Chapter 12
LORYS
Peaches, peaches and to hell with peaches!
I had found her and couldn't believe my eyes that it was really her. The maid had been Bora all along, and for all I knew, she was on her way to escape.
When I saw her standing on the cliff, I was afraid that, crazy and stubborn as she was, she would throw herself off the cliff. I wouldn't let that happen - no way.
She was the one who smelled so sensually of peaches, and she was also my mate. It's no wonder her scent gave me hell for days. It was a challenge to smell my mate but not see her.
Instead, I held her in my arms and was gripped by the need to kiss, pamper and mark her.
She was frightened, almost panicked, and it was no wonder. Her attempt to escape had failed so miserably and there was no way I was going to let her go. I was serious about letting her go to her pack, but I would also take her back with me. I didn't want to promise that I would force her to come with me if I had to. No, as a gentleman usually does, I would try to convince her to come with me.
The reason I didn't claim her right here and now was that I knew about her recent past and that I would be cutting myself off. I wanted to give her a sense of security and not make her feel insecure.
"Do we really have to get past everyone?" she asked me quietly, seeming unsure about the whole thing.
"Do you mind if I present my mate to everyone?" I raised my eyebrows in amusement and continued to hold her close as I walked on.
"If you ask me like that... Yes," she replied with a glance at herself.
"It's uncomfortable enough for me," she whispered softly as her skin lay velvety beneath my hands.
My wolf seemed to run into a wall at this thought. All he could think about was kissing that skin, leaving love marks on it, marking it and making it scream my name.
I couldn't help but grin, how would she describe such scenes in her diary when everything else was described in such detail?
Shit, I had to pull myself together. I was as hard as a rock and her scent didn't exactly make it easy for me. Especially because the two peaches standing in front of my eyes didn't make it any better. She had a sweet way of turning my head, her full breasts barely covered by her arms and hands.
"You don't need to be uncomfortable... I could bet that Little Red Riding Hood and Rumpelstiltskin are already in seventh heaven," I winked at her, causing her cheeks to redden and her gaze to lower.
"Do you remember where you dropped your clothes?" I asked her, to which she nodded slightly.
"We changed after we ran into the forest... The clothes are somewhere there," she replied.
"Do you realize we could spend a long time looking for them?", I asked her, to which she shook her head "No, I remember where they are, if you put me down we could transform and walk there", she finally said, looking up at me.
I nodded my head slightly as she changed back into a wolf in no time at all. Her wolf had the most beautiful fur I had ever seen. She must have been embarrassed to be naked in my arms, even though it was the most beautiful thing for me.
I finally changed too when I realized how infatuated my wolf was. This was a side of me that I didn't even know, and I have to admit that it scared me too.
After all, it was a weakness for me and I knew no weaknesses. She nodded at me and ran off.
I could feel my wolf wanting to jump over her and roll around in the grass with her, but that wasn't going to happen today, I kept telling myself. My wolf - Cade disagreed.
"Get a grip Cade... You don't want to chase her away, do you?" I told him in my mind, to which he only growled at me.
"She's mine, do you think I'll wait any longer? She's been playing with us the whole time, that smell has been driving me crazy for days," he replied, fixing Bora with his eyes.
"You're about to mess everything up, back off," I instructed him, to which only another growl could be heard.
Bora finally stopped in front of the clearing and sniffed the air as she finally ran to the clothes lying on the ground.
She looked at me and didn't move, while I inwardly rolled my eyes and turned to the side to give her a chance to change back and get dressed.
When she was dressed again, I turned to her and nodded for her to sit on me.
She looked at me uncertainly: "The castle is nearby," she said, looking into the distance.
My wolf let out a growl. His instincts demanded that she be protected, cared for and pampered. There was no shaking that.
She looked at me with wide eyes and I could hear her swallowing loud and clear with my wolf ears.
I nodded to her again and sat down a little lower so that she could climb on top of me.
Eventually, she reluctantly sat on my back while I walked off and she buried her fingers in my fur.
As we passed the crowd, the wolves of the pack recognized me and cheered and whistled. At last the alpha had found his mate, but a hunch told me it was going to be harder than expected.
A whole bunch of wolves were back, including Leonardo with his Little Red Riding Hood. Little Red Riding Hood had apparently put her clothes back on and seemed less shy about running naked through the crowd, which was more than I could say for Bora.
I turned and caught her in my arms just as she clung to me in fright. She gave me an incredible look that made me smile.
I didn't stop, no. This evening had accomplished everything it was supposed to, and I was done with that at this point.
I walked her straight into the castle and carried her upstairs to my room.
"I figured Marga would wash my sheets with peaches," I said with a grin on my face and pushed the door open.
She smiled sheepishly and involuntarily bit her lower lip.
I grabbed her lower lip with my thumb and looked her in the eye.
"Stop that if you don't want me to lose control," I said to her and ran my thumb over her lips.
They felt so soft ...
I sat her down on the bed while I went to my closet and put on just a pair of pants.
She was looking at the ceiling, apparently trying not to look at my body. She might be stubborn, but I would bring her out of her shell... definitely.
The way she had toyed with me, I would turn the tables now.
I grabbed a chair and sat down in front of her. Her eyes were on me and she was watching my every move. "What were you thinking, Bora?" I asked her and my tongue melted when I heard her name.
She shook her head and shrugged her shoulders "Depends what you mean," she finally asked, looking me in the eye.
"Everything," I replied. "I want to understand everything, a lot of things, your reactions are unclear to me, it's as if I'm missing a part of everything that gives me clarity as to why you acted the way you did," I tried to explain to her, to which she nodded in understanding.
She grabbed her arms and looked down at the floor. She raised her eyebrows, bit her lower lip again and finally exhaled deeply: "When I woke up, I didn't know where I was for the first time... I tried to tell the nurse that I wasn't part of the Blue Moon pack, but she wouldn't believe me. At first I wanted to confide in Linda, but I was afraid that she wouldn't believe me either and that it would reflect badly on me".
I thought seriously about her words and began to understand why she had acted the way she did...
"Why didn't you tell me?" I asked her, looking at her seriously.
"After all that, I didn't feel taken seriously and thought running away would be the easiest thing to do," she explained.
"Would you have believed me?" she finally asked, leaning her arms on the bed.
"After reading your diary, yes. I would have believed you," I replied and had to lick my own dry lips at the sight of her.
"So you read it?" she asked me as she scanned the room as if she knew where the diary was.
I nodded honestly and looked at her, "It hurt my heart if you want to know exactly...". Leonardo already thought I was crazy about it," I confessed, looking at her askance.
"I noticed it when I was tidying up... I actually wanted to take the diary back with me," she explained.
"Why didn't you do it?"
"So I'd stand out and bury my plan, only to end up in a prison cell? I may be a woman, but I'm not stupid," she replied, raising her eyebrows.
We were getting closer and closer to the woman I had imagined. The woman who managed to arouse me in my deepest dreams.
"I never said you were stupid... It was just yours," I said, shrugging my shoulders. I got up, went to my desk and opened a drawer. I took out the diary and walked back towards her.
I couldn't help but smile, "Just think, your plan would have worked even if you hadn't been my mate..."
Bora rolled her eyes and was about to reach for the diary when I pulled my hand back.
"Hm, I was just about to pay you a compliment ... You're always in such a hurry," I said, opening the diary and sitting back down on the chair in front of her.
"He spread more kisses on my neck and stopped at my cleavage," I read to her.
"You have an eye for detail, Bora, I have never read a diary in which even the spoken sentences were described in detail.
She blushed and looked at me almost angrily "That's also the reason why you don't read diaries," she growled at me and tried to reach for it again. One thing I could smell was how aroused she was.
"I don't feel like you're disgusted with me at this moment... and the only thing dirty at this moment are your thoughts...", I said, noticing how she drew her legs together. I could see her hard nipples under the fabric of her dress.
Full moon, I love it.