He Wants Me

Chapter 9

Chapter 9

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I should have kept going, I really should. But hearing Jex struck a chord in me, his words wrapping around my heart, my chest, my whole body until every fibre of my being was begging to stay with him. I wasn’t in control anymore, and honestly, I didn’t care. This man, this possessive, controlling man, whom i’d only known for about two days, had me.

I turned around until my whole body was facing him and his face was filled with love and desperation. It told me everything I needed to know. He didn’t want me to go.

So I didn’t.

Gripping his hand, I stepped forward into Jex’s embrace, and welcomed the warmth from his touch.

“Fine, but you have some serious explaining to do, mister.” I prodded my finger into his firm chest, giving him a ‘Don’t you mess with me’ look.

“I’ll explain everything later, but first you will have breakfast.”

I let him pull me back into the kitchen, everyone watching our exchange expectantly, and I took a seat at the table, feeling extremely awkward all of a sudden.

What am I supposed to say to a room full of werewolves?

I stared across the room and met the gaze of Ian Landon who was staring at me intently, as if trying to solve a puzzle.

“This is extraordinary.” He said disbelievingly, shaking his head.

“I know right!” Added Rosie, an ever-present smile on her face.

“Yeah...” I muttered, looking at Jex for some help, “I mean, Werewolves! Agh! Right?” I laughed nervously, nudging the person next to me.

 The guy just gave me weird look, and then continued to eat his cereal. 

Oh gosh...

“So what happens now? Do you guys like, heal really fast and stuff?” I asked shyly, wanting to get some sort of understanding of what they can do.

“Heal, hearing, speed, strength, mind-link. You name it girl!” Robbie sang, his voice surprising compared to his beefy exterior. 

“And don’t forget the beauty!” Kyle chimed in, flicking his pretend hair behind his shoulder. Everyone in the room groaned and shoved at him while I just laughed. I couldn’t believe how calm and carefree the atmosphere was. I couldn’t believe how calm I was! This was all just too surreal. Everyone was so friendly and... Happy. It was hard to imagine any of them being the big bad wolves they claimed to be. Except Robbie and Jex. Them I could understand.

 I needed time to process this. I just needed... to get away. Away from here and back to reality. Most of all I needed Josie! I needed my best friend to tell me I was going crazy and this was all just a really really bizarre dream.

“So have you guysmated yet?” Kyle asked waggling his eyebrows. Mated? I looked around the room confused, catching Jex throw a waffle at Kyle’s head.

“Mated? What’s that?” Everyone, I mean everyone grew silent and started shifting awkwardly. Well, except for Kyle. 

“Matin-” Kyle started but Jex cut him off.

“We can discuss this later!” His voice was desperate, and I automatically became suspicious. Why couldn’t I know? I wanted to know. 

“Tell me.” I pushed, pouting slightly. Come on, if it involved me I should know, right?

“Have you two been introduced... fully?” Kyle smirked, ignoring the daggers Jex was shooting him.

“I... I think so? I mean, we exchanged names and stuff...” I asked, ripping off pieces of the pancake in front of me. I didn’t even know if it was mine. 

A chorus of laughter came from the kitchen, and Jex’s parents, Ian and Sophie, both gave me sympathetic looks. Ok, why did I never get the joke? Are they mind-linking or something? Oh gosh, what must they secretly be saying about me? Are my knickers showing? Please God no!

Kyle spoke up before I could fret too much “Basically, mating is sex.”

My breath caught in my throat causing the pancake I was munching on to fly down the wrong pipe and I started spluttering all over the place.

Jex was immediately by my side concern etching his features. I stood up on shaky legs 

“Why would we have to do that?” I coughed, trying to calm my racing heart. Because truthfully the idea of doing that with Jex caused a fire in the pit of my stomach to ignite and all sorts of images flew through my mind in that moment.

“Because your mates, lovers, soul mates, whatever you want to call it.” Kyle shrugged and Jex groaned in annoyance. “Dude, knock it off!” He growled and I cowered a little bit at the power behind his tone. 

“Sorry, excuse me.” I hastily exited the kitchen and walked swiftly to the door which was around here somewhere... hopefully. 

Okay never mind, I have no idea where the door is. I kept going anyway, swerving through the corridors trying to find some sort of escape. My mind was overwhelming me. Half of me couldn’t be more thrilled with the idea of being Jex’s mate but that was clouded by my fear of the whole situation. Josie was right, there was definitely something strange about the Landon’s. Strange being they’re werewolves. Strange that I am the mate of the infamous ladies man.

I leaned against the nearest wall and put my head in my heads, my thoughts battling with the new information. I knew Jex was going to come after me, so I just waited in anticipation, trying to slow my pulse and overacted thoughts.

 Strong, large hands wrapped around my wrists and pulled my hands from my eyes. Lifting my gaze, I looked into Jex’s warm eyes, his eyebrows furrowed in worry. He seemed so... not put together. So different to how I was used to seeing him since I met him.

“Please, I know this is confusing, just... don’t run. I’ll let you go, i’ll give you space. Whatever you need! Just promise me you won’t walk away from me. From us. Whatever you want us to be.” His eyes were pleading and it broke at my heart. I knew I had some sort of feelings to him, and not just the attraction. It was something more but it was way too soon to figure out. 

Space. He would give me space. 

And I wouldn’t run. I couldn’t. Even if I wanted to. This whole running, coming back thing was becoming a pattern and I was getting tired of it.

“I promise.” I whispered, never taking my eyes off of his while ignoring the ache in my neck at having to look up to accommodate his height.

 Jex sighed and his shoulders relaxed. With a slow nod, he released my hands and took a step back. “Ok, Please don’t take too long.” 

 I took a step backwards too, and already I hated the space between us. Why did I say I wanted this? Stupid Nina. Stupid.

Turning around, I walked forwards to the end of the corridor, each step away from Jex getting harder and harder. 

 Ok, I still have no idea where i’m going. 

“Urm... Jex?” I called, trying to catch him before he went back to the kitchen. “Where’s the door?” I asked, ruining the dramatic tension left in the room. 

“Oh, i’ll walk you.” He laughed, walking behind me as he steered me through to the foyer.

I was in desperate need of some kind of normal. Which is exactly what I was going to do.

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A/N: Ok, so this chapter is very short because I decided to split it in two. The next chapter will be up later on tonight. I'm so sorry this took so long! 

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