This was so conflicting that I really didn't know how to react to most of it, Jason was threatening my family again, I'm sure if it was Justin he would have already tried killing someone, but on the other hand I didn't know a single thing ajou5 either of them, it hadn't even been twenty four hours since I met them, and yet here he was protecting me.
I didn't know if anything he did was sincere or not, but I did feel safer after he came, so it was a battle between trying g to reject my family, who had been my heart for all my life, and trying to reject the Alpha who had come to my rescue, even if he was still a stranger, he held something that I needed in that moment, he represented security, he represented peace of mind and that made him in a time like this where my future was hanging on someone else's critical decision the more important objective.
Jason grabbed my dresser by the edge and dragged it across the room placing it right in front of the tear in the door, trapping me in but also trapping them out.
"If you're hungry, I can take you out for something g to eat." He sat on the edge of my dresser and folded his arms, then crossed his ankles, his eyes had gone back to their regular brown again, and now with the atmosphere what it was I literally could look away from him, earlier in the day he and his brother were wearing jeans and leather jackets, something they could get away with because of the cold weather around Hollow Valley, but now he was wearing track pants and a plain white tee, and I could practically feel the head coming g from him as I saw the steam rising off his body.
He didn't even need to move much for his muscles to look amazing, he didn't look like any disgusting gym rat, but the man had the body of a god, I wanted to touch every one of them, but a reality check slapped me in the face after my eyes sealed on him again, and I became extremely self aware.
He stood from the dresser to reach out to me but withheld his hand when I hugged myself tighter.
"Are you okay?" He asked again, and I nodded in the yes, of course I was okay, he had literally just driven away my fears. "Come on then." He reached out to me again, but again I hugged myself tighter causing him to pause and look at me weirdly, and then I saw a smirk grace his smug face and immediately all I wanted was to punch him across his perfect nose. He didn't hesitate a third time, Jason reached for my arm and pulled me to my feet, then bedorebi could even protest he picked me up like a bride and walked us both over to the bed.
"Wait!" I tried getting g out of his grasp, even managing to slap him despite my reservations but he shrugged everything I did off as if I was being still and obedient.
He crawled up to my bed, then crawled across it on his knees and turned at the wall leaning and then turning to sit, with me still in his grasp, this smooth motherfucker did it so effortlessly that I couldn't even complain that I was in his lap, he hugged me onto himself and pressed his chin against my forehead.
"Why should I wait at all Mikayla, didn't I already tell you that you belong to me?" He asked, and I felt a warm shiver pass through my body at his words, at what they possibly meant.
"Do you know what it means to be mate to an alpha Mikayla?" He asked, and without moving I shook my head with my eyes still closed, I could feel the fingers on his right hand slowly caressing my leg just at the edge of the towel, one finger after the other slowly tapping against my skin, and his right hand that supported my back and neck was now intertwined with my hair.
"Your status is of equal importance to mine, your words should be law, in fact you will eventually have the final say in most decisions, you have the right to rule." He informed me, but his words felt slow and almost faded as I instead focused on him slowly pulling my hair back revealing my neck.
"It means you're untouchable." He added again, lowering his face just above my skin and then reaching for a kiss on my collarbone.
This man was a human sized sauna, he was as warm as a tropical beach, and with a touch so gentle it felt surreal, and the moment his lips pressed on my collarbone I felt all the tension in my body dissipate and give way to an open minded pleasure, without even realizing it I reached up and held on to the back of his head holding him there as his kiss lingered and then slowly rested on the top of my breast, and then he stopped, after all that buildup he stopped kissing me and smiled against my skin.
"You're not my mate just yet Kay, we still have time." Jason raised his head and leaned his forehead against mine after I'd looked up at him shocked and hiding my disappointment that he'd actually stopped.
I knew something would happen, so I followed you home, that plus I wanted to see what you called a home, I didn't come here to take advantage of you." He admitted, but with his face so close to mine my horn ass couldn't focus enough on his words to make sense of them, so I just closed my eyes and relaxed in this safe bubble.
"Okay." I reluctantly responded, letting out a long g relieved sigh and resting my head on his chest and listening as his heartbeat drummed against my cheek.
I didn't know when it happened, I though that the fact that I was cuddled in a man's arms would have kept me awake, but I had knocked out completely, so much so that I had slept through the process of being dressed and tucked in.
While the birds played their morning tunes in the tree next to my window I sat there staring under the sheets blushing up a storm. I was wearing a night gown, and beneath it I was wearing underwear, but I had clearly not been wearing any before, the revelation made my blood boil of embarrassment, he'd seen me naked.
And then left!
"Fuck." I groaned, grabbing my pillow and beating my face against it. "I should have gotten up and dressed self."
In the middle of thinking about what happened last night, i heard a knock on the door, and for a moment I sat there staring at the door dazed and confused, wondering why there was a mirror there, but then another series of knocks jogged my memory and I found myself jumping to my feet to drag away the dresser, but as soon as I touched it I remembered whatvhappenwd the night before and my hands froze and my breath paused as I listened, but there was no sound on the other side.
"Kay I heard you run to the door... please open up, I need to say something to you." Anna called to me and I felt a shiver in the tips of my fingers.
"You're gonna hurt me." I called back, listening for her response, and to my actual shock Anna stuttered, for the first time in my life I heard her stutter.
"Kay, li-listen n-no-now, what happened last, last, last night was a mistake okay, we really d-didn't mean for it to go down like... Luke that." She gently knocked on the door.
"We?" I called back, and she went silent, of course it wasn't a we situation, even if they weren't my actual family, I still knew them, this wasn't the first time an alpha arrived at Hollow Valley, and it wasn't the first time they'd had trouble with one either, it was likely that there wasn't another soul in the house.
"Kay I'm sorry." Anna called back leaving the 'we' question in the air. "I didn't mean to hit you yesterday, and I tried stopping mom from barging in last night, but she was so mad after she heard what happened that she didn't listen to me at all, I really did try, I have the cut to prove it." She said, and upon that bit I leaned my head to peep through the cracks I the door behind the mirror.
"Are you alone?" I asked, and she nodded yes and knocked softly again.
"Let me in."
I turned to the dresser and started pushing it, but to my surprise the thing wouldn't even budge, it was f*****g heavy!
Jason had pulled this as if it weighed the same as a simple plastic chair, but after exerting all my strength I could only move it a few inches, was this thing made of steel or stone?
Twenty minutes later and with the combined effort of Anna on the other side I was able to get the dresser out of the way.
Sure enough there was a bruise on her cheek, and a cut in the middle of it, I'd seen this bruise before, on Austin, Soni immediately knew she'd been hit bu the handle of a gun, probably at point blank range too, I might have missed it before because of how afraid I was.
Now sitting next to each othet on the bed we were both staring at the door, one out of disbelief and the other out of shame.
"I'm sorry." Anna said again and I sighed and looked at her.
"What for, you're not the one that did it, and you even got hurt trying to stop her." I fired back. "I couldn't stay mad at you either way." I admitted seeing the look in her eyes. "Did you talk to dad about what he said yesterday?" I asked, and saw her eyes narrow and her atmosphere become depressing as she looked at her hands fiddling with her thumbs.
"I asked him about it, I wanted him to deny it and say he simply used it as some excuse to get you to cooperate, but he actually admitted to it." Anna looked back at me, staring in my eyes.
"It makes sense right, your skin has always been different, and you had black hair in a family of blondes, and your eyes were always such a pretty green too, like a field of fresh-grown grass." She pointed out the simplest of what I'd thought about.
"You weren't treated much differently from Austin and I, and sometimes you even got more affection from mom because you got so much of her attention, I was honestly jealous a lot, you and mom spent hours in front of the mirror making you look like us, but since we already look like this we never got to spend that time with her, at one point i thought she'd cheated on dad, but that theory falls apart if you think that we actually share the same birthday..."
"Did he say where I'm from?" I asked again, breaking her off her road of reminiscence, and she paused and then sighed.
"No, the only thing I could get him to admit to, was that you were adopted, in the end dad stayed as tight-lipped as he usually is with most things."