Reject me, I dare you!

Talking about Marking, Wow!

Chapter Twenty One:  Talk about Marking, Wow!

Danny’s P.O.V.

I went to roll over and couldn’t.  I started to panic something had me trapped.  I opened my eyes and looked straight into Landon’s.  He was smiling.  “Hey pretty girl did you have a good nap?” he asked ever so sweetly.  “I am so sorry Landon I was just so tired, I don’t know why.  I know we needed to talk.  I am sorry!” I apologized.  He just grinned at me.  I felt him get up and looked up.  Oh my goodness, he didn’t have a shirt on and I promise his body is so hot.  I wanted to lick his eight pack.  Whoa, where the hell did that come from?  Landon has always been damn fine to look at but trust me looking at skin put fine into a different ball game.  He smirked at me and raised his left eyebrow.  Damn him he could smell me and he knew I was getting turned on.  Down girl!  “Landon,” I said while sitting up on the side of the bed, “do you really want to accept and mark me?” “Danny I do, I love you, I always have I just forgot somewhere along the way.  I want to mark you and my wolf is demanding it.  He is scared for some reason.” I told her.  “Landon my wolf is thinking along the same lines. I am scared but I Danielle Lynn Linkin accept you Landon Peters as my mate.  I also desire that you mark me as soon as our relationship blossoms to that point and make me yours forever.” I said with tears rolling down my face.  “I Landon Jake Peters accept you Danielle Linkin as my mate.  I desire to mark you, mate you, marry you and make you mine forever and always.” Landon said with tears in his eyes and love showing on his face.  Oh Lord we just completed a major step.  He came to the bed, got down on his knees and just hugged me around my waist, his head lying on my boobs.  I am unsure how long we stayed in that position.   I am so scared.  I have loved Landon forever and have just accepted him as my mate.  I could still reject him before he marked me but my wolf was really pushing me to let him mark me.  She was shifty and out of sorts.  Landon says that he loved me and he just forgot somewhere along the way and that was really bothering me.  How did you forget that you love someone?  I know exactly how he forgot……his friends began to tease him about being friends with ugly, nerdy, me.  He then hit his growth spurt and shifted and girls begin throwing themselves at him and he discovered sex, he loved it and he got any girl he wanted.  His friends and his “girls” loved to tease, taunt and bully me and he just went along with it.  He lost the love he had for me because all he cared about was being popular, getting laid and having his little group of minions look up to him.  Yup, was still a sore spot for me.  My wolf begged me to forgive him and I was trying but it still hurt.  I have days that I don’t think about it, then I have days when it all hurts just as much as the day it happened.  Right now he is asleep, again, with his head on my chest and I am remembering the first time that he and Brenden drew blood.  It was terrible.  The bullying was bad, the embarrassing things were bad, but the day that Brenden slapped my face and made my nose bleed because I told Landon to leave me alone because he had me pinned up against a locker telling me all about how ugly I was: that was beyond bad!  Things like that happened a few more times but the worst was the day on the stairs.  I was going to take the left stair well down to avoid most of the traffic.  Of all the luck, Landon and Brenden were there making out, all but having sex, with two of our pack sluts.  I was going to ease by them with one of the pack sluts, who knows her name, reached out and grabbed me by the hair “for interrupting her private time” and they all four laughed.  It brought tears to my eyes and I actually raised my voice and stood up to her.  Landon told the girls to get and go to class.  When they rearranged their clothes and disappeared Landon decided to ‘school’ me on why I should not bother him and really shouldn’t be breathing the same air as him.  I had the nerve to cry which seriously tickled Brenden.  I growled at him and he slapped me in the face so hard that I fell down an entire flight of stairs.  They left me there.  I don’t think they even checked on me but I was unconscious for at least fifteen minutes before someone found me so I can’t be sure.  I did break three ribs, suffered from a concussion and had a bruise the size of a cantaloupe on my back for several weeks.  That night I really thought about killing myself make the pain go away.  No friends, made fun of by even the unpopular kids and tortured by the boy I had loved my entire life.  I was forced to eat with him on a weekly basis because our parents were best friends.  I loved his Mom and Dad so much and they had no clue.  He was almost the real Landon at our weekly gatherings but it was bittersweet because the next day he would be worse than usual every single week.  Now here I am in the bed listening to his heart beat and I can feel the hurt but I feel the love so much more.  Since we accepted each other officially all my wolf can do is go on and on about how much we need him, how much she wants him, how good he will be to us and how the Moon Goddess made us just for him.  She is right.  We fit together like a hand and a glove.  I am going to let him mark me but first I have to get the courage to let him kiss me and touch me.  I am just so scared this will all be a joke.  I am scared that he will mark me and then reject me so I will be forced to spend my life alone and mate less, no man, no family, and no kids of my own.  He would never do that would he?  I really want him to love me like I love him.  I want him to want me like his wolf wants me!  He is smiling in his sleep, it is so cute.  Oh my Lord he just moaned my name in his sleep, what is he dreaming about I wonder.  Obviously he is dreaming of me because it is my name he just groaned.  Jesus that is a major turn on let me tell you.  He groaned my name in his sleep and now he is purring like a kitten.  That is so funny a wolf purring.  I am going to have to forgive him.  I still may kick his ass though.  He is going to be my sparring partner from here on out.  He is future Alpha and needs to step up his game and I am going to keep training and sparring because I love it and I am damn good! Oh crap he is waking up.  I guess it is time to have our grown up talk.  I am so nervous.  I am scared.  I am excited.  I am in love.  I want to kick his ass.  “Landon get up, no going back to sleep we need to talk.” I scolded him.