Page 33 of Rejected By the Alpha King

I stared at him stonily before I followed her inside and zipped it up. Anna pulled out a flashlight and turned it on.

I immediately turned it off so I could see Marsh standing there. Eventually, he retreated, and she turned the flashlight on. “He’ll see,” I muttered quietly.

“Silhouettes. Shadows. We can use that to our advantage,” she whispered quietly.

It dawned on me what she wanted. “You want me to pretend to fuck you?”

Her cheeks reddened, and she lowered her gaze. “It doesn’t have to be a seduction. He won’t expect one. Just quick and dirty. I’ll…um…I’ll make a few sounds of pain. That should satisfy him.”

Goddammit. So she’d shut the fuck up, I grabbed her face and jerked her chin up. Still holding her gaze. I turned the flashlight off. “I don’t fuck, pretend or otherwise, for anyone’s enjoyment but mine and hers. I will not give that sick fuck a show. This role that you have me playing does not happen when we’re alone, understand?”

“Is it a role? You want obedience from me, don’t you?”

“It’s not the same.”

“To you, it’s not.”

I growled, and she put a hand to my cheek. “Don’t worry. The two of you are very different. He likes control over me because he wants me. You want it because you hate me. None of that changes the fact that he will follow us all the way to the coven to figure out how to kill you and take me. Especially if he thinks we aren’t really mated.”

I wanted to hate her. It was so much easier when I didn’t see her. When I didn’t have my hands around her waist while she bathed naked in the river. When she wasn’t practically straddling my lap, asking me to put my scent on her.

Before I could stop myself, I brushed my lips across hers. She froze.

“I could strip you naked, hold you against me all night, and it would still not have the same effect as a kiss. Relax and open for me. It will only take a moment.”

I waited until she softened and touched my lips to hers. “However I may feel for you,” I whispered. “You should know that I am never going to let Marsh touch you.”

She opened to me, and I swept my tongue in and kissed her gently. It was meant to be a quick kiss, but the moment my lips touched hers, the energy in the tent shifted. The air grew warm and thick, and my entire body started to tingle. I didn’t want to scare her, but when my arms slipped around her body and under her shirt so I could spread my palms against her naked skin, she whimpered.

It wasn’t from fear.

Groaning, I pulled her more snuggly against my lap and hard cock and deepened the kiss.

She placed her hands on my chest, but soon, her fingers were tangled in my hair, and her whole body was plastered against me.

“All clear.”

At the sound of Finn’s voice, I snarled. Anna tried to pull away, but I kept my arms around her. “I know he lied. The others are okay. I would know if they were dead,” I whispered.

“I need to talk to him.”

“Okay.”

“Stay here, and keep that flare gun handy in case anyone but me tries to come in. I’ll keep the tent in sight.”

Immediately, she shoved off my lap. “Is there a reason I can’t come with you?” She asked icily. When I didn’t say anything, she snorted. “You still don’t trust me. Fine. Go.”

I wouldn’t apologize. My reason for trusting her hadn’t changed, still I hated that my tongue was just inside her, and now she was pulling away. “I won’t keep anything from you that you need to know.”

“That you think I need to know.” She grabbed the flare gun from the bag and stared at me.

I was only mostly certain she wouldn’t shoot me in the back when I climbed out of the tent.

I’d met Finn once, five or six years ago. His father was Indigo Peak’s guard and spy, one of the best. We’d all tried to woo him away at one point, some of us more half-heartedly than others, but he was loyal.

Until alpha Maeve Frost discovered that not only was he not loyal, but he was feeding information to another pack. He’d been killed after that. I was under the impression that when Finn’s father refused to name who he’d turned traitor for, Maeve had Finn killed as well.

“I never did think that Maeve had it in her to kill a child,” I said as I met him at the edge of the woods. The dull green tent faded in the background once Anna turned the flashlight off, but I never took my eyes off it.

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