Chapter 41

He paced back and forth restlessly, waiting for her to wake up. Minutes turned into hours, hours into days. And on the 3rd day, she did. It seemed like he waited forever for her to finally open her eyes again. Their brown depths shadowed with confusion as she stared up at the ceiling, blinked heavily trying to focus.

She looked around slowly and her eyes landed on him. His back was turned to her as he looked out the nearby window.

"Maddox?" Her voice raw from no use called to him.

She slowly sat up noticing she was naked and clutched the sheets to her breast as he slowly turned to face her. He stood, tall, dark, devastatingly handsome, and tense.

"What happened?" She looked up at him as he slowly walked towards her and sat facing her.

"Danté brought you back here unconscious." He said.

She frowned. Her eyes blinked a couple of times trying to remember.

He leaned closer to her and the relief of not sensing any changes in her from Danté's bite washed over him. He wanted desperately to pull her into his arms but his anger would not let him.

"Do you remember being with him, " his jaw tightened.

Slowly everything that had happened began to form in her mind. Danté, his touch, his kiss and then he...bit her. The awareness of Maddox's gaze made her fidget.

His fingers rose up and brushed her hair away from her temple and slowly over her shoulder then over his fading bite mark on her neck.

"And he left you with a personal gift, " his mouth tightened more. He looked down at her with a feverish molten light in his gaze. He held off the growl threatening to rise up in his chest as her gaze glazed over and her fingers crept up to her neck and lightly brushed over it.

He waited before her for several seconds before demanding in a hoarse voice, "Well?"

He was looking at her, waiting for her to say something, but all of her words had withered the moment she looked into his eyes.

She could feel and see his inner wolf pace in restrained anger. "Maddox, I'm..." Tentatively, she tried to caress his jaw but he just as quickly looked away from her.

"Don't, " he shuddered violently and sat there staring at a distance before standing and walking to the window.

Her heart was turning over with pain for what she had done.

"Why did you let him get that close to you, why did you let him kiss you?" His voice was deep. Dark.

She remained silent unable to say anything as she watched his muscles flex. Grasping for some sort of control.

He tightened his eyes shut as the echo of her pattering heart drove his into it's own frantic kicks in his chest.

Her frail body just days ago, a haunting image in his mind now stood inches away from him trembling with panic. But the image that played the most in his mind, that weighted like an anvil on his heart was when Danté brought her limp body back to him. He fed on her, left his mark, and admitted to kissing her. And she did nothing to stop it.

He turned to face her. "Answer me, " he snarled slowly walking towards her.

She flinched with his tone and lowered her head. Guilt of the worse kind grew within her. Large hands cupped her chin and forced her to look up at him.

"I thought I had lost you. I wanted to destroy everything in my path the minute I saw you in his arms, lifeless and drenched in blood, " his voice trembled.

His emotions unchecked flooded her. The raw pain too much to understand and endure. Her vision blurred with her tears as he continued.

"Imagine how I felt when he told me that he kissed you, " his mouth twisted with a cruel grimace. " And you did nothing to stop it." He wrenched her up until she was on bended knee before him.

She sobbed. Her heart-wrenching cry stabbed at him. He was blinded with rage and the images of just how far that kiss could have possibly gone. Jealousy and possession tipped the scales of his imagination and it toyed with his mind.

Images of her in the throes of passion while she gave her body willingly to Danté. His stomach coiled with repulsion with the thought of her showing the bloodsucker her wings.

Koda growled baring his teeth.

"I'm sorry, " she wept trying to pull away from him.

"Did you fuck him?" he demanded furiously, his voice rising.

"No," she cried shaking her head, her small fists clenching at her sheet.

"Did he mesmerize you some how is that it. Is that why you were unable to fight him off?" He added shaking her.

But before she could answer, he continued.

"Do you have feelings for him?" The rawness and meaning of his question hit her hard that she shook her head vehemently.

"He is my friend, " she whispered innocently between sobs searching his gaze for understanding.

Confusion of what she felt warped her terribly. She loved Maddox but she felt something unknown for Danté. Instead of her explanation soothing him, her words seemed to enrage him more.

"Monsters like him don't have friends, Hannah," he seethed.

She sniffled with a hick-up that tore at him a little but he just as quick kept going.

"He feeds on innocent creatures like you," he shook her.

"No," she gasped and shook her head.

He became angry that his description of Dante somehow affected her.

It wasn't supposed to. A savage violence began to grow within him and with it, he would tear down the naive and innocent image she had of Danté.

His words were too much, too cruel and unforgiving. That is not what she feels when she sees Danté. She pulled away and scrambled off the bed.

"You're lying, none of that is true, " she backed away and blindly ran into the bathroom where he followed her and caught her around the waist before she could shut the door on him, he turned her around to face him then sat her roughly on the counter. Caging her in.

"Your friend as you call him," he paused and held up her chin and continued.

"Hunts innocent and defenseless humans, uses them for his sexual depravity and he drains them dry for sport, " Maddox tightened his arm around her to get her attention.

"No," she shook her head, "I understand that what I did was wrong. Punish me if you must but he does not deserve to be..."

"He deserves to die for what he did. He marked what is mine. He touched what is mine." His eyes immediately changed. Turbulent red bore into her as his fingers fisted through her hair grasping it tightly.

They grappled in each other's hold.

"You're my mate, " he forcefully tightened his hold on her to subdue her struggles until she stopped.

Her tear-filled eyes beseechingly held his.

"I tried calling you, but you didn't answer me. Why?" He pressed his head to hers.

She trembled terribly in his arms. With no answer she closed her eyes. She never answered his call because she had retreated in herself. She was upset and hurt with all that went down that day.

He pushed for answers that she did not have and he asked questions she did not understand. It was overwhelming and too much and like a tightly drawn band, stretched past its limits, she snapped.

Slivers of her scent of panic and chaotic wild fury filled the small space of the bathroom. The wafting scent had Koda prowling and waiting as she cried and they argued more.

Their voices echoed and all on the compound could feel and sense the rage between Maddox and Hannah.

The Alpha and his Luna.

His cruel words and accusations battered her heart. Wild feelings of hurt battled inside her as she apologized repetitively. He was enraged and felt betrayed and he meant for her to feel it.

But his mate would not hold back. Iridescent eyes filled with tears of frustration, lit up and faded quickly into amethyst. Her wolf emerged.

His muscles flexed in anticipation with her presence as he tightened his hold on the elusive she-wolf. The scent of her was intoxicatingly strong and alluring. Koda liked it as he broke free and growled dominating her and pushing forward to grapple and subdue her.

Physically, Maddox held Hanna. But his wolf subdued a feral Mia and that excited him. The two soul-bound wolves finally meet on equal ground one refusing to submit and the other quickly gaining the upper hand.

A passionate need grew within him to tackle her to the floor on all fours to take her. No matter how much she struggled the small she-wolf will not win.

The beast within him pulled her close and roughly pressed his lips to hers claiming them furiously, possessively.

He tightened his grip in her hair and broke away from the kiss. She snarled savagely and slapped him. His nostrils flared and he growled.

"Fight me all you want, that won't change a thing, mate, " he pulled her close.

She was no match for Koda. As in human form, he was muscular, tall, and formidable. The same as he was in wolf form. Large, dangerous, and deadly. He pressed his nose alongside her cheek enjoying the scent of her. Spicy and sweet. Nothing like Hanna Floral and warm... Where she was docile and inquisitive,

Mia was not. Her spirit was a little fighter.

And he loved it.

This was the she-wolf meant for chasing and dominating. He growled in satisfaction and pulled her even closer. Mia growled defensively and tried to pull away but he wouldn't let her.

Anger grew within her and those beautiful Amethyst eyes bore into his with rage as the slow glow of light began to form in her hands. Immediately Koda growled and tightly held her wrists in an unforgiving grip.

"Don't you dare! " His voice, a mixture of his own and Maddox's grumbled fiercely making the walls of the bathroom shake.

His heart lurched with the scent of fear that was all Hanna and...Mia's.

Her light dimmed as they stood staring at each other neither one backing down. Silence fell between them. Tight fury coiled in their stomachs.

His gaze roamed hungrily over her body and roughly he pulled her sheet away baring her. Pinned to the spot by his dominance and strength, she stood there bare, breathing heavily and fighting the tears that were beginning to fall. The show of weakness angered her.

"His scent still lingers on your body, " his distorted voice laced with disgust grumbled.

Holding her in place, he yanked the shower curtain back and leaned in then turned on the shower.

"Get in, " he demanded.

Red amber eyes clashed with Amethyst's as she refused to budge.

His jaw ticked as her chin tilted up defiantly challenging him. Deep down she knew she was no match for him in human form. That was very clear the moment his red eyes deepened in color and he leaned closer.

"I. Said. GET IN! " the grumbled order was dangerous and brooked no argument.

With an edge of defiance, she looked away and did as he said and faced him. Neither looking away from the other, he stood before her and undressed.

His muscles rippled as her gaze drifted with interest over him only to look away.

He stepped in before her and suddenly the space in the spacious shower grew smaller. He enjoyed the warm spray of water on his skin. But he enjoyed the closeness to her even more. She frowned the moment he reached for her and gently pulled her close.

She looked into his eyes and noticed how he observed her and how that made her feel things she did not understand. She felt uneasy because for so long she hadn't been looked at that way by anyone.

He could see the flicker between Amethyst and iridescent blue. A sign that Mia was retreating but he pulled her closer. The fleeting need to have her submit and let him love her was tense.

"Don't go, " he begged.

The pull and bond between their souls was not as strong as Hannah's and Maddox's. He understood it. She was dormant then. But he refused to let that pass for him again. He waited patiently by as she ignored his call and avoided him. She was still confused and upset that she was awoken and trapped.

He pressed his forehead to hers. Brushing her tormented mind with his soothing words. She was his other half. His better half. She was who would calm the beast in him when the moment was needed.

Claim her! Maddox annoyingly folded his arms. It was his turn to pester the wolf.

Tentatively Koda pressed his lips to hers, testing the waters with a softer approach. All of this was a mad confusion of chaos for her and he read it in her mind.

She did not understand why she was dormant in Hannah's body for so long.

She did not understand why she was a wolf.

She remembers nothing of her past.

She did not understand why she felt this immeasurable attraction to this wolf and why we're they bounded together. So many questions and no answers left her upset. Even more, because Hannah was just as clueless.

They continued to kiss as the roughness of his soapy palms carefully caressed her body brushing away all of her troubled thoughts and questions as the kiss deepened.

He pressed her against the cold tile, his body flushed with hers rippled and flexed with every inch of their skin colliding and touching. The slickness of the body wash and her scent created a heady mixture of something indescribable and the fact that she did not pull away and slowly melted into him, surprised him and had Maddox sweating and mentally reaching for Hannah.

Arousal brushed over them both. Raw, physical need flared in his gut, setting him on fire. A low distinctive growl formed in her throat answering his primitive call that had every inch of him tingling and parts of him getting hard.

In a swift motion, he pressed her fully against the tile, pinning her there with his strength as she wrapped her legs around him welcoming his erection into her warmth. He snarled and squeezed her tight and rough as he took her with passionate thrusts only she as a wolf can endure.

Hannah and Maddox's lovemaking from the beginning was always tender and loving, other times filled with wild abandon, but never like this....this was primitive, wild and carnal.

The mating of his wolf.

Something very different. It meant she was his entirely. Body-mind and soul.

It shattered all the doubt and anger within him.

"I didn't mean to do it, please forgive me, " Hannah cried.

"I don't know what happened, " distraught , her voice trembled as she lowered her head.

He couldn't take the look of fright and worry on her face. The distant look of agony in her gaze hit him like a ton of bricks.

Then he remembered his nightmare from the other night. How the demon deceived her. Tricked her into thinking he was cruel and did not want her.

He gasped and shook his head.

He pulled her close.

Despite the reasoning behind it, she was his. All of her. He held her tight stepping out of the shower and in large strides he made it to their bed where her wet skin met soft sheets and he pinned her beneath him. His body etched like stone braced himself above her; dwarfing her size and hungrily taking her in.

"I love you. You're mine. Understand?" His gaze hardened and bore into hers.

She did not respond quick enough as he crushed his lips to hers and sunk deep in her warmth not holding back anything.

He possessed her hard and deep with a relentless surge until she was a bundle of hightened nerves, she raked her nails down his back and her insides tightened around him in a vice grip that had them both falling off of a precipice. The animalistic mating threatened to destroy what little peace and patience he had left in him. Then he sunk his teeth into her shoulder breaking skin.

Marking her. Marking what's his.

He felt the primal thrill of the claim as he pinned her struggling body against his. Closing his eyes and listening; he could hear the frantic chatter of excitement for the claim from just about every wolf on the compound. Wolves howled in unison and pride grew in his chest.

He held onto her enjoying the heady aroma of their sex, he tuned into her whimpers and moans until she tensed up as he pounded and pounded; drawing out her climax and surging into her and emptying every ounce of his being into her womb until she went limp in his arms then he collapsed above her.

Languid ecstasy and the burning heat of the bond filled their veins as she weakly clung to him and he held her tight.

Now sweaty and weak they clung to eachother as everything suddenly quieted down. Their chaotic fight, nothing but a memory. Gone were the two wolves that wreaked pleasurable havoc with their bodies leaving Maddox a trembling mess as he held Hannah tight against him; emotionally wrung out, sore and still trying to catch her breath as she quietly wept at his side from the physical intensity of the mating.

It was a mating that left him in awe. Still climbing down from the clouds they remained silent as he searched for the words to say something. Anything to her.

When he was finally able to say something he pulled her close until she lay above him looking down into his eyes. He reached up and tenderly wiped away her tears. Damp wringlets of her hair cascaded over them both as he looked up at her.

She was even more beautiful with her face blotchy from crying and her nose red from rubbing it so much. His thumb brushed gently over her swollen plump lips and his tingled with the memory of how possessive the kiss left her lips.

He swallowed hard at the lump forming in his throat.

"Hannah, what we just did can never and will never be undone. We are mated for life. You are mine and I'm yours until either or both of us takes our last breaths."

She lay motionless and silent above him as he continued.

"I won't pretend to understand what possessed you to let him kiss you. You may be confused because all of this is new to you. But know this. Wolves mate for life. We are an overwhelming possessive species. When we love. We love with every fiber of our being. And we don't share. Can you understand that?" He searched her gaze.

She sniffled and nodded. Unable to say anything she lowered her head to his chest and he held her tight.

They remained that way. Soothingly his fingers stroked her and the lulling waves of slumber washed over her. He fought with the heaviness of his eyelids and the need for sleep his sated body needed. It wasn't until the later hours of the night, the voice of one of his wolves broke  through the haziness of his sleep induced mind , called to him.

"Alpha, you have to come see this."

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