Still Waters hide the deepest secrets

Mate Bond?

Nixie

After a few hours, or maybe just minutes, I find myself laying under him, his body pressing against mine, but not in a painful way. Heat and tingles exploding through me from wherever our bare skin touched.

He presses tighter and I feel him against my ...I don't even know what to call it. I know the medical term and the colloquial term. Neither appeal to me. Anyway, my feminine center. My core. Never has my body reacted like this. I'm hot, wet, and achy, but unlike any ache I've ever felt. It feels amazing.

At the same time, I also feel safe, like Sebastian makes me feel. The thought is a bucket of icy water on my body. All the heat from Dillon gone leaving only fear and uncertainty. "No. Please. I'm not ready."

He groans but pulls away and lifts his body off me. "I will always respect your needs." He tells me, leaning down to kiss me one last time. "But after next Thursday," he whispers in my ear, "You will beg me not to stop."

"Why Thursday?" I ask, pulling a blanket over me to cover my mostly naked body, uncomfortable with all my skin on display.

"Once you shift, you'll feel the mate bond as completely as I do. You'll have no more doubts."

I look at him and bite my lower lip. What about Sebastian? Will he be back before then? Does his kind even have mates? Do I have more than one as I am more than one species? Will Dillon reject me if he finds out about my other half, will it hurt him as much as rejecting my mother hurt my father? Will I survive?

"Whoa," he tells me, touching his fingers to my face as if he heard my fears, as if I voiced them aloud. "Calm down, Sprite." I jerk at the nickname. He notices my reaction and leans even closer to whisper in my ear, "I saw you in the water. I know you are more than a wolf. But I don't care. As long as you promise me you will never harm anyone in this pack."

"Never," I vow then qualify my statement. "Unless it is to save you."

He chuckles then lightly bites my earlobe. "Just remember, when we complete the mate bond, we feel what the other feels. I'll know what you're thinking. No more half-truths."

My eyes fly to his and I stutter, "Half-truths?"

"I'm the next Alpha, remember? I feel when you don't want to explain. Come Thursday, we will have a short talk, then," he leans back in and his voice lowers, "I plan to screw you senseless."

With that threat-promise, he leaves, and I stay on the bed but throw off the cover, suddenly burning hot, trying to understand what the heck just happened. It was like he bared my soul. But what he saw didn't make him reject me.

"He loves you," Lorelei tells me. "He can't imagine life without you. It's the power of the mate bond. You'll feel it as intensely after we shift. Just promise me to stay inside. She is trying to stop us shifting."

"Can you talk to me whenever, now?"

"Not yet," she explains. "Still in the cage. After next Thursday, I'll always be here."

"Like it or not?"

"Exactly."

"But what about Sebastian?" I still am unable to shake the weird feeling I had when he left, like part of my soul was leaving with him.

"I don't know. Wolves don't have more than one mate."

"Do cats?"