Chapter 11

Leila and Kyle playing in tigerform.

Happy New Years!! I hope 2018 will bring nothing but good things and happiness!

Leila pov

I was actually a little nervous during that meeting, it's not like I care much about becoming a member of a pack or anything. But I strangely feel like I could stay here for a while, I would normally be antsy and starting to think about where to go next, but I'm not right now. I'm not gonna question it for now, I'll just enjoy my time here. And the handsome Lewis is really warming up to me, he's sending me heated looks and jumped at the chance to sit next to me in the car, I like it. I glimpse over at him and he really does look good. Black hair, dark skin, nice bulging muscles, really nice brown eyes and full kissable lips hiding white straight teeth. Yep, I certainly don't mind him warming up to me.

The car ride is short, only about 15 minutes and as we get to the lake I waste no time jumping out of the car. The smell of water fills my nostrils and I can feel myself relaxing even more. The lake has a sandy beach near the water, but the shore I mostly green grass and there's a high cliff on one side that has me eying it longingly. As the people who ran here start to change back they go to the cars and get out blankets and fold them out on the grass and get the food out of the baskets, one guy even lights a big fire. Wow, these guys have been to the lake before, they get everything ready in a matter of minutes.

Lewis has gotten a blanket down, so I walk over to where he is and strip out of my shorts and t-shirt, so I'm left in a bikini. I feel more than see his eyes trailing slowly up my body, and being a bit of an exhibitionist I'm loving the sound of his breathing and heartbeat picking up, and I can smell a hint of arousal in the air. As I turn around and face him I can see that his eyes are dark with lust, so I sit down next him and make sure my arm and leg touch his.

Just as I turn my head to talk to him we both tense when we hear a growl float through the air, we look around to find the source. Scanning the people around me my eyes fall to that douche Axel, he's glaring at us with anger coming off him in waves. What the hell is his problem? Is he disgusted that the dirty tiger is cozying up to a wolf? Lewis realized who the source was to and suddenly his body is stiff as a board. Then stammers out "uuuuh, I..I'm just ehh, gonna go swimming" then he runs off like he has the devil on his heels. Ok, that was weird, but whatever, I want to swim too.

I get up and go over to Kyle, he's practically sitting in his mates lap and they seem to be having a nice conversation while gazing at each other, lovestruck much?

"Hey Kyle, did you notice the cliff over there?" I ask my brother with excitement in my voice.

He looks at the high cliff perfect for jumping off of and leap to his feet, "let's go!"

Anders creases his brow in confusion at the sudden move, "where are you off to?"

I give him my most charming smile as I grab a hold of Kyles elbow, "me and Kyle love cliff jumping, and that cliff is perfect!" I'm just gonna borrow him for a little while," I tell him as I drag Kyle with me.

We climb up to the top of the cliff, it's not really that high, maybe 45-50ft, but high enough to have some fun. We run up to the edge together and push off, the feeling of flying last maybe a second or two and then we hit the water with a big splash. We both shift before surfacing and come up paddling, splashing and play punching each other. Both our tigers love the water, and they take whatever opportunity they can get to play in water.

We play for a while and head back to the shore, that's when we notice that everyone is staring at us, and we walk out of the water and shake our fur getting everyone wet in the process. We both change back, which leaves us naked in front of the onlookers. That would doesn't really bother me, shifters are used to nudity. But Anders seems unhappy about other people seeing his man naked so he's quick to step up and wrap a towel around him. And for some weird reason Axel walks up to me and tosses me a towel as well, his eyes are flashing yellow and he looks pissed, "for fucks sake woman, cover your self!" Now that makes me feel more than a little self-conscious, how can a man I have never talked to hate me this much? I'm honestly a little hurt.

As I watch he walks over to one of the other girls there and put his arm around her whispering something in her ear, she blushes and giggles as he gives her a passionate kiss and they walk off together into the woods. There's not much doubt about what they are up to, and for some reason I feel a strange painful burning in my chest at the thought of him fucking some girl. I actually catch myself thinking, that should be me, and I feel my tiger agreeing wholeheartedly.

"What the hell Leila, have you lost your mind? The man does nothing but treat you like shit. Get yourself together!" I shake it off, pull my shorts and t-shirt back on and go join the others by the fire, watching people talking, laughing and swimming. Kyle and Anders are huddled together always touching each other one way or the other. I'm feeling more and more convinced that Kyle will be staying here, the way I see it he is already in love but hasn't realized it himself yet. This is actually really nice.

As the night moves on people start to eat and I find myself enjoying the company of Julie, Carl and some of their friends. We talk and laugh and despite the fact that I catch Axel creepily staring at me I'm genuinely enjoying myself.

But enough is enough, after catching his glare for the umpteenth time I get up and march over to him, he just stares at me as I move closer, the same unidentifiable look in his eyes.

"You have an annoying staring habit, what is your problem? Are you really so sure that I'm gonna hurt someone that you have to keep an eye on me at all times?" He just keeps staring at me, and now I'm getting pissed, "what the hell man? At least answer me!"

At that he gets up and looks down at me, he's just a little bit taller than me, but enough that I have to look up to meet his eyes.

"My problem is you, you show up here and expect us to welcome you with open arms, but I know what you are. I know what tigers are capable of, and I will never accept you!" He's yelling in my face now, and the words he's saying hurts more than I thought they would, as he tells me he will never accept me I swear I see his eyes flash and hear him make a strange sound, and that burning returns to my chest.

By now we have drawn the attention of everyone here, they are looking at us trying not to make it to obvious. And no one will ever say that I back down easy so I yell back, "well fuck you Mr head warrior, you may think you are so much better than me but you're not. I never asked you to accept me and I don't give a shit if you do or not, you stay away from me and I will stay away from you!"

With those words I march off, I can hear Kyle yelling after me so I mindlink him "I'm just gonna go cool off, I'll go straight to the pack house after."

Then I shift, ripping my clothes in the process, I shake my fur and start trotting, slowly picking up speed to a full run. It feels so good to stretch, and I can feel my anger cooling off little by little. I wonder why I didn't clock him? Normally I would have tried my hardest to hurt anyone who treated me like that, but it didn't even cross my mind, I just walked away. Maybe I'm getting soft?

After running for while I finally stop, I find a nice tree and get up on my back legs and dig my nails into the bark, dragging my nails down making deep marks in the tree and feeling the bark peel off. I sniff it and feel content knowing I left my scent here, so I lay down beside it taking a rest before I head back.

Suddenly I feel the hair on the back of my neck stand up as a smell of wolf drift through the air and I hear menacing growls. As I get up I see at least 10 wolves moving closer to me, they are dirty and smell like crap, and like that isn't enough to realize what they are their red eyes are a dead give away.

Crap, rogues!

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Axel sure is being an ass to his mate, I might have to give him an earful.

This chapter is a little short, so I will be posting Axels pov very soon.

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