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I knew we were skipping school, but what had just happened between the two of us was more important.
“Sure,” said Blake with a nod.
Not wanting to waste another moment, I walked Scarlett to my car and opened the passenger side. I helped her into the seat before I closed the door. I walked around the front of the car and got into the driver’s side.
As I started up the car and pulled out of the parking lot, I reached for her hand and held it. Just touching her made me feel calm. I liked it.
The ride was quiet. She seemed as content as I was to just be together with our hands touching.
I wanted to take her somewhere where we could talk without distractions or interruptions, so taking her back to my house wasn’t an option. I decided to take her to a place I didn’t tell many people about, a small house I’d inherited from my grandmother.
It wasn’t flashy or anything like that. I could have renovated it but I liked the way it was—small and lived in. It reminded me of my grandmother and it was a place that I went to when I needed time alone or to think.
I’d never brought a girl there before.
The house was secluded, with tall trees lining the dirt road that led to a house surrounded by more tall trees. I parked outside the front of the house.
I watched Scarlett look around and take a deep breath. I was feeling nervous, unsure if she’d like it here. She was used to a certain standard of living that this house didn’t live up to.
I reached for her hand and led her to the door of the house. I reached for the key in its usual hiding place behind a potted plant beside the front door and unlocked the door and stepped inside.
“It’s not much, but I like to come here when I need to be alone,” I said as I entered the house. Normally, I was the only one who came here other than the cleaning lady once a week. She stepped inside after me and looked around the small house. I waited while she scanned the house.
“I like it,” she said, surprising me.
“I thought it would be better to talk here than at the house where there are too many distractions.”
She nodded her head in agreement
I knew her well enough to know that our talk was going to get heated. She was my mate, but she was no pushover. It was something that I liked about her, but I knew there were going to be times that same independence was going to drive me nuts.
I don’t know if it was the way she looked at me or just the fact that I needed to touch her, but I wanted to kiss her again before the fighting started.
“But before we talk, I need to do this again,” I said before I reached for her and pulled her closer. My hands cupped her face and tilted it upward as my lips touched hers.
The urge to move my lips to her neck and mark her as my own was nearly impossible to fight, but I knew she wasn’t ready for that yet and there was no way I’d mark her without her consent. I fought against the urge as I continued to kiss her.
I lost myself in the moment, moving my lips against hers. The thought that she was mine made me so damn happy.
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
Scarlett
It was time to talk but I didn’t want to stop kissing him. I’d never felt so alive before and it was hard to break away from him and take a step back. Breathlessly, I gazed up at him, still holding onto his arms to keep me up on weakened legs.
Knowing we were mates was one thing, but touching him and making that connection with him was something so different.
I’d felt attracted to him before but now it was so much more. I cared about him in a way I’d never felt before. It wasn’t an instant love but I wanted to be with him and protect him and I knew he felt the same; it was written in his eyes.
“We need to talk,” I insisted, trying to get my heart to slow down, but standing so close to him just made me want to shut up and keep kissing him. I released my hold on his arms and stepped back.
“Yes… we need to talk,” he agreed, remaining where he was.
I needed to sit down so I took a seat on the comfortable sofa.
“Where do we start?” I asked as I clasped my hands together. This whole experience was so weird. It wasn’t just like I was a girl who liked a guy and we kinda dated to see where it would lead. No, we were mates and we were destined to be together. We had to sit down and figure out what that meant, or at least I did.
I gazed at him as he took a step closer to me. We both knew this conversation wasn’t going to be easy.
