Right in front of me, inside the room, stood the most beautiful girl I had ever seen in my entire life. She was wearing jeans shorts that were way too short and stirred up something in my jeans that I had never had before, just by looking at her alone. She wore a white tank top and white sneakers, as fire red hair came all over her back, as it was swaying side to side while she danced, as well as her hips, and her perfect little ass along with it.
And all I could do, was stand there and watch her. Not because I was some kind of freak, I was just frozen in my place as I took in her beauty. And suddenly, she turned around, and stared directly at me. For one split second, time stood still for hours. She had the most beautiful blue eyes I had ever seen in my life. Some light freckles were covering her nose and her lips were plump and reddish, reminding me of strawberries once again. Her hair, her lips, her scent… all f*****g strawberries. That was the good second. The next second was when she noticed that there was a complete stranger standing inside of her apartment, staring at her like some creepy stalker, while she was dancing with earbuds in her ears. And right as she opened her mouth to scream, she stepped back and fell over a handbag that was standing right behind her, making her disappear from my view again, leaving two legs in the air and nothing else. While her room filled up with muffled music from Linkin Park that was coming out of her earbuds, that had also fallen on the floor.
As I let my wolf senses take over, I ran towards her, to make sure that she was safe and hadn’t hurt herself during her fall. And more than anything, I needed to make sure that she wouldn’t start to scream, or I would have an angry Alpha in my neck, ready to kill me and ask questions later when I was already dead. So, I ran over to her, hovering over her, as I placed my hand over her mouth, as two big blue eyes stared up at me in horror.
Fuck, her eyes are gorgeous!
And as I kept looking at her for another good second, everything around me just clicked.
MATE
This redhead is my mate.
This queen lying on the floor in front of me is my mate.
What a lucky bastard am I?
“Please, don’t yell.” I spoke to her, while I shook my head.
“I’m not here to hurt you, I promise, your Alpha is standing on the other side of the door. If he hears you scream, he will kill me without a doubt.” I saw the perfect creature in front of me nod, telling me she understood what I was saying. So, I slowly lifted my hand away, as I was granted with the sight of her beautiful lips once again. She looked at me with big eyes and I knew, I knew she felt it too, the mate bond.
Fuck,
I just hoped she was as happy with finding me as I was with finding her.
“What the hell are you doing in my apartment?” She hissed at me, pushing me to the side as she tried to get up.
Ok?
That’s the first thing you say to your mate after finding him?
“I…” I tried talking, but I just couldn’t. Where would I even start?
Hi, I am looking for your roommate,
who I am supposed to marry, by the way.
But I actually don’t want to find her.
Because... ‘boom’
there you were!
and now I only want you?
I could just kick myself in the head first and die of shame later. I was so screwed right now. I swallowed. I needed time to think, f**k! What do I do?
“We are looking for Ivy, she was your roommate, right?” My mate looked at me in question, and I could see questions popping up inside that perfect head of hers, while she was still sitting on the floor.
“What do you want from Ivy? She doesn’t even hurt a fly.” She asked me, to which I reached out my hand, so I could at least put her back on her two feet. She looked at me, guarded. Making me sigh at her reaction.
My mate was no easy she-wolf.
Thank you, Moon Goddess!
So, I sighed out in relief once again, as she did take my hand and I was able to pull her up. Not knowing I was pulling her up with so much force, that she fell again, flush against me.
That’s what you get for only being around male wolves, Ash,
fuck!
She gasped for air, as she fell forward, her hands clinging on to my upper arms where she tried to find her balance again. And as she looked up, we were standing so close that our noses were almost touching. It took all of my strength and self-control, to not launch myself on her and kiss her, claim her and mate with her right in that bed standing next to us.
Fuck,
the things that I could do to that body…
“What is your name?” She asked me with her big blue eyes still wide open, making me smile at her for no reason at all, or maybe I was just acting all silly, because my mate wanted to know my name and showed interest in me.
Fuck, how do I do this?
Does she know about me?
Does she know about the Spike pack?
For some reason, I feared her reaction towards the truth. If she knew who I truly was, she would never want me.
I would lose her.
She would reject me.
Maybe that would be for the best?
Maybe she was better off without me as a mate?
Did I really want to place my true mate in such dangers, such as living inside the Spike Pack? Was I so selfish, that I would take her out of her old life, only to take her along with me to hell? I swallowed, having an inner battle inside of me.
Fuck... what do I do?
She giggled, and the sound almost knocked me off of my feet. She sounded like a f*****g angel.
“My name is Addison, but my friends call me Addie.” She smiled at me, reaching out her hand towards me, in between the few inches that were open between both of our bodies.
“Ash” I brought out in a hoarse voice. Which made her smile grow even bigger.
“Hi mate Ash, nice to finally meet you after all this time.” She nodded, as I leaned in and shook her hand, while my other hand was still holding on to her body firmly, she wasn’t stepping away one inch from me, that was for sure. So as soon as we shook hands, my other hand went back to hold her automatically, as if my hands were built to hold her close to me.
Well yeah,
actually,
They are built for that…
“Why are you searching for Ivy? I haven’t seen her in weeks. We called a few days ago, but that’s it. Did something happen to her?” My mate asked me, as worry filled her gorgeous face, making her frown as she kept looking at me. But I did know that she was talking the truth. Now I knew for certain that Ivy had not been back here, my mate would never have been able to lie to me. But what shocked me the most, was that she seemed to like the fact that I was still holding on to her, not giving me any intentions of stepping away from me either.
“Is she OK?” She asked me, as the worry in her eyes grew even bigger.
“Uhm… I honestly don’t know.” I spoke, shaking my head.
Well f**k, what kind of an answer is that, Ash?
Even my wolf Roan sighed at that stupid answer.
Fuck, what do I do?
“What do you mean you don’t know? You’re the one that is searching for her. Why are you searching for her? Are you one of those FBI agents? But the werewolf kind? Does that even exist?...” Addie just started to blabber on and on, and all I could do was look at her in awe. Wondering once again, how in the world I had ever been able to get so lucky, to get her as a mate. The Moon Goddess must have pitied me for having such a hard and miserable life, so she rewarded me with the angel right in front of me. It just had to be.
“No, I am not an FBI agent”, I laughed at her, seeing that once I spoke, she finally stopped talking and looked at me as if she was hanging on my lips, waiting for me to tell her more.
“I am a pack member of the Spike pack, we are searching for her because she is supposed to marry our next Alpha.” There, it was out, I told her the truth, only without her knowing that I was actually the next Alpha. I was just bracing myself for her response right now. But all she did was form an ‘O’ with those perfect lips, it made me want to kiss them, make them swell up, because I knew I wouldn’t be able to control myself. But it seemed as if my mate was in deep thoughts.
“I think you are mistaken my Ivy for someone else. The Ivy I know has already found her mate. He is an Alpha, but not from the Spike pack.” She told me, spiking my curiosity.
What?
Ivy found her mate?
Another Alpha?
“Uhm” was all I could bring out. This girl was turning me into a fool, I was so done for.
“You know, Alpha CJ, giant, brown hair, dark blue eyes, needs to work on his temper tantrums…” I just kept looking at her, and after a few seconds, Addie’s face dropped. She knew she had told me something she wasn’t supposed to share with me, she knew she had messed up.
“Please…” She begged me, and it almost made my knees buckle as she begged me.
“Please, don’t sell her out. Ivy deserves to be happy, she is my best friend, please…” But I wasn’t able to listen to her pleas any more. Once she had begged me, I was lost, I had lost all control, I just knew that I needed her, I wanted her. So, before she was even able to finish her sentence, I had leaned in and I had crashed my lips hard onto hers.
Using my hands, I pulled her as close into my body as I possibly could, using one hand against her back and the other on the back of her head, making sure that she wasn’t going anywhere. Even though she didn’t give me any intention that she was backing away from me. I slowly bit on her bottom lip, which made her gasp at my sudden action, sending me into a frenzy as I heard her gasp for me, because of what I was doing to her. And as her mouth opened to gasp for air, I sneaked my tongue past her lips, as we were able to taste each other for the very first time.
Fucking strawberries!
Why am I even surprised?
This girl was a f*****g addiction,
I was addicted to her, with one f*****g kiss!
Addie leaned back just a little, catching her breath, as her chest was heaving. But I still hadn’t had enough of her, I would never get enough of her. So my lips trailed further, towards her cheek, down her throat, to the f*****g spot where I desperately wanted to claim and mark her as mine, her collar bone and a piece of her shoulder that wasn’t covered with the fabric of her tank top.
Delicious
My mate is f*****g delicious
She is f*****g perfect in every way!
How the hell am I going to step away from her?
She was driving me insane by just letting me kiss her, but as my luck would have it, before we even had the chance to go any further, there was a knock on the door, and the Alpha’s voice that growled for me to ‘get the f**k outside, now’.