The Heart of The Pack

chapter 5

Amara pov

Alexander opened the door next to Ashley and I found myself instantly woken against her lap, when did she get back here. It was a super comfortable nap though and I have a feeling it has to do with Ashley and the bond. “Come on girls we have some time to kill before dinner, Ash let’s show Amara around the pack house.”

The massive house in front of me looks like a stone log lodge, its amazing. Walking in, I look up instantly, its a huge 5 story building but in the main Foyer, the roof goes all the way up to a skylight. A stair case wrapping around the walls leading to all the open floor balconies I can see. More wood and stone everywhere, it feels warm and homey. I like this place, its very them not sure how but it is. In the main Foyer there’s couches with a TV to one side, a big set of double doors on the other side that lead to a large dinning room and Ashley showed me the door after that leads to the kitchen then there’s another door in the kitchen leading back to the dinning room too. Directly across from the front door is a massive stair case that goes all the way up to the top floor, with smaller sets veering off each side at each floor. Behind the staircase on the same side as the kitchen, is a hallway leading to all the omega rooms. On the other side of the stairs there’s glass doors leading outside. The first floor is guest rooms and pack rooms for people who live here, as well as alexander and Ashley’s offices. The second floor is completely dedicated to guests, the third floor is high ranking apartments, like the beta and gamma family’s as well as the previous alpha family. Then the top floor is completely for the alpha and Luna only.

I kind of assume they would take me to one of the guest rooms but, they lead me to their floor giving me the code for the door. Their apartment is huge it has its own lounge and kitchen and dinning room. All in an open floor plan with massive windows spanning both sides, across the back, there’s another set of double doors that leads to their room and two doors on each side of their room, that lead to spare rooms. To one side of their room they point that its mine, I’m still shocked they wanted me up here. “how did you explain to your mum that she belongs up here with us” Ashley asks Alexander while making coffees and i to wonder what he said.

“Well she saw the two of you curled up asleep in the back.” Alexander laughs when he spots my incredibly pink face and Ashley grins at me. “I said the two of you are really close friends and should be together, ahaha your face is so red Amara.” He laughs out again.

I smack his shoulder “ok, you don’t need point it out,” he grabs me through my assault of his arm and holds me to his chest. It’s rumbling from laughter and all I can focus on is his amazing scent, I look up and he is a good foot and a half above me. Damn he is tall my forehead falls between is amazingly hard pecs, and suddenly my face is red again. He laughs more kissing my forehead again, when he did it earlier it felt so nice I almost melted to the floor.

“Coffees ready,” Alexander let’s me go to grab a cup from Ashley.

“mmm yum thanks babe,” he skulls it slamming it down on the counter. “Jayden said there’s an issue downstairs, how about you girls unpack Amaras stuff” he kisses Ashley passionately and I just stare at the ground. I’m not jealous I just kind of want that too, but we need to figure out where we all stand. He comes over and kisses my cheek this time, and Ashley brings me a mug taking my hand. She leads me to my room and it has a massive king size bed and side tables with a rug on the middle, two doors off one side that lead to a bathroom and wardrobe.

“I’m kind of surprised I’m not down in a guest room,” I say opening a bag in the wardrobe. Ashley helps me put my clothes away, and toiletries.

“Well if it was up to me and Zan you would be in our room, but we figured you needed space to get used to us.” I blush at her words and she squeezes my shoulder and keeps moving. Once we’re done, we take our mugs out to the kitchen and she washes them and pulls out a note pad. “damn Zan always runs off with the pens I use to make grocery lists” she huffs.

“here” I take the pen out of my hair feeling my waves fall down one side of my head, the waves cascading around me. She takes the pen but stares at me for a minute, before coming over holding my cheeks.

“you’re so freaking pretty,” she gazes into my eyes, and brushes her lips against mine. Wow they feel so soft, she pulls back looking at me again. “Zan was right your blush is so cute!” she squeals at me.

I pull back holding my cheeks, “ ahh noo it isn’t” I say flustered. She wraps her arms around me like Alexander did and laughs like him to. She’s only a little taller then me my face falling in the crook of her neck as I hug her back, she probably reaches under Alexander’s chin with her height.

“come on honey it’s, dinner time” she takes my hand abandoning my pen on the counter.

Ashley pov

The moment she took her hair down I couldn’t help it but get close to her, she’s so beautiful and I almost kissed her. I don’t want to push her to far, but her blush came out and when I pointed it out she squealed away from me. ‘Zan is right it’s adorable’ Ally says, I held her against me and it just felt right, especially the three of us being here together. Which is not something I ever felt was possible but she just fits so well. I hold her hand taking her down to dinner, no one should think anything of it. Friends hold hands right?

Zan is already sitting at our table and he grins and jumps up when he sees us coming pulling out the two free chairs next to him for us both. I sit next to Him and Amara sits beside me, Zans mum is eyeing us. She knows him so well, I’m not sure he can hide this from her for long. She looks away when the food is set down in front of us all, but I do notice Charlotte and Cameron eyeing Amara. Ugh not good, I’ll have to warn her of them, Amara even notices them and looks down. I manage to get away with squeezing her thigh under the table. She looks at me and gives me a small smile again, ahh those small victories. Other then those two staring at us, dinner went smoothly and after introductions Amara got on well with Zans mum.

After dinner I take Amara back to our apartment, while Zan finishes the work he was doing earlier. Making us some tea’s and setting us up on the couch to watch a movie, I manage to finish that food list we need for the apartment. And I give Amara back her pen, I found myself absent-mindedly placing it on my mouth every time I had to think. It completely reeks of her scent, in a good way and it’s now my favourite pen. “Who were those two people staring at me?” she asks, oops here we go. I pull her legs onto mine as we watch TV and now explain them.

“that’s Charlotte and Cameron, so Charlotte was Zans girlfriend before I got here and he is 30 and I’m 25. So he had to wait for me to come of age before he found me, and he isn’t a very patient man. Anyway so I got here and Charlotte gave me absolute hell, she wanted me gone. She even tried using Cameron, to pull me away from Zan, by getting him to try and hit on me.” Amara looks at my words shocked and then giggles, “what’s so funny?” after her fit of giggles she finally looks at me and says.

“well she’s mad she isn’t Alexander’s mate you are, imagine how pissed she’s going to be when she finds out. Alexander got two mates and still one isn’t her, ahaha” she rolls around laughing again and I can’t help but join in, it is funny.

“what are the two prettiest girls in the pack laughing about?” Zan asks walking in. Which only made our laughter worse. He joins us on the couch for the remainder of the movie and gives up interrogating us when we say, it’s girl stuff.