The Heart of The Pack

chapter 6

Amara pov

When we all say goodnight they both kiss my cheeks and hold each others hands wondering off to their room. I lay in bed feeling lonely without them, it doesn’t help that this room hardly smells of them. They must not come in here often, hoping for their calming scents I open my door wide. Laying in bed again I can feel their scents wafting in from around the apartment. It doesn’t help with the loneliness but it does calm me enough to sleep, in the morning I smell coffee and it wakes me instantly. I’m greeted with the great sight of Zan without a shirt placing two coffees on the nightstand.

‘mate is yummy , lets eat him” Arabella pokes her head up in my mind.

‘Behave’ I tell her.

“Why was your door open,” I can feel my eyes pop at his question and my face was already on its way to a blush at the sight of him. That question only made it worse, I buried myself under the blankets to hide.

“no reason” I call out, but I hear him laugh and the bed dips. I can feel him locate me under the blanket and suddenly in the darkness of the quilt, I see his face.

“tell me” he whispers, goddess that was sexy. But I shake my head and he grabs me tickling me, “come on baby tell me.”

“No... stopp .. ahaha Alexander... ahh” I’m trying to get away but he has a tight grip on my waist and won’t stop.

“Zan why are you torturing our mate,” we both hear Ashley’s stern voice and we freeze. He flicks the blanket of our heads and Ashley is standing there with her hands on her hips, judging him.

“She won’t tell me why she slept with the door open and when I asked she blushed, so now I really want to know.” He looks so guilty when talking to her, Ashley’s face softens and she looks at me.

“good morning honey, care to tell me why?” she tilts her head at me sweetly, but I still shake my head. “well in that case” she reaches under the end of the blanket and at first I’m confused, but then she grips my ankle and tickles my foot. Ahh that traitor now they’re both tickling me, ugh they ganged up on me that’s not fair.

“fine!” I yell and they both stop and wait for my answer, I bury my face and explained. How lonely I was and that it helped bring their scents in and the next thing I know I’m sandwiched between them in a tight hug. The front of me is squished up against Alexander, who is rubbing circles on my hip and Ashley is spooning me from behind, running her figures through my hair. Last night their scents calmed me enough to have a semi good sleep, but with both of them here like this it’s intoxicating and I can’t help but fall asleep between them. Arabella purrring in my mind.

I wake up to banging, and realise we had all fallen back to sleep. Ashley is on her back with her arm around me and my head on her chest, Alexander has curled himself at my back and I can feel his manhood against my bum. His arm draped over us both, resting on Ashley’s belly, just when I feel sleep taking me again, I hear the bang that woke me. The apartment door swung open, “Zan, Ash you missed breakfast.” Sh*t it’s zans mum, Ashley’s eyes pop open and she bolts for the door, telling me to wake Alexander.

I sit upright shaking him “Alexander wake up..... ugh come on ya big ball of muscle... damn your heavy... wake upp.” It took all the effort I had to peel him off me and shake him, but he drags me back down to him again, “mmm 5 more minutes baby.”

‘yes 5 more minutes, mate is sexy and half naked’ Arabella coos.

“Alexander, your mother is here!” I whisper yell and finally his eyes shoot open and he bolts from my bed, to my door.

“Zan what were you doing in there and shirtless.” His mum peaks around him and spots me still in bed, oh f*ck we’re screwed.

“I was just taking Amara a coffee, but we all ended up chatting and they got cold.” He shows her the three full mugs in his hands and she seems to relax a bit. “hmm ok, well I brought up breakfast,” she looks at me through the door “sweetie, perhaps you should go put some clothes on.” She shuts the door to my room and I only now notice my night gown had fallen off one shoulder almost exposing me. Ugh she probably hates me, I quickly get up and shower, opting for tight jeans and a big hoodie. I walk out to both Ashley and Alexander smiling at me, but Alexander’s mum looks very suss.

I sit at the table with them, and my two mates continue talking, while Alexander’s mum is quiet and eyes me wearily. “so mum, what’s your plans for today?” thank goddess, a distraction maybe she will stop looking at me like that.

“well darling, I’m going to be stretched thin today. I have to somehow arrange new merchants for our food deliveries, deal with the broken washers and try to figure out a better roster for the omegas. They are very overworked with they way it is now.” She pouts and sighs.

“Perhaps I could help, I know some good merchants and I could arrange a new roster for you. I did that stu....” Alexander’s mum interrupts me as I talk.

“no no, that is fine I’m quite capable you know.” She huffs at me, great she does hate me.

“I’m sorry I didn’t mean any disrespect, I’m sure you’re more then capable. I was just offering my help.” I look down feeling upset, she isn’t going to like me anytime soon.

“I think that’s a great idea Amara” Ashley says reassuringly and holding my hand on the table. “ You used to practically run the packhouse at your old pack didn’t you?” she squeezed my hand and I feel more relaxed. I nod to her and hope my eyes show how grateful I feel, “that’s settled then, Amara you handle the schedule and the merchants.” I squeeze her hand in return and she blushes, removing her hand, before Alexander’s mum looks to much into her kind gesture.

“Your old pack, are you intending to stay here long term are you?” Alexander’s mum looks serious.

“Yes hopefully, and as long as it’s ok with everyone.” I look to both Ashley and Alexander.

“Well in that case we should get you situated on one of the lower floors, in a more permanent room” she suddenly looks happy with herself, I think she wants me away from them.

“mum I told you, she is fine right here with us, she needs to stay up here.” Alexander left no room for argument by walking out heading to training. The rest of us stand to leave as well, though I’m not really sure where I’m going.

“Well I have paperwork to do as usual, Amara I’ll be in my office that I showed you yesterday. If you need anything please come see me and Mel could you please take Amara to the omega office in the kitchen. You’ll have to show her the current schedule and merchants, bye honey I’ll see you later.” She squeezes my arm and walks down the stairs.

“This way then, as I said yesterday my name is Melissa but just call me Mel, like everyone else. What was your position in your last pack?” she eyes me as we walk down the stairs.

“Well I took care of the packhouse and everyone in it, my parents are the alpha and Luna there. My mum was always swamped and so I kind of just helped out and looked after everyone. I made sure everyone was fed and filled in for ladies who went on maternity leave. There were a few times I would go to there homes and help them clean or look after their kids, as pregnancy is hard. I would take food baskets to our elderly, or take them to appointments, I even sometimes rubbed their feet. There was this one time I remember, one of the older ladies had fallen and couldn’t get up. She was worried no one would find her and I wasn’t due to go check on her till the next day. But I don’t know for some reason, I felt I had to go there and so I found her and we got her the help she needed.”

She turns to me shock all over her face, “Wow that is very amicable of you, I can see why you’d want to help out here, if this is what you’ve been doing until now. Look Amara you seem like a nice, sweet girl and it’s hard for me to not be fond of you, after everything you said. But I feel like there’s something here, that no one is telling me. I see the connection between you and my son, but Ashley is his luna. And you have to respect that, you have to give them the distance they deserve as mates. I don’t want you coming between them, Ashley is like a daughter to me.” I knew she had picked up on it, but she didn’t pick up on my connection with Ashley.

“Look you’re right there is something we haven’t told you, but that isn’t up to me, it’s up to Alexander and Ashley. I appreciate you looking out for them and worrying over me hurting Ashley, but I promise you I will do whatever it takes to make sure she is happy and Alexander too. I care for them both equally, I won’t come between them I promise you.” I try to make her understand, without spilling the truth. Arabella really wants Mels approval, she is going to be our mother in law one day.

“ok, we will see I guess. Given your past I’ll let you help with the packhouse, it’s big and hectic as we have a lot of people here. As for the kids, I guess they will tell me what I need to know in the future. I’m going to hold you to those promises you made though, so don’t forget them” with that she turned and we made our way to the office.