Chapter 8
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I smile up at my mate as he looks down on me with fondness. His smile is beautiful and I hope I
can make him keep smiling like this every day, no matter how cheesy it may sound.
After Alpha Cam processed the threat of war and complete obliteration, he decided that Axe's
terms were quite generous. My father had stormed out of the meeting, presumably to cool off.
So, Axe and I decided to get to know each other and get a head on packing.
It only takes a couple minutes to reach the house and after leading him up the stairs, I open my
room door as if it's a portal.
Axe looks at me with a big grin when he sees it and I can tell he's already analyzing me by the
way I decorate.
"Come're," he says stepping into the room and holding his arms out.
He lifts me high in the air when I'm in reach and lays me on the bed swiftly before crawling on
top of me.
He buries his nose in my neck and holds my sides tightly as if I'll fall away. This is the man
everyone fears? This is man who is the cause for all the training and defense exercises we go
through? It's laughable. He's an actual teddy bear.
"You're more than I could have ever imagined you'd be," he mutters placing a small kiss on my
skin.
A shiver rolls through me at the small action and I let my fingers wander through his maze of
dark hair.
"I can't believe I have a mate," I whisper.
After Jackson, I thought that was it. Obviously, my dad had the same idea. That's when Axe lifts
his head and turns us over so I lay on top of him and he can see me better.
"In the meeting, you said I was your second chance mate. Wh-if you don't mind me asking- what
happened to the first?"
I hide my face in his muscular chest. This is the embarrassing part. What will he think of me?
Will he think I'm not good enough?
"My first mate, I only met two days ago. I mean, I knew him before and hated him, but I just
turned sixteen. Anyway, I think we might have worked things out if I would have had s*x with
him. He dragged me into the bathroom and... He tried to make me. I refused though and my
friend came in to pull him off. He said I was a prude and that if I wouldn't give him s*x, I was
worthless. So, he rejected me."
My mate seems to have a tiny seizure as his whole body jumps at my news.
"That f*****g bastard," Axe growls.
"He tried to rape you!?"
I shrug awkwardly, not wanting to think of it like that, despite things being exactly that way.
"It doesn't matter. He didn't get to."
"I want his name," Axe says lowly.
I frown and shake my head causing his arms to tighten around me.
"Baby, give me that little boys damn name! He won't get away with this."
I sigh.
"Please drop it. I don't want to think about. I just want to move on, with you."
Axe relaxes his tense body at my final words, but there's a look in his eye that tells me this isn't
over.
For the next two hours, we joke around and get to know each other. It turns out we have alot of
the same values, but Axe seems much more pressed to follow them and... Well... More
emotionally stable.
We would continue talking for hours on end if it weren't for the slamming down a level below
us.
Our talking pauses and I hear my dad stomping into the kitchen. Clearly there's a second person
as there are also footsteps moving up the stairs.
I frown and sit up, only for Axe's hand to encircle my waist as we wait for the visitor to arrive.
I let out a breath of relieved air when I see who it is.
"Leeland," I greet.
He stands in the doorway, looking more like a mess than usual. His normally perfect light hair is
ruffled and his eyes are wide and hard.
He looks between Axe and I before nodding.
"So it's true."
I nod and smile lightly.
Leeland crosses his arms.
"I need to talk to you. Privately."
Axe tries to argue, but I convince him that goodbyes should be personal and shared Alone.
"I'll be in the hall," he says looking back at me before closing the door.
Leeland rushes to me when I stand to meet him and he grabs my shoulders, ducking to be eye
level with me.
"Don't do this. Lilac, it's a bad move."
Disbelief is all I feel at his warning.
"Jackson would have been a bad move as you already know. Your best friend was the one who
was a bad mate!"
Leeland shakes his head and closed his eyes for a minute.
"I know. God, I know. I'm not saying you should have anything to do with Jackson, but you
shouldn't have anything to do with that guy either."
I step back out of his hold and frown deeply. Why is everyone so against this? Is it the age Gap?
"Axe is a good man. He won't hurt me."
Leeland shakes his head again and paces before coming to a stop and looking at me firmly.
"You don't know that. You don't know him, but you know me. Remember that night before
everything went to hell? It was us. US! It's the way it should have been and it can still be that
way! Just accept me! We'll mate and I'll take care of you. We'll have pups. You can stay here and
by MY Luna!"
A strange noise of disbelief comes out of my mouth at his suggestion.
"Are you kidding me? You're only suggesting this because my mate is Axe! If it was anyone else
you'd back off and wait for your mate."
My friend grabs my hand and holds it tightly.
"No. You have to know by now that I love you. I've always wanted you to be my Luna and I
hoped you'd be my mate. I was so disappointed when we didn't feel the bond on your birthday,
but the moon goddess made a mistake with Jackson and now she's made one with alpha Axe
too."
The door is swings open before I can respond and I see a fuming Axe glaring at my best friend.
He heard everything.
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