Our limbs tangled around each other. He moved gently in and out while placing kisses over my face and neck. At times, our lips met, and his tongue worked its way into my mouth. I gave into the heat and passion of it, letting the love, the magic, whatever tingled over my skin, have its way with me. In time, we came together, clinging to each other as our gasps, and cries even, became one.
For the rest of the afternoon, I knew while the cleaners worked, we lounged in bed talking, touching, and making love again. Lex even went out at one point and brought in a simple sandwich and a sliced-up apple from the fridge, along with two bottles of water. Somehow, in all of it, my stomach had given up on wanting food. But, once it growled, it wouldn’t let up, and so he’d gotten up to get us something. He wouldn’t hear of me going out there, too. He put on sweats and a t-shirt of mine to go ask the cleaners for the clothes he’d requested they bring him.
We ate and we chatted.
“You guys must go through a lot of clothes,” I teased, seeing the bag he’d brought back in with him.
“Yeah, our wardrobe changes a bit. People think I have all kinds of money, as I’m pretty much always in something different, new.”
“I thought they didn’t attack that much?” I asked.
“Well, maybe they do a little more than I let on. I under-exaggerated, if you will. Plus, sometimes they are just playing with us, and all we lose are our clothes.”
“Nice of them,” I huffed. “Of course, I could tell from the one that turned that they were real class acts. Just got that immediate impression. So, what do you think happens now,” I asked, once again snuggling under the covers in his arms.
“What do you mean?” he played dumb.
“I mean with the wolves. You said that that wasn’t the last of them, so what happens next? Plus,” I continued daringly, as if I’d just put it together on my own, “won’t the royals now know that you exposed yourself to me? What happens then?”
“I know you listened in on my conversation, Christina,” he teased. “I have the ears of a wolf even in human form. I was just waiting for you to confess and ask your questions.”
“That’s so wrong,” I mumbled.
“Maybe. Anyway, we don’t know how to proceed, or they don’t, at least. The other wolves have never gotten so close. Maybe they’ve just gotten bolder, just as we are all worried as to the why of that. They’ve threaten the humans as they attacked us before, but they never got past us to show themselves to the humans. They’ve showed themselves in these last attacks, which meant that, as protector, I had no choice but to reveal myself, just as the others had to. Guess you also gathered that you are not the only human in your bloodline that they’ve revealed themselves to in this round of attacks.”
“Yeah, I got that from the word ‘global’. Were all the attacks recent?”
“Yes, all tonight, in fact. The Royals are beside themselves. They don’t know what to do with all of the information coming in as to what happened. That’s why my phone call took so long. They were filling me in, as well. Sadly, the bigger problem is that no one yet knows why the attacks have changed in style and in magnitude, and in veracity. No one knows what the werewolves will do next. Even the Royals don’t know what they will do now. A rule was broken, but for the greater good. It could either work in our favor or against us. We are in unchartered territory here, so I don’t exactly know how it plays out. I’m just waiting for further instruction.”
“What if they take you away from me?” I asked, not hiding the pitch of panic in my voice.
“For right now, I told them, as you well know, that it was best that I stay. I fear that the idea behind the bold attacks was to get the protectors out of the picture, have them go back to report, and leave you unattended, or with some stand-ins. Maybe they figure that if the best of use are with the Royals they can find some weak links to get to one of the bloodline. Or, shit, maybe they planned to attack all of us, including the Royals. Although, before, they didn’t know where they were located.”
“What if that is the change? What if they now know where the Royals are?”
“I honestly don’t know. Although, they couldn’t possibly think us so dumb. Maybe they are just trying to rattle us in hopes of getting the upper hand. It’s probably useless for us to speculate. As of now, though, the Royals don’t know about us, as in us us, but they will soon. The cleaners will report about us coming from the bathroom together.”