Wayne would add ingredients and whisk eggs in a small bowl. Then he would leave it and take out toasts from the toaster. Olive watched as he took fresh bread from its package and poured the whisked egg onto the sides, flattening them with a bread knife.
“Are you gonna keep watching me or come here and give me a good morning kiss?” Wayne spoke up without turning to look at her. She peered at his working hands and gasped.
“You can cook?” she asked.
“What I wanted was a kiss, not a question,” he stated with a frown. Olive smiled and walked up to him. She hugged him and kissed him.
“Good morning,” she said and he smirked.
“You finally don’t look like Eve,” he replied. Olive gulped down and shifted from him.
“Why didn’t you wear me a dress or pyjamas?” she asked while looking away from him and tucking her hair behind her ear.
“And stop myself from having a free show of the garden of Eden? No thank you,” he answered and went to the frying pan. He turned the flat egg over and let it cook for a few seconds before putting it into a plate.
“You cook so well. Your fried eggs look and smell so good, even if I haven’t tasted it,” she complimented as she took deep breaths of the aroma.
“I actually haven’t done this before,” he said and her eyes widened.
“What?”
“I checked this out of the internet last night while you were sleeping naked in my arms,” he added and Olive stood gawking at him with her mouth open.
Olive blinked her eyes repeatedly as she stared at Wayne who was placing the egg coated slices of bread into the oil in the frying pan.
“You have never cooked before?” she asked in surprise.
“Not really. I don’t remember if I ever set a stove on fire for cooking purposes,” Wayne answered with a shrug as he casually placed the fresh toasts on a plate and kept it beside a bowl of sliced fruits.
“But you’re doing it so well, baby,” she cooed and hugged his back as he turned the bread in the pan to get a perfect toast.
“Am I not perfect in everything?” he replied with a deep chuckle. Olive smiled and kissed his neck before letting go of him.
“I’m guessing these fruits are meant for blending?” she asked as she walked to the bowl. The smell of fresh toasts made her hungry and she inhaled the sweet aroma surrounding the area she just came to.
“Yes. You can do that. Let’s have a speedy breakfast,” he answered and she got to work immediately. She blended the fruits and poured the smoothie into glasses. While Wayne was finishing up with his French toasts and setting the table at the same time. He had made two different types of toasts. The one made by the machine which was to be eaten with veggies and fried egg as a sandwich. And the second one which was coated and fried with the eggs and veggies imbedded.
They sat down for breakfast few minutes later and Olive felt super proud of her mate. The meal was so simple yet really good and nourishing.
“If you are a good cook like this, I might hire you as our personal cook instead,” she said after finishing her third French toast.
“If you keep eating like that, I might hire a trolley to roll you back into Aspen City by the end of this trip,” he teased and she laughed. She still picked up the regular toasted sandwich anyway and began to eat while sipping her second dose of smoothie. It looked weird, but Wayne liked it.
“Do you still freeze and levitate things? We haven’t really talked about this for some time now,” Olive suddenly brought that topic up. Wayne rubbed his chin and gulped down a lot of water while Olive watched on.
“I do. But remember Mufasa gave me pills?”
“Oh, I totally forgot that!” Olive exclaimed.
“Yeah. So the pills which I regularly take are dampening the powers. Sometimes I do feel a lot of energy in my hands but that is usually when I forget to take them.”
“The pills are here with you?”
“Yes, of course. You didn’t think I would take a chance at freezing my mate forever, did you?”
Olive chuckled softly and pinned her lips together.
“I wish we both could stay like this instead. You know, alone to be with each other. With no one opposing our union. No one being a nuisance. Just us,” she stated with a sigh at the end.
“I understand. And I assure you that we would continue to take breaks like this. Okay, baby?” he assured her and squeezed her palm.
“Yes,” she replied with a bright smile.
The next couple of days was very fun and worth it for both Olive and Wayne as they had time to be very intimate with each other. The kind of intimacy that had nothing to do with sexuality.
Wayne would take her fishing and they would cook and eat it together. They would bake cakes and do flour battles, messing up the kitchen then cleaning it up together. Olive made Wayne read her a children’s fairytale much to his disgust, but she slept off in his arms as he did so and it made him like it.
Every night, the moon was getting fuller and soon, it was just two days to the Mating Ritual. Jake had been calling to inform them of the arrival of guests, including President Kim who had arrived with a lot of resources in support of his friend’s Mating Ritual. Alpha Dante Maximo was said to be getting ready to come over to Balendin Pack from Milan and Wayne wanted to be the one to welcome his very good friend.
So, it was their last day at Lumpusberg and Olive was fully packed for the trip back to Aspen City. Wayne sent their luggage first because he said there was something he wanted to get for Olive.
“I don’t understand you,” Olive stated in confusion.
“I said, we can’t go to Aspen City immediately because I have to get you something,” he explained again with a sigh.
“Why? What is it? It can’t be gotten at Aspen City?”
“It can’t. Now enter the car and let’s head into town. Wait, you haven’t even seen Lumpusberg for real,” he stated as he opened the car door for her.
“Well, I was thinking I would get to see it another time,” she replied as she sat in. He shrugged and closed the car door, then got in himself and drove them away from the house.
Lumpusberg was another lovely city in Balendin and it was very well developed just like Aspen City and other cities in the pack. They drove to the city center and Wayne walked her into a huge shopping mall. He was holding her hand and wriggling his keys in his other hand as they entered. Olive’s heart was suddenly thumping hard. There were alone in public. What if they got recognized?
And all of a sudden, someone screamed in delight and that was how the whole place erupted. It wasn’t like they hadn’t seen their Alpha before. But this time, he was holding a girl affectionately. And they had all heard that the Alpha would be involved in the Mating Ritual himself, which was why it was able to be shifted from the original dates.
From every angle, camera clicks were sounding and the girls wouldn’t stop screaming. They crowded around them as they moved and Olive was smiling gently, she waved in a tiny manner but that only gingered them more. This was the top couple of the pack and to them, they were absolutely loveable. Wayne’s face was no longer rigid like it used to be, he actually had a small smile on.
Soon, the security of the mall arrived and surrounded the couple, pushing back the raging crowd. Wayne and Olive were led upstairs to a separate VIP section to shop while the people left behind took to the internet to post their videos and photos of the first couple and soon to be the first family of the pack.