- Josie -

This was all so surreal, was I even awake because this felt like some kind of heaven.

I should be mad at him, I am mad at him...but I can't deny that urge to be with him...it's multiplied. If I found him sexy before...nothing would prepare me for how that desire for him now is.

I can feel her pushing forward, her eyes roaming the length of him as his hair dampens under the shower. He pulls me into him, his hands gripping me on my hips as I hear a pur escape from me.

It's like a rattle on my chest, a smirk forming upon his lips as I tut in embarrassment.

My fingers lace themselves within the waistband of his black boxers only for him to pull them back out and spin me.novelbin

"Let's keep it clean shall we?" His lips press against the tip of my shoulder.

"I think it's pretty unfair that I'm the naked one."

"Because it's taking all my self control to hold my wolf back." His tongue licks across my shoulder to my neck, where I feel him smell me.

"I don't mind." I look up at him from behind, flirting with my eyelashes.

He doesn't respond and I chose to not push him. The hard bulge in his boxers is telling me that he wants to be with me but he is more concerned about getting me showered...and that to me shows he cares more than having sex with me. Adrenaline was pumping through my system and it wouldn't be long before it faded away, for the true grave severity of what I've been through to hit me. But for now, I was going to enjoy this chaotic euphoric feeling flooding through me. I let him wash my hair, my head leaning into his hands as he takes care of me. When his hands skim across my chest, his eyes glow a spectacular ruinous black. His jaw tensing as his body starts to shake violently.

I look down, his fingers lathering against three wounds...three scars. I hadn't even noticed. Even with my wolf now, these won't ever heal, these are like birth marks and I'm okay with that. But it seems to create a chemical reaction within him. "Knox.." I place a hand to his face, his eyes darting up to look at mine. Remorse, regret, hatred for who did this, revenge... his eyes shared a mix of emotion.

"I'm safe now." I try to hush his burning anger.

"For now..." He reaches behind me, turning the shower off before placing a warm fluffy towel around my shoulders and patting me dry.

Who was this Knox...I'd hope he stays. I'm just waiting for this new bubble of his to pop. For the cloud I'm on to disappear and my body to fall back down onto earth.

The warm shower has removed that icky feeling off my skin and hair, but it has helped to calm me which means the adrenaline was starting to deplete.

I could feel my legs start to tremble again as shock was setting in.

Once dressed in another gown, I don't protest as he demands that I go back into bed and try more of my food. It was cold now, but I at least nibble on the fruit.

"So who were they?" I ask as I chew on some banana.

"Who?"

"The humans?"

"We think hunters."

"Excuse me?" I almost spit out my banana. I've never heard of hunters let alone them being from a human population. Except for humans that helped run some businesses that we are linked with, our pack and the shifter community was kept underwraps from the human world. "I've had dealings with hunters in the past but why they came here...that's what we are trying to figure out. But it was put on the back burning whilst..." His voice stops again, his forehead furrowing.

"Say no more." I reach out for his hand as he abruptly stops talking. I know what he was going to say, whilst I was unconscious.

It is going to take me a while to get used to this veil between us and to put my guard up, but for now I was happy for my wolf to come and go as she pleases. I was even more excited at the prospect of shifting for the first time.

So when she whines in my head, pain and hurt controlling her behaviour I have to take a deep breath in to help navigate around her emotions.

She was in despair, upset about my parents even considering turning off my life support. For not giving me longer.

But I know my parents, they would have fought for me until the very end, if that was the only choice left..then they wouldn't have made it willingly.