Twisting Her Fate
Chapter 24

"Of course, who am I to argue with the moon goddess? She made two mistakes here, so that means we must be perfect to make up for it"

Levi laughs, reaching out to hold Terrance's hand, feeling the fabled sparks travel through his body.

"Okay, I like that way of thinking"

Terrance looks at Conner and raises his finger to indicate for him to turn around. Conner obliges and Terrance moves forward, kissing Levi softly on the lips.

"I am sure we will be perfect"

Levi answers him with a more passionate kiss.

"Anything can be perfect if you want it bad enough"

"Do you want this? You are not disappointed?"

"I do want this. I am not disappointed in the slightest"

Terrance smiles and nods before standing and rushing around the apartment to pack his bag. Terrance emerges at the bottom of the building where Levi and Connor are waiting. He is dressed cleanly; a black shirt with khaki pants and black canvas shoes. "Do I look good enough to meet the family?"

Levi laughs, placing a kiss on Terrance's forehead, but appreciating the fact that his mate understands the meaning of his family. "You look amazing"

Connor watches from the sidelines, he smiles lightly as he looks at the ground. Isn't that how a real mate bond is meant to be? His imagination runs wild to what it would have been like if Leilani was his mate, if he met her at the club that night and then wouldn't this all be different?

But he is sure that what they have can be developed into something more. Chosen mates are not any less, especially when they both go in knowing their real mates. There are no unknowns, there is not any ever looming threat.

Connor never thought of choosing a mate when he was young, just wanting what his parents had, but everything changed when he met Leilani. He feels more excited about the prospect of choosing a mate than not, he will be making a decision about what is best for him and not following a predestined route.

Suddenly, Connor can't wait to get back to the stormy pack. After his sleep deprived, unmotivated, weird morning turned into a dream. He really has not had nearly enough time alone with the girl that has been playing on his thoughts. Now that she's finally here, how can he not be with her? How can he stand watching another loving couple kiss and touch when there is actually someone waiting for him back in his own pack?

When he started off the morning wondering how he was going to get through the day, the turn of events has left him dumbfounded but excited about the prospects of the future, which is something that has been lacking in his life. Connor gets into the car and honks the horn to get the lovers attention. Connor drives the moment they are seated.

"You are in a hurry Connor"

"I have a beauty sitting in my own pack waiting for me and I barely got a chance to be with her yet"

Terrance watches Connor with interest. He has not seen Connor have that spark of life since his family died.

"So you really randomly met the mate of your own mates, chosen mates mate on a random night out of town when both sides only went out for one night?"

"I don't know if that just uncomplicated a complicated situation or it is making it more tangled, but yes"

"Does that sound a little too coincidental to you?"

"What do you mean Terrance?"

"Nothing, it is just interesting"

"You think the goddess has something to do with this?"

"I don't know"

"She is hardly going to push together two that are fated to another couple, isn't that a little sick?"

"But maybe Gabriel and Maggie need punishment and if this was the first time you met and Leilani walked into your office and tried to seduce you, you would have thrown her out the window" Levi raises his eyebrows.

"Harsh"

Terrance nods looking at his mate and ignoring his friend, ready to dish all the dirt.

"He has done it before"

Levi scoffs at the thought.

"You wouldn't have had much luck trying that on Lani"

"I know, she saw it was me and tried to beat me up"

Terrance bends in half from laughing so hard, clutching his stomach and his words come out in pieces. Levi just watches Terrance in amusement.

"You left out that part, I am really going to like Leilani"

They pull up at the pack house and the three exit the vehicle. Leilani is standing out the front and Terrance approaches her excitedly and hugs her. Leilani raises her eyebrows but returns the hug, peering out around Terrance's body to Connor. "I didn't realize that you were bringing him back with you"

Connor rubs his neck awkwardly, cursing his friend who can't ever just do something the normal way. Couldn't he just stand back and wait for introductions?

"The circumstances changed?"

"Changed?"

Levi steps forward.

"Lani, Terrance is my mate"

Leilani looks at Levi, her eyes sparkling with excitement.

"Really?"

Levi shows a proud smile, his pearly white teeth glinting under the afternoon sun.

"Yep"

Leilani's awkward hug closes up to the warmest of hugs.

"Welcome to the family Terrance"

Connor stands back and watches the interaction. Leilani is everything he didn't even know that he wanted in a Luna. After the introductions are done, Terrance gets settled in a guest room and the group head to the half moon pack. Connor and Leilani sit side by side at the end of the bed with an awkward atmosphere hanging in the air. Leilani looks at Connor and can't help but laugh.

"When you were scheduling it on your phone I didn't think much about it, but actually waiting for an exact moment to have s*x is kinda weird"

Connor would call it more torturous, images of the night they shared flash through his mind and he has to adjust himself slightly.

"It is a little strange"

"It is the exact opposite of our last time together"

"That was intense"

"This kind of takes the passion out of it, doesn't it?"

Connor in no way wants to start their relationship by having some weird awkward s*x that is more like a task than what it should be.

"How about we play a game?"

"What game?"

"Strip poker?"

Leilani laughs as Connor stands and goes to one of his drawers.

"Great idea, but I have no idea how to play poker"

"Umm I have UNO"

"Strip UNO?"

Connor turns back to her holding the deck of cards in his hands and shrugging his shoulders.

"Why not?"

Connor keeps a set of the most used games in his room, as the other pack members always lose things. If he plays a game, he wants the whole set, otherwise he can't stand it.

Connor grabs a bottle of vodka and two glasses and they set up on the bed a full glass of the hard liquor and a hand full of cards.

Leilani screams in frustration, her small hand can barely hold anymore cards and Connor has just slapped down another Draw 4. "Well, you can either Draw 4 or take off those underwear"

Leilani places her cards down as her nearly n**e body unfurls on the bed. Connor is still sitting smugly fully clothed.

"You are cheating"

"No, you are just the worst player to have ever lived. If I didn't know any better I would think you were trying to t*****e me with that body"

Leilani grabs the bottle of vodka by the neck and connecting the opening to her mouth, throwing her head back, her white blonde hair cascading down her back. That was the first piece Connor got rid of, the hairband. After that, it just spiraled down hill. Connor's hands grip the sheets as he aches to touch that body that is just begging for him.

Leilani's hands grip the sides of her extremely ordinary underwear, but the way that Connor's predatory gaze is locked onto her, she would think that it is the s*xiest set of lingerie in the world.

"Why is this torturous?"

Leilani's hips sway in rhythmic time as the piece of black material slowly lowers, Connor's eyes are black as his eyes train on the small tan line that the material lowering reveals. Her movement is so hypnotic that he thinks he is about to lose his mind. "Babe, the things I want to do to that fine body of yours"

Leilani takes off the material and throws it at his face, Connor grabs the thrown garment, taking a deep breath in before discarding it. Leilani leans one hip to the side, her blonde hair falling gracefully around her body, her pinky finger in her mouth as she looks at him, she has an insanely innocent look that carries such a deadly seduction.

Her bold look and her confidence in her naked body adds to her charm.

"And what exactly would you do to me?"

Connor casts his cards on the bed and stands, grabbing the potion off the bedside table, tipping it back and swallowing it down. He grabs the bottle of vodka off the bed, finishing off the contents before putting the empty bottle on the table, his fingers move up as he slowly starts to undo the buttons of his shirt one by one.

Leilani stares at him, her eyes focused on the tanned skin and rippling muscles that are slowly revealed with each slight pop of a button.

"First I want to..."

'Leilani, you are free to conduct the test'

Connor's eyes that were focused on Leilani's, see her eyes glaze from the link, he pauses all movement.

"Are we good?"

Leilani's eyes move from Connor's breath-taking chest up to his pitch-black eyes, hers are equally black as they stare at each other, poised for the attack.

"We are good" "Thank f*ck"

Leilani and Connor launch at each other, the awkward feeling a thing of the past. The two are ravenous beasts as they meet in the middle, a tangle of limbs, sounds and passion so thick that it fills the air with its heated hazy presence. Cards scatter and Connor's clothes become a shredded mess.