Dripping Roses

No Rings Allowed

I awoke to the sound of running water. It stopped after a minute and I got up Half asleep and walked into my bathroom past my shower and started brushing my teeth. Huh, the bathroom was pretty fogged up. Was it stormy outside? 

I heard a shower door and someone say “ I tried to hurry so you wouldn’t freak out” I jumped and turned around at the same time. There stood Wes naked except for a small towel wrapped around his waist. I got red really fast and walked out shutting the door  “sorry! I didn’t realize you were in there!” he started laughing maniacally as I covered my tomato colored face.

A few minutes later he walked out in a pair of jeans shirtless. I blushed “can you at least attempt to wear a shirt? I mean really! What if john walks in?!” he laughed as he sat on the bed to put his socks and shoes on. “ john wont do anything, calm down he knows your under my protection and are mine by right”. I crossed my arms over my chest

“excuse me?” he stood up “ you heard me wifey, now put some clothes on” I looked down. OH GOD NO, I had forgotten that I was in my underwear. “LOOK AWAY,NOW!” he walked out of the room laughing. Grabbing my pants I bolted for the bathroom.

A few minutes later I walked outside and saw Clare, Logan, Tyler, and Kyle standing near Wesley and John along with four strangers. I walked across the clearing. As I got nearer to them I heard someone say “Ooooh so that’s the female alpha?” I heard another stranger say. “ her? No way she looks like a twig” 

for some reason I felt anger rise in my chest. How dare they dis respect me im… im getting worked up over nothing… Jesus what is wrong with me today? Wesley walked to meet me half way and grabbed my hand smiling. “come on lets meet the pack” I felt nervous all the sudden.

 I glanced over at the large black male who had insulted me. His eyes flashed yellow and Wesley stopped dead in his tracks. “ is that a challenge Shane?!” he shook his head no but Wesley Continued “ DO NOT disrespect my mate again! Or I will consider it a challenge and tear your throat out… DO YOU UNDERSTAND?!” 

The large male dropped to his knees. “I am so sorry alpha!” Wesley looked at me and said “ I have taken my rightful place as alpha. If anyone disrespects you Skylar they disrespect me. Do you understand?” I nodded. His eyes were bright Orange until his gaze softened and they faded back to green. 

Wesley looked at everyone “as you might have guessed already angus is no longer the alpha. He stepped down for me and my mate to resume our rightful place in the pack.”

“you will respect us as you have respected my brother” they all nodded silently. It was dead silent until everyone started talking and cutting up. Even Wes and Shane were getting along which confused me. Uncle John walked up to me and grasped me in a tight bear hug. 

He whispered into my ear “ im sorry for everything, and im sorry about your mom and dad, all the lies , the rings. Im so sorry sky…” I teared up for a second as he pulled away and looked at me. 

“I can tell you one thing though, and its true. Wesley loves you and will protect you, and I know you feel that way about him because you have imprinted, I know how it works. I watched my brother after he imprinted on your mom. Our instincts work in mysterious ways Skylar, you just have to know that you can trust them”. He squeezed my shoulder before turning to talk to Kyle and Clare.

 I looked at my ring I was wearing and spoke before realizing it. “I want to take this off uncle John, okay?” uncle john looked and opened his mouth to speak but Wesley cut him off. “absolutely not” anger flared up in my chest. 

“hey just because were mates or imprinted or what the hell ever doesn’t mean you can just decide things for me!” he stood in front of me with his feet planted and said “im alpha yes I can” I pulled the ring off and went to throw it “well according to what you say Wesley I am too”  

Wesley caught my wrist. I came up with my left hand to smack him and he caught it too. “ let go of me dammit!” he growled and John walked up and said “ I think you guys should take this inside” he nodded over to the garage. 

“I am not going anywhere with him!” I was about to speak again but Wesley threw me up over his shoulder and started walking to the garage. “ uncle john! What the hell! Stop him!” he shook his head “you two need to work this out. Plus he could kill me if he wanted too”

 Wesley angrily laughed. About 30 seconds later he was storming up the stairs to my apartment. He opened the door and slammed it shut before putting me down. He stepped towards me to say something and I threw my hand up and smacked him as hard as I could in the face. 

His eyes turned Amber and he growled. My other hand flew up but he caught it. I swung up the first hand again to punch him this time and he caught my other wrist and pinned me to the wall. “STOP!” I stopped struggling and looked into his eyes . 

We stared each other down for a few seconds until shock spread all over his face. His eyes turned back to normal and he said “ where is your ring!?” I remembered that I dropped it when he was carrying me to the garage.

 I grinned at what I had accomplished. He slammed his hand onto the wall next to me. “this isn’t funny!” I started laughing “it kind of is because despite you carrying me up here and pinning me to a wall I still managed to lose it” 

he looked less pissed, another emotion displayed across his face but only for a second so I couldn’t tell what it was. “hurry up and let me go” he shook his head no. Angrily I sighed “look, were going to be stuck together for a while now so you might as well get used to the fact that im not going to let you control me” he loosened his grip and a hurt expression Crossed his face.

 He said “stuck? Is that how you feel about it?” honestly no I didn’t. I felt so… weird, every time I thought of Wesley or saw him my heart raced and I felt nervous or anxious and a mix of something like lust and pride. I feel guilty about lusting for someone I Barely know but have all these feelings for. 

I gritted through my teeth “ yes” he got closer to my face and I blushed hard. “your lying, because I know for a fact your heart races every time im around, every time I touch you. Like right now, your heart is racing… I can hear it. But honestly I feel the same way about you. Every time your near I want to hold you Skylar, I want you. I’ve just… I- I- I don’t know why I love you like this. I guess its just my instincts” 

I swallowed and I thought of what I should say which was hard considering every time he’s close my thoughts get jumbled. I mumbled “y-you barely know me Wesley…” he got closer, close enough that our bodies were nearly pressed against each other. 

He whispered “or do I? I still have all my memories from when we grew up together and remember everything. You are the one who cant remember the past, all you remember are the feelings am I right?” 

I looked up into his eyes as he stared down at me. “ yes, I-I do remember these feelings…” he let go of my wrists and slid one to my waist and the other to cup my face. “ Wesley, stop…” he looked me in the eye and saw that I was hesitant. 

He shook his head and said “no” before bringing his lips to mine. His lips were warm and soft and it stayed that way until I gave in and kissed him back. This obviously surprised him because he pulled back in surprise. 

But I was done trying to hide the way I felt about things. No sick of it actually so I reached up and wrapped my wrists around the back of his neck and pulled him down and kissed him.

I fell back against the wall and he braced his hand against the wall next to me and leaned down and kissed me back. The kisses were soft and slow and warm. 

He wrapped his arms around my waist and slid his hand up into the back of my shirt. His finger tips ran the line of my back bone sending shivers down my spine. His chest began to shudder and he began breathing heavily. He picked me up and wrapped my legs around his waist he slammed me against the wall and started kissing on my neck.

 My back was in pain and I didn’t know if he realized he had hurt me. The breath returned to my lungs as he pulled back from my neck and went to kiss my lips again. I saw that his eyes were burning crimson as he kissed me again. He gripped me hard by my waist and it hurt. 

My blood boiled at the pain and out of nowhere came this adrenaline rush and I pushed him back and landed on my knees. He fell on his ass about 6 feet away. How I pushed him that far, I didn’t know. 

He looked at me and his eyes went green as he slid over to me in a panic. I lifted my shirt up halfway to reveal a bruised hand print on my waist. He went to help me up and I tried to say no but for some reason I instead growled. He backed away as I stood up.

 I looked at my reflection in the window. I was standing there as normal as possible except for my bright, crimson colored, glowing eyes. They went back to normal and I felt like I was about to pass out. Wesley dumbfounded tried to search for words “I-I-I-Im so sorry sky, I don’t know what came over me” and that was the last thing I heard before I hit the floor.

 I looked up at wes who was kneelt over me. He had an upset expression on his face as he said “give it about an hour your body isn’t used to the adrenaline” I just nodded the best I could. He scooped me up in his arms and carried me to the bedroom. He put me down on the bed and sat next to me. I put my head in his lap and he started playing with a curl in my hair. 

He started talking “Skylar I am sorry I really don’t know why I wolfed out like that, that’s never happened to me before. again I am so sorry…” I tried to sit up and he put me back down “no you need to rest Sky, your body isn’t used to that rush anymore. That’s why I didn’t want you to take the ring off. After the last decade of you not feeling the effects of your wolf blood because of the magic your body never got used to it. so its going to wear you out and maybe even hurt because it makes you weaker” 

I nodded and listened. Slowly but clearly I mumbled  “but Wesley I want to be my self, my real self, I don’t care about the pain. Im so sick of being weak and helpless ” he sighed and sat up “well I guess ill go make myself busy and leave you alone” I felt him start to get up and grabbed his arm. 

He stopped as I said “please… stay here with me…” he nodded and lay down as he said “always sky, I will always stay with you… I promise” I scooted my head up on his chest as he slipped his hand in mine. I lay there listening to his heart beat. soon I was fast asleep.