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He switched off the bathroom light and dropped his duffel bag beside the sofa as he walked over to the bed.
I quietly watched as he lifted my bedcovers and slipped into my bed beside me.
Yeah, I won’t be getting any sleep tonight.
“Come here,” he whispered to me as he held his arms open.
Unsure of myself, I scooted over and he wrapped his arms around me. I laid my head against his chest.
“Go to sleep, Scar,” he instructed gently. I loved it when he called me that.
Despite my nervousness at sleeping in the same bed as him, I drifted off into a peaceful sleep.
The next morning I woke up and discovered I was lying across him with my legs tangled with his and my arm wrapped around his waist. I blushed slightly as I tried to shift away from him without waking him.
He looked much younger as he slept, and I took a moment to watch him in that peaceful state.
“You getting all stalkerish on me?” he mumbled with his eyes closed. Trust him to open his mouth and ruin the moment.
“You’re my mate, I can stalk all I like,” I stated to him as I got out of the bed.
“True,” he said with a grin as he watched me disappear into my walk-in closet and select some clothes before I went into my bathroom and closed the door.
I got changed into a pair of black skinny jeans and a red top. I brushed my hair and teeth before I put some lip-gloss on. Cade was still lying in my bed, watching me, when I exited the bathroom.
“Those jeans are too tight,” he said as he sat up. I rolled my eyes at him.
“They are fine. They are skinny jeans, they’re supposed to look like this,” I argued, but he didn’t look happy.
“I don’t want you to wear them,” he insisted as he got out of the bed and walked over to me. “I don’t want other guys looking at you like they are going to look at you if you go to school in those jeans.”
“You don’t have to be jealous,” I insisted as I pressed a kiss to his lips. I wasn’t interested in getting any attention from anyone else; he was the only one that I wanted.
“I still don’t want you to wear the jeans,” he continued to argue, but I shook my head.
“I’m going to wear what I want to wear. I don’t tell you what you can and can’t wear, so you don’t get to do that to me,” I warned him gently. We’d had such a peaceful night together and the last thing I wanted to do was start another fight, but I didn’t want to be one of those girls who was told what I could or couldn’t wear.
He let out a sigh as he held me.
“Fine, you can wear them, but you’ll be responsible for all fights I’ll be getting into today because of the guys checking you out,” he teased as he dropped another kiss to my lips.
It was hard to pull away from him, but if we carried on we wouldn’t be going anywhere. I went downstairs to the kitchen while Cade stayed upstairs to change for school.
I heard a rowdy noise coming from the kitchen as I descended the stairs. Hank, Jake and a few other werewolves I’d seen before at school were seated at the kitchen table with Gary.
“Morning,” I greeted them and they greeted me back.
I got myself a cup of coffee and joined them at the kitchen table. It wasn’t hard to work out that Jake was Cade’s beta. Cade entered the kitchen not long after that. When I looked at him, I couldn’t stop feeling the satisfied possessiveness that he was mine.
Hank stayed behind with Gary while the rest of us left to go to school. I rode with Cade, and the rest of them climbed into the Jeep that Jake drove behind us.
Once we got to school, everyone watched as I got out of the car with Cade. He held my hand as we walked side by side into the school. At my locker, he pressed his lips to mine, leaving me breathless and weak-kneed as he walked off with a smug smile. There was no denying he’d stamped his ownership all over me.
He didn’t get into any fights because the werewolves knew I belonged to him and the human boys were too scared of him to even look in my direction.
“I want all the details,” said a voice behind me. I turned to see Keri giving me a knowing smile.
I smiled back.
