Chapter 153
Ella POV:
“It’s killing me not having you,” He said as he brushed away the tear I was attempting to restrain.
I couldn’t believe he’d just said that it was like the wind was knocked out of my lungs. He actually wanted to be with me even though he could quite literally have any woman he wanted.
He looked at my lips longingly for a minute and I knew he wanted to kiss me but was too much of a gentleman to ask. I felt any and all restraint that had held me together these past months evaporate.
I couldn’t have stopped myself if I had tried, I fell forward slightly and our lips met. He became a man possessed, his hands grabbed around my waist pulling me off my knees and onto his lap.
I held onto him and lost myself to his onslaught of kisses tailing up and down my neck gripping onto me like a life raft.
Before we lost ourselves to infancy of the moment the door swung open.
“Hey! No messing up my utility room,” Annette barked and my face went scarlet and I buried it into his shoulder.
I couldn’t believe she’d been there the whole time listening. By the goddess she was abominable today.
“You heard the woman no fratrenizing on the floor,” the alpha called beyond the doorway.
No level of shame could reach my embarrassment.
“You two are unbelievable can’t read a room to save your lives. Go spend time with each other instead of obsessing over us!” Charlie wrapped his arms around me shielding me from their jokes.
“We read the room just fine. If you 're gonna get a room, make it one that has a bed move!”
“Goddess be!” I shrieked. I'm sure my face was able to light a room with how warm it was.
“Go away!” Charlie growled holding the back of my head for comfort.
“We will once you vacate the premises,” Grayson ordered.
We got up and I hid behind him so ashamed we had been caught red handed.
“Good now go dance the night away,” the Luna locked the door and laughed as her husband wrapped his hands around her waist.
“We’re gonna go get a life as you so kindly put it,” he laughed heartily.
I had never seen my stern and commanding Alpha so jovial and at ease. He had never once had a family like this to tease and torment and it seemed to suit him.
My heart now filled with the idea that one day I could be a part of it. That if we managed to survive we could find our place together.
It was a long shot given how far above me he was but if we could stay together being by his side would be the best life I could imagine.
I watched as the two masterminds went back to the dance floor and he spun her about. I could only imagine how terrifying this looming battle was for them. The way their whole world had been torn apart already and they were now waiting for a bigger monster to tear it all up.
I remember running across the pavilion on my way to school every morning and chasing after Brian as he went into class. The celebrations after every term and the bonfires throughout the summer.
Not once did I ever imagine the same pace I had spent my whole life to be torn apart by war and chaos. I know some thought it’s what we deserve for inviting a female alpha to stay but it wasn’t her fault we had made ourselves into a desirable target. We were a happy place a greedy people always wanted what they couldn’t have.
I laid my head against his chest as we swayed there together he led me here and there. I should have known he would know how to dance. He was the perfect man after all.
I felt cheated now that we had so little time before the battle to enjoy each other. Perhaps it would have been better than we had led ourselves to believe perhaps it could be possible.
I wanted to believe it was true but when I opened my eyes I saw her in the corner glaring at me. His mother looked at me like a speck of dirt. I was a rock in the road to her plan for her dynasty to continue.
She seemed to genuinely care for each of her children to an indisputable fault. I’m sure she thought I would one day ruin his happiness, and I knew now that I would die to see it come true.
It had only taken one kiss and I was his body and soul.
Would she still feel the same once this was over? When we had to fought to live for the final time would she still look at me as an enemy? I would protect him with my final breath and I know he would do the same for me. That was all that mattered.
“Don’t pay her any mind,” he whispered to me.
I closed my eyes and edged her out listening intently to the sound of his heartbeat. The world melted away and I felt his warmth as the air danced around us and savored his smell.
He was much tanner than the men I was used to and he held himself with assurance for the most part. He did seem to come undone around me but I liked that about him, he was genuine.
I had to laugh at myself we were all surely to die in a matter of weeks and I was thinking about a boy. I was foolish, but I wanted to be. Like everyone around me I put away my fear and the dread and I focused on the beauty for the feeling night we had.
I could only imagine the sinister schemes that man had concocted up to make us pay for what we had done. I remember the way he never smiled, not even for his son. I would look between him and my father, a man who never hesitated to spend a second with his children and listen to their worries.
I was small when he’d left and the pack was in ruins but I still remember the pride I felt when we all decided to see it through to work hard together and grow.
I looked up at Charlie and it showed how much I had fallen for him to be willing to leave this place. If it came to it, if we lived I would go in a heartbeat. All he had to do was ask.
I looked over at the Luna smiling up at her husband and sent a prayer up to the goddess to watch over them. Even in the midst of all this she still watched over her brother and I. I would be forever in her debt.
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thanks for reading! next chapter will be annettes POV
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