The Unclaimed Human Luna
Chapter 41

El POV

El couldn’t be this close to him, knew what would happen, she would end up bloody naked, is what. She felt her heart race as he told her “I do want to.” His tone implied he was not talking about walking her back to the apartment complex. No, he was definitely talking about having his way with her. She couldn’t stay there with him even one more minute or she might find herself naked up against this very fallen tree he had her caged into.

She ducked under his arm and ran away from him, it was all she could think of to do. She turned and looked back at him when he told her not to run, that he liked to chase his prey. She was his prey, and she knew it the minute she saw him smile right at her and her heart hammered inside her chest as she saw him roll his shoulders and stretch out, just knew he was readying to run after her.

Crap, he was actually going to chase her, and she knew it. ‘I’m so screwed,’ she thought, and ran down the path heading back to the apartment building, was not wearing the right shoes for running from him, only had her beach sandals on. Though even she knew she was never going to make it there, even if she was wearing running shoes, she was not a runner. He, on the other hand, ran all the time, from what she could tell. He was always out here in the woods running in just those shorts and nothing else.

It had also taken her an hour or so to just walk out there, to where she was now, and she was not going to be able to outrun him. He was taller and had longer legs, and enjoyed running from what she’d seen. She might, if she was lucky, make ten minutes of running on and off, if that, before she was going to be stumbling around exhausted and needing to just lay down and rest.

She saw him appear on the path in front of her, just a few meters ahead of her, she skidded to a stop at his smirk, and stood standing there staring at him. He was all tense and ready to go again, she realised after about 30 seconds of neither of them moving while she tried to catch her breath.

“Run Eliza, it’s fun for me to chase you.” he told her, and she could hear the amusement in his voice, he actually wanted her to run, she realised.

She shook her head ‘no’ at him, didn’t think it was a good idea, she was going to wind up naked at some point, and she knew it. Saw him lunge at her and shrieked and ran into the woods, right off the path altogether and heard him laugh. He was actually having a good time, chasing her.

She was cut off by him many times over the next 30 minutes or so. He never once touched her, just shot out of nowhere and smiled right at her. Even when she was exhausted, and reached out to lean on a tree, he didn’t stop to let her catch her breath, launched himself right at her both his hands out as if to grab her. He was still smiling at her every time, he would just appear in front of her, she never saw him run past her. Had no idea where he was until he was suddenly just there before her.

When she looked behind her, he wasn’t there, looked all around her and couldn’t see him, heard him laugh at times, and then he was just gone, only to be right in front of her a few seconds later. She couldn’t keep track of him out there in the woods, even when he was laughing and she turned to look, didn’t see him. He was too bloody fast.

He had to know every inch of this place to be able to do that, she thought to herself, was never going to be able to get away from him. “Conner stop.” She gasped at him finally, was doubled over and really struggling to breath, had a massive stitch in her side, her lungs were burning, and her chest was heaving, even her throat was burning as she tried to suck desperately needed air into her lungs.

“Awe you can’t run anymore.” He chuckled “We’ll work on that.”

El let herself sag down to the ground, wasn’t even on a path anymore, just somewhere out in the middle of the woods, who the hell knew where. “You’re crazy.” She gasped “why would you want to chase me?”

She saw him sink down on the ground next to her, he was still smiling, he wasn’t even breathing hard, not even puffed at all, she realised. “I like to run, El, and chasing you. Well, that’s just fun for me.” He smiled right at her, those blue eyes of his right on hers, he looked really happy right this minute, she realized, as he smiled at her, truly happy.

“For you.” She muttered and let herself finally just flop all the way down to the ground, to really catch her breath. “Do you even know where we are?” she muttered a minute later.

“Of course, I do.” He chuckled as he looked around the area “I know every inch of these woods, I grew up here. We’re not lost, just…” saw him turn and look right at her “Well away from everyone else.” He drawled softly, practically purred those words at her as his blue eyes turned right on her.

“No.” she shot at him, understood his meaning, but it was too late, found herself pinned underneath him, stared right up at him as he knelt above her “It’s been a while El, don’t you want to? I want to.” His voice was all deep and husky.

Shook her head up at him, didn’t trust herself to speak at all. Saw him smile and felt his fingers trail softly down her neck, in a gentle caress, as his eyes moved to her mouth, “Are you sure El?” he murmured, “I could spend hours with you.” found his mouth right on her ear “pleasure you all evening, do everything you want, you’d only have to ask, I would do it.”

Shook her head ‘no.’ once more. Hear him chuckle softly in her ear, “I don’t believe you, your heart is racing.” Those blue eyes of his looked right down at her and then his mouth touched hers softly and a low growl came from him as his body leaned down to hers. Then he was just up off the ground, a heavy sigh came from him “you’re right.” He said after a minute of silence “Come on up, before I get carried away.”

He helped her up and turned her around and walked her through the woods until they came to a path. “Follow that path, it will take you home. I need a minute to calm down.” He told her.

Her eyes moved to him, she bit her l*p as she tried not to think about looking down to see if she was right about what he meant. Then just found his mouth on hers a second later and her whole body yanked up against his as his arms slid around her and held her to his body, gasped as his hard c**k met with her stomach, and he was kissing her slowly, put her away from him a moment later, “Go El before I change my mind and seduce you.” then he was gone himself walking the other way, away from her.

She turned and headed off down the path. The man was completely crazy, it seemed, chased her all over the place and she knew he had been going to seduce her, would have been able to, easily so at that. She had no energy to fight him off, wasn’t likely to either, likely to just let him have all of her for as long as he wanted. It did seem that was how it always went.

El got back to the apartment complex and headed for her room to shower. She didn’t know what to make of anything anymore, was so bloody confused about Conner nowadays it wasn’t funny. He was a bit different, smiled a lot at her now, but mostly he was still the same. She’d seen that he’d beat her back and was already in the foyer of the apartment building, hadn’t even so much as acknowledged her presence, didn’t even look at her. Was back to ignoring her once more. She didn’t understand him.

She showered and changed, ate dinner in her room, even though her mother requested that she come downstairs for a meal, just answered, “I’m tired, I’ll get an early night.” Her mother had then really tried to get her to come downstairs. Went so far as to come up and knock on her door and speak to her in person, she wasn’t alone either, Logan was with her.

She’d told them she was just tired, had been out hiking all afternoon and was just going to make something light to eat, watch a little TV and then crash out. They were both frowning at her like they were unhappy with her. She sighed “Why do we have to all eat together all the time? I have my own apartment for a reason, remember. If you want me to be around for family dinners, now that I have my own place, why don’t we just schedule a particular day of the week, like Sundays or something. Isn’t that what normal families would do once the children move out of the home?”

“You’re still here with us, El.” Her mother sighed.

“But I have got my own place, so not living with you. So, once a week dinners are fine with me.”

“Eliza, your mother and I would like you to spend time with us. Meals are a good way to catch up at the end of every day. Conner and the boys do their own thing, but we all eat dinner together every night.”

“That’s nice for you. I’m glad that you’re all so close. We’re not so close, Logan. I honestly don’t want to have dinner with you and your CEO’s every night. That is not my thing. I usually eat dinner while chatting to my friends back in California.”

“Please come down for dinner, El.”

“I’ve got plans for dinner. With Cordi and Collin. We’re all going to watch the same show and chat online about it. So no thank you.” she’d closed the door and prayed that they would just stay away.

It was weird the way they all ate dinner together, and every night? Didn’t these people want to just go home and get away from the boss? They already had to live here with him. Why did they have to eat with him every night as well?

Shook it off. Was not her problem, it was not something she was about to go and start doing, likely wasn’t actually welcome either. She was also actually a little on the tired side from Conner chasing her around in the woods.

She definitely knew that he didn’t want her around for dinner, just wanted to get into her bed was all, didn’t want anything else from her at all, just s*x and that was it. He was not interested in getting to know her in way, shape or form. Sighed heavily, she really did have to get out of this place and soon. Get away from him.

Go back to her normal life, where she could forget about that man and this place, what he’d said to her, the fake people here inside this place. She would get away move to the other side of the world and immerse herself in her Italian side, steep herself in the culture over there and likely live there for a long time.

Didn’t think that coming back here would be an option, not even for a visit, didn’t think if she managed to actually get out of this place and get away, coming back would go down so well at all. Likely to be locked up for real, nope she could live in Italy, had lots of family over there on her father’s side, knew her father had many cousins, though they were all back in Italy.

She’d met a few of them growing up, had gone over there for holidays with him and her grandma, they’d all been happy to meet her, it would be nice to catch up with them in person while she was over there, instead of chatting to them online all the time. Was going to do that, she would get their numbers and addresses from her grandma so she could surprise them when she got there. That would be nice. El knew her grandma wouldn’t hesitate to give them to her, would want to know she was safe over there.

Keep track of her, via the family, which she didn’t mind, because she would be allowed to do as she pleased, go where she wanted all the time, just have to check in with grandma weekly. She would have her freedom over there and she knew it. She couldn’t wait to get out of here and go and see her cousins, she had always loved being in Italy on holidays.

Not something her mother would do all the time, she often just went with her dad and grandma. Though her father’s family, they’d all liked her mother as well from what she could tell. But her mother was American born and bred, loved it here more than over there. Whereas El had really liked it over there, she felt connected to all of them for some reason. Her father had just smiled at her and told her it was just because she was their kin.