Weres

63. Hollow

Iosif and Kyle blocked the path of wolves. Iosif knew they were itching to rip out Dimitri's head and finish this fight for good. But it wasn't as easy. Even in his grieving state, the old knight wasn't a force to be reckoned with. The wolves would be put down before they could even reach him.

Dimitri's cold demeanor faltered when his eyes fell on Marley sitting inside the jeep. His eyes bore into the girl, igniting fire inside him which burned out his remaining senses.

Selene was alive! His mate was alive.

"It's true," he gasped.

"I wasn't playing with you brother," Iosif said, "stop this madness and take what you were promised."

Marley got out of the jeep. Theo and Sanjay went to follow her but Sounia stopped them with a glare. Marley walked toward the row of bloodthirsty knights. Her walk carried a different kind of confidence and aloofness to the surrounding, a gloating smile on her lips, and a roguish glint in her eyes. The girl wasn't Marley. She was Selene.

"D," she called out as she reached him, remembering Selene's nickname for him that Iosif had mentioned to her in the passing. "I'm here."

"Selene," Dimitri breathed out. He reached to stroke her cheek, almost afraid that she'd disappear and this would all turn out to be a beautiful nightmare. "You're here." His cold fingers touched her warm cheek. "You're really here. It's not a dream?"

"It's not," Marley whispered back. Her heart clenched at the desperation in Dimitri's voice.

Immediately she was engulfed in a warm embrace, even though the person happened to be cold blooded. He breathed in her scent, and Marley's breath hitched. It was the make or break moment. She could very well die at this very second, if he caught her.

"You've lived with those mutts for too long. You've started to smell like them."

"You forget I'm a wolf too," Marley lied.

"That you are. But this pack's scent has rubbed on you." His hoarse voice cut through her ear.

"Then maybe, you should mark me. Stake your claim," she urged, her seductive voice curtaining the urge to get away from the man's arm and end this quickly.

Dimitri's mouth watered at the thought of turning his beloved. Before she always stopped his advances to turn her, but now his mate was offering herself on a silver platter. Perhaps, separation of more than a year had turned her mad too.

Marley bared her neck. His canines were almost out when a voice interrupted them. "Maybe, we should first let our governess rest. Transition will be much easier if she's at her full strength," a young black-haired knight next to Dimitri said. "She'll also want to tell us where these wolves kept her and why."

A range of curse went inside Marley's head. She was almost there!

"Thank you. Maybe, I'll like a few moments alone with D," she replied.

Iosif had already prepared her with the names and description of Dimitri's staff. This young knight, Aegis, happen to be a second-in-command of Dimitri. He had replaced Iosif after the brothers' fallout. Not many people had seen Selene. She had stayed away from the eyes of Dimitri's staff. 

The knight was too enraptured at the news of his mate being alive, he had lost all sense. And the staff's unawareness to actual Selene made the plan go smooth.

Without hesitating for even a second Dimitri cut through the crowd into the deeper part of woods, with his Selene in arms.

"My Selene." Dimitri smashed his lips against Marley's. He captured them in a soft kiss, feeling every curve as if it'd be his last time kissing her.