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I never really intend to replay sexual encounters with women because they never seem to fascinate me after it's over. Viola on the other hand, I can't get her out of my fucking brain for a second. The taste of her is still on my tongue, despite brushing my teeth before bed. She's everywhere. In my veins. In my chest.

Her scent is all over my damn bed.

No wonder I can't sleep. No wonder I'm losing sense of everything as I toss and turn between the sheets.

As soon as her second orgasm was over it was like she came to terms with what she did. She didn't even spare me a glance. She jumped up from my bed, grabbed her clothes and rushed out the door before I could even blink.

I thought she might have needed the space. She said she wasn't going to enjoy it and I can tell you now, she most definitely enjoyed it. I never really took her for a kinky little thing, but they always say the quiet ones are the ones to watch out for.

She can be weird about it all she likes, but eventually we're going to talk and I'm going to get into that head of hers. We all overthink situations, but overthinking foreplay? It was fun. It was sexy. It was a fucking movie.

When the sun starts shining into my bedroom through the edge of my blackout curtains, I stretch my body out and swipe the sheets from my chest. I get dressed for the day and head down to the office nice and early.

Noah is already here, working on his laptop. He's a nerd. We'd be lost without him.

My eyes cut to the wall above the office. Viola's portrait. This office might not be strictly mine because I am not their Alpha, but it's for the four of us that run this pack so that none of us will end up falling behind.

Noah glances up at me and smirks, twisting around to face the picture hanging proudly on the wall. "You're obsessed with her, huh?"

I roll my eyes. "Mate bonds are a complicated thing."

"Maddox was trying to tell me you were using her," he sighs and goes back to his laptop. "I mean that might have been true at the start, but I see the way you look at her. It's more than that. Don't fuck this up, Haze. I really believe she might be the best thing to happen to you, regardless of what the elders said."

My lips purse as I walk to the desk and nod. "We're slowly becoming closer," I admit. "I might not have her trust yet, but I will soon."

"Good," he states sharply. "Come look at this. Our borders didn't falter with the trespasser. I don't know how on earth he found us. He definitely knows more than you say he's letting on. I think we need to start grilling him for information."

"Yeah," I agree as he continues to show me our data.

The door to the office swings open and Maddox steps inside. Noah visibly grimaces at his entrance and goes back to tapping away at the keyboard. "Any news today?"

I shake my head. "Haven't gone down to see him yet. But thinking we should pay him another visit."

"I have some questions for him," Noah says, not taking his eyes off the screen. "I'll get him to talk."

Maddox snorts and folds his arms over his chest. "Because you're so big and scary?"

"Bigger than you," Noah bites.

Maddox flinches. "No, you're not."

Noah's brows raise and I shake my head again. I don't even want to know what the hell they're talking about. "I beg to differ."

"Shut the fuck up, Walker."

"Okay," I growl. "Enough. We don't need this in front of him. Let's go now before you start killing each other."

Noah shuts his laptop with a slam and glares at Maddox as he walks past. I'll never understand why these two hate each other so much. They're constantly rubbing each other up the wrong way, and yet at the same time, they cannot stay away from each other.

It's painful as fuck.

We head out to the building where he's being kept and step down the wet steps to the cellar. Maddox is behind me, Noah behind him. I nod at the guards and walk to the barred cell and bash on the metal to wake our prisoner.

He's sitting back against the stone wall, hiding in the shadows. "Time to get up and answer some of our questions, asshole."

There is no movement but I can see his eyes, they're not on me. They're on Noah.

I glance over my shoulder at him. I frown at the sight on his face, the hairs that are beginning to stand on end over his arms and neck. "What the fuck is happening right now?" I blurt.

The prisoner pushes himself up from the floor and walks to the barred doors weakly. I flick my eyes between the pair of them and step back. "You guys know each other or something?"

Noah shakes his head. "No, he's–" he pauses, taking a sudden breath. "He's–"

"He's what?" I snap, growing impatient.

"He's my mate."

The air in the room feels like it's been sucked out and replaced with some kind of toxin. Maddox coughs behind us, literal choking. I shake my head in disbelief. Malakai's army of wolves is huge, Noah never was in his power, only lived in the North.

It's astonishing they've never met before now.

"What's your name?" Our trespasser asks.

"Noah," he states, moving closer to the bars. "What's yours?"

"Elijah."

Maddox snarls and pushes Noah away. "This is bullshit," he growls. "He came onto our land to try and hurt us. He was ordered by Malakai. This cannot go on. We must kill him. Now."

Noah glances at Maddox with grave shock. "You cannot be serious."

He steps towards him and backs him into the wall. "As a fucking heart attack, Walker."

"Stop," I grumble and push them away from each other. "That is not your call to make, Maddox."

"Well it should," his voice bellows around the cold room. "So Noah's going to cosy up to him, knowing that it could put us at risk! Fuck this. This is ridiculous. He has to go."

I press my hand to his shoulder and growl. "That is not your call to make," I state again.

His nostrils flare at me. "You're only saying that because of your prima ballerina prissy mate," he shouts at me. "You're fucking weak, Haze."

My fist raises and I swing but Noah grabs my arm before it connects with Maddox's face. "Stop it," he tugs me away. "Everyone just fucking stop it. We don't need this. Okay?"

Maddox's eyes flick to Noah and I cannot shake the feeling that sincere hurt is lingering behind his cold eyes. "Fuck you both," he says before storming up the stairs and leaving us alone.

I straighten myself out. The last thing we need is to show Elijah how unhinged we all are. It makes us look pathetic and weak. We can't even work together. How will we ever bring down Malakai?

Noah takes a shuddering breath and watches him leave, then lowers his eyes.

Don't do anything stupid. I say through our mindlink.

He glances up at me and shakes his head. I won't. But being his mate might mean I can get information out of him.

Don't let him out of the cell. I don't care what he says.

I can still feel the sensation of his claws down my back. I don't want a repeat with someone else.

Noah tilts his head slowly. Haze, you can trust me. I haven't spent months working on our boarder security to fuck it up now. I'm not going to do anything brash.

Okay. Let me know how it goes.

Will do.

I leave Noah with his traitor of a mate and head back upstairs and towards the pack house. I head to the canteen where people are starting to help themselves to breakfast. My eyes do a lap of the room and again, Viola is nowhere to be seen as Aurelia sits with some of her friends.

There is a tingling in the back of my head which I have learnt to realise is our matebond. Before it was non-existent. Now it vibrates when it's active, yet my wolf doesn't sense her here.

Are you awake? I ask.

I'm met with silence and I huff.

Don't make me come and find you, sweetness.

I'm sleeping. She snaps.

My mouth curls at the sound of her voice. Doesn't sound like it.

Go away, Haze.

Avoiding me?

No.

I'm coming up.

As soon as I'm outside her bedroom door I raise my fist and knock. She wants to trust me. I'll give her a reason to trust me. But of course, I'm ignored. Last night did something to her and now it's straining our bond. Not on my fucking watch.

"Viola," I murmur. "I swear, if you don't answer this door, I'll rip it off and then you'll be without a door."

I hear nothing for a long moment until the door opens and she stares up at me with exhausted eyes and her lips twisted downwards. "What do you want, Haze?"

"So, you let me make you come twice and now I'm the enemy?" I arch a brow.

Viola lowers her eyes. "It was a mistake. It won't happen again."

I run my tongue along my bottom lip as she folds her arms over her chest in an attempt to make herself small. "Right," I murmur. "Sure. Sure. Did you not enjoy yourself?"

Viola sighs and closes her eyes. "That's besides the point."

My head tilts in confusion. "Besides the point of what?"

"The things we did," she grits her jaw. "The things I like...they're sick. It makes me disgusting and weird and it's not normal. I'm not normal."

I pull back, surprised by her harsh words for herself. "What are you talking about, Viola?"

"It's not normal to be choked and be spoken to...like that."

"Says who?"

Viola opens her mouth but stops herself. She's hiding it. Someone has put these words in her head.

A fire ignites inside me, it's not friendly or kind. "Who the fuck has said this shit to you, Vi?"

Her head snaps up as her eyes flick between mine frantically. "No one."

"No," I step forward and cup her cheek, forcing her gaze to mine. "Don't lie to me. Who said this to you?"

Viola is silent for a long moment, my patience growing thin. "T-this guy I was sleeping with," she confesses.

The flames turn into a full blown raging bonfire that makes my ears heat up as if they're blasting out of them. I calm my breathing before I speak, not wanting my anger to show in my voice, despite the fact I want to murder this guy for touching my mate and making her feel like she's not normal.

"The things that you enjoy sexually does not make you weird or not normal," I whisper before I lose my shit. "It doesn't make you sick. It makes you none of those things. If you enjoy being choked Viola, that's between us. No one else. If you like it when I call you names, that's between us. It's about what we enjoy and I would never judge you for any of it. It fucking turns me on."

Viola's lashes flutter in surprise. "It does?"

I exhale a quiet laugh. "So much, sweetness. You have no idea."

"It makes me feel like I should be ashamed."

"No," I rasp. "You shouldn't. People enjoy pleasure in different ways. The way you like it doesn't mean it's wrong. A lot of people like rough sex or BDSM. That doesn't make them weird. If anything it makes them open, they're willing to be adventurous. Sex is so much more than putting a cock in a vagina."

Viola laughs softly. "Well I've been taught wrong."

I glance down at her lips that are still tilted towards the floor. Goddess, what I would do to be able to kiss her right now. But it's the last thing she needs.

"Come to me when you're ready to start exploring your sexual desires," I swipe my thumb across her cheek which makes her skin raise in goosebumps. "And I'll make you believe there is nothing wrong with you."

"I don't want to freak you out," she murmurs.

A scoff escapes my lips. "Trust me, sweetness. I don't think there is anything that you could suggest that would freak me out. Do you have any idea of the things I want to do to you?"

Viola's cheeks flood with pink. "No."

My lips stretch at her innocent eyes. "Oh, baby. I'll have you tied to my bed whilst you beg me to fuck you. But I won't. I'll tease you and edge you whilst you're on the brink of an orgasm. I'll keep denying you until you're crying out to choke on my cock, and then and only then will I let you come when I shoot my load down your throat."

Her breathing hitches at my words. "Haze–"

"Like I said," I brush a kiss over her forehead which has her eyes fluttering shut. "Let me know when you're ready. You won't regret it."

I walk away before I get ahead of myself. My cock is rock hard in my pants imagining Viola tied to my bed and vulnerable, begging, wet and flushed. Fuck.

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Author's Note

Yikesssss, the trespasser is Noah's mate? Maddox didn't react to that well😬

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