Ravishing Elizabeth

by J. J. Marstead

  Once I’m finished, I bring my empty plate over to the sink, rinsing it. I take the cloth wash it,

  rinsing the bubbles off then I place it on the drying rack, just as the plate hits the drying rack the doorbell dings, grabbing the towel drying my hands, I head towards the door. My feet skip to the

  door, placing my hand on the handle, turning it, I open the door, Tori’s standing with a forced smile on her face.

  “Hey, come on in,” grabbing Tori’s arm dragging her behind me, we enter the kitchen. My

  mother looks up and sees Tori, a smile breaks out on her lips, and she gets up off her seat and walks over to us.

  “Oh Tori, it’s good to have you here. Congratulations by the way, on finding your mate,” she

  mentions. Tori give’s my mother a force smile, and looks around the kitchen, she seems to be trying

  to avoid eye contact. My mother looks to me raising her brow in question, shaking my head my

  mother nods and heads back to the table.

  “Hey, you want to go up to my room?”

  “Sure,” she mumbles out, she’s not acting like her normal bubbly self. We head upstairs to

  my room, as soon as she walks through the door; I close it, turning around to face her. I need to

  know what the hell is up with her withdrawn mood. Did something happen with Ryan? Oh God, I

  hope not.

  “Tori, what’s wrong? You’re not acting like yourself,” she’s standing in front of the bed, she

  sighs turning around, and she takes a seat, hanging her head in her hands.

  “I’m not sure. I’m just so confused by all this. I just met him yesterday, and he says I’m his

  mate. I know I feel connected to him but I’m not a wolf; I don’t have a clue what’s going to happen.”

  She sighs heavily; she looks up with tears in her eyes as she continues.

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  “I just don’t know what to do. I’m fighting with myself. I just need time to think about all

  this.” She rumbles out, covering her face. Her shoulders rising and falling as she silently weeps,

  about the unknown.

  My eyes begin to water as I stare down at my best friend torn up by this. I need to ensure

  her that Ryan is nothing like Steve. He would never hurt her for anything in the world. Mates are the one person they would never let down, he would love her for the rest of their lives.

  “Tori, he would never treat you like Steve did, he would never hurt you in any way. He loves

  you just as you are. I know it all seems fast, but even you said you feel connected to him. It’s just harder for you because you’re human but just think of how he’s feeling right now. Knowing you’re

  hesitant about this is surely tearing him apart. I don’t want to make you feel bad about it but I just want you to know how it is for a wolf.”

  She’s staring at me biting her lip with tears running down her face; her lip starts to tremble

  as she tries hard not to break down, she wipes her eyes, sniffling she clears her throat, she

  straightens her back.

  “Can we talk about something else, please? I know that everything you’re telling me is true. I

  just need a girl’s day to figure out what I’m going to do.”

  “Do you want to go outside for a walk; we have a couple of acres of land. We have a field

  with thousands of wildflowers. You’ll love it. It’s beautiful.”

  “Sure. Some fresh air will do me some good,” giving a small but genuine smile, we leave my

  room and head downstairs.

  Making our way towards the back door, my father’s sitting at the table eating. He must have

  just got back a few minutes ago. He’s sitting there stuffing his face as my mother stares lovingly at him. My father’s head snaps up, smiling when he sees Tori and me.

  “Hey, kiddo’s, what are your plans for today?” He asks before placing another fork full of

  eggs into his mouth.

  “We’re going out back to the field, wanted to show Tori, all the wildflowers growing there,”

  my father nods swallowing his food.

  “Have fun.” He draws out, we both smile.

  “We will.”

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  Tori was amazed by the field when we got there. We sat in the field for a few hours just lying

  there as we talk back and forth, and looking up at the sky, before we started walking around. As we

  slowly make our way back towards the house, we halt in out steps when we see Caleb and Ryan

  standing at the back of my property waiting for us. My heart racing faster while I admire my mate

  standing there looking like a Greek God, flashes of last night pop into my head, causing my cheeks to heat.

  “Elizabeth, are you okay? Your cheeks are bright red. Is the heat getting to you, are you

  thirsty?” Tori ask as she looks over at me.

  “No, I’m fine,” Caleb and Ryan start walking over to us. When they get in front of us, Caleb

  places a tiny kiss on my lips; in the corner of my eye I see Ryan lean forward kissing Tori’s cheek, her cheeks going even redder than mine, I chuckle to myself, little Miss. Tori is affected by her mate’s affection.

  “What are you guys doing here?” I ask Caleb, he wraps his arm around me, and I notice he’s

  holding a basket in his hand.

  “Well, we came over to see if you two were up for a picnic?” he asks casually.

  “Sure, I’m up for a picnic, what about you Tori?” whipping my head over to her and Ryan.

  “That sounds good,” she mentions, Ryan placing his arm over her shoulder, pulling her to

  him, he whispers something I didn’t quite catch, she loosens up at whatever he said.

  I just notice that Ryan has a blanket in over his shoulder, wow they came prepared. That’s so

  romantic.

  “Where would you two like to sit and eat?” Caleb looks down at me as he asks.

  “Ummm…how about near the field full of wildflowers?” Caleb grins and nods, we head back

  in the direction of the field, which isn’t very far.

  Once we get to the edge of the field, Ryan places the blanket down on the ground and Caleb

  puts the basket in the middle of the blanket. Caleb sits down, grabbing the back of my legs making

  me squeal out he drags me down on his lap, Ryan starts laughing at us. Ryan and Tori both sit down, Tori takes a seat next to Ryan. Ryan grins at Tori, she turns her head smiling. Well, it seems like she’s warming up to the idea of being, Ryan’s mate.

  Caleb opens the basket, looking at both me and Tori holding a sandwich in each hand.

  “So, we got chicken or ham sandwiches. What would you ladies like?”

  “Chicken,” Tori and I both say at the same time, we both start to giggle and yelling jinx and

  each other.

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  We start eating and we enjoy our little picnic the guys made for us, once were all done

  eating, the guys clean up the plates, placing them all back in the basket.

  “Well, Ryan and I have to get going. We have some work to do.” He mentions standing up, I

  pout, knowing he’s leaving. Tori chuckles at me, turning my head to face her, I stick my tongue out at her, she loses it at my childish behavior and starts full out laughing to the point she’s holding her stomach.

  “I’ll see you later tonight for our run; Samuel said he’ll meet us. So you will have both mates

  beside you tonight,” he winks at me.

  He places a kiss on my lips, making me want more of him, especially after last night. He pulls

  away too soon and grins down at me. He knows he’s affecting me, I snap
myself out of the induce

  lust haze and look over at Ryan and Tori; he mentions he will talk with her later at his place. Caleb places another small kiss to my lips before whispering softly into my ear, “Love you, Mate,” my

  insides warm and the feeling of butterflies setting off in my belly, the fluttering feeling shooting all the way down to my pussy, squeezing my legs together, so he doesn’t notice.

  “Love you too, Caleb.”

  He turns to his brother nodding and they head off. Tori and I head back to the house, when

  we get to the house my parents are gone out, we decide to watch a movie and chill out on the couch

  till Tori has to head back over to the Jackson’s for supper.

  When Elizabeth asked me earlier what was wrong, man, did I feel like shit about how I’m

  acting, I know I’m his mate but I’m torn about what to do. I don’t know what’s going on with me. My

  head is so messed up right now. My heart is telling me one thing, and my head’s telling me another.

  Can I open myself up? Even if he says he won’t hurt me? Can the scaring from my past be wiped

  away by Ryan? Can I truly be happy?

  I still see the bruises when I look at myself in the mirror, my body feeling broken from that

  monster. It’s hard not to see the flaws in myself. When I look at myself in the mirror, I wince wincing every time I look at my nose, remembering the feeling and the cracking sound, when Steve broke my

  nose. No one ever knew, because I never said a word. I thought he loved me, he always said he was

  sorry. The only reason why no one said anything was because of all the sports I played in school. I always blamed it on that, no one knew. I always put on an act that I was happy.

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  Steve was four years older than me, I was sixteen almost seventeen, he was twenty so you

  can imagine my parents weren’t too happy that I was around him. He seemed like the perfect guy,

  and I thought I loved him.

  I remember the day I went over to his place, he was sitting on the couch with a few of his

  friends when I showed up and he was stoned out of his mind. I knew I should’ve left then but I

  didn’t. His buddies kept taunting him about me not putting out. He knew I wasn’t ready for that yet

  but it didn’t stop him from asking me why I didn’t want him, to show him how much I love him. My

  eyes widen when he came at me slowly with an evil grin etched on his face while his buddies

  whistled and shouted.

  I tried to get away from him, tried to make it for the door, but I was halted in my step when

  he grabbed a hold of my arm, dragging me to his room. I was like a doe in highlights as he dragged

  me away from the group praying that one of his friends would help me, one of his friends knowing

  what he was doing was wrong but not one person helped. I didn’t know what was going to happen

  until he got to his room shutting the door, he starts undoing his pants, panic starts to set in when he drops his pants, stepping out of them.

  I still remember the evilness in his voice.

  “You’ve denied me for too long Tori, your mine and I’ll make you mine. I’ve had some girls

  come warm my bed because you wouldn’t but they’re not who I want. I want you… and I’m going to

  have you, NOW!”

  Oh my God, he was cheating on me on top of everything else he’s done to me, there’s no

  way in hell, I’ll let him take this away from me, my virginity is mine and only mine to give, not for him to take. When he comes at me, I jump off the bed quick as I can, run to the door, grabbing the

  bat he keeps there, and I hit him as hard as I can in the arm. I drop the bat and run out of the room, his screams of pain are etched in my memory, the cracking sound when the bat connected with his

  arm, makes my gut twist. He’ll never get the chance to hurt me again. I won’t let him, I fought back then and I’ll fight now.

  Just thinking of it, I see Ryan and I could never imagine him doing something like that to me.

  Deep down I know he would never ever hurt me the way Steve has, I just need to believe that fate

  has given me a loving, and gentle man that will protect me from anything in this world. I should step up and become the mate that I’m supposed to be. Can I become what he needs? I truly hope so.

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  Chapter 12

  After the picnic, Ryan and I headed home. I didn’t do much for the rest of the afternoon, just

  helped out my father with pulling all the damn weeds out of the ground. He cornered me when I got

  home and roped me into helping him. It took about a good two in half hours to do the weeds; my

  hands are stiff and aching. After I finished up helping my father, I went for a quick shower, I was

  covered in dirt.

  Now, I’m standing outside Elizabeth’s parents’ house, ready to knock on the door, I raise my

  hand up to the wood of the door, hitting my knuckles against the door knocking, it doesn’t take long for someone to answer; her father opens the door with a firm nod.

  “Elizabeth is waiting out back with Samuel,” he mentions shutting the door after I walk in.

  “Thanks, Mr. Mason,” he chuckles shaking his head.

  “Son, you’re my daughter’s mate. Please call me Roman.” I shake his hand; I walk out

  towards the kitchen to the back door.

  When I get outside, Samuel and Elizabeth are standing near the shed; Samuel is holding her

  to him. I smile, knowing we’re going to run, to share that with my mate and Samuel brings much joy

  to me. Of course, I might get the chance to see her naked again too, so it’s a win-win for me. Her body’s amazing. I start walking in their direction, Elizabeth looks up and smiles jumping out of

  Samuel’s arms, she starts running towards me, jumping up and wrapping her legs around my waist.

  “You ready for a run?” My voice mumbled because my face is buried in her neck.

  “Yes, I can’t wait to run with both of you. I can’t believe we haven’t done this sooner.”

  She walks back over to Samuel, she takes her thin sweater off, she turns around going

  behind the shed and a second later, a beautiful white wolf comes trotting out. The little vixen went behind the shed and shifted so we wouldn’t see her, Samuel looks over at me and laughs at my

  expression of dismay. She turns around and takes off into the woods, Samuel chuckling shaking his

  head while he takes off after her. I strip out of my clothes as fast as I can; shifting into my wolf he’s more than ready to run after our mate when my black paws hit the ground I take off after them.

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  We’ve been running around, chasing Elizabeth for the past thirty minutes or so. She’s been

  having the time of her life, nipping at both of us as we get to close to catching her. Samuel stops

  unexpectedly, raising his head sniffing at the air, he hisses loudly. His eyes pitch black with his fangs out, ready to strike anyone or anything.

  Elizabeth runs over to Samuel, whining nudging his leg with her head, wondering what’s

  wrong. He looks over at me and his eyes pretty much explaining what’s wrong, running over to

  them, sniffing the air… Vampires, and there’s more than one heading straight for us.

  “You both have to get out of here before they show up. This isn’t going to be pretty if you

  stay. I recognize the scent’s, members of my vampire coven,” his nervousness showing when he

  mentions this.

  Growling at the fact that there’re vampires heading this way and I have to ma
ke sure

  Elizabeth is protected, nudging her side to run, she doesn’t budge. She growls at me causing my wolf eyes to widen in shock. She stands her ground beside Samuel; he looks down at her worriedly. I hear

  the sound of fast footsteps approaching; I stand in front of Elizabeth shielding her from the

  intruders.

  Then five male vampires appear ten feet from us, they’re smiling at Samuel then they look

  down at me with a nasty sneer on their face. They part away a bit, and a woman comes walking out

  of the darkness. She smiles at Samuel and Elizabeth growls loudly behind me, the woman stops

  short and chuckles.

  “Samuel really, I see you are slumming it with wolves now? Oh, baby, you can do some

  much better than some she-bitch dog,” she hisses out, causing me to growl and Samuel hisses at

  her, rage filling my veins just looking at the female vampire. I want to tire her apart for disrespecting my mate.

  Elizabeth comes out from behind me, growling louder and louder with each step, she bears

  down in front of us, showing her sharp canines to the female vampire, daring her to mess with her.

  The female vampire chuckles at Elizabeth, making Elizabeth even more furious.

  “Come back to the coven with me, we can be together like old times,” the female purrs,

  Elizabeth tenses, turning her head slightly looking up at Samuel, who sighs in defeat because she

  just found out that this is his ex-lover.

  “She’s my mate, Victoria; I won’t be coming back to the coven. And if you want to keep your

  head attached to that body, you better watch how you speak about her,” Samuel hisses out.

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  “That white wolf is your mate? You can’t be serious. She’s a dog for Christ Sake,” Victoria

  growls out, as she steps forward towards Elizabeth, Samuel and I jump in front of Elizabeth causing

  Victoria to halt her movements, she raises a brow at Samuel giving him a sinister grin.

  “Now you know, I’ve found my mate, so you can just turn around and leave and never come

  back here and no one has to be hurt,” Samuel says through clenched teeth. Victoria laughs at him,