Tough Love [Book Two in the Hard at Heart series]

The One Where It's Him & I

Chapter Five

Megan's pov

December 5th 2018

The air was rushing past me, blowing through my brown fur. I was running from something. 

I don't know what.

"You can't run from me." It whispered into the wind.

My paws were thudding heavily against the muddy Earth. I could feel it getting closer to me. "Who do you think you're fooling? You could never be a leader." A sickening laugh crackled through the woods.

Suddenly the world was pitch black and I sat in a dark room, tied to a chair, wearing a black smoky dress and my face adorned a galaxy print. My body started to shake and my nose tingled as I could feel tears blooming in my eyes.

My lip quivered. Kit was tied to the wall and I heard Grayson and Drew off in the distance. "You know you aren't leaving here, don't you?" She asked. The cold blade she held moved around my body. I bit my lip to keep from breaking.

"Please." I mumbled. My plea meant nothing to her and the knife was thrust into my gut.

I jolted from bed with my breath caught in my throat. I was hyperventilating. Gray woke up beside me and he wrapped his arms around me, pulling me into his warm skin. His hands moved my hair from my face and wiped away the tears. "It's okay. I got you." He cradled me and I wept into his shirtless chest. "I-I was..." My lip quivered and my voice cracked. "Dead." 

He pulled me closer to him when I said that because he knew I was dreaming about my birthday two years ago. "You're okay, you made it. You're alive." I relaxed into him and felt myself falling into a deep sleep in my mate's arms.

xxxxx

February 1st 2017

"So are we doing this whole Valentine's Day thing as a couple or as friends who occasionally do the nasty?" I asked. Grayson visibly cringed. "Please do not. Sex, Megan. It's called sex." He told me with his freckled nose all scrunched up. I dismissed it with a wave. "Whatever buddy." 

"Why wouldn't we do this as a couple?" Gray pondered. I shrugged. "I don't know. We're 19 and we've had an off and on relationship for the past year-" He cut me off. "You're 18." "Shove off mate." Grayson walked closer so that our chests were touching. He looked deeply into my eyes and I lost myself in the electricity his contained. He licked his lips and firmly grabbed my hips. "You are mine. I'm going to do this thing as your boyfriend and I'm going to show you off." 

I could feel the blush creep up on my cheeks before he kissed the tip of my nose and walked away. Well then. I went to find Kit to ask her some dating advice seeing as how her relationship was the epitome of perfection. "Kitty!" I hollered. No response. "Marco?" There was a slight pause but I heard a faint "Polo!" from somewhere in the house. I found her in the backyard punching Drew. Never mind, not inside. I smirked, "Can I get in on this?" I cracked my knuckles. 

He crinkled his brows and brushed his sandy blonde locks out of his eyes. "Unless it's related to training then no you may not." I smiled sweetly. "Of course I want to train! Especially if you're the punching bag." I tilted my head down and my wolf eyes shone gold. Drew mocked me and his eyes flashed silver. "Two can play that game." He said. 

A couple hours later we were free to talk so she lead me to her room. She played 1, 2 Step by Ciara ft. Missy Elliott because that's been our song since we were in sixth grade at least. Kit sat on her bed. "Kitty how do I do the whole relationship thing with your brother? I'm his first girlfriend." I made a derpy face to express my emotions and she laughed.

"It's not funny!" I threw her pillow at her and chuckled a bit. "Well how do you feel about him?" she asked me. "I'm his, he's mine. I'll take a bitch out." I laughed and Kit rolled her eyes playfully. "I think you know what you want and what you're doing. Now get out cause I need to shower." I huffed in frustration but nonetheless I left her bedroom. 

Later that evening I was cuddled up to Grayson watching our favourite movie. We were watching Frozen obviously. "So we should talk.." I trailed off. He looked at me with a glare. "About what Satan?" "I promise to give you my all from now on. No secrets. I'm an open book, and I'd like to share my life with you. But if you tell anyone that I admitted this, I'll castrate you Grayson Michaels." 

He got a big goofy grin on his face that revealed his dimples and crinkled his spotted nose. He kissed my forehead. "I think I'm falling in love with you, you little weirdo." He told me.