Her Dark Lycan novel Chapter 10

Venus sat in the office, waiting for her mate to come. After she requested for Lorenzo to shift back, he padded out the door.

After a while her mate walked in wearing khaki shorts and a white tee shirt with canvas sneakers.

He looked very very handsome, and very ... Normal.

Venus tried not to drool over him, watching his tattooed covered thick arms flex upon movement, the way his jaw ticked and clenched when he was angry or just him being ... him.

Venus shook her head, okay her thoughts were going haywire, what was going on? She wondered. Her body felt a little more heated then normal but she ignored all that and concentrated on the situation at hand.

"I see you're waiting for some answers," Dante said, his thick deep voice ringing out in the silent house.

Venus nodded and he stood in front of her, folding his arms over his chest, making his muscled arms more bulging and very very distracting.

Venus gulped, praying to the moon goddess her body wouldn't betray her.

"Come, lets take a stroll in the garden," he said, holding his rough hand out as she shyly tucked her small delicate hand into his large one.

They rounded the stairs and headed out, walking in the lush green grass.

"You may ask what you want to," Dante said gruffly, letting go of her hand, and Venus suddenly felt sad, missing the warmth of his hand.

She took in a deep breath and started.

"I have many questions Dante, but i will only ask a few for now," she said, her shoulder grazing with his bare arm as they walked.

"First i wanted to ask why you did all that, why you avoided me like a plague and chose to go to Ariana when i was right there and you w-" Venus was cut off from her rambling when Dante placed his forefinger on her lips, silencing her.

"One at a time Venus, but i get what you're trying to say, i did all that for two reasons, first being i never wanted a mate, ever. And then you came along and your 5'6 self and bought more havoc with my being than my entire existence altogether. I was losing control around you and that made me rage over myself and naturally you." Dante explained, and Venus listened to him carefully.

"And second?" Venus whispered, feeling her heart clench upon his words.

"Being my mate would put you in a lot of danger, you'd be a target to all my enemies, a weakness they think they can use against me, and i refused to put you into that mess, which is why i tired pushing you away," he said, smiling a little at the end and then looking down at his little mate.

"I tried, i really did, but you're the most stubborn little wolf i have ever seen, you always manage to get under my skin even if i willed against it," he stated, his hands behind his back, his being emitting raw power and dominance.

Venus bit her lip, trying to hide her smile.

After a moment to silence Venus asked the one thing that was on her mind the entire time,

"Dante i wanted to ask, uh, about your father," she cringed when she said it.

His body stiffened upon her words, and he turned around to look at her, his beautiful eyes stormy.

His jaw flexed and he stood still, his gaze hot.

He turned around and continued walking again, Venus struggling to keep up with his long powerful strides.

"My father, was a bastard, i killed him myself, and now him being alive, it doesn't fit in," Dante said gruffly, growling in the end.

Seeing that his anger was surfacing.

Hesitantly Venus slipped her hand into his, hoping to calm him down, upon touch he jerked his head back to look at her and then their entwined hands, sighing deeply, he tugged her along with him, hands joined.