Harley simply stared at Ace as he grinned at him, hoping he would get Harley to burst out with some nasty rude comment but Harley simply shrugged his shoulder and nodded his head as he turned back to the tablet.
“Well I hope we become friends then.” Harley simply pointed out. Getting even Ace shocked at Hope glanced up at him completely taken aback. “It’s not like I could hate your forever if Hope decided to marry you. I became friends with Ronan the same way with the same feelings. You’re not any special case.” Harley smirked out as he tapped the tablet off, getting Ace to press his lips together as he noticed Harley clearly had the upper hand in this. He was clearly the one holding the candle in this situation.
“We really need to get to work…” Hope nodded slowly before grabbing Harley’s wrist as she glanced towards Ace. “I’ll talk to you later. We really need to get the duties done or else I don’t be such a good alpha right?” She asked with a hopeful smile, hoping he would just leave it alone and luckily for her, he nodded his head in agreement.
“Right, right.” Ace chuckled as he held up his hands to show his surrender. “I’ll leave you two to be. After all, I should really start respecting you two right?”
“Would that be possible?” Harley asked in annoyance as Hope pulled him to start walking.
“I’m glad we’re on the same page, Harley.” Ace grinned out before turning and leaving the spot.
Harley rolled his eyes as he turned his gaze down to Hope who was still pulling him towards the warehouse. Of course she was a very strong werewolf, that was also mostly because she learned to concentrate her energy on strike and her great analytical skills, but she was just an averaged sized woman. So she didn’t really look strong at all.
She had slender legs and smooth slightly slim arms with narrow shoulders. She had a relatively large chest, but not excessively large, just somewhere in between. She also had slightly wide hips with a slim waist.
So yes, she looked like an ordinary woman. Further reason for the others to hate the idea of her being alpha. But her werewolf form showed them all. In her transformation, Hope was a beast.
“Has your hair always been this long?” Harley asked as he noticed her dark brown hair almost reaching down to her mid thighs. Not that he would notice much about her in the past. He was more drawn to her personality that what she actually looked like.
Hope glanced over her shoulder towards him in confusion and then glanced down at the length of her hair.
“Um… Yeah.” She shrugged her shoulders as she chuckled. “It’s always been this long. Well not really. I used to have shoulder length hair… Wait why am I telling you this!? You should know that this is the first time I kept it long!”
“I just never really noticed before.” He shrugged his shoulders as he smiled down at her and reached out to pick gather a few strands of her hair, curling it loosely around his index finger. “Now that I mention it, it’s really pretty. Not to mention the edges are literally cut as though you used a ruler for it. Plus, talk about the bright shine-”
“Could you stop?” She asked with furrowed brows as she frowned slightly at him. “Stop inspecting my hair. Inspect something else. It’s creepy.” She rolled her eyes as he chuckled out and pressed his lips together. Looking over her as he tried to think of what to compliment other than her hair.
“Okay.” He nodded as he stared into her eyes. “Wow, I never really noticed before but you have a really dark shade of brown eyes, Hope.” He said as he leaned in suddenly, though she didn’t step back. Heat rushed up her cheeks as she watched him stare into the depths of her eyes, not saying anything for a moment before he nodded to himself as he leaned back. “Plus they are kind of bigger.”
“How is that a compliment?” She asked with a frown as he chuckled out.
“Well I happened to like big eyes.” He shrugged his shoulders, getting her glance at the floor instead. “You have long lashes and it makes you look really pretty when you stare up at me.” He smiled to himself as he glanced elsewhere, picturing ‘all’ the times she always looked up at him which was almost every single time. “You know, now that I mention it, I really find staring into your eyes very attractive…”
“Okay.” Hope cleared her throat. “Find something else. Let’s stop talking about my eyes.” She sighed out as she glanced up at him only to have him chuckle.
“Well, you have a really cute small nose.” He nodded to himself as she stared at him, clearly fishing for compliments. His eyes then shifted down to her natural cherry lips, getting him to pause when he suddenly noticed how drawn he was to them for the first time. “… You have really nice lips… Hope.” He said, more of a whisper as he reached out unconsciously and grabbed her chin, reaching his thumb to her lips, stroking it slightly. “And soft…” He bit onto his lower lip as he felt the softness under his thumb.
Hope at this point could only hear her heart thudding against her chest as she noticed most of his attention drawn onto her lips. Wondering if he was going to kiss her.
Kiss….?
“Ahem!” Hope cleared her throat, getting Harley to snap out of what ever trans he was him, retreating his hand in an instant as he noticed what he was going. “To the warehouse!” She awkwardly announce and turned sharply, though her legs became noodle-like. Harley simply nodded and walked behind her the rest of the way. Still feeling the nagging feeling in his chest.
The somewhat sad feeling that Hope wasn’t going to return the feelings he had for her.
But as he had always had patience ever since, all he had to do was hold them back for now.
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