Chapter 102 - Do you mind joining?

HADRIAN

Emma burns up bright red, it blooms at her cheeks and travels down her neck and chest. It colors the swell of her breasts and disappears behind the fabric of her shirt. I need to be careful not to ogle for too long. My dick is already aching and my hands tingle with the need to run them over her flushed skin.

In an ideal situation where nobody would be around, I would undress her until the complete expanse of her flush is revealed. I would tease her until the rest of her body shows the same flush. Then when her body is all supple and ready, I would fuck her into the grass with the sun shining on my back. I would fill her tight entrance with my swollen cock until every accumulating knot releases from my core and comes dripping out of her and onto the grass.

*Fuck, I really need to stop. Or get some help.*

I can’t remember ever being this desperate to get laid. My balls are tight as fuck and I shift to further hide the situation in my lap.

I’m not even a part of their training routine, but I won’t miss an opportunity to be around my mate. It was a nice surprise finding her here this morning. I noticed her coming out of the house the moment she stepped on the porch. Her lingering eyes on me had me showing off just a little.

“How big was that moon-howling savage of yours? More than eight?” Alex asks, she lies down on the grass with one leg crossed over the other.

“Uhm…” The flush on Emma doesn’t waver and I’m very interested in what she’s going to say.

“Nine?” Alex removes her sunglasses and sits up. “Ten? Girl, how are you even alive right now?”

I smirk at the memory where it took time to fit myself comfortably inside Emma. Her small body definitely had an adjustment period. It doesn't help that I’m always at my hardest and biggest around her. But Emma wouldn’t be my mate if she wasn’t able to take me as well as she does.

“For real though, I heard they can be really brutal,” Kelsey says with a gasp.

“It was not so bad.”

*Not so bad? Not. So. Bad.* I test the words on my tongue as I mutter them under my breath. They ignite a storm in my chest and the rumble of a growl simmers beneath the surface.

I clench my hands as they itch to pick her up and carry her over my shoulder to my room. They burn with the desire to spank the words from her vocabulary.

She’ll never dare to call our mating *‘not so bad’* again. Emma likes it rough. I’ve seen her explode at the edge of pain.

I take my attention away from them and take a deep breath to calm myself down. I focus on the group of men approaching us, Dex, Ben and Carter.

There is a rare scowl on Dex’s face and a stormcloud thunders above his head. It seems that Carter got the brunt of it, his face is paler than normal.

“Do you know where my brother is?” Emma asks me as she leans in a little.

“I found him throwing up yesterday, he didn’t want to talk to me,” I grumble and the annoyance isn’t gone yet.

Lucas has given me the silent treatment and I don’t think I like it. I have stopped caring about how others felt about me except for Emma. Feeling concern for someone I’ve just met is foreign to me.

“Did the golden boy finally look too deep into the bottle?” Alex asks and I notice she has her attention on us. Her gaze is calculated and she seems more observant than the others. I really need to be careful what I say around her.

Kelsey chuckles. “Alex doesn’t like it when people are better at things than her, even if it’s beating a hangover.”

Alex grimaces at the other girl. “Bitch.”

“Listen up everyone, we have a problem.” Dex sighs loudly and rubs his forehead. Then his gaze lands on Emma with worry.

Alex places her hands in the grass as she leans back. “Did your hand finally file a complaint for sexual abuse?”

I can’t help the audible chuckle and I’m not the only one. Emma shoots me a disapproving look. *What? It was funny.*

“You should know how many times my hand has been abused lately,” I say under my breath. I don’t expect her to hear, but the barely-rested flush resurfaces and tinges her ears.

“We lost the data from yesterday,” Dex says as he ignores Alex’s remark.

Alex sits up completely. “What are you saying?”

Dex doesn’t seem happy about being the bearer of bad news, because he takes his time to bring it. “We will have to do it again.”

Complaints fly around from all three of the girls. *‘Are you kidding me? You want us to run fourteen miles again? Is there no other way? This isn’t funny.’*

“We all know that this mission will not be easy, so we have to measure Emma’s progress,” Dex says over the stream of complaints and enforcing his position as leader.

“Emma, can I beat up your boyfriend?” Alex clamors.

The cells in my body freeze before they boil with fury. I have to bite the long rumbling growl in my chest and actively prevent myself from baring my canines.

“He’s not my boyfriend,” Emma says and there is expiration in her voice. She places her hands on the grass to lean back. The tips of her fingers brush against my hand. She runs the tips of her pink and ring finger along my palm.

I turn to look at her, but she has her attention on the others. The touch is little but intentional. It takes away the fury and I figure out what she’s trying to say. *If anyone would be her boyfriend then it would be me.*

Alex gets off the ground and comes face to face with Carter. “Was it you, did you lose it?” She grabs him by the collar and looks down on him.

Carter holds up his hands and I think I spot actual fear in his eyes. “I swear that I put the data in the dashboard.” His Adam's apple bobs when he swallows.

“You better sleep with one eye open tonight.” Menace threatens low in her voice. I'm sure Alex could bring any man to his knees including the average werewolf.

Carter falls down on the grass when Alex lets go and she storms off. Kelsey follows her without the usual bounce in her step.

I lean down to Emma. “What’s wrong with running fourteen miles?”

Emma casts me a gaze filled with fury. Her eyes turn stormy blue and lighting seems to crackle in them. “The fact that you’re asking that makes me even more mad.” The little touch disappears as Emma jumps up from the ground. She joins the other girls at the far end of the backyard.

I stand to follow her. I can’t handle her being upset.

“Jack, hold up,” Dex calls behind me and places a hand on my shoulder to stop me. “If you value your balls then you better stay here.”

His touch irks me and the fact that he keeps me away from my mate right now even more. “She— They are upset.”

“Yeah, believe me, anything that has a dick right now is enemy no.1.”

Emma can yell at me, she can scream at me. As long as she doesn’t hide from me.

“Do you mind joining the training? It might be good to learn the circuit.” Dex puts his arm over my shoulder and guides me away from the group of girls. “The other girls need to go flat out to see where Emma stands in comparison.”

I turn to watch Emma and the annoyance is abundant.

Dex follows my gaze and his concern is clear. “Normally I go with her to make sure she doesn’t get injured along the way, but I have some things to take care of.”

Dex doesn’t elaborate on what ‘some things’ entail and he points to a now extremely pale Carter. “Carter doesn’t want to go with her, because he fears that she might bite his head off.”

Dex chuckles as he retrieves his cigarettes. “Emma can be quite feisty sometimes, but she might take it a 1474easier on a new guy.”

Emma is my mate, if she needs protection from whatever this training is then that’s my duty. “I will do it.”

“I knew I could trust you,” Dex says as he slaps my shoulder and sends me a smile. “She’s special, we have to take care of her.”