Ashlynn POV.
I splashed my mate another time, he was giggling, splashing me back, he loved playing, and I did too, my little side was yet again fighting with me, little Ashlynn wanted to come out and splash in the water, to play and mess around this place.
But I can’t let her out, unlike Eliot, I don’t have two different personalities, I don’t count them as different, they are both parts of me, and little me is my safer place, my safe haven, the one that Amber broke and scarred, that part needs to stay hidden until I’m fully healed only then she’s allowed out.
“Ready to get out?” I ask him, the water was fun and all, but it’s time to get out of the water.
“Nu, me playing, you play with me,” he demands of me, we’ve been playing for long now, I’m getting tired and hungry, I just want to get out of the water to rest a little, the water won’t go away.
“We can take a small break honey, drink water, have lunch,” I say knowing some time has passed since we got in the water.
“I don’t want to get out yet,” he says, but I roll my eyes at him, it’s time to get out, I moved toward him, he tried to run away, but I kept on chasing him until I caught him, dragging him out of the water, whining and fussing.
“Nu fairrrrr,” he says sitting on the sand, kicking both of his legs against the sand.
“Drink some water,” I say trying to get him to drink, he did take the bottle out of my hand and started to drink it down.
“I want to play,” he says a big pout on his face, but the sun was getting stronger, and being out there would end up getting us sick, I moved back to the house, seeing if I could find a sun umbrella for the two of us, luckily I found one, I took it and went back to Eliot, setting the umbrella above him to protect him from the sun.
“How about we build some sandcastles?” I suggest, he nods his head, running toward the house to get what we need to build them.
We had a big castle all built on the beach, I’m being pushed more and more toward my little space, Eliot was making me do most of the work, I was starting to slip, that’s when I noticed it’s his plan all along.
“Eli, that’s not nice,” I say knowing he’s big right now and trying to push me toward my little space.
“What’s not nice princess? I want to see your princess side,” he says, but I just rolled my eyes in response, he doesn’t need to see my little space.
“I’m not in the mood,” I lie, I wanted to go there so badly, but I can’t not right now.
“Why not try baby? Just try for me princess,” he begs with me, but I shake my head no, I don’t even want to try it, knowing how bad I’ll look in it.
“Can we go inside? I have sands in place that shouldn’t have sand,” I say wiggling wanting to stand up and dust off my bum.
“I can give you a bath little princess,” he says making me giggle, and shake my head no at him.
“I’m not little,” I remind him.
“You don’t need to be little for me to bathe you, I can bathe my big princess too!” he explains to me, but I shook my head no, I wasn’t ready for any of this right now.
“We’ll take it your pace sweetie, but if you change your mind,” he says with a wink making me giggle again.
“Silly Eli,” I say going to take a shower, I needed to wash my bum well, after my shower, I dressed in some of the clothes he have left for me in the closet.
“Eli,” I call to him walking around in the house, does Eli like to hide from me too, do I need to have a talk with him about hiding from me while big?
“Eli!” I call again, walking into what seems to be a home office? I saw Eli there, he was standing behind the desk, holding a phone, which reminded me, that I need to call my family and tell them where I’m, Micah and Kitty must have gone crazy with me disappearing from their house.
“Yeah, okay… I’ll call you later…. yeah… me too… bye,” Eli says ending the call quickly, he looked at me with guilty eyes, I’m someone who was in charge back at home, I know the guilty look, younger people in our pack, get too shy to talk to Jacob or Keiran, they’d come to me.
“Are you okay Eli?” I ask him raising a brow at him, he didn’t look okay.
“Yeah, I’m fine, you okay princess?” he asks me instead, trying to shift the topic to me.
“Yeah, I’m fine. Can I use your phone?” I ask him, I don’t have mine, it must have stayed back at the house.
“Why?” he asks me right away sounding jealous and possessive, he’s even growling a little bit.
“Because, Eli, I want to call my family,” I explain to him.
“Why call them? What do you want of them? I’ll get you anything you need,” he says, he’s cute and all, but this is way too much, I just want to call my parent.
“I want to call them and tell them I’m safe, Eli, you have kidnapped me. It was cute and all, but now they need to know I’m safe,” I say in a firm voice, he growled again at me, he’s really growling? is this the beginning of the abuse? This time my little self isn’t out, if he tries to hurt me, I’ll hurt him back.
“Fine, go ahead and call them, I’ll be out,” he says handing me the phone and leaving the room, slapping the door close behind him.
I took the phone deciding to call my family, it wasn’t a regular cell phone, it was one that I believe is a satellite phone, I clicked kitty’s phone number, and it’s the one I know by heart. I placed the phone on my ear waiting for him to answer, it took the call a second to connect, but he finally answered the phone.
“Hello?” I heard Kitty’s voice.
“Hey, Kitty, it’s me!” I say with a smile.
“Oh thank god, Ashlynn where in hell are you?” he asks me.
“I found my mate, I’m safe, no worries, we’re just taking a small vacation together,” I assure my brother avoiding all of his questions to why I left without saying anything to them first.