Chapter 35

"What were you thinking?" She scolded me once more. I close my eyes and feel her punishment on my scalp.

"Did you actually think that low of Casper?"

I hiss in pain as she keeps on punishing my scalp, "you should be thankful that I have a mixture for stupid mistakes like this"

She pauses and continues, "I shouldn't have showed you that picture"

"It's not your fault. I don't know what came over me" I say as she picks up a towel to dry my hair with.

"Why would you want to change the color of your hair for such a stupid reason?"

I sigh, "I don't know what came over me" I murmur.

"How did Casper take it?" She asked as she plugged in a hair dryer.

"Not so well" I say a little louder so my voice won't be drowned by the noise of the hair dryer.

Isabella enters the room and looks at Dakota in shock.

"Surprised that you know how to work a hair dryer"

Dakota chuckles and turns the hair dryer in her direction which earned a shriek from Isabella.

"I'm not a cavewoman you know"

Isabella giggles and nods before looking at me and frowning.

"What were you thinking?"

"I don't know-I—I—I don't even have an excuse"

Her eyes softens, "it's okay to feel insecure but let Alpha Casper show you your worth. It isn't fair that you broke things off with him"

Dakota pauses, "you did that?"

I nod and she frowns deeper, "I hope he fights for this because clearly you are not in the right state of mind"

"Alpha Casper is fucking pissed and if all goes well,you'll be getting it good later "

"What does 'getting it good' mean?" Dakota asks.

"You really don't want to know"

She switches off the hair dryer and combs my hair out before putting it in a pony tail. I look at my hair in the mirror and it is back to it's normal brown.

"Thanks Dakota" I mutter as she packs up her herbs. "What  do I do in return?"

"I expect nothing back"

I frown at her, "it took six hours to get the colour out of my hair so you deserve something"

"You want to do something in return for me?" I nod, "then patch thing up with Casper"

I purse my lips and shake my head, "that can't happen"

"Fine" she puts all her herbs in her basket and picks up her staff, "live with the guilt of not fulfilling an old woman's wish" she leaves.

Isabella looks at me, "but please mend things with alpha Casper,you weren't thinking straight and don't let your petty insecurities stop you from being happy" she leaves the room leaving only me with my thought.

I bite my lip in thought and look at the mirror,I pull my hair out of it's ponytail. I run my hands through my hair which feels so soft now and back to its original colour.

I see the door open from my mirror and Casper enters the room and he is not looking happy at all. I turn around to face him and meet his glare.

"I give you ten minutes to get dressed and if I do come down to find you not dressed, I'm going to dress you up myself"

"Look Casper, I know you're pissed off bu—"

"This not something you can argue your way out of"

I swallow, "what about dinner?"

"You're going to eat dinner where we're going, now get dressed" he says and leaves the room.

I really wanted to not get dressed but he didn't sound like he would be joking when he said he will dress me up himself. I quickly dress in a black top and washed out jeans. I'm putting on mascara when he enters my room.

"Are you ready?" His gruff voice asked.

I look at him and play with the bracelet on my wrist. Casper, I know you're pissed off right now but let's calm down"

"You've said enough odetta"

I shut my mouth immediately.

Victor,Isabella and Javier are already eating dinner when Casper and I come down the stairs.

"Where are you going?" He asks with his mouth full of peas. I walk over to him and kiss his forehead.

"Your dad and I are going to have dinner somewhere else"

"Like those dates that you have sometimes?"

I shrug, "I guess so—but we'll be back before you fall asleep"

"Tomorrow morning" Casper says and look at him.

"You didn't say anything about that" I glare at him.

"No room for arguments" he simply says and we have a stare down.

I decide to back down and let him have his way. I kiss Javier one more time and Casper kisses him also before we leave.

"Have Dakota over" he tells victor before we leave

The car ride is long and silent and I squirm throughout most of the ride. He drives for two hours and we finally reach our destination.

I look at the two storey cottage in front if us and marvel at it's beauty. Casper leaves the car and slams his door hard and I follow suite. I walk slowly behind him as he stops at the front porch and pulls out a bunch of keys from his jeans pocket. He quickly unlocks and opens the door. He steps back,leaving the door wide for me to walk through first.I enter the house and the interior is prettier than the exterior. It has a very homey aura and look.

"Do you like it?"

"Um—yeah I do"

He walks past me to the kitchen, "you hungry?"

I nod and follow him. He pulls out foil covered lasagna from the fridge.

"I made this earlier" he simply tells me before putting in the microwave. "How about you wait for me in the sitting room"

I walk out of the kitchen to the sitting room and sit in a fur comforter covered couch. I just sit there in silence and wait for Casper on anything.

He comes out with two plates of lasagna after some minutes. He hands a plate and fork to me before taking a seat on the sofa by my left. I take a bite and my eyes widen.

"This is delicious" I tell him and he smiles.

"It's chicken lasagna"

I take another bite and moan, "fuck, this good" I eat some more, "Javier told me that this is delicious but I think I underestimated his words"

"Glad you like it" he murmurs and that's the last thing he said to me. The rest of dinner is just a silent, awkward mess. He finishes his food before me and leaves the sitting room.

I feel his stare at the back of my head. I place my plate on the glass table in front me and turn to look at him.

"I'm sure we didn't come here to stare at each other all night" I say.

"You're right. I brought you here so we could talk"

"About Adrianna?"

"No—about what the hell went down yesterday and what has been going on with you these past week"

I avoid his gaze and he continues, "why would you dress up as Adrianna?"

"Because I thought you would like it"

"Didn't it occur to you that I wouldn't be with you be if you didn't look like you. I wasn't drunk or blind when I chose you"

"I know but I just can't seem to fully believe that you would want me"

"Why wouldn't I want you? You're,smart,funny,beautiful and just an amazing person in general"

"But I bet Adrianna was better"

He looked at me in annoyance, "can you just stop it, stop comparing yourself to her. She's my past and you're my present and future. Why can't you understand that?" he runs his hand through his hair.

I stand up and look at him, "it's easy for you because mason doesn't even stand a chance to you. You're better than him in every way possible. You don't even need to try and I'll choose you in a heartbeat but Adrianna was the perfect Luna and I'm just.....me" I feel tears threatening to fall "I got rejected and I always felt it was because I wasn't good enough not because mason didn't see the good in me like people say and even after I learnt the truth,I just couldn't build my self confidence up. Seeing and hearing about Adrianna just made me feel so worthless for you."

"You need to understand, Odetta," he said calmly. "I want you for you. Not because I want to turn you into Adrianna."

Tears poured down my face from his words. "Why?" I asked. I just had to ask. "Why would you settle for less? Why would you settle for me?!"

He came closer to me and rested his hands on my face, wiping the stray tears off my cheeks. "Because I love you, Odetta . You're not less and I would never ever hurt you or let any harm come to you."

I stared up into his eyes at his words, trying desperately to find any sign of deceit, but found none. In the heat of the moment, I did the one thing that made sense to do.

I kissed him.

Hard.

He responded immediately, wrapping one of his hands on my waist and pulling me closer. A few tears escaped my closed eyelids and he pulled away to kiss them away. Then, his mouth was back on mine.

I didn't wait for him so ask for access. I knew he wanted it, so I parted my lips and his tongue invaded my mouth. I let him take control and I could feel his wolf's approval as he groaned in appreciation into my mouth.

Both his hands snaked down my hips and grabbed my ass, squeezing it gently, making me moan into the kiss. He grunted and pulled away, moving his lips to my jaw, kissing it all the way down to my neck. He kissed the base of my neck, sucking and nipping on the skin there.

"Casper," I moaned. He continued his assault on my neck as he carried me upstairs to a room.

He quickly brought his lips back to my mouth. The kiss became heated and he carried me and placed me on the table in the room. My hands roamed his shirt, one eventually planting itself in his hair, tugging it slightly.

He moaned into my mouth, his hands going down to the hem of my top and slipping underneath. My hands gripped his shirt, and grunted in frustration at the obstruction. He immediately pulled away, trying to unbutton his shirt. He fumbled with the first two buttons before growling and ripping the shirt apart, bringing his lips back to mine in a hurried kiss.His hand went under my top and to my breasts. I pulled away and pulled my top off and over my head tossing it away.

Casper's eyes narrowed to my lace black bra and his eyes flashed gold. He moved to pin me against the table, pushing all the thing off the table and unto the floor. Our lips met again as Casper's strong grip was on my bra, ripping it off my body. His lips left mine and trailed down to my chest. He kissed my breasts, licking and sucking, teasing me.

"Casper," I groaned, arching my back to bring my body closer to his.

Then, finally, he secured his lips around one of my nipples, sending me into a state of euphoria. A loud moan escaped my lips and Casper rubbed his hips into mine in response. I rubbed mine into his and he was quick to rip my jeans off my legs, fumbling with his after. Soon, the only pieces of clothing left were my matching black lacy thongs and his boxer briefs.

He took those off too.

And our naked bodies were left.

He pulled away, just far enough to force out a question. "You said you've had sex just once before, yeah?"

I nodded.

He grinned and went on his knees in front of my parted legs. I was about to ask what he was doing when I felt it and I had to grip the edge of the table to keep from rolling around.

Warm and wet, his tongue darted out on my area, making me moan. I was confused whether to push him away and pull his head closer and hold him there. This continued for ten sweet minutes before i felt a tingly sensation that spread form the top of my head to my toes. I scream out in ecstasy and he waits for me to come down from my high. He gave my lips a parting kiss before he decided the time had come. He stood up, but his hand didn't come up with him. He climbed on top of me and slipped his finger into me amd I moaned, my closing my eyes and silently praying for the bliss I felt to never leave. He put it in and out, and when he saw I was accustomed to it, he put another finger to join the first and carried on like that till he had three fingers in me.

And he had large hands.

But, no matter the amount of preparation I had, nothing would've prepared me for when he entered me.

Oh, Moon Goddess, save me!

I gripped his arms and back, groaning into him, but it only made him more turned on.

"You can scream as loud as you want, we're in the middle of nowhere", he tells me and thrust into me hard earning a loud moan from me.

His thrust became harder and harder and I gave him scratches that would surely take time to heal. There was nothing delicate about this. It was ferral and I loved it.

I grinded my hips against his and he did the same, both us falling into the same rythym. After what seemed like an eternity, we started to climax.

I gripped his back as he pounded harder into me, calling his name again and again, until we came.

Perfect synchrony.

After we came, we remained like that, our breaths heavy, with him still inside me. I buried my face in his neck, inhaling his scent and calming my wolf who was purring her delight. As I kept inhaling his scent, though, I felt my wolf coming forth and I didn't stop her.

We both wanted this.

I started to kiss his neck, earning a small moan from him as he gripped my naked waist. Then, my tongue came out, licking the part I saw as mine, nipping on it and planting kisses there.

Casper felt my teeth, but did not respond. Instead, he moved his head to give me access. My wolf, now partially shifted and seeing through my eyes purred her approval.

She and I bared our teeth and sunk them deep into his neck without a second thought, part of the mate bond immediately sparking to life.

He's my Mate! Alpha Casper Jonathan is my mate!