Okay fiction press is being stupid again so sorry for the lay out I'll correct it as soon as I can. So bare with it and try and enjoy the next chapter. Smiles... Chapter Nine This wasn't how I envisioned my sixteenth birthday, being torn between the man I'm meant to be with and the one who is calling to me. It was like he just knew I needed him and he was there. His strong arms were holding me, telling me that everything was going to be alright. "I'm sorry about what everyone must think." I sobbed in his arms. "Sorren, nobody is thinking anything and frankly even if they are, well then to hell with them! No one knows how hard this is on you. I do because I've been your living diary. You're just a girl with so much hitting you all at once." He lifted my chin. "Don't be so hard on yourself sweetie." "I'm glad you decided to come." I gave my best friend a hug. "I've missed you Mike." "I've missed you too. He bought the little princess a crown." Micah laughed and had me laughing too. "I'd love to borrow it sometime." "Shut up, you are so not the diva type." I grinned and we walked back to the house. By the time we got there, most of the party had taken its separation where the adults went to one area and the younger ones went to another. I went over to the table of gifts and held the one from Aleksandar. Without saying a word, I placed it back in the box that it was brought to me in. "Return to sender." I said as I wrote on the box. I went over and pulled Braden away from the group of guys and we went outside again to sit and talk. "I choose you, I'll always choose you. I'm working out all this weirdness with Alek. I don't want to be with anyone but you." I went to kiss him and he pulled away. I was shattered. After everything how could he just push me away? I didn't notice that I was walking. I didn't even notice that I was walking with my hand in his being led away from the house. I looked up to see his face, his beautiful face, his strong square jaw line with his five o'clock shadow dusted lightly over his tan skin. His jet black hair was messy in his eyes that had something that actually made me fear him. I finally focused on where we were and I smiled. My inner wolf was going insane wanting to be let out. "I love you Sorren. I'm not losing you to the likes of him." I felt my back hit the tree behind me and his body pressing against mine from knee to chest. "You are mine, Heart, mind, soul." His eyes lowered locking in mine. I felt his arousal grow against my stomach. The heat grew, I was still in my cycle and I knew what could happen. "Mate with me." I whispered as he started kissing my neck, his teeth brushing against the tender part of my neck. "Take my body, claim me." "No, I want that to be wonderful and not because..." I shut him up pushing him on the ground. "Stop your Damn properness." I growled. He had brought out the… excuse the graphic phrase "the horny bitch that I've been holding at bay." I kicked my shoes off and removed my sweater and skirt. The sweat began to beat down my body as I called to him. His answers caused my body to respond sending pheromones that made his own inner wolf emerge. "Mine." He growled and threw me to the ground. "My bitch." "Any other time I would get pissed." I giggled as he pulled off his own clothes. We began ravaging each other when a growl came from behind us. "SORREN! BRADEN!" My Father's tone angered my mate, taking my father's paternal duty as a threat to his mate. "NO! MINE!" He snarled. "Daddy no." I covered myself and held Braden. "Daddy please." "Braden she's just a child, you two need to control yourselves." He turned away. "You'll regret acting on the animal but it will be your choice." The sadness filled his face. I looked at Braden and he looked at me. "He's right, we could have done something we would have regretted." Braden smiled touching my face and we both started laughing. "I'm never getting laid." "You'll just have to marry me I guess." I laughed jokingly at him as I pulled on my clothes. "Would you? I mean when it's right, would you marry me?" He turned me around. "I was kind of going to give this to you in the middle of the holiday ball but I'd rather do it now. It's a promise ring, my grandpa gave it to my Nonnie when they were courting. It's my promise to love you always, no matter what happens Sorren. To be there for you through this whole thing." He took my hand in his. "I promise to marry you when we're both old enough. Until then I promise to wait and be only for you. Will you accept this ring as a token of that promise?" "Yes. Oh Braden it's beautiful." I let him slide it on my left hand and we made ourselves presentable again and snuck back into the party. No one noticed a thing except we were cuddled in a corner. ******** With everything that had happened in one night, I didn't think the morning could be topped. But it was, I woke up and Braden was in bed next to me. His family had spent the night and he found his way into my room, just like in school when my dreams were getting bad he would be there to hold me. "Merry Christmas." He smiled completely awake but just acting like he was asleep. "How long have you been awake?" I held tight to his body. Letting his warmth radiate through me. "Since sunrise." He smiled. "Why didn't you wake me?" I pouted thinking of all the make out time we missed. "Because I love watching you sleep. You look so innocent." He cupped my cheek in his hand. "To think all these years you've been right there." "I knew it all along, you were just to stupid to realize it." I giggled to get him to tickle me. My door flew open when I squealed for Braden to stop and he had me pinned on the floor. "What is going on in this room?" Our mothers ran in. "Sorren called me stupid." Braden started to get up. "Because you are." I pushed him back on his butt and ran out of the open door. "You better run fast little girl." Braden howled after me as we ran through the house like we did when we were little kids. "Remember I have years of training on you Sorren." "Ah remember I've grown up with all of you, school is just a technicality." She had Braden pinned in the middle of the family room. "Damn." Braden smiled. "Uncle, only because you're causing me to sprout wood." "Eww!" I snickered and let him up. We ate breakfast and opened presents then spent the rest of the week being teenagers. On the morning of New Years Eve, mom and I were at the spa and I went into my own room to soak in the hot tub before my massage. My heat cycle was over and I was less sexually frustrated and now on a pill that would allow me not to go into heat, until I wanted to. "Sorren." I was awoken by his voice. That strong accent that made me tremble in delight, and frozen in fear. I covered my chest and pressed against the side of the tub. "Alek, this is a naked place, get out." "I need to talk to you Sorren. Please." He knelt down keeping his eyes away from me. "You returned my gift." "It was too much, Alek that's not what you give a friend." I felt sadden that he was so hurt. "You know you are more than a friend to me Sorren. I know you will never love me the way you love…..Him. But that gift was how I see you, my queen, my beautiful goddess that would make me the happiest of all men to call you mine. To live together in happiness, giving you things like that forever." He turned to look at me. "I'm sorry Alek, I just could never love you like that. I love Braden. I choose him." I didn't have time to scream or anything. He had pulled me up by the arm, my naked chest pushed against his t-shirt. "You haven't given me a chance. You do love me. I've felt it in your lips." Alek kissed me and I melted into him fighting with my hormones to resist. But his Alpha status controlled me. "Say it." "Never." I looked up at him his eyes dark and full of lust. "I must try harder then." He kissed me again. I felt him pick me up and place me on the cold floor, his hands touching me everywhere. "He has not mated you yet." He whispered as his fingers danced around my inner thigh. "No." I tried to get away. "Alek please stop!" "You are mine." He growled baring his now retracted teeth and he left my body to remove his pants. "NO!" I was able to fight him off and grabbed my clothes and ran out. I left my mother in her session and grabbed a cab to the Griffin's. ****** I threw money at the driver and ran into the house. "BRADEN!" I screamed, scaring the whole house. "BRADEN!" I ran up the stairs towards his room. "Sorren?" His mother walked out not pleased but she saw the bruising on my arm and my tear stained face. "BRADEN!" I just wanted to be in his arms to feel safe again. "Sorrie?" Braden ran out beads of water still dripping from his hair, with his jeans pulled up and unbuttoned showing the thin line of fuzz from his navel running down to below his waist band. "Honey I was in the shower." "He tried to." I fell in his arms and my words flowed like water. "It was awful." "Baby." He rocked and cradled me in his arms, pouring his love and safety into me. "Braden, take her in your room let her rest. I'm calling your father and then I'll call over to the Graysen's." His mother kissed my cheek. "You're safe here Sorren. Go with Braden." He held me tight against his chest as we walked up to his room. "I love you." He whispered. "I love you too." I sighed and we stood by his bed. I tilted my head to meet his lips. "Tonight I want us to make love. Braden if he would have taken me. Taken my virginity I, I thought he was my friend. That he understood who I wanted and he just wanted me to be happy. But that was just a lie." "He's not going to take anything from you. I won't let our union be brought together because an alpha wannabe wants to try and dip his wick in my girlfriend." Braden growled still holding in his rage. "He almost did. He almost forced your girlfriend." The words choked in my throat as the thought sickened me. "Give me just until spring break alright. I won't let you out of my sight for the rest of the time. Forget school, forget everything, just me and you honey." Braden kissed the top of my head inhaling my scent as I nuzzled closer into his chest. "Rio?" A sigh escaped as I traced the contours of his muscular stomach. "Rio." "Rio." He smoothed my hair his eyes rolling back in his head feeling the tender caresses I gave him. When the door flew open and my parents ran in breaking us out of our growing connection. ****** Braden brought his tux over and got ready with my brothers as my mother and I did the best we cold with out the slew of stylist to help. "At least your arms will be covered. I don't know why I let you go alone. I should have." "Mom stop, you did nothing wrong, we had no idea this was going to happen. I'm going to be fine, Braden isn't leaving me and we're going to be together forever." I pulled my hair back in a sleek side pony tail and put on my earrings. "I'm done" "You look beautiful." My Father smiled. "Braden headed over to the hotel with Sloane and your bags to check in so you don't have to worry about things later. He's a good wolf Sorren a good man too. He loves you so much." "I love him too Daddy." I stayed close to my Father until we were safely in front of everyone at the hotel. ****** It was time for the holiday ball and I was the last one to arrive, with of course my Braden, where ever he was right now. I stood awaiting him when everyone stood staring at me. I saw Amelia was with Conner Matthews, a boy from my old high school. He was gawking at me like a shiny new car which made Amelia pissed. I wanted to laugh at his look, it reminded me of a big old hound, big eyed and his tongue lulling out of his mouth. Silly humans. Then I felt a large hand on the small of my back. I sighed thinking Braden had snuck up on me with a smile I turned. "What the hell!" I gasped, Aleksandar stood there returning the smile I had unknowingly given him. "After earlier I thought you got the idea Jerk." "Shall we? Your escort ran into some problems. We don't need any more and well my love you don't need all these humans seeing you acting improper." He looked me up and down. Letting his eyes rest on my predominate female parts, the insulting rumbling in his chest pushed me over the edge but remembering I was in a room full of predominately humans, I reared my open hand back and I slapped him hard right across the face. At that moment, all I could hear were the gasps from the whole ball room. "How dare you!" I let my voice go higher than I would have ever let any of my pack mates here. I stepped back only to be pushed back at him by three other large men. "Shall we?" Aleksandar let his hand this time run down my back to my hips. "Don't want to start a scene. Well anymore than what you already have." "Sweetheart I am a scene." I smiled. "I'm a woman and I can defend myself just fine." I moved my dress and kneed him in the nuts and punched him in the jaw. Alek fell to the floor, not completely knocked out but he wasn't moving very much either with the split lip and I held my hand acting like it actually hurt me. Before the other three could do anything, my brothers grabbed them by the collar and were there escorting them out. "I'm not a prize, I'm not your Queen, no matter what I belong to Braden Griffin and there is nothing you can do about it. Without him I'll die now. He is my imprint. A proven imprint as well." I left him aching on the ground, my parents looked at me and all of a sudden everyone started applauding me. Unaware of what I was saying to him they just knew a debutant took down a really big man. "YEAH SORREN! DON'T PUSH A DEB!" Amelia yelled. I looked over at her and she was high fiving one of the other girls and you could see the guys acting out the punch. I giggled and gave a little curtsy before my eyes caught sight of Braden. "Did he hurt you baby?" Braden held me. He walked up proud of me and touched my cheek. "No, I kicked his ass. Remember what I told the guys on the first day." We started laughing. "Don't mess with this bitch." "Mine." Braden kissed me lightly and made me pout but it would have been a sight if I kissed him like I wanted too. Security came and took out Alek and wanted me to see the on call doctor for my hand but Mr. Griffin said I was fine. We went down to the dance. The girls smiled with admiration at me while the guys patted Braden on the shoulder telling him that he had a winner. Aleksandar was no where to be found the rest of the evening, he had evaded being arrested and I had hoped that would have been the last I saw of him. "I want to dance with my girl." Braden ran his fingers down my bare back. "I want to dance with my mate." I giggled and purred into his ear. I felt his muscles tighten as he pulled me closer to feel the rumble in his chest against my own. My inner wolf was going mad inside, I could almost picture her rolling onto her back giving him the dominance that he wanted. "We're staying together tonight right?" "Yes, don't get any ideas." he scolded. "I have lots of ideas, but you know Mr. Chastity there are other parts to playing the game." I whispered feeling his breath on my neck. "first you get up to bat." I moved away looking into his eyes. "Then you run to first, if your lucky you round first to steal second." I let my lips linger over his as I moved his hand just past the small of my back. " Then you slide into third." I nipped at his lips and kissed him probing his mouth with my tongue before I moved back quickly. "Then your out, I'm thirsty." "OOOHHOOOO that was just wrong." Braden pulled me back, making sure my back side was sitting in a certain area. "I'll make you pay for this one Sorrie." "Oh goodie I hope so." I spun around and giggled. "I love you." He slapped my right butt cheek and we walked to the refreshment table. "Hey ah Sorren, calm down on the hormones will ya. There are a few Lycans here and well." Victor came up and smiled. "Nice right hook, I'm glad that you had me to practice on." "Victor." I laughed and gave him a hug. "How did he even know where you were going to be?" Victor went in to pack mode. "He attacked her at the spa today, tried to rape her in the hot tub." Braden said and Victor started shaking with anger. "Lets go find the…" I reached up and quieted him. "I got away, I fought him off. He's not going to be bothering me. Please Victor, my stupid boyfriend shouldn't be spilling this to the world. It's over. Got it Braden." I looked over at him pissed off. "Baby his pack, pack is family." Braden kissed my shoulder and I nodded. "All of our rooms are on the same floor, there's no way that alpha asshole is getting near you." Victor leaned down kissed my cheek and turned. "No one hurts our sister." "See they've all changed, thank god I still see you as the felyc because they sure don't." Braden took liberty on my sensitive spots on my neck. "You even taste good." He smiled licking the small bite mark that drew blood. "And are you trying to steal home, because you know you could get yourself into a pickle." I laughed and we went back to the dance floor. my mother in her session and grabbed a cab to the Griffin's. ****** I threw money at the driver and ran into the house. "BRADEN!" I screamed, scaring the whole house. "BRADEN!" I ran up the stairs towards his room. "Sorren?" His mother walked out not pleased but she saw the bruising on my arm and my tear stained face. "BRADEN!" I just wanted to be in his arms to feel safe again. "Sorrie?" Braden ran out beads of water still dripping from his hair, with his jeans pulled up and unbuttoned showing the thin line of fuzz from his navel running down to below his waist band. "Honey I was in the shower." "He tried to." I fell in his arms and my words flowed like water. "It was awful." "Baby." He rocked and cradled me in his arms, pouring his love and safety into me. "Braden, take her in your room let her rest. I'm calling your father and then I'll call over to the Graysen's." His mother kissed my cheek. "You're safe here Sorren. Go with Braden." He held me tight against his chest as we walked up to his room. "I love you." He whispered. "I love you too." I sighed and we stood by his bed. I tilted my head to meet his lips. "Tonight I want us to make love. Braden if he would have taken me. Taken my virginity I, I thought he was my friend. That he understood who I wanted and he just wanted me to be happy. But that was just a lie." "He's not going to take anything from you. I won't let our union be brought together because an alpha wannabe wants to try and dip his wick in my girlfriend." Braden growled still holding in his rage. "He almost did. He almost forced your girlfriend." The words choked in my throat as the thought sickened me. "Give me just until spring break alright. I won't let you out of my sight for the rest of the time. Forget school, forget everything, just me and you honey." Braden kissed the top of my head inhaling my scent as I nuzzled closer into his chest. "Rio?" A sigh escaped as I traced the contours of his muscular stomach. "Rio." "Rio." He smoothed my hair his eyes rolling back in his head feeling the tender caresses I gave him. When the door flew open and my parents ran in breaking us out of our growing connection. ****** Braden brought his tux over and got ready with my brothers as my mother and I did the best we cold with out the slew of stylist to help. "At least your arms will be covered. I don't know why I let you go alone. I should have." "Mom stop, you did nothing wrong, we had no idea this was going to happen. I'm going to be fine, Braden isn't leaving me and we're going to be together forever." I pulled my hair back in a sleek side pony tail and put on my earrings. "I'm done" "You look beautiful." My Father smiled. "Braden headed over to the hotel with Sloane and your bags to check in so you don't have to worry about things later. He's a good wolf Sorren a good man too. He loves you so much." "I love him too Daddy." I stayed close to my Father until we were safely in front of everyone at the hotel. ****** It was time for the holiday ball and I was the last one to arrive, with of course my Braden, where ever he was right now. I stood awaiting him when everyone stood staring at me. I saw Amelia was with Conner Matthews, a boy from my old high school. He was gawking at me like a shiny new car which made Amelia pissed. I wanted to laugh at his look, it reminded me of a big old hound, big eyed and his tongue lulling out of his mouth. Silly humans. Then I felt a large hand on the small of my back. I sighed thinking Braden had snuck up on me with a smile I turned. "What the hell!" I gasped, Aleksandar stood there returning the smile I had unknowingly given him. "After earlier I thought you got the idea Jerk." "Shall we? Your escort ran into some problems. We don't need any more and well my love you don't need all these humans seeing you acting improper." He looked me up and down. Letting his eyes rest on my predominate female parts, the insulting rumbling in his chest pushed me over the edge but remembering I was in a room full of predominately humans, I reared my open hand back and I slapped him hard right across the face. At that moment, all I could hear were the gasps from the whole ball room. "How dare you!" I let my voice go higher than I would have ever let any of my pack mates here. I stepped back only to be pushed back at him by three other large men. "Shall we?" Aleksandar let his hand this time run down my back to my hips. "Don't want to start a scene. Well anymore than what you already have." "Sweetheart I am a scene." I smiled. "I'm a woman and I can defend myself just fine." I moved my dress and kneed him in the nuts and punched him in the jaw. Alek fell to the floor, not completely knocked out but he wasn't moving very much either with the split lip and I held my hand acting like it actually hurt me. Before the other three could do anything, my brothers grabbed them by the collar and were there escorting them out. "I'm not a prize, I'm not your Queen, no matter what I belong to Braden Griffin and there is nothing you can do about it. Without him I'll die now. He is my imprint. A proven imprint as well." I left him aching on the ground, my parents looked at me and all of a sudden everyone started applauding me. Unaware of what I was saying to him they just knew a debutant took down a really big man. "YEAH SORREN! DON'T PUSH A DEB!" Amelia yelled. I looked over at her and she was high fiving one of the other girls and you could see the guys acting out the punch. I giggled and gave a little curtsy before my eyes caught sight of Braden. "Did he hurt you baby?" Braden held me. He walked up proud of me and touched my cheek. "No, I kicked his ass. Remember what I told the guys on the first day." We started laughing. "Don't mess with this bitch." "Mine." Braden kissed me lightly and made me pout but it would have been a sight if I kissed him like I wanted too. Security came and took out Alek and wanted me to see the on call doctor for my hand but Mr. Griffin said I was fine. We went down to the dance. The girls smiled with admiration at me while the guys patted Braden on the shoulder telling him that he had a winner. Aleksandar was no where to be found the rest of the evening, he had evaded being arrested and I had hoped that would have been the last I saw of him. "I want to dance with my girl." Braden ran his fingers down my bare back. "I want to dance with my mate." I giggled and purred into his ear. I felt his muscles tighten as he pulled me closer to feel the rumble in his chest against my own. My inner wolf was going mad inside, I could almost picture her rolling onto her back giving him the dominance that he wanted. "We're staying together tonight right?" "Yes, don't get any ideas." he scolded. "I have lots of ideas, but you know Mr. Chastity there are other parts to playing the game." I whispered feeling his breath on my neck. "first you get up to bat." I moved away looking into his eyes. "Then you run to first, if your lucky you round first to steal second." I let my lips linger over his as I moved his hand just past the small of my back. " Then you slide into third." I nipped at his lips and kissed him probing his mouth with my tongue before I moved back quickly. "Then your out, I'm thirsty." "OOOHHOOOO that was just wrong." Braden pulled me back, making sure my back side was sitting in a certain area. "I'll make you pay for this one Sorrie." "Oh goodie I hope so." I spun around and giggled. "I love you." He slapped my right butt cheek and we walked to the refreshment table. "Hey ah Sorren, calm down on the hormones will ya. There are a few Lycans here and well." Victor came up and smiled. "Nice right hook, I'm glad that you had me to practice on." "Victor." I laughed and gave him a hug. "How did he even know where you were going to be?" Victor went in to pack mode. "He attacked her at the spa today, tried to rape her in the hot tub." Braden said and Victor started shaking with anger. "Lets go find the…" I reached up and quieted him. "I got away, I fought him off. He's not going to be bothering me. Please Victor, my stupid boyfriend shouldn't be spilling this to the world. It's over. Got it Braden." I looked over at him pissed off. "Baby his pack, pack is family." Braden kissed my shoulder and I nodded. "All of our rooms are on the same floor, there's no way that alpha asshole is getting near you." Victor leaned down kissed my cheek and turned. "No one hurts our sister." "See they've all changed, thank god I still see you as the felyc because they sure don't." Braden took liberty on my sensitive spots on my neck. "You even taste good." He smiled licking the small bite mark that drew blood. "And are you trying to steal home, because you know you could get yourself into a pickle." I laughed and we went back to the dance floor.