Page 34 of Fallen Wolf
“Fucking make a move dickhead.” I heard River from downstairs. I grumbled, I couldn’t even do this with privacy. They would all hear my epic win, or my super epic fail.
I had only a towel wrapped around my hips, I had stupidly not taken any clothes in with me. It wasn’t something I was used to doing, when all these guys had seen my junk hundreds of times.
“Oh, sorry. I should come back.” Ada’s eyes widened at the sight of me. My chest was still a little damp from the shower. I thought I would have used all the hot water with how long I was in there, but it seemed to never end and so did my hard on. Even now I could feel myself growing hard at the pheromones she was giving off, she liked how I looked. She was attracted to me. My wolf calmed down, he knew she would pick us. I wasn’t as sure.
“No, sorry. I’m used to being naked around the guys so I didn’t bring a change of clothes in with me.” I moved over to my bag and pulled out some sweats. She was watching me and I smiled.
“Oh, yes, that makes sense,” she had a hint of smile as she turned to look away. I dropped the towel and quickly slid the gray sweats up over my damp skin. I was warm but these were not going to do me any favors with my dick. I looked at the bed, which was now made and jumped up to sit on the top of the covers, grabbing a pillow I placed it over my lap.
“You can look now,” I watched as her amazing eyes focused back on me and that smile grew on her face. She was smiling at me. I felt weightless, I was so happy she was here.
“I just wanted to see how you were, you know. Just in case you needed something…” she played with the hem of her tee, I noticed then that she had changed again… but this time she didn’t have a towel on her head.
I liked that she had showered, Saint had marked her last night, I didn’t like it, but I couldn’t do anything about it in my state, and I didn’t have the right too. If they were together then I had no standing. I needed to know.
“Are you and Saint Wood together?” She looked a little taken back at my words. But I didn’t know how else to ask. I didn’t want to have to fight Saint. And I knew with him, that’s what it would come down to. But Noah was safer, he wasn’t the type to fight.
Don’t get me wrong, I knew he wouldn’t just let me take Ada. But I knew he wasn’t going to blindside me one day when I was out. He was the more the kind of guy to talk it out.
“Ah. no. He… we. No, I am single.” I sat back a moment. She was single? But she was going on a date with Noah. Maybe not yet… that was why she was still single.
“Did you want to sit with me?” I patted the bed and she came up and sat down, crossing her legs. She pursed her lips and watched me. I didn’t know what to say… I was fucking this up.
“Talk about school or something.”I heard Mason say from downstairs. I wanted to roll my eyes at him but then Ada would think I was rolling them at her.
“So how is school?” she sat up straighter.
“It’s good, I guess better now I have Lexi. But now she won’t be going back so that sucks.” She looked a little upset at that.
“You can sit with me at lunch… if you want.” She smiled and I could see the blush rising up her cheeks. The scents she was giving off were telling me that this was going well. My wolf felt relaxed and happy that she wanted to sit with me.
“So, I guess the wolfs out of the bag. You know about shifters. That makes any conversations in the future a little easier.” She went to say something then closed her mouth. She looked at me with a puzzled expression. Did I say something wrong? Say something that will make her happy… oh yeah. Her cat.
“How is Fluffy Thor?” her eyes widened and mouth dropped open.
“Oh my god, I need to feed my cat.” She started to get off the bed but I reached out and took her hand and she stopped.
“It’s okay, Galen has someone doing that for you. A human.” I knew because I had asked him about it yesterday and he had no idea she had a cat so he’d organized it quickly. I watched as her shoulders sagged in relief. She looked down to where I held her hand.
She was so small, so pale against my own hand. She didn’t pull away, she held on. My heart started to race, as I moved my thumb over her soft skin. I could sense her heart beat rising too, her breathing was deeper as I stroked her skin in silence.
I looked up into her eyes and she met my gaze. I wanted to kiss her… do I ask her? I didn’t know. Do I just do it? I started to lean in closer, I watched her mouth slightly opening. Her lips were so shiny, so kissable.
“Hey, there you are. Come, it’s girl chatting time.” I watched as Ada blinked and the moment was lost. I rolled my eyes at the timing. Kiara just smiled at me and winked. Really? Of all the times she could have her, she picks now to interrupt. I could hear Mason telling his brother Dylan to come get his woman, so Ada and I could be alone. But it was too late. Ada was up and leaving. She waved goodbye to me. I smiled and nodded.
I flopped backward onto the mattress. The pillow that once shielded her from my growing erection now going to my face. Ugh… I needed to do better next time. I should have kissed her, asked her out, not asked about school and Saint. We’d had a moment.
She liked me, I knew for sure now that she did.
“Dude that was pathetic to hear, you have no game. You need to just ask her out man.” River teased me from the doorway. Like he had game.
“Fuck off,” I mumbled into the pillow, I didn’t want to see him. I rolled over, away from him and I felt the bed dip, then it dipped twice more.
“Leave me alone.” I told the three of them.
“Nah, man. We are here for you. Turns out the date with Noah was actually for his birthday and is with his family. That doesn’t sound like no date to me.” Kenton pulled the pillow from my face and I turned to see them all nodding.
“But I think Saint is going to be a problem. I asked around and the understanding is that he wants to claim her, but also that he doesn’t want her. He hasn’t bothered to come up and see her, if he was really that interested you would have thought he would go to her.” I nodded that was true. Why wouldn’t he want her? But I knew I didn’t care, that meant he wasn’t going to be standing in my way if he didn’t want her.
