Laura’s POV
I was home alone. My body was tense. The house was quiet but a strange smell hung over the place.
The smell tingled my senses and filled me with joy. My wolf was howling loudly and all I could think about was him.
I was cautious and followed the smell upstairs. The smell became stronger and my body convulsed pleasurably as I remembered the sublime ecstasy that I had felt when I met him the first time.
Met him?
No. I had not met him. But his voice was delicious and deep, his touch was sensual and caring and I couldn’t help but shiver as I remembered the way he played with me in the dark.
The mystery around him was tantalizing and though it seemed quite stupid that I was doing so much for someone that I hardly knew, I really didn’t think much of it.
He was my mate and for those few electric seconds, I felt love and genuine care. Wasn’t that enough?
I got to my room but it was shrouded in darkness. The light switch was off and the windows were opened and they let in a cool draft of air.
The scent hung strongly in the room. I was elated. He was here. In the dark.
I flipped the switch.
Nothing.
I looked around the room but there was nothing and no one. Nothing has changed except a bright single red rose that lay on the bed with a note next to it.
Cliche but sweet.
It was a first but I loved the gesture.
I picked up the note first and smelled it.
My wolf was wild. His scent was all over it. I was right; he was here. But why did he leave?
Part of me was pained that he had made himself a mystery to me.
I opened the note.
“My Lovely Laura,
I feel that you are sad and I understand. I keep myself as a mystery to you but it is for good reasons, for the building of our empire…”
It was like he was reading my mind.
My body tingled sweetly.
‘My Lovely Laura’. His voice was in my head and I imagined as he pronounced every word.
It was amazing.
“… We shall soon be together, My Love. Forgive me, but I need to ask one more favor from you. After this favour, we shall be together. I promise you. There are documents in Dante’s office about a pure breed alpha. I need you to get them for me. I need them to actualize my plans and bring down that bastard that made your life a misery. Do this and we can finally be together and I would no longer need to hide from you. I crave you every day, mate, since the day that I met you. Your moans, your warm skin, your soft lips. I think about you and all I have wanted for days is to bury myself inside you and wake up every morning to your beautiful face. Help me make my desires a reality. I love you, Laura.”
The note ended and I was in an array of emotions. Horny, sad, confused, loved; I felt them all and all I could do was sit down on my bed with the rose in my hands and think.
Why was he asking this of me? Was all of this just a joke or…
No. I felt the mate pull for him. He immediately accepted me as his mate and I felt the desire brimming in him as he touched me. It was glorious. A feeling that I thought I would never feel.
It had to be real.
I looked at the note again.
Documents? He wanted me to get documents from Dante’s office? How? How was I going to pull that off? I already had so much on my plate at the moment.
I sighed. My mind was in turmoil.
Part of me wanted to do it all without hesitation but something held me back.
A doubt.
A doubt that any of this was real and that I was just being used for someone else’s selfish agenda.
I felt that way with Dante. He had kept me as a bed warmer for six years and what did that get me?
Nothing.
Only to be one day tossed aside like a rag because that barren bitch came back into his life but fucked up destiny.
It grew my hate for Dante.
My lover wanted to end him. So did I. It was a mutual interest that we both shared.
That was the only thing that made all of this worth it.
My mind was made up. I was going to do it. I was going to get the documents.
Tonight.
I exhaled. I was filled with fear. I was going to steal from Dante. I had never stolen in my life.
There was a first time for everything.
I got dressed.
All black. But something not so suspicious. That was what all these spies wore in movies to blend in with the dark. Right?
I was set and grabbed the most quiet pair of shoes I owned and got out.
I headed to my car and to my surprise, there was another rose and a note.
I had just driven in with this car. I was certain that there was no note inside of it.
I picked it up and read.
“If you see this, Mate, it means that you saw the one I left upstairs for you. I saw you getting ready to go. You looked beautiful. Your body is perfect underneath the evening light. I imagined soft sex passionate sex with you in the gentle light of perfumed candles. You are amazing.”
My heart did a flip.
He…he was watching me?
I looked around but there was no one. I was intrigued and terrified at the same time. Maybe he could see me right now.
My legs felt like jelly beneath me as I got into my car.
I kept the rose on my dashboard and took a deep breath. There was no turning back now.
I pulled out of the driveway.