The Sliver Mist Pack

{Chapter Five}

(Xavier up top)

Xavier's POV

As soon as we pulled up to the beach Clary and Sydney jumped out the car and went to go change. Just as they disappeared in to the locker rooms Dominic tapped my shoulder.

"C'mon, let's go change and find them a spot." he said.

I nodded and grabbed the rest of the stuff out the car. We changed and walked around a little looking for the perfect spot for our mates. It took less that five minutes considering the beach wasn't really that packed.

We had set everything up and the girls weren't back yet so I started to worry a little. I wanted to go check on them but at the same time I didn't want to feel clingy. Damn....I never thought I'd ever consider myself clingy.

"Should we go check on them? We should...right?" I said to Dominic with a worried expression etched on my face.
He laughed. "Yeah, c'mon." As we were walking towards the ladies room they came from around the corner. As soon as Clary emerged from that corner my eyes widened and my jaw dropped. She looked absolutely gorgeous. Her hair went down her back in waves, her toned stomach and long legs. After checking her out for a while I realized she was right in front of me.

"Like what you see?",Clary asks with a smirk.

"Uhh. Well uhm ...",I began to stutter.

"It's okay", she says cutting me off. "I know I look sexy."

'Damn right', I think to myself. Considering the howling in my head Axel agrees too.

"Come on", she says grabbing my hand.

"Let's go sit under the umbrella, I'm getting crisp out here."

She was walking in front of me dragging me by my arm to the spot I pointed out to her. I have to say the view was instagram worthy. Her ass is gorgeous. Her angel wings tattoo was well done and looks beautiful on her. But let's be honest she's beautiful regardless. As I was staring at her like the creep I was I noticed she had like little scars on her back. Although they were pretty faded. You couldn't see them unless you were really looking and I certainly was. Plus werewolf sight helps.

When we stopped I stood in front of her and held her by her waist. I then crouched down to eye level with her stomach. It was the same faint little scars, but this time there were two long ones diagonal from each other. One looked as if it was about to intersect through the middle of the next one. My eyebrows furrowed together and I let out a low growl keeping in mind there were humans around. It seemed to scare Clary as she jumped from my arms. I cleared my throat to play it off. "You should probably get that checked." Clary said with concern on her face.
"What happened?" I asked. Before she could even open her mouth Sydney called her name from the water. As she was about to walk past me I grabbed her wrist.

"Clary wh-"

"One day....maybe", she looked me in the eyes and gave me a small smile. I saw the pain in her eyes and the sadness in her smile. Using her free hand she rubbed the knuckles of the hand the was holding her wrist. "Come on", she said. I sighed and reluctantly followed. She took me by the hand dragged me to the water where Sydney and Dominic waited.

After a while we all started to loosen up around each other. We were just kinda drifting further into the water but I noticed Clary had stopped. Almost like she couldn't go anymore.