Theo's POV
I carry the girl back to the truck getting in and keeping her close, selfishly, of course. I could have put her next to me on the empty chair, but I wanted to keep her shivering body as close as possible and for as long as possible.
I've searched over two decades for my mate, and here she is half my fucking age, confused as hell and from god knows where.
I'm just shy of forty at a ripe old age of thirty-seven. This can't be, can it?
Why would the moon goddess make me wait this long for someone that wasn't even born when I came of age?
Why would I have a mate born so much younger than myself?
Maybe Rex is dreaming, being allured but her tantalising smell.
She is our mate, don't you feel that electricity sparking between you? He retorts in my mind like the cocky bastard he is.
I do. I feel the little zaps of electricity flowing between us at every point our bodies meet.
The girl remains quiet and still in my lap as Lucas and Andy drive the two of us back to the pack house. I call for Dr Knight to meet us there.
'Alpha?' Andy calls through a private mind link.
'Yes, Andy?'
'She smells weird. Nice but weird,' Rex growls, pushing forwards before I can stop him from doing so, letting my cat out of the bag. The girl jumps in my lap, remaining silent, but she does try to scramble away, which I do not allow—firmly putting her back into my lap.
'She's your mate?' Both of them ask together through a mind link.
'Apparently,' I retort as we pull up outside the pack house.
Immediately, I jump out, greeted by the doctor who has set up a guest room for our visitor.
She isn't leaving, moron.
I won't make her stay, Rex.
No, how could I? Will she even want someone of my age, fuck, probably not.
The doctor takes care of her as I stand guard outside the room.
He asks her millions of questions getting the same answer. I don't know, I can't remember. I haven't got a clue.
No name, no medical background, no memories.
She's frustrated and ends up crying before he's done, which makes me and more so Rex, livid at the doctor even though he's only doing the job I pay him for.
I stop listening, pushing away the background noise as I search through the girl's memories.
She's had a dark life, born to a high-up mother and father who were not part of her life, both seeming warriors in their pack. Her name is Lilith, but she prefers to be called Lil.
She attended a school that didn't just house werewolves but humans and witches too. So she can only be from one of four packs around here, seem as that is not standard protocol for our communities to do.
She has a mate.
Wait, what did you just say? Rex asks.
I pull that particular memory to the forefront of my mind as I feel her smiling at a man that looks not much younger than me.
'Lil,' he calls as she takes his hand.
'You are my mate?' she says, and he smiles whilst people dance around them.
'Yes, I've known for a while, but I wanted to wait until you were of age until you could feel the bond too.'
'Alpha won't approve,' she says sadly, looking behind her as if someone might be following the pair of them.
'I know, Lil, but I don't care what my father says. I'll leave with you before he stops us."
Fuck, maybe he's dead. We're her second chance, mate. Rex suggests pining in my head as the doctor interrupts my thoughts.
'She has a bad contusion to her head with a concussion, bruises all over her body. Finger marks mostly, I believe. I think she may have been abused before turning up here, Alpha,' he tells me through mind-link.
'Can you have more than one, mate?' I ask as he leaves the room, his bag in hand and two used gloves in the other.
'Why do you ask Theo?'
'Her memories, she found her mate, but Rex is adamant she's our mate. I didn't see any memories of her burying her first mate, nor either of them rejecting each other,' I tell him.
'I've heard of a rare few people being double-mated. Most of them chose one. He pats me on the shoulder, looking at me gravely, 'I'd say maybe the other mate is the abuser,' he suggests shrugging his shoulder before turning from me and walking three paces.
"Congratulations, Alpha, you've been waiting a long time," he speaks aloud, walking away from me as I stay rooted to the spot outside the door.
I wait nearly twenty minutes before knocking on the hardwood door three times and then entering. The girl is sat up, huddled in blankets in the bed, with wide eyes as she stares at me walk into the room before her.
I take the time to study her.
She has ashy blonde hair that reaches below her breasts and huge blue eyes that are shrouded by the heaviest set of natural eyelashes I've ever seen. Her jaw is rounded, and her cheeks are high. And her lips, god, are they full enough to kiss. Rex purrs aloud at the sight of her.
"How are you feeling?" I ask, walking to the bed to take a seat at the very end where her feet should be.
"Warmer," she tells me.
"Good, may I?" I hold my hand out for hers. She lays her delicate little hand in my palm, and I gather more memories. I am specifically looking for more with this man, her mate. It seems she hadn't known about him for long, the memories are limited, and before that, it was only in passing she spoke to him.
She's ours, Rex shouts at me angrily.
Shut up, you stupid wolf. If she has another mate, then that is her destiny.
Not on my watch, she's ours, and I'm not sharing.
I push the bastard away, concentrating my attention back on the girl who sat staring at me silently.
"I can heal you if you would like?" I suggest because it seems I've been too silent for too long, I shouldn't have said it. You can only heal your mate; we aren't mates yet.
Fucking are.
"How?" She asks cocking her head to me with a small smile that makes her face look all the more beautiful.
"It sounds gross, but if I lick your wounds, my saliva will heal you," I shrug my shoulder, moving closer to her along the bed because she smells that fucking good, "our werewolf has fast healing powers."
"Werewolf?" She asks, stammering the simple word sounding shocked at the thought of it, of us being werewolves.
"Yes, that is what we are," I say, moving close enough to smell her again. She definitely has a wolf.
"I'm. I am. A?" she trips over her words while her brain processes what I've told her, so I finish her sentence for her as her mouth gapes open with shock, I presume.
"A werewolf."
She nods, her eyes glazing over. She must be talking to her wolf.
I take her distraction to lick the gnarly cuts along her arm, the one on the side of her head. The biggest one on her right thigh. My cock hates me for being so close to her, for tasting her skin when I haven't even claimed her as mine yet. My canines have elongated, ready to mark, but I control the urge to sit back away from her at a moment's notice.
Mark, her already. Rex shouts at me as I settle on the end of the bed away from her tantalising smell snubbing his needs.
"That's not weird at all," she laughs nervously as I realise she wasn't at all as distracted as I had thought she was. Instead, I hadn't realised she'd been intently watching me. My cheeks burn with embarrassment as our eyes meet again.
"You'll heal quicker now" I stand from the end of the bed, turning to leave as her breathing changes. It picks up speed as she sniffs the air. Her heart flutters as she takes in sharp breaths.
"Rest now. You'll be healed by tomorrow," I promise her. I can already feel myself taking her wounds, the sharp stabbing under my skin where I'm taking her pain.
You see, I'm not a normal wolf, and neither am I a standard Alpha. I have unique gifts, powers, whatever you want to call them.
I've been condemned with the power of sight, not that anyone outside of myself, my gamma and beta or my parents know, and I've never found a person worthy enough to tell besides them.
And I can also heal people, other wolves within my pack and this girl that belongs to me.
I don't use my powers, and I've never tried to expand them. Well, that's not particularly true. My sight power I do but heck, people bumping into me allows for their whole life story to flow between us, meaning I don't particularly jump to see people's personal matters, and I've never tried to exercise it to the point I can block it.
I try not to use them, and I try not to touch others to prevent the use of it.
"Theo?"
"Ah, Lucas," I knew he'd be waiting for me, ready to pounce and extract as much information as possible.
"So she's your mate. Have you told her yet?"
"No."
"But you healed her?" He says, pointing to my head where my skin is the wettest. I run my fingers over the tiny mark left behind, bringing some of my blood away.
"Yes."
"Are you going to tell her or wait for her memory to come back?" He asks as we walk down the corridor and up the stairs to my room on the top floor.
He follows me inside as I strip, setting up the shower to rid the oozing blood from my body. I've nearly healed her and myself, my leg and head the only things still morphing in front of me in the mirror as they seal themselves up. I watch in amazement at what my body is doing as Lucas waits with bated breath behind me.
"When the time is right," I mutter to both Lucas and Rex. If she stays, I'll reveal that she is my mate.
My luna, destined to help me run this pack and birth me a son to pass it down to.
Liliths POV He licked my damned wounds. What the fuck was up with that, and why did my skin feel tingly as he did it? He was almost drooling, like the taste of my skin was sweet nectar on his tongue. I lay back in the unfamiliar bed, trying to remember anything, but my brain physically smarts at my efforts to search through it, an aching throbbing underneath my forehead. It's like there's a massive brick wall that I can't even push down with my bare hands, I feel memories sitting behind it, ready to burst through, but they can't. He, Theo, said I was a werewolf. A fucking werewolf. You are. There's that voice again. My name is Abyss. Am I crazy, fuck, I must be? Hearing fucking voices in the back of my head like a loon and also staying inside this house where I know no one, and no one seems to know me. I'm your wolf. Wolf right... You are safe here. How do you know that? Theo is safe. You can trust my senses. Ha, trusting a fucking voice in the back of my head. I g
Theo's POV I awoke to her touching my face as she studied me. She hadn't noticed I was watching, even revelling in her touch until she almost screamed blue murder. I can only presume her wolf woke up too. With her eyes glazed over, I took a sure, steady breath in just to smell her. It's been six days of me sitting here in this room even though I have work to do, and I still haven't got my fix off of her. I should be out there asking other packs if they are missing a pack member, be trying to get her home where she belongs and back to the mate I've seen in her memories, but I've done none of that. And that's not because Rex has stopped me, either. I just. I don't know. I guess I've been overtly selfish. Maybe I'm banking on her demanding to go home, for me to drive her to every pack that borders my own. Maybe that would be in her best interest, but I know it isn't mine. I'm not young. In fact, I'm way past my sell-by date to find my mate and as an alpha, not having an heir
Theo's POVLilith remains unconscious for a whole day as I call a meeting between myself, my father, my gamma and beta. We are sat around the table in the private dinning room on my floor of the house whilst I have Calley sitting with Lilith under the instruction to call me the moment she twitches."Khai, as in the heir to the Diamond Blood Pack. Khai Diamond" Lucas states looking at me as if I grew three heads over night. His distaste for the situation is plain to see and I can feel his wolf fighting to take control of him in this moment as his anger lances through him at the revelation I have just dished. "Do you know any other Khai around here?" I ask exasperated because I had already thought of this as I realised ho I'm up against. He shrugs his shoulder looking to my father for support."She's your mate, Rex has confirmed that?" My father asks with bated breath. Maybe he's expecting me to deny, to say that I've become desperate in my search for my fated. Maybe he wants me to say
Lilith's POVI'm sorry. Abyss tells me before I feel as if I'm pushed inside of my own body. Everything changes as I feel like I’m having an out-of-body experience, or is it an inner-body experience?.I can still see Theo at the end of the bed but it’s as if I’m looking through someone else’s eyes as he listens to the words come out of my mouth that I didn't grant permission to leave. "The last thing she remembers is hitting her head and screaming for Khai," I say in a weird voice that doesn't belong to me. I feel heavy as I see Theo through hazy vision push forward from the chair he was sitting in. I fall into his arms as my body feels far too exhausted to stay awake.I'm running, running from a man. A familiar man that's chasing me out of a house. A packed house I think."I'll be a kind little wolf. I'll give you a five-minute head start" he snarls at me as I turn to bolt my way through the forest not so far from the building.I'm whipping between the trees narrowly kissing trunks
Theo's POVA week passes where everyone in the pack gets to meet and make Lil feel part of the pack. She’s loved by everyone instantly and I find myself falling down a rabbit hole at her feet looking up willing to follow her anywhere her feet may take her but she has no clue about that because I haven’t told her.I promised myself if she decided to stay I would tell her but I haven’t. I keep moving the goal post because I feel something is wrong, something is missing. It’s a stupid feeling that I can’t quite understand but it’s there and I don’t want to ignore it selfishly because I crave to claim and mate her.Then there are the bad things, the things behind the scenes have been heating up.There have been two rogue attacks on the north-faced side of my borders. The borders that meet with the Blood Moon pack. Both times I’ve been called in the early hours by my warriors as rogues sat on the border of blood moon packs land watching, waiting to attack. Only did they attack when I turn
Lilith POVTheo and his pack have been on high alert for three long days. It's almost a full moon, a night I'm told is for mate pairing. The moon brings out the wolf in us and makes that wolf at its strongest under the full light of the moon allowing mates to find each other easier than if it weren't a full moon.Though apparently, some mates can find each other outside of a full moon.Theo's occupied with protecting the borders so I'm left in the company of his mother and the orphan girl called Calley that lives in the pack house with her twin brother Arlo.I like Calley, she's kind and sweet. Attentive but strict. She's been teaching me how to cook, joking with me about Theo's attention on me but most of all she's been enlightening me about life as a wolf, especially in this pack. She's convinced that I might be Theo's mate and I guess I might like that if it were to happen. To belong to him, someone that's strong and born to be a leader. My body calls for it but I guess I'll fin
Lilith's POVThe pack house and the gardens that are backed by the forest are full of people, hundreds of wolves not only from here but from two other neighbouring packs.The garden has been transformed with tables and chairs dotted throughout, there’s a stage off to the side where Theo had greeted everyone before he disappeared leaving me alone with all these people I don’t know. I’ve had a few weird looks and some smiles but I don’t recognise anyone and it’s making me feel anxious. "Theo invites other packs because not all of us will find our mates otherwise" she explained when I came down the stairs in the tight figure-hugging glittery silver dress. She made me twirl as she approved of mygown.It hits the floor with a side slit up my left leg right to my thigh. It’s tight on my chest revealing ample cleavage and I'm scared that if I move too quickly I might show too much of my body. I've been quiet and reserved hiding on the back wrap-around porch near Andy, apparently, he isn't
Theo's POVI find myself scrubbing blood from my body in the shower for the second time in as many days without many memories of how it got there. The water runs down my body onto the white tile spoiled with red. Rex took full control pushing me into the recess of his mind blocking me out so I couldn't remember his lack of control.I know Doug's dead but I don't know how he did it or what he did with the body.Delivered back to its Alpha. He tells me sleepily.Great so now we're in disagreement with the Amethyst pack, good on Rex. Fuck. We might have needed them to help and Gregor was a friend you fucking idiot.He shouldn't have touched what is mine, I'll kill any bastard that touches her. Now cool your beans and go see if she's awake yet. Rex pushes me away so I can no longer hear him. Good ducking riddance.He's right about one thing though and that is I need to check in on Lil.I also need to tighten my borders because obviously, people are after her.Then there's this intense nee