Hey readers,

Here is the next chapter, sorry for the long wait but I had writers block for this story so I have to admit it is quite short.

Anyway I did decide to do it in Chucks Pov so I hope you enjoy, let me know if you want more Chuck Pov’s or back to Zoe’s Pov.

Sorry for any errors, it was kind of a rush job.

Lots of Love and happy reading

XXX

Chucks Pov

The last thing I expected when I woke up to was realise that for once in my life I wasn’t plagued with nightmares of my past as I slept, that I didn’t wake up panting for breath after being subjected to memories that I would rather forget. My hands weren’t clenched tightly on my sheets as I sweated buckets, reliving the memories which seemed to haunt me whenever I let myself shut down completely.

I knew the reason though, and I couldn’t help but scowl when I realised it was down the girl who was currently fast asleep by in my arms, her legs entwined with mine as my arm wrapped around her waist tightly as I spooned up against her. I could already feel that I was hard with want for her, the fact my urges of lust fuelling my want for her tiny body not helping the situation in the slightest.

Fuck!

This wasn’t what I wanted, I didn’t want to have people close to me, people who depended on me and the last thing I wanted was a mate. The pack may depend on me but that was a whole other story, I may care about my pack but I wasn’t emotionally attached to them, I didn’t love them and while I cared due to them being my friends it didn’t mean I opened up fully with them. I didn’t have the best of pasts, I mean who would when I had had an alcoholic father who used to beat both me and my mother, the fact he was the alpha only making his hits harder and his attitude tense.

I knew why though, my mother wasn’t his mate. He never did find one and I knew why, I mean who would wanted to be destined to such an abusive jerk? As for my mother she never did find her mate, a thought which saddened me slightly since she did deserve happiness.

So that was why I didn’t want a mate. I didn’t want someone who I had to look after, I didn’t want someone who both depended on me and clung to me with the want of a relationship. I wanted to run my pack, help my mother and fuck any girl I wanted when I wanted it. Sex used to help with the nightmares, but even that didn’t prevent them like it had last night when this girl had slept soundly in my arms.

Sighing I knew what I had to do. I was going to have to push her away, hell she had already kneed me in the nuts and if I hadn’t been the one on the receiving end I would have been slightly proud that she could defend herself so well. But that didn’t mean I wanted her, and even though my father was long gone and there was no chance of coming back I didn’t want to open myself up to someone only for them to end up breaking my heart anyway. So with that I ignored my inner wolf with my next actions, reluctantly unwrapping myself from her curvaceous and oh so sexy form before closing my eyes as I shoved her off the bed, hard.

I winced when I heard her small body impact on my floor, a louder thud than I would have expected filling my ears before she cried out in pain. I felt like an arsehole, but I simply didn’t want her.

“Ow” I heard her whisper as she seemed to bang into something. Rolling myself on my back I closed my eyes as I tried to ignore the small hisses and whimpers which left her mouth. I only pushed her on the floor for fucks sake, it wasn’t like I shoved her out of a building.

“What the hell Chuck?” she spat as I heard her get up, a shudder running through me as I heard my name pass her lips. I sounded like pure heaven.

I shook my head from my thoughts, what the hell was I thinking? I didn’t want her, she meant nothing to me!

Then why did you care so much when she was hurt? My inner wolf asked tauntingly, utterly pissed that I had hurt my mate in anyway as well as wanting to push her away. I ignored my wolf, something I found myself doing for the first time in my life. I never went against my instincts, but the last thing I wanted was a mate.

“Get out!” I demanded, hating myself for doing so but knowing that I had to. I wasn’t ready for this.

“What?” Chloe asked after a few minutes of silence, obviously not understanding what the hell was going on with me. I hardly blamed her, hell I had let my walls down yesterday but I couldn’t help but feel raw guilty for braking her wrist and panic when I realised she wasn’t healing as quickly as I expected. I loathed my reaction, it wouldn’t be happening again.

“I said get the fuck out, I don’t want to look at your face anymore and I have a girl coming round soon” I lied through my teeth, my wolf snarling angrily as I felt my heart clench when I heard a small ‘oh’ slip from her lips.

“I’ll urm…just be going then” she murmured making me feel like a real arsehole, she sounded so lost that I couldn’t help but want to instantly take back my words and sooth her like my wolf wanted. I didn’t though, I needed her to hate me, needed her to stay away!

“Hurry up then, I don’t want you ruining my day any more than you already have” I snapped, trying to fight off the pain in my heart that came with the comment. It was silent for what seemed like hours before I heard the door shut quietly, my face crumbling now I was alone.

It wasn’t until I took a deep breath later that I frowned, picking up on the faint trace of blood in the air causing me to snap my eyes open and look over the side of the bed. The scent made me tense, my body shaking as my wolf tried to push its way to the surface. I had not been expecting the small trace of blood on my side table, a sigh of guilty falling from my lips as I realised that when I had pushed her off my bed she must have hit the corner of the cabinet as she went down.

Great, now I felt both worried and pained when I wanted to feel nothing. What the hell was wrong with her? Why did she make me feel so god damn much!