Winter Moon [Complete]

Juda ran his nose up the side of my neck again sending shivers down my spine.

"Elly...." he mumbled against my earlobe. " I can smell you, what your wanting... are you sure you want this?" I shuddered at his question. My fists tightening their hold on his shirt. I turned my face up towards his our noses touching.

Before I could stop myself I leaned in and kissed him. My lips parted and a moan escaped.

It was the kind of kiss that was so intoxicating your brain couldn’t handle thinking about anything else. We only broke when we needed to breathe, and I briefly basked in the image of his heavy-lidded eyes and slightly messy hair before our lips met again.

He deepened the kiss, pulling me closer to him. I ran my hands through his silvery blond hair.
We both shifted so that I was straddling his lap and he leaned backwards to lay on the couch. He tugged at the bottom of my shirt. His hand slid up my spine. A tremor went through my body. His hand slid back down my spine, resting at my hip. We kissed more and more passionately by the second, our lips parting ever so slightly. His other hand reached up and wrapped around my hair at the nape of my neck.

I stopped moving. “Stop.”

“What?” He pulled away. “What’s wrong?”

“Just stop.” I pulled away and got up. Flash backs of that night came at me full force. Like my scream in the night, it was so loud in my head. I shoved my palms into my eye sockets and crouched down.

"Oh no... Elly, I'm so sorry. I had no idea."

"What are you talking about." I looked up at him as I got control of my breathing.

“I touched you where he did.”

I stared at him, confusion lighting up my face. "What do you mean?"

"I didn't mean to read you, I'm sorry. It was just so loud I could't help it."

"Read me?"

He gave me a look of regret. "I read your thoughts."

"What do you mean, you read my thoughts?"

"I mean exactly what it sounds like." A moment of silence passed between us when I heard or rather thought I heard him say "Elly, I love you. By my life, I do." Only he wasn't speaking to me. "I'm so sorry that happened to you"

"How is this happening?"I asked myself not expecting an answer, but there it came like the other words he spoke into my brain.

"Werewolves are telepathic. I didn't realize you hadn't known."

"How could I have known!? Noone tells me anything around here!" I yelled at him. He got up and came to me on the floor, reaching his hands out to me, beckoning me to come towards him on my own. I crawled into his lap and became a ball. My hands covering the spot on my neck and my legs folded up beneath me. He wrapped his legs around me, gently caressing my back with his fingertips. I dared not look up at him as I thought to myself about what the implications of the telepathy ment.

On top of that, he had declared his love for me in such a way, there was no refuting his statement.

"Ah but my impression dates from the very first hour we met. I lost no time, I fell in love with you then. It was at first sight, as the novels say; I know now that's not a fancy-phrase, and I shall think better of novels for evermore.” Juda smiled as he spoke these words.

"Are you...  are you quoting Henry James and Shakespeare at me?" I look at him quizzically.

"Maybe?" I punched his chest playfully. "Owww, yes, I most certainly was." He rubbed his chest in absent mindedness. "Is it working? Are you impressed?"

"Very. Not many men read the classics."

"Well, when I found out you liked to read, I had to brush up in case a time came for me to use those magnificent minds to my advantage." He kissed the top of my head and pulled me tighter against his hard chest, tucking my head under his chin. "In reference to reading you, or others reading you, it can be controlled."

"Is that why I can't read you?"

"Exactly, it helps that i'm Alpha though." He placed his fingertips under my chin leaning my face up towards his. "Elly...." Hmmmm? "I really do love you, yah know?"

"I'm starting to." Suddenly he scooted me over and then positioned me on the couch in front of him.

Kneeling in front of me, he asks me something I never thought I would hear. "Elyzabeth Knox, will you do me the greatest honor of an Alpha and become my Luna. My mate through all things?" As he says this he pulls a small blue kerchief from his back pocket. He unfolds it slowly, revealing a tiny silver band. My mind whirls at the enormity of such a question.

At first I hesitate, unsure of what I should say. Thinking back through the entire time I had know Juda I can't remember a time when I felt unsafe or unwanted. In an instant I knew that he would always be there to take care of me. Even when I was sick the last couple of days he nearly never left my side. I reached my hand out towards his a grasped his fingers in mine. I wanted him to know what he was getting into, so I let down all my walls and a sense of relief flooded out of me, as he discovered parts of me no one knew.

"I promise no one will ever hurt you ever again." His eyes leaked as he made this promise to me.

"Then yes. I will be your Luna, your forever mate." He picked me up and spun me around landing on the couch with me in his lap.

"I love you more than anything." His arms wrapped around my waist, my hands resting on his shoulders. I gave him an Eskimo kiss, rubbing my nose against his. He took the ring from the kerchief and slipped it onto my ring finger effortlessly.