Damn. My mate is real cute!
Stubborn but cute!
“Tomorrow, baby. I promise.”
She sighed and smile lightly. Okay, her sigh sounds like she still doubt it but that precious smile erased it all.
Minutes later, her breathing is eased and she’s fallen deep on slumber.
That’s my cue to exit our room and head to my office.
‘Nick, Seth, office now.’
I sat on my chair and tilt my head to the side and cracked my neck. I feel exhausted and its definitely not because of run and search. Its the fu*cking feeling of losing my mate. Even for a short time, it hits me. Hard.
Every minute that Ashira was gone and with me unaware of her whereabout, it feels like I’m being drained with energy. Inch by inch.
This thing shouldn’t happen again. No, I should fix myself. I can’t be this way. I closed my eyes and grunted.
Oh, don’t trick yourself. You know you’re smitten.
And just like that, I was slapped with my own fu*cking thoughts.
A few knocks on my office door made me snap my eyes open before Nick and Seth step inside.
“Aiden or Alpha?” Nick’s uncontrolled misbehavior tried and teased me as soon as the door closed again.
“What are you talking about?” I groaned and shook my head. “Just sit the fu*ck down.”
Nick shrugged and walked to a chair facing me. “Aiden, then.”
Sigh. I should’ve demote this friend of mine. I can’t blame him though. Normally in a situation like this, I’m more serious and blunt, also pissed so my wolf is more ahead.
But no, not this time. It seems that Ashira’s smile took away anything that angered me tonight.
Seth also grabbed a chair and sat on it quietly.
“How’s Ash?” Seth asked. I looked at his eyes and he instantly avoided mine.
“She’s fine. Nothing was wrong except for her presence. Its still faint to sense.”
“I noticed it. Did she tell you what happened?” Nick said.
I leaned on my chair and sighed. “Not yet. She needed to rest. But I heard some details from her and thats why both of you were here.”
I exchanged looks with the both of them. Nick looked eager and Seth seems to hitched his breath.
“She said the rogue talked to her.”
Nick hissed like a girl pinched him though his expression is almost excited. I won’t start with Seth though, he got paled upon hearing the rogue and my mate’s -which he was supposed to guard and protect- name.
“That’s it? That’s what he wants?” Seth said, almost disbelieving. I only nodded.
“And the talk was about?” Nick.
“Haven’t heard the rest of it but she mentioned something like ‘the rogue is my cousin’.”
Both of them dropped their jaw as they looked at me with slowly widening eyes.
That.. what’s its name again? Zeke? My cousin? Even I was caught off guard the first time I heard it.
“You believed it?” It was Seth who first recover. I sighed and leaned my head on the sit, screwing my eyes shut as I exhaled.
I fu*cking asked the same question to myself.
“I don’t know what to think. That rogue kidnapped my mate. He killed my wolves. That’s enough for me to doubt. Kill him even.”
I didn’t heard anything from them so I opened my eyes, ignored their annoying expressions, and checked some important papers above my table.
“You don’t mean what we think you mean, right, Aiden?” Nick said in a slow careful voice.
They’re still in shock.
I sighed and my eyes squinted as I looked at him. I crossed my fingers below my chin and looked at Nick.
“Maybe I called you to hear what you think and not for me to guess whats going on in those heads.”
Another silence but after a while, Nick took in a deep breathe and-
“Whoa! What-Wow!” Nick laughed. “So he’s Alpha Zeus and Zynia’s-? Oh, really?!”
I sighed upon Nick’s incredible expression. He can’t even finish his question and everything he said is nonsense up to period.
“How would he knew that, Nick.” Seth said, rolling his eyes then looking back at me. “Is that what he want to talk about with Ash? Just to say that you’re related?”
I shrugged. “Told ya I hadn’t heard the rest of it.”
“But, man, really, you and that rogue looks familiar. I’m not doubting it a bit. That explains the speed, man! He got Alpha blood in him!” Nick exclaimed and his expression annoys me more than what his mouth blabbered.
My jaw tightened and I reviewed the rogue in my head. We do have the same eyes and face-shape. And to think that I got those assets on my mother…
“Nick, speed like that is abnormal even for wolves with alpha blood because unless they’re an Alpha.” Seth counter.
“Oh well, they still looks the same.”
“Alright!” I slammed my palm on the table and eyed them both. “Enough with that. I need you both to inform every guard and trackers that if he ever show his face inside or outside the land, don’t seize him.”
“What does that mean?” Seth.
“Like, letting the rogues to freely roam Prime land?” Nick said and I almost sigh with how his mind works. Why would I even- ugh.
“Just this particular rogue.” I said with a sigh. I suddenly thought of getting on the bed with Ashira.
This meeting needed to end.
“Can I ask why?” Nick asked hesitantly with, again, that funny face that is so annoying.
I shook my head and sighed. “Because the next time he lands his foot on my ground, I’ll be the one he should be talking.”