He chuckles and shakes his head. “Okay good! And yes I was feeling left out, but you gave in so easily I didn’t even get to use my puppy dog eyes dammit!” We both chuckle at his exaggeration.
We get our ice cream and go down to the beach, sitting on a small bench next to each other I can feel Drakes warm body, his shoulder and one leg touches the side of mine as we sit there.
Drake breaks the silence. “You know you don’t have to be afraid of Jax, he would never hurt you.” I gulp down the ice cream I was swallowing not prepared for this conversation and blurt out.
“Well it wasn’t me I was afraid of him hurting.” He laughs at this and rubs the bridge of his nose.
“Nah, I’m just kidding. I was just surprised that’s all because I’ve never seen him like that before. I mean Rachel’s reaction was expected – I would of probably done more damage if I saw some chick with her hands on my boyfriend.” I say laughing it off.
He gives me a weird look then he shows me that beautiful smile. “Hmmm… that’s good to know… I mean I would definitely get all hulk on whoever puts their hands near my…um…girl.”
I look at him and start laughing; he has somehow gotten chocolate sauce on the side of his face.
“What? Why are you looking at me like that? Stop laughing…” he frowns faking seriousness.
“Keep still.” I say pulling the long sleeve of my flannel shirt over my fingers, I lean slightly into him and I can feel him tense under my touch. Biting my lip trying to focus hard to not look into his eyes, even though I can see he’s looking at me intently as if I’m something special. I take a quick glance at him as I wipe the rest of the chocolate off his face and I see that he’s looking at my lips.
My breathe catches, I stop bighting my lip and he looks into my eyes. It’s so intense, I wanna kiss him so bad but what will he think of me? Meeting a girl the first day and she’s already jumping him? Yeah… don’t think that will go over too well. So I sit back, throw my empty container in the bin next to me and try start the conversation again.
“Hey, my mom’s working Friday night, so everyone’s coming over to my house to watch movies, you should come ….I mean …if aren’t busy or anything and only if you want to… you don’t have to-” I start rambling on in my nervous state, he cuts me off and puts his hand over mine.
“Hey stop that, of course I want to come, you wouldn’t want me to feel left out again now would you?” he raises his eyebrow and grins at me. He turns my hand over and laces his fingers with mine, I smile thinking of how innocent this is and yet it feels so intimate. I’m so comfortable with him and I know I said I wouldn’t get attached to anyone, but I just can’t seem to resist anymore and I don’t think I want to.
We spend the rest of the afternoon sitting chatting about each other’s interests and home life. I find out he has one younger brother that’s four years old and Jax has been teaching him bad words. I laugh at this thinking that’s exactly what I expect from Jax. I tell him all about my dad but leave out the part about my mom– that’s my dirty little secret.
CHAPTER 6
DRAKE POV
I watched the girl as she sat on the rock by the waterfall that night, I heard what she said about her father and I felt the sadness in her voice. When I appeared from the bushes I assumed I would have scared her away, I’m the soon to be Beta of my pack, Black Valley Wolf Pack, therefore I am larger and stronger than my pack aside from our soon to be Alpha Jax. Humans tend to stay away from us since we are “wild animals” but the girl only hid behind the rock as if I wouldn’t be able to notice she was nearby. I smelt the air as I was taking my nightly run and I smelt something sweet and rich almost like caramel and I needed to find the source. I never thought I would’ve found this beautiful human.
My friends say that I am quite volatile and aggressive and I would agree with them. I don’t get along with humans and I never have but something about this girl calmed me and I needed to make sure she wasn’t scared of me. Jax says that I’m bipolar and am struggling with a split personality but I’m just naturally aggressive and have a hard time controlling my temper. I guess all us werewolf’s have split personalities because within us belong our wolves, not only do we have our thoughts flowing around in our head but we have to listen to someone else’s voice constantly and if you’re not strong enough , your wolf can take control of your body. My wolf’s name is Sebastian and I tend to have a harder time controlling him than others have controlling their wolf within them. Sebastian brings out the ugly side of me but I can feel the delight that radiates from him when he sees the girl. I’m not sure whether he sees a weak pray that he can control or if she truly is bringing out the softer side of him.