The Mark of Ankh (Book One of the Mark Series) (Completed)

Chapter 3 (Edited)

Blake studied me, a prideful look in his eyes. "You know, I can't wait when the ceremony is over. Then I can have you at my side, and we will be ruling over the pack together."

I rolled my eyes. "Come on, Big Boy," I said, folding my arms across my chest. "You know that you can wait."

Blake pouted at me, his blue eyes sparkling with laughter and love. "Seeing other males looking at you," he paused and growled deep in his throat, "it makes me mad."

I bared my sharpened canines at him in warning. I hated how he tried to do that, since almost a lot of females had dated him. "Oh don't give me that bull shit. You freaking know that I can take care of my own ass."

Blake held up his hands in mock defeat. His blue eyes didn't lose the laughter that in, them while he looked at me. "I know, I know," he said, calmly. "But Damion has been looking at you and calculating if he would have a chance with you."

I rolled my eyes at the mention at Damion Bate's name. That boy had been looking at me as if I was a prize, that was waiting to be plucked out of a game machine, ever since he had moved to Maine.

My jaw was set hard in that stubborn fashion, because I didn't like what he was saying. He was talking as if I was going to date someone this close to the ceremony. Besides, I didn't really like Damion. He wasn't my type. "Oh don't point that finger at me," I snapped. "I've not dated anyone unlike someone I know."

Blake looked down, not meeting my piercing gaze. He knew that I was right for there were more than ten girls who could say they had dated him. "That was before this year, though," he said, weakly. "I stopped because-"

"Because we've been approved for the right to have both packs together and make a new one. Damn it, Blake," I said, moving a hand through my hair. "You could've stopped dating anytime before that, but you didn't."

I folded my arms across my chest tighter and gritted my teeth. I didn't say that I was kind of jealous of him, because he had dated more than a lot of people. I didn't even have my first kiss yet, and I was 18  turning 19.

Blake hung his head, guiltily. "I know, I know. I-I guess I just wanted you to date me... then. That was why I dated girls, so I could make you feel jealous." A small smirk danced on his lips, but it was chased away with a sigh and a frown. "Also, our packs could not get... along with each other before this year, and we started to do some stuff together."

I sighed and felt a small piece of regret in the pit of my stomach. I quickly shot that piece of regret with a mind arrow and ignored it, knowing that it was bull crap. "I shouldn't have yelled at you," I said, looking away from him. I looked at my feet, hating that a small blush was forming on my cheeks.

I heard a small thud as Blake jumped over the creek and onto my territory. A small growl tried to escape my throat, but I held it back. I coughed, choking on it, before I bit my lip. I was nervous, because I didn't know what he would do.

His scent reached my nose as he pulled me into a hug. I let myself melt into his embrace, placing my head on his shoulder. My whole body started to relax into his embrace, but I kept stubborn and stayed a little tense. I felt his stomach rumble, while he growled silently of having his "possession" close to him.

"I can take care of myself, Wolf Boy," I said, while Blake pulled my chin gently so that he would be looking into my eyes.

His blue eyes sparkled with pride and love, for me and his pack. I knew, in that instant that he will help me protect my pack, as I would with his.

Blake touched my chin and lifted it close to his mouth. My mouth parted and he kissed me. A forbidden kiss, however good it was, it was still forbidden between me and him. His kiss was soft yet hungry. He wanted to keep doing it, to stay by me and have the kiss go longer than it should.

I broke away first even though he whimpered as I did so. I held back my own whimper of loss of the feeling, that the kiss had provided me. However, I knew that we might get caught and that wouldn't be good. "We can't," I said softly. I felt him tense in my arms, because he thought we can't be together, even though that was a stupid thought. I knew that we couldn't go against our parents wishes.

"We've-"

"We can't kiss each other, not until after the ceremony." I rolled my eyes, because I knew what he was thinking that I had meant. "Dumb ass," I muttered under my breath.

Blake sighed in relief and lifted my chin, so that I was looking him in the eye. He kissed me and gave me one of his famous lazy grins. "I know that I'm a dumb ass," he said, softly moving a strand of my black hair behind my ear. "But that is only around you."

I looked down again, hiding my red cheeks. I guess the he knew that I was a little bit ashamed of myself. The reason was that I did call him a dumb ass in front of his face.

Blake laughed, and he lifted my chin to look at him again. He touched my cheek and rubbed his finger across it, leaving a tingling sensation in his path. He kissed me again and smiled. "Let that kiss last until we're finally together," he said before he kissed me, again.

I returned his kiss with one of my own. "And let that last," I replied, getting out of his embrace. I knew that it was time for us to go our separate ways.

Blake looked to where his pack had left a few minutes ago. A small crease of worry appeared over his face, making the lines deep in his forehead. He was worried that something bad had happened to them, and I didn't blame him. I was worried about my pack, also.

I backed up slowly and silently from him and into the shadows. I shifted into my wolf form so that I could blend into them. I sat down in the shadows of the trees and watched him silently, waiting for him to leave before I leave.

"I should probably get back," Blake said, turning back to where I had been standing a second ago. A look of confusion passed through his face, making me smirk. A small smile that turned into a teeth showing one escaped over his face, while he shook his head. "I'll see you later, Miney," he said, a deep chuckle in his voice. He shifted into wolf form and jumped over the border to his pack land. He glanced one more time at my land before turning his head back to the way he had to go and ran back to where his pack was waiting in his pack house.

I rolled my eyes at Blake and ran back to my pack house where my pack was waiting.

A howl of farewell sounded through the trees, echoing through the forest. I answered his farewell, as I ran back to my pack and my family.