He likes me
Azaria's POV
I relaxed as he deepened the kiss. His tongue delved into my mouth and I saw myself loosing myself. Loosing my senses. Then suddenly I felt a snap.
What! What was I doing? I'm... I'm..
I struggled to pull out of his grip but it was like trying to bend an iron bar. My heart pounded so hard I thought he could surely feel it in his bones. One of his hands rested against the small of my back, as he pressed me into his already hard body. The other moved from my head and threaded into my hair. Angling my head back to give him better access. My head obeyed like as if it had a mind of it's own
His tongue plunged deeper between my lips. By now I had stopped struggling or fighting. I was slowing loosing it. Any moment now, I could forget my own name. The kiss was thrilling. Delicious.
Slowly I was turning mush in his arms and from no where, I got strength and pushed him away. Nicholas staggered back but never fell. Well why would he. He was a man of great stamina.
I glared at him as I took in deep breaths. " What the hell is wrong with you?" I said in between breaths.
Nicholas stared at me. " You" he said in between breaths
"Me?"
"Yes"
I raised an eyebrow. " You are the reason I am in a mess and you say I am what is wrong with you?"
He tried to come closer but I put a hand out to him. " Stay back" but did he listen ? No way.
Nicholas stood in front of me. " I am deeply sorry for not telling you about the mate mark but it was for your safety"
"Can you say anything more than that?".
Nicholas sighed. " Have you ever been kidnapped? Aside from today?" I shook my head.
"Did you for a moment, stop to wonder why you.were kidnapped?" He asked. I was about to shake my head when a thought came to my mind.
"Because you are my mate". He nodded. I raised an eyebrow.
"If you didn't tell me I was your mate and no one knew, how else could others know about it to kidnap me?" I looked at him and he looked at me. Nicholas smiled. He didn't say a word. He let me answer my own question.
I scrunched my brows. "Is it... Witchcraft?" and then he began to smile. My eyes widened.
"I thought it was banned"
"In the pack and the werewolf environs and not other places like the human side" he replied. My brain began to think. If this person outside of the pack could know that Nicholas was my mate, what else did he or she know? And most importantly was I safe? My eyes widened on realizing this.
"Calm down " Nicholas said as if reading my mind. " The mate bond has already been awakened. Anything happening to you will never pass my radar" he said.
I looked into his eyes and he nodded.
"O....okay" I nodded.
Nicholas smiled. " Now we are on the same side,we have thrashed that issue." I slowly nodded. " Can we go back to the pack now?"
I nodded and so we began to walk. I was leading. Suddenly I became so shy like I was still crushing on him. Like the old times I would steal glances at him.
I kept walking even though I had no single idea where I was headed. Now we were cool, I was brought back to my real self. The shy, introverted one. I found it hard to believe that Nicholas was walking behind me. Or the fact that he was my mate. Wow!
I walked slowly. My mind was filled with several thoughts.
Was Nicholas really looking at me? Was it my back? Or my ass? I mentally slapped myself for not doing exercises to be thinner. I didn't really like how thick my thighs were. In junior high I was nick named fat ass. That moment ruined my life.
I wore clothes that didn't show how big my ass was. I went to the gym. Did exercise. By the beginning of senior high school, I had lost weight. I expected that people would not see me like that. Like I would blend easily but the reverse was the case.
They said my ass was now more obvious. Some people called me sluts. Perverts wanted to get with me and some females thought I wasn't straight. Like I had said no to a lot of people, that when I didn't get a mate, people were happy. And that was when the bullying begin. It was so bad that I dreaded going to school till suddenly they also stopped. Nowadays it was just a few bullies here and there. I struggled and finally lost most of the weight. Ashley told me she could still see my curves when I wore certain clothes. I avoided clothes like that.
All through school, I tried to hide but things always happened and made it impossible.
And now I was the next alpha's mate. I couldn't believe it. Two days earlier I was scheduled to meet a man with who would give me a mate,only to have the alpha's mark on me. I couldn't believe it.
"Hey Aza" I turned around. " You really look gorgeous"
My cheeks went aflame. I nodded. "Thank you" before I could turn back to that road, there he was standing right in front of me. I gasped. Could he do that as a werewolf?
"You startled me."
"I'm sorry" he said in a deep raspy voice. Nicholas was staring at me intently. I was uncomfortable. He didn't move his lips but I could hear it ring in my ear.
"MINE!!!"
I looked up at him and he smiled. Wait he was doing this on purpose. He began to walk faster.
"Where are you going?" I began running after him
"We just got to the pack" he said. I stopped and looked around and it was true. We had walked all through the night and now it was time to face reality. Even if reality meant people staring at me with awe and disdain as I walked hand in hand with Nicholas. I had to face it all.