An Impossible Choice

Barrier

Picture of Miranda on the side~

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Emma POV

I felt relaxed and well rested when I woke up I wiggled feeling the warm cover no top of me. I frown as my sleep haze clears and I realize I didn’t cover my self nor did I take off my shoes but I knew I was just in socks. My eyes shoot open and I look around feeling a presence in the room. I panic in till the rich musky and spicy male sent is caught by my sensitive nose and I instantly relaxed. I rolled on to my stomach and kicked half of the cover off my body so only my legs were covered. I glance to the chair and sure enough Ethan is sitting there staring at me with a grin.

“Did I startle you?” he asks softly as he stands and then sits besides me. He moves his hand slowly and I follow it as it travels towards me and soon it is running through my hair soothing me.

“I guess… a little why are you in here?” I ask trying to sound cold but I was sure the effect that he had on my body made it sound weak and needy.

“I wanted to watch you sleep?” he asks with a light shrug and then he chuckled and it was like music to my ear.

“That’s creepy” I commented trying to narrow my eyes and shoot him an angry glare but it was very hard to hold because soon his hand untangled from my hair and began to run down my back gently. I let out a content sign and closed my eyes with a soft smile.

I felt him stop moving and heard him sigh, “I just need this… can’t stay away from you it’s just so hard on me. The pull from our wolves is so intense.”

My eyes shoot open as I prop my body up with my elbows and look up at him. He seemed so tormented like he was in physical pain as he pulled his hand back trying not to touch me. We stay in silence for a few minutes in till I finally breathe out “what does that mean?”

“I just want to be close… I need to know your safe and wont ran away like earlier” he says his hands going in to fists. “I tried to act like everything was normal but it’s so hard. I don’t want anything bad to happen to you that is all. Is that too much to ask?”

I sit up and stare up at him my eyes searching in to his as confusion settles in. I moved closer and put my hand over his fist and he instantly relaxed, “why?” 

“I’m a werewolf and I’m possessive by nature. I just have a hard time controlling my wolf, not that I would ever hurt you, but I worry” He says moving his head down to breath in the sent of my hair, it tickled when he breathed out.

I wanted to ask why again but I knew that was fertile he was convinced we were mates and I was starting to believe that lady fate wasn’t as cruel as I had imagined. I was handed down a replacement after Christ rejected me, I’m pretty sure of that now. I didn’t like it though because it meant that Christ would probably get one too. I felt a pang of pain and jealousy in my heart and I sucked in hard. For the first time it had really fully sunk in, Christ had rejected me and didn’t want me.

The next thing I did took me by surprise, my arms flew around Ethan’s shoulders and I hugged him tightly. My face buried it self in the crook of his neck and I breath in deeply his musky yet spicy male sent and let the calming effect take over me. He was stunned at first but soon I felt his arms wrap around me and we stayed like that for a few minutes. My wolf was purring in happiness she loved, as much as I did, the delicious sparks that were left behind my skin as soon as there was contact.

All too soon though I pulled away knowing that even though I had just had a moment of weakens, just like Christ; Ethan would hurt me. I couldn’t get together with Ethan he liked me now that he thought I was just a werewolf but I was sure after confessing I was a weird mixture he would reject me too. Then what? Would lady luck be kind enough to just reassign me another mate? What the hell made me so special? It was funny just a few months ago I had no one paying attention to me and now I had gone through two mates.