The Alpha Hunts the Exiles, So I Let Him Catch Me novel · Chapter 14 of 24
Chapter 14: No
"No," I said, with his hand already under my shirt.
He stopped at once, and he did not take the hand away.
"No to what?" he said, hoarse.
Four nights had passed since the Hollow, and he had slept in the fold every one of them.
Tonight he had climbed to the top room with the Mendiboure bell in his fist, and set it on the table by the bed.
It was the Alpha's bell, the one that hung by the tower door.
"Take it," he had said. "At Candlemas I'll hand it to whoever you name. I'll go and live at the stone."
That was what I was saying no to.
"No," I said again. "You don't get to run away from this by being punished. You'll keep the bell and you'll look at those eleven houses every morning until you're old."
"All right," he said.
"And no, I am not forgiving you."
"I haven't asked," he said.
"You were about to."
His mouth moved at one corner.
"I'm not forgiving you," I said. "And I'm taking you anyway."
His eyes shut, and his hand tightened on my ribs.
I kissed him.
I kissed him hard, with my teeth, and walked him backward until the backs of his knees met the bed.
He sat, and I pulled his shirt up over his head and threw it into the fire's light.
His chest was warm and scarred and rising fast.
I put my palm flat on it and pushed, and he lay back for me.
"Boots," I said.
He kicked them off.
I got his belt and his trousers down his legs and tossed them after the shirt, and he lay there naked under my eyes, hard already, watching me.
I undressed myself slowly, with the fire at my back.
He looked at every inch of me as it came free, and I let him.
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