he wasn’t the most handsome man in the world, he definitely wasn’t something to complain looking at.
A nice strong jaw, his nose with character too. It was a little too big, but I found that endearing. I was amazed that even asleep he had a firm set to his lips. I moved my hand up and gently traced his bottom lip. I moved my fingers up to his dark hair, pushing the strands that lay on his face. While he slept I wasn’t as afraid. Men who were asleep tended to be much safer than awake.
“What am I going to do with you?”
I breathed feeling an infinite sadness plague my heart. Things hadn’t started off well for us. I hoped things would be better if I could get someone to bind my other half.
Staring off into space, I hadn’t noticed him wake. His voice jarred me from my thoughts.
“So you lied.”
I made a quiet, startled noise in the back of my throat.
“What?”
“You didn’t have to go the bathroom, obviously.”
His voice was quiet here. It was like the tension was finally beginning loosened.
“You would have risked me going for it here, in the bed?” I asked jokingly. He searched my eyes for a moment. I wasn’t sure, but for a second, he looked to be searching for a deeper meaning to my simple statement.
“Letting you go would be the hardest thing I ever have to do. Even if you just needed to use the bathroom,” Hunter said.
I swallowed hard, trying to ignore how his words affected me.
“You shouldn’t say things like that,” I said. I felt like I was drowning. He didn’t know me. He didn’t know what I was. He would hate me if he knew I was part witch. I could already imagine the disgust I would see in him if he ever found out.
“I am not doing this again,” He said, frustrated. He might believe in us one hundred percent, but I was still wary. And he didn’t know. Though I was hoping he would never know.
“I wanted to ask you something.”
I pulled out of his arms cautious of our proximity. He made me nervous in a way that I had never been before. This was so new to me, someone wanting to be with me, someone who had no restraint. He watched me closely as I pulled away and I realized my shirt had ridden up during sleep. I pulled it down before he could see my tattoo. It was very personal to me, and I rarely showed it off.
“You were about to ask me something,” Hunter said. He climbed out of bed. That is when I realized he was shirtless and mostly naked. He only wore boxer briefs, and it had me feeling like I was thirteen again. I turned away after letting out an audible “eep”.
He was gorgeously tanned and wrapped in thick muscle. It felt too personal staring at him. Well, what I was doing was more gawking...
“Why are you here? In our territory I mean,” I asked still looking in the opposite direction.
“Pack business.”
I turned towards him.
“Well it’s not a secret to Isaac. I guess I could go ask him, but I rather you have told me.”
“What does it matter? Me being here now doesn’t change that we would have eventually found our way to each other someday,” Hunter challenged. I wasn’t going to back down.
“I wasn’t trying to,” I groaned in the back of my throat frustrated. I hadn’t been asking to accuse him of anything. I didn’t think there was any way to fix that so I moved on.
“There is obviously a reason your Alpha would send a group of enforcers up this way.”
Hunter stayed quiet with this arms crossed in front of him.
“I was just wondering because… you know about my past,” I said quietly purposefully looking down.
Hunter unfolded his arms and rubbed the back of his neck.
“What are you trying to get at Colette?”
“I am not trying to get at anything.”
He made a noise of disproval before walking to the dresser. He started to rummaging through his bag of clothes that sat on top of the dresser. He hadn’t actually unpacked the bag, which meant he wasn’t planning on staying very long. That made cold fear course through me. I was running out of time and I knew it. I could feel the clock ticking in my head.
“Seriously, you are too untrusting,” I tried to sound playful but he had every right to be suspicious of me.