Jordan POV.
“We need to get back and stop slapping me,” my mate whines, I only slapped his bum once, and maybe his thighs twice, none of the slaps were too hard, the last one on his bum, he had to stretch in front of me, showing off his rounded bum, I couldn’t help but slap it.
“Don’t wiggle that pretty bum in my face then,” I say with a smile, he didn’t need to wiggle it, I loved his bum no matter what.
“I’m not, come on, everyone should be asleep by now,” he tells me dragging me out, as I’m getting to know my mate more and more, I notice how bad things are for him, how cruel his father is, how he told me he’d kill the two fo us for being mates, it’s not our choice, we were just given to each other, it’s the god’s choice. The cave, the way he knew how to get there, how he knew where to move and how, it’s not his first time, I could guess that now, and being pushed out of the cold house, it all screamed, it’s not the first time.
“Let’s go love,” I say holding his hand, it’s just us, I could hold it, just wait until we get back to my home, I’ll hold his hand always, I’d never let it go, I’d scream he’s my mate from the top of my lungs. We made it to back to the house, I helped him jump through the window into my room, I offered him to stay with me, I can hug him and keep him warm, I’d always keep him warm in more than one way.
“We need to be up early, good night,” my small mate says slipping out of my arms and into his room, I groaned, he left me, I didn’t want him to leave, my wolf was going crazy wanting to mark him already.
I couldn’t sleep, of course, I couldn’t sleep, knowing that Micah is in the room next to mine and I can’t hold him, I started to text Keiran, my brother, my alpha. I informed him about my situation with Micah a few days ago, he was happy for us but also worried about Micah’s situation, my messages tonight were about ways to get Micah over to our pack, to keep him with me, if we announce we’re mate it won’t end well while we’re here. I and Keiran agreed on a plan, for now, we’ll demand having Micah over for training over our pack, and we’re never going to give him back, he’s coming with me.
I finally managed to fall asleep, after making sure to get my brother’s blessing and assurance I’m getting my mate to come over with me, I haven’t been asleep for long before someone woke me up, I groaned, it’s too early, even Kiara doesn’t wake up this early, why am I being awakened this early, I saw my mate in my room, I smiled seeing him, I don’t mind morning cuddles. But another smell hit my nose, along with the frown on my mate’s face, I knew we weren’t alone, I turned to check who was in the room other than my mate, Joshua, the jerk.
“Yes?” I say sounding annoyed, I’m annoyed by Joshua’s presence in my room, blocking any hugs I could receive from my mate.
“It’s time to wake up, welcome to hell,” Joshua says all happy about annoying me this early in the morning, hell it is indeed, I got out of the bed with a groan, I didn’t get much sleep and this place is freezing, I never knew that hell was freezing cold.
I got dressed in a hoodie, sweat pants, and running shoes, my mate and the jerk stayed in my room until I was ready, I saw Micah observing my body, I might have flexed a little more for him, but when Joshua licked his lips, I got dressed, trying to ignore his violating eyes, I belong to my mate only. Checking my phone, it was way too early, the sun isn’t out yet, we were beating the birds around here, I followed them out of my room.
It wasn’t just us, there were other guys outside, all of them look like soldiers of hell, they looked exhausted, tired, but ready to fight, their eyes were soulless, no one would look happy in this unholy hour. We started to run, it started with a settled run, Micah was guiding us along with Joshua, the cold air was hitting my face, I didn’t want to run, I wanted to get back to sleep and take Micah with me, but we couldn’t do that, we had to stay away and do the stupid run.
The alpha decided to join us halfway through the run, he pushed everyone even harder, I saw Micah pulling back, pulling away from his father, while Joshua the kiss-ass jerk, stayed closer to the alpha wanting to be his right hand, I had to roll my eyes at that move, how low could you get. The running is helping to keep me warm, and running alongside Micah wasn’t that bad.
“Talk about a bum-kisser,” I whispered to Micah making him smile, although it was a small settled smile, I knew I caused it.
“It’s like an army of hell,” I whisper to my mate again, it’s just the two of us running, in the middle, the rest are behind us, the alpha and his little minion are ahead of us, we could joke around.
“Run soldier run,” Micah says giggling, while we kept on running next to each other.
“Push it, ladies!” I heard alpha Blade yell at us, push it, sure I’ll push it.
“Want to beat the bum-kisser?” I ask my mate, we can push it and win, we’ll run much faster than him.
“Sure, he always likes to show who’s stronger,” my mate says, he didn’t mean to sound this mad or angry, but I could hear the disappointment in his voice, the beta should be on his side, not trying to win over him.
“Let’s go then, make them eat dirt,” I say again making my mate smile, we pushed it harder, my encouragement helped my mate go even faster, and we beat both the alpha and the jerk beta.
“That’s how a run should be,” the alpha says walking inside his house, wiping his sweat, he didn’t mention that we won him, but once he was out of earshot, we both laughed, we won over them, ending the morning torture with a laugh, let the alpha bring the worse he got, I’m here for the win.