Chapter Three

The growl hung heavy in the air after he spoke. Everything stilled as the two kept their gaze locked on each other. No one moved it was so silent that even the air held its breath.

Ulric didn't care. All of his attention was on the creature in front of him, committing every last bit of her to memory. It was a stalemate to see who would react first and Ulric was not going to let her go just yet. The heavy air seemed to finally get to his little nurse as her eyes closed long lashes brushing over round cheeks.

It only took a half-second for her eyes to open again but Ulric despised every millisecond he was not connected to his new mate.

He watched as those hypnotic blue gems turned back to him and she spoke in that smooth voice turned sultry. "What?"

"Mate," He growled out again, he liked saying it. He wanted to hear her say it too. Ulric had never been the serious type in everyday life. He firmly believed that on the battlefield and in matters of business he was a hardass, but everywhere else it was too boring not to have fun. Yet looking down at the women he found the word hard was a very good word to describe him.

"Who?" She asked again her eyes twitching almost as if she was going to scan the area but whatever was pulling him would not allow her to look away either.

"You"

Her heavy lashes lowered again cause Ulric to growl louder. If she was going to take away that treasure, he had to be connected to her some other way. He took a step closer to her feeling her warmth and scent surround him. There was so little space between them even a blade of grass would find it difficult to pass through.

"Who's?" She asked her voice falling another octave in confusion and the heat both of them were creating. She took a step back from his advance to keep looking up at his towering frame. That would not do.

His long uninjured arm quickly shot out wrapping its self around her waist pulling her soft form against his hard body. His growl almost turned to a purr finally feeling her body against him. She fit so well do perfectly even with her head tilted all the way back to look up at him, and his head tilted down to keep their gazes locked.

He lowered his head more so to take in the scent of her the pure feeling of her soft hair. Goddess, she smelt amazing, if it wasn't for the faint scent of bleach that still clung to her, Ulric was pretty sure he would already be kissing his new mate getting ready to plunge into her delectable body. With a single inhale of her scent, he exhaled his voice still graveled by his new possessive burn. "Mine."

Ulric felt his little nurse so stiff in his arms hearing his claim, her scent shifted. The Honey scent took over the vanilla and he was sure she was aroused and interested. But he was shocked as her warm scent turned burnt, a fear creeping over her.

Ulric's arm loosened around her as he stood back to look around to see what could be scaring his new Goddess. Only to have her slip from his hold. She shook her head swinging that long braid about.

"I have to go." She rushed before turning and running back to the clan house.

Ulric was stunned seeing her flee from him that he was frozen in place before her form disappeared from his view. This was not right. She should not have been running from him. Turning to the other two maids Ulric was about to bid his farewells.

Even in his rush to chance after his little nurse, he was not one to be rude. "Thank you for your help..." He cut his sentence short as he looked at the other two women eyeing him.

Their scent let him know that these two were Were's as well, and like most other female Were's when one of them saw him, they were more than willing to through themselves at him.

He would love to blame it on his dashing good looks, his thick silvery black hair, or his dazzling green-grey eyes. However, Ulric was very aware of his overly bushy eyebrows and his nose and chin that were just a bit too big. No, he knew perfectly well that is as the Stoneblack Alpha blood in his veins that drew their attention. Another reason he wanted to find his little human mate, she would put a stop to all this unwanted and undeserved attention.

Not wanting to stick around any longer Ulric turned on his heels and headed back to the clan house with a quick step following the trail of his woman.

He stopped at the large pool for a moment looking down at the cleaning bucket and a rag that reeked of bleach, cursing the chemical from concealing his mate from him. He looked up at the large kidney-shaped pool then cursed whoever told her to do so.

His mate should have been swimming in the large pool or relaxing in one of the three jacuzzies around it. Or even lounging in one of the lawn chairs in a bathing suit sunbathing, preferably topless. Ulric grinned at the image growling in appreciation at the thought. He made a note to send word to his clan house to make some modifications to his private porch before heading inside. Through the large red oak French doors.

He looked around the large common room ignoring the three ninety-eight-inch televisions. Scanning the black leather sofas and chairs circled around each screen. He only saw two groups of Were's at two of the televisions yelling at the screen as they played some sort of video game.

He scanned the two large staircases at either end of the room still not seeing her. Ulric scent the air then smiled when he caught her trail. He headed to one of the small doors in the room right by a large bar stocked with stupidly expensive drinks.

Ulric inwardly rolled his eyes Xavier and his clan were too useless with their time. He was all for a good time but this was just overboard. He was walking by the bar to the door when he was stopped. "Alpha Ulric? What do you need in the servant dorms?"

Ulric turned his head to see one of the mid-rank wolves behind the bar mixing a drink together to cocktail glasses in front of him. Ulric would have teased him about making frilly drinks but instead took offense to the word servant. "The what dorms?" He spat at the wolf.

The male behind the bar held up his hands for a moment in defeat. "Sorry, the 'staff'" He used his finger to quote the word before he went back to mixing his drink, "dorms."

Ulric held his temper knowing the male did not mean to insult Ulric's mate turning back to the door. "I need something." That was all he answered going back to his hunt.

"Well can one of us help you? We try not to go down there and bug the staff. They leave us alone pretty much unless we need them. So, we try to give them the same privacy." Ulric turned to the male behind the bar suddenly intrigued if this male might know more about his mate.

"So, all of you get along well with the people who work here?"

"Well enough," The male shrugged pouring out the shaker into the fruffy glasses. "They are mostly pretty good people."

"What about the one I saw just come through?" Ulric asked causally heading over to lean on the bar. Seeing his opportunity to learn more. "The human one."

The wolf looked over his shoulder at the door for a moment before nodding his head as if he remembered what Ulric was asking about. "Ann, Yeah Ann's good people. She came over with Doc O about three or so months ago, she some sort of assistant. We really only need the Doc so she offered to work with us while they were here. Going to miss her when she goes, though."

Ulric bit his tongue to stop from snapping the male's neck not liking that familiarity this male spoke about his mate. "Why is that?"

The male shrugged cutting some fruit making the drinks look even more ridiculous than before. "Like I said she is good people. She is one hell of a cook, and she is good with pups. It's a bit helpful when some people get wasted. Even better she has the patients of a saint and the bite that could kill. My mate loves her."

"You seemed to know a lot about her. I thought your guys try to stay separate from the staff." Ulric replied silently pleased to hear that his little nurse, Ann, was good with pups. He planned to make sure they had a lot.

"Like I said my mate loves her. They hang out all time." The wolf laughed putting his hand on the bar over the two overly complicated-looking drinks ready to go. "It's funny though how they met."

Ulric raised a single brow inviting the other male to continue the story, the male shook his head laughing before looking up to share. "Well, one of the trackers here is a real ass of a male. He has skills and all but he is pretty much a douche beyond that. He loves to boss people around.

"For some reason, Eric, the asshole, decided to really up the douche behavior when Ann came in. He started ordering her around and demanding she do some really unnecessary stuff. Like he refused to eat with everyone on Ann's night to cook, insisting she personally bring his food to his room. He complained about everything she did, his sheets weren't soft enough, she broke something, she didn't clean this well enough.

"We all thought she was just a pushover like most humans until one day he dropped a basket of old laundry in front of her and basically told her to do them. The idiot was going out on a mission the next day so he won't be back for like a week. My mate heard some banging and when she checked it out there was Ann. Using tongs and a hammer nailing the guy's unwashed underwear to his door. My mate asked what the hell was going on and apparently, Ann said. 'I put up with his dick behavior but I ain't touching anything that has actually touched his dick.'" The male took a moment to swallow down his laughter from the memory.

Ulric gave a small smirk of amusement, happy to see that the little nurse was not a pushover. Though he couldn't laugh as he was still thinking if he really wanted a wolf skin rug.... Trackers tend to have matted fur.

"Anyhow," The other male continued once he stopped laughing. "When Eric got back let just say he was not too pleased to see what Ann had done. A lot of other guys around here weren't letting him live it down either. Eric when out looking for Ann, found her out by the pool with my Mate and me.

"Eric started demanding and shouting that he wanted an explanation and that she better go wash his stuff right now, and a bunch of other crap. I kid you not, Ann looked right in his face and said 'I am sorry. But you were always saying the things I wash come out stiff and scratchy. You already have a stick up your ass, I didn't want you to get your panties in a twist as well.' Then just walked off. It was magic. I and my mate were laughing our asses off and Eric just kind of stood there confused while she walked off. Eric didn't bug her much after that."

Ulric did smile fully when the memory was finished very proud of his mate. The information just cementing his instincts demanding that she was his other half. The wolf behind the bar picked up his drinks holding them up to Ulric in a motion that he had a task. "I got to bring this back to the Missus, Like I said asked one of the idiots over there if they can help you."

With that, the wolf walked off. Ulric watched as he disappeared over up the stairs, then looked at the two separate groups shouting at their games. Shaking his head Ulric stood straight heading to the door to the staff dorms.

What he was looking for was not up here.