I stretched my body out as I started to wake up realizing that I hadn’t even really remembered falling asleep. I popped up in the bed looking around quickly but it just looked like an ordinary bedroom. The door at the side of the room opened and in walked Mikhail practically naked with only a towel covering him. I let out a tiny scream and covered my eyes with my hand, “What are you doing?” I stutter at him thrown off by the fact that he had been pretty naked. 

“I was taking a shower. I didn’t realize my mate was such a prude—“ I can tell he’s teasing me and I separate my fingers a bit and peak through, “I’m not a prude! I just wasn’t expecting someone to be—Well like you are.” I say back at him sternly. He looks over his shoulder at me quirking and eyebrow, “Really? Is that so?” He turns his back to me as he grabs a pair of jeans out off the dresser. He drops his towel and my eyes take in his muscular backside which makes my cheeks flush with color. I watch as he steps into his jeans and pulls them up his long legs. When he turned around buttoning them up I quickly looked away feeling embarrassed. He chuckles, “It’s okay mate. You can look if you want, I don’t mind.” He gives a teasing wink and my cheeks get hotter. 

“Is this your bed?” I ask changing the subject as quickly as I can. He walks back to the bathroom taking the towel with him, “For the time being it’s both of ours bed.” He says as he disappears into the bathroom. My eyes widen at his statement, “Excuse me? Did you say ours?” I hear the sound of a faucet turning on, “I believe that’s what I said. Do you have a hearing problem?” His mouth sounds full of something. I scramble off the bed in a hurry jumping up to realize that I’m not in my clothes anymore. I’m standing next to the bed in only my underwear. I let out a tiny screech as I scramble around trying to find something to cover myself with.

Mikhail comes out of the bathroom, “What’s wrong with you?” I am ripping the blanket off the bed and wrapping it around myself in a hurry trying to cover myself. He watches with amusement leaning himself into the wall near the bathroom. I glare over at him, “Did you do this to me?” I growl at him trying to keep the blanket from falling. He has a smug smirk on his face, “If you mean did I undress you then yes I did. Your clothes were dirty and needed to be washed.” He says matter of fact. I am trying to keep my temper under control, “why didn’t you wake me then? I could have undressed myself.” I proclaim. He shrugs his shoulders and pushes off the wall, “You were sleeping like the dead. Plus it didn’t bother me any.” 

I march towards him, “That’s not the point! You—you practically took advantage of me.” I shake my finger at him. He looks down at it and then back into my eyes, “I can assure you that I didn’t take advantage of you but if I had I can tell you that we both would have enjoyed every moment of it.” His eyes grow darker and I feel a heat rush through me veins and settle in my lower stomach. I try to keep up my anger, “Typical man.” Is all I can get to out of my mouth. The corner of his mouth perks up a bit, “Typical you say?” He takes a predatory step towards and I take a step back, “And how many men have you been with to know whats typical?” 

His question makes my cheeks turn red. The truth was I had never been with a man a day in my life. I mean sure I think I’d kissed a guy once or twice but since I never felt that spark it didn’t go anywhere. Plus when you're afraid you might morph into a death machine you kind of shy away from intimate relationships. He takes another step towards me, “So how many has it been mate?” His eyes are full of dark humor and I can smell his scent coming off him much stronger now. It’s like he’s trying to dose me in it until that’s all I smell like. 

I try to shake the fog of it from my mind but the scent is pulling at my wolf and she seems more then ready to answer. I take a step back and stumble a little my feet getting caught up in the blanket, “I—I—I—“ I couldn’t find any words and he jumped on that with confidence, “You what? You don’t know do you?” He takes in a deep breath closing his eyes and then opening them the blue glowing, “I don’t smell anyone else on you little mate. You’ve never been touch have you?” I feel embarrassment make all of my skin flush a light pink. 

“Excuse me? Who do you think you are? I’m still a girl—You can’t just—“ He reaches out and grabs onto my blanket and pulls it so stumble forward towards him. His eyes look into mine, “You’re my mate. That means you and your body are mine. Now has anyone ever touched you before?” His voice is deep and commanding. It forces me to obey him. I stare up at him, clenching my jaw tightly and shaking my head slightly. He reaches out with his other free hand and gently grabs onto my chin, “I can’t hear you—“ he says softer this time. 

“No. Okay?” I say with a defiant attitude which makes me smirk again. His thumb gently caresses underneath my lip, “That pleases me mate.” He practically purrs at me. I try hard not to be happy by the fact that I’ve made him happy because right now I kind of want to punch him in the face but my wolf just doesn’t understand that. I roll my eyes and pull my face back, “Well I didn’t do it to please you believe me!” I sulk. He chuckles and pulls back a bit, “It pleases me none the less.” I resist the urge to flip him off. 

“Well I’ll have to go out and fix that immediately!” I say firmly, “I’m sure I could find someone who is willing.”  He growls at my words and I feel a rush run through me and I lift my chin proudly, “Go ahead and growl it won’t change a thing. You won’t control me so easily.” His eyes narrow and the start glowing again, “Elena—“ He warns me. 

“What? What are you going to do to stop me?” I say at him poking him in his bare chest which tenses under my brief touch. He is staring down at me darkly, “You really don’t want to push me Elena—“ He warns me again. I can’t stop myself because the danger of it is giving me some kind of rush or maybe it’s not me and it’s my wolf challenging her mate either way I can’t stop myself. I step even closer to him, “I haven’t even pushed you yet buddy. Believe me.” I whisper up at him in a strangely seductive voice. His body seems to be trembling slightly with my nearness. I smile mischievously at him and then I shove him hard away from me. He stumbles back a bit surprised by my actions and as he tries to catch himself  he loses his balance and falls right on his butt with a thud.

A tiny giggle comes out of me and then it turns into a full blown laugh as I look down at him. He doesn’t seem at all please by the situation. I take a step closer to him bending forward a bit, “I have to say I quite like this view of you sweetheart.” I say the last bit with sarcasm. His eyes narrow as he looks up at me and then a humorless smirk spreads across his lips. I go to take a step back but he reaches up quickly and yanks on the blanket. It rips free from my hold and I’m standing there in my underwear. I scream and make a mad dash for the bed where I can cover myself with the sheet. He is up off the ground and after me. 

He kicks out at my ankles and trips me up. I let out another scream as I fall face first into the mattress of the bed. I try to pull myself up quickly but Mikhail is on top of me pinning me down like he had in the house the other day. I growl in frustration, “Get off me you caveman!” His bare chest is pressed up against my mostly bare skin of my back and is send strange feelings through me that I’ve never felt before. He presses his face in the crook of my neck near my ear. His hot breath causing my skin to become covered in gooseflesh, “I believe that I was a werewolf the last time I checked.” He whispers, “Now my little mate what am I going to do with you?” His voice is husky and I can feel something pressing into me through his jeans. 

My face grows hot, “You’re—Um—You’re thing is—“ I can’t get myself to say it but he seems to understand because he rocks himself into me slightly. I feel myself let out a weird noise from the back of my through that sounds a bit like a whimper but I’ve never made a noise like that before and I feel embarrassed by it. 

“I can’t let what happened yesterday to happen again. I’m becoming a liability and I can’t allow that to happen.” He says in a husky voice as he strokes my hair. 

“What are you talking about?” I ask in confusion. He gently moves my hair away from my neck exposing the flesh there, “Every time someone looks at you for too long. Touches you for too long…I want to kill them. I’m losing my mind over you and I can’t allow that.” I tense up at his words afraid that it means he’s going to hurt me, “I thought you said you couldn’t kill me?” My voice is soft and it trembles. He leans forward on me and presses his lips to the exposed skin. The gesture send sparks of electricity through me. 

“I am not going to kill you Elena—“ He says in a tense voice. I try to move out from under him but he pushes me down to hold me in place. I feel something scrape across my sensitive flesh at the crook of my neck and I bite my lip to keep back another whimper, “What are you going to do to me then?” My voice sounds huskier then I mean it to. There is a silence before he answers, “I’m going to mark you Elena.” His teeth sink into my flesh and I let out a loud moan like scream. I feel my wolf rush to the surface and I know my eyes have turned silver. Heat is rushing through me and my body is arching upwards into him on it’s own accord. I feel my own canines lengthen and the urge to bite him is overwhelming but in the current position there is no way for me to do that. 

Before I know it the heat is gone and so is the weight on my body. I am breathing heavily as I lift my hand to touch the newly formed mark on my perfect skin. I am in a complete daze as I hear the sound of a door slamming shut behind me. I quickly roll over to see that Mikhail had marked me and then ran away leaving me to come to terms with our new situation on my own. I fell back onto the bed holding my neck, “What the hell just happened?!”