Chapter 62 - MARKED AGAIN

Following breakfast we went back to the inn that we were both checked into. I had only seen the inside of my room for about thirty seconds before I left so at least I was going to get some use out of it. Sort of.

I wanted to make sure that my bounty was caught. If he was still in the area that is. So, it was for that reason that I decided to stay in town for a few more days. I had thought that Kyle would stay in his room and I would stay in mine. Nope.

Kyle made it to his room and got his things before it was time for checkout. He then promptly moved his stuff into my room. He had even offered to pay for the remainder of the stay. He was quite the pushy and stubborn hot jerk sometimes, wasn't he? Still, I didn't not like having him around so it wasn't all that bad.

I was sitting on the bed, busy with my meager abilities on the computer, trying to track down that disgusting Sandy Fink when Kyle came up behind me.

"What are you doing?" He asked me as he slid his body around mine. His legs stretched out beside me and his chest became a sort of cushion for me to lean back against.

"I am looking for clues about that asshat that slipped away while I was being beaten senseless. By the way, you never did tell me how long I was out for. That might help me narrow my search a little." I didn't look away from my screen when I spoke to him, but I did allow my body to ease back against him and use him as the chair he was offering himself up as. I don't know why it felt right to do that, but it just did.

"You were only out for one night, thank the Goddess." He sounded like he was relieved to be saying that and I couldn't blame him, I was relieved as well.

"Well, that's good. I'd hate to think that I was laying there basically naked and vulnerable for days. Who knows what could have happened to me while I was unconscious."

"Never fear, your knight in shining black fur will always be there to protect you." He purred the words into my ear. I just couldn't help but give him a quip right back.

"What if you're the animal I need protection from?" I could sense the sexual tension between us growing but now was not the time for it.

"Then I would have to play the bad guy and steal you away. I'm the only man for you from now on." I heard the note of possessiveness that was in his voice and it sent a jolt through me that I didn't quite understand. Was it a feeling that my wolf was sending me?

After a few more moments passed in silence Kyle decided to take over the controls on my computer. He out maneuvered me and brought up sites that I had never seen before. Before I knew it all the CCTV footage within a five mile radius of Jimmy Lee's house was being scanned with facial recognition software. Kyle was doing his best to help me out with my work and that actually made me a little happy.

"Thank you." I felt the need to say something to him and that was all that came to mind.

"For what?" He asked me to be a bit more specific. The thing is, there was too much that I hadn't thanked him for yet.

"Thank you for coming after me. Thank you for saving me. Thank you for cleaning me up and making sure that I didn't die. Thank you for taking care of me. Thank you for lending me your clothes. Thank you for breakfast. Thank you for helping me with my work. Take your pick of which one I meant."

"You forgot a few." I heard another purr in his voice. It was definitely easy to tell he was a cat.

"Oh yeah, what did I miss?" I couldn't help but goad him.

"You forgot to say thank you for the mind blowing sex. And you forgot to say thank you for being your mate. And if you're not too pissed about it you could thank me for the baby, since it's part of both of us."

"I'll thank you for the first two, but not the baby just yet. I don't particularly like kids."

"Eh, most people don't like kids that aren't their own. You'll probably change your mind." He didn't seem bothered by my words at all.

"And if I don't?" I had to hear his answer to that one. "If I don't stop hating kids?"

"Then I will be the primary parent and we will just have the one kid. That's all we truly need anyway, right?"

"You seem awfully calm about this." I noted as I turned my head to look at him. His profile was so handsome that I couldn't tear my eyes away for a moment. He was mesmerizing in his beauty and handsomeness.

I don't know why but I felt compelled, pulled by something, to twist my body a little more and lean over so that I could kiss his neck. 

"Ahh." Kyle cried out in a sort of pleasure and pain at the same time.

"I didn't bite you." I immediately went on the defensive. "Not this time anyway."

"I know, I don't know what that was all about."

Kyle pulled the neck of his shirt aside and I was able to see what had happened. The spot where I had bitten him was covered in a purplish gray bruise. But it didn't look like a normal bruise.

"What the hell?" I exclaimed and pulled away from him.

"What?" He looked worried for a moment as he got to his feet and ran toward the bathroom where there was a mirror for him to see in.

That mark meant something. I knew that because I could see an outline inside of it. That wasn't just a bruise, it was a mate mark.

I knew I was capable of marking people, I was an Alpha after all, but I hadn't meant to mark him.

"You marked me?" His words confirmed that I was right in my guess. The thing is, he hadn't sounded as upset as I had been when I realized I had been marked. "You marked me." He said again as he came out of the bathroom, a massive grin on his face.

"I didn't mean to." I tried to get out of this, though I didn't know how.

"I didn't mean to mark you either but I did. This just proves it, we are mates and this makes it official. You can't back out now, baby."

Kyle ran to me across the room and swept me up into his arms. He was laughing and smiling as he spun me around the room.. This had apparently been the best discovery in the world for him.