Hushed Willows seventeen

sorry for the delay!  my crazy busy-ness is over for a while (:

A sharp intake of breath was her first response to his deep voice.  Buchanan materalized from the shadows and she could only look at him, her bright green eyes wide with strange emotion, as she stood incredibly still.  Her brain was a fog of complicated emotions - thankfully none of them being anger - and she truly had no idea how to reconcile what she was feeling with how she should be acting.  The disconnect between her mind and her heart was more staggering how than it had ever been.  Swallowing hard, she managed but one word: Buchanan.

He asked what'd happened and then, in a much softer voice, asked her if she was alright.  The delicate way he'd asked her coupled with the look on his face was what broke the short Beta of her tense posture and a second later she rushed forward to bury her face in the dark fur of his chest.  She inhaled, taking his comforting scent in as much as she could before slowly exhaling through her nose into his warm skin.  Eyes closed, Banner took this opportunity to rub her nose up along his throat before she turned her head and rubbed her crown back down to his chest.  Every time she was around him her heartbeat felt stronger, her body was enveloped in warmth, and she felt so loved.  It was an addicting feeling and something she needed more than ever right now.

Ah, but she couldn't spend too much time showering her mate with affection.  Well, she could, but he'd asked questions and the lady Marauder knew she'd need to answer them.  She sighed softly before she explained in her low voice.  I.. Stark was gone for a couple of days.  He returned with.. with Octavia.  The former Alpha female.  Tambourine's mother.  They were.. involved.. she began, not knowing how exactly to classify the relationship between her brother and Octavia.  They'd never been an official mated pair, but no one could deny that there had been strong feelings between them.  She's dead.  Her voice was hollow.  Of the emotions whirling through her, only a fraction were felt for the former Alpha.  Most of what Banner experienced now was for Stark, which made everything all the more painful becuase she knew this was not something she could fix for her brother.