Chapter Seven
765 Words
Wren
God, I wanted her. I had always wanted her but the moment I let myself touch her it hit me like a sledgehammer to the gut.
I wanted her so much it actually hurt. How had I gone all this time without her?
Her breathy little moans were giving me life, and I moved over her body to capture them with my mouth.
My lips crushed down on hers. And there was no resistance in her as she eagerly kissed me back . Her tongue swiping into my mouth , her breath mingling with mine.
Opal was my everything.
“please Wren…”
I should have denied her. Told her to go to hell and got off the bed , maybe taken a cold shower but I had never been able to deny her. Not when we were younger and definitely not now.
I had missed her so damn much.
“Ssssh.” My lips swallowed her moans as my hand rose up to cup her small breast. I teased the n****e with my thumb. Her body reacted just like it always had.
She was mine.
She had always been mine.
Until of course she wasn’t.
The thought drew me back to myself with a jolt.
This was a huge mistake. A massive massive mistake.
If I went any further , I would want more. And more was one thing she couldn’t give me. Not anymore.
I tore my lips away from her. “Enough.” My chest was heaving, every breath was laboured. “I can’t do this.”
“Wren.” Her voice was panicked, her hands reaching to bring me back down to her. Desperate and needy. “Wren please. I need you.”
If only that was true. If only she needed me as much as I needed her we would have been in this situation. We would have been mated and happy.
“It doesn’t have to mean anything, it’s just comfort.”
I threw myself on top of her. My hand closing around her throat but not squeezing. “But it means something to me Opal, it always meant something to me. And that’s why I won’t ever touch you again Opal. Because I mean nothing to you.” I tore myself from her, standing on shaky legs. “Don’t ever try and seduce me again Opal. Get yourself dressed .” I backed away. “As soon as I am showered we are leaving.”
I had to get away from her. Opal wasn’t the sweet girl who I had fallen in love with I had to remember that. She didn’t need me, not really.
I wouldn’t let her worm her way back into my heart and soul again.
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She was bleary eyed but dressed when I finally emerged from the shower. Her hands in her lap.
“Ready to go?” I tried to keep my voice level but the truth was the hurt on her face was killing me.
“Why?” Her chin wobbled. “Wren why do you hate me so much?”
Hate her? Her words made me take a step back. How could she think I hated her. When I honesty it was the opposite.
I loved her.
I had always loved her and that love was killing me.
“I don’t hate you Opal,”
Her face rose so her eyes could meet mine. “If you don’t hate me why do you hurt me so much? Why are you making me go with you? I was doing just fine on my own.”
I let my eyes sweep over her . “No you weren’t Opal. You’re a mess.” My words were harsher than I wanted them to be and she flinched back like I was going to hit her.
“I’m doing this to help you Opal.” I fell to my knees , my hands reaching for hers. “To protect you now your mate is not about too.”
A single tear fell from her eye. And I watched it mesmerised as it made its way down her cheek. “But you weren’t there to protect me from him were you?”
I blinked at her in surprise. What was she talking about now.
“You promised you would always protect me that I was yours and you left me alone Wren. I cried for you every single night and you didn’t come…” her tears were falling freely now. And she wiped them away angrily.
“You chose someone else Opal, as soon as you realised you could do better , you left me.”
“I left you because I didn’t have a choice. I left to save your life Wren. You are the one who abandoned me to a lifetime of abuse and misery. You didn’t come for me.”
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