The devil had always put Rena through shit, provoking me to break our deal. I would have, many times before, if it wasn’t for Kayden and the pack. They’d always stopped me in time. Despite everything, they were happy for me every time I got to be with my mate. Came to think of it, this might be what they were here for today.
To create an opportunity, to help me win her over.
I chuckled.
“What’s funny?” she asked, working out the bandages and the sewing kit.
“Not what you had to go through, of course. But how things could turn out to be in the end.”
Her gaze pierced me. “You sound much older than your age.”
“I told you I was old. You didn’t believe me.”
“Your school ID begs to differ.”
I rolled my eyes. “You can’t deny it’s hot to date a younger man as much as I can’t deny it’s hot to date an older woman.”
“Not when that older woman is your teacher.”
“That makes it even hotter,” I whispered, a chill running through my spine.
She swallowed. “We’re not dating, Alec. We just…”
“Fucked against a wall? Seriously?” I leaned forward, my mouth a few inches from hers, the urge to silence her with a kiss unbearable. “Look me in the eye and tell me it was just sex and you feel absolutely nothing for me?”
She huffed and fiddled with the med kit. “I’ll bandage you up, and you can get the stitches at the hospital. I’m running late for class.”
Without thinking, I grabbed her wrist, blaming her with my eyes. How could she not remember how she felt for me?
“Let go of me,” she said.
I took one more glance at those lips, and I just couldn’t stop myself. “Never.” I crushed my mouth against hers. She resisted at first, then her lips and tongue moved invitingly.
Closing my eyes, I groaned, my cock a solid rock. She tasted so fucking good, so vulnerable like this. But I wanted more than a taste or the hard fucking I hoped would follow that kiss.
I did the best I could to pour down every emotion I’d had for her in that kiss. Suddenly, she pulled away, as if she’d just realized what we were doing. Her fingers flew to her mouth, and she winced.
“Belle, I lo—I love everything about you. I swear to you it’s not just sex to me. You blew my fucking mind.”
“Alec, I can’t,” she pleaded.
Frustration burned more than my arm. “Tell me that kiss didn’t do something to your heart, not just your pussy, and I’ll get out of here and never bother you again.”
CHAPTER 20
BELLE
I couldn’t say it.
I couldn’t lie.
No matter how many times I’d denied it, even scared to admit it to myself, I was attracted to Alec, and not only physically.
There was this…thing I couldn’t explain that kept dragging me to him. Something old. Ancient. As if our souls had met before, in a different life, at a different time.
And it felt so terribly right.
Were we destined to each other in a past life, Alec? I never believed in soul mates or any of that new age reincarnation and spirituality—a debate I’d always had with my colleagues. But this…all this with Alec…and Joshua, even Kayden, felt so familiar and pleasing.
