Caught Between Them

One month later

I watched Brock, studied the cave. We had just stumbled upon the cave when we went for a hunt, and my bodyguard beta had insisted Daedalus map was here.

“Are you sure about this?” I asked for the sixth time, Brock smiled at me and my lips betrayed me by smiling back, Brock had become friendly after the day I confessed that I loved him, though he still kept making snide remarks but in a more friendly way and he had avoided kissing me but he liked holding me close to him whenever it was time to sleep, I still wished he would at least kiss me.

“Bingo!” Brock yelled and I followed him deeper into the cave.

“What’s that?” I asked and he held up his hand, in his palm was a huge golden key. “Where do we put that?” I asked and he shrugged.

“That’s what I do know, there is no loose brick here, no loose stones everything is just smooth” he said and I punched the wall, nothing. He grinned when I punched the wall.

“Showing off, are we?” He said and I laughed. Ever since Brock had helped me learn how to be one with my wolf, I had been using my supernatural powers lately. I looked around the cave once more.

“We should check later, let’s get something to eat” I suggested and Brock nodded. We walked out of the cave and Brock plopped to the ground.

“I can think I am done with meat” he said and brought out an apple and bit into it.

“A wolf who loves apples, ridiculous.” I chuckled and Brock grinned.

“Maybe your head would suffice” he made a demonstration of tearing my head off and eating it.

“Brock!”

“Kidding, kidding” he said and chewed the last of this apple and grinned at me, my heart did somersaults, was that dimples? He looked devastatingly handsome and young when he smiled. We stared at each other grinning like idiots, then he stood and stretched.

“I feel like taking a run” Brock announced and I raised a brow.

“You or your wolf?” I asked and he chuckled.

“We are one, so I think the right term is ‘US’, but with my wolf in front” he said and I stared at him confused then comprehension dawned on me.

“You mean you are going to shift?” I asked and he nodded.

“Exactly” he said gruffly, “Will you join me?” He asked and I considered teasing him.

“No” I said, surprise filled his features for a split second before he nodded.Copyright Nôv/el/Dra/ma.Org.

“Very well” he said, his voice dropping several octaves, he turned to go.

“Wait!” I said and he stopped. “I am kidding, big guy”

“Really?” He sounded incredulous, “I really don’t need you along” he teased back and I laughed.

“Come on now, let’s go before it gets dark” I said.

“It’s better when it’s dark,” he said.

“I hate it when it’s dark” I countered and Brock smiled.

“Werewolves love the dark, we are creatures of the night, night is when we are strongest” he said.

“I have been wanting to ask you something” I said and Brock’s eyes met mine, he was friendly with me now but guarded. He still hasn’t told me his secrets.

“What is it?” he said slowly.

“How come you have nature’s powers?” I asked. “I mean, you can control lighting mostly but I’ve seen you do other stuff, you can call forth metals from the earth and I have watched you move a branch out of the way without touching it” I said and Brock chuckled.

“So you peeped when I was going to pee” he raised a brow, trying hard not to laugh. I was reddened in embarrassment.

“I….. I…. I was……. ummm” I stammered and Brock laughed.

“It’s fine” he said then his smile vanished, “As for my powers, they came from my mother. My father was a werewolf while my mother was a witch”

“Witch? I thought they were evil” I said and Brock tossed his shirt over his head as he prepared to shift.

“They are, but not all of them. My mother was one of the good ones” he said and transformed into his wolf form. “Find me” he said and bounded away. I was about to tell that I needed his motivation to shift but he was gone. How on earth was I going to do this? I took a deep breath and took off my gown then my underwear, I tried to remember what Brock had told me.

‘It’s on the surface,’ he had said, ‘All you have to do it’s let it take control this time. Think of yourself as an ocean and your wolf as a dolphin that want to surface and do flips”

I felt my inner wolf stir as I called her from within, then came the feeling of my body rearranging itself, I let out a howl and somewhere away Brock howled back. I transformed fully then grinned a wolfish grin and charged for the place where I heard Brock’s howl. It felt so good in wolf form, my vision was clearer and everything around me was so loud, then I crashed into Brock who was running towards my direction. Brock in his wolf form growled and I growled back, peeling back my wolfish lips to bare my teeth. I charged for him, but Brock was to fast and nimble, he sidestepped and grabbed the scruff of my neck with his powerful jaws and flung me away, I smashed into the tree hard a whine escaping my mouth, I quickly rolled to my feet and studied him trying to see his weaknesses in my wolf form. He circled me and his teeth bared, I didn’t know if he was trying to intimidate me or he was smiling

‘Come on, give me all you got’ he said in my head, ‘you weak wimp.’ I knew he was trying to get me to attack, but I guess he, calling me weak in my wolf form angered my wolf and I charged in fury. I rose on my hind legs and slashed at him with my paws, Brock didn’t expect the attack fortunately so my attacks hit and he stumbled back and slipped. I took the opportunity and pinned him to the ground and lowered my fangs to his throat.

‘Come on kill me’ he teased in my head.

‘You are crazy’ I replied, he shifted back to human form and I did so too then his breath quickened and I stared at him confused then I realized that I was on him naked.

“Should I get off?” I asked hoping he would say no. His green eyes were so intense it took all my willpower not to look away, then he grabbed my head and pulled me in for a kiss.

“No” he growled, “I want you tonight” he rasped and claimed my mouth with his.