Wolves by Ash Faith (ebook reader 7 inch .TXT) 📖

Prince, it’s the only place I have to reside.”

“Don’t.” His voice shook me, “You can stay with me, Vampires will only willingly trade you off again or worse,” he grabbed my wrist “Kill you” he lifted it up to his nose. What the hell?... “I’m getting your scent, I advise you do the same, in case you change your mind.” His eyes filled with regret, but I was glad he wasn’t forcing me to go with him. I was done with people forcing me.

“See you ‘round” I waved to him as I walked off on my trail to find Julie.

“You don’t even know where you’re going, do you?” I turned to see him grinning, it was lop-sided, one corner raised. I just needed to get away from him, he made me feel something I’d never felt before.

“You don’t happen have any directions, do you?” I asked, hoping he had some kind of handy map.

“Peter does, but it just so happens that he can only show us the way.” I cursed under my breath, of course that’s what peter did.

“Fine, lead me back.” I ordered,

But Ace just leaned casually on the porch wall, and yawned. The nerve of him…

“I don’t know about that, considering the bloodied clothes you’re in, we’d have to take the longer route, to make sure to not draw any attention.” He grinned his lopsided grin even harder, god damnit, he was wrapping me around his finger. And I was fine with it. But he was not going to win so easily, I stormed back up the porch cursing and muttering that he won’t win me that easily.

“We’re ready to go, I’ve called the Court and let them know we’ve destroyed Mayson’s clan and that this town is now our land. They will come in about an hour to recover and clean up. We should get going now” Peter and the other 4 appeared in the door way.

“Okay, we leave now, Lana will be joining us. We shall accompany her back to the Royal Vampires lair”

Ace said calmly, I growled, he was so damned happy about this. “We take the route with our camp to clean up, right?” Peter asked. Ace nodded his approval. Suddenly Ace was moving towards me, not letting him try to lead me, I walked quicker, spinning on my feet head back down the porch stairs and into the woods. I turned around, happy about my small win, only to be met with Ace’s buff chest. My stomach fluttered once again. “Do you know what personal space is?” I asked him sarcastically as I took a step back pretending I didn’t take in his sweet scent as long as possible. Peter appeared beside him. “I must lead the way” he said as he calmly headed towards the woods. This was going to be one hell of a walk. I began after him and found that Ace was still right behind me, could he stop getting so damned close? Or I might jump the guy for Christ’s sake. He was just so hot I couldn’t help it, even thought I’d just watch him rip out the throat of a guy planning to have kids with me against my will.

My clear discomfort relaxed as I felt him take a few steps away from me, thank the lord, but suddenly he was at my side now. I kept my head straight forward, but out of the side of my eyes I took him in, he was taller than me, and still tan with the black and light brown hair along with the amethyst eyes, that looked rather pleased with themselves. That’s it. I needed to knock this guy down a notch, no matter how many times he tricks me into letting him into my personal bubble. Later. My wolf told me,

He is the alpha, if you send any hits toward him his pack will never forgive you. Especially since they know you’re powerful they are especially on edge. She was right, I needed to watch my actions, because they surely were.

Chapter 29 >> Lana's view - Ace's pack campsite

 

We had finally reached near the campsite, I was near passing out. The events of the past 24 hour, no, the past week, had tired me out. I’d gotten used to Ace beside me now, having his sweet scent right beside me had become almost calming. Even as I slowed pace or fastened, he followed. Why someone would go through that much trouble to agitate me was like trying to put a puzzle together with all the wrong pieces. Ahead of us there was an indent inside a giant rock, under it were three tents. Camouflaged into the rock were also some duffle bags.

“Our normal camp setup, Daniel with Lachlan, Peter with Ezekiel, and me in my tent.” Ace spoke to the group, “With Lana” he added. Oh no. not happening

“You don’t have a spare tent or anything?” I asked, furious that one more point to our little feud game went to Ace.

“Unfortunately not, you were never part of the plan.” His grin beaming at me with self-accomplish.

“I’ll sleep outside, thanks for the offer” I teased, I was not going to let him win this one without a fight.

“I’m hurt” he acted surprised at my remark and held a hand to his heart like it hurt.

Good, I thought as I stared at him.

“But of course, the temperature drops during this time of night, you wouldn’t want to freeze to death after all of your hard work for freedom?” he sarcastically convinced me,

“Fine, I’ll sleep in your tent, but if you cross a line-“

“You’ll let me know” he finished my sentence. That was so annoying. But also, hot.

He gestured a curtsy and hand towards the farthest most solitary tent out of the three. I hesitantly made my way to the tent making sure to ‘accidentally’ step on his foot as I went along. I felt Ace following me again, did nobody teach this man about personal space?! I unzipped the tent to find a single large sleeping bag. I turned to Ace.

“There’s only one sleeping bag.” I stated.

“You are correct” he bluntly replied, “I don’t see the problem”

“The problem is how the hell are we both supposed to fit?” I felt stupid, of course there was only one sleeping bag, and of course he knew this as he’d decided I was going to sleep in his tent.

“It’s an extra-large, and stretchy material I’ll sure you fit right in.” he ushered me in,

I hesitantly dropped myself into the tent and attempted to size my body up to how much space I may need. Which was instantly destroyed as Ace struggled to fit his muscly figure into the tent and dropped gracefully on his side next to me – still grinning his lop-sided grin. I was both flustered and agitated, he managed to make me walk with him literally right next to me, and then convinced me to sleep in the same tent as me. He’d done something many males had failed, I had to give him that. A hand reached into the ten holding one of the duffel bags. “Your bag, ‘Ace’” Peter’s voice snickered behind the cover of the tent’s flap. Were his pack members not allowed to call him by his first name? Ace looked strained, like he wanted to say something, but he saw me watching him and brushed it off, grabbing the bag and zipping the zip up. The tent was quite tall, which is good considering Ace was suddenly reaching his arms up and taking his shirt off. My cheeks heated up,

“What the hell! You can’t just take your shirt off like that without warning me!?” I yelled at him, which earned me some snickers from the other tents.

“Why not? Does my body trouble you?” he seemed confused, which just angered me more. He needed to stop bushing my buttons.

“No. Just… Give me warning next time, Okay?” I had to calm down, if I was going to sleep the night peacefully I had to make peace with him.

“Sure, well I guess I should tell you then that my pants are going down as we speak.” I didn’t dare look, despite how much I wanted to. I turned my head and faced the tent’s side. I sighed, he wasn’t making this any easier for me. I remembered my Ron de vue from earlier and that I too, needed to change clothes, as I was covered in dried blood.

“Hey, um… you wouldn’t happen to have anything in there that might fit me would you?” I asked,

“Oh, yeah.” He sounded surprised I’d asked.

“What did you expect me to sleep in?!” Once again he expected me to just go along with whatever.

“Honestly, I just thought you’d sleep naked.” He sounded sad, like he missed out on an opportunity. An opportunity to see me in the nude that is…

“Are you dull?!” I yelled at him, once again I heard the snickers from the other tents. “You can all shut it too!” I was going to let them have it too. The snickering stopped and silence filled the air.

“Here, it might be a bit big, it’s one of my shirts, sorry about this” I grabbed the shirt from behind me, giving him no sympathy despite his apology. It was not that easy to be forgiven by me.

“Thank you.” I gave him at least that. I took of the blood-ridden shirt that once was owned to Jay and slipped on Ace’s shirt. It smelt like him, I took in the scent silently, it comforted me. I slipped off my pants from under the oversized shirt and remembered that I wasn’t wearing any underpants.

“shit” I quietly cursed as I grabbed the dirty clothes and spun back around to face Ace.

“what?” he whispered,

“Nothing. Where do I put these?” I held up the dirty clothes.

“Just chuck them outside, we’ll deal with them in the morning”

I unzipped the ten and shot out the clothes, quickly withdrawing my hand as the cold drifted into the tent from the unzipped hole. I zipped it back up, Goosebumps forming on my skin.

Ace started to get into the sleeping bag, opening a hole just big enough for me to fit in. I looked at him, then the sleeping bag, then back at him. I sighed as I gave up and gave in to the cold. I slid into the sleeping bag, making sure my bottom half was covered the whole time, the jerk did not need to know I was going commando. Just as Ace had said before, I just fit. As we both were laying on our backs it was still quite tight and uncomfortable. “I don’t think this is working” I finally admitted after the long silence,

“Well,” He whispered “There is another way we can fit more comfortably.”

Desperate to get movement for my legs and arms I agreed, “Fine, let’s do that then” what I hadn’t realised I’d agreed to soon crept up on me. Ace’s body moved to a side position, then he grabbed my waist and twisted me to face the same way and before I knew it, his arms were around me.

We were spooning. Seriously. Ace was cutting short of his straws. He nuzzled his nose up to my ear,

“And just