ALEC
Kayden drove us in silence all the way to the woods west of Forest Grove, but I could hear every growl rumbling in his chest.
I rolled down the truck window and tilted my face into the wind. My lungs filled with the pure air of the wilderness night. We were a few miles from the creek where I usually ran. Taking a bigger whiff, I caught the smell of damp leaves, squirrels, Garter snakes…and her.
Belle’s fragrance and taste lingered on my skin, and even the woods wouldn’t overpower them. It didn’t help that I carried her wet panties in my pocket. Damn. That smell must have been filling Kayden’s nose all along.
The asshole wanted her. He never said it, but he didn’t need to. That was why he had kept his big mouth shut since we left the club. No scolding, no warnings. The hell, I expected a bone-shattering fight, and he gave me nothing.
Yet.
Once he settled his inner struggle, applying his moral code to whatever he was feeling, he would start with me.
Well, I didn’t blame him. But what was I supposed to do? I bet if he had been the one there all night, smelling her, hearing her heartbeat, watching her dance, he would have forsaken everything he’d been preaching and sunk his teeth in her already.
Who wouldn’t want a woman like Belle? She looked so damn good. Shiny black hair I loved messing up with my big hands. Hazel eyes burning with life itself. A cute little nose I wanted to rub my big one on over and over. A mouth… Oh, God, those lips…
And that was just her face.
Her body was a different story. That pussy of hers…would start wars.
I hissed as I recalled the feeling of her tightening around my cock, the memory set my balls aching.
I really need a run.
“The fuck? Isn’t it enough what you’ve done? You’re thinking about her cunt right here next to me?” Kayden grumbled.
“What the… How did you know?”
“You’re making sex sounds!”
“No, I’m not!”
“Yes, you are.” He pointed at my thigh with his whole hand. “And look at that. Your dick is digging a hole in your pants.”
“Why are you looking at my dick, you perv?”
He swerved the truck and stopped it off the trail. “I’m the perv? I’m the one who couldn’t keep it in my pants until we sorted things out?”
I rolled my eyes. “Kayden, don’t go all alpha on me now. Belle is mine”
“No. She belongs with the pack, yes, but she was not yours to claim.” He killed the engine. “Not yet anyway. She has a choice to make before she even picks a mate.”
“She always chooses me. Why do you think it’s going to change this time?”
“Not always. And if you were so sure she would, why didn’t you wait?”
I stormed out of the truck and slammed the door behind me. “I’m going for a run.”
Another door slammed shut. “I’m coming with you.”
“No. I want to be alone.” Snapping at the buttons of my shirt, I kicked off my shoes. “And she will choose me.”
He leaned against the hood and crossed his arms over his chest. “I don’t know about that. You spooked the fuck out of her.”
“Me?Youspooked the fuck out of her, showing up like that, eating her up with your eyes.” I unbuckled the belt and dropped my pants. “We were doing great until the ‘you’re a fine woman’ speech.” I thickened my voice in the end, mocking him.
“I showed up to stop you, but I was too late. Do you have any idea how we’re going to explain all that shit to her in the morning? To the bears?”
