Not Mine but His Mate (Completed)

Chapter 12: Judgemental 🐾

My breath escaped me the longer we kissed.
His hands didn't roam, they were securely placed around my face.

'Is this really happening?' I thought.

I couldn't believe it. I couldn't believe I allowed him to kiss me. Even more I couldn't believe I was kissing him back. . . . And I liked it.
I really liked it.

His soft lips were perfect and for that moment, I welcomed them.
I welcomed them in that moment because I felt the passion behind his kiss. As if he had been holding that in for centuries....but hell truth be told, he probably has considering how old he is.

The kiss felt like he needed that for him and I was okay with that.

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"Hazel," I heard his voice say behind me taking me out of my daydream.

I smiled and turned around, "Yes."

"Gosh you're beautiful," he said looking me up and down. And as a response, I blushed and thanked him. "Would you like to take a walk with me?"

I nodded and he took my hand and we took a walk in the woods. It had been a few more weeks and Dom and I have been talking about everything.

He told me all about himself and his life as a cub. He says all of the time that he wishes I could have met his parents. His parents however, he said were murdered by the Corwin family. Which is the reason for the personal vendetta against the Corwin family and his family. Which brings me into finding out about Narcissus. Hearing how powerful he is and could be terrifies me for the Lienthians but if Narcissus is the only true threat, then I still don't see why he can't be beaten.

I don't know, maybe it's just my American mindset that is very ambitious. But seeing each of the Lienthians practice everyday, I feel that everyone should be afraid of them.

But anyway, Dom and I have been getting closer. I'm not completely open to be honest. He knows about Zaim and why we got a divorce but that's about all he knows.  Obviously he could tell my past relationship has really taken a toll on me in a negative way, hence why I was so closed off in the beginning. He tries to take his time with me in regards to how much I share, but I can tell that each time I shut him out, it hurts him.

As we continued to walk through the blue gardens he took that time to ask me something.

"Why did we take the long way to training, Dom?"

"Well Minou, there is something I wanted to ask you. I've been waiting to ask you this for a while now," he replied.

I kept myself from going into panic mode. I figured this was the time where he was going to ask me if he if I would accept being his mates or not. I knew I have yet to give him an answer, but I wasn't ready for that type of commitment yet, no matter how much progress we have made.

"Yes?" I managed to throat out through my growing nerves.

"There's um, this banquet that we have every year. Basically celebrating all of the newly Lienthians that broke out of the curse that year," he explained.

False alarm!
I responded with a very deep exhale of relief.

"I would like to know if, uh, you would uh, accompany me to this ban-banquet?"

I smiled at how adorably nervous he was. Little did he know that I would be honored to be going with him to this banquet.

"Of course, Dom. I would love to go with you."

His face lit up, "Oh yeah?"

I nodded, "Oh yeah."

"Great! Um... that turned out better than I initially thought it would."