“I can take the heat of losing to a girl.” I laughed
“Oh, um, yeah, okay.
She was hesitating and I needed to know why, so I asked her. No more beating about the brush was us now that things were coming out in the open, Mates aren’t supposed to lode anything from th other and I wanted to know everything about her.
“It’s just, I don’t know. I’m not very good with this stuff so I could be way off mark bere bo that you seem to get a little, uh, upset, when I mention other guys”
Okay, she was definitely onboard with brutal honesty.
“Guess I haven’t been keeping that in check as much as I thought I was.”
“It’s okay, you kind of flipped out the other day about the, uh, tattoo when you saw it and I ca don’t know how to explain it, but I can feel when you’re unhappy about something, I don’t abog know what, but I know when something’s bothering you and I just didn’t want to upset you realizing I was talking about the guys in the bar buying me drinks.”
“You feel my emotions?”
She nodded. All this time I thought she wasn’t really feeling the connection and the call to mating be maybe I was wrong.
“What else do you
feel?”
She shrugged and I knew there was more.
“I know when you’re watching me. I always know when you are in the woods in your well for guarding my house. Like last night. I knew you were there all night. I almost called you in fo you’d get some sleep. You were very restless last night.”
I know I stared at her in shock. I really shouldn’t be. I mean, I had noticed I was more and more i tune with her too, especially since our first kiss, so why wouldn’t she reciprocate? But the enormity of what she was saying was still stunning. We hadn’t even mated and yet what I had been feeling and what she was telling me sounded very much like what I had always been told about the band
between mates.
Tpter
She sighed, “I’m not supposed to be feeling that, am I?”
I could see the disappointment on her face.
“No, not yet, it’s too soon.” The look she gave felt like pure rejection, like I’d just shamed her over what she’d told me and I had to make it right no matter how crazy it sounded. “Kelsey, we aren’t supposed to feel each other on that level. Only bonded mates are supposed to be that aware of each other.” I lifted her downcast head to face me. She wouldn’t make eye contact and I missed looking into her beautiful brown eyes. “But I feel it too. I always know exactly what room you’re in. I know when you’re scared or stressed or disappointed with yourself or something someone’s told you.”
Her eyes flew to mine and we held each other’s stare. Even as mates, we shouldn’t be able to do that for this long either. I knew deep down that whatever this was between us was different, special.
She licked her lips and didn’t break eye contact as she boldly asked. “So, you’re my mate, right?”
I know I blushed. Guys aren’t supposed to blush. I needed to pull it together.
“Uh, um, yeah, who told you about that?”
She giggled. “You’re cute when you get flustered. Elise and Lily were cluing me in on a few things today that they didn’t think you had any business discussing with me.” She frowned. “They don’t know, do they?”
I shook my head. “No, and I’m sorry you had to find out from them.”
“From what they described, males in particular are extremely possessive and territorial. They can become aggressive when other males are near, and sometimes females, if they feel there’s a threat, warranted or not. It’s been two years, Kyle. How could you possibly control what they described all this time and never let on that you felt anything at all?
She looked disappointed. I didn’t know how to explain and I knew before I opened my mouth I was about to become a bumbling idiot
“Kelsey, I just didn’t know what to do. At first it was such a shock. Do you remember that first day we met? I could barely hold it together and couldn’t get away from you fast enough. You didn’t show any signs whatsoever that you felt anything at all, which made me angry and, well, hurt
“Oh. I felt plenty. Too much. I considered running it freaked me out so much, but I love my little cottage and was determined to make it work. It wasn’t easy, but I tried to maintain strict professionalism with you. I knew if I let it slip even a little there was no turning back, and,” she chewed on her bottom lip, “well, one slip and look what happened.”
He grind “Are you sorry? Cause Lord knows I’m not!”
Se grinned back at me and shook her head no. My heart nearly leapt from my chest. I took her And and lovingly stroked it with my thumb as I had longed to do.
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