Abused Love (AL Series)

Chapter 8

Trent

  When she started grinding herself on me I almost lost it and claimed her right there! But I was able to keep my wolf at bay for now. 

  I slowly work my way down to her neck, kissing, nipping, and sucking. I was looking for the sweet spot once I hit it she gasps and I hear her heart rate speed up. An amazing shiver goes down her and my wolf purrs loving how she is reacting to us and that she is his. I smile against her skin happy she feels the connection I feel with her but scared she will reject it or become scared of it.

  I slowly slip her shirt off and I'm about to do devilish things to her chest when I see a bruise on her shoulder. At first, I brush it off thinking she bumped something but then when I pull back I see more bruising on her. They were all over her body! Who the hell dared to touch MY woman!

  I couldn't help but growl a deep pissed-off growl as my wolf came to the front trying to take over. He was beyond pissed and I don’t blame him. Someone touched our damn mate and hurt her.

"Who did this to you?!" 

  I felt her flinch but I couldn't care. Someone hurt her and no one hurts what's mine, ours. 

"I… I… fell." 

  She couldn't look me in the eyes and kept looking everywhere but at me. Why is she lying to me? 

"Stop lying. It won't end well if you lie to me." 

  Her lips form a line and I can see she's thinking. So I make her look me in the eyes. 

"Don't! Don't think. I want the truth. Who did this?" Trying to sound a little less pissed off.

"I.. I.. I can't tell you." 

"Why not?" 

"Because I'll lose everything I have. Everything I have worked for. Everyone I love and care about." Her eyes look like she's about to cry and I feel my heart breaking. 

"Was it the person who left that handprint on your face the night I first met you?" I ask her softly while I rub my thumb on her cheek where the handprint was. 

  She said nothing and looked away as tears started to fall. I knew right then that it was and that it wasn't the first time. I couldn't help but growl as I thought about her feeling so much pain over and over. Who would do this to her? To someone so sweet and innocent. So, so, innocent. 

"Please tell me. I just want to help you. I won't let you lose anything." 

  I bring her face to look me in my eyes again as I beg her. I never beg for anything and I swore to myself I would never do it for anyone. But I didn't care right now, I need to know who did this to her. 

"I… I… I can't. I can't lose my little sister's and if I tell you I feel like you will take me away or that they will for telling you and I'll never see them again." 

  Her eyes are like a waterfall at this point and I feel my heart breaking even more. So I tell her what I've wanted to tell her since the time I saw her in my club weeks ago and man do I hope that she doesn’t take it wrong or that I will chase her off. I look into her eyes and take a deep breath. Here goes nothing.

"You mean too much to me and seeing this makes me want to tear this place apart. I can't help how I feel. You’re my world, you’re my everything, you’re the one I want to see all day every day. I want to see you when I wake up, I want to see you when I'm going to sleep, I want to hold you while I fall asleep, and I want to make crazy love to you. I need to protect you. I know this sounds crazy because we haven't known each other that long but I know you're the one for me. I feel it and I know you do too. You know that I'm the one for you." I have to pause and take a breath as I try not to let a tear fall. My heart feels like it's going to burst out of my chest.

"Please tell me, I promise I won't take you away from them and I won’t let anyone take them away either. I just want to make you feel better. I want to make sure you are safe. If I don't I won't be able to let you go. I won't be able to sleep without worrying about you. So please tell me." 

  I'm looking at her hoping she can see I mean what I say. After a few minutes pass by I don't think she's going to say anything and I look away from her knowing she can see I'm hurt. 

"Y..you mean all of that?" My head swings so fast to her that I thought it would fly off but then I see she's smiling. 

"Yes, I mean every word. With everything I am and everything I have." I look at her with so much love. I want her to see I mean it all of it. 

"I...I don't know what to say."

"You could say you feel the same as I do." I give her a small smile hoping she does.

"I definitely feel something. No one has ever made me feel the way you do, no one has ever cared to and I've never been in pain before but had it go away when someone touches me. I don't know why I can't feel anything but when you touch me it does things to me. "

"I do and I will forever. One day I will explain how my touch helps and how much I love hearing it but right now please tell me who hurt you." She looks away and closes her eyes. 

"You promise not to take me away from my little sisters?”

" I promise."

  She looks at me for a little bit longer and then sighs and shakes her head while pushing me away from her a bit. Something in me is telling me to grab her again and to force her to tell me but I know that if I do that I will lose her for good.

“I’m sorry I can’t tell you. I can’t risk it. They are powerful and will not stop at anything to make sure you can’t live in this world.”

  I can’t help but feel upset by her not trusting me enough but hell I don’t think she even knows who I am so how could she trust me. Why does this have to be so hard?

"I won’t push you, yet, but please tell me how I can help you? How can I keep you from getting hurt? Please, I don't know of any other way if you don’t want to tell me so I can protect you." 

"Holding me helps. So does…." She pauses and gives me a shy, embarrassed look. 

“Yell me, what else helps?” I said moving closer to her slowly.

"Kissing and touching me." 

"Oh, I can do that. But if I do I don’t know if I will be able to stop myself. I don’t think I’ll be able to help it, you make me go crazy. It's all in or we stop here." 

  I see her swallow hard and I know she's thinking about it all. I wouldn't be mad if she said to stop though. I would be sad but I could never be mad at her for something like that. I know it's a hard decision to make on the spot with someone she doesn't know very well. 

 “I want to but I can’t. I mean hell I don’t even know your name. Plus, this is the first time we have met outside of the restaurant weeks ago. I’m not the kind of girl that goes out on a first date and puts it all out like that. I hope you don’t think of me like that kind of girl and that’s why you wanted to take me out.” She said as she looked away from me but not before I saw a tear escape.

  Hold up one minute, is that what she is thinking right now? That I only want s*x with her. I f****d up. I need to fix this and fast.

“I could never think of you like that now did I bring you on a date thinking I would get laid. I am so sorry if that’s how it seems because that is definitely not how I wanted tonight to be. Why don’t we go and order our food and talk? I bet you have a lot of questions for me and I would love to know more about you.”