The Unwilling Mate

Chapter 9

" Get the hell out of my room you dumb-ass. " Liz says in a strained voice from anger. throwing a pillow at my face.

I catch it and throw it back at her. feeling triumphant I did not realize that she threw more pillows at me in the meantime. Once she runs out of pillows to throw I tell her about what happened that night on the date and what was said more or less. Deciding to leave out the fact that I made her cry.

She stays silent as if waiting for me to finish once she realized I was done talking she lets out a sigh. She looks at me like she is torn between a two sides, her face then clears up as she says, " I am sorry, but I cannot help you. I really want to help you, however you did make her cry and I did not instruct that." 

As I am about to explain the situation to her a knock at the door stops me from speaking. One of the pack guards walks into Liz's room a minute later. He looks from me to Liz and the looks at the pillows all over the floor. He shakes his head and looks back at me and says, " Alpha Andrews would like to speak with you right away sir." Then he walks right out without another word.

I stared at the door deep in thought wondering what the alpha could possibly want to talk about. Suddenly i heard someone coughing. I look up at Liz in concern " Are you okay" I ask wondering if she was dying or choking with the way she was coughing. She gives me a pointed look and then motions to the door. 

I roll my eyes as I walk out, as I am about to close her door I stop. I pop my head back in her room and look too her " We will finish this conversation later." I say in a serious voice.

Once I make it to the alphas door I debate about knocking instead I just walk inside. I watch as his head snaps up in my direction and with eyes narrowed to slits and lets out a threatening growl. I continue to stand there when his eyes slowly open up and his growls stops. He rolls his eyes and shakes his head " You know you cannot just walk in here. You have to show respect." He says while giving me a sly grin.

I give him a deadpanned look and peer into his eyes and say, " I do respect you Alpha." I give him a toothy smile while he looks at me with suspicion at the way I said alpha. 

In case you were wondering Alpha Peter and I have been  friends since childhood. We have always considered each other as brothers. I was shook from my thought as I heard him say, " That is not why you are here anyway. I need you to tighten perimeter around the grounds." 

He moves to go around his desk to sit down and I follow suit. "Is their a problem with rogues lately sir?" I ask in genuine concern. All joking aside I am a warrior and guard in our pack. The safety is a big responsibility for us. I patrol the grounds to keep everyone safe. Although lately I have been slacking in duties lately to go and see Addison.

" Actually I am not sure it is rogues attacking us." Peter says suggestively. I furrow my brows in confusion. No pack would attack us, we were not the strongest but we were not weak either. Our connections to other packs was pretty good too. 

I was about to voice my thoughts to him when he says, angrily " I do not know why but, another pack is attacking us. They have already killed three and two are injured." I stiffen at his words, feeling like he was accusing me of letting those people get killed and hurt. Suddenly I had a very strong urge to have Addison here with me to make sure that she was safe from all this danger.

" Sir I understand that you want me to wait to tell my mate. However under the circumstances I believe that now is the best time to tell her. This way I can keep her safe and not be distracted during this dire time." I say as quickly as possible tripping over my words. I am praying that Peter lets me talk to her. I was only supposed to slowly win her over before I could tell her to minimize possibility of a rejection. Now though with lives in danger logically we should bring her here. What he tells me next though is not what I expected.

"You are right." Peter says in a considering tone. " However her life should be fine if it is another pack. They have no reason to go after her." He states pragmatically.

I feel my hands clench, I give out a fake laugh as I say, " Right that is all well and good but, what if it is not another pack?"  My heart starts pounding in my chest. I take a deep breath while wiping the sweat on my hands on my pants conspicuously.

" Good point. You should probably avoid gr for a while and do not treat her special or they will know who she is." He says calmly. I look at him as if he is growing two heads. How could I treat the love of my life like any other woman. This was the only person made perfectly for me and I would never want to hurt her even if she did not know about it.  

I start to shake my head at his idea when i tell him incredulously, " I cannot treat her like everyone else. My wolf would never allow that." He look at me with annoyance wanting this conversation to end know doubt. He sighs and says in his alpha voice, " Fine then I command you to stay away from her."

I feel my wolf get angry at his words and the urge to attack my alpha became strong. However I also knew that this was the best thing to do right now to keep her safe. " Thank you Alpha" I say to him in cold voice automatically and bow.

As I am about to retreat out of the room with my hand on the doorknob I turn around and look at Peter and say in a suspicious tone, " You do not think they have already seen me with her right?"

He looks up from his desk to me with surprise. " I would like to think not. Otherwise they would have acted already." He says with complete rationality. He pauses a moment, he says in sincerity, " Look Henry as your friend I really want your mate to accept you.I just need you to wait a little while to protect everyone first. Once the danger is gone we can tell her everything." 

I nod my head at him and walk out. As I head to the training room; I could not help but, feel my blood boil at his words. I understand where he was coming from logically. However my heart tells me he is very stupid. I just hope that Addison can stay away from me.