The following morning I woke up feeling a little tired than usual. I also feel very cold. I wonder why I am feeling cold. Ekaterina made the cave warm last night with her fire, so I shouldn’t be feeling cold. I try to stand up but find it a little challenging to do so. Water drips from my forehead and lands on my hand. I look up to see if the cave has a hole and water is leaking through it, but it does not. Bringing my eyes back down, I notice my hands are wet and not only my hands my neck too and my face. That is where the water dripped from. Why am I sweating so much? I am not hot; instead, I am cold. I try to lift myself off the ground, but I fail too.
“Anastasia, what is wrong?” Theo asks, rushing to my side. He must have noticed me struggling to get up.
“I don’t know,” I whisper. My throat feels sore, and it hurt while speaking. What is going on? I look Theo in the eyes, pleading with him to help me. I am so scared right now. I don’t know what is wrong with me.
“Do you feel pain?” he asks, worried. I nod my head, saying yes.
“Where do you feel the pain” I use my hands to gesture; I feel pain all over my body.
“Do you know why you are in pain?” I shake my head no.
“I think her wolf is sick,” Ekaterina says, walking towards Theo and me.
“Sick? What could make her wolf sick” Theo asks, saying the words I wish to ask.
“You haven’t marked her, so it’s making her wolf sick,” Ekaterina says.
I try talking to Eva to find out how she is doing, but all I get back is her whimpering. Ekaterina must be right; Eva is sick, and I can’t believe it’s because Theo hasn’t marked us yet.
“Is there anything I could do to help except marking her?” Theo asks
“Let me see what I can do,” Ekaterina says, touching my forehead to check my temperature. “Her temperature is high. I think if we put her in cold water, her temperature might drop. If her temperature drops, she might feel better,” She says, standing up, but I grab her hand to stop her.
“Theo, I am cold, I don’t want cold water to touch me,” I mind link, Theo. It’s too difficult for me to talk right now.
“But it will help you feel better,” He replies back
I am about to beg him not to put me in cold water when Ekaterina interrupts me.
“What is she saying?” Ekaterina must have guessed we were mind linking.
“She says she is cold and does not want to be put in cold water,” Theo says, and Ekaterina takes a minute to think before she speaks again.
“Coldwater is best, but we can’t just submerge her into it. We can put her in water but not cold water. I will cast some spells into the water, and it will help reduce her temperature regardless if it’s cold or not”
“Alright, I saw a pond not too far away from here. I will take her there,” Theo says, lifting me off the ground. Like during my heat, the moment Theo’s skin touches mine, I start to feel better. I snuggle closer to him as I feel the coldness begin to reduce.
Theo walks out of the cave with me in his arms. We reach the lake after a few minutes of walking. Theo gently places me into the water. Ekaterina chants some words into the water, and I start to feel a little better.
“Do you feel better?” Theo asks through the mind link
“A little,” I reply back
“How is she feeling?” Ekaterina asks
“She says she feels a little better. Is there anything more I could do to help” Theo asks
“I have heard been close to the sick mate can help them get better faster.”
“I am close to her, but I don’t think it’s helping”
“Not this way, closer to each other”
“Explain,” Theo says, sounding irritated with not understanding what Ekaterina is saying.
“You know there is a lot of body contact during mating. I know you can’t mate and mark her. So I am thinking you both should be naked under the water. Maybe if your skin touches one another, she might feel better,” Ekaterina says, but the only words that stick out to me are the words ‘can’t mate and mark her’ what does she mean by that. Is there a reason why Theo hasn’t completed the mating process with me? I always assumed it was because he hates me, but Ekaterina’s words make me think otherwise.
“I am not getting naked with you” I mind link Theo, but he does not say anything back.
I know being naked together will help, but I am not ready to go to that stage with Theo. We still have a lot of things to figure out in our relationship.
“I said I am not getting naked with you,” I try to tell Theo, but he blocks me off.
Theo starts removing my clothes. He starts with my shirt first. He places his hand on my waist and lifts the shirt above my head. His fingers grazed my skin as he removed the shirt. I felt a shiver go down my spine after his hands touched my skin. He moves his hand back to my waist to take off my pants. He unbuttons my pants and drags them down my body. I don’t know why but it felt like it took him forever to take it off.
“I will leave you in your underwear,” Theo says,
Thank God, I feel shy to be in my underwear in front of Theo, but it’s better than being fully naked in front of him.
Theo stands up and starts undressing. The minute he takes off his shirt, Ekaterina decides to leave. She said she would be back soon. I am sure she is leaving because she thinks this is an intimate moment between Theo and I. If only she knew it was not the case because even as I am half-naked in front of Theo, I doubt he finds me attractive right now.
He takes off all his clothes except his boxers. I try my best not to gawk at his body as he enters the water. Once he is inside the water, he pulls me closer to him. He places me on top of him. He puts my legs above his and wraps his arms around mine. My whole body starts cooling down with Theo’s touch.
“Do you feel better?” Theo whispers into my ear. My neck was not inside the water, so I felt his breath on my neck as he whispered into my ears. I feel the need to give him more access to my neck to shower it with kisses.
“Yes, I do,” I say, breathless, and it’s not because I am sick. It’s because of Theo’s breath that is fanning my neck.
“That’s good,” He says, interlocking our fingers together. His arm rests on my stomach, and I feel him making patterns on my belly.
I feel something poking me close to my bum. “Theo, something is poking me behind. Please can you check what it is and remove it”
“I wish I could, but I can’t,” He replies, then a scent hits me, arousal. Theo is hot for me right now. This brings a big smile to my face. It’s so good to know that I am not the only one who wishes to sleep with the other person. I can’t believe the situation we are in right now makes him want to mate me, but actually, I shouldn’t. My ass is sitting on his member, and there is no way his body won’t like that.
The more I feel his large member touching my ass that is barely covered because of my panties. I start to feel something pooling in between my legs. I quickly close my legs to stop it, but it does little to help.
“I can smell your arousal,” Theo huskily whispers in my ears. His lips start leaving a trail from my shoulder to my neck, and stops at my ear. He gives my ear a little extra attention by nibbling on it. What has gotten into Theo today?
He removes his fingers that were interlocked with mine. He uses his index fingers to trace all around my skin. He starts from my fingers to my arms all the way to my neck, then goes down to my belly. When he reaches my waist, he moves to my left thigh and continues all the way to my feet before coming back to my right foot. He goes from my right foot all the way up to my thigh, and once he reaches my waist, he stops again.
He goes back to my neck, and this time he does not use his fingers. He uses his lips. I move my neck to the right to give him more access to my neck, and he does not fail to do a fantastic job. His lips do wonders to the spot he is supposed to mark me. He kisses it, nibbles it, sucks it, and grazes his teeth across my skin. I feel his teeth about to sink into my skin when Ekaterina screams as she arrives.
“Theo, don’t!” She shouts, and Theo immediately pushes me away from him
Why did she scream like that? Why won’t she allow Theo to mark me? I look at her confused, and all she does is shake her head at me.
“Trust me, it’s best he does not,” She says with pity in her eyes.
“I don’t think I need to stay with her any longer. I think she is feeling better,” Theo says, walking out of the water. I want to tell him to stay with me and not leave, but I know it would be a waste of time. I sink into the water, wondering why Ekaterina stopped Theo from marking me.