Need

CHAPTER 12- Need
When I reach fifth period, I have managed to keep my word this whole fucking time. I didn’t pull her away at lunch like I wanted to. I let her sit with her friends and have that human wrapped all around her. I am crawling in my skin. I take a seat at the table in the back of the room and wait for Jasmine to come in.
When she comes in she doesn’t really pay attention to anything. She seems a little lost in thought. She catches my eye and I link to her. “You need to get over here now.” She can hear the need in my voice. Even if it is just in her head.
She takes the seat right next to me. She smells like that little twerp. I take her hand before she can even finish getting seated, half pulling her into the seat. The touch of her skin is instantly making me calm. Not fully calm but enough to not kill someone. I pull my seat closer to her so that our legs are touching under the table. This added contact is needed. “I need your scent.” I linked to her.
She pulls forward and I quickly take as much as I can with my head as close to her neck as I can get, we are in class after all. This is not enough. I feel calmer but I am itching to have more. Stupid human. I should be the one to hold her all the time. To whisper in her ears. To plant kisses all along her face and neck. That should be me.
“I don’t know how long I can do this.” I linked to her.
“I understand. I will make more time for you.” She links back. That might help. I just know that it won’t fix it. As it is I am planning the rest of the day. I am going to get rid of that scent on her skin. The only scent that needs to be on her skin is mine. “I feel guilty as it is.” She links again.
“I don’t want you to feel guilty. I need you to be with me. I told your boy he has until your birthday, then you can’t be his anymore.” I continue to link. We are in class, I don’t want to have the rest of class hear any of what we say.
“You told him.”
“In a roundabout way. He was driving me a little crazy. Asking all kinds of questions. I wanted to punch him.” She squeezes my hand a little in a reassuring way.
“I appreciate the restraint.” I can hear the humor in her voice. Even in the mind link it comes through.
“You are going to get it when school is over.” I growl a little. A few people turn and look at me. I don’t fucking care.
“Oh, really.” Jasmine is killing me right now. She is lucky we are surrounded by humans.
“You wait and see. I am not a patient person, you know that. This is trying every facet of my patients. I think I am going to lose it.” She leans in and puts her head on my shoulder. That feels nice. She feels like home, I guess that is the best way I can describe it. I lean my cheek on her head. We can’t stay like this because we are in school but I still want to. The teacher comes by with some worksheets. I don’t want to do the stupid thing. However when Jasmine pulls away from me to look over the sheet, I know we are going to do the stupid thing.
“You need to keep your hand in mine.” I almost growl again.
She sighs, “Good thing I can write with both hands. It’s not as pretty but I can do it.” She smiles at me. Her smile brightens my mood. I put that there. That is all I want any more.
JASMINE’S P. O. V.
Hunter is rather possessive. I like it. I feel incredible guilt about the whole situation though. A week really isn’t that long is it? Then Nick will be crushed, but I guess he knows everything. Well, everything that he can know. When we are done in Math, Hunter doesn’t want to let me go. I can feel his fingers tighten on mine. I whisper to him. “It is only an hour until you see me again.”
He growls. He has been doing that a lot lately. “I hate school. This place takes too much of you from me.” He is whispering too. I have seen a few people look over at him. I bet they think he is pissed at me. They try to act like they aren’t looking but I have seen them.
“I’ll make it up to you when we get home.” I whisper.
He lowers his gaze so that he is looking at me through his eyelashes. “You better believe you will.” He whispers. That is going to kill me. The bond is working its magic for sure.
While no one is looking I give him a peck on the cheek while we stand to leave the class. I know he wants more but that will have to work.
Chemistry is much the same way only it is Nick instead of Hunter. He seems to have taken a page out of Hunter’s book. He won’t let my hand go. When Noah gets too close during class he quickly chases him off. Only I am starting to think Nick is worse. As soon as class is over he drapes his arms over me and holds me that way until we get to the pick up section. Then he pulls me around and starts kissing me. I can see he looks around and sees Hunter looking. He makes a point to deepen the kiss with that. He doesn’t know that I know he knows about Hunter, so to him this is a private thing with Hunter.
Carlos coming is a little bit of a reprieve. That is until Hunter speaks after we are all loaded in. “Carlos, can you close the divider? I have to talk to Jasmine in private.”
I look at him with wide eyes. Carlos doesn’t even ask, he just does it. I can hear Allison protest. “You never did that when I was back there.”
“Alpha’s orders. He said that these two are bonding for their new roles. That means private conversations.” He doesn’t even look at Allison while he complies with Hunter’s request. The divider not only blocks view but a lot of sound.
“What are you doing?” I turn to Hunter.
“I have been patient enough today. I told you, you were going to get it later.” He pulls me to him. Putting his arms around me his lips crash into mine. His hands slide up to my hair and quickly his fingers are tangled up. I return the favor. Hell, let Allison think what she wants. “I am not going to be able to leave you alone for the rest of the day.” He murmurs against my skin. “My patience has run out.”
I pull back, not to pull away from him but so I can look at him. “I was going for a run today.” He knows I mean in my fur. If it was on the track I would have said train.
“Even better. I want to see your wolf. I don’t think I have ever seen it. I was spending a lot of time avoiding you.” I feel a twinge of pain as he says that.
“Why were you avoiding me so much?” I can’t help it. I have felt hurt for too damn long.
“Because I didn’t want to be disappointed when you weren’t my mate.” He states. At least that explains some of it. “I know I am nowhere near good enough for you.”
This time I kissed him. Somehow he knows what to say right now. He has said the wrong shit for two years and suddenly it is all right.
We stay tangled with each other until we reach the gate of the pack lands. Once we pass into the lands we straighten up. Fixing our hair and such. At least Hunter gets that I don’t want to have everyone know just yet, even if I hate Allison, I know it will hurt her feelings. I don’t really want anyone to hurt.
We climb out of the SUV and head up stairs. Hunter stops me at his room. “I’ll meet you in the woods.” He gets a goofy look, he wants to make a game of this. I don’t mind, it might be fun.
“See you there.” I give him a wink and head up to my room. I get to the landing and there is my dad, that is unusual, he is usually in his office about now.
“How are things going pumpkin?” He gives me a caring look.
“Fine, for now anyway. I am breaking things off with my boyfriend slowly. I don’t want him to know about any of the wolf stuff so we came up with a story. I am engaged to Hunter. It seems to be working out. Oh, and before I forget again. Tomorrow night I am staying a couple of days at Zoe’s.” That was a lot coming out of my mouth, all of it just sort of falls out.
“I am not so sure you should be away from the pack that long. With the attacks it may be best if you stay close to home.” He gives me a doubtful look.
“I have stayed with Zoe before. I highly doubt that the rogues will come into town. They aren’t that crazy. You can link me if you need me and Carlos can come get me at any time. Plus it has been one attack. I am failing to see the problem.” I stand my ground. Dad will not block me for some stupid reason.
“What about Hunter? Do you think he can be away from you for that long?” He has a point. He barely went a few hours.
“We are just going to have to deal with it. I can’t just stop doing things with my human friends. What am I supposed to tell them, sorry my mate wants me home?”
“I see your point. I will keep Hunter as busy as I can. He might try to see you is all I am saying. At least know that he will be calling you. He will need to hear your voice.”
“There is a dance on Saturday, he is probably going to want to go to that.”
“You didn’t ask him.” He looks at me like I am insane.
“I had already made plans with my boyfriend for the dance. I didn’t want to add that to the plate.”
My dad shakes his head at me. “Jasmine, this is starting to sound too complicated.”
“What isn’t complicated between Hunter and I? Speaking of which, he is waiting for me.”
“Go ahead, just try to straighten this out.” He leaves me to head back to his office I am sure.