Southern Wolf Queen (Complete)

New Roles

Tau's POV

Carrying Jewel to her room was a new, and exciting experience. Hawk was not in his room. His scent was coming from his mate's on the opposite side of the bunkhouse. I opened her door, shifting her a little as I used my foot to close it. The room smelled just like her. I didn't want to place her on the bed, the feeling of her touching me was phenomenal. There were swirls of sparks and tickles of heat. It was nothing like I had ever experienced.

Those feelings reminded me of the kiss we have shared during the red dragon attack. I placed her on the bed. I sat down near her to just watch. I knew it was probably a creepy stalker thing, but I loved just looking at her. She has the perfect oval face surrounded by black hair, a sprinkle of freckles on the nose that arched just a bit, high cheekbones, plump cute lips, and eyes when open look like Willy Wonka's chocolate river. She has a tomboyish girl next door vibe.

Her body is toned, but supple. She has a bit of brown to her skin but nothing like mine, hers looks like it's sunkissed. Starting to stand, I feel her small hand wrap around my fingers. I try to pull away and cannot. She grips me tighter.

I sit back down and she wraps, her arm around my waist. The one holding my hand let's go, to wrap from the other side of my waist. Jewel pulls her body closer to me, to where she has wrapped herself around me. I have the urge to lay down with her, but I need to find Hawk so that we can go to the nightly meetings at Athens place.

"Well, I am glad it's me that found you." My heart damn near skipped out of my chest hearing Shaman's voice. Turning I noticed he was by himself. Thank the Gods and Goddesses for that.

"Yeah, me too." I sigh. "Not that I want to leave this but a little help?" I raise an eyebrow at him.

Shaman's eyes glittered a moment as he chuckled. "Of course." He walked up to the side of me. I felt him push a wave of his aura out as Jewel let go of me and rolled over. I stepped to the side of him jumping off the bed. "Where is Hawk?" Shaman raised a brow at me. Noticing I was in Jewel's room and Hawk was nowhere nearby yelling.

"He found his mate tonight." I grinned at Shaman. I couldn't help it. It was nice to be with Jewel without that ever-present worried he was gonna start being angry.

"Well damn. That is great luck for you." He placed a hand on my shoulder and I found myself in Athen's study. Athens and Johnny were at the bar getting their drinks.

"Seems we may be missing young Hawk tonight," Shaman smirked.

"Ooo, did Mortou's mate beat him?" He laughed magically.

"No," I laughed. "He found his mate. A magical daughter of Mortou's from a different line." I grabbed my glass to pour a little whiskey in.

"Oh!" Athens grabs his drink and giggles as he blurts, "details! I need details!"

Shaman settles in his chair. I find the one I like, while Athens and his mate Johnny settle on their little sofa. "She is part of the new security team that Linzi, Mortou's mate put together." I start with.

"I gotta know about this woman!" Athens leans forward excitedly expecting more.

"Which woman?" I ask realizing I had just mentioned both Linzi and Jakarta.

"Mortou's mate!" Athens squeals like a girl as he claps his hands.

I can't help the burst of laughter that comes from me. "She is everything Mortou is and then some." I stand pulling the artifact she handed me from my pocket to show them. "She knew of Griffins, and was with Conin the last griffin when he died." I handed the object to Shaman who eyed it closely.

"This one was from a dragon, likely Tvso's mother or father." Shaman looked up at me. I could see shock filling his silver gaze.

"The flash I get tells me it was his father. Conin took it from his body, as it mixed with his blood." Shaman handed the bone fragment to Athens who eyed it and smelled it.

"Yes, Tvso's father. He was a star dragon. The strongest of their kind. Conin was able to kill but not without sacrificing his own life. This has his venom and that of Conin's in it." He paused as if something tickled his memory. "If I remember in dragon lore if you strike the leader with a mixed poison the ones following him will die as well." He handed me back the tooth fragment.

"I need to call my mother and ask. I am hoping she would remember from the scrolls she has." I put the fragment back in my pocket. "Do you have any dragon scrolls here in the castle?" I sat back down to drink my whisky.

"I might, I will look around to see." Athens leaned back against the couch. "Now tell me more about the old bear's lady." He wiggled his eyes as he waved his hand for more.

"She is tough but fair it seems. She raised a southern wolf pup she found and seems to have taken a liking to me. Also, put Hawk and his wolf Tys in his place a couple of times now." I glance to see Shaman has stiffened. Likely meaning Hawk is calling him.

"I will be back," Shaman stood, and left to grab Hawk.

"Does she think you and Jewel are fated" Athens rushed as Shaman was leaving?

"She and Mortou both do." I sipped my whisky as Shaman and Hawk appeared.

Hawk eyed me a minute before going to get his drink. I was a little surprised he didn't instantly yell. He got his drink then sat down to ask, "why were you in my sister's room?" He eyed me over the rim of his glance.

"Mortou was taking his woman to the bed and didn't want to leave Jewel in the living room. You were with your new mate and I was available to get her to bed." I leaned back to add. "Did you want that Leon guy to do it?"

"No," he growled.