Page 13 of Bond & Protect

“Oh my God!” As soon as I see the sight of Elias on his knees in front of Mila, clearly making her feel a million different things at once, I’m struck. I don’t know what to do. I mean, I definitely shouldn’t keep looking, but I can’t stop myself now. I’m addicted to the sight of them… of her, with her face all contorted in everlasting bliss.

Should I feel jealous? I don’t know if I should be feeling weird about this since me and Mila were just kissing a moment ago. But then, I suppose I don’t own any part of her. Elias really seems to have her heart. It might even be a mated bonding, so me kissing her was oh so wrong.

But it’s more than that. I do feel like I have a little piece of her. As does Elias. I can’t explain what this feeling is, but I know it’s right. I mean, I haven’t experienced any kind of love before, so I don’t know what’s right or wrong. I just know it can look like anything. There is no one way for love to look for anyone, so this isn’t an issue…

But I do snap my head back inside the moment Mila sinks down because I don’t want to be caught looking at her. I don’t think she’ll like that at all. I press my hand to my chest, noticing how my heart is thundering, all because of what I just witnessed…

I step back and eventually flop back onto the bed, trying my hardest to gather myself up once more. I can’t crumble and fall here. I can’t lose my shit because I’m pretty sure Elias is still going to rip my head off the moment he catches me. I slide my eyes closed in an attempt to calm down the racing going on inside me right now, but it doesn’t help.

Instead, I envision Mila back in the bed with me, kissing me all over again. I imagine myself in Elias’s position, with my mouth all over her, tasting her body. I can’t control my body. I can’t stop the rock hard erection growing in my pants. I kinda wish now that Elias hadn’t gotten in the way of me and Mila. I wish things hadn’t been halted as they were because all my fantasies might have come true. I really did feel like things were headed that way.

My hand almost wants to explore myself because I’m not going to get satisfaction in any other way, but before I can cave to that temptation, the voices of Mila and Elias enter the cabin. Instantly I bolt into a sitting position, remembering that I’m in the dog house here.

“Amos?” Elias yells up the stairs. I can’t quite tell if that’s anger or lust lacing his tone now. Hopefully, what just happened with Mila has calmed him down. “Come here.”

It’s fine, I try to tell myself as I practically tip-toe down the stairs. It’s going to be okay…

But that thought instantly snaps away the moment I see his face. Mila is making herself something to drink in the kitchen, and Elias is glaring at me. I guess he isn’t calm after all.

We stare at one another for a moment, in a weird little standoff, before he moves. Just slightly at first, but I know that he’s coming for me and he’s going to make me pay.

I don’t even hesitate. I shift back, knowing that I’ll be safer as a wolf, and I tear off out of the cabin. I run. He gives chase. I am faster, for now. My legs are longer, but he has more stamina despite my youth. I don’t know how long we can both keep this up, but if I let him get me, then we’re going to have the sort of fight that makes the wolf blood that Mila was apparently covered in look like nothing. And I will be the one to suffer because I should never fight my alpha.

Shit, I think to myself as the woods thicken around us. This is really bad…

Something catches my paw and sends me flying. It’s scary as I smash hard on the forest floor, but I know that wasn’t Elias. It might have given him a chance to get closer to me…

Nervously I glance back to see that Elias has paused. Whatever tripped me up has captivated him, so of course I need to go and find out what it is. Even if I’m still scared of my alpha. I don’t know how he’s going to react to me, but I hope this is distraction enough.

‘Oh my goodness,’ I telepathically communicate with Elias. ‘Who is this?’

It’s a wolf, lying on the ground, very still, but I can tell he’s still alive. Although, the strangest thing of all is that this wolf doesn’t have a smell. At all. That’s why I wasn’t alerted to him. Because it doesn’t matter how deep I inhale, I can’t smell anything at all. All wolves smell, and all creatures have a scent, which is why my hackles are raised.

‘We need to get this wolf to Liam,’ Elias tells me. ‘We need to get him healed.’

I don’t voice my doubts, but Elias must sense them anyway unless a part of him thinks the same thing––that this wolf isn’t like any other wolf. That’s terrifying.

‘This creature might have answers for us,’ Elias insists. ‘We need to be careful.’

I don’t like this concept, it’s unnerving, but I’ve already upset Elias once today, so I definitely don’t intend to do the same thing. As Elias communicates with Liam, telling him to meet us at the edge of the forest so he can work out what the hell is going on here, I sniff around, still trying to find a smell. Or at the very least, to find a part of this creature that I want to hold.

I take the top of the wolf while Elias takes the bottom and we drag him to the edge of the forest where Liam is waiting for us already, with concern plastered across his face.

‘I don’t know what this is,’ Liam immediately communicates. ‘Something is strange here. I don’t think this is something I can deal with. I might need help from some elders’.

‘Can you take this creature to the elders?’ Elias asks. ‘In case this beast has answers.’

Liam is immediately agreeable, grabbing hold of the creature to take it away. My blood runs a little cold here because I’m worried about Liam. I hope he’s okay with the creature, and this isn’t some kind of trick. I wouldn’t want to let Liam go, just for something bad to happen to him.

But Elias doesn’t seem to share the same fears as me. He backs away, letting Liam go easily, seemingly calm that Liam will be back before we know it. I have to try and have the same confidence in our medic as the alpha. If Elias is confident, then I am too. Sort of. I think so.

Elias and I have sobered over this discovery. We’re no longer about to fight anymore. I can tell that my alpha doesn’t want to rip my head off any longer. Thank goodness.

As we make our way back to the cabin, Elias finally lands on the topic of conversation I guess he’s been wanting to discuss ever since he first walked in on me and Mila.

‘So, why did you do it?’ he asks me. ‘Why did you make a move on Mila?’

I don’t quite know how to respond, but I do want to explain myself, so I try. ‘I don’t know what came over me. I don’t quite know what happened. We were just talking and the heat got the better of us. Before I even knew what was happening, we were kissing.’

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