NOAH: Her Forbidden Beast

*CHAPTER 6*

MIA

I look down at my sketch pad for a minute. I need to get this right. Something is wrong with it. I hold it in front of me to get a better view. hmmm. I look back at Noah then back at my pad. It's the eyes. The eyes don't capture the same emotion as his. I look back at Noah. His gaze is so concentrated on the fire that he doesn't even notice. His eyes are so focused and intense. I can see the bright blue ring that surrounds his eye and how it slowly fades into a darker blue towards the pupil. I erase the eyes and redraw them. I keep on flicking my view back and forth between my pad and Noah's eyes. I draw a defined circle. I keep drawing until I get it just right. I look back at it and see that it looks just like Noah. I smirk inside. So thats what he looks like when he's thinking. He looks the exact same as he does with every other emotion. I laugh internally. No matter what he is feeling inside, Noah will always have that expression on his face. I guess he expresses his feeling in other ways. I look at the drawing. It is of him from the shoulders up, looking at the fire. He is so focused. I wonder what he was thinking about. 

I look back up at him. My heart skips a beat slightly when I see that his eyes are staring directly at me. We just sit there looking at each other. My heart beats fast as his eyes hold mine with such intensity. He broke it first. Noah got up from the log without pulling away his gaze. He looks at me for another second and then walks away. For some reason I was disappointed. I guess, I wanted him to say something. To confess a feeling of sorts maybe? Something! Something either than his usual emotionless face. I stand up from my log and walk the opposite way. I get my sleeping bag and role it out. I put on an extra jacket to keep warm before snuggling inside it. I sigh in relief when I lye down. My arm is still slightly stingy but that' okay. It should heal by morning. I look up at the stars above me and I think about my life in the Blood Moon Pack. One of the most biggest and powerful packs in the world. If you told me a couple of years ago that I was going to help the Luna of the most powerful pack in the world give birth, I'd be laughing in your face right now. I can't believe how my life had a turned. It's definitely not boring thats for sure. 

I turn unto my side and shiver. It's colder than what I anticipated. I snuggle deeper into my blanket, but nothing worked. I shrugged it off. I guess I just have to deal. Suddenly I felt someone press behind me. An arm comes over me, hugging my waist. I get flustered. Noah? I turn my face around expecting to see the ocean blue, but instead come face to face with Soul. "Sorry, I saw you shivering and thought you might want some extra warmth."

"Thats very...considerate of you." I turn back around. Its sweet that Soul was so concerned for me. In my heart it got a little bit faster when I felt him so close. I have to admit, I am quite attracted to Soul, I mean how could I not be? He's gorgeous. But it seems there is still an undeniable attraction between my heart and the beast sleeping a couple of feet away from me. I snuggle a little closer to Soul. Maybe I can try to just be with Soul? Try to forget all about Noah. It'd be easier that way. 

NOAH

I can't sleep at all. I look up at the stars and breath. We'll be home tomorrow and everything will be normal again. Everything will be fine. I have to do research on those rogues that attacked me. And then I have to try right out a training program for the pups that will be shifting soon. And then I have to set up the paper work for Xander. I rubs my hands down my face and sigh. There is so much to do.

I roll onto my side. I saw that Mia had her back to me a couple of feet away. I could hear her shivering. She must be freezing. Out of instinct I was going to crawl to her and sleep beside her so than she could be warm. But I froze when I saw Soul crawl to her instead. I growl internally. That bastard. He already has a mate. I just stood their on all fours for a minute and stared at them. Maybe Mia is already asleep and she doesn't even know he's there? But that wasn't the case. I saw her snuggle into Soul more. I instantly look away and close my eyes. It doesn't matter. "It doesn't matter. She doesn't matter." I repeated to myself. I slept with my back to them. But I couldn't fall asleep. My heart was still racing from anger. I don't like how Soul is affecting her now. More so than me it seems. But then again, I don't have a right to be like this. She can do whatever she wants. I'm going to be married anyways. That's all I need in my mind right now. I just need to focus on the things that I actually need to do. My emotions are irrelevant. It always has been, and because of that its easier. 

I slowly felt myself fade away into my favourit place. 

MIA

I woke engulfed in total warmth. I roll over to snuggle deeper into the warmth. Then the warmth vibrated under my ear. I lift my head and squint my eyes. Soul was chuckling down at me. For once I actually genuinely smiled back at him, without any kind of thought of Noah. "Good morning sunshine."

I giggle, "Good Morning Solomon."

His eyes soften slightly when I said his name, "I like how you say my name."

I frown, "What'd you mean?"

"You don't say it in a demanding way like everyone else. You say it in a kind way. I like it."

My eyes squint more when my smile widens, "Do you want me to say Solomon instead of Soul?"

He shrugs his shoulders, "If you want to. I don't really mind."

I nod my head, "Well, okay then, I'll be calling you Solomon from now on." I get up from our snuggling position, "Thank you...ummm...for keeping me warm and all."

Solomon put his hands up, "Hey I know what you're thinking."

I tilt my head, "What am I thinking?"

He takes a step closer to me and smiles, "You're thinking that I was coming in too strong when I held you last night. But honestly I was just genuinely concerned for a friend." He said with a cheeky smile.

I nod my head slowly and laughed under my breath, "Friend? Okay friend. Thank you for your concern for my well-being."

He bows down, "You're very welcome my...very attractive friend."

I didn't say anything in return. I just raised my one brow and gave a slight smirk when I walked off to get ready to head out again. I little flirting here and there isn't too harmful is it? 

I went to my bag to get ready my stuff. I raise my head to see where my glove went, but my eyes crash with Noah's. He was sitting there glaring daggers at me. His eyes held so much rage and hatred towards me. It felt like he just punched my heart. I close my eyes and take a deep breath. I thought for one minute that I could possibly forget about Noah and actually feel free to be good friends with Solomon. But I forgot how much he has a stronghold over me. He affects me a lot and I don't like it. I don't like how much power he has over my emotions. I rubs my hands over my face and just went back to finding my things.

Two big boots appear in front of me. I knew exactly who it was. Without looking up, I just continued to pack and said, "What do you want?"

Noah bends down to eye level with me, "What you playin at aye?"

I frown, "I'm sorry, but i don't speak your British slang." I snap

He growls at me, "What are you doing with Soul...clear enough?"

I moved my face closer to him and growled, "I don't think thats any of your business. I don't need to tell you anything Noah. Don't act like you care for me."

His eyes turn a slightly darker shade of blue...like Navy but blacker, "You're right, I don't care for you." Okay that hurt. he moved closer, "But You did save my life and I respect that. And because of that, I'm telling you now to be bloody careful with that one."

"That one?"

Noah rolls his eyes, "Soul!" he growls.

"Why? I like Solomon. I think he and I would suit." I knew I was pressing his button. But I didn't care. I wanted to ruck him up somehow. 

"No ya don't. Only one person could ever suit Solomon Nightwalker." Noah stands up and turns to walk away. 

"Wait! Who?"

Noah looks over his shoulder and says, "His mate, darling." 

Soul has a mate?

Noah shouts out to the group, "We're leaving in 5 minutes. So if you ya need to take a piss...do it now!" He shouted.