Chapter Thirteen

Killian POV

I’ve showered twice now, just to try to get her scent off me. It’s not working though. I told myself not to do anything, not to go further in the room and somehow I ended up on the bed with her.

Tomorrow will be easier, I’m working so I’ve got hours away from her, to keep myself calm so when I come home I’m not tempted to touch her.

I know how this will end, and no one can find out. Aurora is too young to be thrown into human cities and left to live alone. Most wolves live in packs, gated communities, a place they can shift and be themselves without humans seeing.

She’s eighteen, maybe a school would work? There’s a larger pack where a school is situated for those eighteen and over to train, more training her to fight than anything, but maybe that’s a way to solve this?

She will be gone until she proves herself and proves she is a warrior, which likely won’t ever happen.

That could actually work, it keeps her from mating with anyone, keeps her out of my way and makes this all easier. Then no one will have to find out about our bond.

“Aurora is going to work with you,” Rose says, and I stare at her in shock.

“What?”

“She’s eighteen, unmarried, unmarked, unclaimed, do you know how that makes us look?” Rosa moves toward me.

She can’t come to work with me. “Then keep her inside, and no one needs to see how much of a failure you were,” I snap.

Her eyes widen, and I sigh. “I’m the failure?” She steps closer. “I’m sorry Alpha, but did I not train her perfectly to be someone’s wife, Luna and mate? Was it not you who cancelled the wedding?”

She’s not wrong; it was me, if anything I’m the failure. I should have let her marry him and suffered the torture of feeling her pleasure through the bond.

“I apologise, I’m stressed from the work I’ve got on, but having Aurora at the offices with me is not ideal.”

Her hand goes to her hip and I know she’s not happy, but I have to keep space between us, I can’t let her come close.

“As my Alpha, I will respect your wishes,” she says, and I relax. “But as your Luna, you should equally respect mine, and let Aurora work for you.”

Of course she’s twisting it around so she gets exactly what she wants. Sighing, I rub my face. “Okay, I’m sure I can put her in a side room somewhere to put stamps on letters or something.”

“She’s gone to work with you before, Alpha, so why are you wanting her hidden now? She was an asset to you at other times.”

She’s not wrong, but I can’t tell her that.

“She’s eighteen, her wolf has awakened fully, it’s not safe for her to be around humans right now until she’s mated.”

“Aurora would be mated right now if you didn’t call it off.”

“Fine, okay, she can come and work somewhere people can see her, are you happy?” My words come out as a growl and she nods.

“Very, she needs to do something to earn her keep, and working with you does that. Plus, the more time she spends with the humans the better, she could find her own job.”

I scoff at that. “Aurora would not venture into the human cities and get a job,” I argue.

“You seriously misjudge my daughter’s stubbornness, she would mate with a human if it meant she got free from this house,” she snaps, then turns and storms away.

Groaning, I rub my face. I can’t deal with her attitude tonight, turning, I hit something. Cold wetness seeps through my shirt and my head snaps up to the maid.

“Sorry Alpha, I didn’t realize you were turning,” she bows her head.

“Don’t worry about it, just clean the mess,” I say before turning and walking away. I would normally have snapped and shouted, but I’ve had enough arguing for today. I move through the halls and go to my room. Rosa isn’t in bed, no doubt she’s outside having her nightly drink.

Stripping, I throw the wet clothes into the basket and walk to the shower again. Fourth shower of the day, one when I woke, two to try to ease the feeling of Aurora from my body and another to clean up whatever this is.

Stepping under the water, I let my head fall back. I get what Rosa is saying, people will ask what Aurora is contributing to the pack soon, and we can’t say she’s a maid, or that she cleans.

People won’t accept that, the maids don’t live in this house, they don’t have the luxuries that Aurora does. To be fair, Aurora only has those luxuries so she appeals to the males who her mother wanted to marry her off to.

She doesn’t need to be near me, I can put her in an office by herself, or at least away from me. This entire thing is going to be a disaster.

Heat builds low in my stomach and I damn this bond to hell because it’s too much, I try to focus on something else, only it doesn’t ease. If anything it grows, and I find myself struggling to breathe.

This isn’t the bond, pleasure begins to rise within me and I close my eyes. She’s touching herself, I shouldn’t feel it yet, I shouldn’t feel her pleasure for a long while, but I can. My cock hardens as another wave of pleasure crashes over me.

She shouldn’t be doing this, it’s against the rules for a female wolf to pleasure herself until after she’s mated. I need to tell her to stop, but walking into her room while she’s doing that? No, that’s asking for trouble.

“Alpha?” The knock has my body tensing.

“Go to sleep Rosa, I’m finishing up and doing work,” I grit out, my body shaking. Holy fucking shit, even after biting and claiming Rosa I never feel her pleasure in this way. Before I can even consider what I’m doing, my hand lowers and wraps around myself.

Stroking once, my head falls back and I bite back the groan. The closer to the edge she gets, the fucking harder I become. My hand begins to move faster, and I know I should care if Rosa can hear but I don’t. Right now, I don’t care if she can hear the sound of me fucking my hand. Because when I close my eyes, I see Aurora.

The way she looked laid beneath me, the way her body shook when I teased her, and I imagine it’s her that I’m fucking. I imagine how she would scratch at my back, and cry out in pleasure.

My hand begins moving faster, and tightening as I feel a surge of heat slam through me, I don’t get time to think, it sends jolts of pleasure through me to the point I’m groaning out loud. My cum spurts from me in thick heavy streams, and my hand braces against the shower wall.

“Fuck!” I growl. I don’t think I’ve ever come so fucking hard in all my life, I know when she came, I felt it, it was strong enough to push me over the edge.

She needs to be told not to do this again, ever. Getting washed I step out and wrap the towel around me, as I walk into the bedroom Rosa is sat up on the bed, her eyes on me the moment I enter the room.

“I was here,” she says.

I don’t answer, I just grab clothes and get dressed.

“I felt it, Killian, and even if I didn’t feel that slight warmth, I heard it, all of it.”

Turning I look at her. “I’m not in the mood to fuck you tonight,” I snap.

“Fuck? Since when do we fuck, we mate, Killian. Clearly you were in the mood for something,” she yells and gestures to me.

Okay, she’s not wrong. I always say mate, I never say we fuck, but god, I could just imagine Aurora, we would fuck. I need to stop this, it’s going to destroy everything and show everyone that I am fated to Aurora.

“I apologise, I’m exhausted, I’ve got a lot of work to get done for tomorrow,” I say before leaning over and kissing her cheek. “Don’t stay awake and wait for me.”

Turning I walk out and make my way around to where Aurora sleeps. As I get closer, I see her bedroom door open, did she really leave it open while she touched herself?