Moon Bound

Marisol

I shoot up straight as my eyes open and my dream breaks. My entire body feels like I have walked into an inferno, and sweat slides down my face.

My teeth sink into my bottom lip as I look around to see if I am really alone. Judah's side of the bed is cold, but I know that he could probably be watching me, and I wouldn't even notice.

As I scanned the room I notice a note sitting on top of the covers. I smile at the paper before reaching to pick it up.

Sleep as much as you need Marisol, I have a few things that need to be taken care of today. When you do wake go and check in with Benjamin.

I couldn't help but laugh at his messy handwriting as I breath in his woodsy scent through the paper.

As much as I would like to follow his suggestion of sleeping as much as I want to there are more pressing matters that I have to give my attention to.

Arabella, being at the top of my list. The visions that I have had of her do not tell me much. I don't know when she is planning to attack Alpha Lucian, the longer it takes for her attempt to happen the longer it will take to stop the witches and their blood magic.

I would prefer to stop them immediately before anymore attacks are planned and executed on the packs.

The second thing was, even though I really enjoyed last night with Judah, I can't help but just feel awkward. I marked him, which was nice but after coming down from that high I realized that he may not ever be able to mark me. He told me that it would be enough for him, but I still don't feel good enough. I will have to walk around and see other female wolves walk around proudly with their mates mark on them and I know it will make me feel even more inferior than I already do.

That's just the tip of that iceberg because the other stuff we did last night. It was amazing, It felt addicting but at the same time it felt really awkward. I know that he wanted to do more last night and I had become so exhausted after orgasming from his fingers that I could barely finish him off the first time let alone keep going.

Before any of that though, I need to take a shower. I never thought that a dream would be enough to get me so hot and bothered.

I slowly climb out of the bed, hissing when my foot comes in contact with the floor. I slowly make my way to the bathroom.

As I get there and start to cleanse myself I don't even pay attention to my actions because I am so lost in my thoughts.

I know that I marked Judah yesterday, but there's never been an instance that I have seen where one mate is marked and the other is not.

I can't read his thoughts, can he read mine?

Did he see the dream that I had last night?

I feel my cheeks heat up as I think about the dreams that I had. Judah and I being intimate with one another.

I pray to the moon goddess that he didn't see my dreams. Him and I have one moment of intimacy and I'm having all kinds of a sexual dreams afterwards.

Him and I in various sexual positions, each one making me blush harder than the last.

Judah and I in missionary, him thrusting into me slowly as he told me how much he loves me in a soft voice.

Him and I in the shower together. Warm water running down our bodies as he pounded into me from behind.

I start to cough as I feel water begin to splash onto my face, effectively snapping me out of my day dream.

I once again say a quick prayer to the moon goddess that he does not have access to my thoughts.

I quickly step out of the shower, and start getting ready. I need to talk to someone about this. Benjamin is the obvious option. He is the one who paired us, and usually when him and I pair someone we answer their questions to make this process as easy as possible.

The only problem is I know hoe Benjamin is when it comes to Judah. That and he will probably flip out at the thought of Judah and I being intimate with one another.

That means that I will have to turn to Izumi for advice. She might be the better of the two when it comes to intimacy between Judah and I.

I get dressed in a plain grey long sleeve and a pair of jean shorts. I'm grateful that the pack has been told to give me space until the coronation so I will be able to dress casually for now.

I step out of Judah and I's home and my vision is immediately taken from me as the sun glares into my face. I lift my hand in front of my face to stop the light from blinding me.

I hear footsteps walking closer as I close the front door.

"Hey Marisol! I was wondering when you were going to come out and join the world."

I can't help but smile at Izumi's teasing, I'm guessing there is going to be a lot of that from her and Benjamin from now on.

I start to walk in their direction until Benjamin holds up his palm to me. "You reek of the King!" He exclaims, the disgust not hidden in his voice.

I feel the blood rush to my cheeks, Judah's scent will probably be permanently apart of me now. He prefers that we cuddle, he plans on scent marking me everyday and he really enjoyed rubbing his arousal into my skin last night.

"I think its adorable!" Izumi exclaims before she flicked Benjamin's ear causing him to wince. She turned to me. " I think you smell very nice Marisol."

I smile at their antics, but I need their advice now.

I need their advice, but I also need to be away from the pack when I ask just incase someone apart of the pack is listening.

I know Judah has made it clear to the pack that they are not to be around me at this time, but we can never be too careful.

"I think that we should take a short walk in the woods. It would be nice to talk there." I suggest.

Izumi and Benjamin both nodded catching my hint before they started walking towards the forest behind my home. I quickly followed behind them.

Judah probably won't be thrilled about us wandering around especially in the woods, but this is a conversation that needs to happen without others listening in.

We walked for ten minutes in silence. I know that Izumi and Benjamin would be able to hear if someone was attempting to eavesdrop on our conversation, but I still couldn't be too sure.

Benjamin was the first to stop walking, he leaned up against a tree and pulled Izumi close to him. "I feel like whatever you are about to say is going to be very important."

I let out a sigh before I started speaking,."I feel like I made a huge mistake yesterday. I was so caught up in wanting to prove myself that I told everyone about Alpha Lucian's mate." My feelings of guilt have been overwhelming since telling everyone before I told Alpha Lucian.

Benjamin nodded his head. " I was feeling conflicted about it as well, but this is a different situation than normal. When anyone is facing the unknown and does have a plan can throw everything off balance. Our King needs to be level headed when making the decisions that he makes, and that means him and those surrounding him need to be made aware of information that we normally would keep private."

Even though I was already aware of all this the reassurance takes away some of the guilt that I was feeling.

After a short pause of silence Izumi speaks up. "When this whole situation is over maybe you shouldn't tell Judah about the visions that you see, the regular ones. Judah doesn't usually give me too much information until after everything is done."

I nod my head. "I probably will give Judah the minimum amount of information so that he won't go crazy, and tell him everything after everything is done." I nod getting a little more confident in my decision to tell everyone what I saw. There is just one more thing. "What if Alpha Lucian isn't interested in his mate? Everyone is going to be putting so much pressure on him about her. What if Arabella sees that he's a wolf and immediately rejects him and leaves?" My anxiety begins at skyrocket at my words. My heart begins to beat faster, and I feel my palms begin to sweat. Lucian not accepting his mate all because she is a witch would throw a wrench in the plans that we are still developing.

"He has been wanting his mate for over ten years now, I know how some wolves hold prejudice for witches, but he isn't one of them. Also, the vision you saw Arabella is seeking him out. She needs him so he can use the fact that she needs him to his advantage." Benjamin says.

I nod my head, slowly as his words begin to soothe me. It all makes sense and it is all coming together. I just need to make sure that Judah isn't the one that is going to be applying pressure on Alpha Lucian over his mate.

"You should not worry so much Marisol." Izumi steps away from Benjamin and walks towards me. "You will be the Queen, everyone will listen to what you have to say." She reaches out and places both hands on my shoulders. "The moon goddess is on our side, everything will work in our favor."

I nod my head. I know she's right. I will just have to throw my worries out of the window for now. There's another question that I unfortunately have for them.

"Yesterday I marked Judah." I blurt out.

Benjamin let out a loud groan. "I'm out. I have no interest in where this conversation is going." He starts walking away from us.

Izumi and I bust out in a fit of giggles at his reaction, I honestly should have expected that.

She rolls her eyes at him. "I'll mind link you when the conversation is over!" She called out to him.

She then turned to me, giving me her full attention. "You marked him? Tell me all about it. Wait! We need to sit when having this conversation." She squeezes my shoulders before letting go.

She slowly lowered herself to the forest floor and I mimicked her actions.

"Well we finally kissed. A real kiss, not one of those pecks that we usually give each other. I'm the one that got carried away. Then I marked him, and we went back to the house and then," I lowered my voice just in case that Benjamin was within hearing range of what I was about to say, "We did hand stuff."

Izumi squealed so loud that I am pretty sure that Benjamin heard it even though he was long gone. I feel my cheeks heat up as Izumi is having a mini celebration over me marking my mate.

"You need to be more excited about this! I honestly thought that you both were going to be a boring and prudish mates. I thought it was going to be a life of abstinence for the two of you. I didn't even think about all the other things that you can do besides penetration. There's also oral and toys!" She started to slowly get louder the more excited she became. "You guys should really look into toys!"

My eyes widened and I felt like they were going to pop from my sockets. No wonder Benjamin left so quickly when I brought this up. I kind of want to run away to.

"Yeah, well I wanted to ask if it was always so awkward whenever you and Benjamin are intimate?" I ask.

Izumi barked out a huge laugh, of course at my expense. "Nobody is born amazing at sex Marisol." She laughed a little in-between her words as she wiped tears from her eyes. "You know us wolves for the most part wait for our mates so our first sexual experience will be with our mates. Since it's the first it is usually very awkward. Just give it time Marisol, you will learn each other's bodies and the awkwardness will soon fade away."

I nod my head, I am not feeling one-hundred percent confident, but I feel better than I did this morning.

"Another thing, last night I had this dream, and this morning I sometimes have these daydreams almost."

Izumi tilts her head to the right. "A dream about what?"

I just need to spit it out. "Dreams about Judah and I. Together." I made sure to put emphasize on the last word so she knew exactly what I am talking about.

Izumi's smile spreads even wider. "See I knew that you both would be able to do all the things that mates do, especially have pups." She sighs. "The two of you will have such beautiful pups."

She started to smirk when she notice the blush spread across my cheeks.

"I hope so, I'm still not sure."

"I'm sure. Remember you had Benjamin ask the moon goddess about the bond between you and the King. I badgered him to make sure that he did." She said smugly, she was obviously very proud of her ability to get Judah to bend to her will.

"You're right." This is something that I will have to wait for a little later there is something a little more important that I want to focus on. "There is also one more thing."

Izumi nods, "Go on, I'm am all ears."

"I think I'm in love with Judah."