“Leave me the fuck alone!” I half-growled, half-whined to myself, like an idiot, and rolled on the bed, my arm falling to the side.
It was the middle of the night, but my wolf had been pushing against my skin since I left Natalia’s room, demanding to be with his mate.
Demanding to be set free.
Letting him mate with Starlight had been the biggest mistake of my life. I snorted at my own thoughts. Who was I kidding? My wolf had been in control the second I shifted, no one was stopping him from taking what he deemed his.
And so, each night he just fucked with me, not letting me sleep until I went to her. So, I did. I sat outside her room every night, my back to the door so he could feel her close while Natalia and Starlight peacefully slept on the other side—with their two true mates.
Frustration cut through me, and I tossed and turned on the bed for the millionth time, refusing his demand. Unfortunately for him, I was staying right here, reminiscing of how fucking unbelievable Natalia felt in my arms today.
How sweet she’d tasted. How tight her walls had squeezed the life out of my head when I pushed it inside her for a second. Just a second, to calm my desperate need. And how desperately she had wanted me too.
“I only bend over for you…”
I growled, tossing once more.
My entire body became alive while holding her… even when she was crying.
I’d vowed on my life to protect her, the very reason why it tore through me to see her hurt so badly once she finally remembered the attack. It took everything inside me not to rip the door off and carry her out of my mother’s room before they could help her remember, but she and Isis were right.
If Natasha was going to heal and become the best version of herself, she couldn’t keep blocking the pain and the loss churning inside her. She had to face it… and that was exactly what she had done.
I was so fucking proud of her.
The Moon Goddess might not have originally chosen me for Natasha, but she was perfect for me. She was everything I needed and more.
My wolf, my beast, and I were obsessed with her. Entranced by her, and I wasn’t sure if that was a good thing or not, but I had risked everything to be by her side, and nothing was going to pull me away now.
Prickling seized me when the urge to get off my ass and run to her room returned, and I feared Natasha, Natalia, and Starlight had shattered everything I was and rebuilt me as I was meant to be…
With a full chest growl that reverberated through the night, I kicked the rumpled sheets off my legs and stood, rubbing the drowsiness off my face. I just wanted to sleep, was that too much to ask?
No one had told me that falling in love made us this selfless.
The feel of my sharp obsidian claws dragging across my cheek as I rubbed my face alerted me that, once again, I had partially shifted with the struggle. I hadn’t even noticed. Unintelligent words left me as I shook my arms and legs, letting go of the patches of fur and claws that had protruded from my body with my internal battle not to go to her.
Never in my life had I not been in complete control of the three sides of me, not even when I was a pup.
She did this to me.
My resolve was pretty much non-existent when I wasn’t with her, and the mere thought of her drove me?—
Chatter awoke in my mind, and I turned toward the door, tuning into it.
“Can you hurry up, Star?”Nataliacomplained.“You said you could take us to his room, but we are still stumbling through the freaking dark halls.”
“How dare you?! Also, what happened to you calling me Starlight?”
“Well, you are still calling me Bitch, so I’m not sure you deserve me using your full name.”
My lips stretched into a grin, and I walked closer to the door.
“So. Are we there yet?”
“Have patience, will you! Ye of little faith.”
“Yes, I am starting to lose faith in you.”
