“Mate, mate are you up?”
It was hushed, soft taps on, followed by smooches. Lots of warm smooches, making me stir awake and blush.
I stretched, yawning and twirling like a lazy mother cat. My eyes adjusted to the darkness and cool morning, giving the silence vibe.
Normally, the pack should be nosily by now. Scent of meal, Passer by and Mira should fill the room but it didn’t.
“What time it?” I whispered.
Rex caressed my belly and kissed back. He hesitated, like he was trying to checking the time or reason of he should tell me.
“Will you still leave me?” He asked.
His voice sound sad, like a sorry child after being scolded by his Mom. Well, that wasn’t what I asked so I stay silent, my eyes half open as I still wait for my particular answer.
Silence.
Gosh! Rex is so annoying!
I closed my eyes, inhaled deeply and tried to relax. After a while, no sleep.
I couldn’t sleep!
I wanted to turn back and yell at Rex, I thought about getting up and going on with the day’s stuff but I just laid there. I did stir a little, Trying to straighten my back and nurse my aching waist.
‘Mate’ Rex whispered in the mind link ‘ai can’t sleep’
I rolled my eyes.
So he woke me up because he couldn’t sleep? I just want to punch someone, well, not his fine face.
‘It’s 2 am, I am sorry I woke you up but I am just curious about something’
This time, I scoffed.
Since my bare back was still pressed against his swrn sweaty chest and his arm wrapped around me, leaving his grip because a bit difficult. He was holding me tight, but get gentle.
‘Do you still want to leave me?’ he asked.
Silence again.
A sly smirk spread across my face and I mentally pictured how broken he would be. At least he would face a bit of what I passed through instead of acting like a strong-hearted mother fvcker.
I want to see him beg, shed tears and if possible, skin.
Okay, that was too much. Very very much.
“I shouldn’t have done all those things to you. I shouldn’t have being a disgusting coward, I shouldn’t have been a self-centered prick!” He whispered harshly.
I grinned.
At least he realized that he was really the self centered prick I always thought he was.
“Please forgive me. I can’t just get over it with the silent treatment” he begged in a calm voice.
I shrugged, adjusting in his arms till I was comfortable again.
“If I had known that you would be my mate from the day I saw you in the woods, I would have saved you”
He paused.
Did I miss something?
I thought he already knee I was his mate on the woods. I thought he didn’t rip me apart because I was his pathetic mate. What the heck was she talking about?
I waited.
Seconds seem much more like eternity as I waited for him to continue. Everything about me wbat to hear him, to know what he was really talking about but he didn’t.
He just gave a sad growl and snorted.
‘Are you talking about the woods?’ I mind linked him ‘The day I lost my necklace?’
He didn’t answer and I thought he had gone back to sleep until he stir and spooned me perfectly. We were almost in a fetus position but because of my belly, we couldn’t.
‘Thanks for the necklace by the way, I thought I lost it’ I mind linked me.
I felt his lips spread into a slow smile across the bare skin of my back. He placed kisses on my shoulder and inhaled my scent.
‘At the woods, the day you first met Brook’ Rex mindlinked me.
I forget we were still in the no talking stage. Well, that was okay, at least no one would hear our conversation.
Someone like Mira.
She was the ear of the pack.
I was so lost in shock when Rex explained how he had knew Brook since they were kids. That proved that I was actually right of seeing him in my trance. I was supper right to be suspicious about it too.
‘You won’t blame me, well you can. I was young and naive’ Rex continued.
I still listen, filling up all the gaps I had missed as a child.
He told me how he was dealing with his his father, kiss pack hated him as a kid, Brook was so controlling. It was then I remembered and realized how right I was when I felt that he was a control freak.
Although I had so many questions but I stay silent.
“My mom died and I was wondering why the women kept missing” Rex said out this time.
“Whenever a certain Alpha Kia would come, my father hand him over ten women.”
I get that.
I totally agreed when he went ahead and said women are the the star of everything even if men ‘rule’ the world. He told me mother nature had always been a woman, same as Alia, whom he called our moon goddess.
“And worse, My ex mate rejected me because of ehst she said my dad did to her mom and I wasn’t going to take it”
I sat up the bed and stared at him.
The strong Alpha I used to know had turned into a baby. His eyes watered as he looked at me dead in the eyes.
“I could not afford to lose you” Rex chocked in his own tears.
Although nothing dropped yet but I knew it. He was crying, he was hurt and it broke my heart.
I know he did stuffs to me but he was just a baby. He grew up with lots of choas and too much responsibilities.
My eyes watered as looked away when he caught me staring. He sat up, had his bare back again me and bent his head. It was like his shoulders couldn’t hold his neck any more.
“That day you lost your necklace, I was scared that you would reject me because you saw me as my monster” Rex muttered.
I quickly tried to remember what had happened till I recalled the monster. That being with the red eyes and bloody form.
“I had to take you, I was worried about your feelings towards me and I was jeolous you had something with Brook” Rex said.
I smiled and touchee his back with my belly. I didn’t feel like going closer so I just made my belly touch his back while I stroke his hair. When I was in Brook’s pack, everyone had thought that I would end up with Brryok because of his effects in my life.
“I couldn’t imagine losing you again so I checked for what you are and marked you when I had the chance” Rex sniffed nosily.
Damn, that was so unattractive.
“I get Klaus should be angry over everything and that was why he said it the ewy things were. I wasn’t going to kill you. I could heal, so I planned it all out”
Watching Rex so broken seem to assuring and sat at the same time. He look like he was truly changed and would do anything to change.
“I swear with my life, Rain. I will be a good man. I will protect you and our baby for the rest of my life as anytime I mess up, ask Klaus to kill me”
I chuckled.
For Rex to say that, I was sure it would be certain that Klaus could kill him.
Why won’t that be possible.
Rex is a full breed Lycan. A beast in man and the ancestor of all beasts.
“Don’t worry mate, I won’t ask Klaus to kill you unless I really really have to”
Rex wet stiff.
He slowly straighten up, turn around and stared at me straight in the eyes.
His face was red, his lips sucked him like a baby, I have never seen him look like a vulnerable pup.
“I love you, Rain” He said “Please don’t get irritated that I am crying, I just can’t help it. I am supposed to be a man but…”
Screw that.
I lean close to him and placed a quick kiss on his lips.
“Real men cry. Real leader have emotions. Real mate get vulnerable in the present of their mate”
I kissed him again, making kiss noises before going a bit low to his neck.
“Rain?” Rex said.
It was a warning tone and I could get it.
“You are going something up” he said in a low warning tone.
I smirked.
I continued placing kisses around his neck and chest. I got to one of his nipples and took it between my lips.
“I want it very up” I whispered with my lips on his chest.
It’s gonna be a busy night.