She Was The Queen

Chapter Seven ✅

KhaI and I walked home, hand in hand, he had called it home when he suggested we return, so I eventually called it so. I was glad to be  in clothes I was familiar with but his clothes were better, they had his scent all over it, smelling like the rain on the rocks during the rainy months, it was a peculiar smell but it was delicious. We walked in silence the whole way, letting him hold my hand only because I needed comfort not that I liked him or anything like that. 

Immediately when we got 'home' he led me upstairs to his room where I made acquaintance to something called a shower that pressured water out of a head above me. The warm water added weight to my dreadlocks as I scrubbed  them with some goo-like substance. Honestly I didn't get why I needed soap to be clean, back home my siblings and I would just jump into the cold water and swim around and call that a bath but here I was using soap and a towel borrowed me, it was his, I could smell the DNA. I squeezed the jelly-like liquid and scrubbed my body. Through all the scrubbing I felt the need to scrub harder, it was as if I could see all the guilt written in black ink all over my skin. I could see it, on my thighs, chest and stomach, the guilt was spreading. It felt like an itch I deserved, how could I leave everyone like that? What kind of a wolf was I if I wasn't loyal? All I did was run, I could have tried. I could've... but then all the names were on my skin. Reuben on my wrist, Raymond on my shoulder, all the names of the late appeared on my skin. My skin started burning beneath the towel as I moved places, scrubbing and scratching it away. My hands discarded the towel and started scratching all over, my skin felt highly irritating and itchy. I'd never felt this way before. It was attacking from inside and out, tears were even menacing at my eyes, my throat felt suffocated and my skin was becoming a faint red. With each scrub and name would go and return only worse. My hands went down to my thighs and up my chest while the warm water showered me. The heat felt highly sensitive and  I scratched over a bruise on my neck, making me hiss at the stinging sensation. My fingers lingered upon it as I traced it, trying to remember it's cause.  The detailed image of KhaI biting me in the neck flashed in and then it hit me, KhaI had imprinted on me. That's why I had let him see me vulnerable, that's why I just let him hold my hand and I felt no hesitation toward him because I belong to him and... he belongs to me. I gasped lightly as I kept my fingers there, hopelessly liking the mark he had left on my neck, for some reason it made me feel wanted. Loved. When he bit me, he didn't bite me out of rage but out of concern. To save me, I was about to kill myself.

His heart beat echoed in my brain as he entered the bathroom once I closed the shower. He held a towel to me and wrapped it around me, hugging my body, making me warm. I looked up at him and thanked him dearly. He just pursed his lips and squeezed my shoulders. I could hear his heart beat, feel it pulsing in my own veins as he lived, it was like he left a part of him inside me. Once again my fingers laced around the bite mark as I saw myself in the steamed mirror. "I didn't mean to." He apologized, scrunching his forehead as he stood behind me. "So fast, it must be weird."
"No, it was bound to happen." I stated. He nodded and pursed again. "Hurry up and come down. I want everyone to meet you."
That made me nervous, who was everyone? Was it all those eyes that cornered me that day? What would they even think of me? I'm certain they thought I was psychotic because I went straight into panic mode that day. "Already?" I was fine knowing Jacob and Yolanda and the other girl alone. Oh, and his mother who I mysteriously adored but everyone, who was everyone?
"I want everyone to know. They need to know. The pack needs to be assured that the Luna had been found."
"Khai."
"They'll like you." He said as he walked to the door to stop and turn his head back to me, just to smile sexily. "I do." Then he walked out, leaving me bashful. My stomach started rumbling, I hadn't eaten since the sandwich which, was better than lean meat, most animals out there were dying of famine, so everything wasn't satisfying, it just felt like chewing bones. "I'll deal with that." He said from them other room. I bit my lip at how cute that was. I could finally say I found KhaI attractive, handsome and gorgeous, words couldn't bag it, the man was dashing, strong,  even his wolf was a symbol of strength. Wanting to kiss him, lick him, cuddle him, were all thoughts that would come here and then, I wanted to love him in every kind of way. Love his tanned skin and icy blue crystals he called eyes, I wanted to grab him and do so many things to him but at the same time I was nervous, thinking intimacy. He was a stranger, we weren't even friends but here I was head over heels. There were many reasons not to trust him but he was my mate, and also the thought of him and that girl Grace wasn't making me trust him at all. I wasn't going to let him in that easy.
I dressed up in one of Yolanda's dresses she'd come in to drop, it was woolly and short, it was cold outside but the house was surely heated. Wolves do have natural heat so my legs wouldn't feel cold but I felt unlike myself in her clothes but I couldn't wear the ratchet old ones I took from home, they needed a wash.