Chapter 5: “You want me, Precious?”

*ASA TRINE*

If anger was a person, then I would say its name was Clay Arius.

Standing there, still by the door he looked menacingly at the two of us making Cain’s grip on me tighten. Cain had usually been the quiet type but even he didn’t seem to like the way Clay had been throwing us a disgusting look and a derisive chuckle reverberated out of his chest.

“I don’t see why you are so concerned with my mate’s health,” he said stressing on the word ‘my’ possessively as if to send him a message that would stop him from overstepping his boundaries more than he already had.

This caused the direction of Clay’s somber glare focus solely on his brother, the enmity rising more than before but without giving him a chance to retaliate Cain jabbed another condescending statement as he said, “Unless of course you are jealous of us? It seems that you finally came to your senses to see the treasure that you have lost.”

Like I said before, I had rarely ever had a single decent conversation with Cain previously, so to hear him praising me like he did just now I found my heart melting at his every word and the little touches that his roaming hands were burning through my skin in a pleasurable emotion.

The statement seemed to have snapped Clay out of whatever funk he was in because a fog cleared from his eyes almost instantly he stood up straighter and clicking his tongue he said, “Why would I be jealous when I have the most beautiful girl in the whole pack to be my mate?”

As he said this, he brought Sofia to stand in front of him in a similar position as mine but unlike the lovestruck look she was bestowing him he only had his eyes glaring holes at Cain’s arms around my waist.

“Keep my sister out of this, Clay, please,” Michael respectfully but strictly said as he moved to take his sister away but shifting away with her still in his hold, Clay glanced at him and stated, “You should better accept this fact Beta Michael, your sister will be my mate and the future Luna of this pack.”

The venom in his voice took Michael and Leia by surprise as they stared at the golden boy of the pack speaking to them in a tone uncharacteristic to him.

“What is wrong with you? I understand that you are worked up right now but this is not how you think and act, Clay,” Leia admonished him, unable to keep the surprise out of her voice making Cain scoff quietly behind me. It seemed like he had been well versed with a side of his brother that only he had known until now.

“Stop trying to tell me how I am and how I should behave Beta Leia,” Clay seethed casting my sister a cold look, the surprise of which shut her up. She might have thought of him like a jerk for rejecting me but she was only now coming to find out that Clay in all his totality was a big jerk and a two-faced scum in general, always.

“I am telling you Cain, as your twin who knows you the best, this girl will ruin your life. She has no redeeming qualities and will only drag you down,” the evil twin stated staring at his brother with a face that had now contorted into delicate features of care and worry. I didn’t know why he even bothered to act this way when only a few hours before he had been throwing punches at the brother he was ‘caring’ about now.

How much of a foolish hypocrite was he going to be?

“I don’t need to hear you blabber more shit, Clay. Get out of this room, this instant or else I will throw you out of here and you know that I mean every word that I say,” Cain tiredly sighed probably having enough bullshit of his brother’s fake affections.

What I failed to understand was that if Clay cared neither about me and nor about Cain then why was he acting so adamantly against the two of us?

Shouldn’t he be happy and congratulate the two thorns of his life on living together?

Thinking of his words and rejection still hurt a little and leaning against my mate’s chest tiredly as I found my legs turning weak from the pressure of standing for so long, I let him support my weight entirely.

This time Clay didn’t say anything or even wait to throw us a glare he simply turned around and banging the door shut after him, almost breaking it off its hinges, he stomped down the hallway towards the exit.

“Clay!” Sofia ran after him without a second’s pause and sighing at his sister’s foolishness Michael gave me an exhausted smile and said, “Take care of yourself Asa, I need to go and sort this mess.”

“I want to stay for a little longer but sorry bud I still have some urgent pack work to take care of,” Leia said coming in front of me. She then tried to take me from Cain’s arms but he again stepped back to keep me away from her hold as he acted to have not done it deliberately.

“I will chop off those fucking legs if you dared to move her away from me once more!” Leia shouted at my mate in frustration and suppressing a giggle at their banter I looked up at Cain’s unperturbed face as I patted his arms around my waist and said, “I’ll be alright.”

Our eyes met, his hesitation clearing on meeting the pleads pooling in my green orbs and sighing he reluctantly parted from me as Leia pulled me in a tight and warm hug.

‘Don’t scare me like that again, Asa and please use protection when you mate,’ she said making me gasp at her voice that rang in my mind. I was glad that she hadn’t said it out loud or I would have definitely died of shame right there in her arms.

‘Leia!’ I scolded her as I pulled away from her to stare into her mischievous eyes.

“What? You know it’s going to happen soon,” she said loudly this time as she helped me to sit down on the hospital bed. My cheeks had been a blazing red because of her words as I sneaked a look at my mate to find him already looking at me with a scorching gaze, his eyes trained on the redness spreading over my pale skin.

Hiding my face behind my hair I looked away at once and chuckling Leia smacked Cain’s back as she said, “I am trusting you with my sister, make sure you don’t do anything to hurt her in any way.”

“She is my mate, I will never hurt her,” Cain stated and then coughing he lightly added, “Unlike you.”

“That was not my mistake right now! You heard the doctor, right?” Leia shouted gasping at Cain’s constant accusation and then glaring at him and giving me a smile, she stalked out of the room mumbling along that it was useless fighting with a birdbrain.

“You shouldn’t have angered her like that,” I said looking at the now closed door that had been banged one too many times today as the people dramatically entered or left this room.

“You shouldn’t worry about her, you should worry about yourself first, my sweet Asa,” he said making me confused but before I could voice out my confusion, I felt him lift my chin and turn it towards him making me stare into his amber eyes.

The emotions swirling inside them was clear to me and I didn’t need to ask him the reason behind his words but a whispery “Why?” left my mouth as I felt him pull my chin farther up towards him.

“You made some dangerous claims just now, didn’t you? It seems that I misjudged my mate to be a quiet and innocent girl when in reality, you seem to crave me just as much as I do,” he said bringing his lips dangerously close to mine. The hot breath that tickled the sensitive skin there, made a goosebump run across my arms and the strain in my neck that had me in his hold and at his mercy was only enticing these feelings to double up.

Rubbing my lips gently with his he moved me further back on the bed and then gently laid my head on the pillow while making sure to maintain the featherlike distance between our mingling breaths.

“You want me, Precious?” he asked brushing his lips slightly against my lower lip, making me yearn and lean forward to feel his touch closer. The tingles sparked from that small teasing touch and made an itch deep in my core become more and more prominent as my heart thudded against my chest.

“Tell me Asa, say that you want me,” Cain softly demanded, his voice rising a little and I could hear the strain in them. He had been struggling to keep his control as well.

Deciding to end both of our suffering, I closed my eyes as I whispered the words we both had been waiting for, “I want you.”

A low and appreciating growl followed the descend of his soft lips capturing my mouth into a sweet kiss. The electricity that ran through me made me hold onto the sheets tightly as my toes curled in at the divine kiss that had numbed my brain and sent my body into a sensory overload.

Gasping for breath I broke apart our kiss as I instinctively opened my eyes to stare at the handsome face of my mate. His hands that had been caging my head on either side and his legs that had trapped my body in between his made me feel as if I was still bound in a warm embrace and smiling at him, I stared happily into his golden eyes.

“Was that your first kiss?” he asked and though his voice had been coming out in soft pants I could sense the dangerous glint in his eyes.

I knew he wanted only one answer and chuckling at the jealousy that was ready to raise its head I said, “Yes, it was my first kiss.”

A handsome smile broke onto his face and leaning down to kiss my lips again he pulled away as he confessed, “Mine too.”

That took me by surprise but before I could even let it show on my face, he swooped down to kiss me again as he happily mumbled against my lips, “You only belong to me, Asa Trine and I will only ever belong to you.”

It was a moment of bliss for me but a chill ran through me when I heard a voice echo in my head.

"You are not worthy of being my mate and neither are you ever going to be mated to him. I will never let you be happy Asa Trine and that's a promise from your future Alpha Clay Arius."