Chapter Six

It is a little short, but I sorta didn't know how to write this chapter, but I put some Ash's POV in there! :) Enjoy.

Chapter Six

Oblivion. I was floating in it like someone might float in water. It was very peaceful and I wasn’t worried about a thing in the world. Yet, there was this nagging feeling in the back of my head that told me something wasn’t quite right.

I felt myself slowing being pulled from the calm because someone was shaking my body.

“Wake up,” I heard someone say.

That’s when I felt my body being shaken around by hands that were giving me tingling sensations. I started to giggle uncontrollably because the tingles were tickling me a little. Oh, I really have lost it.

I started to come to my senses and felt a slight throb at the base of my neck.

What was tha-? I cut my thoughts off the moment I remember.

I shot up off the surface that I was on and for what seemed like the hundredth time, I screamed. This time it was only a short scream, but it was loud nonetheless. I looked around frantically taking in my surroundings. I was back in the bedroom and on the nice comfy bed that I had woke up in before. I looked down and noticed that my clothes were now dry.

I turned my head to the right, knowing what I would see.

He was looking at me with a concerned look on his face that was gauging my reaction to all of this. I lost it right there.

“YOU BIT ME YOU STUPID SON OF A GUN!” I screamed at him

“Calm down. Now,” he said with authority that had me cringing back in fear.

“Why?” I whispered back at him.

“I didn’t mean to lose control,” he said dragging a hand over his face, “Seeing you like that and you being my ma-”

My eyes narrowed as he stopped his sentence.

“Being your what?” I asked suspiciously eyeing him.

He sighed and ran a hand through his hair. Oh, I want to do that. No Belle, don’t think that. I couldn’t help it. He was just so alluring. I wanted to pounce right then and there, but I knew I couldn’t. I was just wrong considering that I was being held against my will.

“Okay, I will tell you,” he seemed to pause and have a discussion with himself, “But, you need to not freak out. Just give me a chance, okay?”

I nodded my head slowly, not trusting my voice for surely it would give me away. He just looked so hurt and all I wanted to do was comfort him.

“You, Belle, are my mate.”

Oh, no. No. This cannot be happening. I remember the stories about mates. We surely couldn’t be that. No. I hated this man with a passion. HATED him. We weren’t mates. We just weren’t.

“Belle. Say something,” he pleaded with me.

His eyes looked pained and I couldn’t help but feel sorry for him. I knew what I had to do, but what I didn’t know was what he would do once I did it.

“No. Ash, we can’t be mates. You have to let me go,” I said not letting my feelings show through.

His face fell immediately. I wasn’t quite sure what to do. Should I just stay there or walk out? Would he stop me if I did?

“Okay.”

That one word broke my heart into a million pieces. The pain was like someone decided it would be cool to stab a knife into my heart and twist and twist. It was filled with so much pain, it took every ounce of willpower not to go to him and make his pain go away. But I couldn’t.

I had my reasons. I came with too much baggage. He would run the second I revealed something he didn’t like. I was scarred more than physically; I was scarred mentally as well. I couldn’t let myself fall in love only for him to turn away at the first sign of my past.

I picked myself up off of his bed and walked away. He could have at least come after me. Heck, I probably would have stayed if he did I was so broken inside.

I knew he cared, because before I walked through the door, I heard him call out to me in a pained whisper.

“Take the credit card, Belle. Take care of yourself.”

I held myself like a stone-cold statue. We weren’t far from the hotel I was staying in, so I walked the whole way. I came to the hotel and made my way to the reception desk for another key. It was all a blur, but eventually I got my key and made it to my room.

I had barely closed the door before I slid down the door and completely broke down. The numbness consumed me and I felt my shattered heart ache.

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*Ash’s POV*

The moment I saw her, I knew I was a goner. She was amazing in every way and there was something about her that I knew I would never get over. She was so amazingly beautiful and I didn’t think I would ever get her out of my head.

I knew kidnapping was stupid on my part, but how else was I going to get to see her without her bolting. She would probably think I was there to press charges against her and that was far from what I wanted to do.

I didn’t mean to mark her. I lost control seeing her like that. I completely snapped and as much as I was ashamed to admit it, I didn’t regret it one bit. She was a little spitfire and I knew she got into trouble. Now, if she got into trouble with others like me, they would know to back off.

I hadn’t expected her to leave. Heck, I hadn’t expected me to LET her leave.

She had just broken me. I hadn't known her for that long, and I already knew I loved her in a way I would never forget.

She walked out and all I said was “Okay”.

I should have fought for her.

Actually, I AM going to fight for her.

Right then and there I realized that I would never be satisfied until she came crawling back to me.

She is my mate. I’ll be damned if I let her get away.