Mated to Her Alpha Brother

Chapter Seven

DOVE

"it's time, it's time!" Luca’s anxious voice called from behind the closed closet door.

My back was faced to Bella as she zipped and tightened the strings to the corset of the dress. But nothing too tight that I'd be unable to eat later on.

"And... done!" She says patting my shoulders excitedly.

I opened my once closed eyes to look into my reflection in the mirror. My eyes widening at the sight of the beautiful woman, she had a breathtaking dress that hung tight and loose in all the right places, with a natural makeup on emphasizing all her original gorgeous features. Her hair was done in a half up do twisted bun to the middle of her head, with the rest falling in a curtain of brown waves down her back. She looked almost like a stranger and not a face that I've looked at in the mirror for 18 years.

"You're beautiful" Bella gasps before reaching over to hug me from behind, being careful not to ruffle the dress.

“Thanks” I smile reaching over to squeeze her hand.

“Ehem Ladies” Luca urges once again.

“We’re done! Sorry” Bella says unlocking the closet door and swinging it wide open.

“Good now let’s-" he starts only to freeze when he took me fully in.

"You! My dear are gorgeous. If I didn't have such a beautiful mate, who is everything I'd ever wanted I'd almost wish you were mine" he grins cheekily looking sideways at said mate, who was now glaring at him with puffed cheeks.

“Luca” she glares in what she thinks was threatening, but was more cute than anything.

“You know I was joking, I could never want anybody, and I don’t want you my precious, I need you” he says his eyes twinkling in a certain way as he gazed deeply at her. She in return smiled bashfully, before rising to her tippy toes to plant a kiss on his chin, the only place she could reach at her height.

I smile at their moment before making vomit noises to tease them. Apart from my lovely parents as a close example, the next couple I knew who were perfect matches for one another, were Luca and Bella. Despite their many differences in culture, age and race they overcame all that, and found a beautiful love and partner in one another. A relationship I’d wish to have with mine someday.

“Now let’s go, Luna entrusted me with a task, I’d hate to disappoint her” Luca says, Bella nestled by his side.

The two exited the room first, with me trailing behind them, treading carefully not to step on my dress with my ridiculously high heels. Only now did the nerves began to overcome me, my thoughts flashing with disastrous scenarios that may occur later.

bE...At...EaasSE!

A distorted voice suddenly sounded from somewhere making me halt my steps and look around the corridor. Which only had Bella, Luca I and a few guards. But Bella and Luca were up ahead while the guards paid no head to me after their initial acknowledgement.

Slightly spooked, I shook my head as if to rid me of the thoughts, convincing myself it was just my mind playing tricks of me. But to my advantage at least, the nerves all but gone now after that. With renewed couraged we entered the elevator, heading down five floors to the ground floor.

"Oh my goddess!" Someone shrieked out the moment the elevator doors opened.

Outside the elevator stood Delilah, marmee and aunt Adeline. Delilah being the one who spoke. Marmee just stood in a surprise her eyes glistening in unshed tears as she took me in. Aunt Adeline as usual had her stern no nonsense face on, but If you looked closer, you'd see a hint of a curve by the side of her lips, convincing me I'd also made an impression on her.

"You look so beautiful dove" Delilah grins reaching over to shockingly take out her phone to take a picture.

"Who are you and what have you done with lilah" I say gobsmacked at her activeness to actually use technology.

"Oh shut it" age laughs.

"Come in marmee" I say smiling at my mom who had been staring at me emotionally.

She smiles back before walking to stand by my left with lilah by my right, and Luca taking the picture. And soon we all joined in on the picture with Aunt Adeline taking the picture. She vehemently refused to be apart of it. She was obviously where Delilah got her mistrust of technology from.

"Now let's go, the time will soon be upon us" marmee says, her hands interlocked with mine.

"You good?" I ask worried when she grunts softly as we walked.

"Am fine, she just kicked" she answers rubbing her hand on her swollen belly.

"She's precious" I whisper in awe at her and my baby sister. Assumed baby sister. We haven't checked the gender yet.

"We're here," aunt Adeline says, giving me an encouraging nod, before venturing ahead into the venue first, Luca and Bella too following after her.

Taking a deep breath, I look down upon the watch that rested on my wrist to see the time.

5:45

"You ready?" Marmee asks, I nod only in response. Not trusting my voice to come out not Shakey at the moment.

"Be at ease, and trust the Luna goddes" she says, before we continued on.

I think they were informed of our arrival, because the whole room quitened the moment we took out first step inside. Hundreds of pairs of eyes staring us down as we walked in.

5:47

Some music suddenly started playing, with the lights around the room dimming to create a single halo of light around the three of us. My chest pounded in nervousness but with a little excitement. Even with the light dimmed I could still see the number of people inside. My eyes almost started searching frantically, wondering if the gentlemen with the top hat was my mated, or the wolf with the hair or was it even the faerie in blue, I had no idea. But my heart settled. With this number I would definitely find him today.

5:49

"Welcome my dear!" Dad's loud booming voice sounded just as the music faded to a light beat in the background, and the music returned to normal.

"You look absolutely breathtaking, both of you" dad says reaching over to hug us both, giving marmee a quick peck on the lips before we separated.

"And you as well delilah" he says again, before turning to the crowd.

"Let the ceremony officially begin!" He booms laughing boisterously to the receiving cheers and hoots of the crowd.

5:53

We didn't really have the time to make rounds around the party now, so dad and marmee only took me to the very important guests we couldn't slight. With Levi the cheeky boy joining us, finally seeing him for the first time today.

I was in the middle of conversing with Chief Berhan of Nayak, when suddenly all sounds seem to fade all at once, a burning sensation creeping from the tips of my toes to the roots of my hair. Suddenly my beautiful dress felt suffocating and restricting, all I wanted to do.was rip it apart with my claws. But try as I might I couldn't will it to come out.

5:57

The sensation only got more and more painful, feeling like someone had injected liquid magma into my veins. I knew my mouth was moving as it said words I couldn't I hear. The chief was panicking obviously, but dad reassured him I think. His lips mouthing something about this being normal. Before he turned to me his expression grim but also encouraging. Marmee was by my side waving her hands at the guards it seems who rushed immediately, she must've said something to them because they parted the crowd, leaving an empty path towards the other exit which led into the greens.

5:58

Something in me felt in place, and I found myself literally running towards the outdoors. The sliver of the pain residing when I sunk my now ridiculous clawed out hands into the grass.

CaLm ChIld.. Don'T fiGht EmBraCE iT

6:00

I found myself listening to the voice but the pain only got stronger and stronger, but now accompanied by a cooling familiar sensation. Hair started sprouting from my fingers up my hands, my body twisting and bones breaking and rebuilding, shifting themselves in an unfamiliar yet familiar shape to me, my teeths giving way to stonger bigger sharper ones, and then in a second my dress was slipping from my overstretched form and I was fully shifted. The sounds returning to me in a whoosh.

My fully grown wolf pulled to the surface of the world. I looked around in search of my family, seeing the astonished gazes of the crowd which had followed me outside, and the awe struck gazes of my friends and family. But my eyes still slid from their forms, my gaze still searching and searching. And I almost bolted when a faint scent reached me. The only scent I've noticed that had struck me among the crowds of hundreds.

6:10

I took unsteady steps with my wolf trying to find it's trail..a trail that seems too weak. Meaning it was far. I knew I had to give myself time to get used to walking as my adult wolf, but I couldn't help myself from lunging upwards as I ran in the direction. Only to have my limbs fail me as I landed in a heap. I howl weakly from below as I called and called. I didn't know who I call for, but I was unrelenting.

6:15

And then as if in response, the once faint scent started to thicken. The scent I couldn't identify before now an exhilarating enticing scent, it smelt woody but yet has this musky undertone, the exact smell of it eluded me, but what it did was invigorate every single cell in my body, heating me in a much more pleasant way than before, my heart's pounding was almost too loud for my ears.

A resounding howl sounded as if in response to my earlier cry. The single cry had me rising on my wobbling legs and dragging myself, slowing but surely in that direction. I howl back again, much stronger this time.

6:25

The strong padding of paws sounded briefly, before a gigantic black wolf emerged from the woods into the clearing. I yipped at the massive figure, my heart clenching almost painfully at sight of him. His scent overwhelming my every pore but I loved every inch of it. Of him. It should scare me. This sudden unguarded affection for this stranger, but at this moment I wanted nothing more than sink my fangs in him and mark him mine, just as he would me. Nothing more than to brush my fur against his, marking him with my scent, as he would me.

He suddenly sprang forward crossing 11 feets to arrive in front of me. His snout brushing mine as I looked up at him. With a low rumble of his chest he lowered his massive head to burry his snout onto my side, brushing his fur against mine. His chest in a deep rumble all the while, almost like the purrs of a cat.

He moved abruptly again this time turning us around in a tumble, now my belly to him as I sat obediently as he trailed my body with his snout. Inhaling me deeply as he went. Before he paused his movements when he reached my head.

He stood up again before stalking forwards into the directions of the woods, only stopping when he realized I did not follow. He angled his head over confusedly at me, only to pause when he realize my legs had given up on me, and I could go no further.

He turned in an attempt to run back when suddenly my view of him was suddenly blocked by a brown wolf almost as big as him. The familiar scent flooding me was my dad's. I yelp in complain. I loved my dad, but seriously what the hell.

My dad growled deeply almost menacingly in response as he snarled at the black wolf. The wolf growled back in response, challenging him.

"Stop it! Stop it both of you!" Marmee was suddenly here, tears were falling down her face as she looked almost hysterical.

What happened, what was going on?

I expected dad to immediately rush to her, but he left her ignored, to growl back at the black wolf. My dad would never ignore my marmee when she's in such a condition, seriously what's going on.

6;30

Marmee collapses, dad rushes to her and the black wolf is in my view again.

But he was no longer wolf.

He stood flesh and bones in a figure that couldn't be more familiar to me.

It was my brother Callum.

And he was my mate.