I felt like my heart would just come out of my chest at any time now. The look on his face was hard to read. At one moment I felt like he would say yes then the very next moment he would say no but the only thing is that he is not even saying anything.

"Yes" He finally said. My eyes widened as saucers and I could not believe my ears. "I want to try too."

"Really!?" I exclaimed and he nodded with a small smile. Out of excitement, I literally threw my hands around him and squeezed the life out of him. "I can't believe you actually said yes."

"I said it though." He chuckled as he hugged me back and pulled me closer to him. At that moment I can't explain how I felt. A smile was plastered on my face while my heart was doing summersaults and butterflies were flying in my stomach.

He pulled away but still kept his hands around my waist as he spoke. "Analise I just want you to know that I am really sorry. I behaved really badly with you since we first met and in some way I did turn into my father. I hurt you, pushed you away and other things and I know that nothing can justify my actions. But I promise will do my best and make it up to you. I am sorry for being an asshole to you." I chuckled. "But now that I have finally got you, I have no intention of letting you go any time soon."

"You will not be able to get rid of me so soon either. You are stuck with me for the time." I said sheepishly at him.

We just stared in each other's eyes, none of us wanting to to break the peaceful silence. I never felt so carefree in life. Just being with him made me feel something else. It made me feel light. I knew that now we managed to get our misunderstandings out of the way, things could be fine. I felt protected and valued around him.

His eyes darted to my lips and back to my eyes and I found myself doing the same. He licked his lips. The tension between us was getting clear as both of us kept looking at each other's lips, deciding whether to take a step further or not. Would it be too much? Too early?

"Fuck this" I heard him grunt under his breath before he pulled me close to him by the neck and crashed his lips on mine. At first I was shocked that he finally did it but once I got back to my senses, I kissed him back. It was slow and passionate. Both of us were pouring out our emotions in the kiss. Everything that we could not tell each other during these days was expressed through this kiss. I felt myself melt into the kiss as I felt sparks everywhere in my body.

He placed me on his laps as I straddled him. One of his hands rested on my lower back while the other tilted my neck back as he deepened the kiss. He parted my lips with his tongue and plunged his tongue in my mouth. I let out a moan as fireworks exploded in my stomach. As his tongue explored my mouth, one of my hands played with his soft locks as I fisted them in my hands, causing him to grunt in the kiss. Our tongues fought for dominance but I eventually gave up and ran my other hand up his toned chest till his neck.

Eventually we pulled away to catch our breaths. Both of us were panting. He placed his forehead on mine and I could not help the grin that spread to my cheeks. "You taste too good." He said in a husky voice as he grazed my swollen lips with his thumb. I felt the blood rush to my cheeks at his words.

"You know you took my first kiss." I said in between breaths.

"I guess I am lucky then. It was also my first kiss." He answered

"Wait. You mean to say no girl has ever kissed you before?" I exclaimed.

"No"

"How come girls saw you and did not try to kiss you?"

"I just kept my distance. Before I was cursed, my mother always used to tell me to save it all for that one person, my mate. Even after I was cursed, her words would always play in my mind and I guess it was what never let me do anything with other girls. Looking back at it now, it was for a good decision since I now have you as my mate."

"I did not know you had this lovey dovey side to you as well." I joked around

"There are a lot of other sides you have not seen yet my little wolf."

"Hey! I am not little." I exclaimed

"Are we really going to talk about that?" He said in a teasing voice. Actually thinking about it, I am really small compared to him. I pouted and just slumped my shoulder in defeat. I don't even know how I started feeling so comfortable around him already to be behaving like a kid and he seemed to have been more comfortable now too.

Because you guys are finally accepting the bond between you Cresent said happily.

Seeing my defeated face, a chuckle escaped his lips. "Stop laughing it is not my fault if you are a giant." I huffed. Even if I tried to pretend to be angry I could not. His smiling face was so peaceful and he looked so handsome that it made me smile too. "Wait, you have dimples!" I exclaimed as I saw the small dimples on his cheeks.

"No I don't" He immediately stopped smiling, making the dimples to stop appearing.

"Yes you do. I just saw it." I insisted

"They just look like holes that were not drilled fully in my cheeks."

"No they are so cute" I retorted

"I am not cute!" He said and I saw his ears become red.

"Really? Your ears seem to be saying another story." I laughed and heard him groan. "Please show me your dimples. They are too cu-" I stopped as he sent me a glare. "They are too pretty" I poked the space where his dimples were and did a puppy face. "Please"

He sighed "It is just the start and you already got me wrapped around your fingers." He smiled lightly and his dimples made their appearance again.

"You should smile more." I said honestly.

"Only for you" He said as he nuzzled his nose in the crook of my neck, sending shots of electricity through my body and Cresent purred at the contact. I placed my hands around him and we stayed like this for sometime with nothing but just the sound of water in the background with our heartbeats and breathing as the sounds in the serene cave.

"Alexander?" I said in a low voice as a disturbing though passed my mind. He hummed in response but did not pull away. "Are we going to tell people about our relationship?" I felt his body tense as he pulled away.

"Do you want to?" He asked me.

"I don't know." I answered honestly.

"If you want to, we can tell."

"What if I don't want to?"

"You don't?" I saw a flash of hurt pass though his eyes and Immediately spoke again

"No. It's not in that way. I want to but I also don't want to. If we tell my family they will surely be against it but I don't care about their opinion. I think that all of the extra chaos that will happen will not be really fit for the time. If things escalate too much, I am afraid there might even be a fight and with the situation with the vampires, the last thing we want is a war among ourselves."

"I understand. For one second I thought you did not want me and now I know how you felt all this time when I told you not to tell anyone about us being mates. I am really sorry."

"Stop beating yourself up for this. It is in the past. Also, don't think that I do not want you. You really think that after all the efforts to try to talk to you all this time, in the end I will not want you?" I cupped his face in my hands. "Like I said earlier, you won't get rid of me so soon." I pecked his lips lightly and smiled sheepishly at him.

He shook his head. "We won't tell anyone but I want to spend more time with you."

I nodded at his words, finally happy to have cleared all of the things between us and that we are trying to work our relationship out. I think I am already falling for him now itself and we have not even started to actually spend time together.