Our Chemistry

Presence

My eyelids feel too heavy to open, my conscience is awake but I can't move a muscle. I try to lift my eyes open again but they refuse to open. It's like I'm trapped in some kind of coma and will never wake up again. I fight as hard as I can and try my best to wake up but to no avail. Tears well up in my eyes and I start to cry.

"Lara? Lara wake up. It's just a bad dream Lara". His voice calm and smooth flows warmth through my body. He clutches my hand and presses a kiss right in the middle of my palm. "I'm right here Lara, rest up". He coos and my mind relaxes immediately. Without opening my eyes at all I fall into a heavy trance again and sleep once more.

My eyes flutter open and bright sunlight shines its way through the curtain. I turn to my side and reach for Maddy on my bed. My hand touches an extremely warm chest and I snatch my hand away in surprise. A man was in deep sleep right next to me. His eyes closed shut, a peaceful expression on his face. His lips parted slightly as he breathed quietly, his lashes touching his cheeks and his dark black hair a mess on his forehead. I could see the stubble coming on his face for today.

I sat up as quietly as I possibly could, to not alarm the stranger in my bed. I noticed he was sleeping without a shirt on and the bedsheets covering his abs and below. It was only then I saw myself wearing a huge flannel shirt. What happened last night I wondered and just then brutal images of last night's torture shoot through my head.

Shit s**t s**t s**t, what the f**k happened last night? I frantically look around and see that we are not in my hotel room or a hotel at all with Maddy nowhere to be found. f**k, Maddy must be worried sick!

I jump out from the bed, new worries piling in my head as I rummage through my stuff on the floor and find my phone with my sunbathing blanket folded neatly beside the bed. I turn on my phone and see messages from Maddy. Confusion spreads across my brain as I try to decipher what I was reading, in the texts apparently I had told Maddy blonde guys name. Was it Maxwell? And apparently I told her to not wait until things were going good? I whip my head towards the bed and meet a piercing onyx gaze staring at me. As if he was reading my every thought and gauging my reaction.

"Last night was a mistake. It won't happen again, I'm married, I can't be your girlfriend". I mutter and quickly make my way towards the door with my phone clenched tightly in my hand. In two fluid steps he catches up to me and locks the door behind himself. He takes a few steps towards me and naturally I take two steps back.

"We need to talk, there's so much I need to explain and so much your kind doesn't understand right now". He speaks in the same honey voice I now know too well. My knees buck at his very words and before I fall he catches me in his arms and carries me to the bed.

"Why does this happen to me every single time? Gee I get it hot f*****g voice but why am I fainting". I mumble.

"You're bonded with me, I have a higher s****l affect on you, everything about me invites you in". He pushes a strand out of my face.

"So you're telling me, you and I? We are, what was that you said? Bonded?". I ask.

"Yes, bonded. I don't know how to explain this to you but let's start with the most basic thing, there is so much in this universe you're not aware of. Human beings are not the apex predators there are more. Werewolves and vampires exist in real life, it is not just a folklore or a bedtime story. They are alive and I am currently risking my life in their very den to bring my mate back because she keeps f*****g people". He stares at me aggressively as I try to make sense of everything he just said.

I burst out laughing, falling to my knees. I let out the biggest laugh I have ever had in such a long while. Tears fall down my eyes and my stomach starts to hurt but I can't stop laughing. He stands up as I'm on the floor and takes the corner furthest from me. He mumbles a chant in a language I don't recognise and jumps. An eight foot tall large wolf growls at me and I immediately back up against a wall. This beast was brought out from thin air and stared at me with the most deepest red eyes I've ever seen. There's no way he was speaking the truth? Terrified to my core I stare back at the beast and watch in horror as he jumps back and returns to his human form muscle by muscle. Utterly speechless.

"That real enough for you?". He spoke harshly now.

"What the f**k was that?". I questioned him, visibly terrified at what I've just witnessed.

"That was my wolf, he comes out whenever I call him. His name is Cain, same as mine". He replied.

"I need to leave Cain". I quickly make a run for the door but he beats me to it again. "Move out of my way!". I yell at him and throw a punch. Happy with myself I watch him as he stares at me in shock. "I warned you asshole".

Excruciating pain shoots through my hand and I then notice his shock was at my now fractured finger sticking out from its skin bleeding profusely. My punch didn't touch a hair on his face yet my finger was fractured.

"You stupid ignorant woman". He seethed and tears my flannel apart, he wraps it around my finger. I look at all the blood on the floor and my head gets heavy yet again.