Chapter 12: Protect Your Violet

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I need your love

I need it even when it hurts me

I won't give up

I won't give up, so come and get me.-Charli XCX, Need Ur Luv

Sorry it's a filler, but comment and vote anyway! Let's get to number 10 on the werewolf charts!

Korali's Pov.(Not edited)

I peaked into Jordan's office when I sure he wasn't in there. He had been out doing whatever that he does to avoid me although this wasn't the time for avoidance That would be in five or so days.

I rolled my eyes and crept into the room and took a look at his planner. There was a bunch of random scribbles that I wouldn't even try to decipher just because of the fact that it was coded or something. But today seemed to be free. It had nothing on it, so I could tell that he was just avoiding me.

Trust me when I say after how he's been I didn't necessarily want to be near him, but my wolf, my heart, everything but my mind; did.

I kept the necklace on, it was weakness-if the only for Jordan to get him to listen to me. Whenever I played with it his attention would go to it and he'd seem to space or something. I didn't like to do it-and if he was angry enough he'd rip his eyes away from it, but it worked a little.

I waited for him to appear from wherever he was in the house, out in the foyer. When he finally looked like he was about to go somewhere I stayed a couple paces behind but I followed him. We only made it past my weeping willow and towards the opening of the forest next to one oddly places tree before he stopped and narrowed his eyes at me.

"Just go home Korali."

"So you want me to go to my parents?" I asked sarcastically. I wanted to go with him, to connect with the pack more, with him more.

"No," he growled "Go back to house."

"I'm sick of being cooped up in there! Not even Max could make that fun anymore. Although I hate run, I'm still a werewolf. I need the outdoors." I hoped my complaining worked although it didn't.

"I'll call your guards then." Then he looked at me, "Where's Kaliko?"

"I looked at your schedule." I voiced suddenly ignoring his question about Kaliko, because she was gone surfing with Cailo. They had no romantic feelings for each other, but they both enjoyed surfing and Kaliko was a fun person. Max wanted to go, but he knew Jordan would need him, especially if speaking was involved. Jordan almost never spoke directly to his pack. It was always through Max or not at all. Or so it seemed, maybe he talked through pack link and I just didn't know. The pack scent was taking forever to come in.

"What?"

"I looked at your schedule you have nothing to do today."

"Why are you going through my things?" He took a step closer to me, which was supposed to be threatening but honestly nothing he did really scared me.

"Why are you avoiding me? Am I that bad Jordan?" He didn't say anything he just looked away.

"What do you want from me right now Korali?" He didn't look at me, just towards the grass, his fists clenching.

"Maybe, we can go on a run together?" I offered something small. I didn't want to overwhelm him or make him push me away any farther. I was trying here and it seemed all for naught.

"O-" It sounded as if he was going to actually say okay. But then his head turned abruptly to the side, but I didn't hear anything. He narrowed his eyes and brought his attention back to me "Korali go home."

"What?" I thought I was actually getting somewhere with him. But he didn't want me no matter how hard I tried. My heart was breaking even more.

I looked at him to see his face was scrunched he was looking for something. When he saw that I hadn't moved from his peripheral he looked up and I could see his face twitch into a frown but it was so fast that I could be imagining it. It wouldn't be the first time.

"Korali go home."

I turned on my heel to save myself any further embarrassment and rejection then a smell caught my nose almost overwhelming me. Before I could look up and away from me feet in the grass there was a wolf tackling me from the side.

Their paws pushed me into the dirt hard enough for the ground to peel up and mud to be all down one side of my body. The dark brown wolf growled in my face baring its teeth at me, slobber dribbling from the corners, malice in its gray eyes. I thought that this would be the end of me before another wolf came full force at its side knocking it off of me.

Another dark brown wolf with two different colored eyes stood over me. His smell comforted me as he tried to cover me from the other wolf. I knew it was Jordan from the eyes alone. His wolf was just as beautiful as the first time I've seen him. But right now he wasn't in lust mode. He was in protect and fight till the danger is gone mode; alpha mode.

He sent a warning growl at the other wolf who was now crouching low to the earth his paws muddy from the force of Jordan's push. Jordan gave a howl before gently nudging me. I got up and limped over to the nearest tree 6 other wolves popping out of the forest lining and they weren't from our pack. Their colors were various of reds, blondes, whites, and browns.

Jordan growled at me but I couldn't just leave him. He was my mate and I wouldn't let him face this alone, despite how much he may have wanted to. All the wolves came at once for him and I had to figure out something. They had a free chance at me but because I wasn't mated per say, or even known by most of the werewolf world of being Jordan's mate, they didn't worry about me at the moment.

I grabbed the biggest branch that was breakable off the tree I was under to see that Max was running towards us full speed but he was still quite a while away. There's no telling who else was fighting in the forest. We were on open land in front of our house, so it was a far away from the pack homes.

I sped towards Jordan and the other wolves, to see Jordan get the flesh in his leg bitten into. I wacked the fuck out of the wolf with the tree branch using all my werewolf strength to knock him out cold. I kept swinging till I was sure he was out. Another ran towards me and swiped at me getting clean sweep of my arm Jordan grabbed the leg of the wolf with his teeth ripping it out the socket and I wacked it with the branch until he was out next to the other.

Jordan was tussling with the another one until he got the upper hand finally ripping out its jugular. I had to look away from the gruesomeness, his fury about his land finally taking over. Max was here now and took on two of them, doing the same as Jordan ripping out their jugulars. I now knew why this pack was known for its fighting-although on a small scale. I would hate to see a full out war; because with Jordan's knowledge of the trees and things, there would be no survivors.

The last wolf pushed out its last breaths shifting back into a human male. Jordan's, who was now standing in front of me, hand reached behind him towards me grabbing my butt and pushing me into his back. My skin warmed but even my body knew that this wasn't the time to be getting all hot and bothered-especially not after I seen what Jordan could do.

I wasn't afraid of him, but I knew he wasn't to be messed with and that he was powerful as hell.

"Tallow?" Jordan gasped getting closer to the wolf. The man was a bit older with light brown hair and bruised skin. But it didn't seem like it was from the fight with Max or Jordan.

"Read my chest," He took in a labored breath, "And be weary. Protect 'er." He started to cough blood up and I choked on air causing Jordan or his wolf-which I couldn't be sure, grab me and buried my head in his chest. I didn't care that he was nude and Jordan wasn't the one to be bashful about it. The tingles coming from our skins' connection was powerful enough to almost give an orgasm, it was soothing and magnetic; electric. His strong scent of oranges wafting through my nose as if he was eating one right now.

Carved onto the man's chest was 'we're coming'.

Jordan not caring about his injury grabbing my arm roughly and pulling me toward the house, Max following. "What pack is this and what's their reason for a mass suicide mission?"

He was limping and the blood from his wound was trailing everywhere. That wound would take a couple of days to heal.

"They came east from on Scurry Foot Territory but I think they're just a group of rogues who got together and tried to steal land not knowing who's they were on." Max explained, his theory foreign to me because of my lack of knowledge on what was going on.

Getting up the stairs his face started to contort into pain and I tried helping him. Even though I wasn't marked or technically mated to him yet (or if ever) I still slightly felt his pain. My leg was throbbing so I knew his had to be way worse. His grip on my wrist tighten to an almost painful degree.

"Cailo said they're almost done with disposal and they'll be this way. You go lay down or something. Korali will help you and I'll go get the doctor." Max offered, he couldn't make a command towards his Alpha so all he could do is offer the idea

"I need to oversee the-" Jordan didn't finish his sentence before Max cut him off.

"I'll do it. That bite looks ghastly." Max took off running toward the forest and I hesitated before ripping Jordan's hand off of my arm. When I saw the hand prints my eyes went to his to see he was studying the marks. I could tell though it was from him struggle up the stairs not from his pulling me. I wrapped his arm around my neck and helped him into the house. Getting him up the stairs was going to be a task so I just settled for my room-well my new room on the main floor.

He sat on my bed but he was stiff. I rolled my eyes "What's wrong now?"

"Nothing" he grumbled and I just sighed and left the room, starting some food in the kitchen. When I came back he was looking at a photo album I kept near my bed when I got homesick. Which happened a lot.

I propped a towel under his leg not wanting anymore blood than there already was, on my sheets. He just stared at me while I did it, my hands warming at the skin contact. The teeth marks were enough to make me gag so I threw a light towel over it till the doctor came.

After a staring match of which I'm sure was about 10 minutes I turned out the room to go get our food.

I sat down a plate of steak and mashed potatoes with broth simmered vegetables on my dresser waiting for him to put my book down. I waited patiently for his concentrated eyes to leave the picture but he stared at one in particular for a long time. I peeked over and it was of me, Kaliko, and my human friend Peter in front of the Hollywood sign.

Peter and I were hugging platonically and Kaliko was in front of us squatting throwing up peace signs with a wide smile. Peter's dark colored curly hair was slightly longer than he liked it now, and he was definitely taller than in that picture but he was still adorable nonetheless.

"That's Peter," I smiled. "One of the best humans out there."

He closed the book abruptly and practically flung it to the side. I rolled my eyes. He was getting angry-perhaps even jealous about a guy that I had no romantic interest in. Peter was Peter. While Jordan was-well he was supposed to be my soul mate.

"Are you hungry?" I asked, handing him a plate. I wondered who cooked for Jordan before I was here. Jordan didn't look like he cooked, although his refrigerator was always stocked, his parents were-out of the picture or dead I assume, and he's anti-social to everyone except me-which its always usually just an argument or to tell me yet another rule.

He picked around it a bit before speaking "I didn't realize you could cook so many different things?" Was Jordan really trying to make small talk? My eyes shot to him.

Before my foolish heart could think anything of it, I realized that Jordan only beat around the bush when he was trying to get something from me. It only made sense. We were two days into my menstruation and he could feel the immense lust building; they were almost clogging my pores and it would only be 5 more days till it they would be free to terrorize him and make him want me. He was hoping to ease me into the idea of leaving so that I'd face my heat alone. Random but I knew what he was doing and it infuriated me. He would rather I face that alone than just mate me. He was evil.

"You don't know anything about me at all." I shrugged leaving the room to go get my plate. I sat at the edge of the bed making sure not to get too close knowing he didn't like that, just siting in the silence as we ate. I knew he ate a lot so I made sure to give him a heavy surviving of food.

"You love flowers although I don't see then fuss about them, they smell weird. You major in history, you sneeze and then laugh because sneezes are funny to you, you keep trying even when there's no point, and you hate to run." He listed things out and to be honest I was a little shocked for a second. But I quickly regained my composure. I was irritated and I didn't honestly think he knew those things. Max was trying to help him get on my good side so that I'd be more complying with his rules.

"Where'd you learn all that from? Max?" I laughed bitterly grabbing my plate and his plate just as the doctor Max and Cailo came in. I greeted them and stood by the side of the bottom of the bed. His retort was caught in his throat as the others piled into the room and didn't even bother looking at them. I could feel his eyes on me.

"Ah, staying with your mate now huh?" The aging doctor laughed. His hair was no longer salt and peppered, except in one spot on the back of his head. The rest of it was a solid silver color. "Good idea for the healing process. It will definitely speed it up." He pushed the towel off Jordan's leg but before Jordan pointed towards me. The doctor got up from his stance at the bed immediately wiping my arm off with alcohol causing my flinched and give a small yelp. I could Jordan growl and the doctor only chucked.

After he was done with me he started to dab at with cleaning supplies removing all the dead skin but Jordan never looked down at it. Jordan's eye contact was locked with mine. The skin was torn, you could see the pink flesh and I think it was a bit of bone showing but Jordan never shown an ounce of pain. As if, it didn't hurt, as if he didn't care. After he was wrapped up the doctor bid us goodbye and told me to make sure he iced it a little.

Cailo's clearing of his throat broke our staring contest and we looked at him. Max was behind him giving the thumbs up. "Everything's been handled." Jordan nodded once and that was it.

"Bye Kore." Cailo grinned walking out the door, Max following behind him.

"I have to go do some patrol, but I'll see ya later Flower." Max beamed with a smile that was all teeth.

"Bye Max and Cailo!" I waved enthusiastically causing him to stick his tongue out at me. I laughed the smile not leaving my face till I turned back to Jordan whose sour face could ruin anyone's mood even though it was beautiful.

"You're getting a new guard," He grumbled eyes glaring at nothing in particular.

"What? Why? Max and Cailo are literally the only people that like me here besides the doctor and Luton. Max actually talks to me." My fists clenched and I looked away "You can't make me a prisoner, Jordan. I will run the fuck away before that happens." I closed my eyes and breathed out. "Let me keep my only bit of happiness here." I left into the living room for a couple minutes. About 30 of them. I just sat there recollecting myself before seeing Jordan again. I mean he was in my room.

I sat there for a moment, pausing at the thought; the notion. I mean I knew he was my mate, but he didn't want any harm to come to me. That thought alone gave me a warm tingly feeling. Or perhaps it was the heat affecting a little early. But I was so turned on by the mere fact that I had his protection. Which was ridiculous seeing as anyone in the pack had his protection. And it extra ridiculous that I was even feeling any type of feeling that wasn't anger for him, when he just got jealous of Max.

As I got closer to the bed he yanked me towards him and to be honest I was shocked that he was so boldly touching me as he was. He closed his eyes tightly and kissed up the bandaid before tearing it off. He tended to my wound with tentative long licks, and despite the fact that he was soaking my arm in his saliva--the human side of it, to the animal side it was excitingly erotic. Once we saw that the wound was healed over slightly he stopped and dropped my arm quickly looking up at me with blue and different colored eyes.

"You protected me," I voiced out looking Jordan deeply in the eyes and I'm sure at this moment I probably looked like a girl meeting her teen idle. But I couldn't help it. If it wasn't a mess down there I would want him to fuck me on my bed, not caring about his leg. Ugh, when did I get so graphic?

"Of course." His reply was simple, yet I needed more. I wanted more. I wanted him to tell me that he did it because he loved me and that I was his mate and that he would do it again. But even under the heat's spell I knew that was a farfetched dream.

"Why?" I asked, even though I knew it was only a couple answers that he could give me. The one I wanted, that I was for the greater good of the pack, or just because he didn't like me didn't mean he wanted me to die.

His eyebrows furrowed and to be honest he laid in my bed like he owned it. His lean body taking up at least half of the bed, but there was still room for me-as if that would happen. He looked like a prince upon a bed of feathers. "Korali why are we asking so many questions that have obvious answers."

The answer wasn't obvious. I wanted him to say it. To yell it. Anything. But I knew that he wasn't going to; at least not now.

"You say my name a lot." I noted, a small smile taking over my face.

"Its your name? What are you talking about?"

"You say my name more often ever since I had that reaction the first time. I don't know if you like it or whatever. But you say it."

He looked down at the floor in confusion before looking back up at me "I like your name." I paused and a small smile lit my face. I grabbed the photo album that he threw and walked out of the room.

***

I was sitting in the willow, giving Jordan time to be alone. I couldn't just sit in the room with him and watch him sleep or anything so I went to my favorite tree, perched myself in it and started to read.

I hated myself for feeling so strongly for a person who didn't seem to feel for me. I was falling in love with Jordan despite not wanting to.

After a couple of hours of losing track of time and reading the book, I heard of crunch of leaves and the grass. I looked up to find Jordan limping towards me-his white cast/wrap over his leg causing him to move a little slower. He had something purple in his hands and I didn't want to get my hopes up and think that they were for me.

"Here's some violets, I guess." Jordan managed to gruff. He pushed them out towards me and my eyes almost sprung a leak. I gave him the brightest smiles and took the purple flowers from him. He huffed and glared at me "What's the history?"

"Huh?" I asked shocked that he even did a nice gesture for me. I held them to my chest slightly my hormones I'm sure giving off a slight attracted scent. When I regained my thoughts I

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