Yeah, that, but it just means that she didn’t just randomly choose us, I whisper to him, making a huge smile appear on his face before he pulls his lips back to mine in a passionate kiss. I smile against his lips as his hand ran past the side of my neck to lightly set against my back.
When he pulls away, I set my hands on his knees before setting my head against his chest as all the stress of the past few weeks leave my body because of this moment. Because of being with the man I was destined to spend the rest of my life with, the man I can’t dream of ever being without.
I’m just worried, he whispers, making me lift my head to look at him again.
About what ?
Being alpha is a very risky job and there’s always a high probability that I’ll be killed in the fights, that sentence makes my body shake with chills and my heart beat rise in fear. but now I know that if I die, so do you and that worries me. You have so much potential to do great things in life and the last thing I want to do is cut that off.
I shake my head, standing up to sit on his lap before wrapping my arms around his neck as his go to my waist and hold me up as I stare into his eyes with a fierce look. No, don’t even think that because even if we weren’t true mates, if you died, I would never do anything except celebrate you and celebrate what we had. You’re my life, Joseph, and nothing will change that.
I don’t want-
I shake my head, cutting him off. Don’t think like that because now, no matter what happens, we’ll always be together. If you die, I die with you.
He takes a big breath before letting it out, his eyes fluttering closed. My index finger lightly runs over his cheek bone, waiting to see what he was going to say. His eyes flutter open to show their electric blue, which shocks me. My wolf didn’t like that.
I give him a confused look. Why ?
Because we spend our life protecting you and this just means we have to protect our self even more, he whispers, a low grumbling appear in his voice.
I give him a soft smile. I never said that we weren’t going to fight for ourselves because that’s our to priority ; to live together for a long time. We deserve that. You deserve that years of me loving you and holding you and showing you how incredible you are.
I watch as his eyes fade into back to their hazel color before he gives me a soft kiss. I love you.
I go to say it back, but the back door is thrown open to show Elder Collins standing there with a worried face along with Conner and Cody standing behind him. Joey immediately tenses up again as he knows that something’s wrong. There was a sighting of a rogue around your pack by our tracker and the guards just told us that there’s a breach in the perimeter.
Joey stands up, which pushes me off of his lap while he pulls me into a standing motion as we hear rustling in the woods. He looks up at his beta who looked like he was already in high alert. Get Kade inside.
All of a sudden, I heard a loud roar as all the men standing to the side of me immediately shifted into their wolves while Joey grabbed me as quick as lightening in his arms, but it was too late. A huge pain spreads throughout my leg as I let out a loud scream as Joey feels the pain too, falling to the ground with me. I look up to see huge red eyes staring at me with blood dripping down his snout before it’s hit by an even larger wolf and I’m assuming it’s Elder Collins by the unfamiliar color of the fur.
The pain grows as Joey finds a way to stand up and grab me before pulling me inside as he limps from the pain in his leg. When we get inside, Melissa jumps up to grab me while Lila went to her son. I was sat down on the couch as I bit my lip to keep myself from screaming from the rogue bite that was bleeding a lot on my leg. I wasn’t able to keep in my scream when a towel was pressed to my wound.
Melissa, call Dr. Moore, Lila demands as she focuses on her son, who was groaning on the ground while a different towel was pressed to his wound. The pain in my body was going down as my skin turned cold and white as my heart kept beating as fast as it could inside my chest.
My body felt like jelly as my head starts to feel dizzy, making me want to just go to sleep. I notice the way Melissa is looking at me before she presses her hand to my arm. My eyes start to flutter as I hear heavy footsteps on the floor before a warm hand presses to my skin as the front door creaks open before slamming shut. Dr. Moore’s voice travels up to my ear. What happened ?
I ignore what they were saying to just let my eyes focus on my mate that was laying on the floor a few feet away, whispering something to Melissa who kept pressure on his wound while the two adults focused on me. All the pain washed away as my body went into shock as Dr. Moore tried to find a course of action that would help me. I let my eyes close as my heartbeat started to fill my ears and I fell into a dark sleep.
Kade’s POV
I wobble my way to the kitchen as Joey follows behind me with his small limp. It’s been about a week since that rogue bit my leg and I had a boot on my leg since walking on it could open the stitches that Dr. Moore had to put in. Joey’s wound had healed up and he only had a small amount of pain because of his werewolf strength masking most of it while I still healed like a normal human, which sucked because this shit hurt.
Good morning, boys, how’re we feeling today ? Lila asked as she washed off her paintbrushes in the kitchen sink, glancing up at us to see how we were looking.
Joey’s hand sat on the middle of my back as he looked up at his mom. I think we’re feeling better today. I’m definitely feeling a lot better than Kade.
Melissa and Cody come down the stairs with their backpacks swung over their shoulders. They give us smiles when they see us before looking at Lila who stares down at her paintbrushes. Are you sure you’ll be okay to go to school ?
I look at Melissa as she gives me a confused look and I nod my head. Yeah, I have to go to school today anyways, I’ve already missed four days. I can’t get too far behind or I’ll never graduate.
Well, we wouldn’t let that happen, Cody said as he walked into the kitchen to make some coffee as Joey kept his arm wrapped around my waist as I keep my balance using the crutches that were underneath my arms. I look up at Joey who gives me a soft smile and rubs my back lightly that sends shocks up my spine, making my body shake a bit.
We have to pick up Emilie, I remind him and he nods his head, grabbing his keys off of the counter and going over to give his mom a kiss on the cheek before coming back over to me as we wave goodbye to everyone. We walk out the front door to his car where he helps me in before sticking the crutches into the back.
We get past the gate where the guards wave at us before we hit the main road. The radio plays softly between us as I stare out the window at the trees that are whipping past as Joey hits the speed limit. I jump slightly when he hand sets on his shoulder, grabbing my attention.
Are you doing okay ? He asks me in a soft voice.
Yeah, I’m doing okay. I just wish all of this didn’t have to happen, I whisper, turning my head to stare at him, hating to see that guilty look appear on his face because I didn’t mean to make him feel that way. This was in no way his fault because this was our job. We had to protect this pack and if that involves us getting hurt in the process, then that’s okay.
I’m sorry, if there was anything I could do, I totally would, but- he starts.
No, it’s okay. I didn’t mean it like that. We have to do this because we have people to protect, I understand that, I whisper to him.