My Hunted Mate

Chapter Thirty Two

Corinna

Mine and Kai's moans echo through the room as we reach our climax together, screwing my glowing

eyes shut, I lean into him to bite down on his neck and he does the same to me.

Panting I roll off of Kai's body, snuggling into him when I'm next to him on the bed. We lay together in

silence for a few moments before it's rudely interrupted by Dahlia crashing into the room, she squeals

immediately shielding her eyes when they fall upon her brother and I in bed together, very exposed due

to the blanket being tangled in our legs.

Kai grabs the blanket in a flash, covering both of our bare bodies. " What do you want Dahlia? "

" I- I.. Oh my, I'm officially scarred for life. I am now broken. I- " She starts to ramble, her hand still

pressed over her eyes.

" Dahlia. " I cut her off. " We're covered now, you can look and say what you came in here to say. "

" I just heard that you had not been well and wanted to check on you, Lila's been worried too. " She

confesses, slowly removing her hand from her face.

Sending her a soft mine, I reply. " I'm fine now, thank you. How have things been with Lila? "

" Better, I told her everything a few days ago, as you know. She's still not completely comfortable here,

but she's much less wary toward me. It's a slow process. " She updates us.

" Just be patient with her, it'll be worth it- " my words are cut off my Phoenix crashing into the room.

Kai out of instinct wraps his arms around my body under the covers and pulls me closer to him, dipping

his head down to plant a kiss on the freshly reopened mark on my neck. " Hey guys - whoa, are we

interrupting something? " Phoenix wiggles his eyebrows.

" Phoenix, you're one of the oldest creatures on the earth and yet still the most immature. " Dahlia tuts.

I snort loudly, gaining two questioning looks from them. " I mean Dahlia you kind of had a minor melt

down when you came in here. "

" I did not! " She screeches.

" You did Dahlia, now Phoenix what's going on? " Kai interrupts, getting straight to the point.

" We have a Clan meeting in fifteen. " Phoenix announces.

I turn to Kai. " Clan meeting? "

He nods. " Everyone meets to bring up any issues they've been having, any threats to the clan,

sometimes if someone has found their beloved from another clan they may want to invite them into this

clan or move to a new clan, that's a process that needs to be approved by both clan leaders. There's a

lot of reasons for them, but we try to have them at least once a month, sometimes more. "

" You haven't had one since I've been here though and it's been well over a month. " I point out,

confused.

" Yes, uh, I may have been slacking a little lately. " He blushes.

" More like a lot. " Phoenix scoffs, reminding me that he and Dahlia are both still in the room listening in

on our conversation.

" Well we'll have one every week this month to make sure everyone is heard and to pick up the slack. "

I demand, holding the covers to me closely as I sit up.

" we? " Kai questions.

" Yeah, I want to be there. You're the clan leader and I am your mate, surely I have a right to help you. "

I tell him.

" Actually.. Usually a clan leader, leads alone. " Kai shifts awkwardly at Phoenix's words. Copyright Nôv/el/Dra/ma.Org.

" Why? " I question.

" Well.. Women are seen to be more of a liability when it comes to leading. " He informs, making my

mate tense beside me.

" What?! " I gape. " That makes absolutely no sense. "

" It's just seen that a woman will be too emotional and unable to make certain choices because of that.

" Phoenix continues to talk.

My eyes flick to Dahlia who looks just as unimpressed as I do. " Is this shit for real? "

" Unfortunately. " She grumbles.

" Wait but Maria was a clan leader? " I argue.

" She only became leader after her brother's death, even then she had to prove herself to earn the

loyalty of her clan. " Dahlia explains with a deep scowl.

" Nope! I'm not having it! " I shake my head, throwing myself off of the bed before Kai can pull me back.

Marching past the two siblings in the doorway with my head high, I go into my room, grabbing a few

articles of clothing from the closet. Pulling a pair of lace black underwear up my legs, I then clasp the

matching bra around my chest. I grumble to myself as I cover my legs with grey acid wash skinny jeans

with slits in the knees, tossing a loose white tank top over my head.

When Kai enters the room I'm sitting on the edge of my bed jamming my sock covered feet into a pair

of black leather lace up boots. " You know it's not my choice about not having beloveds lead side by

side. "

" Well it's not like you've really done anything about it. " I huff, picking myself off the bed and storming

into the bathroom, where I pick up my toothbrush and cover the bristles with paste.

Kai leans against the doorframe watching me. " I'm happy to have you at that meeting Cori, as my

equal. "

I don't respond until I finish brushing my teeth. " And what about leaders are supposed to lead alone? "

I ask him as I coat my lashes in mascara and my lips in balm.

" That doesn't apply to us. " He sighs, moving closer to me as I run my fingers through my tangles

waves.

He wraps his arms around me, turning me to him. When my eyes meet his a pang of guilt waves

through me as I realise I'm being moody with him. " I'm sorry. " I apologise. " I just.. What if your clan

don't agree with us leading together? "

" Trust me, I think very few of them will have a problem with having a strong, beautiful and powerful

hybrid standing beside their leader as his equal. If anyone does.. We'll deal with that if it comes to it. "

He reassures me, placing a kiss to my forehead. " You ready? "

I nod, mumbling out a yes as he grabs my hand and begins to lead me through the house until we

reach the bottom floor, which I've never been to before. The room that we enter is a huge beige stone

room with fluorescent lighting and at least a thousand black chairs on one end of the room but only one

sitting by itself on the other.

The room just looks like a giant underground auditorium.

Kai leaves me standing alone while he walks over to what looks like a small storage room, seconds

later he's carrying another chair over to where his sits and places it down beside it.

" Now take your seat my darling. " He tells me, settling into one of the chairs as countless amounts of

vampires begin filing into the room.