Chapter Six
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Foxy
I hated to admit it, but Bens words had hurt me. They had made me feel cheap. Which was the reason I had left the money I desperately needed on the floor. What right did he have in judging me? I was just doing what I had always done, and that was trying to stay alive.
If he had feeling for me like he said, then surely, he should understand that?
Wiping angrily at the tears that had spilled from my eyes, I looked both ways up and down the street. Shivering in the light drizzle that was falling.
I had run out of club X without even going back to get my coat and bag.
Rain instantly drenched my hair, plastering it to my head.
I had told him my actual name and I wasn’t even sure why.
Except I did know why, because I felt the mate bond as well. There had always been something about him. Even before he actually realised, I was a shifter like him I had always felt something when I looked at him. Ben made me shy, like I was an awkward school kid. I just hadn’t realised why before.
Now I knew. Ben was my mate.
It was like some cruel twist of fate that the universe would bring us together. We were total opposites.
He wanted; no, he deserved a mate who would nurture a family with him. Not a free spirit that liked to dominate men and women twice her size.
He didn’t even like me. Not as a person. He was simply following his animal instincts. And that hurt.
I couldn’t be alone in wanting a man to like her for her and not because “fate” had dictated it.
Pausing for just a second, I wrapped my arms around my ample chest, ducking my head down against the rain I started to walk towards home. It was going to be a long walk but there was no way in hell I was going back inside to get my stuff.
The thought of facing him again was mortifying.
“Miss?”
The voice made me jump. Whirling I clutched at my throat as my heart slammed against my ribs.
“Oh.” Breathing out a sigh of relief I forced myself to smile.
It was just the driver from earlier.
No one was going to attack me.
I had to get my nerves under control.
“Sorry.” He looked sheepish. “Ben said you needed to go home, and I was to take you.”
“It’s ok I will walk.” The last thing I wanted was to be indebted to Ben.
“Foxy.” A warm hand closed around my wrist, stopping me from walking away. “It’s raining and you don’t have a coat. Let me drive you home. I promise I won’t even ask any questions.” He winked.
I couldn’t help it I giggled. He probably has a million questions and there wasn’t one of them I could answer.
He was right though. It made more sense to get a lift home.
It would be safer.
“Thank you, a lift would be nice.” I shivered.
His smile was genuine as he started leading me towards the car. “Why don’t you sit in the back? I have a hoodie there you can throw on if you are cold.”
“Thank you.” Now the adrenaline was starting to leave me I was freezing. “What is your name?” Easily I slid into the warm interior of the back seat, and he shut the door behind me.
I didn’t catch his name.
It was dark and warm in the back of the car and with the fleecy sweatshirt over my corset and my hair and skin drying from the heat he had put on. I soon found myself relaxing against the buttery leather.
My eyes drifted shut.
My breathing evened out, and it was only when the flashing of the streetlights behind my closed lids began to get fewer and further apart that I opened them again.
Sitting forward against my seat belt, I glanced out of the window. Frowning as I gazed out at the unfamiliar street.
“Hey.”
My drivers’ eyes met mine in the rear-view mirror. He gave a small smile. Like he was trying to put me at ease, but I couldn’t seem to shake to niggling doubt in my chest.
“This isn’t the way to my house.”
His smile slipped just slightly before he caught himself. “There was an accident. I didn’t think you would want to sit in traffic, so we are taking the scenic route.” Another grin.
“Oh ok.” I settled myself back against the leather seats, looking out the window at the houses that were whizzing past.
Houses that were beginning to get bigger.
Frowning I touched the window. And it was like touching freedom.
We weren’t heading towards my house at all. I realised with a heavy sinking feeling. We were heading out of town.
“My family got to you, didn’t they?” Somehow, I managed to keep my voice steady. Even when my insides were screaming. I wasn’t sure how I had been so stupid. When my family was involved, no one could be trusted. They always managed to get what they wanted.
“They made me a …” he shrugged his wide shoulders. “I’m sorry Foxy. I really am but….”
He didn’t need to say anymore. No doubt my family had something over him or had simply paid him more than Ben had.
“Are you going to cause a scene?” His eyes searched mine in the reflection of the mirror.
Mutely I shook my head.
What would be the point of making a scene? There was no escape now. The car doors were locked, so I couldn’t even throw myself out of it and duck and roll into the street.
“What would be the point in that?” I muttered. “But you should know that they won’t pay you. And Ben…” my voice trailed off as I said his name and my chest constricted. “Ben will kill you when he finds out what you have done.”
“Because you are his mate? I know. That’s why I won’t be going back to town. Him and his Wyvern friend can’t kill me if they can’t find me.”
He was a fool if he believed that. But I couldn’t be bothered to argue with him. He wouldn’t listen anyway.
“I am sorry Foxy.” He said again.
“Shut up.” I snapped. “I don’t want to talk to you. If you want forgiveness you are talking to the wrong person.” I settled into an uneasy silence, staring almost unseeing into the now almost fully deserted street.
Something huge moved in the shadows o the fields that had taken the place of houses.
Forcing myself to not lean forward I watched as Ben in his giant bear shape gained on us.
He was coming for me.
My knight in pitch black fur.
Bracing myself I had maybe a second before his giant overtook us, he skidded to a halt and launched himself onto the bonnet without breaking stride.
Smashing his way through the windscreen with a roar and a white flash of giant teeth and claws.
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