7 Days Earlier

"But... You're my mate." Karliah spoke as though she were in a daze, utterly bewildered at what she was hearing. "You're mine... You can't... I really..." She looked so hurt, it made Cassie feel even worse. She had taken this decision very seriously and thought it over carefully.

"I know and I love you so much." She reassured, taking her mate's large hands in her own.

"Then why-"

"Because I love him too." Cassie whispered sadly, "And you don't understand what he gets put through there, what he gets put through by his own mate!" she stared up into those sweet silver eyes and sighed. "I'm sorry, but you owe him and it's not like it's for long!"

"YEARS, Cassie!" Karliah stressed, sliding her hands up the smaller girl's arms and gripping her firmly. "Why can't he come live here?"

"Markus would never allow that!" Cassie cried.

"Why don't I speak to him?" Karliah released her arms, trailing her fingers up her shoulders and neck before finally resting them on her cheeks in an attempt to comfort her, convince her, sway her even just a little.

"No! Then he'll know that you know which means he'll know that I know!"

"So?" Karliah tried to sound soothing, rubbing circles with her thumbs on her mate's soft skin.

"So, he will say no to you and then make Sam's life even worse because he'll assume that he's been telling people!" She whined, using her cute voice to her full advantage. "Please?"

"I don't know why you're saying 'please', it's not like I get a vote in this anyway." Karliah grumbled. Cassie placed her hands over hers, nuzzling into them gently.

"You do get a vote, I'm just counting my vote as two." She smiled cheekily, knowing that she had won. Karliah rolled her eyes and pulled Cassie's face forward to rub their noses together.

"I love you so much," She whispered sadly, "and I'm going to miss you every moment you're even a centimetre away from me." Cassie didn't have to open her mouth for Karliah to know she felt the same way. Her deep green eyes reflected her emotions like a mirror.

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"I love you so much, and I'm going to miss you every moment you're even a centimetre away from me.” Cassie sighed. She didn't want to go back and stay with her pack, as much as she loved her family and friends there, once a sub was marked they were expected to follow their dom to their pack and live together. Mates needed to be together, it made them stronger. The further apart they were the weaker they became. Since being marked, she had spent the last few weeks living in the Lunar Warriors pack house. But she couldn't leave Sam alone, he had always been her number one supporter, her most enthusiastic cheerleader and more importantly, her most trusted confidant. He had Charles but not for long, soon he would return to his own home and Sam would be left with no one. But Cassie had a plan, she would return and stay in her pack until the end of school, once they were officially adults and could move packs as they pleased without parental permission or a mark of a current member, and then she would help Sam escape, hopefully with Charles (if she could rope him in to help - which she planned to do soon) and he could live happily ever after and so could she. Charles would give him the love Markus never could. But she couldn't leave him till then, the pack was too cruel, he needed someone to vent to, someone to help him with his chores in secret, he needed a friend to get him through it. He was beyond a brother to her, and not just because she owed him her life. "Promise me you'll spend every second you can over here, I want you to get used to my pack so you feel comfortable in your home when you move here permanently." Cassie blushed at the thought of Karliah's home being her home, it felt so fast but so right. That was cheesy, she thought.

"I promise." She stood on her toes to close the gap between their faces and plant a chaste kiss on her mate's lips. Karliah sighed,

"You'd better, or I'll put you over my desk just like when we first met." She growled.

"Is THAT a promise?" Cassie teased.

"Definitely." Karliah grinned, slamming her lips down the the brunette's roughly and quickly invading her mouth with her tongue, curling around Cassie's and sucking on it lightly. Cassie moaned softly, her hands grasping Karliah's shirt, pulling their bodies together so that every inch was connected. Karliah bit at her bottom lip, tasting her and savouring her flavour. She gave a little nibble back, feeling shy at the thought of trying to be dominant, Karliah chuckled and bit her again, harder. Cassie whined, pulling at the taller girl's top. Karliah used her own hands to turn Cassie's head, still holding her by the cheeks, and reveal her mark. She could feel her mate's pulse beneath it without laying a finger down on the skin. She kissed her way down Cassie's neck to the base of her throat, enjoying the hitched breath and tensed muscles that always came with getting close to her mark, Cassie's wolf was excited, barely able to contain itself as it waited for her to touch the mark. She circled it with her nose, teasing her skin, blowing her breaths directly onto it just to feel her shiver.

"Please!" Cassie whined, twisting futilely.

"Mmhmm." Karliah replied, before latching onto the dark symbol and sucking on it hard.

"Ah! AAAAH!" Cassie cried out, gripping at the shoulders above her and pressing her forehead into Karliah's neck. Whenever her mark was touched by her mate it sent her body into sensory overload. Pleasure seared through her, soaking her underwear and causing her knees to buckle. Karliah used the opportunity to push her back, letting her weak legs drop her onto the edge of the desk, her feet dangling either side of Karliah’s knees. The buttons running down the centre of her dress were quickly undone and the material slipped off her shoulders and draped over the back of Karliah’s leather wheelie chair. “Hey,” Cassie whined, “why am I always the one whose clothes disappear first?” she pulled up the alpha’s black tee but she could only get it to her arm pits before she wasn’t tall enough to get it any further. Karliah helped her out, tugging the soft top off and catapulting it into a tall leafy plant in the corner of the office.

“Clearly, it’s because you’re too little to get my clothes off!” Karliah laughed teasingly, pinching her mate’s cheeks gently.

“You told me I was the perfect size yesterday when we were cuddling!” Cassie pouted.

“You are the perfect size!” Both their bras were discarded. “Perfectly teeny!” Karliah massaged Cassie’s breasts, pulling at the tiny beaded nipples and watching her keen both at the hands playing with her and the compliments being showered over her. “You’re so adorable it hurts to look at you for too long.” Cassie blushed, even though Karliah said such sickly sweet things all the time these days it still had the same effect on her - she didn’t think she would ever get used to it.

The hands teasing her plump breasts slowly felt heir way down to her waist… her hips… the line of her underwear… They were wet from Cassie’s arousal and Karliah slid her fingers over her crotch, coating her fingers in it before licking them slowly and seductively, never breaking eye contact with Cassie.

“Have I told you how much I love the taste of your cunt?”

“Only every day since you marked me.” Cassie rolled her eyes. Her lace bikini-briefs were ripped off so fast she jumped with a gasp. “H-hey! You already owe me, like, ten pairs of new knickers!”

“I can’t help it,” Karliah laughed, “you have no idea how hot it is to rip a girl’s panties off!” she pushed Cassie’s legs further apart and stepped in closer. Cassie shivered with anticipation as her mate’s hands tickled at the insides of her knees, slid up her inner thighs and ghosted around her vulva, close enough to make her even more aroused, but not enough to give her any relief. She watched Karliah with half-lidded eyes and the alpha paused, their eyes locked until a hand shot forward and slid a finger into her. Cassie’s eyes shut involuntarily at the feeling and a breathy moan fell from her lips. Karliah pulled he lone finger out halfway and slammed it back in.

“Ah!” Cassie’s legs jolted from the pleasure, but she wanted more. Karliah used her second hand to stroke at Cassie’s inner lips, sliding up and down the warm and slippery flesh. She was avoiding Cassie’s clit, she was sure - deliberately teasing her! The alpha leaned in to press her lips to Cassie’s ear.

“Who knew it was possible to get this,” She slammed two fingers in. “wet,” And again. “from a little bit of kissing?” She sped up her thrusting fingers, curling the tips to graze her g-spot and send waves of pleasure through her. Cassie whimpered, her g-spot felt like it was pounding inside of her.

“M-my mark!” She cried out, “Yo-you touched my mark…” she took a shuddering breath as the second hand slid up to rub a her clit. “Oh-oh goddess…” She curled into Karliah, grabbing her boobs and squeezing them, rubbing her fingers roughly over her nipples. “Hah! Ah!” Karliah pinched ever so lightly at her clit before slamming a third finger in. “I-I-Ah!”

“What is it, baby?” Karliah asked with the worst ‘fake innocence’ Cassie had ever heard. She had to take a couple of shaky breaths before she could get her thoughts together to reply as the hands continued relentlessly, thrusting and massaging at her most sensitive areas.

“I… I want y-yooouuu!” She moaned, her hips jerking forward towards the fingers pounding into her.

“So soon?” Karliah teased.

“N-Now!”

“Ooh, I like it when you’re bossy!” Karliah laughed and pulled her fingers out, giving them the slow, tantalizing lick that is customary whenever they enter her mate - she can never seem to waste a drop, something Cassie both found odd and and sexy at the same time. The long digits were quickly replaced by a long, hard member.

Karliah slammed into her with the usual ferocity, Cassie had made it very clear she preferred Karliah’s rough and hard style to the soft and slow approach she sometimes tried. Cassie flung her head back in satisfaction, a cry bursting from her with much more volume than she expected. With each thrust she came further undone, panting and trembling as she moaned encouragement to her mate.

“Oh god, yes, yes,yes!” Cassie’s legs spasmed either side of Karliah’s hips, trembling almost to the point of vibration as she screamed under her. “Please! There!” Her mouth fell open, eyes closed with her face buried in Karliah’s neck, clinging to her with her tiny hands. “There! There!” Her voice was muffled but Karliah could still understand her perfectly and continued to hit that spot over and over, driving in deep and hard. “Pleeaase!”

“God, I love it when you beg.” She groaned, never slowing her thrusts. Cassie continued to sob brokenly, her legs jerking in time with the bursts of pleasure. All too quickly the sensations were too much for her little body to handle,

“I-I can’t!” she panted, “I’m gonn-na!” Karliah squeezed harder at her skin but didn’t stop.

“Go on, baby.” She groaned, “Come for me.”

Cassie screamed brokenly. Karliah followed with a groan, still rocking her hips in and out, wordlessly informing Cassie that they were far from finished.