Denying Fate ( Moonlight Trials Series #1)

Chapter 14 – Getting to know you...

Karmas POV

It’s been over a week since I found myself in this stupid wooden shack. I was slowly getting cabin fever (no pun intended). I’ve spoken to no one except Kismet and occasionally Tracker when he brings me meals and clean clothes, all of which are his clothes. I’ve tried reaching out to Chase numerous times, I know he’s listening, but he never responds and that’s grinding me even more. He’s kind of turned into my diary though.

I sniff up and realise I still smell like him… Tracker, which still repulses me no matter how drawn to it Kismet might be. Since the first day, Tracker hasn’t talked about us being together, just the occasional reminder that I can’t leave and the odd gruff of “foods here” or “drink up”. I have refused to leave this room and he seems fine with leaving me be. He brings me my usual morning drink of coffee and I just ignore him as usual. Looking anywhere but in his direction.

I’m bored Karma! Kismet chimes up in my head suddenly, I don’t answer until I hear Tracker leave the room.

So? What’re we supposed to do?

Ask if we can go for a run? Please! She begs.

I roll my eyes and sit up on the bed, I can ask but I’m pretty sure Tracker will either ignore me or tell me to go to hell. Shrugging I decide to try anyway, at least an argument might bring some excitement into my life. I poke my head out of the door and notice him sitting shirtless on the small two-seater sofa reading his phone. I’d never noticed him with a phone before or the fact that he’s wearing reading glasses! Very Sexy! Dammit Kismet! I lean back inside my bedroom; glasses have always been one of my weaknesses and I can feel my heart beat a little bit faster! Stupid glasses! Stupid Wolf!

Even though werewolves are one being, our wolf counter parts definitely have a mind of their own. We are generally similar, but our wolf tends to make us whole. Your human body isn’t fast or strong? Our wolf will be. Shy as a human? Outgoing as a wolf. Its strange though as usually the mate bond effects both parties, not just the wolf. Its as if my human side is completely separate from my wolf.

Once I’ve calmed myself down and my heart is beating normal again, I open my door wider and tiptoe over to him. I fully expect that he’ll notice me with his heightened senses, but he doesn’t, and I peek over his shoulder to see what he’s reading.

“Soulmate?” I say aloud before immediately putting my hand to my mouth. Tracker jumps off the sofa, whilst turning off his phone and pulling off his glasses. I look at him quizzically. He grabs my arm, looking annoyed at the interruption but the sparks start shooting up my arm from where he’s holding me. I know he’s noticed it too. “What are you reading?” I ask playfully.

“Nothing” he grunts, regaining his composure. “A book”

“So why are you embarrassed?” I grin seeing red rise on his cheeks.

“I wasn’t, you startled me!” He said clearly grasping at straws. I shake my head showing him I don’t believe him!

“What’s it about?!” I ask but he just looks at me puzzled.

“What do you want?” He asks narrowing his eyes at me. I realise he must wonder what I want, I was being quite playful for someone who had ignored him the last 10 days.

“What do you mean?” I ask innocently.

“You haven’t left your room in over a week and now all of a sudden you’re acting as if we’re friends.” He asks cautiously. My guard is immediately back up. He was right, what the hell was I doing. I hear Kis laugh in the back of my mind, and I glare and click my tongue at no one in particular. He’s still holding my arm and I wonder if the sparks made me drop my guard. I shake him off me and he lets go, frowning.

“Actually, I came to ask if we could go for a run.” He again looks at me confused.

“Well sure, but I thought you hated me?” Now it was my turn to look confused. What does me going for a run have to do with me hating him? Then it clicked. When I said we, he mistook me for meaning me and him. Fair, but absolutely not.

Don’t correct him! Kismet purrs. Causing me to roll my eyes again.

“Sorry I meant me and Kismet, but I suppose you’ll have to join me. I know you probably don’t want me running off again.” I shrug knowing even if I did, they didn’t want me back at home. No one had contacted me or even tried to look for me. It was obvious I wasn’t wanted anymore.

“Oh…” He says but I know his wolf is trying to talk to him as his eyes have darkened again.

“Ok…” I answer cautiously. “So, I can go for a run?” He looks at me and walks towards me. I don’t realise I’m backing up until my back hits the wall and he’s in front of me, so close I can feel the warmth from his bare chest, I look down to avoid his eyes but realise I’m staring straight at his finely chiselled chest and gulp, immediately looking up to the ceiling.

“You can but there are conditions!” I just nod, not trusting myself to look down or speak. I’d either say something extremely inappropriate or tell him to get lost meaning I wouldn’t be going anywhere. “You don’t leave my sight; I shift first so I can catch you if you even try to run AND you shift in front of me!” He grinned. This causes me to shift my gaze and make eye contact.

“W…wait…what?” I ask, nervously. “I don’t mind shifting in front of you to start but like hell will I shift back in front of you!” I shout, getting my face into his. He moves in too, clearly to bellow back at me and I ended up cracking my head on his chin, again. I yelped in pain. Tracker grabbed his chin and moved backwards.

“Are you ok?” He asked, rubbing his chin. He reached for my head, but I flinched back. Not through fear, I just genuinely didn’t want him touching me. The sparks were too much. He frowns and grabs my head anyway. Moving aside my hair to make sure I’m ok, he leans in close to take a look. I shiver from his touch and how close he is.

“I’m fine…” I breathe, not realising I was holding my breath. He doesn’t move but has stopped moving my hair. I realise he’s looking at me intensely, I quickly take the chance to look at him and our eyes meet. He pulls away and heads for his room.

“Meet me here in about 20 mins, I’ll get you a change of clothes for when you transform back to human.” And with that he enters his room and leaves me standing there. Damn it!

Starting to enjoy the attention? Kismet teases me.

No! I blame you! It’s the damn mate bond making me enjoy it! I can almost hear Kismet roll her eyes.

Trackers POV

It’s been a tough week; Karma doesn’t want to be anywhere near me, and I wanted to let her get used to the fact that she wasn’t wanted at home anymore. She belonged here with me. I was finding it hard to leave her alone though. I’d heard her crying in her room, and I’d heard her calling out both mine and Chase’s name in her sleep. It made me happy she was dreaming about me, but it hurt that she cried a lot during them as well. Id started taking her food and drinks in regularly and she was eating fine but I made a point to not talk to her unless she spoke to me first.

Id taken her breakfast this morning and she hadn’t even turned around off the bed to look at me which at least meant she felt comfortable enough to show me her back, I placed it down and was ready to walk out when Break started howling in my head.

What on earth is wrong with you? I growled to him.

Kismet is speaking to me!!! He howls happily in my head.

Who?

Karma’s wolf, she’s amazing, I really want to meet her and make her mine! He started pacing in my head.

I’m glad she’s communicating with you, that’s something at least… I trailed off. Maybe ask her if she wants to meet you? She might perk up Karma! I smiled and left the room hoping Karma might ask to go for a run so our wolves could meet.

I started tidying up and getting ready for the day, hopeful that Karma might actually talk to me, however as the day went on, she didn’t emerge from her room. I tried to speak to Break but he wasn’t answering me.

I decided to chill out and read on my phone before I made lunch. I settled down on the sofa and loaded up a book I had recently started called soulmates, it was about a vampire who had a human mate who didn’t believe him and thought he was evil, seemed apt right? I was reading it purely because I wanted some useful help, and most writers wrote books based on their own lives but with a twist.

After about an hour of reading I was getting into a good part where the main character had been hypnotised to remember her past when I suddenly heard a voice behind me.

I put away my phone quickly, hoping whoever it was didn’t see what I was reading and removed my glasses. I reacted so quickly I don’t even realise who’s behind me until I grabbed their arm and felt the sparks of the mate bond. I’m immediately drawn into Karma’s beautiful eyes and look at her in shock.

She asks me what I’m reading but I won’t be telling her that. I don’t need her quizzing me on the book or why I’m reading it. Most people find it weird that I like to read as it is, I didn’t need more issues between us. I feel the sparks getting more difficult to resist and start to warm up, mostly from the heat now radiating from her. She mistakes it as embarrassment but I’m more confused as to why she’s being playful with me and tormenting me about the book.

“What do you want?” I ask, narrowing my eyes at her.

“What do you mean?”

“You haven’t left your room in a week and now all of a sudden you’re acting as if we’re friends.” I know I’m being harsh; I can only hope that maybe Break has gotten through to her wolf. But her attitude was definitely different.

“Actually, I came to ask if we could go for a run.” I look at her confused, I’m not going to let on that Break can talk to Kismet, especially if Kismet hasn’t said anything. It might be just the thing we need to finally get Karma to start talking to me properly. It seemed like an odd request that she would want us to go running together after she’s spent all this time ignoring me. I tell her that I thought she hated me and this time she looks confused at me. She explains that she meant just her and Kismet and before I can react badly Break begins talking to me again.

Kismets trying to persuade Karma to talk to us. She says she’s being stubborn but that even Karma can slightly feel the mate bond and is trying to fight it.

“Oh…” I reply but I realise that I’ve said it out loud. I smile realising this is my chance for us to bond but then I’m immediately reminded of the last time she tried to run. I give her my conditions and she looks extremely shaken by them. I know she won’t accept the terms, but I need to see how serious she is about going for this run and whether she will even remotely trust me. I moved close to her in time for her outburst, angrily shouting at me that she wouldn’t transform back in front of me. I wasn’t listening as I smelt her beautiful blueberry scent. Suddenly, pain erupted in my chin again and my hand immediately went to rub the pain. Karma had moved backwards also holding her head.

My mind was immediately transported back to the time we had met again from being children and I couldn’t help but smile. I reached for her head to ensure she was ok. She flinched causing me to second guess my movement, but I need to touch her. I want to. I lean over to check her head and its absolutely fine. I can hear that she’s holding her breath. Suddenly she answers my question.

“I’m fine…” she says breathily. I can’t help but look into her beautiful eyes, they draw me in and I could feel myself leaning in, longing to hold her in my arms… She lifts her eyes to meet mine and it snaps me out of my dream. I move away before I do anything stupid, again.

“Meet me here in about 20 mins, I’ll get you a change of clothes for when you transform back to human.” I move into my room and leave her there, my heart beating in my chest. Sometimes I wish I hadn’t fell for her, but she was amazing and if that i***t Chase couldn’t see that then more fool him! I grab her a change of clothes, change myself and pack a bag including a change of clothes for us both and bottles of water. I wasn’t going to make her de-transform in front of me, I’m not evil but a part of me started to grin at the thought of it.

Down boy! Break laughs in my head..