My Warlock Mate

Puppies

Chapter 2 - Present - Harley  

"May I have this dance, Señorita?"  

Elizabeth was startled by Harley's question, the young woman was distracted, watching the other couples dancing... Jealousy was overtaking her chest as she saw the other girls of her age, smiling at their boyfriends, husbands, or even at the random boys of the Pack, who asked them to dance.

"... Are you talking to me?" After looking both sides and not seeing anyone sitting next to her, Elizabeth asked the Warlock.

"Yes, may I have this dance, Señorita?" He laughed before answering, Harley found the young Werewolf's reaction somewhat unusual.

"... Yes, sure..." Her face was flushed as she took the man's hand, embarrassed that she hadn't seen him approach.

... At first, yet a little awkward... The couple danced, leaving a good distance between them like they didn't want their bodies to touch each other, as they didn't want to feel each other's heat. However, the young woman's reaction changed dramatically when a new song began to play...

Time of my Life was Elizabeth's favorite song and the fact she learned ballroom dancing from her mother as a child made the rhythm even tastier in her ears... It was like another woman were in Harley's arms at that moment... He looked at her curiously as he saw that even her posture changed as the music started, besides the smile she had now.

By the end of the song, the clapping of the Pack was what caught the couple's attention, Elizabeth had been excited while dancing, and Harley hadn't this much fun in years... 

He was going to ask her something when the young mother quickly thanked him for dancing with her before going after her pup who called for Elizabeth, no longer after the children came running outside to the balcony, Kristian going to his mother with the face all painted while Sarah and Melton chased after him and other children with their little fingers dirty with some ink, already used on their prank victims.

... That scene was one typical from Mingan recently since the Pack currently had ten puppies between three and five years old...

The next morning, Harley woke up alone in the Alphas suite's extra bedroom, at first, he wanted to refuse to sleep there, saying he could stay on a room on the second floor, but Jack's request to sleep with him, soon made the Warlock change his mind, even though the puppy wasn't beside when he woke up.

In the kitchen, the presence of the small family was apparent by the remaining of their auras in there. On the table, a small note from Penelope addressed to him, said that Alexander was in a work meeting, and she was training the teenagers, Jackson was with her as he enjoyed attending it.

After eating breakfast, he decided it would be interesting to see how Werewolves improved their skills, so just wearing a simple sweatshirt while going out of the Alphas suite, Harley was surprised by a small figure who ran into the room.

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"KRISTIAN HOPE! Come back here now!" A woman's voice called for the little werewolf who now I recognized as one of Melton's friends as the little boy hid behind my legs, laughing at the woman. "Hiding with Jack won't help you in any way!"

Elizabeth looked surprised and ashamed to see me as her face flushed beyond the red marks already in there, decorating it.

"... Hi Harley! I didn't know you stayed here last night..." Since I knew her name, it wasn't strange that she also knew mine as she was Penelope's friend. "Kristian come here now!"

She spoke in a low scream directed to her son, who continued to hide behind me.

"He... Did that?" I asked about the draws on her face that looking better now, were made of lipstick.

"Yeah... Using my favorite lipstick..." She answered me awkwardly, hiding her face as she tried to catch Kristian who fled downstairs. "I swear puppies should have an alarm in them that would wake you up when they're up and ready to no good."

Her words made me laugh since I had never lived with children before, or even spent more than a few hours with them.

"Do you want some help with this?" I asked, pointing at her face, and she just looked at me confused before I did a quick spell on my head, cleaning her face.

She thanked me as we walked down the stairs, and I kept asking her why Kristian wasn't with the other kids from her Pack as they had stuff for the puppies do together in the weekend, quickly she told me that when she woke up early, he was a little feverish, so she had thought it would be better if he stayed at their room with her today, but clearly, he was already better now...

In the backyard, Kristian was playing with Jackson, who imitated the Werewolves trained by his mother. It was interesting to see how serious they both were trying to do everything just like the teenagers were doing.

"You dance very well," Elizabeth commented out of nowhere despite her eyes being yet on her pup.

"Thank you, you dance well too," I removed my eyes from her, returning them to the teenagers' training. "Penelope never mentioned that you could dance before."

"She must have forgotten." She looked at me with a smile on her face. "My mother used to be a dance teacher. She taught my brother and I since we started to walk, although we weren't big fans as a child."

"That explains why you're so good."

"What?" She looked shocked at me. "C' mon, you gotta be kidding. I'm not that good."

... A younger full look took over her motherly features as a shy smile appeared on her lips...

"I'm not, don't you remember the clapping? I'm sure anyone who was there last night would agree with me."

She didn't answer me at all, just turned her face away as if she had some more interesting to see in the woods around us. Her eyes just looked back at me about twenty minutes later, when the two boys came running to her, asking to see Peter Pan.

"You're the first person who I met that knows what he's doing with his feet. Even Caleb was a disaster dancing, it was like he had two left foot." I ended up laughing about the way she used to mention her former fiance. "We should do that again. I would love to go dancing with you."

"Sure, I would love too," I told her before she was pulled inside by the two little werewolves.