The Iridescent Halo of the Moon.

Destiny...

Zane’s POV

She kissed me! Well that was a first! I was about to reach for her and kiss her, but she got to it before I could move. Kawari was agitiated, he was in the process of scolding me for waiting when she initiated contact and shut him the hell up. Her lips were soft but the kiss was purposeful and increasingly insistent. Sparks of pleasure radiated from our only point of contact. When she licked my bottom lip I almost did a back flip off that balcony. I groaned and pulled her to me. My hands pulled her hips into me , my fingers cradling the sides of her butt. She was the drug that my body had craved for so long and I had to be in contact with her as much as possible. One of her hands caressed the nape of my neck and rose to my hair, while the other was resting my thigh. My body awoke and responded every where she made contact, and the places were she wasn’t cried out for her touch. I stood without breaking the kiss, allowing our bodies to make full contact. I could smell her increasing arousal and I’m sure she could feel mine. She broke the contact of that kiss at the exact moment that Chaz mind linked me. “Zane, a group of people are on their way to the balcony.” I cursed softly and whispered into her ear ‘we are about to have company mate.” She withdraws contact quickly and steps back from me. She pulls me over to a table and two chairs to our left. I sit quickly still backing the wall and she sits to my left her leg touching mine as I will my erection to subside. A noisy group that were watching the football made their way onto the balcony turned to the right and disappeared around the corner to the far side of the veranda. I am grateful that they leave us virtually alone although their loud excited banter reminds me that we weren’t. she leans on the table and her fingers rise to absentmindedly play with the pendant, that I now see is an apple. “I need to get back to my friends.” She says and I’m crestfallen, but I understand. “Where is your phone?” she asks and I hand it over. She takes it and her fingers start to move deftly “ I’m going to put in my number. Message or call me so that I’ll have yours.” I nod and take my phone. I immediately send her a message “ hello mate” I watched her open the message and smile. She starts typing again, while saying “I’ll message or call you when we split up. I promise, we will get to spend some time alone.” Multitasking disturbs her speech pattern I hear the notification on my phone, but before I can lift my phone to read it she kisses me again, groans and rises and leaves. I watch her walking away from me, and the rhythm of her hips swaying when she walked was mesmerising. She paused in front of the open doors to the bar watching me. I smile at her and she smiles back before leaving the balcony. Kawari, is in awe of our mate and has been silent all this time. Finally he says “s**t, we won the mate lottery Zane. We need her, she is very special to us. PLEASE don’t f**k this up.” I wanted to ask him what he meant but Chaz stepped through the door almost immediately and makes his way over to me. He sits across and places his drink on the table. He looks at me and after a while says “Its finally happened!! Lady magnet Zane is off the market! I’m so happy for you. What is she like? Who is she? Are they other she wolves on the island? What now?” “Right now I’m starving and slightly embarrassed.” I replied. “I got all tongue tied at seeing her. Man I need to get something to eat, maybe I’ll be able to think straight.” We re-entered the bar and found that most of the crowd had left. We choose a booth far away from her table. I sit backing them because I know I will not be able to take my eyes off her. Chaz sits facing the group, his attention on a tv on the far wall behind me. He is a huge basketball fan and his favourite team the Lakers are playing. We order and with my keen hearing I can catch the lilt of her voice and her laughter. Each time I hear them my heart soars. Kawari is happily silent, content to know that she will come back to us. After about an hour while we are eating I notice some of the girls in her party leaving. I look back and there are still two girls there with my mate. She looks weary, fidgeting with her phone and looking anywhere but at the girl who is talking a mile a minute. Eventually the talkative one gets a phone call. When she finishes she says her goodbyes and leaves. That leaves one more I reckon. Then I hear her voice next to my ear ‘move over mate’ it startles me but when I look up there she is with one of her friends. Chaz is already scooting over and eyeing the friend sliding in next to him the way a hungry man eyes a buffet. I scoot over and she slides in next to me. Her thigh briefly touches mine as she introduces her friend Kim. She pulls it away but not before I smell her arousal. Soooo I have the same effect on you as you do on me mate. I smirk and look directly at her, only to realise that she is smirking and looking directly at me. I hear her friend say to Chaz “Hi I’m chopped liver. Nice to meet you I see that you are chopped liver too.” they both cackled out and we look over at them only then realising that neither of us had acknowledged their presence since we came together. My mate chuckled and we opened our world to them. Over drinks we learn a bit more about them Zamani 25, is a teacher and Kim 24 (and ¾) is a nurse. They are best friends who live together but apart they both laughed when they said this, and Chaz and I don’t get the joke. They have been lifelong friends because their mothers were good friends. Chaz and I reveal that we are 27 and 29 respectively, also lifelong friends and we co-own an IT business in Canada. We don’t inform them just how successful that company is though. We chat for a while laughing and enjoying each other’s company with an ease that would suggest we knew each other for ages. In a lull Kim checks her phone and realises it is after 2 a.m. wow I didn’t realise it was so late. We have to go. I have to work in the morning and Zamani is my ride. Chaz offers to drop her home knowing that I wanted to spend more time with my mate, but they both decline. Zamani promises to take us on an island tour tomorrow though, as tomorrow is Saturday and she will be free. Chaz leaves the table and goes to our waitress and requests the bill. Kim and Zamani are both in their phones and I kind of get the impression they are texting each other. I clear my throat and they both look up at me then at each other and laugh, confirming my suspicions. I rembered the text she had sent me earlier, and opened it.

"You are my destiny

You are what you are to me

You are my happiness

That's what you are

You have my sweet caress

You share my loneliness

You are my dream come true

That's what you are."

Paul Anka

Nice poem, but who the hell was Paul Anka? I shook my head and decided to google it later. Chaz returned to the table. “We are all settled. Let’s go.” He announced and we exit the bar and walk outside into the warm night, Kim and Zamani slightly ahead of Chaz and I. I was fully enjoying the view of my mate’s walk. Her hips and butt moved in a rhythmic way that I was most unaccustomed to seeing. They paused at the bottom of the steps and I asked where they were parked. Zamani motioned to the same direction where we parked. Turns out Zamani’s Rav 4 was next to ours. We said our goodbyes. As Zamani and I hugged, she whispered “tomorrow, mate” in my ear. I released her reluctantly raising her hand to my face and kissed the palm of her hand. Her hand cupped the contours of my face and the sensation from every touch from her was maddening. They got into their vehicle and we got into ours, and the four of us just sat there.