He brought me to the secret lair of he and his brothers? Was that a trick statement meant to make me swoon and drop down my pants or was he really telling the truth?
“So, keep it a secret. Don’t tell Naomi even.” Adam said, stepping away from me finally.
He turned aside to look at the waterfall.
“Sure I will keep your secret. Although I don’t know if it’s because saying it out would spoil your getaways with other girls whom you might have said the same thing to, or if it is because…” I was still talking-still asking myself when I had gotten this brazen-when all of a sudden Adam’s lips were on mine.
A record time. I thought, before blinking my eyes closed and kissing him as softly as he was doing.
It was like he was worshipping my lips. But how fast could he move? It wasn’t his birthday yet. One second I was talking, and the next second or less than that, he was right up here with me. I wish I was that fast. I would have left the pack a long time ago.
“You still think I am lying??” He asked me, the blue of his eyes was a shade deeper than usual.
“I don’t know. Was the kiss supposed to be some kind of proof? You have kissed tons of girls if that’s it.” I answered, shrugging my shoulders. I moved away from him then. His closeness was idling my brain like a drug would.
“But not like that.” He muttered, his voice so low that if I hadn’t been so attuned to him, I wouldn’t have heard him.
But I had, and it wasn’t helping my cause. Who says he was allowed to go around making such statements around me. Was he that desperate to get into my pants?
“As much as I want to lick you up now, I wouldn’t do anything that you don’t want. So calm your horses down. I just brought you here to apologize and to spend time with you. To get to know you. Believe whatever you want, but come let’s eat. Again, I’m sorry for being your bully.” He said, before turning around and walking toward the table which was filled with plates and trays.
For a full minute, I was stuck there at the same point, stupefied.
Did Adam just apologize? Did he just say that he was sorry? Oh my god, this outing was getting messier by the second.
Messier because if he continued on this track, I might be an emotional mess. No, scratch that. I would be an emotional mess.
My body was already humming with a thousand nerves begging for the touch of his hands. He wants to lick me up? The gods help me! My mind was fast going into an overdrive. My face was terribly hot. It was good that he had turned away after he was done talking.
“Coming or not?” He was standing by one of the chairs that surrounded the rectangular wooden table.
I nodded, fanning my face with my hand before strolling to the table, my movements a bit wobbly, especially as I got closer to him.
He firmly pulled out a chair for me from underneath the table, and I inhaled again at our closeness before sitting down.
“Thank you.” I managed to say, before my eyes settled on the dish which he had uncovered. No way this food had come from the cafeteria. It was much better.
“When did you do all this?” I asked Adam who was still standing, staring at me.
“My butler did this. I hope it is to your taste.” He walked to his own seat and settled down.
“Why?” I blurted the question that had been in my head since he brought me here. Why was he doing this?
“Like I mentioned before, to apologize for how I treated you all these years and to get to know more about you.”
“Yeah, I heard that the first time. But why would you go to this extent? Why do it? The party has already been organized, right? Why are you interested in knowing me when I am leaving the pack soon? Why?”
There were a lot of whys. I know. But I am just trying to lay emphasis here. Probably because they were much in my head.
“Because I am interested in knowing you, Maya. Isn’t that enough reason? I just.. I don’t know.. I just feel like it…” He dropped his fork on the table. He was looking flustered now.
Okay this was the first time I was hearing Adam stutter. Woah.
“I know you are surprised at this, trust me, I am surprised too.. but I’m just trying to flow with the current and see where it goes.” He added, biting his lips as if in deep thought.
Flow with the current? Whatever that means. But I just nodded and picked up a fork, and swung into the pasta that looked so appetizing that I couldn’t let it go.
“So, tell me.” Adam started, just when I threw the pasta into my mouth.
He wouldn’t even let me relish the taste of the food?
“Tell me more about you, Maya.”
Well, here we go.
Knowing ourselves 101.
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An hour and thirty minutes. That’s how long I think Adam and I have been talking about ourselves and certain memories which had made us laugh many times and had brought little tears to my eyes. One thing that had stood out as I communicated with Adam was the inner peace I felt; like home. It was beautiful. It was satisfying.
Why hadn’t we noticed this before? Why hadn’t we done this earlier? Why now?
I was beginning to feel bereft since I would be leaving by the weekend. I wasn’t the only one feeling this by the way. I knew this because I could see it on the worry creases that lined his forehead whenever he talked about me leaving. I could see it in the satisfactory smiles on his lips as he spoke, even as he is talking right now about a memory that consisted of Noah being pursued by a mad stray dog.
“You know, I can tell my father to let you stay, of course I would have to take you under my protection to do that…” Adam said at the moment, and I bit my lips, turning my face to the other side.
I was at odds. I wanted to leave the pack, yes. But an hour and few minutes with him in private was threatening to crack the thick wall I had built around my decision. Should I stay? Would I find someone like Adam in the human world?
“You don’t have to answer me now. You can take your time to think about it. I believe there are still four days or so before you leave, right?” he questioned, and I nodded, my tongue too heavy to speak.
The answer was a huge no, and I should say that. That I couldn’t, that there was no need for him to keep me hanging on a rope like this, that there was no use for him to give me false hope, but I said none of these, rather I kept mute, watching him with curious eyes as he stood up from his chair and walked up to me.
“Get up. I think we have been sitting for a while. And if I should remember our health classes very well, it isn’t advisable to sit for so long.” He chuckled softly.
“You know, lately, I have been asking myself why I had been blind to this side of you. You are the most refreshing girl I have ever spoken to.” He muttered, allowing his hands to rest on my thin waist.
I felt his lips press together on my forehead the same time that his hands around my waist tightened, and I inhaled sharply, swallowing my saliva, wondering where this would lead to. Would I lose my virginity today?
I had always thought I would keep myself for my mate, but the moment the pack’s doctor had announced that my wolf gene was absent, the zeal to keep it all locked up had faded out. Still, there had been no one to do it with even if I wanted to. Everyone had turned against me like they had been programmed to. Including Adam.
Now, he was the one dropping a kiss on my two cheeks. The remembrance of those traumatic episodes killed my mood. I stepped away, straightening invisible creases on my trousers.
“What is the matter?” He asked, following me still.
Couldn’t he detect that I had stepped away to be far from his presence? “Nothing, I just need some air.” I replied, walking past him to the open air, where the cliff ended.
“Do you want to take a dive then?” His eyes darted between me and the waterfall.
Swimming with him? That was another one way ticket to sex with him.
“No, I’m just fine up here.”