OLIVIA’S P. O. V.
I can’t believe I just did that. I mean I wanted to, for like ever. I can’t believe that it finally happened. I have been in love with Victor forever. I wish it had been in a better setting for our first time, but hell it was great. Then he promises that it is going to be more next time. I am not sure I will be able to handle that. But I can’t wait to try. I feel a little bit of guilt when I think of Peter and Benjamin, I should have waited. I just couldn’t. I should make a choice soon, I can’t keep pulling them all along. I am trying to tell them that I can’t do this with all three. Hell, after my session with Victor I am not sure that I can handle one of them.
I don’t want to let Victor go, that is for sure. Now that we have been together I can’t let him go. I was serious about the marking. I want him to but after I fully heal. I am aware that we didn’t use protection, that could lead to pups. It only happens with mates, that is why mates are so important. I guess I really don’t mind having pups with Victor. I look over at him now across the table. I can tell that he is trying not to look at me. I am not really sure why. Finally after the nurse leaves I have to ask.
“Why aren’t you looking at me?”
He looks me in the eyes and smiles. “Because I am aware that we are in the hospital and it is not the place to take you to that bed and pound on you. I am controlling myself. It takes a lot when you are around. I am not sure how I have been able to hold on as long as I have. Now that I have had you. All I want is to have you all the time.”
I can’t help but smile at that. I thought I had done something wrong. Cause lets be honest that last person I slept with rejected me the next morning. I am not very versed in sexual activity. I am not sure I did any of that right. I know it felt way better than any of that night that I had with Hector. Even the washing up after was exhilarating. I am glad to hear that I did something right.
He can tell what I am thinking, he grabs my hand. “Don’t you ever think that you did something wrong. I am so turned on by you I am counting in my head the hours till I get you home. I know we still have a lot to go over with the whole mate bond thing, but I really don’t care. I don’t regret one single second of what we did in that bathroom.”
“Are you sure? I mean it isn’t just the bond talking is it?”
“Not one bit.” Then he leans in and kisses my lips. “I am just hoping that it leads to pups. I can’t wait for you to swell with my pups.”
I can’t help but blush. “I can’t wait either. I have dreamed for a long time about being with you and having your pups, I could never regret having them now.” He sits back down and then pulls me over onto his lap. There he is holding me and caressing my back. I rest into his chest. I feel so comfortable right now, it is like I am home.
“You will swell with my pups. As soon as you are healed I will mark you, love. I have no doubt that I want you for the rest of my life, as long as you will have me. I have been so worried that you would reject me. You have no idea how I am feeling right now.”
I sigh. “I am going to be honest.” I can feel his grip on me tighten and tense. “I thought about rejecting you all. I don’t think I can do this. I was going to regret rejecting you the most, since I have wanted you for so long. I didn’t see how I could keep one of you and not the rest. I know now that I can never reject you. No, matter what happens now, I will not reject you.” His grip on me losens.
“You can’t imagine how glad I am to hear that. I still wish it was just the two of us. I will share you if I have to. Just til we know if you are with pup, could you not be with them without protection. I would like to know if the pup is really mine.”
“Not a problem. I would hate not knowing myself.” I look in his eyes. “So, I guess we better get out of this love bubble and get back into the battle plans.”
“Oh, if we must.” I can’t help but giggle at him.
As if on cue there is a knock on the door. Aaron enters a moment later. “Alpha, I have the papers from Peter. I think we can complete the lists now and be ready for training to start tomorrow.”
“Great. War, what better things to do right now.” He smirks at me. I go to get off his lap so we can get down to work, but he pulls me back down. “You can work just fine right here.”
I groan, “But can’t I get more done if I am in my own seat and we both have both hands.”
“No, because I will just want to touch you. This way I am less distracted and we are working. If I have to dwell on wanting to touch you it will take longer.” He states it like a fact. What am I going to do with this man? “Now, my Luna let us get down to work.”
Aaron hands me the papers and I look them over. “It looks like we are going to have a lot of work ahead of us. By the look of this Benson didn’t train really any of his warriors very well and some of them may be over selling their talents. Not to mention all the wolves that weren’t trained at all. Have you heard back from the trackers yet on the situation on that end?”
“They are supposed to report in about an hour. Then we will at least have some idea as to what we are up against. For right now let’s try to sort these wolves. Remember my father is going to be taking a troop to train for more trackers. We are going to need to pick the best candidates for that.”
“Looks like we have a lot of work to do.” I repeat. “Since we don’t know most of these wolves, we are going off of what is on paper and that is just going to be hard. I think we can successfully put me down for training. After the check up I got earlier I don’t see why I couldn’t train. I will take it easy at first though.” I add that last part in as I can see Victor glaring at me.
“Alright. I object, but I know it is no use arguing with you.” He shrugs and then pulls some of the papers closer. “Let’s start by making a sheet with each trainer on the top and then sorting the wolves by skill. I will call Peter and Shawn and see who their strongest trainers are and see how we can sort these guys.”
I start the papers while Victor pulls out his phone. With my hearing and proximity to the phone I can hear what Peter is saying on the other end. “Hey Peter I need to list these wolves and it would be best if you would let us know who are your strongest trainers and what they are good at. Then I will need to call Shawn and get the same. How is the progress with the new pack?”
“First off, how is Olivia?”
“She is fine. All clean and helping me put together the lists. She is sitting so she is still resting. I couldn’t stop her from doing something.”
“That’s my girl. So the new pack is all sworn in. I have more reports of missing females. Apparently this is where a majority of them were taken. It would seem that Benson didn’t give a shit after his Luna died. I have taken their names down so that hopefully we can return them to their families.”
“I have the trackers reporting in about an hour, little less now. I will see what they have and what we might need to do to liberate them from the rogues. For now we are focusing on the list for training. I was thinking we could start tomorrow around noon. That way Olivia can be there for the first training day. She is ready and she can take on her group then. So if we can get the word out that would make this all go more smoothly.”
“I am not so sure we should have Olivia training yet. She might still be too weak.”
“She promised me that she would take it easy, besides you try and tell her no. She will be at the training even if she has to check herself out of the hospital. I would rather we prepared for her to be there.”
“Fine. I suppose she isn’t the type of girl to just sit around and let life happen around her. I will get the word out in my packs. Then tell Shawn to do the same. Since you need to talk to him next I will let you do that. OK, are you ready to take down my trainers?”
“Yeah, Olivia has the sheets ready.”
“Alright so advanced trainers I have Julia, Jordan and Garrett. Mid-grade trainers are Elizabeth and Felix. Then for basic training I have Charles. Benson had four trainers. I think we should just put them as basic trainers for now until we can assess if they are any better than that. Their names are Advik, Jorge, Anthony and Keanu. Hugo said that they had some skill but they really haven’t been working on it as of late so they may be rusty.”
Victor looks at me while I take the names down. “OK, she got it. I will call Shawn and we will get these lists together. Did I tell you that I talked to my father about training more trackers and he said that he would?”
“No, but that is great. We may need more if things go south. Hopefully we don’t need them.”
“Alright see ya.” Victor hung up the phone. “Also make sure to make a list for yourself and a list for my father. We need to make sure we are utilizing all that we have.”
“Got it. Now we need Shawn’s list and yours.” I glance back at him and see him staring at me. “What?”
“You look so hot right now.”
Aaron looks slightly uncomfortable. “Still right here dude.”
“Wait till you have a mate. I doubt I will be able to get you to do anything.”
I can’t help but blush anyway. “Anyway, call Shawn. We have a lot to do and little time to do it.” I try not to look at Victor now.
I guess he can tell what I am doing, because he takes my chin and makes me look at him. Then he kissed me softly. “Don’t ever turn away from me. I always want to see your eyes.”
“What about when I am not around?” I smile at his ridiculous comment. I can’t look at him all day.
“I will suffer immensely.”
I can’t help but roll my eyes. “Whatever you say.” Then he pulls me closer then dials up his phone for Shawn’s number.
“Hey Shawn, Victor here. We need to know your trainers’ names and the level they are at.”
“Alright, there is George, Elijah, Nathan and August who are advanced trainers. Then I have Gideon, Noah, James, Paul and Benedict are mid-grade trainers. I have Kane training the basics. Is that all you need? I am dealing with a little problem right now.”
“Yeah, I’ll let you know if I need anymore. Do you need help?”
“Not unless you can explain the mind of a woman to me. I swear I did nothing wrong but she is acting like I did.”
“I guess you are on your own there buddy. I am glad that my woman isn’t shy about speaking her mind.” Victor winks at me.
“Yeah, I am sure that can be a pain sometimes too.”
“Sure, especially when she tells me how much I have screwed up, I have learned that she is right though. I need to learn and fix it.”
“I should probably just ask her what I did wrong.” I can hear Shawn let out a huge sigh.
“Might be your best bet.”
“See ya.”
Then Victor clicks his phone off. “Got all that babe.”
“Yeah, I just need to make a list of your trainers.” I look over at him expecting him to answer. Then Aaron clears his throat.
“I have that list ready for you.”
“Officiant of you.” Victor nods in approval. “I should give you a promotion.”
Aaron laughs. “I don’t think I can go higher than I am. Anyway, I am just used to doing all the stuff that Lunas are supposed to do. Since you haven’t had one in quite a while and the last one, well let’s face it she was not really a Luna.”
“Good thing I am around then.” I laugh. “You won’t have to work so hard.”
“Thank goddess.” Aaron laughs with me.
“Alright, alright. Let’s get to work.” Victor pulls me even closer, I didn’t even know that was possible. I think he may be trying to be possessive around Aaron.
I lean over to his ear. “Don’t tell me you’re jealous?” I whisper ever so softly in his ear. This earns me a moan.
“Maybe I don’t want you laughing with other men.”
“Maybe you need to relax. I have no intentions of being with anyone else. Unless you get all crazy on me.”
“You make me crazy.” Victor nuzzles into my neck. He breathes in my scent and calms. “I will try to be better about it.”
“Good boy. Now, we can get to work.”
We spend the hour sorting the wolves into groups to work with the trainers. I have a good sized list myself. I am not sure I can handle them all, but I guess these wolves are just the last line; they don’t have to be super skilled. I still have some doubt in my skills. The guys have all the confidence in the world in me, but somehow I am lacking. I will have to work on that. I think it is like P. T. S. D. from the last two years where everyone looked down on me. I keep thinking that this is all going to stop and the rumors are going to start up again. Only this time they will have more light, with three males throwing themselves at me. Plus I slept with Victor now, before we were marked. Does that make me a slut?
I kind of zoned off for a moment and Victor pulled my chin to him. “What is going on in that head of yours?”
“Just thinking.”
“About what?”
“I just don’t want what you and I have to end. I don’t want to go back to the way things were. I don’t want the rumors again. I don’t think I will be as strong this time.”
“Hey, don’t think like that. I want to mark you right now and never leave my side. You are not going anywhere. If you were well enough I would have my mark on you right now. I am fighting it every second. I will not let those things happen to you ever again. Even if Peter and Benjamin leave. I never will. Do you understand me?”
“Yeah, I guess I am just feeling a bit overwhelmed looking at this list. I don’t want to fuck it up.”
“You won’t. I know you. You can do this. Don’t doubt, girl.” Victor smiled at me. “I know you will have these wolves whipped into shape in no time. I will be there with you tomorrow, I have to monitor all the training. If I see that you need any help I will jump in. Does that make you feel better?”
“A little.” I admitted.