Her chosen mate (The change series 2)

Chapter 25: Strange behaviour

Natasha

I was asleep in my own bed in the main pack house with mum and dad, I woke up early, I tossed and turned all night, I found that since being mated to Kai that it was difficult to sleep without him nearby, but our relationship was new, and we weren’t at the ‘living together’ stage yet.

I got up and dressed, then I tried to sneak downstairs to go to Kai’s place. I found myself being yanked back by the back of my shirt and turned to see dad standing there.

“Get off,” I huffed, shrugging him away from me.

“You can see Kai after you’ve eaten.”

“I’m not hungry right now.”

“Natasha, you can’t keep trying not to eat, it’s dangerous, you know this, I know you want to lose weight too, and I promise it will happen, but you can’t starve the wolf in trying to make it work faster.”

When I didn’t say anything, he more firmly said, “sit. Now.”

Sighing I went and sat down while he made me pancakes, and a big plate of cold meats, I relaxed when he brought the food over, but then he went back and made some bacon and eggs too and I groaned.

He dropped the plate down in front of me and kissed my cheek, “quit groaning, you miserable b.itch.”

“Dad! You can’t talk to me like that,” I gasped.

“The f***k I can’t, you’re a grown a.ss woman, I don’t need to be careful around you anymore.”

“d**k,” I grumbled and kicked his leg, he tripped and growled at me, but that was all, I had always been a daddy’s girl and he never so much as raised his voice at me let alone retaliate, even with play fighting. I smiled sweetly at him, and he flipped me off in response.

I ate my food, and then I rushed outside and went down to Kai’s door and let myself in. I could hear the shower, so I made my way over to the bathroom and saw the door already open, peeking inside, I just stared, he was so damn gorgeous, I still could not fathom what the hell he saw in me, but I was very grateful that he was mine.

I didn’t announce my presence right away, I just stared and enjoyed the show, he was butt naked and his body was divine, even the water seemed to trickle and run down his body as if caressing it, he had a powerfully built and sculpted body, muscles rippling with every movement he made, he had that hot Adonis thing too, the v shaped muscle that ran down to his pelvic region, ugh, he was such a hunk!

My eyes were glued to him as I watched him wash himself, and yes, I did watch him wash between his legs before I finally called out, “hey Kai!”

He looked at me through the glass doors and called out, “two secs, babe!”

I waited for him in the living area and I felt my cheeks grow hot, and my jaw drop when he walked in with nothing but a white towel wrapped around his waist leaving all that upper muscular body on display, his hair was a wet tousled mess that fell into those pretty grey eyes, it was like he couldn’t not be sexy if he tried.

He grabbed a muscle fit white t-shirt and pulled it on while he asked, “what’s up babe?”

I frowned and said, “nothing, why would anything be up?”

Distracted looking for his trousers, he replied, “uh, yeah, right, sorry.” He found some clean black sweatpants and pulled them on, then he went to the kitchen and called out, “do you want a drink?”

Again, I frowned but called back, “sure!”

He was acting a bit strange, like he was distracted or trying to keep busy, I brushed it off, and I forgot about it when he came and sat down beside me, but I didn’t forget for long, he asked how I was even though we’d only last seen one another yesterday, then he had grown awkwardly quiet.

“Are you ok?” I asked him.

“Yeah, of course,” he grinned, but I wasn’t so sure, usually he would sit beside me with his arm either draped over my shoulders or along the back of the sofa behind me, today he kept his arms folded. Maybe I needed to make the first move for a change? I leaned in and kissed him and while he did kiss me in return it was a chaste kiss, I pushed for more and almost reluctantly he kissed me properly, I wrapped my arms around his neck and deepened the kiss, ran my hands over his muscular body but laughing softly he pulled away and mumbled, “later babe.”

Ok, now I knew something was wrong, three times he had called me babe, sometimes he did, but almost always it was love these days, and the kiss, he was always wanting some sort of s**x or making out so for him to turn that down was a huge warning sign to me that something wasn’t right.

“What’s wrong, Kai, you’re acting weird.”

“No I’m not, everything is good, I’m just a little tired, that’s all.”

I narrowed my eyes at him, and he laughed, “I’m good, honest.” He pulled me into his arms and held me, but I wasn’t stupid, something was up with him and if he wouldn’t tell me, then I was going to find out myself.

I dropped the subject and we both played the part of a happy couple, we did our usual things together, watching movies cuddled up, he made me dinner, and he even went so far as to give me s**x that night.

When morning came, I got up to get ready for college, I left him sleeping, I was both a little mad and upset, he hadn’t climaxed when we’d slept together, not once had he not, and now I worried that maybe I was the problem, what if he had changed his mind about me? Grown bored of me now I was no longer a virgin, what if he found me unattractive, or one of his pretty ex-girlfriends had gotten in contact because I also noticed he kept his phone very guarded recently and on silent, whenever I asked who had messaged he would brush it off as ‘no one.’

I sulked on the way to college, I let dad take me and regretted it, when we parked up girls and women kept looking in staring at him, practically tripping over themselves while doing so, it was like riding with a celebrity, the only other person who got that response was Kai and my mood grew darker thinking of him.

“What’s wrong with you?” Dad asked.

“Nothing,” I mumbled.

He turned in his seat to look at me and said, “talk to me, I love you darling, let me help.”

“You can’t help with this, dad.”

I saw his knuckles turn white as he gripped the steering wheel, dad was well known for his hot temper. “I swear if Kai has f.ucking done something, I will—”

“Kai hasn’t done anything, relax.”

I went to open the car door, but he locked the doors, turning to look at him, I warned, “open them, or I’m going to be late for class.”

He stared coldly at me trying to intimidate me, but I knew him too well for it to work on me, I knew he would never hurt me, so I stared back.

In the end, he sighed and said, “fine, give me a kiss.”

I leaned over and kissed him on the lips chastely, and he grabbed me into a hug, “you would tell me if anything bad was going on wouldn’t you?” He asked.

Cupping his cheek I smiled at him, “yes, I’m fine I promise, I love you, and I’ll see you and mum later.” I kissed his cheek and jumped of out the car before he could ask any more questions.

“Is that your boyfriend?”

I spun to see a pretty blonde girl standing there, and my amazing response was, “huh?”

“The guy that drove you here, he’s your boyfriend? I saw you kiss.”

Oh god, how cringe and awkward, it had been a simple peck on the lips, but to outsiders he looked like some young curly haired blonde, with pretty blue eyes and a muscular body, barely looked older than me, there was no way anyone would believe he could possibly be my father, he looked barely early thirties.

I knew she was fishing to see if he was single so to save myself the trouble of explaining who he was or why he wouldn’t date her I silently gagged inside and just said, “yes.”

“You are so lucky, he is gorgeous,” she smiled, but I saw her eyes look me over as if I weren’t worthy, that I was too ugly, and he was probably cheating on me, could see her thinking maybe she could sleep with him behind my back too. I couldn’t stand judgemental girls like her, so I smiled and just walked off.

College was uneventful until I finished, coming out of class and walking outside towards the campus grounds, I saw Claire again, she held a can of coke in her hand, sipping it while sitting on a bench, she must go to college too, and I couldn’t help but wonder what she studied.

I don’t think Kai realised I knew he had been crushing on her hard for months before me and him dated, when he had introduced her to me outside the cinema as Claire, I recalled him mentioning her a lot in conversations, it was always her name brought up when usually he could never remember the names of the girls he saw, he had always sounded so happy and proud when talking about her, so naturally little miss insecure here couldn’t help wonder what her life was like, was she still single? Did she have some sophisticated job? She looked like she would, she was glamorous and beautiful and always wore stunning outfits.

I smelt the air, like damp and coolness and I knew before it started that it was going to rain.

The sky grew darker and rain began to fall heavily, I watched Claire as she got up and rushed to find shelter, but not before she glanced over to me, she had a slight smirk on her face and I felt confused. Did she go to college here? Or was she here for something else because this was the fourth time I’d seen her watching me or give side glances before scurrying off, was she stalking me? A more worrying thought crossed my mind, one that had my stomach tying in knots and my heart racing, was she the one Kai was receiving messages from? Could they be having an affair?

I pushed the thought away, I was being way too jealous and insecure now. I went to head towards the parking lot, but found myself slowing down and turning back to follow Claire.

For my peace of mind, I had to know if she was stalking me or if she really did go to college here. I found her standing under the wooden gazebo area where people usually smoked. She was on her phone with two other women next to her all looking at her screen giggling and talking about how hot her boyfriend was, I relaxed hearing that, ok so she was in a relationship.

I could hear a video playing and heard music and people cheering and wolf whistling, I made my way over quietly from behind them all, some other people were here so I wouldn’t look too odd hanging around. I managed to peer over their shoulders and saw the video playing inside the strip club Kai worked in, it was Kai on stage, was she pretending he was her boyfriend?

My heart rate sped up, and I had to force myself to alternate between looking over their shoulders to pretending I was on my phone simply standing close by, my head spun back to looking over their shoulders when I heard giggling and then Kai’s voice, he was giving her a private dance, I hoped maybe she was stalking him too, and he had to give her one because it was his job, but I saw her unzip her top, saw Kai react to the sight, and the worst part was when she sat on his lap, straddling him, rubbing her breasts in his face, why wasn’t he pushing her off! He was allowing her to do it, she kissed him and I saw with my own eyes him kiss her back, this wasn’t a few seconds either, this was a long kiss, over two minutes long before the video finally ended.