Chapter 106

Sterling
He leaned his head back against the rim of the tub, sighing. The door to the bathroom cracked open.
“Umm.. Sterling. Can I shower?”
He looked over his shoulder and nodded. He rolled over to put his arms on the edge of the tub and let the water make him float. He watched as Joy reached for the shower knobs.
“Why don’t you come join me?”
“I don’t want to intrude…”
“We’ve been together for a week and we have spent every moment when you weren’t at work together. We have made love so many times.” He tapped the water beside him, making it splash. “Come here, baby.”
She hesitantly approached the tub. He reached out lazily and undid her belt. He pushed her robe off of her shoulders and it pooled around her feet. His eyes moved over her body slowly, appreciating her womanly figure. Her hips were rounded and her heavy breasts still pushed her coral colored nipples out. Her stomach was a little chubby and dark brown curls hid the most delicious part of her matched the long straight hair on her head.
Her intelligent brown eyes made him want to dive into each one of her secrets. Her long muscular legs made his dick hard just thinking about them wrapping around him again as she met each of his thrusts. He took a deep breath and held out his hand. She shyly took it and he helped her into the tub. He pulled her back against his chest, wrapping one arm around her waist and with his other, linking their fingers together to trail them through the water. She sighed.
“Is this how you were with your mate?”
He tensed under her. “In the beginning, yes.”
“What happened at the end?,” she asked.
“I met my fated mate and she found her fated mate. Her fated mate was jealous of us and he got between us. He spelled us and I killed my fated mate's chosen mate, because he attacked her. She ended up staying with us and she spelled me.” He sighed. “I hurt my chosen mate and when my fated mate ran with our daughters, my relationship with my chosen mate was never the same. She resented me and no matter how much I begged for her forgiveness, my son was a constant reminder that I had been unfaithful.” He put his chin on her shoulder. “I only wanted my chosen mate, but I couldn’t help loving my fated mate. My chosen mate passed away and very recently I found out about her fated mate’s role in everything.”
He didn’t understand why he was telling her all of this, but for the past week she had been his sole focus and he had started caring about her. He needed her to know so that when he asked her to come with him, she would understand how serious he was about his chosen mates. He brought her hand to his mouth and kissed it.
“What about your mate? How did he die?”
She sank down further into the hot water. “My sister died and she had a little girl. We had promised to look after each other’s children if something happened to the other. My daughter and I came to this pack to find her. In order to leave our original pack, my alpha demanded payment in blood. He gave us the okay to leave, but when we got to the gate, the guards….,” her voice faded off and she took a shaky breath, “they took me and made me get on my knees. They held a knife to my throat and said that the payment to leave was my life. My mate told them to take him instead and they slit his throat. My daughter forced me to leave and we ran. My mate gave his life for me. He sacrificed himself for a little girl that he had never met that needed me.”
He raised her arm and kissed from her hand to her shoulder. “Have you been with anybody since?”
“Other than you? No. Have you?”
“No. You’re it.”
She sighed. “We can’t stay like this forever, Sterling.”
“I know. You should come back with me.”
She rolled over to put her head on the arm she put on his chest. She looked into his eyes.
“I can’t. I still haven’t found my niece.”
“I’ll help you.”
She shook her head. “I have a daughter.”
“She can come, too.”
She trailed a finger down his chest. “You knew this wasn’t going to be forever.”
“Why can’t it be? You haven’t left either, when you could have.”
She kissed him softly. “You’re a really sweet guy, Sterling, but I have to refocus on my daughter and finding Ana.”
He sighed. “Can I at least have one more night?”
“You can have me until I have to be at work.”
“Alright. Tell me something about you that most people don’t know,” he said.
She grinned. “I was a wild child in college. I slept with both men and women. It's your turn.”
“As the crowned prince, I had my pick of lovers. Some nights I had four women, other nights I had 2 women and a man, and yet other nights I had just a man.. sometimes more than one.”
Her eyes widened and her mouth dropped open. “You can’t be serious.”
He frowned at her. “Why can’t I be? It’s perfectly okay for women to be with other women. Why can’t a man be with another man?”
She giggled. “It’s not that. It’s just that I think that’s hot. Even in college, when I would see a man and a man it would make me so wet. Sex in general made me wet. There’s just something about a person touching another person that set me on fire.”
He pulled her up higher on his chest, before letting her back down in the water to let his cock tease her entrance.
“You think? Would you be interested in two men fucking you, Joy?”
She reached between them to hold him still so she could slide down onto him. He groaned and put his hands on her waist. He began to rock her body as he thrust up into her. She put her hands on his shoulders and leaned down to kiss him. Her tongue went into his mouth and he moaned. She bounced faster and he bucked, making water slosh over the edge of the tub. He pulled away to wrap her hair around his hand and force her head down to his chest.
“Bite me,” he growled.
Her teeth punctured his skin and he growled again as his nails raked down her skin. He breathed out on her and his fire whipped around her. Her body spasmed and she squeezed him tight. His breath left his lungs and he held her still as he pushed up into her deeper to spill his seed inside of her. She collapsed on his chest, panting. He held her close and let her heartbeat bring him down slowly. She pushed up on his chest.
“What did you do to me?”
He stared at the marks on her body, cursing silently. “I.. umm..”
She climbed off of him to stand in front of the mirror. She ran her fingers over the mark. Her face fell, before she turned towards him.
“What kind of mark is this?”
“It’s.. it’s…”
“Well?”
“It’s a mark dragon’s give to potential mates. It’s a promise of a true mark.”
She stared at him, once again wide eyed. “Sterling,” she whispered, sadly. “We can't ever have more than this week. You have to let me go.”
She began to towel off quickly while he sat quietly in the bath, watching. She blinked back tears as she pulled her uniform on. She went to leave, but stopped at the door.
“I have a question.”
“Ask.”
“Your mate’s fated mate… do you hate him for what he did to you and her?”
“Yeah, I do.”
“I hated that pack for months.. the one that took my mate from me. I went back just before you came here and I saw how much it hurt them to lose us. He was their beta in training. I had never seen such regret on the alpha’s face. He did what he did, because he wanted to hurt us as much as he was hurting that we were leaving. My mate was his best friend and he was jealous that he chose me over him. I forgave him and I have never felt better.”
She turned to look at him. “You should try to forgive your mate’s fated mate. He must have loved her, too. Instead of wasting your time hating him, maybe choose to heal with him. You both are suffering and nobody knows just how much except the two of you.” She sighed. “Are you coming to the restaurant for dinner before you go?”
He nodded, being unable to speak around the sudden lump in his throat. She smiled sadly at him.
“I’ll be waiting for you and then we will go our separate ways.”