Earth to Angel !
I averted my attention onto Whitney and she smiled, do you want to play Marco Polo ?
Oh, was that why he was staring at me ?
I used to love this game.
Nodding, she squealed in excitement and went underwater, coming back up a second later with her hair over her face.
Everyone space out, I’ll give you ten seconds ! No leaving the water ! She declared. I widened my eyes and swam away from her as everyone rushed to different areas around the water.
I chased after Axel and the second he noticed, he came to a stop and wrapped his arms around me, taking me with him toward an area beneath a few protruding tree branches.
I couldn’t contain my loud giggle and he covered my mouth with a smile. I nodded to silently inform him I was going to be quiet and he moved his hand. We then looked over at Whitney, seeing her flail her arms around at nothing until Gabbie cackled, directing her attention on her. This resulted in a very funny chase between them.
Leaning closer to Axel, I wrapped my arms around his neck and laid my cheek against his. He chuckled lowly, you don’t believe in personal space, do you ?
Not with you.
No, I smiled, leaning back to find a devious glimmer in his eyes. My face fell knowingly, if you throw me, I’ll-
Without time to say more, my body was hauled through the air, but I refused to give him a laugh out of it so I curled into a ball and did a flip, diving into the water with hardly a splash.
I’m a little rusty, but I still got it.
Resurfacing, I looked at everyone with a huge grin and more uncontrollable laughs. They looked bewildered, however, my focus was entirely on Axel. He looked the most baffled, recovering from his stunned state hastily and swimming up to me.
I laughed when he grabbed my hips, lifting half of my torso out of the water and twirling me around before stopping and lowering me back down. Right after, he wrapped his arms around my waist and hugged me tightly against his chest.
His face was lower than mine due to our positioning and he stared up at me in admiration, but I couldn’t stop myself from leaning down and capturing his lips with mine.
This is my home.
Axel Moretti’s POV
Her soft voice hazed my brain as her words whirled around my head and made my wolf whine restlessly. I was so overwhelmed by everything she had just told me, it was hard to decide what I should be feeling, and frankly, there were too many emotions I was flipping through that was preventing me of having the capability to properly respond.
I’m so angry, sad, and lost.
I want to rip everyone who ever even looked at her wrong into pieces. It enrages and saddens me knowing she was so carelessly mistreated as if she isn’t the only girl in the world to look, feel, and act the way she does, let alone be seen as a living being. If anything, she’s the most remarkable girl I’ve ever met, and nobody will ever come close to being her. She’s so perfect, it feels almost wrong to touch her because I fear I’ll contaminate her.
I don’t know what to do for the first time in my life. I know what I want, and need, to do, but I also know what she wants me to do, and they’re on opposite ends of the spectrum.
Looking down at her, I realized she was asleep. Her body was always light, which made it difficult to pin-point when she was deadweight and when she wasn’t.
‘Blaine, Danny, be in my office by the time I get there,’ I linked, unable to pry my eyes off of her beautiful sleeping face.
She always looks so worried and I’m not sure she knows it, yet when she sleeps her features fall neutral and really emphasize her beauty. I’ll never point it out though, because that alone will make it worse, besides, if she still appears distressed, it means she still feels that way somewhere in her.
I will do everything in my power to take away all of her worries.
With much struggle, I made the decision to lay her on the bed and stand up, except I felt terrible knowing I was about to leave her again and I couldn’t seem to move from my spot.
‘Change of plan, come over.’
‘I’m liking where this is going,’ Blaine replied flirtatiously and I rolled my eyes, withholding a growl.
God, I seriously hate him sometimes.
‘Dude, you just made me holler out laughing. I thought I was alone but I wasn’t, Ray’s kid is now crying for dear life cause I scared the shit out of him,’ Danny responded and I facepalmed.
They’re idiots, and I mean serious, in need of mental help, catastrophic idiots.
‘Why didn’t he teach him about mind-linking ? I’d shit myself too if a grown man suddenly started laughing for no apparent reason. He will officially be afraid of you for the rest of his life.’
‘Just wait until his wolf starts talking to him !’ Danny wheezed in a fit of laughter.
‘He’s not teaching him because he might not ever be able to mind-link,’ I snarled at them, interrupting their conversation and taking a deep breath before I said much crueler words, then the expected, yet dreaded, mind-link popped in my mind right after.
‘I apologize for disrupting you, Alpha, but I need to have a word with you about your Delta.’
Great…
‘Now would be best, I’m going to be talking to him if you don’t mind meeting me at my house,’ I replied, cutting off the connection just as I heard a knock on the front door.
I collected myself and left the room, quietly closing the door so her nap wouldn’t be disrupted and heading toward the front door. I opened it then stepped aside to let them in, go wait in the-
Wow ! I’ve never been in- I slapped my hand over Danny’s loud mouth, squeezing his cheeks to get a firm grip before pulling him closer with a glare.
My mate is sleeping and if you wake her up, I will end you, I growled lowly, feeling him nod beneath my hand so I released him and wiped my palm on my jeans.
I think I know why she’s sleeping, eh ? Blaine wiggled his eyebrows, taking a step back to get out of my reach when I snapped my glare onto him.
Don’t push it, I warned, hearing footsteps approaching the outside of the door so I turned and opened it, catching Ray with his hand up ready to knock.
You’re just in time, I stated, hearing Danny’s horror filled squeak behind me as he walked into view. I closed the door behind him and turned to face them, let’s take this to the back porch. I figured we would have this discussion inside, but seeing as how Danny can’t use his inside voice, we will be going out back so my mate can sleep peacefully, I shot him a look then started walking, earning another squeak before they proceeded to follow me down the hall.
What ? You’ve found your mate ? Congratulations, Alpha, Ray gave a bow, may I ask, when did this happen ?
Nearly a week ago, I shrugged, seeing his eyes bug out in shock through my peripheral vision. I then opened the door leading onto the porch and let everyone out, closing it behind me as they took seats on the chairs by the table.
Why haven’t you introduced her yet ? I’d love to meet her, and I’m sure everyone will be ecstatic that we now have a Luna, he replied, furrowing his eyebrows.
I don’t want to pressure her, I said, walking over and taking a seat as well, she’s very… I trailed off, attempting to find a word to describe her that doesn’t sound insulting, that’s until Blaine chimed in.