Chapter 144: The Alpha King’s Heart – Chapter 144

Back at Ethan’s mansion, Butler James heard the doorbell and he walked there. He pulled the door open, casting a growing strip of light on the visitor standing on his porch.

“Good evening, Miss,” he greeted curtly.

“Hello,” Kate sounded nervous, ” I’m here for Ethan,”

The butler checked his wristwatch and frowned at Kate.

“This late at night again?” he asked.

Kate hummed a response. Butler James stepped aside, letting Kate inside the house.

She waited in the grande foyer as James went upstairs to inform Ethan she was there.

She sat on the couch, anxiously. Memories of what she saw last time came to mind, did he and Danielle sleep together? Do they still?

“Kate, you’re here? I thought I’d never see you again.” He said that and she suddenly accepted a weakness that she had denied for so long in the glistening of her eyes.

“Did you sleep with her?” She asked sharply. Ethan squinted his eyes in confusion.

“Did you? I saw her in your room,”

“Still the stalker, I see,” he mumbled, and she resisted the urge to slap him. ” What’s your deal, Kate?”

“What do you mean?”

“You stalk me and k**s me yet you don’t want me,” he said seriously. ” you disappear for more than a week and just come here acting jealous like you have the right to,”

“I – I-,” she stammered, he g*****d and turned his back to walk away but she touched his shoulder softly.

There was no time to waste, no time to linger on the things that had hurt her the most like seeing a naked woman in his house.

“I was hurt when I saw her,” she confessed. He turned back to her,

She looked so beautiful; unlike anything he had ever seen and he was

immediately owned by a feeling that made him weak and defenseless to this

woman.

“Nothing happened with Danielle, I couldn’t,” he whispered, he looked at her, her soul. Kate nodded, feeling warm now.

“I couldn’t stay away,” she told him. Ethan smiled and there were butterflies in the pits of her stomach.

“Do you mean that?”

He took a step in front of him directly and she was already in heaven from his masculine aura alone. She could see his lips, clearly and revealed and exposed over his stubble. His features were so perfectly formed and alluring so much that she swallowed.

She couldn’t even bring herself to put her hands on him. That would make her swoon.

Against his better judgment, he slowly laid his hands on her and at this point, it was all adrenaline acting through his veins. The rest of him was cowering and hoping it doesn’t turn out to be an erotic dream in the end.

He leaned down to reach her lips and she did nothing to resist even as he placed them lightly there. She immediately afforded herself a moment of curiosity. Her hands wandered on his back and tightened around him willingly. The k**s deepened, making his d**k erect, and poke against Kate’s thigh. Never had a woman made him this wanted in so quick a time.

“I want you,” he breathed. “I want you so badly. His grip on her was firm and deliberate. He could feel her tender body, her breasts pressing against his chest and his heartbeats were all over the place. He pulled back, looking into her eyes,

“Kate,”

his hands now caressing under her shirt and touching her breath, they were both panting for breath, and the scent of their arousal hang in the air, “I mean it. I want you and much more than this,”

Her eyes were lost in fear, unwilling to accept this truth.

“Say something…..”

She started saying something but stopped to revisit her choice of words. “You shouldn’t say that,”

“It is the truth,”

“Then you shouldn’t speak the truth,” her voice shot out. She swung around,

avoiding his gaze to the darkness just off the porch. She breathed, trembling.

He took a moment, wondering…… “Why are you so scared to let me in? Have you

been hurt before?” he stepped a little closer, still aching to put his hands around her

trembling body. “You should know that I would never hurt you. I can take care of you.”

“It’s not that” she denied finally. “I wasn’t supposed to get this close to you, Ethan,”

“Says who?”

“It doesn’t matter. Whatever you think you feel, you need to find a way to stop,”

she told him, “I am not what you think I am Ethan”

She felt his arms reach around her waist and she was now aware of how much she desired this comfort.

“In all my many years, I never thought that I could ever care about anyone the way I care about you now. And I know that I may be way over myself here but I think you feel something for me too. I only ask that you don’t fight this. Whatever it is

that you fear the most, we can face it together. I just want to have more than this. I want to have to watch the sunrise and take a walk across the beach with you,”

Those words made her die a little at the thought of it being true. She would want nothing more than to see him happy.

It would be a miracle, to have him touch her in the colorful light of day. It would be wonderful to have to k**s him and forget that the natural world was grim and wicked. Then, at the end of it all, she would have to tell him the truth that she was

the monster that killed his parents. Like they say, if you love something, you should let it go and if it comes back, then you hold on to it and never let go.

“I need to leave, Ethan, I don’t want you to get hurt,” she insisted.

“You are hurting me by pushing me away,” he told her.

“I need to leave now,” she repeated, he grabbed her hands.

“I won’t ask you to stay tonight, but just meet me tomorrow morning. I want to spend the day with you,”

“Ethan, I can’t” she replied, knowing within herself that her kind is cursed to roam the night. “I can’t make it in the morning. I have work..” she lied. “I can meet you in the evening though,” she requested underneath her breath.

He thought pensively, “Are you afraid of being seen with me in the day?”

“No, Ethan, that’s not it,” she assured, “it’s just complicated.”

“Then make me understand”

“I really wish I could……”

“This is the only thing I ask of you, Kate. Spend the day with me,” he leaned down and planted a k**s on her lips and she closed her eyes immediately, trying to hide her pain. “Spend the day with me tomorrow and I won’t bother you again,”

She opened her eyes and met his right away. And she could only nod her head in agreement. Curse her untamed emotions. She could not simply bring herself to refuse his demands. She breathed, opting to worry about that later. She then rested

her head on him, embracing him tight and it felt like everything she had ever wished for.

“I have to go,” she told him in a while. “If I am to come and spend the whole day tomorrow with you, then I have to go and get a good night’s sleep.”

“If I could have my way with you, then I would have you spend the night here. And I would make you feel loved,”

Her cheeks turned pink immediately and she could feel a strange sensation running down her body. She was lost for words.