Chapter 13

After the emotional ordeal in the cemetery, I didn't feel the need to talk. We walked home in silence. Both of us were aware of our surroundings and made sure no one was following us home.

We walked into the living room and realized the sun was rising, Ella and Kyle had gone down to the basement for the day, so Kiah and I walked to the master bedroom and relaxed a little.

As I sat in one of the chairs I realized how dirty I was, soaked in tears, sweat, and dirt. I felt gross, so I stood out of the chair only to realize that I had been so engrossed in thought I hadn't heard Kiah sneak into the bathroom to take a shower. I went out into the hallway and grabbed two towels, one for him and one for me.

I walked back into the bedroom at the same time he walked out of the bathroom naked. I always forgot how amazing he looks naked. As a wolf, he was used to it, but me, since I had never had my wolf I always felt awkward. So my eyes shied away from him as I held up the towel.

I heard him chuckle as he grabbed one of the towels. He grabbed my hand that was holding the towel and led me toward the bathroom, bringing his body closer to mine and whispering in my ear. "You're so innocent, love."

I appreciated the view in front of me. I studied him from head to toe, I heard him let out a soft growl in approval.

"Like what you see, my mate?" He smirked.

I closed my eyes slowly, trying to hide my embarrassment. He kissed me, and then led me through the bathroom door where he slowly closed it between us. Putting the towel in my hand before the door shut completely.

I laughed at myself then turned on the shower, only to realize that the jet tub was full of bubbles and water. I hopped in the shower for a quick rinse before I hopped into the tub. As I rinsed myself off I realized that Kiah had known I would be embarrassed with his nudeness, so he could surprise me with the bubble bath. I smiled and continued to giggle as I shut the shower off to jump in the tub.

Kiah must have heard me turn off the shower water because he walked into the bathroom in basketball shorts holding my PJs and some food to eat before bed. He sat down behind me on the ledge, sticking his feet in the water at my sides and started giving me another shoulder massage.

"Are these going to stop once we get back to the pack and have our official ceremony?" I clasped my hand over my mouth and dunked myself under the water before he even had time to answer. He pulled me up and I had both my hands over my face. "I don't know why I said that, oh goodness, I'm so sorry." I stuttered.

He pulled both my hands off of my face and looked me in the eyes, "No my love they will not stop." He pulled me up to his mouth and he kissed me gently. Then put me back into the water. "I mean that Yelena, I have loved you for a very long time. I don't plan on ever being with anyone but you."

I blushed and turned back around and sat where I was before, so he couldn't see my red face. He started rubbing my shoulders again, as I scrubbed my body all the way clean.

He got out first and dried off his legs, then held the towel out and closed his eyes for me as I got out of the tub. I let him put the towel around me and as he did I kissed him gently on the lips then kicked him out of the bathroom.

I combed out my hair and brushed my teeth. When I was dry enough I put on my PJs and took what was left of the food to the kitchen. I came back and laid down next to him on the bed. He was already snoring lightly. I don't think an earthquake could have woken him up.

I curled up next to him instead of on the other side of the bed and instinctively he put his arm around my waist and snuggled into my back. I couldn't help but smile, knowing I was going to spend whatever time I had left with this man, and it made the world seem so much brighter than it truly was.

When I woke up I was in bed alone. I wanted to wake up in his arms, to know what it felt like. I sat up and stretched my back and neck, popped them both, then got out of bed and stretched the rest of my body. Which was feeling pretty good after the hot bath and shoulder rub I had last night.

I wandered into the bathroom brushed my hair and teeth. It's very rare for me to be up when the sun is, so after I finished up in the bathroom I wandered around the house looking for Kiah. He wasn't home. I walked back to the bedroom grabbed an outfit, bra, and underwear from my suitcase, and started to change into my outfit of choice.

After I was finished dressing I put my PJs on the bed and walked back into the living room to sit down in the lazy boy, realizing I was hungry again I went into the kitchen and started cooking breakfast. I was halfway through cooking just for me when the front door opened and Kiah stumbled into the living room.

I turned off the griddle that was cooking my French toast and ran into the living room to Kiah. I could smell the blood before I even got to him.

"Kiah, look at me." I said panicking, "Right now dammit." He tried to lift his head and couldn't. I got up closed the front door to the house before anyone could get in and ran back to him.

I rolled him onto his back and that's when I saw the silver throwing star in his abdomen, it was still burning through his skin. I ran into the kitchen and grabbed the first aid kit and a pair of pliers I found in the third drawer by the sink. Kyle liked to call it his everything random but useful drawer and ran back into the living room.

"Okay honey, on the count of three I'm pulling it out. Is there any more, or just that one?" I asked him and he shook his head, "Okay, one!" My wolf took over and didn't wait till three because she knew he would expect it. With the star pulled out, blood came spilling out after. I watched her take care of him as a third party in the back of my mind. It was the weirdest sensation. She grabbed as much gauze from the first aid kit as she could and applied pressure while adding more to the already soaked bandages.

By the time the bleeding finally slowed down to the point where his body could finally heal itself, he was weak. She moved him as softly as she could off of the wet bloodied carpet and sat with him till his body was finally done healing, making sure he was breathing. She finally gave me back control as she walked towards the kitchen so I could finish making breakfast for the both of us.

After I was done making enough breakfast I heard him move from the floor to the couch. I grabbed a T.V tray and carried it with his first serving of food sat it down in front of him and helped him eat. After he was done with his first serving he could finally manage to hold a fork himself. I went back into the kitchen got his second serving of food and watched him chow down. Making sure he was healing fine.

When he downed the fourth serving, he was back to normal, just hungry. I sat and ate my food quietly still observing, making sure everything was okay. He finally managed to look at me and smile in the middle of his last serving of food. At that moment I decided that if he wanted anymore he could make it himself. I couldn't smile back, I was in a testy mood because he had gotten hurt, and he was alone. He had willingly put himself in danger and it frustrated me.

"Look, I know you're angry my love, and you have every right to be. I was just trying to make it to the store to buy some more food. I was going to make you an exquisite breakfast, and I got jumped. They were hunters doing vampire work, the only thing they had going for them was the throwing stars." He set the tray up, took his plate and silverware into the kitchen, and washed them off.

After he was done cleaning his dishes he came back into the living room he sat down next to me on the couch, "thank you for taking action and not freaking out. You saved me instead of watching me die, and for someone who has never seen the side effects of real war, you showed more courage than most of the people who are out there right now." He tried to hug me and I pushed him away.

"My wolf was the one who took care of you. She took over before I could do anything." I replied annoyed, "you should have woken me up. You shouldn't have gone alone," I replied hurt and upset, my wolf scoffing at me because I was acting like a stupid girl. I looked at him and smirked a little. "I know you wanted to spoil us, and the effort was wasted by stupid kids who are caught in something that they don't understand. But, that scared us. The thought of losing you and your wolf scared us." I scooted closer to him and let him put his arms around me, "You stupid boy."

I felt his body shake with laughter as he heard my last words of the fight, "You're right my love, I am a stupid boy." He pulled back from the hug and kissed my forehead, looking into my eyes, and gasped. "You're eyes have changed."

I stood up walked to the guest bathroom in the hallway and turned the light on. He was right. My eyes weren't blue anymore, they had purple rings near my pupils.

"It's because I took over in your human form too soon. You weren't ready for it, now we both are at the forefront. That's why you said 'us' instead of me." My wolf explained to me.

"Can I know your name now?" I asked annoyed, "What's going to happen?"

She sighed, "No, you aren't ready to learn who we are."

I felt arms around us as we fought for control. Kiah was watching us in the mirror, surprised and confused because he had never seen this before.

"Loves, I'm taking a shower. You're welcome to join me if you want." He winked and slowly removed his arm. We watched him walk down the hallway to the master bedroom.

"Dammit, wolf let me have all my control back!" I screamed into my head and out loud.

"She can't," another voice in my head replied.

I felt a sharp pain and passed out.