Dont let me feel! - Chapter Nine

Caoimhe POV:

The air felt crisp as I pressed my bare feet into the ground, the surface from beneath me felt aged and cold with no signs of life for miles. The bleak landscape was the only thing that surrounded us. The only signs of life were our shallow breaths that decorated the dense air, the very air that threatened to suffocate me. My eyes shifted from Odin to Ure as the two seemed to be staring each other down as if they were exchanging silent and angry words, each word causing the other to grow increasingly frustrated with the other.

My hands slowly roamed up my arms as I felt the goosebumps that formed from my touch, the cold nipped at the back of my throat as my hair remained parted and cascaded over my shoulders. My olive skin felt cold and lifeless as my fingertips roamed my forearms like a map, I had lived with it my entire life and yet it was only now I was aware of its existence.

I should feel cold and yet I don’t, I thought to myself as I watched my chilled breath dissipate into the air before me.

“Shouldn’t we get her inside instead of arguing out here?” Ure asked after a moment as his eyes wandered from his Alpha to my naked body.

I wasn’t sure how I felt about another man eyeing me as I stood before him in all that I had to offer and yet I couldn’t help but feel intrigued as Ure looked me over with an approving smirk. I glanced around and finally noticed the small cottage that resided just behind Ure, a trail of smoke was coming from a small brick chimney that hid just to the back of the house with bay windows adorning the ancient wood that made up the siding.

I shivered slightly as there was a hint of life about the place, I could sense the laughter that had once soaked through its walls as wolves huddled by the open fire. Odin scooped me into his arms once more the moment he sensed my shiver and nodded at Ure as they headed for the red faded front door with its paint peeling off revealing the oak that resided underneath. I turned into Odin and desperately wrapped my arms tightly around his neck as he reached for the doorknob and slowly turned it.

My body was screaming from an unavoidable pain as I clung to him, the warmth of his body seeped into my very bones as the heat made my heart race. I wanted to remain out in the cold where the hint of death clung to the air like smoke in the sky, I wanted to connect with the barren land and sense the dead as I knew I could. I wanted to put up a fight and demand that the man who set my body ablaze with emotions and physical attraction to release me and allow the cold and dead world to swallow me whole.

I didn’t want to feel the warmth that I knew that small cottage might bring me, I didn’t want to be alive or to feel things for others like I knew I would if they let me in.

If they let me in, I thought as Odin opened the door as he held me against his body with one hand.

My eyes widened as the door was pushed open revealing the very thing that I had feared the most.

“Odin!” A young girl shouted excitedly as she climbed over the back of an old sofa.

Her leg became stuck for a moment as she lost her balance causing her to fall to the ground on the backside of the couch, she groaned from the pain as her hand shot up to her thick sandy blonde curls and held her head from the pain. She glanced up after a moment and curled her legs under her as she took in the scene that now stood before her. Her emerald green eyes lit up with excitement the moment they landed on me, the moment she took in the presence of a new person she shot up on her feet and bounced over to us with her thick curls framing her heart-shaped face.

“We have a guest?!” She asked excitedly as she gripped Odin’s pant leg and tugged on it.

She couldn’t have been older than ten years old, with an adorable face decorated with freckles that spread from her ivory cheeks and down along her neck and shoulders. She had a lively spirit that seemed to be contagious as the moment her big eyes caught Odin’s and Ure’s a big smile spread to their lips.

“Did you miss us I'rie?” Ure asked with a chuckle as he bent over and gathered the young girl within his arms.

“Of course, I did!” The young girl named I'rie stated as she desperately hugged Ure as if she hadn’t seen him for years.

I released my hold slightly upon Odin's neck as I glanced at the two with curiosity, there was so much openly expressed love between the two, the unfamiliar emotions surprised me.

“Their siblings,” Odin murmured in my ear as his hot breath melted my very core.

Siblings? I thought to myself as I shivered from Odin’s breath.

Do I have any siblings? I thought as I allowed my mind to wander and explore the very crevices of my mind.

No, I knew there was no other living being on this earth that shared my blood as those two did, none that would look at me like the child I'rie looked at her older brother. The world was vast, and I could sense the very life that Gliese possessed but the one thing I knew for sure was that I was alone on this earth. Odin held me closer to him as if sensing my thoughts. I wasn’t sure why I had a mate or what I was supposed to do with him as any knowledge I once had of this world I now found myself in soon fled from my mind the moment Odin pulled me from the ocean.