Broken Chains

Chapter 15

Carl kept his arms around my body as he came inside me, he collapsed down onto my chest breathing heavily for a few moment before I felt a gently kiss pressed onto my neck. Carl suddenly seemed to snap back to reality and pulled himself out of me and getting up striding across the room. I sat up pulling my towel around me, my eyes were drawn as if magnetically to Carl. He was sat on the end of his bed his head hanging down resting in his hands which he was running across his forehead gently as if he was suffering from pain.

“oh fuck.” I said slowly.

“yeah.” Carl told his hands “I think that pretty much covers it.”

“f**k f**k fuck.” I snarled hitting my forehead hard with my hand. I had just had s*x with my mates little brother, odd plan for a girl who was trying to drag her mate back because she loved him, yep very odd plan.

“yeah I think we covered that.”

“we just had sex.” I muttered, and miss state the obvious rules again!

“I know I was there.” Carl growled continuing to rub his head hard.

“fuck.” I snarled again, stretching and relaxing my legs as the stress was threatening to flip me into a very unhelpful shift.

“Can we come up with something a little more constructive here?” he snapped. I just sighed and gripped the blanket around me as I shuffled up to standing and I hurried around the room collecting up my only other set of clothes which I had washed in the bathroom sink and was now drying in various locations throughout the room. Carl didn’t move an inch as I performed this bizarre little routine, trying to keep hold of my towel stupidly while I gathered up my clothes. I stood holding my little bundle of fabric and couldn’t help but hesitate should I go to the bathroom to dress? Stupid really he was Carl one of the pack he’d seen me naked a million times and it had never meant anything. But we’d just had s*x. For some reason that made me hesitate.

“don’t be ridiculous.” Carl snapped I turned to look at him I was surprised he’d even noticed but he’d already disregarded me and was back to examining his hands. I sighed and dropped the blanket and quickly pulled my bra and panties. What the f**k was I doing, I knew what this would do to Derek. In fact I didn’t I knew to a degree what effect it had on Derek when I got laid but not with his brother. And remembering how I responded when he had a fling and I found out what I did I expect him to…

“oh fuck.” I said all but snapping my underwear in my haste to pull it on “you need to get up.” I said quickly pulling on my Black jeans roughly.

“what?” Carl said turning to frown at me.

“you need to get dressed.” I said struggling into my black T-shirt “quickly.”

“why?” Carl asked his hands completely disinterested.

“he’s coming.”

“what?” he said finally turning to look at me.

“Derek.” I snapped “my mate your brother remember him? you screwed his mate like what ten minutes ago?” He looked at me blandly. "we really need to f*****g move.” I said running into the bathroom and grabbing up our assembled toiletries in one handful and staggering back into the main room flinging the little bottles down on the bed. Growling as I raised my eyes and saw that Carl hadn’t moved a muscle. “come on.” I said in a voice that I didn’t even bother trying to disguise it was a plea.

“Look this is just guilt he won't come he doesn’t know.” Carl said levelly

“Oh he knows.” I said in a harsh whisper.

“How can you know your psychic thing?” He said in a sneering tone, I couldn’t believe of all people Carl was sceptical of the bond, after everything he’d seen.

“Actually yeah don’t know what our bond is but you know if we are unfaithful our mate feels it as a physical pain. Believe in the bond or don’t but you know that is true. And so he knows I had s*x he knows were together and we’re hardly on a lads holiday, he’s a very smart guy how long do you think it’ll take him to figure it out? Then consider Darius banned him from going anywhere near my Uni to stop him coming and snatching me, do you think he’ll give you the same leeway when he is bound by nothing and no one now?”

“Why are we running isn’t finding him what we were intending to do?”

“Like this, No.” I snarled grabbing our single backpack and shoving all our bathroom supplies in. “ you were around you saw him when I was f*****g strangers at Uni. you’re his Brother and you want to be here to meet him and chat less than an hour after you f****d his mate. Because believe me this is not the way to get him back. Hell I don’t even know if that’s going to be f*****g possible anymore. But I am not f*****g letting you stay here because I know him and I know he will f*****g kill you. And I swear to god no more of my brothers are going to die because of what I did.”

“You can’t know what he’s thinking because of your damn bond.” He snapped “you don’t know he’ll hurt me.”

“Yes I do.” I said breathlessly “and no not because of the bond but because I know him.”

“Okay.” Carl said softly and that was it just that one quiet word and then he was up grabbing his jeans from the floor and wriggling himself quickly into them. “Right hotel B Then?”

“For me, your going somewhere else.”

“What? Why? Actually forget why what I mean is hell No!”

“Carl it’s logical for us to split up.”

“No I told you that before we left home.” He snarled , he was wearing only a pair of torn jeans at this point was coated in a thin film of sweat and was more than a little dishevelled he looked on the point of being feral and too be honest to my wolf side that made him sexy as hell. f**k I had never noticed him like this before. “I am not leaving you EVER.” The growl at the end made little tingles shoot through me which I ignored I wasn’t going to give in to my wolf right now.

“That was sensible but right now it’s sensible for us to split up.” I said plainly “Derek I think is coming and he’s pissed he won't hurt me.” Carl snorted and made a vague gesture at my neck which I knew without looking would still have a vivid red scar around my throat. “This is different, the scar it's.” I sighed “he won’t hurt me not properly but he will kill you, and I can’t help that. Even you just being in a hotel room with me when he turns up will help give him an aneurysm. Look Carl I don’t mean to seem arrogant but I think he will come and if he does he’ll find me if he finds us together he’ll go insane! ”

“Fine we’ll get out of here and I’ll hide you away.

“That won't work, he’s angry at me and f*****g livid at you. He’s here and like you said we do need to find him but if he finds you best scenario he will beat the living crap out of you more likely scenario he’ll f*****g kill you. But my trail is more potent to him if the two of us go and check me into a hotel and then you leave he’ll follow me and I can get him to stop and talk to me, if I can do that… it’ll be okay. I can talk him around and if not then” I shrugged hopelessly “I guess that’ll be it I don’t have anything else I guess we’ll go home right.”

“Twenty four hours.” Carl said quietly I nodded,

“All I need.”

“Then your staying in a much better hotel.” I frowned, “better security” he said simply,

“We don’t have that much money left.”

“We have enough if we're going home tomorrow.” He said I smiled and nodded.

“Okay.” He smiled and crossed the space between us. As he gripped my hand I felt my heart begin to race, he leaned over and pressed a kiss to my forehead. Just like he should.

Derek

I hammered on the door as if hopeful of breaking it down through sheer persistence. It wasn’t rational I know but this was my mate my Jess I couldn’t act rationally when it came to her, I loved her so much in spite of everything that had happened, I couldn’t be rational I couldn’t ever be free from her. Her scent in this hallway was so thick I swear I could almost see it. I had gone to her hotel easily finding it as it was right across the road from where I had previously accosted her. I had broken into her room and instantly found myself growling, the still air within the room had smelt heavily of s*x. Jessica and Carl had, I snarled unable to finish that thought I don’t know why this instantly bothered me so I mean I had already known that but for some reason it being confirmed like this, that thick scent felt like a hard slap in the face. I had raced out my wolf senses going mad threatening the shift, it took every once of resolve and control I had mastered in the past eight years to suppress this instinct. Instead I ran following Jessica’s trail. Her scent was thick in the air and almost too easy to follow but I wasn’t working on logic right now my wolf senses were just too hyperactive it was calling out yelling to me to go find my mate, claim her so I didn’t care that this seemed to be a trap I was going to find my mate and tear my brother limb from limb before I ripped his testicles off. I found the hotel easily and just strode into the hotel the doorman looked at me clearly intending to stop me but I just turned to look at him and he stepped back placidly. I took the stairs like Jessica had and I easily found her Room on the third floor. Her scent led me on but it was intermingled with Carl’s a concept that made me growl loudly. I knew I wanted my mate more than I wanted to hurt my brother but not by much, damn I wanted to hurt Carl so badly right now. I hammered on the door again seeing the expensive wood bend under my blows many more and it would cave in which I would be happy enough to do if Jessie didn’t let me in soon. It swung open and I glared as Jessica’s face appeared. I glared as hard as I could but my heart was suddenly hammering in my chest as something inside me some sort of base instinct told me, screamed at me to burst in there to claim my mate.

“Where is he?” I snarled Jessica’s features flickered I could tell like me she was having a hard time dealing with her conflicting instincts.

“He’s not here.” She said firmly.

“I can f*****g smell him. Where is he I’m going to tear him limb from limb.” I growled and rammed my shoulder into the door shoving my way into her room, but Jessica didn’t exactly resist.

“Wash your nose out, those scents are hours old he came dropped me off and left.” Jessie snapped I stomped into the room and stopped spinning around quickly realising that she had told the truth Carl wasn’t here.

“Why are you even here are you jealous?” she asked,

“very.” I said simply, she actually giggled as she softly closed the door and I just wanted to snarl, “I’m glad you find it so amusing.”

“your insane if you think there is anybody in this world for you to be jealous of.” I glared at her intently but didn’t say anything I felt a pang of guilt in me as I saw the vivid red mark around her neck where I had half strangled her with a chain; I could already tell it would leave a scar when it healed. I could see other little injuries a graze on her cheek and hands, a bump on her forehead and the hints of bruises around her wrists all of which were already on their way to healing but the mark on her throat was different that had hurt I knew it. But I pushed this away I was angry with her and the most important thing was to remember that and find Carl so that he would know to keep his hands off my mate.

“Where the f**k is he?” I shouted as Jessie calmly leaned her back on the door.

“Not here.”

“He left you here alone?”

“I told him too.”

“He wouldn’t leave you like that.”

“Look around you.” Jessie snarled, “I knew this would happen so I made him go. I know you wouldn’t hurt me.”

“I’m thinking about it.” I snarled taking a slow step towards her she didn’t even flinch, but to be honest I really did suspect that I could hurt her right now, I was that angry. I grabbed her upper arms firmly but not roughly and pressed her firmly into the wall behind her, “tell me where is he?” I said firmly watching her eyes that were beginning to fleck with gold. “You are going to tell me.”

“No I won’t. your angry. Your angry at him about this not me you won't hurt me but you would hurt him if you could. Maybe you should be more angry at me than you are anyway.” She growled gripping at my arms, I shoved her away from me walking away from her with a growl, "I kind of hoped you would rather be with me than hurting him," and I couldn’t help it before I knew it I was next to my love running my hands up her arms. I wanted to hurt my brother but more I wanted to hold my mate. “Why can’t I forget you?” she whispered “I tried for so long I tried everything.”

“I know.” I said brushing her soft long locks back from her face, closing my eyes as the soft scent of her hair hit me. I wanted to swing I wanted to hit something, I wanted to rage and destroy things just to vent the anger I felt at the thought that Carl my brother had done this he had run his fingers through my loves hair he had kissed her tasted her wrapped his arms around her everything I couldn’t do anymore. “I wanted to forget you so badly” I said twisting a single lock around my fingers revelling in the soft silky feeling. “I was so desperate to forget you.” I stopped twiddling her hair it suddenly wasn’t enough instead I just plunged my hands deeply into her soft hair trying so hand not to purr in pure ecstasy as I crushed the hair in my hand. Jessie twisted pushing her cheek into my hand.

“I miss you.” Jessie said kissing my palm, “I miss you so much,” I moved my hand back into her hair and gripped it tightly in both my hands. How had she done this I had wanted to tear her apart she had screwed my brother my little brother and I was so angry and yet the instant I was in the same room as her all of it just melted away. I didn’t care I wasn’t angry any more. More than anything I just wanted to hold my Jessie just to revel in it just be close to her. I didn’t even want to mention Carl, he wasn’t important now not here. Jessie lifted her eyes to mine, they were shimmering a beautiful shinning gold. I had missed her so much.

“I love you.” I whispered “and I always will…always.”

“Promise?” I couldn’t help but smile at that innocence.

“Forever.” I whispered back “I promise.”

“Forever is a really long time.” Jessie said gently.

“Forever.” I echoed leaning in and kissing her harshly desperately. She was instantly kissing me back her taste exploded in my mouth, as her hands gripped into my shoulders sliding down my chest harshly pulling at my t-shirt pulling my body closer to her. There was too much distance between us. Now she didn’t want any and neither did I. I released my death grip on her hair and swung my arms around her waist pulling him in close to me pressing her soft curves into my hard muscle, she fitted there as perfectly as she ever had.

“I love you.” Jessie muttered into our kiss “I love you.” as I pushed her backwards gently and she followed my hint of an encouragement. She nibbled gently on my lower lip making me growl lightly in a way I’d forgotten, she liked me to make that noise which was obvious as she did it again a little harder this time smiling as she licked the tiny trickle of blood. I growled and gave Jessie a hard shove she tumbled back onto the huge hotel bed. An expensive hotel I could tell that as the duvet was thick and luxurious beneath her the mattress bouncing under her body. I simply pounced and landed on the bed straddling her.