Bitten twice shy (the change series 3 )

Chapter 13: Quiet

Molly

Now it was no longer just me and Trick he grew icy cold and unfriendly. I was still feeling mortified that Ellie had seen us right at our moment of climax, my cheeks were on fire.

She looked perfect as always, she had her white blonde hair up in a high ponytail, she didn’t often wear makeup, but she was today, the cat eyeliner made her ice blue eyes stand out beautifully, she was wearing red lipstick today too, her mid-thigh black pencil skirt showed off her long legs, the silver heeled sandals making them look more elegant and dainty, she was wearing a tight-fitting white crop top, showing off her mid-section and even with the bra she had on you could see her hard n.ipples showing through. I looked up at Trick, he looked angry that she was here, but I also caught his eyes traveling over her body.

I was confused, was this another one of those moments between them, like when I had caught them arguing at his place because he had fallen asleep on my sofa and spent the night there? I thought they had been fighting at the time physically, but when I walked in they were having s**x, is that what would happen now if I left the room?

I was tempted to walk out and test it but when I tried to leave he discreetly gripped my arm so tight it hurt, I looked up at him, but his face was cold and unreadable, I remembered what he had said Ellie had done, when she had groped him and touched him when he didn’t want her to, I understood then that maybe he still found her attractive to look at, but he was also afraid of her trying to touch him again if I left them alone. His arm was still around my shoulders, so I leaned in to his side and put my arm around his waist as a way to offer some comfort.

“I don’t want us to be like this Trick, I want us to be able to at least be friends,” Ellie said.

“I don’t want to be your friend.”

“Please don’t be like this, I’m sorry for how things ended between us, but you can’t just forget the time we spent together, it meant something, it wasn’t just s**x between us.”

“Watch me,” he snarled.

“I’m trying here, can’t you at least meet me halfway?” She tried to touch his arm, but it was like reflex as he pulled away from me and punched her in her face.

“Don’t f.ucking touch me,” he growled.

I didn’t like violence, and being so close to it scared me, I rocked on my feet slightly, but Trick must have only given her a warning hit because she wasn’t bleeding, I knew he could have easily knocked her out with one hit. She got up off the floor angrily and spat, “fine! You arrogant b.astard, screw you, enjoy your fat ugly weird mate.” She stormed out of the house, slamming the door behind her.

Trick looked down at me and said, “sorry if I scared you, and don’t listen to what she says, she’s a nasty b.itch who can’t handle rejection.”

“Why did you hit her?”

“I don’t know, I just panicked and lashed out, I didn’t want her f.ucking touching me again. Sorry.”

“It’s ok, you were scared.”

“I wasn’t f.ucking scared,” he snapped and then sighing he pulled me into a hug, “I’m sorry, you’re right, I was, I just don’t like admitting it.”

I hugged him back and murmured, “I love you.”

“I love you too baby, sorry for snapping, I just get defensive about it sometimes.”

“It’s ok, and I’m glad you trust me enough to be open and honest.”

He looked down at me and brushed my tight curls away from my face, “you are the only person I have ever told any of this to.”

I smiled and thought things were good again now, but I was wrong, and I knew I was also the problem. The day went by fine, we took Jerry and Paula to the park and then shopping with us as it was the weekend, I had taken a step back from caring for them because they were absolutely thriving with the pack and I knew Grayson enjoyed being able to take care of them and play a sort of fatherly role, he wanted another child, but his mate Lara didn’t because Natasha had gone through a terrible change that had almost killed her, Lara didn’t want to go through that again.

I also knew they needed adults who could care for them in ways I sometimes couldn’t, for the most part, I could mask my symptoms, but sometimes, like if it started to thunder or fireworks went off it could send me into a dysregulated episode and Paula and Jerry would have to take care of me until I calmed down, it made me feel so guilty, but somehow together we all got by, since meeting the pack things were incredible, better than they had ever been, I had so much support now with the kids and so slowly I had backed off, I would never stop loving them or being there for them, but I knew they didn’t need me as much, not like they needed Grayson, he was their alpha and could teach them about being werewolves and what to expect.

Paula’s change had come early and failed leaving her wheelchair bound, but she still wanted to learn everything she could, Jerry had just turned eight and the change didn’t hit until you reached puberty, we didn’t know why Paula’s had come so early at seven, Grayson suspected it was something traumatic that triggered it, he would be right, my sisters change had been the opposite and come late, she fell in love with another werewolf, and they had become mates for a while, she had Paula at nineteen and Jerry a year later, she planned on spending her life with her mate Bradley, but when he realised how hard being a parent was he had up and left, didn’t want anything to do with the children, by then we thought the change wouldn’t come for her, but when Paula was around five, it happened, it was traumatic and my adoptive mother wouldn’t let me in to see, Paula had run past me to go and see her mum and my mother had quickly rushed her out, but it was too late, she had seen how violent and grotesque the change was, and then her mother, my sister, had passed away.

About six months later was when Paula’s change happened and failed too, but she had been lucky enough to survive. No one really knew why it was so hard to succeed in females, I still didn’t understand how I had survived, being a bitten werewolf had an even lower rate of survival, I knew I would have died if it wasn’t for this pack, if it wasn’t for Grayson and Trick helping me through the change, telling me what to do, how to relax, to work with the pain, and keeping me cool enough the fever didn’t kill me, strapping me down on the bed, so I didn’t hurt myself and break every bone in my body, it was a miracle and I owed it all to those two.

Problem was now Trick had to deal with my sensory issues more than ever now I had all the heightened senses making everything even more intense and overwhelming for me.

We were eating dinner and so far, things had been ok, I could have the TV on to drown out the noise of cutlery and everything else, but today I just couldn’t ignore the sound of Trick eating, he wasn’t even a loud eater, in fact, since being a werewolf I noticed out of everyone he was actually the quietest, but with my new wolf hearing it grated on me, I tried to ignore it, I kept my right hand by my side and discreetly opened and closed it and lightly flapped to try and keep myself regulated, it wasn’t working, so I gently rocked in my seat, the noise was only getting worse with the added sounds of his fork hitting the plate, I covered my ears and burst out, “stop!”

He looked at me confused, “stop what?”

“Eating, using the fork, everything!” My voice was raised, I could feel myself becoming overwhelmed.

“I can’t eat?” He said.

I shook my head, and he looked at me, “Molly, I know the sounds take getting used to as a werewolf, and I know it’s more difficult for you in particular, but you are going to have to learn to adjust and cope with it; otherwise it will start ruining your life.”

When I didn’t respond and continued to rock and cover my ears, he sighed, grabbed his plate and got up. “I’ll eat outside.”

“Good idea,” I called out, he stopped in the doorway and said, “no, you know what, I’ll eat at mine and I’ll see you tomorrow.” He slammed the door and I winced at the sound.

I finished my own food, which oddly didn’t affect me as much, though even that was a little bit annoying. When I was done I got up and went over to Natasha’s place, I knocked on the door until Kai opened it looking a bit disheveled.

Werewolves weren’t any more attractive than humans, but Kai, like Grayson were two of the pack members here who were those rare kind of men that had drop dead good looks like Trick, I mean full on traffic stopping good looks, chiseled jawlines, full lips, Grayson had blonde curls and blue eyes, a muscular and athletic body, the muscles were a natural part of being a werewolf, Grayson was well-built like kai and Trick because all three chose to work out and keep up their strength adding more muscle, and I’d even go so far as to admit Grayson may have been a touch more better looking, I honestly think if there was a most attractive man in the world that it was Grayson, and that was without him even trying. Kai had honey blonde hair that wasn’t too dissimilar to Grayson’s with the curls, although Kai’s hair was more wavy than curly, they could have passed for brothers, Kai had grey eyes so light they looked silver, the rest of the pack looked average, cute, or handsome like most people.

Lara and Natasha had gotten extremely lucky having the two supermodel men for their mates, I was just as lucky with Trick, the reason I was lucky enough to come across someone as beautiful as Trick was because his alpha from his old pack had only ever looked for and allowed the best looking males he could find into his pack, that’s why that pack was full of so many overly attractive males, and then Trick came upon an opportunity to join this pack, not long after Trick I’d come along after an awkward date with Kai when him and Natasha had been going through a rough patch.

Kai looked down at me, sounding a little breathless when he said, “you don’t need to keep continuously banging on the door until I answer babe.”

“Sorry, is Natasha here?”

He rose an eyebrow and looked down at himself then back at me, “you don’t think you might be interrupting anything?”

I looked at him confused, “like what?”

I looked him over, his hair was more of a tousled mess than usual, he had a light sheen of sweat covering what I could see of his chest and his muscular arms under the vest top he had on, he was wearing sweatpants too, which I knew he didn’t usually wear unless he was working out or ready for bed. “Were you working out?”

He snorted a laugh, “yeah, you could say that.”

“I don’t understand, you have to tell me Kai.”

“Right, sorry, I was f.ucking Natasha, but don’t worry we just finished,” he swung the door open and walked back inside letting me follow behind. Kai was like that, he always spoke about s****l things as if it was completely normal, he never got embarrassed or awkward about it, I guess being a male stripper and private lap dancer had helped along with sleeping with so many women before he got with Natasha.

“Where is she?” I asked sitting down on the sofa.

He pulled out some orange juice from the fridge and pulled himself a glass, “want some?” He asked, I nodded, and he grabbed another glass then said, “you keep asking for Natasha as if I’m the annoying boyfriend, you don’t see me as a friend?”

“Oh, no, I didn’t mean it to sound like I…” I trailed off, and he laughed as he passed me my glass.

“I’m joking, babe, I know you two are close, she’s just getting dressed.”

“We are friends too Kai,” I said.

He dropped down beside me and put his arm around my shoulders, “good, for a second there I thought you didn’t miss me.”

“I always miss you,” I laughed.

He kissed my cheek, “missed you too, Tricks been keeping you all to himself these days.”

Natasha came out and said, “that’s because you’re always all over her, you know he doesn’t like it.”

“Tough, if it wasn’t for me, he would never have met her.”

“You know why he doesn’t like it,” she warned.

“Why?” I asked.

She looked at me and quickly said, “nothing, don’t worry about it.”

“What is it?” I asked again.

She looked down at her feet, blushing.

“Is it about you and Trick? I know he liked you before me, so it’s ok, you can tell me.”

She looked uncomfortable and said, “I didn’t want to talk about it because he’s your mate now.”

“It’s ok.”

She nodded, “ok, well, it’s nothing major, but he was so angry and annoyed when I told him I didn’t want to be with him, he didn’t like that we built a friendship and then when I was in heat we had s**x, like a lot of s.ex.”

“Alright, get to the point,” Kai said.

“Sorry,” she cringed and Carried on, “he wanted us to be more after, he wanted to date me, and he was really p.issed off I got back with Kai, it hurt him I think, and I think part of him sees it as Kai took me from him.”

“Which is not true, if anything he was trying to take you from me, you’re my mate, you were mine first,” Kai rolled his eyes.

“Anyway,” Natasha said, “the point is now he feels worried about losing you to Kai.”

“How? You’re with Kai,” I said.

“Maybe he’s worried you’ll fall for Kai because he is such a big flirt,” she shoved him when she said it and he looked at her with feigned innocence, “what? I’m just a loving guy.”

She rolled her eyes at him and looked at me, “Trick gets jealous when Kai hugs you or is all over you, I think part of him worries you might fall for Kai and won’t want him anymore, then there’s the fact you and Kai did have a date.”

“That ended up just spending time like friends because Kai didn’t want to touch me.”

“Sorry, I was being stupid,” he said.

“What changed? How come you could after Trick had s**x with me?”

I was referring to the foursome we all had, and he shrugged, but Natasha answered for him, “because he is an i.diot, he didn’t want to take advantage of you, and when he knew another man was willing to have s**x with you and see you and treat you as a woman and not some person incapable of making her own decisions then he was fine with it.” She shoved him and he said, “alright! F.ucking hell, I’m sorry.”

Looking at me, he smirked, “I see you very much as a woman now, a very busty and—”

Natasha threw a pillow at his head and said, “stop being a pervert, and hello! I’m your mate, standing right here?”

He got up, grabbed her and pulled her onto his lap. “I know you are baby, I love you so much.”