His hands traveled up my body as he pulled me to him. All I could see was his general shape in this water.

He didn’t pull me very far down. We were maybe 4 feet under the surface. One hand held onto my waist, the other was on my neck, pulling my face towards his.

When our lips met I couldn’t hold back anymore, I didn’t want to. I grabbed both sides of his face and deepened the kiss. His hands stayed on my waist, holding me close.

It was my first underwater kiss. I had always wondered how that would work out. It was great. Grayson brought us to the surface not long after. He knew I couldn’t hold my breath for long.

After taking a deep breath, my lips found their way right back to his. I wrapped my legs around his waist. I could feel his erection, which surprised me because the water was so cold. When I grinded against it, he growled. He swam backwards to the ladder, holding me tight up against him. It wasn’t a very far swim.

He used the ladder for stability. I’m sure it was hard to make out and try to keep both our heads above water.

Once he reached out towards the ladder, I grasped his member and led it into my body. He stopped moving for a second and we went underwater again for a moment. He hadn’t expected me to do that and it surprised him. I laughed at him for a second before kissing him again.

The water kept us from a large range of motion. We didn’t need it anyway.

He broke our kiss and looked away growling. His eyes kept turning more and more amber. The human side of Grayson was losing.

“What’s wrong?” I asked in a moan as I moved my lips to his neck. His sudden distraction didn’t stop me from getting what I needed.

“There’s someone coming.” His voice was deeper, sexier, if that was even possible.

I smirked. “Isn’t that the point of what we’re doing?” I grinded harder on him to prove my point.

He smirked. “That’s not what I meant.” He kissed my shoulder. “We have company.” He liked up my neck to my ear, where he nibbled. “We’re going to have to make this quick.”

I shook my head, “I can’t be quick. Girls aren’t like guys.”

He smirked. “I’ll prove you wrong.”

And did he.

I was holding onto Grayson panting when someone came out of the tree line. I didn’t want to let go because that would mean I had to support myself. I felt too weak to swim.

“Looks like you proved me wrong.” I said letting go of him. I could barely swim. My legs felt too unstable for swimming, let alone walking. We still had to walk back home. “Who is it?” I asked as we started swimming to shore.

“I don’t know.” He sounded worried for a moment. “I want you to stay in the water until its safe.”

“You’re being too over dramatic.” I teased. “I’m sure no one would want to mess with you.”

The smile I had vanished when we got closer to the shore. I recognized him almost immediately. It was Kevin and he was eyeing Grayson. This was going to end badly.

"Kevin?" I hollered when we got close enough. "What are you doing here?"

I started swimming to shore quicker. I didn’t want to have problems.

"Boy trouble?" Grayson murmured as he followed me closely, a bit too closely for Kevin’s liking.

Grayson got came out of the water, blocking me from Kevin’s sight. He was being too overprotective. I couldn’t stop myself from stealing a peek at Grayson’s muscled back. He looked so amazing with no shirt on. I covered my chest when I was in waist deep water.

I pushed Grayson to the side. He didn’t move much. I had to lean around Grayson, and even then I could barely see Kevin."What are you doing here Kevin?"

He didn't take his eyes off of Grayson.

"Kevin!" I yelled.

Kevin finally looked at me. He was one pissed puppy.

I sighed, "We're just swimming." I heard Grayson huff. Kevin looked back at Grayson. "Look. You need to leave. It's his territory."

"I don't give a shit whose territory this is!" He yelled, looking at me. "I want to know why the fuck my girlfriend is skinny dipping with another fucking guy!"

"I'm not your girlfriend anymore."

He shook his head, "Yes. You are." I shook my head and looked at the tree line to my right my clothes were still there. The reason I started dating him in the first place was because he was a low ranking wolf. They weren’t usually this abrasive, especially when they were the ones who messed up. "You're mine until I say you're not." And they never gave orders, to anyone.

Grayson laughed. Kevin and I both looked at Grayson. He didn't stop laughing.

"I'm sorry." He managed to get out. The only reason he bothered was because I was glaring at him. Kevin was fuming mad now. He was furious that Grayson didn’t see him as a threat. Grayson looked at me, "He reminds me of Trevor." He had a fit of hysterical laughter. "You fucking hated Trevor and you find a guy who acts just like him!"

I sighed and shook my head. Kevin was not like Trevor. Trevor was Grayson and Mason’s crazy father. When werewolves hit a certain age, 100s sometimes 1000s of years old, they start struggling to hold it together. When their wolf gives into madness, it’s only a matter of time before the human half follows.

I took the shield from my mind. I couldn’t hear anything unless I concentrated. Kevin was waiting for Grayson to get out of the water before attacking him. It's all that he thought about. He wanted to make Grayson respect him in the worst way. Kevin didn’t think that Grayson was that much of a challenge. Kevin was completely oblivious to me now.

I got out of the water hugging my chest and put on my clothes. Grayson's attention flickered to me for a moment when I was dressing, then it went back to Kevin. He had always been such a pervert.

Kevin turned his back to Grayson and walked over to me. Turning his back to Grayson is very disrespectful to werewolves. It says you don’t think they’re a threat, not worth their time.

"Let's go." Kevin grabbed my forearm.

I shook my head and took a step back from him; I didn’t even have time to put my shoes on. "I'm not going anywhere with you." I tried pulling away from him. I didn’t work.

He growled. "Now."

"No." I started really trying to get away from him.  

He roughly pulled me into the trees. I stepped on a sharp stick. "Ouch!" Kevin lifted me over his shoulder and started running unnaturally fast. "Kevin! Stop it! Let me down!" I had no choice but to hold on for dear life.

"We'll be at my car in a minute baby." He huffed out as he ran.

"I'm not going anywhere with you." I spat out. I wasn’t. Even if I had to use my abilities on him, the exhaustion would be worth it.

"Stop being so difficult."

I started kicking and hitting him. It didn't seem to even bother him. He sat me down on the hood of his car so hard that my head bounced off it when I hit. I rubbed the back of my head as I sat up. When my mind registered the grey blur of fur I saw was Grayson, I opened my mouth to warn Kevin, but it was too late.

Grayson used his momentum to knock Kevin into the car door. The car moved to the opposite side of the two-lane road, about 15 feet away. I barely had enough time to hold onto the car so I didn’t fly off. There was a huge dent in the car that made it look like it had been T-boned by a small car.

The grey wolf bared his teeth and growled at Kevin. I was surprised that Kevin was conscious as he stood up. Kevin grabbed for his inside coat pocket.

A gun.

I jumped off the hood of the car and hit his wrist before he pulled the trigger at Grayson. The bullet veered a few feet from Grayson. I was relieved.

However much I liked a guy, I’d always like Grayson more. I didn’t want him to be dead, it would crush me of Grayson was dead.

Kevin threw me off him with too much force. I rolled when I hit the ground, otherwise I could've broken something. When I stopped rolling, I immediately looked up at Kevin. My neck screamed in protest. I had whiplash.

He was aiming the gun at Grayson. I lifted my hand and flicked the gun out of his hand. Kevin looked shocked and confused for the two seconds he had before Grayson's teeth came down on his neck.

I dropped my head into the leaves I was in. I didn’t want to see Grayson killing my ex-boyfriend. Grayson pulled the body into the car, then disappeared into the trees. My neck was burning and hurt to move. I pushed myself into my knees and rubbed my neck. Nothing I could do would make it feel better.

Grayson came back to where I was human and crouched beside me.

"You okay?" He was naked…completely naked.

I sighed and closed my eyes. I didn’t need to see a naked Grayson right now. Not after everything that had just happened

Grayson left me alone after I stopped responding to him. He opened the door to Kevin's car.

"We’ve gotta go."

I nodded and slowly made my way over to him. When I was in the car, Grayson slammed it shut. The door was damaged. I was surprised it even closed. Connor would want to know what happened. There was no way I was going to walk home by myself either. I kept my eyes closed as I held my neck. Grayson was acting so calm. We had a dead body in the back of the car. I couldn’t understand how he wasn’t freaking out.

I was. Kevin had been a good boyfriend. He had been a good person. He didn’t deserve to die. His temper got him in trouble. He shouldn’t have brought that gun. If he hadn’t, it would’ve been okay. He wouldn’t have had to die.

I jumped when Grayson put his hand on my thigh. “It’s going to be okay Casey.”

“How is it going to be okay Grayson? Kevin’s dead in the backseat.”

“He brought a gun. Would you rather have me in the backseat?” Grayson’s voice had a hint of annoyance in it.

I sighed. “No.” I muttered. “That’s not what I meant.”

 “Anyone who points a gun at a werewolf is probably going to die. You know we don’t take kindly to threats.” He sighed, frustrated. “Don’t think I won’t kill anyone to keep you safe.”

I kept my eyes closed. “You don’t have to explain it to me Grayson. I know all about wolves.”

“You’re going to use it against me anyway.” He muttered. I barely heard him. When he took his hand off my thigh, I almost immediately missed his touch.

I didn’t want to think about what just happened. I wanted to go to bed. I wanted to sleep. Kevin’s alpha would come after us. I brought trouble to the pack. If any of them got hurt because I had a crazy ex-boyfriend, I would never forgive myself.

I could smell Kevin’s blood now. I opened my eyes to look around. I had no idea where we were.

“We’re almost home.” Grayson muttered without looking at me. I closed my eyes again and tried to ignore the smell of blood coming from behind me.

I felt the familiar dips in the road that meant we were home.

I kept a hand on my neck as I got out of the car. It hurt.

“Go inside. I’ll send Brian up.” Grayson muttered as he opened the locks to the car. I had trouble opening the car. It just refused to open. So I used my ability. The door went flying off the car. Apparently I used too much power to ease open the door.

“Nice.” Grayson muttered the tease as I stood from the car.

“Shut up.” I muttered back at him.

I wouldn’t look back at him. I didn’t want a glimpse of Kevin. Grayson would have had to do some serious damage to kill Kevin. Werewolves are tough. It takes a lot to take them down.

I grabbed an icepack from the freezer before going up to my room.

When I got to my room I laid down and put the ice pack on my neck. Brian came into my room.

"How's the neck?"

I shrugged, pain shot through my neck and down my arms. It made me gasp.

"You got whiplash, didn't you?" He said amused. My pain was funny to him.

"Yes." I said in a sigh.

"I'll get you some pain killers."

He came in with a bottle of water and two little white pills.

"You need to take care of that neck. You only have one."

I sat up, "I know."

After I took the pills I went to sleep. I just needed to rest.