ideas.” That husky tone ignites all sorts of hot and fiery feelings in the depths of my pelvis and it seems to magically revive me.
“Mate, huh? … I thought you dumped my ass and were sulking over the fact we would never be.” I point out a little sassily, his arms sliding up around my ribs as he hugs me in against him fully. Taking advantage of the moment and initiating a different kind of contact.
“It’s such a nice ass, that I realized my mistake and am groveling at your … rear.” He chuckles in my ear, that telltale cheeky sound, and I know he’s only playing, but it strikes a chord in me that dampens the sexy mood, killing it dead. For a moment, that bitter pang of annoyed hits me in the stomach hard and I push away from him hastily, freeing his hold on me and step out of his embrace, elbowing him in the abs as I get away.
“Don’t.” It’s a moody bite to my tone, death of playful, as now stiff, and prickly, heart pained while he’s making light of this. I catch him out of the corner of my eye, sighing too, his whole fun demeanor changing as swiftly as mine.
“Hey…. Don’t be like that.” He reaches for me, but I step away again, picking up the discarded water bottle and turn on my heel to march to the main house. He said shower and food and I think we need some breathing space. Maybe I’m being too sensitive, but I can’t help the overwhelming urge to suddenly punch him in the throat, while sobbing my eyes out.
“Lorey, baby?” He follows me, obviously getting the waves of wounded mood and sulkiness coming his way. I know I chastised myself last night, to be more patient and reel him in, but I’m so sick of this hot and cold thing he has going on. It’s up and down, touch, don’t touch. Mate, not mate, and it’s messing with my head. No wonder I’m having a hard time even sticking to my own plan.
I ignore him completely, annoyed at myself for once again turning hostile when he was genuinely fooling around, but the fact I know we have two weeks before he marks that bitch as his, has me feeling all kinds of foul things. It doesn’t help that she spent the last few hours watching me, laughing at my attempts to keep up, and cartwheeling around me like some sort of gold medal gymnast, showing off, showing me how much better she is. She tried to make me look inadequate and kept interfering any time he got too close in showing me what to do.
Hey, I didn’t mean to upset you. Talk to me.
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