Isabella’s P.O.V.Tranquility.
That’s what I felt in his arms. I don’t know if it was just because I had a bad day or because he was my mate, but I felt at total peace. I usually feel that when I’m surrounded with my siblings, but this was the first time when I felt like this with someone else, within someone else’s arms. He has turned to be my kryptonite.
We are both enveloped in each other’s arms, when I hear the coffee machine beeping, suggesting that it’s ready. I loosen my hold on him and turn towards the machine to make everyone some coffee. As I open the cabinet to get the cups, I feel arms wrap around my waist. I know it’s Mason, so I don’t shove him away; instead I keep on doing my work. I get a tray and set the cups on it, moving towards the milk pot and pouring it in and getting the coffee to get it done. I feel Mason set his chin on my shoulder and slowly peck small kiss near my neck and asks, “Need some help?”. It’s really difficult to pour a hot liquid when you are feeling tingles in your body which travel down to a particular region that is dying for some attention.
Since I can’t push him away, thinking that it would be rude and also kind of because I don’t want him to leave me, so I pivot. I turn my head towards his face which is still settled on my shoulder and peck a small kiss on his cheek and whisper, “Would you call everyone to the dining table, the coffee is done and also because the food’s turning cold.” He nods and moves a little, I relax thinking that now I’ll be able to pour it without burning both of us. But I think I thought that too soon, as he just moves his head. With his hands still wrapped around me, he shouts right from the place; that is standing behind me, “Coffee is ready guys. Come on in” and settles back in his earlier position. I can’t help but chuckle at his needy behavior. When he hears me, he asks “What’s so funny babe?” while dropping kisses on my shoulder. I blush at his act of affection and just reply with, “You’re such a Lazy ass.”
“I feel offended” he says as he rests his forehead on my shoulder, to show that he is hurt by my statement but I know this is all an act; so I play along. “That was my intention babe” I say with a smirk. He moves his head to look at me, when he notices my smirk he asks mumbling “Is that sooooo?” I nod and reply, “Oh it is sooooo” the moment this leaves my mouth his arms move away from my waist and stop at my hips as he starts tickling me, suddenly I’m tackled to the ground due to all that laughing.
We are in our own happy bubble with me on the ground and Mason straddling me. Suddenly the air turns thick as he stops tickling me and leans down towards me. His face leaning in, his hand comes towards my face to remove the strand of hair from my face. He caresses my cheek with his thumb very delicately as my hand moves towards his face and rests on his cheek. I slowly move my hand towards his lips, brushing my finger against his lower lip and he leans further down, his eyes dropping on my lips and moving back to my eyes. He is almost above me, where our lips are brushing each other and we care hear each other’s hearts pounding in our chest cavity; when we hear a sound of a shutter from beside us.
We are brought back to the present world by the sound and turn to see where he sound came from. The moment we turn, we see three pairs of eyes staring at us. Matt has surprise written all over his face, Ryan has a small smile on his lips which is so slight that its almost invisible yet content clearly seen in his eyes and the third one being Rose who has a smirk slapped on her face and her phone out in front of her. Another shutter sound goes through the room and I look at Rose throwing daggers at her.
Did she just click our picture in such a position?
“What the fuck Rose?” I ask, still laying on the ground with Mason on top of me. Mason realizes our position and slowly gets up, while pulling me up with him. Once we are standing, he settles his hand on my waist, giving me a small smile. I smile back at him and turn towards others. My eyes land on Rose, who has a curious stare on me, her eyebrow is raised and a smirk on her lips.
She is never going to let me forget this.
Matt finds the silence awkward and clears his throat to say, “Mason. Come on. Let’s start stuffing ourselves. Rose and Bella will get the coffee.” Mason nods and releases his grip walking towards the guys as they all leave to settle at the dining table, leaving me to the vulture named ROSE. I turn hurriedly to avoid her stare and start pouring the coffee. As I turn around with the tray in my hand, Rose is standing right in front of me with her arms folded. I jump out of my bones when I see her standing so near and my hand slightly loosens on the tray. She is quick to hold it and pull it to her hands, leaving me empty handed as she asks, “So it looks like everything ended on a good note huh?” I shake my head at her question and say, “Its not over yet Rose. I still have to tell him about what happened yesterday and why I did what I did today.”
She keeps the try on the counter and turns to engulf me in her arms to say, “Don’t worry Bella. Everything’s going to be alright. He will love you no matter what.” I chuckle at her last statement and say, “He doesn’t love me Rosy. Don’t over analyze stuff.” She pulls back and stares at me as if I’m stupid and replies, “You’re seriously blind if you can’t see that. He looks at you the exact way Matt looks at me or your Dad looked at your Mom. It’s obvious Bella. He loves you.”
“No he doesn’t. We hardly met each other a few days back; it’s not even a week. I am not going to deny the fact that I like him, I really do and so does he. But love, that’s expecting too much too fast” I state as a matter of fact. She shakes her head and responds back with, “Fine, as you say.” I take the tray and walk towards the dining area to see the guys already scoffing the pasta down. I see that the pizza is still missing, so I turn towards Rose and tell her to get it. She leaves and I settle down between Mason and Ryan. Passing them their coffee cups, I see Rose enter with the pizza. She sits beside Matt and places the plat on the table.
Everyone is busy digging into their food, when I feel a hand being placed on my knee; slowly inching towards my thigh. I stop mid way with the spoon hanging in the air as I find it hard to focus. Looking at my stunned expression, Rose turns her attention towards me and gives a wicked smile.
She knows what’s going under the table.
I turn towards Mason and glare at him, at the same time pushing his hand away from my thigh. His grip tightens as well as a smirk forms on his lips. This ass of a human is going to get it from me. He slowly bends towards me and whispers, “I didn’t know that you were into spanking so much love.” I don’t understand his words when I hear him say through mind link, “I’ll let you have my ass once we are done with this princess. Don’t you worry.” Hearing him say this, my eyes widen to the extent of popping out of the sockets and Rose notices it as she says, “Careful Bella. They might just pop out of your eye sockets.” I get conscious about myself when I hear her say that, as all eyes turn towards me. Mason senses my tense posture and he slowly starts rubbing circles on my leg and whispers “Don’t let her get to you babe. You look totally fine.” I calm down a little and move my focus back towards the food.
Once everyone is done, I take the dishes and Ryan helps me with the same. As we are walking towards the kitchen, Ryan says, “I missed your cooking sis. The pasta was fantastic” and places a kiss on my head. He places the dishes in the sink and I turn to clean those when Rose walks in and pulls me away. I look at her and say, “What are you doing? I have to clean the dishes woman.”
“I’ll do that, you go and talk to your lover boy” comes her suggestion. I think about it for a second and she notices me in thought when she pushes me out of the kitchen and shouts at Ryan, “Ry get your ass in here and help me.” Ryan sighs loudly and says, “Why me? Ask Matt to help you.” She glares at him and he slowly comes walking towards us, when she shouts again, “Matt get in her. I need your help too.”
“Come on babe. You don’t really need my help. I’m not coming there” is Matt’s straight answer to Rose’s request, which kind of pisses her off I think, coz she shouts back, “If you don’t get here in 10 seconds, you don’t get to have sex for 10 days” she smirks when Matt’s eyes widen at her threat and she continues, “And you know how I am wi…” before she could even complete that statement Matt was walking past her to where Ryan was standing, already doing the dishes.
Mason was still sitting on the couch looking at all the scenes unfold, as Rose pushed me towards him and said out loud, “Go and talk to him. I’ll take care of everything else” she moves her eyes towards Mason and says, “Enjoy lover boy. She is all yours.” I hear Mason chuckle at my best friend’s comment and gets up from his seat to walk towards me. He meets me tight at the bottom of the staircase and asks, “So what do you want to do?”
“Talk” is my one word reply.
He smiles and says, “Sounds like a plan.” I give him a smile of my own when he asks again, “So where are we going?”
I know exactly what to do to make him pay for his act earlier. I move closer towards him, placing my hands on his shoulder. I grab his collars within my palms and pull him closer to my face. His breath gets caught and he gulps down when he sees me moving closer to his face. I inch my face closer to his, with hardly a centimeter space left between us. I can see excitement rising in his eyes with every passing second, his eyes shimmering with hope and then fogging with lust. I turn my face to move my lips towards his earlobe, flicking my tongue out to lick his button earring and grab it in between my teeth to give it a light tug. I hear his release a raspy breath followed by a guttered moan. When I’m satisfied that he is aroused enough for the moment: I ask,
“How about my room?”