Bitten twice shy (the change series 3 )

Chapter 8: Happy

Trick

I had never really felt happy before, but here, right now, with Molly in my arms I was the happiest I’d ever been in my life and I never wanted it to end.

When we woke up in the morning we had s**x again, she was cuddled up against me when I murmured, “I should take you out on a date.”

“Where would we go?” She smiled.

Lightly tickling my fingers up and down her arm, I said, “wherever you want, we could go to dinner or the movies or both.”

She nodded, smiling, but I saw the excitement in her eyes dim a little.

“Where would you want to go?” I asked her.

“I don’t mind.”

Smiling, I looked at her, “why don’t you tell me where you really want to go, because I’m sensing it isn’t dinner or the movies.”

Growing shy on me, she quietly mumbled, “I like the arcades, the claw machines.”

“Ok, we can do that sweetheart, what else do you enjoy?”

“I really love museums.”

I rose an eyebrow and smiled, “we can go to some museums too.”

She grew really excited and nodded grinning.

“You really enjoy museums?” I asked.

“Yes, I love learning about the history of each item I’m looking at, it’s fascinating, and I love hearing the stories behind them too and how the people were and how they lived, the animals too, it depends on what museum we are at, but I love them all so it doesn’t matter which one we go to.”

I watched her face and the joy on it as she spoke about museums, and I decided museums would become our thing, I would take her on a date and that date would always involve at least one museum, I’d take her to them all.

“Do you want to grab lunch with me today?” I asked.

“Not at the main pack house?” She asked.

“Nah, I’d rather it just be me and you.”

“Ok,” she grinned, and got up to get ready.

While she was looking through her drawers I went up behind her and kissed her cheek, “I’m

Going to get ready too, I’ll be back in a minute,” I whispered into her ear.

When I got to mine I was glad to see Ellie hadn’t come back, I was pretty sure she was staying with Reese a few doors down until she went back home tomorrow. Neither of them knew about Molly being bitten, and I worried how Ellie would react when she found out. As a human Molly was weak, non-threatening and not worth Ellie’s time in her mind, but as a werewolf Ellie would be more likely to attack her because she wouldn’t have to worry about easily killing her, and if she found out Molly was my mate she could choose to challenge her if she wanted.

I walked into mine, had a shower and pulled on some clean jeans and a white muscle fit t-shirt, for me, I was done and ready, but I knew Molly liked how Ellie had dressed me up while we were dating so grumbling I put on the thin silver chain and the other longer silver chain with a compass pendant on it, don’t ask why it was a compass I didn’t buy it, Ellie did.

I put the plain black ring on my index finger and then put on the three in one leather bracelet, part of me just wanted to tear it all off, but the other part that wanted to look nice for Molly kept it all on. I was debating whether to add the olive green skinny gauze scarf, that’s what Ellie had called it, I decided to throw it on and when I was done I put back on my black combat boots messily tucking the jeans into them, I don’t f.ucking know why, but Ellie said it looked good messily tucked in so I did that, I was getting impatient by the end and left the boots loose and the laces undone.

I checked myself in the mirror, my hair had a slight wave to it and was a tousled mess that fell into my ice blue eyes, it didn’t look crazy, so I just left it, I wasn’t f.ucking around playing with my hair too for f***k sake.

It was winter and cold out so I put on the loose fit grey sweater cardigan Ellie had bought me, I didn’t feel the cold much, but humans might look at me odd if I walked around wearing just a t-shirt in November. It wasn’t a werewolf thing, werewolves got cold just as much as humans did, I didn’t feel it much because I’d gotten used to the harsh treatments in my old pack, like being locked up naked and injured inside the cage in the middle of the winter, snow or no snow it didn’t matter to my old alpha, the point was for us to suffer, and so now the cold just didn’t really bother me much.

I made my way back to Molly’s and laughed softly under my breath when I saw her. I didn’t have a clue about fashion, but Ellie mentioned that Molly leaned towards a more anime style of clothing, which I suppose made sense seeing as she enjoyed her Korean shows which usually had hosts who dressed similar and decorated their homes similar too.

Molly usually wore jeans or leggings and long sleeved shirts for the most part, sometimes with characters or designs on them, other times just plain. Today she was wearing a baby pink long sleeved top under some sort of suspender or dungaree frilly skirt that was black with a white trimming, I have no idea what to call it and with it, she had on white tights with a pink bow at the back of the

ankles, she was wearing flat black doll shoes.

She had her hair done in a half up and down style with pigtails and Natasha was sitting on her bed just finishing her makeup for her. It was cute she had made an effort for me, certainly not what I went for looks wise, but Molly could wear anything and I wouldn’t care.

Natasha was giving her that similar look makeup wise, you know what I mean, the stuff with the pink blush across the cheeks and nose, Molly was a black woman a few shades darker than Amber and Natasha, and the champagne coloured eyeshadow and the black cat eye Natasha gave her stood out, the makeup actually really suited her, she was so damn cute I wanted to kiss her, but I wouldn’t in front of Natasha, I wasn’t one for public displays of affection if I could help it.

When Molly turned and saw me standing there, she jumped and quickly pushed Natasha away. Both me and Natasha laughed, we knew she hated anyone watching her have her makeup done, especially men.

I watched her eyes travel over me and a hint of a smile touched my lips, I loved how attracted she was to me, I loved that when she looked at my face she was comfortable enough with me these days that she looked into my eyes too, not for very long, but I loved that she felt she could at all with me.

“You look gorgeous, sweetheart,” I smiled.

She grew bashful and looked away, “you’ve never said I look nice before.”

S.hit, she was right, I hadn’t thought about it, I had to admit it never crossed my mind that she would want to hear what I think about her looks wise, I’d never really been in a relationship before so I hadn’t had to think of all the little things.

Sensing this was a moment for just us two, Natasha said goodbye and left us alone. I walked over to Molly and said, “I’m sorry, you’re right, but you are gorgeous to me.”

“I’m not your type,” she mumbled.

I frowned and asked, “how do you know what my type is?”

“Look at you, you’re gorgeous, handsome, beautiful even.”

“So because I’m attractive, that means I have to only be attracted to other overly attractive people?”

“Am I wrong?” She asked.

“Yeah, you are,” I replied a little more coldly.

“Axel showed me a video of you.”

“What video?”

She sat on the edge of her bed and said, “there was some sort of party at a house, you had some werewolves over, and you hurt a human man and had s**x with his girlfriend…while she was on his lap! Then you had s**x with another woman on the sofa, they were both really beautiful with slim and dainty bodies, cute small b.reasts and b.utts, long legs, blonde, and when another woman came over who wasn’t as pretty you told her to f***k off, you told jasper you weren’t going to have s**x with an ugly woman, and she was much prettier than I am.”

“Axel f.ucking made you watch me f***k those women?”

She nodded and looked down into her lap.

“F.ucking sick f.uck.” I was going to kill him for that, I had promised Molly I would never lie to her though, so bending down in front of her I took her hands in mine. “You really want brutal honesty?” I asked.

“Yes,” she whispered.

Sighing I took a breath and said, “just so we are clear, that video of me is not who I am, I was f.ucked out of my head on alcohol and d.rugs, I was a f.ucking horrible vile piece of s.hit back then, I was a c.unt and I know that, but I don’t want you thinking that’s still what I’m like.”

“I know you’ve changed because if we had met back then you would have been really cruel to me, laughed at me, I know you would have, and maybe hurt me too.”

I couldn’t even deny it, I really had been bad back then, I let my anger control me and I just hated everyone and everything. “At the start probably, but if I’d gotten to know you I’m certain I would have still fallen in love with you even then.”

“I’m not your type looks wise,” she whispered.

I stroked her hair away from her face and said, “ok, no, when we first met I didn’t find you attractive, you’re not my normal type looks wise, I was a shallow and vain b.astard because all I cared about was f.ucking and nothing else, I’m not even really attracted to those women anymore, I learnt that while super hot and sexy women are nice to look at or to f***k in bed a lot of them were just really boring outside of it, or nasty and b.itchy and that’s definitely not my type even if I was a w.anker back then. I got to know Natasha who wasn’t my type either, but I really liked her personality and how she made me feel, when we slept together I really wanted her, but then I met you and yes, I was horrible to you, I hated you, didn’t like you being in our pack, I didn’t find you attractive but the more I got to know you, f***k did I fall for you hard, I love everything about you.”

“I thought my autism would put you off like it did so many other men,” she mumbled.

“No way, it’s actually one of the things I love about you, I love how your mind works, I love that you see pleasure and happiness in the most simplest things, you have a beautiful mind and the kindest heart I’ve ever known, just spending each day with you made you more and more beautiful to me every time. I only pushed you away because I was trying to keep you safe, from me, from my old pack and what they would do to you if they knew how much I cared about you, Molly, even when I was with Ellie I was already madly in love with you, and it wasn’t until I saw that note, that f.ucking note, I felt like my whole world had just run off and died, I’ve never known fear like it, that’s when I knew I had chosen you as my mate, I see you as my mate and there is nothing you could do that would ever make me not want you, not love you.”

She smiled bashfully and hugged me tight. “I love you too.”