The Wrong Brother's Temptation novel Chapter 146

Chapter 146

Sienna

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I stared stupidly ahead, trying to make sense of it. Maria was dousing my dresses in his perfume, making me wear his scent.

But why?

As far as I knew, humans didnt emit a scent strong enough for werewolves to take notice of. Humans smelled just ordinary, like nothing in particular to them.

“Connor, just stop for a second and tell me what is going on”

He did and turned around to face me.

“I thought you would have figured it out after so many hints. Well, your arousal spreads through the mansion like a wildfire so I had to find a way to tone it down.”

My what?

My eyes widened as the pieces slammed together.

“I should have thought of it sooner to be honest. Do you know why Rory didn’t notice my scent on you at first that day when I was away?”

I blinked, trying to recall that awful day I had been trying so hard to forget.

I shook my head silently.

“Lets just say, unmated kids of werewolves, especially those who haven’t awakened their wolves yet are harder to imprint on. You being an alpha’s daughter with no wolf made him think you were weak and available so he tried to corner you but the moment I stepped in the room, he stepped away. Do you know why?”

I shook my head again though I was dreading the answer already.

“Your body reacted to my arrival, your subconscious sent out a still weak scent from your body…a mixture of arousal and relief but he noticed the shift in the scent immediately. Just like the rest of the crowd.”

Mortification crashed over me so hard I actually crossed my legs where I stood, as if that would somehow help.

Connor turned around fully when he realized I was no longer following. He took one look at my flushed face and the way I was standing and the corner of his mouth twitched.

“Don’t worry,” he said mildly. “Nobody smelled you for long enough…”

He paused just long enough for my soul to leave my body.

“…except me.”

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I made a strangled sound. “H-how?”

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His eyes gleamed. “So you’re not denying it?”

“No. I mean, yes… I mean… I don’t know” I waved a hand frantically, words tripping over each other. “That’s not…how could you even…”

Connor stepped closer, still keeping a careful distance, but his voice dropped into pure wicked amusement.

“Your body kind of calmed down when you came closer to me and hugged me though not completely. But with the entire crowd watching, I had to do something fast because I couldn’t keep them distracted with the blood and gore for long…”

I blinked up at him, trying to understand just how much he did without my knowledge to save me.

“And then Rory gave me the perfect reason to kiss you and envelop you in

my scent.”

I gulped and looked down, unable to meet his eyes.

“Think of it like a temporary mark that I had to give you that night by the river when we…”

I gulped nervously and was glad he didn’t go into details of how exactly I begged him to fill me.

“And just to be on the safer side, I also made Maria bathe your dresses in my perfumes so that no such mishap happens again.”

I stood there wordlessly, unable to say anything, to even thank him properly because I was so embarrassed I wanted the earth to swallow me whole.

My body had been blaring large signals of how much I wanted him, how much I craved him to a room full of people and I never realized it.

And he had found a way to keep me away from another round of public shame.

Fuck!

I needed to just find a new home, a new identity because how was I even supposed to meet his eye now?

When I didn’t look up at him for a full five minutes, he snapped his fingers.

“Okay, don’t make it weird”

I swallowed nervously again. “I think…I should go to sleep.”

“No, you look up at me,” Connor said.

“I can’t”

He scoffed and then his hands slowly reached my shoulders and I was forced to look up at him.

“We are fake dating but to the world it’s real. If anything, it only would signal others that we are a real couple.

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Isn’t that what you wanted? For Aaron to feel jealous?”

I wasn’t sure what I wanted anymore if my body was going in a completely different direction so I stayed quiet again.

“Relax, you have nothing to worry about. For the time being, your scent of arousal is only for me. No one else can pick it up. Not the elders. Not Aaron. Not even Sandra, though I’m sure she’d love the ammunition.”

I stared at him, equal parts horrified and… something else I refused to name. “You marked me?”

“Temporarily and very lightly.” He shrugged like it was the most reasonable thing in the world. “I didn’t want anyone else getting ideas or information to use against you. And it’s just for the time being. Once your wolf awakens, you would be…how should I say… in much more control of yourself

I gawked at him. “You make it sound like I only think of sex when I am around you”

He smirked. “You said it not me”

“You-Connor!”

“You’re welcome.” He smiled cheekily.

I opened my mouth, closed it, then opened it again. Nothing intelligent came out. He watched me flounder with open enjoyment, then tilted his head toward the side exit.

“Still want that rain check on sleep, or are you coming?”

I should have said no. I should have turned around, walked straight to my room, and locked the door. But then I more or less shared a room with him, and slept in his bed already.

I didn’t want to imagine myself walking around him with an open invitation to fuck me 24/7, definitely not when I was asleep on his bed.

Maybe, I could sleep in the guest rooms but that would make him feel like he won and like I really couldn’t keep my hands off him.

I groaned imagining the last few days, and whether he had been hyperaware of the clear signals of what I wanted to do to him and yet he kept focussing on work.

Argh!

He must have thought I was so horny all the time when I didn’t even know anything about it. Why couldn’t my wolf show any other signs instead of letting him smell my arousal every time he was close to me? Why couldn’t these hormones or whatever give any other indication for my body preparing to take the big leap?

“When did you first…notice?” I asked him, not meeting his eye.

“The day you held a knife to my throat” He answered.

“What?”

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That was the day I first met him after all these years….and my body wanted him even then?

He let that sink in and simply kept observing me.

“Speckles, you’ve gone very pale. Are you alright?”

He reached for my shoulder but I slapped his hand away.

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“You…you knew all this time. And you didn’t even tell me. There were so many public events, your parents were around…”

I began hyperventillating, wondering if that’s why Alpha Asher readily believed that I was whoring around if they all could smell the arousal reeking from my body.

“Speckles, relax! I didn’t tell you for this exact reason. I didn’t want you to feel embarrased. Plus, the scent was extremely weak at the start so nobody really knew. Plus, it always happened when we were together, not when you were alone”

I put my hands on my face, shaking my head.

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