His Rejected Luna

XIV

Trust? What is it?

'Cause I knew you were trouble when you walked in

So shame on me now

Flew me to places I'd never been

'Til you put me down

Valerie's pov:

Tears flew down my cheeks. If he wanted me to get chained and whipped so be it. How could a man change within a few hours?

"I Valerie Sanders, mate of Xander Nero accept the punishment given to Stella and her rouge mate." People gasped. My eyes found the familiar brown ones. They held a storm. A storm which could destroy him or destroy us all.

******Hours back*******

My body was burning. Xander had mind linked Marie to get a cold bath ready. Xander was pulling me but after maybe ten steps or so I collapsed. Xander or rather Ryan growled and picked me up in bridal style and started running towards the pack house. He rushed through the door and straight towards his bathroom. He lowered me down to the cold bathtub which had ice floating in it. I groaned automatically. The ice water felt like the spirit used to clean wounds. Xander quickly placed himself so that my back was pressed on his chest. After about what felt like a day, though it was only an hour I felt the pain to get dull. I shifted and pulled myself away from him to sit face to face.

"Hey" he said. I could see how hard it was getting for him to control his carnal desires.

"Xan .. I.."

"I know you freed them. Philip told me about this plan" Xander said in a monotonous voice.

"Wait! You knew! Philip that son of a " more curses flew from my mouth before I realised I was just insulting the beta in front of an Alpha. "Sorry. But why didn't you stop us?"

"What if I never wanted to stop you?" he quirked his eyebrows. He pulled me closer to him and I squeaked as I was sitting on his lap. "Val, I wanted you to free the girl because I couldn't."

"So you are not mad at me?" I asked. Before he could answer another heat wave hit me. I doubled up and placed my head on the crook of his neck. He carefully peeled my shirt off and brought me closer to him if it was possible. He gradually started placing small kisses on my shoulder. I moaned involuntarily. He stopped to the place where he would mark me and started sucking the area.

"Xan.." He stopped. I cupped his face in my hands and said "We need to talk".

Xander seemed to have come back to his senses. He pressed his forehead against mine. "I don't know where to begin." He looked into my eyes then. I gasped. Those eyes held thousand emotions, unshed tears and fear?

"How about telling me about your father?" Xander pulled his face away from me. In a flash his face became expressionless. "Xander please. I need to know why you let him control you! Please!"

Another heat wave hit me. I screamed. Xander stood up and walked out of the bathtub. For a moment I thought he was walking away from me. I was too scared to open my eyes but then the sound of shower made me turn my head towards him. Xander came to me and helped me stand up. I let my soggy jeans go and followed him inside the shower. We stood awkwardly in the shower facing one another and looking anywhere but each other. Xander opened the bottle of body soap and poured some in his hand. "Turn around" he said. I complied. He silently started massaging my shoulders and back. Honestly it felt heaven.