Hidden Within

First night

Waking up to the feeling of being watched, my heart starts hammering in my chest. I open my eyes to meet big, deep blue eyes staring right at me. The intensity makes me feel like they are piercing into my soul. I move back quickly, realising how very close our bodies are.

"Good morning, beautiful." Jax says with his husky voice, sounding even more sexy laced with sleep.

"Good morning?" I respond in a small, unsure voice. "Sorry, I must have gotten in the bed while I was asleep." I try to explain but am interrupted with a finger shoved in my face.

"Shh, I carried you to bed." he hushes me. "Why did you sleep over there anyway?" he asks, raising his eyebrows.

"Hmm, because I didn't know where I was meant to sleep, you didn't say, and I didn't want to get into trouble, I'm sorry." I rush the words out quickly, expecting to be yelled at for doing the wrong thing.

"Stop saying sorry. You were meant to sleep in the bed." he says a little exasperated. "This room is ours. You do what you want in here." he smiles while kissing me on the forhead.

Tingles rushed over my face, I meant to pull back, but it felt so comforting I found myself leaning right into his lips.

"Imagine what that will feel like on our lips." Yahni says dreamily, bringing me back to my senses.

I move back and look down, trying to cover the blush spreading over my cheeks.

Jax unwraps himself from the blankets and stands up. He is wearing only boxer briefs, and I can clearly see his manhood standing up. My eyes dart around the room, suddenly feeling very alarmed at the thought of being trapped in here with a man.

My breathing starts speeding up, but before I go into a full-blown panic attack, Yahni starts guiding me on how to breathe. I listen to her voice, allowing it to calm me, and when I think I am ok, I notice Jax has gone, and the shower is running.

Jax POV

Waking up, I can't help but smile at the feeling of my mate against my body. I've longed for this for so long. She smells so good. I frown as I examine her small malnourished body. The bruising is almost gone now. She is actually a really quick healer given the right nutrition, I think to myself. What bothers me, though, is the scars that I know will never heal. She has so many ranging from small to big. I try to burn the exact locations into my mind to remember exactly where to inflict them on her aunt.

She starts to stir. I focus back onto her beautiful face. I want her so badly, but I don't want to overwhelm her. Not getting what I want when I want it is extremely frustrating. I have never dealt with this before. I am used to getting my own way. My little mate is the ultimate test for me.

Her eyes snapped open like she could feel me watching her, and I smirked at her shocked expression. "Good morning, beautiful."

Her groggy voice said a shy, confused good morning back to me. Before I can say anything else, she anxiously says, "Sorry, I must have gotten in the bed while I was asleep."

I hush her by placing a finger on her lips.

"Shh, I carried you to bed. Why did you sleep over there anyway?" I ask her frowning thinking about last night when I came in and she was huddled up on the sofa.

"Hmm, because I didn't know where I was meant to sleep, you didn't say, and I didn't want to get into trouble, I'm sorry." she rushes out anxiously like I'm mad at her.

I hate that someone has made her like this. She is so fearful of everything. Anger pulses through my body thinking about it but I hide it so she doesn't think I'm mad at her.

"Stop saying sorry. You were meant to sleep in the bed." I tell her while sighing. "This room is ours. You do what you want in here." I smile reasuringly while leaning in to kiss her forehead.

She leans right into my lips, so I just hold the kiss. The tingles erupt all around my lips. I can't wait to feel the tingles in other places, I think, with a vivid image of my mate underneath me playing out in my mind. Before I can stop the thoughts, my member grows hard. I need a cold shower, I think to myself.

I pull back and leap to my feet to go, but I am not quick enough and she sees my hardened member teepeeing my shorts. I see the change in her face and know she's going to panic. Her breathing starts speeding up and I go to reach for her but my wolf jumps up.

"Don't react. Go shower now like you see nothing." he tells me and I stop. "If you move towards her, she will lose it all together, mate is calming her down. Go now, " Sonny says with a growl.

It's so hard to just walk away, but I do, hoping my wolf is right. I step into the bathroom and close the door without a look back. I turn the shower on, sighing as my hardened member aches. I jump in and lather up and start stroking my c**k. Picturing my mate and all the dirty things I want to do to her. It doesn't take long and I find my release.

Dalias POV

It takes a moment but I get my breathing back in control and start thinking about how ridiculous I must have looked. It's only natural for him to want his mate I guess. I get flutters at the thought of wanting him too but I am terrified. I don't think I will ever be able to give him my body. Not after the things they did to me. He probably wouldn't want me if he knew anyway. The dark thoughts continue until I'm snapped out of them from a smell I'm not familiar with but it sends goosebumps over my skin and makes me heat up inside. What is that? I think when I hear the shower turn off.

"It's our mate." yahni purrs with want.

"What do you mean he doesn't smell like that?" I tell her.

"It's the smell of his, umm, never mind. I don't know what it is." she replies quickly.

"You do know, what is it?" I say getting annoyed now.

"Ok, ok I'll tell you but don't freak out ok!" she whines.

"I won't, I'm fine now." I tell her with a frown.

"It's his arousal, mate is aroused. In that shower right there," she tells me with giddiness. "We should join him!" she finishes with longing.

I gasp and stop sniffing the air, completely embarrassed.

"You know that's not going to happen, forget about it." I groan while leaping out of the bed and walking over to the little sofa area.

I hear the bathroom door open and I know my cheeks are flushed but I pretend I know nothing about what he was doing in there.

"Shower is free." He smiles at me. While buttoning up his shirt. He looks very handsome in a dark blue button-up top.

"I have some business to do today, but I've got one of the omegas coming up to show you around if you're up for it. Annie will be around too if you want to see her?" he adds while casually placing a very expensive looking watch on his arm.

"Thank you. It would be nice to have a little look around." I answer him with a small smile. "I've never seen a pack before." I tell him with wonder.

He laughs and replies, "It's just like a village."

I frown, "I've never seen a village either." I explain. "In fact, I don't really remember even seeing shops or anything, really. Only the view of the sky from the basement and then the neighbours' houses from the windows." I sigh, remembering all the times I wished I could run to the neighbour and beg her for help. She always looked so kind but just too far out of reach.

"I'm sorry." Jax says, snapping me out of my thoughts. "I'm sorry you went through what you did, I will do whatever it takes to make sure you nothing ever happens to you again." He tells me while shaking his head with despair.

The sadness he shows on his face makes me feel sorry for him. I want to comfort him so he doesn't look like that again.

"You don't have to say sorry, but thank you. I say. Thank you for showing me kindness, and I'm excited to see the pack." I tell him, trying to make him feel better.

A knock on the door comes and breakfast is brought in and placed on the little coffee table. It smells divine and thankfully enough to get Jax to stop looking sad. He smiles at me and gestures for me to eat.