Page 84 of His To Claim
“Well, well,” Jax teases, crossing his arms and puffing out hischest as he stops in front of me. “If it isn’t the heartless bitch. Here to break another poor man’s heart, princess?” he sneers and fuck if it doesn’t hurt.
It’s true, but it still hurts. Jax was my breath of fresh air. The calm during my storm. The most normal of all the people in my life and the only hope I had that someday I’d be okay. After all, he’s been through so much sorrow, and he’s stayed sane. Now he looks at me with sheer hate. No, not hate, nor anger, but something much worse. Disappointment. Disgust. I get it, I’m well deserving of it all. Drake is his family, his brother. I just came along for the ride.
“Shut the fuck up, Jaxon,” Kai says, punching him on the shoulder.
Kai walks over to me and wraps his arms around my waist hugging me tight to his body without saying a word. I lay my head against his shoulder and we stand unmoving. Tears I haven’t shed in years well up in my eyes, but I refuse to let them out. After a few moments, he releases me slowly and I bring my gaze up to his. He doesn’t say anything, but I can see the understanding in his face. He knows why I did it, why I had to do it. He doesn’t know the exact reasoning behind my decision, but he knows I had no other choice.
“Walk with me, Scar,” he says, reaching out for my hand and we turn away from Jax heading out towards campus. I hear him scoff as we walk away but I decide it’s best to ignore it. His words are valid, his disappointment justified by my actions.
Kai and I walk in silence for a few moments before he finally speaks.
“So,” he says with a pause, his hands nervously tucked in his front pockets. “You dating Ace Servite now?” he asks bluntly.
“Unofficially,” I reply, and he shakes his head, a deep chuckle escaping him. Ace and I have spoken little since Monday but with Drake out of the way, I’m fairly sure he’ll make his move any day now. “Spit it out,” I say when he stays quiet at my response.
He stops us in our tracks as he reaches out to me, grabbing me by the shoulders and turns me to face him. “Look, Scar, I’m not gonna ask why you did it or damn you for doing it. Was it fucked up, yeah, but you already knew that. You don’t owe me a reason or anything but let me just tell you that you ain’t fooling me. Drake may think he knows you better than any of us, but he’s wrong. You and I, Scar, we’re one and the same. Two kids cut from the same dependent, undeserving cloth. Drake, he’s grown up without a mother or father figure, he’s used to being alone and he’ll get over it, sure. He always does. But you and I, we’re worse off. We were fucked by someone we swore we’d save. Dependent on a person who wanted nothing to do with us yet who was supposed to care. Undeserving of their affection.” He moves closer to me, placing a hand on my chin. “Whatever the reason for pushing him away is, you just need to ask yourself one thing. Is it worth it? Worth throwing away one of the few genuine relationships you’ve ever had?”
I look away from him not being able to hide my emotions, but he tilts my chin back to meet his gaze. He regards me attentively, understanding my inner struggle.
“Yeah, Kai, it’s worth every damn thing.”
Later that night after deciding it’s best if I avoid Drake and give him space to deal, I stay in my room instead of joining the rest of the group for dinner at the dining hall. Jade suggested we order pizza and stay in, but I don’t want them to avoid Drake and Ruby because of me. They need friends here more than I do, and besides, they were a family before us. I kick off my sneakers and change into a pair of stretchy leggings and a white tank top, grab a water bottle and bag of chips from the pantry and decide to call it a night.
Just as I’m about to lie on my bed, I hear a loud knock coming from the front door of our quarter. Maybe it’s Jade and Stella, they must have forgotten their keys. I walk out into the hallway and up to the front door opening it, but not expecting to find Acestanding on the other side looking like a fucking sex god in tight jeans and a black V-neck shirt. His hair is dripping wet, like he’s just gotten out of the shower, his eyes a dark blue so intense I can’t stare directly into them without losing myself in their depths.
“Hey there,” I say in a hushed tone.
He comes in without saying a word and grabs me by the neck bringing my lips to his. Instantly our mouths connect and dance with such an intense passion, like nothing I’ve ever felt. This magnetic pull between us, a force unknown to nature and so captivating that I can’t fight against it. His hands move down and cup my ass pulling me into him as his thick cock rubs against me.
Ace releases my ass and reaches a hand around in between my thighs rubbing his fingers against my wetness through the thin material of my leggings. He bites my lip slowly causing a moan to escape me as his fingers continue to rub against me.
“You. Are. Mine. Red,” he says between breaths. “Don’t you ever for a second doubt that.”
“Yes,” I moan softly into his mouth as he devours me.
Reaching down to grab my ass again he lifts me and I jump, wrapping my legs around his waist, as he leads us down the hall and into my bedroom, slamming the door behind us. He carries me over to the bed, tossing me on it violently. I bounce on the mattress nearly slamming into the headboard, and I am about to give him hell for manhandling me when I see the glazed look in his eyes. The fierce possessiveness is paralyzing, and all my insides melt, turning to mush before him. He reaches to the back of his neck reaching for his shirt and in one quick motion pulls it off. I nearly come in my leggings with just one look at his naked torso.
His muscles are practically glowing in the darkness of my room as the small gleam of light comes in from the outside reflecting off of him. Undoing the button of his jeans, he tugs them off along with his boxers, a cocky smirk appears on his face as he stands there in all his naked glory, his cock alreadyhard for me. He slowly walks toward the edge of the bed climbing on it and crawling like a predator about to devour his prey.
Me, I’m the prey. Yes, take me. I swallow hard as he reaches the end of my feet and in one effortless movement pulls my legs toward him, my head falling back against the pillow with a thump. Ace reaches up and pulls my leggings and thong off, caressing me and running his hands up my thighs. I arch my back off the mattress, the intensity of him already too much and I hear him growl. He fucking growls like a starved animal. I look back at him, staring into his eyes and he mouths for me to take off my shirt. I do as he says, taking it off along with my bra, my nipples hard and pointing directly at him.
“All of this is mine, Red,” he whispers seductively as he runs his tongue all over me, licking, sucking, and biting every inch of my heated flesh. “You are mine, Red.”
“Yes,” I moan as he takes my nipple in his mouth, biting and tugging it.
He stops, turning his attention to my face, looking deep into my eyes, past the blockade I put up around everyone else. “I mean it. I want you to be mine. Only mine. Officially mine.”
I sit stunned at his declaration.Is he asking me to be his girlfriend?I lift a brow in confusion, and he smirks slightly chuckling.
“Scarlett Steele, I want you to be my girlfriend.”
I stare at him dumbfounded by his words, not finding any of my own to reply. I simply look at him, nodding my head slowly and he takes that as my answer, gripping my waist and in one swift movement he thrusts into me.
I yelp at the vicious force of him spreading me, but it only seems to excite him as he intensifies his thrusts. He continues his movement bringing me to the edge of ecstasy time and time again until finally my body convulses, my core tightening around him.
This time he lays next to me pulling my body onto his, my head falling atop his heaving chest. My cheek lays against his heart, andthe pulsing of his blood coursing through it is like a sweet serenade to my ears.
“Where have you been all my life?” he mutters softly against my temple. “If I’d have known you existed, that you were out there,” he pauses, inhaling a deep breath. “I’d have led a different life. One where I’d be worthy of you.”