Undefeated Luna

11. Rules

Next Morning:

Felicity POV:

I woke up to the smell of chocolate. I didn’t remember the last time I slept so well; I usually woke up in the middle of the night with headaches. That night was different I had no night sweats and no nightmares. The old woman that I saw nightly did not visit me.  Before opening my eyes, I felt for Zara, she usually warmed me up in the morning.  When I opened my eyes, I remembered where I was, the Marble Pack. Pack, wolves, Oh Mother Last Night!

“ESTRID!!” I shouted at the top of my lungs, sitting up on the bed.

“I see you remember one thing from last night” Kilian said from the corner. He was sitting on one of the leather chairs by the table. He looked tired with small eyes, he was wearing a white top and some jogging shorts. His hair was messy, and his hands were interlocked with each other as he leaned forward and made eye contact. I jumped out of the bed and grabbed my knife from the nightstand, twirling it around in my hand.

“Why are you in my room? POPPY!!!” I never needed assistance, but I needed Poppy here in this room with me. I needed her to make sense of everything that has happened in the last twenty-four hours.

“She won’t hear you, all the rooms in this Estate are soundproof and it is currently five in the morning, training doesn’t start for another two hours” Kilian said standing up.

“You still haven’t answered my question, WHY ARE YOU HERE?! If I tell the Elders what you did last night, they will have your head and your younger brother will be Alpha and trust me when I say he hasn’t got an Alpha bone in his body” I saw red! I have never been more pissed off in my life. I despised everything about him, about wolves, I could kill him with one move.

“You cannot tell the Elders about yourself. Think about it you’re the most dangerous assassin and the way you stood up to the High Elder did not put you in their good books. You are the one who is training their army against an enemy we know nothing about. What do you think they will do when they find out you have a wolf?”. I let my guard down, he was right, they would kill me, and Daughters will not have their first blood heir.

“This is too much for me, are you telling me that there is a wolf inside my head? How do I get rid of her” I didn’t want the voice dictating my life.

“Felicity listen” he moved towards me and instantly I raised the knife I was holding. Kilian realised that my dagger was dipped in wolfbane. His body did as well, all the veins became visible at the scent of the poison.

“You cannot get rid of Estrid, she is part of who you are. The reason why you are so strong, the perfect sense of smell, your flexibility” he stopped and gathered his thoughts and looked at me again. “You and Estrid are my other half, I have been waiting for you, the Moon Goddess gave me you for a reason”.

“There’s only one thing left for me to do then” I looked up at him. “I Felicity Peters, First Daughter rej…. rejec.” I couldn’t finish the words, I couldn’t finish the sentence, what was wrong with me?

Please don’t do this, you have no idea what this is going to cause. We need him.

Estrid? Is that you? How are you doing this? How are you talking to me?

To reject a mate, you need both of us and I’m not letting you do this.

“Reje...” I tried to say it again but couldn’t and I saw Kilian’s pupils widen. He realised what I was going to do, I could see the pain and torture in his eyes. He deserved this; he shouldn’t have woken Estrid.

“NO! DON’T YOU DARE REJECT THE BOND” he roared at me, but his voice was his and Banes.

He ran towards me, but was too slow, receiving two kicks to the ribs. He turned me around and grabbed my hands, throwing the knife away, his torso against my back. I pulled forwards, flipping him in front of me over my shoulders. He got up swiftly with one move and grabbed my shoulders, pushed me against the wall, raised my thighs onto his hips and went back to hold my arms above my head.

“Estrid is not going to let you reject me, you do not have that much power over her. You are the most important person in my life, and I will do everything in my power to protect you!” his eyes were black, black pools, like a never-ending night sky. I could easily get out of this, I could unwrap my legs and kick him in the torso but Estrid wasn’t letting me, slowly she was getting more and more power over me.  His words spoke to me and her, no one in my life said they would protect me. I was always the one protecting the innocent.

“Please just give us a chance! Can’t you feel this bond between us?”.

He started to let go of my arms, he didn’t want to harm me. “Every time we touch my heart is racing, my palms are wet and I don’t even want to tell you what goes through my head” he stopped and looks down at me. “Three weeks that’s all I’m asking for and after that if you want to reject me, I will be ready for it. But I promise you now, I will do everything in my power to help you” he let me go and I fell down to the floor. What did Kilian have over me?

“No one can know” I said quietly getting up from the floor.

Kilian POV:

“No one will know I promise…. Except the people that already know”

Here it is, she’s going to kill us, why did you have to open your mouth she didn’t have to know about them!

I wasn’t going to make a false promise Bane!

“What? Who knows about this “bond”?” she was getting agitated again.

“Well in the club, Christopher and Seth seen my reaction when I saw you for the first time. Christopher told his father and your aunt”. I had to turn away and sit back down I couldn’t look at her again after what I just did to her. Her scent was all over me and I wanted my scent to be all over her, I wanted to kiss her, I saw how perfect her body was against mine, all the curves.  

“Is that everyone? Because I can trust my family but Seth hmmm” she sat opposite me.

“Do you remember last night at dinner when you said you were craving cherries? And my mother screamed?” I hesitated to tell her straight away; I’ll go the long way around.

“Yeah?”

“Well apparently, when she was pregnant with me, she smelled like cherries, or rather I smelled like cherries, she knew then that I will smell like cherries to my mate”. I could see her mouth open in surprise. Moon Goddess what I could do to that mouth. She was sitting right opposite me and she didn’t  want me, this was torture.

“Okay so that means only five people know about this bond”.

“Six” I stopped her in her tracks “My mother told my father”.

She rolled her eyes. “Okay we need to come up with some rules because this is going to get out of control. But I need a shower first, I still smell like that lake”.

“You smell like chocolate to me” I gave her a quick wink.

She got up and left, I however, decided to stay in her sitting area and wait for her to finish. As I heard the shower running, I could only imagine what she looked like naked. I wanted to be in there with her, run my fingers through her wet hair. Touch her gentle skin, rub my lips against her neck where my mark should be. I wished I was there to kneel in front of her and lift her onto my shoulders and taste her. If she is a Daughter, she would be a virgin, there was going to be loads of ‘firsts’ with her!

“Right, now I can think about this” she broke my train of thought coming out of the bathroom. She was dressed in cycle shorts and a sports bra, with her hair still wet. It was dripping down her shoulder and all I could  think about is going up to her and licking that water off.

“So, rules?” I needed to know how I can restrain myself and these rules might help.

“Yes rules, Rule number One, you are not to call me your mate, soulmate, baby, darling or any of that crap” she said as she shivered with disgust.

“Done… my other half”.

She raised one eyebrow at me “rule number two, you are not to get aroused when you are around me, you bring Bane out  and he brings Estrid out”.

“Shouldn’t these rules work both ways?” I questioned her straight away.

“Yes why?”

“Wolves have incredibly high sense of smell and I smelled your arousal before, you might not be able to stop yourself again” I took a bite of the apple that was on the table as I said it.

“Me, aroused by you? You must be having a laugh. Rule number three, when we fight, I don’t want you to go easy on me, but I don’t want you to come and protect me as well, I’m perfectly capable of doing that myself and Rule number Four” she stopped to take another apple and looked straight into my eyes “you are not allowed to be in my room ever again” she bit it.

“Done, Done, Done and Done…. Rule Number 5…. You are not to turn me on, on purpose” I knew she would do that just to get on my nerves, she might be an assassin and hate men but she knew my weakness, herself. “Rule Number 6,you are not allowed to eat any cherries for the reminder of your time here”. I knew how much she craved them, if she was not allowed to eat them and her body needs them… she would want to be next to me, right where I wanted her.

“Done” she replied.