Love Grows In The Dark

by Eli Lowe

  And when I was so sure that Kaith would never leave me alone with Kazan, he proved me wrong instantly and left the room only after closing the door behind carefully.

  I wanted to curse him for betraying me in such a way, but I just could not.

  Cause, Kaith was right. Even when I was struggling to go out of Kazan's grip on me, I can not deny the fact that the pain became a bit better than before indeed, with just a single touch of my mate.

  In no time I was scooped up from the ground only to fall on my bed together with Kazan while he made sure to hover over my body only to cage me in-between his legs ensuring me of no chances to escape. He lifted both of my fierce arms and held them together over my head in his tight grip with just one hand, so that I could not even dare to struggle myself under his huge body.

  “Stop now. Summer. Don't you think that you have played me enough?” Kazan's voice appeared quite menacing to me as if he was determined to make me pay for whatever I did with him in some other unacceptable ways.

  “Let go of me.” I yelled but it seemed that he was not at all concerned about my words anymore.

  “Why did you break your promise even when I have already told you for multiple times that I can not live without you?” Kazan's deep voice had already started to do some other kind of magic to me while he kept enclosing the little distance between us with each of his unanswered questions.

  At this moment I could not even think like the usual me as Kazan had started to become appealing to me even more than ever. His seductive blue gaze was like dying to trace me naked while his well-built muscles under his tempting dusky skin were like compelling me to touch him, in every way possible.

  Having him was all I could think of right now.

  “No. You are wrong.

  I believe that you can not live without your mate. But I am Summer. The one you hate.” That was what I could say before I was left to say no more.

  Cause, just when I finished my last word, the ever so imposing tongue of Kazan barged inside my mouth enclosing the last bit of distance between us in no time.

  His rough and sturdy hand trailed down to my waist only to go up once again but this time he made sure that his hand stay underneath my top, so that he could touch my bare skin as much as he wished.

  Kazan kept on kissing my lips hungrily with no intention to let go while both of his hands had already started their quest for something specific on my body.

  And quite strangely, I was liking him this way even more than I could ever explain.

  Yes, I was losing my mind with each passing second with the ever so hungry kiss of my mate which kept getting deep even more, while the pain too had started to lessen without much of my awareness.

  And then in between his kiss, I heard Kazan, in his deep stern voice yet somewhat seductive,

  “Say you love me too.”

  Episode 32

  Kazan's P.O.V

  “Say that you are mine. Say it, Summer.” I said in-between the kiss while I kept sucking those soft and sweet lips of my mate like some addictive.

  I looked up after breaking the intense kiss at last, quite reluctantly, as I just did not hear her saying the things that I had asked her to say. She just kept looking at me with those captivating olive-green eyes. And I did find myself captive in them, willingly.

  How could I never notice that those beautiful eyes of my mate were the exact same as Summer's?

  But even so, how did I never realise her as my mate even though she was always before my eyes?

  Was she trying to hide from me? Yes, of course, what else it could be?

  “Do you really hate me, Summer?” I asked as all those guilts for the wrong I did to her kept coming to me altogether at once and was killing me from inside.

  “No. I do not hate you.” At last, Summer answered but she moved her eyes from me to look elsewhere as if she just could not look into my eyes any longer. Was I bothering her that much?

  My eyes moved too, from her face to her bare neck where she was bearing my mark. And suddenly I felt that I could never be any happier than this moment when I had finally got to hold my mate into my arms... see her face all I want and love her with no need to stop...and the fact that my mate is also the one whom I always admired from the bottom of my heart, made me the happiest.

  I did believe that no one else could be any better than Summer as my mate.

  She is perfect.

  And she was all I wanted for me.

  I could not hold myself back any longer and bent down to reach her neck only to lick my mark on her. But little did I know that my one single move would make the situation even worse. Cause all of a sudden, I became even hungrier for her, depriving me of every choice to stop whatever I had already started doing.

  And more importantly, Summer was in heat for me, and this was making me crazy at the same time.

  “Then let me love you, Summer.” And that was all I could say at this moment cause my mind became already full with so many desires and needs which only she could fulfil.

  I just could not stop breathing in her scent as it was totally arousing me with no effort at all. I kept feeling intense tingles all over my body just as something kept twisting deep inside my stomach, declaring how much I needed my mate right now.

  My hands never stopped caressing her body, not even for a single moment, while I did not realise how desperately I was grinding myself on my mate all this time, making my being even harder and hungrier.

  And Summer?

  Even though she was behaving totally ferocious, still, I knew how much she needed me right this moment. I knew how much she was craving for me but still, bothering herself enough to hold back from fulfilling her lustful needs.

  Now how do I tell her that I am all hers to exploit?

  I was dying to be touched by her.

  I was dying to be ruined by my mate, my Summer.

  In no time, all the useless clothes in between us kept bothering me in the act of touching my mate everywhere possible, so without a further delay, I came down from her to sit straight only to lift her up to make her sit on my lap.

  Summer was about to resist once again just when I was quick enough to stop her from saying anything else, with another much-needed kiss.

  It was like I just could not get enough of those soft and sweet lips which are now all swollen and in a deeper shade of red, and I like her this way better, cause I knew that those seductive lips would make me go crazy for her all over again, compelling me to keep kissing her all day, just like now.

  I shoved my tongue inside her mouth and kept stealing all the sweetness she had while I just could not hold myself back from kneading her hips, proving how much desperate I was for her.

  “St...stop.” Summer dared to say even when she knew that she should not have. At least when she was already in heat and needed me to lessen her pain. And obviously not when each of the cells on my body was like screaming to take her right here right now...no, at least not when I was dying to be inside her warm core...not when my wolf was already intending to mate with our mate right at this instant.

  “No.” I said as I sucked her lips even more and squeezed her ass even harder as a punishment cause she even dared to accept all her pains due to the heat but not me.

  “I want to mate. Right now.” I declared as I kept licking the spot where I had marked her already only to make her feel me...feel the pleasure that we would get instead of the pain. I was losing my mind bit by a bit and turning into some wild and hungry beast without much of my awareness as my hold on her body kept tightening while I had already started licking her vaguely exposed body how much I could.

  And at last, I pulled out each and every piece of clothing on her body in just one go and threw them all aside without bothering much about them.

  Cause, for now, Summer was everything I needed.

  But just when she became almost naked and was sitting close on my lap before my eyes, I was reminded of the very sin which I did, unknowingly and for what I co
uld never forgive myself ever in my life.

  I saw her bare body which was all covered with the millions of scars and I knew very well who was responsible for such harm.

  Yes, it was no one but me who never hesitated to cut her mercilessly and caused her such pain, no matter if it was knowingly or unknowingly.

  The only one whom I was supposed to protect and cherish for all my life, had ended up being harmed by my nasty hands.

  How could I ever accept that I did all these to my mate?

  Whenever I would make love to her in future, all the scars on her bare body would never fail to remind me how bad I am as a mate.

  “Summer, could you ever forgive me?” I asked without looking at her as I knew that my vision had already started to become blurry. The scars which I curved on her body ever so brutally was all I could see.

  The sight before my eyes proved me for sure that why should I hate myself? Why should I feel even more disgusted with myself than anyone else in the entire world?

  Yes, her scarred body broke my heart completely.

  I rested my head on her bare chest so that I could hide all those mist from her sight which had already started to invade in my eyes. My hands around her pulled Summer close while I just kept hearing the sound of her racing heartbeats.

  She stopped too. She stopped struggling to get out of my grip and for the first time, I felt her hands on my back as she hugged me back after hearing whatever I just said.

  “Look at me.” I heard her voice after long and it was not at all asking me to let her go like before. Even though she asked me to look up, I just could not do that, instead, I tightened my hold on her even more while I was trying hard to hide myself entirely inside her warm hug.

  But it seemed that she was not at all intended to let me stay the way I was attempting to stay forever. Her hands caused my face to look at her, only for me to see something else written in her olive-green eyes and which was far from hatred with no doubt.

  And in no time her lips started doing a kind of sweet torture by tracing my entire face with small and lustful kisses.

  “Summer. I know I have already said that I love you when I did not know it was you.

  So, let me tell you once again.

  I love you, even more than before.” I could not help but said in the influence of this moment. I wanted to let her know that she was wrong about the fact that I hate her when the truth was always the exact opposite. I always admired her, respected her and after finding her as my mate I just could not stop myself from loving her even more than ever.

  And in no moment all my beastly desires to take my mate had grown once again as I pushed her back only to make her lie on the bed so that I could hover over her once again.

  “I want to mate. Now.” I declared which made her all shocked in such a way that her eyes got widened while her fierce hands once again started their futile attempts to shove me back to make space between the two of us. And I just could not allow that.

  I lifted her hands and held them together by her wrists once again, giving myself all the opportunity to touch my mate all I wanted.

  I just could not stop myself from kneading her cute little ass while I started to invade her bare upper body with my wet lips which were sometimes accompanied by my tongue as well.

  “Kazan!!!” Her state was no better than me as she could say nothing but only my name kept coming out of her mouth and I was loving it.

  “Say, what do you want? Summer?” I asked without bothering to stop my little attempt to torture my mate with the ultimate seduction as a punishment for all those times when she chose to leave me behind to stay all alone, with no one to love...with no one to go to.

  “Say it.” I asked just before I pulled myself out of the shirt in one go, only to throw it aside. I kept sitting only to see my mate and engrave each and every curve of her body in my mind.

  She is beautiful.

  I had never expected that I would be lucky enough to get Summer as my mate. I must have done some great deeds in my past life to be chosen as her soul mate in this one.

  But seeing me watching her bare body, she pulled the bed sheet to cover herself with, as quickly as possible.

  Why?

  Why did she do that?

  She has no right to deny me of my rights.

  “I want to see you, mate. You are all mine. Mine to touch. Mine to see. Mine to kiss. And mine to love and protect.

  So, move that thing.

  It is really bothering me to claim the very thing which is totally mine.” I pulled all the things between us away effortlessly. I undressed both of us in no time as I just could not resist any longer.

  Even though Summer wanted to stop but her heat just did not let her do so.

  And this time she did not hold herself back from touching me either, just as I wanted her to, making my being even harder.

  Next moment, I was already inside her while Summer screamed out in the utmost pain which turned into a lot of moans afterwards as I started to move inside her slowly only to grow my thirst even more than before causing me to turn into a beast, indeed.

  Episode 33

  Summer's P.O.V

  The night was the darkest. There were no stars and no moon to bless us with their shimmering lights like every other night. As the night sky was invaded by the massive cloud which appeared just like the shadow of my doom.

  I was running like crazy with all my might when there were no lights to show me my way back.

  The trees were everywhere around me while the roots were all scattered on the ground making it much difficult for me to run without tripping and falling hard again and again. The wood was dense and the dark night made that place even more horrifying.

  Still, I kept running with no intention to stop until I reach my pack, the Lunar High Pack. I had no time to breathe, neither did I have any time to think properly about what could have happened during my absence which resulted in such an end?

  That night I ran the fastest I could, still, it was like my speed was not enough, as nothing was enabling me to reach to my pack as soon as possible.

  Indeed I came far this time, which I should not have. I should have never ignored dad's words. Only if I had listened to him then we might not have to see this day, ever.

  Why did I choose not to listen to my dad?

  Why did I have to prove myself that I am the rightful next in line alpha of the Lunar High Pack even when I am a girl?

  Why did I have to establish the fact that I could be strong too to protect my pack from the intruders all on my own at such a young age just like a true alpha?

  Why? Why did I not think even for twice that my one such decision could turn into the very reason for the great disaster of our pack and we have to lose something huge over just one night? And for me, the loss could even become eternal.

  I just kept moving through the woods only to come to the deserted streets of our town by now after running for such a long time. But still, I had left an even longer distance to cover to get to my pack as soon as I could.

  And for what sin I had to pay like this way, by losing the dearest ones?

  Only because I got the news about a rogue who was trespassing our territory and I just wanted to catch that one so that we could confront? Only because I wanted to see the pride in my dad's eyes for me? Only because I wanted my mom to be relieved thinking that her little girl had already grown up to be the strongest and the rightful alpha of their pack?

  Yes,

  I wanted all that.

  That was why, as soon as I heard about some rogue roaming in our area, I rushed to catch him even before my mom and dad could know about the presence of such tress passer.

  But strangely, I found no one, no matter how much I tried to look for him. I did keep all my wolf senses at the peak just as I was trained by my dad, the alpha, about how to hunt or how to protect, but nothing came to me. Still, I stayed inside the wood for long and kept searching for just one single trace of anything that might seem n
ot normal to me. But, all my attempts were proved to be for nothing.

  I could not get to catch the rogue but I did get a message from uncle Benjamin, which completely snatched away the earth from beneath.

  The sudden enormous shock did not allow me to move for some moment as I found myself fixed at the same spot but just when I realised what just happened I moved my legs to run as fast as I could with no intention to stop.

  Yes, I got a message from my uncle Benjamin that my mom and dad were killed by the rogues tonight.

  Even though I heard him very clearly, but still my heart wanted to believe that it was just a misunderstanding...that I might have misheard or if nothing among those, then it must be one of my uncle's attempts to make me realise the risk of my irresponsible behaviour as such. My heart wanted to believe that it must be a lesson for me like before, and everything was okay at the pack and so was mom and dad.

  But my oblivion shattered ever so cruelly when I reached the packhouse. I saw that everyone was gathered up at the pack yard forming a crowd in front of something which I just could not see yet.

  So, I pushed myself in through the crowd, shoving the people aside only to reach the front.

  At that moment, when I got to see what exactly was the reason for such a crowd, the ground started to tremble viciously, and so did my whole body.

  I just could not feel my legs anymore and fell down on the ground but I could not move my gaze from what was lying in front of my eyes.

  Two bodies.

  Yes, I saw two bodies which once belonged to those whom I loved the most in my life.

  And they were all covered in blood. Few places on their bodies were also ripped brutally, leaving the place open enough to even see the bones. As if someone had vented out a tremendous amount of anger on them with no mercy at all.

  The sight was horrible to watch but how could I look away when those two were all I had?