Stronger than the Boys {1}

Chapter Twenty-Eight - Not Fair

Gen made us dinner and gave us a couple of beds to sleep in. Two beds, and she laughed when I looked at her with a frown. "Mates can share," she declared then left us to sort it out ourselves. Jay was grinning at me and Jeremy was frowning.

"Raven and I can share a bed," Jeremy stated flatly, "we have before. We're twins so its only right."

Jay frowned, "you heard Gen. Mates share."

I frowned at both of them and crossed my arms over my chest, "how about I get a bed to myself and you two share the other one." Who said I wanted to share anyways. Why did I have to be the one who gave up half my bed space?

I went over to one of the two single beds and tore back the covers. I then stripped down to my underwear and bra again without looking back at the two boys. At this point, I was sick of fighting everyone. I just wanted my mom back and to take a nice long nap.

We were supposed to hate werewolves? That was all wrong. My mom ran away with her mate and I apparently have one. My dad wanted an alliance? He can have one, I don't care anymore. I'm over all of it.

I crawled into bed, still facing away from the boys and pulled the covers up to my chin. I was tired of life.

I closed my eyes and waited for sleep to come, it didn't yet but I could almost feel the tension on the room behind me. After a few minutes, there was a screeching noise of the other bed moving. I felt it hit the bed I was in and before I could turn around to see what happened, there was someone crawling in behind me. From the heat that came when they got under the covers, I knew it was Jay. And the didn't try to pull me closer to him like I expected him to. He just put his arm against my back.

That must have just been enough comfort for him. I felt calm when he did that too because I fell asleep in no time.

The next morning I woke up on my stomach with an arm underneath me and someone breathing on the back of my neck. It took me a couple of seconds to realize it was Jay who was super close to me.

I lifted myself off the bed and off his arm and then looked across the bed to see that Jeremy wasn't there. I looked back towards the door and saw him standing there instead, freshly showered and wafting the smell of breakfast into the room.

"Need some help?"

I shook my head, Jay must've been crazy tired from all the running yesterday so I was going to let him sleep longer. I then tried to lift myself higher but Jay must've known because his arms snaked out and grabbed my waist to pull me back down.

I almost let out a noise of surprise. I was too surprised to pull against him and almost slammed into his chest as he pulled me towards him. I looked back to Jeremy, and he was now frowning.

"I guess I'm going to have to get used to that," he muttered and then left the room.

I was then alarmed, he offered help and now he wasn't helping?

Looking back at Jay's sleeping face, I was surprised to see that his eyes were now wide open. I let out a huff of air, "were you awake when you did that?"

He smirked, "no. The sudden impact of our skin against each other woke me."

Right. The weird mate sparks. Jeremy's grumpy mood had distracted me from them but I was only in a bra and underwear and Jay was only in his underwear. Our stomachs were now touching and my stomach was going crazy with anxiety and butterflies.

Jay then whispered quietly enough that even with my heightened senses, I almost didn't hear him. "I sure wish I could kiss you again."

I sucked in a breath of surprise and froze for a second. Jay seemed to freeze too as if he was scared for my response. I was scared of my response. Mostly because a part of me wanted to try kissing him too. Without force, when I wanted to.