She was home, finally and now in his arms.

Sometimes it felt like she just belonged in them.

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Sighing in the content she snuggled in more.

He sighed and lazily rubbed her back. "All okay, baby?" He asked again out of concern.

"You have asked me that twice in the past 10 minutes." She grumbled. "Let me sleep."

He shook his head a bit at that. It wasn't his fault that his made was human and had been in an accident.

It was his worst nightmare come true. Because he knew that she did not have the healing skills that he did also that she had been in that position for hours at stretch. She could be in pain for all he knew and he wanted to avoid that.

It was the first time that he had completely lost his cool and did not know what to do. So much so that even Alexander had come out of his goofy nature and focus on how to help his brother.

She was a fragile little thing who had broken her arm and leg and had a bandage around her head. For her, she knew that she would heal within a few months but for him, it left a permanent scar.

Something told him that he had to be even more careful while dealing with her.

He wrapped his arms around her pulling her security to his chest. That was where she was supposed to be.

In his arms.

"I'm fine." She grumbled. "Sexy time?" She slurred, half asleep as she gave him a slobbered kiss on his chest.

Skin to skin felt better.

He laughed at that. "Can't do, baby. You still have to recover."

She tsked and quietened down. Then popped her head and said, "Careful sexy time?"

He barked out a laugh at that. Instead of answering her, he just pulled her close.

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"You have—" he stopped the growl coming from his chest trying not to scare his mate that was rushing around trying to kill herself, "Why can't you listen to me and sit down?! Just sit over there and tell me what to do, if you don't want to eat something from my hands and order it from outside!" He raised his voice a little but come down once again but then he remembered that she was way too fragile at the moment.

Adeline had abandoned her crutches that she was supposed to walk with and had taken it upon herself to take small baby steps and walk around the house. "It's fine. I have to start working someday and I have the walls to brace myself with when I go out of the house and use the crutches."

Xavier's beast growled when he heard the word outside. Dam the hell if she thought that she was going outside the house while she was all bandaged up. She was supposed to be resting and that's it.

"Adeline, please. Rest. I don't think you want me to call your father. You know what he said." He warned.

Jason Woods and Xavier had been on the same page when it came to Adeline's health. They had both taken it upon themselves to stay at home alternate days and make sure that she did not overstrain herself.

She felt like she had two overprotective shadows around her. One watching while the other was unavailable. They had unanimously decided on it that she was not to get up from the bed, her crutches were always going to be used if she ever had to walk and walking was just an illusion for her.

She collided with the side table and almost fell down but then supported herself by holding the table but that was it for Xavier.

"That's it!" He roared and stomped to her. He picked her up by her underarms like a baby and placed her on the very table that she had collided with. "What don't you listen?" He hissed

She tsked, "It was just a small—"

"Just and small?" He snarled scaring her of him, "Do you even know what would have happened if you had not called the paramedics? You would have died, Adeline, that is what would have happened. You would have died!"

She flinched back at his loud voice and tears came to her eyes. She sniffed and lowered her eyes. "I'm sorry—"

"Well, you should be! You still are not understanding what your father and I went through when you were lying there on the hospital bed hooked up to a thousand machines." He sighed and leaned in, placing his head on hers, "Baby, I know it is not your fault and we're not blaming you for that but a second there when your father received the call I am sure that he would have been scared out of his soul and so had I. We were so scared."

"I'm sorry." She whispered not knowing what else to say to him. If she had to place herself in their shoes and received calls for their accident Adaline was sure that she would lose her mind and go in panic.

She could not even fathom the thought of what her father felt when he was going to lose his only family member.

He shook his head and he kissed her neck to where his head was sending a shiver up her spine. "It's not your fault baby but please take care. A lot." He kissed her neck again.

It shot up straight shivers to her spine. She sighed in the pleasure of having him close to her. She wanted him, close and in her. The st form. they could have. Unknowingly so she moved her hips and thrust them towards him sighing harshly at the contact made.

"Adeline," Xavier stiffened immediately when he realised what she was doing. "Stop."

"You are hard." She stated the fact.

'You need to tell me, honey, I can fucking feel it.' Blood was rushing there and he could lose himself at any moment.

"Babe, you need to rest." He grated out the words, he needed her to rest as his beast was taking over. "I can't. . . "

"Please." She whimpered and his resolve almost broke and his wolf took control. He roughly pulled back from her neck and held her jaw.

"Needy lil' mate," he growled out as Adeline dripped wet from it. "You want it?"

She nodded eagerly and whimpered out another, "Yes please."

He growled and pinned her to the wall, giving her exactly what she needed.