I peek out from behind a tree and suddenly come face to face with the unknown man. He grabs my arm roughly and drags me out towards Tyler.
“Let go of her!” Tyler yells using his Alpha voice. “Or I swear I’ll rip you to shreds!”
His grip tightens around my arm, and his nails dig into my skin causing me to whimper.
“You’re a pretty little thing aren’t you.” The unknown man trails his hand over my cheek, I try to face away, but he grabs my hair pulling it to face him. “I might just keep you.”
Tyler lets out a deep growl. “Jaxton I warned you.”
“Oh no, please don’t tell me his your mate?” He asked me while chuckling darkly. I wince as his canines emerge from his mouth. “Well, we can change that.” He laughs.
I shut my eyes as his mouth comes closer and closer to my neck, but all of the sudden I feel him being torn off me. I open my eyes and Tyler has him pinned against a tree.
“I warned you.” Then Tyler snaps his neck, and Jaxton’s body fall limp on the forest floor. I take a deep breath and look at Tyler.
“Let’s go.” He commands. I don’t think twice before I follow him back to the pack house. That man was going to mark me; he was going to use me. I shutter at the thought of being marked by a complete stranger. We walk back in silence, not even a sigh or a cough. He opens the door for me, and I walk into immediately be hugged by Katy.
“Anna your arm, it’s bleeding! What happened?” Katy questions. I guess we’re instant best friends now.
“I ran into Jaxton, and he saw Anna, he was going to… Mark her,” Tyler informs Katy tensely.
“What! That psychopath!” Katy screams. She turns back to me and has a closer look at the scratches on my upper arm. “Did he grab you or something?”
“Uh ya,” I answer blankly, trying not to seem over emotional.
“Let’s spray some disinfectant on it to get his pervert germs off you; I’ll be right back.” Katy left to grab some disinfectant or whatever and I was left alone with Tyler. I faced away from him as my nerves surfaced.
“You should stay away from me.” He says, his voice husky. “I’m not good for you.”
My heart cracks a bit at his words; he’s going to reject me I know it. I turn to face him, but he was the one looking away now.
“But you’re my mate,” I whisper.
He turns to face me, yet again his face shows no emotion.
“You’re supposed to be good for me.” I continue.
We stand silently looking into each other’s eyes; I felt complete just being around him.
“I’m supposed to, but I’m not.” He turned around and left the living room, leaving me with an aching heart.
“I found the-where did Tyler go?” Katy asked holding a bottle of disinfectant spray for my wound.
“I don’t know.”
Katy cleaned up my scratches and showed me to the guest room upstairs beside Tyler’s room. It was a large room with a king-sized bed in the middle and a bedside table on each side with a window above them. There was a big bathroom connected to the bedroom and a walk-in closet. The room had other stuff in it like a desk, dresser, and a giant mirror. It was well decorated with a gold and white color scheme; it gave it a more elegant feel.
When it got later, I told Katy that I was going to head off to bed. I came into the guest room and the en-suite. I took an inebriating shower and brushed my teeth with the new tooth brush and tooth paste that Katy kindly gave me. I finished up in the bathroom and turned off the lights, I walked over to the bed and climbed in cuddling one of the pillows, wishing it was my mate, his guy I don’t even know.
I couldn’t sleep he was sleeping in the next room, my wolf was hurting, and I was starting to feel it too. I tossed and turned in between the covers getting frustrated with myself.
I threw the covers off my body and stomped out of the guest room to the room down the hall, which Katy said was hers. I opened the door, and she was peacefully sleeping in her bed.
“Katy.” I loudly whisper from the doorway. She didn’t move.
“Katy,” I call I bit louder. She just rolled over on her other side. Ugh.
I walked up to her bed and shook her.
“Katy wake up.”
“Frgmachh.” She mumbled, and her eyes popped open. “A-Anna what, what’s wrong?” She asked, sounding tired while rubbing her eyes.
“I can’t sleep, my wolf is restless.”
She sat up on her bed and rolled off, she walked over to her closet and pulled out a large t-shirt and threw it at me.
“How is your shirt going to help?” I questioned her dumbly.
“It’s Tyler’s; it smells like him now go to sleep.” She crawled back into her bed and waved me off. I left her room closing the door on the way out. I walked back down the hall and back into the guest room, I shut the door and brought the shirt up to my nose and sniffed it. My wolf relaxed at the intoxicating scent of our mate. I got back into the bed and put the pillow on the shirt using the shirt as a pillow case. I rested my head on the soft fabric and fell fast asleep.
I woke up and laid in the warm bed for a couple of minutes before I got up to brush my teeth and my hair. I slept like a baby; I haven’t had slept like that for a long time. I slugged downstairs and into the white, bright kitchen. Katy was standing at the stove cooking eggs and bacon; she turned around when she heard me enter.
“Good morning, did you fall asleep?” She asked while sliding the food on two plates.
“Ya, right away.” I trudged to the table and chairs in the kitchen and sat down.
“Good, I was thinking that we could go shopping to take your mind off things.” Katy set the food at the table and sat down herself.