Truth be Told

Leaping from the truck as our mate leads us to the room we will be occupying for tonight. I head straight for the bathroom to shift back, and I quickly take a shower because I'm sure the kids don't need to see me all blooded. Wrapping the towel around my waist, I stood in from the mirror. Xander, on the other hand, was ecstatic and delighted to be our mate present. Just the thought that she was right beyond this door made my dick throb with excitement. Something was bugging me, though why she smelled like our first mate. Something just is not adding up, and I need to get to the bottom of it. Xander is doing backflips about his mate. My mate, on the other hand, is still sceptical, like she doesn't know anything about mate bond or she doesn't feel it. Exiting the bathroom in just a flimsy towel, our eyes connected for just a nanosecond and for just that second, my heart stopped. Her eyes roamed my body slowly, her mouth hung low, making the o shape, taking a subtle inhale I could scent her arousal and I had it down the lock and committed to memory. The human comment shook me for a tiny spell, but my mates stared bored into me, it was like she was trying to see beyond my soul. She got up and circled me twice, sizing me up, which intrigued and aroused me., but since I only had this flimsy cloth on and there was children present, I had to try and contain my arousal, which Xander was making really hard to do. Fuck I wanted her. Each time she got to my back, she took a deep inhale of me. She murmurs to her wolf again, and I swear that just brings the tick to my heart.

"I can scent your arousal, please control yourself. There are children in the room,'' I told her out the corner of my mouth. She stopped mid-stride+

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and stared up at me—halting her further assessment.

"SO. Little mate, I have questions, and you have answers?"

"I do, do I?" taking a seat on the bed whilst I sat uncomfortably in the armchair.

"First things first, my name is Zane, as you already know, what is my little mate's name.

"Star, Star Jenkins, the little one curled up next to her brother is Goddess, Princess Goddess, the pup's name is Asher, and that is Nina. She is human".

"I'll get to that in a moment because I definitely need more information, but first, tell me, why do you have an Alpha after you?"

"Because they were the kids' biological parents Alpha or some dukkie like that, but they're all dead, and I'm now their guardian. Got a problem with that?"

"So why didn't your pack help you?"

"This is my pack. They are my pact. We may be small, but they are all I have, and I will kill anyone who tries to come between us. They want Asher for their fighting ring Over My Dead Rotten Corpse. Even then, I would find my way back, and Froogle rocks some nice things up" my eyebrow shot up at her colourful statement.

"Hold up, this is your pack, and you're a lone wolf" I take a deep inhale. She doesn't smell like a rogue. Then again, nothing about my little mate seems normal.

"Not alone anymore, I have them, and they have me. Hence my pact" I smiled at that. But I suspect she doesn't smell like a rogue because of her witch side, but still something else of, I couldn't put my finger on it. I needed more information.

"And now me," I pointed out.

"Tell me why do, you scent send my wolf into a frenzy."

'It's because your mates, and that means until you mark each other or reject each other, your wolves are going to ride you until you ride him, quite frankly I would ride him because seriously, you couldn't do worse and when's the last time you got some, besides he's hot as hell, Again you could do worse. I say ride the wolf, maybe then…

"Shut it and go to sleep. My sex life is not on topic here."

"I'm just saying"

The banter between these two is, at best, and alarming. How does the human know about mating? I caught her smile before she turned on the bed and cuddled next to the wolf pup and little girl. Something about the little girl squeezed my heartstrings. When she spoke to Xander whilst I was in my wolf form without being part of the pack was a shock to my system. I know she's gotta be some sort of sear and a powerful one because her abilities are manifesting on another level for her age. That's something to think about later.

"How do you not know about mating?" she cocked her head to the side like I ask a ridiculous question in the world.

"Simple mother died in childbirth, and well daddy dearest is some big shot alpha-hole who left her. So I was left to be raised by humans, that's how" my eyebrows straight up in shock and fuck that must have been hard and surprising, to say the least.

"Who's the bigshot Alphahole?" I quizzed, needing to know whose ass I needed to kick and rip into for abandoning my mate. Who does that? How could someone just leave their pup like that and to humans. That in itself is a violation of our most sacred laws. No human must know of our kind and must be put to death unless mated to one of our kind, and that is very rare in our world.

"Some Alpha of a pack called Bloodmoon, that's where we're heading, it's time he took responsibility for all those years and gave us sanctuary." again, my eyebrow shot up, and my head swelled a little. That the goddess I was sitting down, because I may have just dropped on my ass with that one.

"Your Alpha Derricks daughter?" I managed to choke out

"Yeah! Why? Don't tell me he some sort of evil alpha-hole," she whispered the last part of her question.

"He's one of the most powerful. He's taken over so many packs in the north, east and west in the last 20 years its ridiculous.

"Oh, so you know him? Tell me about him?" she asked starry-eyed.

We talked for the whole night. I told her everything I knew about her father and his pact and a little about my pack and our world, and there so much she wasn't aware of, I felt like I was tutoring a toddler. For each story, she had a million questions. I was happy to provide her with the information as best as I could—anything to be near her. I never want to leave her side ever.

'Time for bed, my little wolf' I ushered her to bed. "I will tell you more in the morning. Right now I need you to get some rest, we have a long day ahead of tomorrow, and we also need to ditch the truck. I have someone come pick it up for you," I tell her, helping her to her feet. We came face to face, I couldn't help myself. I reach out and caress her cheeks with the back of my hand, then running my thumb across her full blushed pink lips. Her breath caught in her throat as she inhaled and exhaled at my touch. I looked into her twin colour eyes, I was mesmerized by those eyes. With a They were the colour of dreams, her right eye was grey with a tint of blue and the left is a browning coppery gold colour like it just couldn't make up its mind. It was weird and beautiful.

"Hmmmmm"

"You have the most beautiful eyes"

"I do?" My eyes are weird. I'm a freak of both nature." she says with a wary look. Who the hell told her that. She is the most beautiful woman I've ever seen. How can they look at her and not see the beauty that looks up at me?

"Whoever told you or made you feel that, are a bunch of idiots" I whisper.

"Now go to bed, I'll keep watch," I tell her to bring my lips closer to her ear, so my breath graces her skin just above the point of where my mark will one day be.

Once she's all tucked in bed. I stood for a beat and admired my mate. With the cadence of her light breathing as she falls asleep, she lets out loud yarn, if I never saw her in wolf form earlier today I would have thought I was mated to a bear. I chuckled as she snuggled up closer to her pups and human. The sight of the vulnerable and peaceful, and right there and then I avoided protecting them with everything in me down to my last breath. I shift and take up my spot on the ground to watch over my new mate, my children, my pack.