Aurora's Alpha

CHAPTER 15

Rory POV

I groan in my sleep as I hear rustling across the room. Wanting to block it out I shuffle closer to where I expect Killian to be but reaching my arm out in met with air. This causes another groan out of me but I cut it out when I hear a heavenly chuckle.

I roll over and sit up squinting out of one eye when I spot Killian fully dressed for the day rummaging about his drawers.

"Having trouble getting back to sleep?" He teases.

"Shut up" I mumble. I pull the covers off of my legs and get out of the bed, fully standing and stretching while letting out a big yawn.

Looking back over to Killian I notice he's just staring at me, looking down at my body covered in his clothes and then back up to my eye line. Fear settles in my stomach when I notice his eyes briefly go black but he sees my scared expression and quickly changes them back to blue. I hear him mumble a quiet 'sorry' before turning back to whatever he's doing.

"You can go back to bed you know, it's 7am" he looks at me and then gestures his head towards the bed we both slept in.

Hearing it's that early almost makes me faint, I'm never a morning person and much prefer to get up later in the day.

I would feel awkward to get back into his bed especially now the awkwardness of remembering what position I fell asleep in yesterday settles into my stomach.

A light blush covers my face as I say "nah I'm good, I should get going anyway"

"Please stay within the village, I'm still worried about your safety out beyond the trees" he asks gently. I'm sure he's aware demanding things from me doesn't work and will cause another argument.

I sigh "fine but only for a little while I've got work at 4" I shrug.

"I'll take what I can get" he smiles "here" he holds out a pile of clothes for me which I take and examine, they're again his own. "You can shower through there and get changed for the day if you're not going back to bed" he points through to his en-suite and I nod along.

"I can just wear my own clothes" I then nod in the direction of the pile I neatly folded and placed on the same dresser he got these clothes from.

"How scandalous" Killian smirks at my confused face. "Spending the night with the alpha and then doing the walk of shame"

"Nobody would think that" I laugh

"You underestimate how much my people love to gossip" he leans one arm on the dresser to face me.

"Well then, good thing this is not my first walk of shame" I chuckle and walk to the bathroom. Looking over my shoulder I can see Killian looking at the ground his eyes continuously switching from blue to black, it looks like he's struggling to pick one colour. His hand then replaces his elbow on the dresser - just above the first drawer - and watching his hand tense up I can faintly hear the the wood beginning to splinter. Suddenly the dresser cracks under the pressure and a dent is made in the wood and Killian seems to snap out of the haze he was in.

"Killian?" I ask nervous

"I uh-" he uses the ball of his hand to rub at his eye before looking at me. "I need to go to work" he mumbles as I watch concerned.