Predator

Part Seventeen✔️

He watched her from the trees, just sitting under the willow tree until the evening sky turned pink. He watched her as she let her eyes close and her head lay back against the tree's trunk. He watched the steady rise and fall of her chest beneath his coat as she breathed in deeply.

He hadn't the slightest idea as to why he kissed her in the hall, he tried to tell himself it was the beast taking control but it was far too easy to gain control again during the kiss which is unusual. When his beast takes control, it's hell stealing back the reigns. So he knew deep down the kiss was all him with just a little push from that beast inside.

And then there was the way she said his name. Although it was as if she said it to spite him, he wanted to hear her say it again and again. He wanted to hear her whisper it before she fell asleep and when she woke. He wanted to hear her scream it from his bed. He wanted to hear her speak his name as if it was the only word she knew. He'd always despised the name, for it came from the mind of his father, who used to spit it out of his venomous lips as if the sound of the name and sight of his youngest son left him disgusted. He never understood why. Hell, his own brother barely ever called him by name; the only time he had been with it slipping from one's lips was when his mother said it in that voice of hers.

He heard Maksim approach, coming to stand beside him and stare at the human girl out the window. He stayed silent for a long moment, just assessing her from afar before he spoke. "What have you done to her, brother?"

"Nothing."

"When I left, it didn't look like it would escalate into nothing."

"I did nothing, brother." He growled, emphasis lingered on the word 'nothing.' "Leave it."

"I will not leave it because like you something about her draws me in, and unlike you I'd like to see her live."

Alexei turned to Maksim with fierce eyes. "If anything happened to her I'd have an even more insane beast raging inside my head!" His long finger was pressed against his temple for emphasis. "I'd lose my own fucking mind if something happened to her."

"Then why do you constantly threaten her life?!"

"Because I can't decide whether I want her dead or pinned beneath me." The younger brother's words rumbled deep within his chest.

Silence blanketed them for a long moment. "What did you do?" Maksim emphasized every word, looking at his little brother with cold eyes.

Alexei ran his fingers through his hair, looking back at Grey who had moved to pull her legs up to her chest to rest her head upon her knees, hands tangled tightly in her long hair. "I kissed her."

Maksim had expected anything but that. He expected his brother to come home one day with blood staining his teeth, smelling of a sweet human. He had expected to hear of the death of the little boy in the house of the witch. He had seen his brother tear into the flesh of the human boy in the town. He expected the dark side of his brother, the vicious beast that everyone feared, he grew up around it and had seen it first hand far too many times to count. But not this, never in his life would he have expected to hear his brother kissed someone and ever be this frustrated over it.

Maksim and his brother were not inexperienced when it came to the female species, they were far from it. There was a brothel a few towns over where the women all drooled over the handsome brothers and seemed to throw themselves at them willingly. Each time they'd gone though, which was many a times, never once had he seen his brother look at any of those females with anything but slight disgust, and he had never seen him kiss one. It was his rule, no kissing, just sex. He knew his little brother had never wanted to go but the primal urges inside of him demanding it. The beast inside was unrelenting.