Chapter 4

Mira's POV

"Honey, smile for the camera!' my mother said. She'd been watching me rather closely ever since I managed to drag myself back into the great hall.

I still couldn't stop thinking about the intense makeup session between me and my soon to be stepbrother.

Every time I looked at him or our eyes mistakenly met, I blushed a crimson color.

I was both intrigued and riddled with guilt, not because I had let him kiss me and almost had his way with me out in the open but because I wanted him to do it again.

In fact, my wolf was beyond eager for him to mark us and it made me sick to my stomach that I was even thinking of him that way…

I needed to reject him, fast.

"No!" Claudia growled from within me but I ignored her.

"You won't reject him, he belongs to us!" Claudia said  again,  this time with a firmness and authority to her voice.

I smiled as the photographer took another picture of us and another and another.

It was around midnight when the party began to slowly end.

"Your new step brother is super hot," Zane squealed as I was about to gracefully exit the party too. If grace was even an option.

I frowned at her words and then proceeded to scrunch up my nose in disgust.

Not only did I think so too, I had experienced his hotness first hand and I was feeling guilty as hell. If she'd known what had transpired between us earlier, she'd be disgusted too.

I needed to get out of here to think about what the fuck I was going to do…

"Oh, don't give me that look." She pouted.

"I should be pouring some holy water on you," I said with a deadpan expression.

She chuckled and just then, I watched as Kayden walked past me, without so much as a glance in my direction.

I felt a light blow to the chest at his blatant disregard for me yet I completely understood. It couldn't happen.

We just couldn't, besides I had a boyfriend, one that until now was the only man that had ever gotten to second base with me.

Zane and I talked some more before I gracefully exited the function and went up to my room, not wanting to be subjected to the torture of watching him and the mystery she-wolf be all lovey dovey.

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The next couple of days, I made it a personal business of mine to avoid him like the plague.

In fact, after the engagement party,I decided to go to Zane's house to stay for three days because that was the amount of time he was meant to spend with my mom before he went to his pack and made preparations for my mom and his wedding and the merging of both packs.

I planned on finally telling my mother today, I couldn't betray her. I needed to let her know what the situation was.

"Are you sure you don't want to stay for dinner?"

Zane asked me one more time as I got into her car.

"Yes, today is Lasagna Thursday, I can't miss it." I said to her,

I loved Zane to death but I was tired of eating cereal and junk day after day. I needed something nourishing. Plus there was the fact that Kayden and his father, Alpha Remy were finally gone which meant I could relax in my own home.

I had tried to talk to my mom the next day about the situation but seeing the love in her eyes had caused me to immediately retreat.

I don’t want to be the reason why that light would get dimmed.

"Alright. I'm going to miss you." She pouted  and I chuckled.

She turned on the engine of her car and drove off towards the pack house.

"Thanks again for bringing me home  and say goodbye to Cameron for me." I waved at her as she drove off.

I took a deep breath before walking through the entrance of the pack house.

The house was quiet, not even the Beta seemed to be around.

I climbed up the stairs and went straight to my room. I took off my clothes and quickly jumped into the shower but when I put on the water after turning on the heater, it was cold.

I ran out of the bathroom screaming bloody murder.

Had they finished all the hot water? Or perhaps Kayden had invited that she-wolf over……

I pushed the thought away and decided to go to my mom's bathroom to shower.

She had the better bathroom and a huge tub and a jacuzzi.

As soon as I was done, I quickly brushed my teeth and immediately, I stepped into my bedroom but literally screamed when I saw Kayden standing in my room.

My towel loosened and fell off my chest as if on cue and his eyes widened in shock and then proceeded to darken with desire as he approached me.

I was frozen for a second but when he was in front of me, my legs moved faster than before.

I ran into the bathroom quickly before he could reach me and closed the door behind me.

"I'm sorry. I didn't realize you were back…" he started to say but I wasn't having it.

"What are you doing in my room?" I yelled through the door.

"This is your mother's room." He pointed out and I swallowed.

"Right! Fuck," I had totally forgotten that I had decided to come into my mother's bathroom when my shower refused to heat up.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to invade your privacy."

Why was he in my mother's bathroom?

"It's… fine." I said with a strained voice. "Where's my mom?" I asked, my legs still shaking.

"She's in a council meeting."

"I thought you'd be gone by now!" I said through the closed door. “What are you doing here?”

"Yes but there was an emergency meeting your mother had to attend and she asked my dad to wait for a day or so…" he grunted.

He sounded almost like he didn't even want to be talking to me and that hurt me more than it should.

"I see…" I said.

"What are we going to do about this situation?" I asked after a long stretch of silence.

"Nothing, we are to pretend like it never happened." He whispered, his voice commanding and authoritative.

My wolf immediately responded to him.

"But…"

"No buts, Mira. Are you trying to hurt your mother?" He asked, impatience in his voice. “Surely you're not a selfish daughter that would have your needs before hers, right?”

"No…. I Just don't want to lie to her!" I yelled.

I couldn't see his face but I could definitely feel him from behind the bathroom door.

"It's not a lie. It's an omission, one that won't matter since I already rejected you anyway,"

My legs finally gave way and I collapsed to the ground. The force of my fall sent the door flying open and exposing me to him again.

He gasped as he saw me and ran towards me but I pulled away from his touch.

“Don't touch me,” I began to examine my body for bruises acknowledging the pain in my body and in my heart.

What the fuck was wrong with me? This was the right thing to do. But why was it so hard?

“I'm sorry I didn't mean it like that but you understand that it's for the best.” His eyes swept over my form after saying that and I gulped at the look of raw desire in his eyes.

"Fuck," he shook his head, why is it so hard to resist you?!" He grunted and before I knew it, he had me pinned back against the wall, his lips crashing into mine.

"Yes," I moaned as I kissed him back feverishly and in a frenzied motion.

The hurt wedged in my chest earlier, completely vanished as he continued to kiss me crazy.

His lips and his body pressed up against mine did things to my body that made me never want to stop. Claudia was all too happy too as she demanded to be marked.

Just when I was beginning to melt into him, the sound of his phone ringing caused me to immediately jump.

"Fuck!" He cursed.

"It's my father,”

I blinked at him as I came back to my senses. A now reinforced guilt came to lodge its way on my chest.

"Hello, Dad" he picked up the call and hearing his father's voice made me unable to bear being so close to him any longer. “I found it Dad and I'm bringing it…”

I ran out of the room and locked myself in my own room. I threw myself on my bed and screamed into the pillow, feeling too many emotions at once.

How can this be fucking happening to me? Just how???

Why my new stepbrother? Why couldn't I have been paired with someone else, say Cameron for instance?

Why did this happen when my mum had just met the first man she seemed to genuinely care about?

I needed to call her, I needed to speak to her. I picked up my phone and was about to dial her number when my phone buzzed indicating an incoming message.

I tapped on the message and found a message from a private number.

I gasped and nearly dropped my phone when I read the content of the message…

I know what you've done, with your stepbrother, you little slut…