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

so you know,” he whispered, “I already know you’re not wearing any underpants”

Alarms going off in my head as I planned what I would say next, but I had nothing.

“And it’s absolutely fine with me” He finished as he settled his head into my hair.

Silently screaming on the inside, I had no idea what to do. I was in a tent made for one person. In a sleeping bag, spooning commando with an Alpha as he falls asleep, breathing on my neck. Despite the half of me that was going off in alarms, there was another half of me that enjoyed the encounter, a lot. His scent covered me, instead of Jay’s old scent with his shirt, I now reeked of Ace. And I liked it. I liked the feeling of his warm arms wrapped around me and his breath on my neck. I was just so tired and stressed and had my guard up so high. Relax, for now, there is nothing you can fear for now. You may lower our guard. My wolf had been right about everything so far, what was wrong with trusting her again. I felt my heavy eyelids drop as my breathing pattern synced with Ace’s. I felt peaceful and safe, for the first time in a very long time.

Chapter 30 >> Kade's view

 

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 so you know,” he whispered, “I already know you’re not wearing any underpants”

Alarms going off in my head as I planned what I would say next, but I had nothing.

“And it’s absolutely fine with me” He finished as he settled his head into my hair.

Silently screaming on the inside, I had no idea what to do. I was in a tent made for one person. In a sleeping bag, spooning commando with an Alpha as he falls asleep, breathing on my neck. Despite the half of me that was going off in alarms, there was another half of me that enjoyed the encounter, a lot. His scent covered me, instead of Jay’s old scent with his shirt, I now reeked of Ace. And I liked it. I liked the feeling of his warm arms wrapped around me and his breath on my neck. I was just so tired and stressed and had my guard up so high. Relax, for now, there is nothing you can fear for now. You may lower our guard. My wolf had been right about everything so far, what was wrong with trusting her again. I felt my heavy eyelids drop as my breathing pattern synced with Ace’s. I felt peaceful and safe, for the first time in a very long time.

Chapter 31 >> Lana's view

 

The sun appearing through the tent woke me gently. I stretched my hands out and yawned, that was one of the best sleeps I’ve ever had, I thought as I felt the serenity of the warm sun. When my lovely wake up was ruined by something hard sticking into my back. What the… and then I remembered the warm arms around my waist and who they led to. Are you shitting me? I knew exactly what was going on right now, talk about morning wood… I had to get out now, before I did something a small part of me would regret, but another wouldn’t. I turned my body around slowly to be met with amethyst eyes staring