“Sorry it took a minute, nana wanted to make your favourite”
“Grilled cheese with bacon?”
He smirks as she sniffs it and moans
“How do I stop seeing it?”
She asks hunter, he shrugs
“You guys are what saved me, mum and dad too but even now I can’t sleep alone. Sounds like I’m a big baby but honestly if you both weren’t here for just one night I would guarantee that I’d wake the house up and in the morning I’d either be in beside my parents or they would be in beside me”
Her face drops as she pulls a little of her food apart and takes a nibble, she has a whole range of emotions run through her
“What if they make me stay at home?”
Hunter surprises me growling, I think he surprises himself to but he shakes it off
“No one is taking you from us again. I don’t care if we have to take of, I’d give everything up to make you comfortable”
“We won’t need to leave, we will stay here and stand our ground. They won’t fight us on this not after tonight. Where one goes we all go”
“The 3 amigos”
She whispers taking another small bite, she stares at the tv so I hand her the remote, she turns it on and flicks through the movies
“Have you decided what to do on your birthday yet?”
She asks clearly trying to distract herself, her heart rate had slowed way down so at least that was a plus.
“Just the 3 of us on the beach for the weekend, I don’t even want other people there other then for dinner with nana”
“Not even Cara?”
He shakes his head
“Nope, she’s a boyfriend now and she would want to take him and I don’t want him or any boys there. Actually I just don’t want anyone but us to hang out, we could go to a rodeo if you want then the beach after”
She shakes her head
“Nope, to many people”
She sighs giving up and handing me the remote
“You choose”
I purge my lips but ultimately I can’t choose so I put on friends. She finishes almost all of her sandwich but her stomach must have shrunk because she felt full up.
Hunter moves over so she’s right in the middle of us, we watch tv as her body slowly relaxes and her eyes close. I hold my breath that she gets some sleep. Soon she starts snoring lightly, she was at peace. When I’m sure she’s not waking up I sag down beside her.
“I can’t believe this happened, why didn’t I listen to you, why didn’t we just go get her. If we had she would have never went to that party, you know nana said the meds she was on were reacting badly and making her delusional”
I grab hunters hand and squeeze it
“No, you can’t blame yourself, this is on all of us, Derek and Bella for not letting her stay here and putting her on medication that made her ill instead of just letting her stay here and us for not marking her when we marked each other”
He sighs sadly, looking at her as she sleeps
“What are we going to do? How is she going to go to school—“
“—f**k school, f**k it, I’ll drop out I don’t honestly give a s**t or I’ll finish online, I’m not leaving her, not even for a minute. And if your not here I’ll make her watch me Pee and I’m not even joking”
He snorts but he nods
“I wish I could say your being irrational but I feel the same way”
I sag back against the bed
“I can’t believe we are all finally marked”
“They are all going to kill us tomorrow”
He whispers, rolling so he’s on his side looking at me, I roll to and I lean over and peek him on the lips
“Well now it’s done they can’t really do s**t, it’s not like they are going to ground us”
He chuckles nodding
“They could try but they will fail”
“Nah they won’t, Derek might try but our parents won’t”
He peeks me back then rolls in closer
“Let’s worry about that tomorrow, I love you”
“Love you too”
I cuddle into my mates and slowly I start to relax, we leave the tv on so it’s not dark incase she wakes up and freaks out.
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Ali’s POV
Soft vibrations wake me up, and for a second nothing but relief hits me when I realised I slept, but then the night before hits me and my head suddenly feels cloudy. I gasp at the horrific memories of the hands that I couldn’t see touch me. How helpless I felt in that moment. Tears pool in my eyes as I try to shut them out and forget what happened
“Shush your safe with me baby girl”
Dane purrs into my throat, his voice was a little rougher than dexters but I could tell the difference
“Just relax, your safe with mate”
He purrs, kissing my throat, I turn into him so my face is next to him. He was so beautiful, his messy black hair was all over the place as usual, his face was perfectly symmetrical, his nose straight and short matching the contours of his face and sitting perfectly proportioned in the middle.
His lips were plump and perfect and his jaw was so defined but it held a soft edge to it. His eyes were bright green and full of life, you could see the wolf side that he held, like an extra sparkle of nothing but mischief making his personality even bigger and better than his looks.
“Thank you for saving me”
He smiles, pushing hair from my face and edging closer
“I will always save mate, but from now on you stay with me, then you won’t need to be saved”
I smile nudging a little closer too, our lips were mills apart, my mouth goes dry as I stare at the perfectly plump works of art. I needed a distraction and this seemed to be a good one. His breathing was raged as he watches me carefully like he wasn’t sure what I was about to do so instead I just go for it, pushing against his soft plump lips in a chaste kiss.
He freezes in shock but after a second he relaxes just slightly, grabbing my head and he kisses me back, it’s soft and slow. I had no idea what I was doing but i moved my lips against his. My breath catches in my throat, I couldn’t believe how his lips felt against mine, bubbles and sparks dance around and under my skin everywhere he touches.
I moan, opening my mouth as he prods at my lips with his tongue, giving him a chance to deepen the kiss. It was amazing, I had never experienced so many feelings all in one go, it almost brought a tear to my eye.
His tongue hits mine and his lavender scent fills my mouth, relaxing my body as his sweet taste comforts me like a hug on a cold day.
His hands slip down my throat and he holds onto it as he kisses me harder, by now my lungs burn so I try to breathe through my nose. I loved every second of the contact we had but someone clearing their throat behind me made me jump and almost bite his damn tongue off.
“s**t sorry, are you ok?”
I ask Dexter who snorts and laughs nodding his head
“Dane and Dexter will live”
I turn red faced to a laughing hunter
“I hope I get one too”
He pouts, I grab his shirt and I yank him towards me and I kiss him just as hard, his kiss was softer, a whole lot more patient, his honey scent and taste complimented the lavender perfectly, like we were 3 parts to one sword.
We were all different kinds of metal but as you forge them each has a benefit to the structure and strength of the finished product, each one has its uses. They were my metal and together we were rock solid.