My Hunted Mate
Chapter Sixteen

Corinna

As I stare up at Kai, his eyes flicker back and forth between blue andblack as he battles with himself for control. In my mind I too go backand forth, unsure of what to do, I want him, but I'm unsure if this is tooquick, it's definitely too quick.

"1 don't want to rush things between us Kai, I want to spend more timewith you before I give all of me to you. " I admit.

He nods his head while he goes to move off of me, I snake my handsaround his neck to keep him where he is. * That doesn't mean, I don'twant you to claim me. I want to bear your mark. " I whisper, brushingmy lips against his.

It only takes seconds before his mouth is back on mine, he rolls us overso that I am on top straddling his waist. He starts to sit up, bringing mewith him, our lips still connected. I tangle my fingers in his hair, tuggingsoftly when he guides me to move my hips against him, we both moaninto each other's mouths as I get a rhythm grinding against him.

" Make me yours. " I beg.

He grips the collar of his jumper, tearing it apart making it off of mybody easily. He trails kisses down my neck to where my shoulderbegins, he pulls back only slightly to look up at me with his black veincovered eyes and extended fangs before he bites into me, claiming me,I gasp loudly screwing my eyes shut. He hums in pleasure as my bloodbursts into his mouth, he feeds from me for a moment then pulls back,when he does blood drips down past my collar bone.

My head falls back at the feeling of his tongue trailing along my skinwhere my blood has fallen and then across my mark, I feel my eyesglowing and my canines elongate as he does. I tug his hair to move hishead away from my neck and give me access to his, I don't hesitate tobite into his flesh.

His hands wrap around me, he digs his fingertips into my back as hepants in pleasure. I slide my tongue across his mark, cleaning any of hissweet blood away. I pull back from his neck and connect my lips to hisonce again, he falls back on the bed. Moving down his body, I stay ontop of him with my head on his chest and my legs stretched out besidehis with my eyes closed. Instantly I replace myself drifting asleep.

A cry of pain comes from beneath me, making my eyes snap open. Ilook at my mate who's face looks as though someone through a cup ofacid on it, I quickly climb off him about to ask him what is wrong butbefore I can he's across the room shutting a gap in the blind where thesun is coming through.

Then I realise. Vampire's can't be out in sunlight. * Oh god, I'm so sorry,I should have shut them properly. How badly are you hurt? " I panic,clambering off the bed across the room to him

When he turns around his face is quickly healing, he takes my face inhis hands. " It's okay my darling, you didn’t know. " he pecks my lips,then leads me back over to the bed. " Come, we should go back tosleep. You've only gotten roughly three hours. *

" The sun thing... Does it bother you? " I question when we're backunder the covers, wrapped up in each other.

"If I'm honest, yes. I don't even know what it's like to be able to enjoythe sun. " He tells me.

" Well.. Surely when you were human you knew. " I comment.

"I was born, not turned. " He corrects me.

" Born?.. So Phoenix and Dahlia are your biological siblings? " I ask.

He nods. " Yes, they are. Most vampires they turn people so they have aclan, a family. People who won't age and die, leaving them behind.When a vampire replaces their beloved, that's when vampires are born notturned. "

"1 didn't realise vampires could have children. " I confess.

" Not many other species do. " He informs, trailing his fingers down myarm softly.

" I've met your siblings but where are your parents? * He tenses at myquestion.

" My father was killed.. My mother she couldn't stand the loss of hermate, she's lost all her humanity, gone rogue. "

This time I'm the one to tense, only at the term rogue, something I'dbeen called far too often over the past years. " What? What's wrong? "" Nothing.. " my voice is sharp when I speak. " I'm sorry I just don't likethe term. A wolf who doesn't have a pack is automatically called rogue,but the title comes with labels that suggest anyone called a rogue is aheartless monster who slaughters anyone in their way. It's not alwaystrue. "

"1 apologise, I didn't mean it to offend you. We only use the termrogue when a vampire has shut off from their humanity and there'snothing left. We don't have a term for someone without a clan, that'snormal for many vampires. " He explains.

We lay together learning random facts about each other until weeventually drift back to sleep, only waking up when Olive crashes intomy room, without knocking might I add, to tell me it's time to goshopping, apologising profusely and running out to let me get readywhen she lays eyes on a very naked me and half naked Malakai in bedtogether.

Kai hands me a pair of boxers, socks, black sweat pants and a greenhoodie that falls down to the middle of my thigh. He borrows a pair oftrainers from one of the members of his clan for me to use until I'mback and he hands me a credit card.

" Get everything you need, don't worry about prices or anything. * Hetells me, planting a his on my forehead.

Olive runs out of patience waiting for us to say goodbye, so she grabsmy arm and starts dragging me away from my mate and into thegarage, I look around to see a countless amount of cars, she walks upto one and gets into the driver seat, beeping the horn loudly when Idon't make a move to join her.

When I'm in the car she drives out of the garage to the front of thehouse, the ground was covered in small pebbles, right in the middlestands a water fountain, around the garden the black fence makesanother appearance and trees surround everything outside the fenceexcept a dirt road beyond the black gate that buzzes open as we drivetowards it.

Olive speeds down dirt roads for what feels like hours with the silencewe sit in, so I lean over and switch on the radio while we continue tomake our way into a human town that is apparently near by and wherethe shopping centre his.