Chapter 286
WARRICK
I stepped over a root that poked into my path, following along the forest edge beneath a high blanched sun, the quiet far too much for a head filled with thought.
My chest hitched as memories of the tension sitting between. Piper and me replayed themselves in my head.
I exhaled with a heavy sound and ran a hand over my hair, suddenly saying out loud, “Why can’t I get things right.”
Suddenly, the very soft sound of footsteps really snapped me out from these thoughts, turning my eyes which instantly met those of a sleek, curvily outlined she wolf.
“Warrick,” she purred, her head cocked slightly as a coy smile danced on her lips. “What are you doing out here all alone?”
“Patrolling,” I returned shortly, my tone sharp as I continued
ahead.
She chuckled, her voice low and teasing. I paused, I know that laugh.
“Alina?” I growled low as I turned and saw her right behind me. I scoffed, “Decided to reappear again, to cause more harm to the pack from where you left off?”
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Alina raised the sides of her lips in a small smile, “Warrick…. always so serious, that’s one thing that I always admire about you. You look like you could use some company.”
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Admire. I narrowed my gaze at her. She had been away for quite a while, I heard her friends had said something about her going back to her mother’s pack across the rivers. Why has she come back?
“I’m fine,” I said, turned, and walked away, I don’t trust her.
She rushed closer, her fingers lightly brushing against my arm. I jumped and took a deep breath and I hastened my steps away.
“Are you? You seem tense,” she murmured, her gaze going pointedly to the bulge in my pants.
Shit. Why did she have to notice that? I had been battling with this urge for a while now. I can’t seem to get close to Piper, so I just stay like that.
“Let me help you relax.” She placed her hand on my pants in the bulge and I froze and stood still.
“Alina… stay away from me,” I said and took a step away from her reach. She smiled and walked up to me.
She placed her hand on my shoulder and tiptoed to reach my ear, her warm breath blasting the side of my neck. “Just a little distraction, Warrick. No one has to know,” she whispered.
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“Alina, stop,” I said, my voice coming off softer than the growl that I had intended.
She pressed in closer, however, the tips of her fingers trailing
down the waistband of my trousers. “Come on,” she said in a honey tone, her voice looked so sexy.
“Ok, just one kiss, that’s all I’m asking.”
“No,” I snapped, taking one step backwards, her lips turned upward in a sweet smile.
“Just one kiss,” she repeated, her hands now on my chest. “You’re strong enough to stop after that, right?”
She said it was like a challenge, and my resolve broke.
The image of Piper’s face flashed across my mind, but the weight of Alina’s body against mine was breaking through.
“Fine,” I growled. She is not going to let me go. I’ll just get over this shit. “One kiss. Then you leave me alone.”
us,
Triumph flared in her eyes and she closed the space between u her lips soft against mine.
For a second I let myself sink into it, her hands slithering down to squeeze my cock through my trousers.
My breathing moved sideways as she leaned closer against me. “Alina, enough,” I said, moving myself back.
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I turned to see her standing there, her eyes wide with shock and hurt.
“So this is what you do now?” she said, her voice shaking with
anger.
“Piper, it’s not what it looks like,” I stuttered, stepping toward her, but she threw a hand up, stopping me in my tracks.
“It looks exactly like what it is, Warrick,” she hissed, her tone escalating. “You just can’t help yourself, can you? A few days away from my pussy and you are already looking for a bitch to fuck huh? And you had to do this with her.”
Her glare danced to Alina, who raised a brow at her. “The prodigal she wolf.”
Shit. I cussed in my head. I messed up. I felt this pang in my
chest as I listened to her words.
“Maybe he just needs someone who understands him,” Alina said, her words twisting the knife deeper in my chest.
“Shut up, Alina,” I snapped, wheeling to glare at her.
“Don’t bother pretending now,” Piper cut in, icy. “I’ve seen enough.”
I stood frozen, the sting of Piper’s retreat burning into my chest.
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My fists clenched at my sides, I turned back to Alina. “This was a mistake,” I growled.
“Perhaps,” she returned, shrugging as if nonchalant. “But it was your mistake, Warrick.”
With those words hanging between us, I strode off to leave her standing, immersed in the heart of the forest.
The coolness of the air did little to extinguish the flames boiling in my veins.
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At dust from a corner of my eye I spied motion, whipping around, a gangly werewolf walked up to me. His smile is razor–like, unpleasant.
“Rough day, Warrick?” he said smoothly, his voice drizzled with mock sympathy.
“Who are you?” I asked, immediately going into high alert.
“I am Orion, someone who recognizes potential,” he said, circling me. “You’re tired of being second guessed, aren’t you? Tired of bending over backward to prove yourself to wolves who will never see your worth”
Orion? I have never heard of that name. I balled my fist. “Get to the point,” I snapped, losing patience.
A wolf’s grin spread across his face.
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“You want control, Warrick. Power. Respect. And I can help you get it.”
I balled up my fist and shook my head at him, “No… you are Wrong… you don’t know me.”
I gulped, as I kept my eyes on him.
I had to get out of here. I can’t be out here alone… what if this is an ambush?
I took a few steps back. “You don’t know me,” I thought again as I raced through the woods, back towards the pack.
“You will need me, Warrick, you definitely will!!” he yelled after
- me.
I only increased my speed. As I ran, I thought of the one person who had ever known me for who I truly am. Piper.
She had been there always, and all I could do was hurt her? I have to find her and fix my mistakes.
