Healed by the Alpha (Hunted Book Two)

Chapter Fifty

Dominick

No. I told myself. No, no, no. Ferdinand had said that we all needed to get some rest and the thoughts running through my head right now definitely weren't the resting kind. Emily was watching me from across the flames, the way they were licking in-between us reminded me of when she...

No.

I couldn't think about that.

I could hear Malik's low snoring starting in our tent and so I focused on that instead. The more I focused the louder it got and instead of being a distraction it was something else to worry about. I was not looking forward to having to spend however long next to that.

Without warning, Emily stood from the log she was perched on and sauntered over to my side of the fire. I watched as her hips swayed from side to side, hypnotising my and drawing me in. She stopped right in front of me, I had to lift my head to look into her eyes. "Don't you think you should be getting some sleep too?" I gave her a lazy smile, "who was the one that didn't want to get out of the car earlier because she was tired?"

Emily glared down at me, "touché."

Kill me now. If I couldn't have her then goddess what was the point in even carrying on. Her eyes were burning holes into my soul, holes that only she could mend. I needed to change the subject, I needed to make this friendly. My wolf was heavily disagreeing with me. "Come on," I patted the log next to me, "why don't you tell me a bedtime story if you're so instant that I need to go to sleep."

She raised her eyebrows surprised, "this isn't exactly how I thought this would go..." Was that a suggestion? It couldn't be.

Could it?

I cocked my head to the side and studied her reaction, "how did you think this would go?" Things were always so on and off constantly, I didn't know whether we were pretending not to have feelings or if she just needed something as a distraction. "I came over here to ask if you would sleep with me." My eyes shot out of my head, my jaw was suddenly slack and hanging open and my heart had completely stopped inside my chest.

"You... you want what?" I asked her carefully. A furious pink shade started to show in her cheeks and I realised she hadn't meant for it to come out the way that it had. She had done the same thing with Ferdinand earlier. My wolf was repulsed at the memory and it took everything I had to suppress the urge to not wake him up. But Emily was here, yes, I would focus on Emily. What was she saying?

"To sleep in my tent..." she added, "Malik's snoring is the worst." Her hands were fidgeting, she looked nervously at her feet. Another loud bout of snoring came from my tent and we both looked at each other. "Okay. Just for tonight." I told her, lifting myself from the wooden log. The air was charged and static, it felt almost alive with the amount of tension that was continuously rolling off of her body.

She grinned at me brightly and headed over to where her tent was pitched up. It was slightly further away from the rest, I told myself that that's why she'd wanted me to say. Maybe she just felt lonely and she didn't want to be alone? That would make sense considering we were in the middle of nowhere. I watched as she walked ahead of me, her ass swaying gently as her long legs moved her forward.

My eyes were fixated on her. My mind was obsessed with thoughts of her in that tent.

No.

I had to stop myself, we had agreed that we wouldn't do this. Hadn't we? The more I thought about it, the less the reasons made sense. Why shouldn't I get this, get her? My head was spinning with dizzying thoughts by the time she'd unzipped the front of her tent. I followed her inside, careful not to break the dream-like state she'd put me in.

My eyes adjusted to the dark, her tent seemed larger than mine. Then again, I did have a huge hulking Malik sprawled out in the one I was meant to occupy. The snow had made it considerably lighter outside the tent, which in turn, made it a lot easier to see things inside. Emily started rummaging through her bag, I was suddenly aware that we could both have to change into what we could sleep in. "Do you want me to get out while you're changing?" I asked her innocently.

She looked up at me from her bag, a wicked smile on her lips. "It's not like you haven't seen it before." My mouth was hanging open. Since when had Emily been that blunt? She stood up and started to remove her shirt, I watched as she gripped the bottoms of the hem with her hands and lifted it up over her chest-

I abruptly turned my body around to face the tent wall. I couldn't watch her.

It felt like an invasion of her privacy when she literally had nowhere else to go. Instead, I focused on what we'd be facing tomorrow and if we actually finally get any answers. I started to remove my clothes too, starting with my belt buckle and then my pants. A cool breeze passed me and my back muscles shivered in response. Only it wasn't a breeze.

Her hands were delicate and light as she traced the contours of my back, I sucked in a breath as her cold hands wrapped around my waist and slowly moved to my back again. I quickly gripped into her hands so that she couldn't pull them away. I hadn't realised how much I'd needed this. How much I'd needed her comfort though all of this. She even seemed to sense it too.

I pulled her arms to the side and flicked her chin up to face me. Her eyes were heavy, but something was telling me that it wasn't sleep she was after. "If you are persistent to play with fire, little varg. I'm not going to keep putting out the flames." And then, I kissed her. Her lips met mine in a flurry of passion, want and desperation. I was sick of not giving into it. It was exhausting to keep these feelings on lockdown and constantly battle my own wants. I was going to show her everything.