Chapter 29 (Part 1)

I sat at the dining room table with my cousin Hannah who was around 18 and her older brother Jon who was 20. They were fighting about something that I was paying no mind to.

They came over when they heard I was at Uncle Chase's house and insisted on having dinner with all of us.

I jumped a little when somebody snapped their fingers in my face.

I narrowed my eyes looking over at Jon who smirked at me. "What?" I asked him and he chuckled at my sudden irritation. He knew I hated it when he did crap like that. Like he could have just called my name to get my attention.

"I asked you where your mate was?" He chuckled once again and I rolled my eyes at him

"I don't know, I'm not his keeper!" I snapped and got up. I left the dining room and went down the hall to the guest bedroom.

A small scream left me when I seen Scott standing next to the bed when I turned the light on. "What the hell are you doing standing in here with the lights off?" I asked him placing a hand on my chest to try and calm my racing heart.

"I'm a Lycan, Brooke. I can see in the dark." He said and my eyebrows pinched together. I didn't know that.

I nodded at him and went over to the bag my dad brought to me after mom told him I was back. He tried his hardest to squeeze the life out of me when he seen me.

I pulled out some clothes and went back to the door. "Can I join you?" Scott asked and I stopped in the doorway.

"Not tonight," I whispered and walked out of the bedroom. I entered the bathroom in the hallway and went over to the bathtub and turned it on. I've only been here a couple hours and haven't had the chance to shower or change my clothes yet.

My back was also killing me, so I was hoping the hot water would help ease it some.

Once I was stripped of my dress I got in and a sigh left me when my skin touched the hot water. I didn't even know every muscle other than my back hurt until I got in the water.

My back however was still hurting, but I knew that that was because of what happened in the cave, he slammed me to the ground when he tackled me, and I'm surprised I didn't have a concussion from the impact of it.

The brusing and claw marks were already halfway to healing. Scott asked me if he could heal them but I declined his offer. As sweet as it was, I was still a little skittish around him, and I hated feeling that way towards him.

"Amoureux?" I heard from the closed door, my eyes opened and I hummed and slowly washed my body with the rag on the side of the bathtub. "Can I speak with you please?"

I could handle a conversation with him, as long as he don't try and touch me then I'm fine with that. "Sure.." The bathroom door opened and he stepped in closing it behind him then locked it.

He leaned against the counter and crossed his arms over his chest while he glared at the markings on my neck.

"I want to start off with; I'm glad you are home and that I've missed you terribly." I suddenly felt bad, but I had no reason for feeling that way. It wasn't my fault I was gone for so long even though to me it felt like minutes.

"Second, I want to know everything that happened. Please?" He pleaded with me, his eyes reflecting back at me.

"I've already told you everything that happened, Scott." I said quietly. "No, you told your aunt...not me."

I looked back at him and sighed. "Then you heard everything I told her. I'm not going back to explaining everything, I don't want to, and I just want to forget it happened."

He pushed himself off the counter and came over to me, he squatted down by the bathtub and placed his arms on the rim of it. "I just don't want you to be scared of me."

"I don't mean to be scared of you, Scott. But he was you, and the anger I seen in his eyes has been imprinted onto my brain before he attacked me. If I hadn't gotten out from under him he would have killed me.." I told him.

He nodded his head. He removed an arm and let his hand dip into the water. "This version of me that you encountered was grieving and scared. But I could never be that way with you. So hear me when I say I could ever hurt you like that..."

I let out another sigh, I hesitated but eventually took his hand in mine. The sparks that erupted made my Wolf purr, making it reverberate from my chest.

Zena was a traitor, I thought she was on my side.

"I see somebody missed me." He chuckled lightly and I couldn't help the eye roll. He laughed at me again then slipped his shirt off. "Move forward." He said and I glanced at him when he stood up and removed his jeans.

My eyes fell on his member because it was already half hard and my cheeks suddenly felt very hot when I noticed that.

Hearing a purr my eyes snapped from it and to his eyes. A smirk was etched onto his face as he looked back down at me. I rolled my eyes again and looked away from him completely.

The water sloshed as he stepped in and I moved forward so he had room to get in. When he was settled he pulled me back against his chest, and as much as I didn't want him near me tonight I relaxed in his warm embrace.

Perhaps his touch was all I needed to feel better. I rested my head back on his chest, he purred again and my body shivered as it made his chest rumble against me.

"Talk to me, Brooklyn." He purred again into my ear and I shuttered, his warm breath tickling the skin there. His newly formed beard tickled my neck but I didn't want to move away because of the tingles he gave me felt amazing.