ULRIC KNIGHT
"Alpha Knight! it's a pleasure to have you in my pack!" Alpha Reign, of the North Pack, says to me as I and my Beta enter his pack in hopes that I'll finally be able to meet my mate.
The mate I've been searching for quite some time and I'm starting to think that the goddess didn't make one for me.
Maybe she's punishing me for all the bad I've done. Maybe she thinks I don't deserve one. Sometimes I too, think I don't deserve a mate.
"It's a pleasure to meet you Alpha Reign. Hope everything is going well in your pack." I say to him even though I have no idea how to properly have a full conversation with anyone.
As the days are going by my patience to stay around people is weakening. I just can't stand the sight of them. If I'm around them for more than twenty minutes I might tear them in half.
"Oh yes, Thank the goddess everything is going smoothly except for a few rogues disturbing our pack then and now." He informs me.
Their defense must suck.
"That's unfortunate maybe my warriors could provide some help. Whenever you need them just ask me." I inform him.
I'm not completely rude. I can be nice.
sometimes.
"That's so great and humble of you Alpha Knight. I've prepared a meeting for you so you can hopefully find your mate. All the members of the pack will be present. For now, you can rest at the Pack House, the meeting will be held in an hour." He explains to me the events and I nod.
I walk back to my car so we can follow them to the Pack House.
Soon the car stops and the pack house comes into my view from the car window.
I open my door and walk out of the car closing it. I take a look at the house, missing mine.
"This way Alpha Knight." Alpha Reign leads us the way into the house.
"Beta Dave, Show Alpha Knight and his Beta the rooms we prepared for them." He orders his beta and he nods his head and leads me to the staircase.
He takes a left turn when we reach the top of the staircase. He stops at a room and opens the door before looking in my direction.
"Here's your room Alpha Knight." He says and moves to the room left to mine and turns to Hayden, my Beta.
"Beta Hayden, Your room is on beside his." Hayden nods with a smile and thanks him for letting them stay at their house.
"There's no problem. It's an honor to have you guys here. I hope you find what you're looking for Alpha Knight." He says before making his way down the stairs to do whatever I don't care about.
Hope.
Something that seems to be the only thing I've been doing for the past several years.
So much that I'm starting to despise that word.
If hope was an object or a person, he would be in half by now.
'Good thoughts Ulric.Good thoughts.'
My wolf, Arius, comments make me want to roll my eyes.
it's pretty obvious who has the patience between my wolf and me.
"Hey don't worry. we'll find her soon." Hayden tries to comfort me.
When is this soon?
"For now try to get some rest and for the love of the goddess don't break their furniture. I'm not really in the mood of apologizing and buying them new expensive furniture. It's just an hour." Hayden lectures me making me glare at him.
Okay, I may have anger issues and I may have caused some trouble by breaking the previous Pack's stuff but it's not my fault that I can't handle the fact, that maybe my mate doesn't exist.
Okay, maybe it's my fault.
I walk into my room ignoring him completely and close the door before taking my jacket off and walking to the bed.
I sit at the side of the bed and run my hands through my hair.
'Rest, you need it, I need it too." Arius says and I do just that.
I take off my shoes and lay straight on the bed trying to get some sleep.
I haven't been sleeping well or sleeping at all lately.
Not having my mate by my side is killing me physically and mentally.
Sometimes like this, when I'm all alone, I think about my mate, if she was here.
Like what would be the color of her eyes, her hair color. will it be straight or curly? I kinda want it to be curly. I want to play with her curls. But if she ends up having straight hair that'll be fine by me. I hope her height will be short.
'Her lips.' Arius lets out in a dreamy voice.
Of course, how can we even forget the lips?
But we can not think of such things when we are not even sure that she exists.
'Mate exists! Don't ever say that mate doesn't exist!"
Arius bursts out of me before blocking me probably to cool down.
I do try to get some rest and close my eyes.
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I open my eyes to the sound of knocking on the door. I get up from the bed and wear my shoes and walk to the door, opening it.
"There are waiting for you to start the meeting," Hayden informs me and I nod before walking back into the room to wear my jacket and walk out of the door walking down with Hayden.
He leads to a giant hall, this must be the general meeting area, where almost all the pack is standing around.
I and Hayden walk to the front of the hall where Alpha Reign is standing. The Beta and Luna are standing beside him.
"Alpha Knight, I hope we were able to provide you some rest." he expresses with a kind smile.
I nod again in a way of thanking him.
"Now I know you must have been waiting for this. I won't take any more of your time. You can start your search." He says before he turns his attention to his pack members.
"Dear fellow wolves, This is Alpha Ulric Knight of the Orhill Pack," He says and the hall is filled with whispers immediately.
Well, I'm quite famous you see.
'Shut up.' Arius lets out probably rolling his eyes at me.
What I can joke to.
I say to him.
'That's not what a joke is like.'
Damn okay.
"Silence!" The crowd goes quiet instantly." As I was saying, Alpha Knight is searching for his mate. I've gathered all of you unmated wolves so he is going to meet every one of you to make sure if anyone of you is his mate or not."
Alpha Reign explains the situation and murmurs start to go on again around the hall.
But they are quiet to shut their mouths and stand in line accordingly as their Alpha growls.
The first woman is too afraid to even make eye contact at first but I won't be able to know my mate if we don't make eye contact.
I clear my throat loudly so she can get the message and make eye contact.
After a few seconds, she looks up at me making direct eye contact with me. and I feel nothing, no Sparks, no nothing.
I shake my head and she takes it it is a sign that she is not my mate and walks away and lets out a sigh of relief.
the second woman stands boldly in the previous girl's place and even dares to send me a seductive look which to me seems like she is having a seizure or something.
She looks into my eyes and just as before I feel nothing but the pain that she is not my mate either. I am kinda glad she isn't.
This whole process continuous to go on for an hour or so but no one seems to light up sparks throughout my body.
my mate isn't here.
I sigh defeated.
If she isn't here then she probably doesn't exist because I have searched every Damn place there could be.
I look at Alpha Reign to see him looking at me with sympathy and sadness.
I would too if I were him.
"Thank you for coming here, everyone. You may go back to whatever you were doing." Alpha Reign orders them and makes his way towards me.
I have no willpower to hear his sympathy. I'm feeling, terribly, enraged right now.
"Alpha Knight I-"
Before he could say anything more I raise my hand to stop him.
"There's nothing to say Alpha Reign. Thank you for helping me by setting up this meeting it was a great help." Not.
"After saying that I make my way out of the Pack house and walk to my car only to be stopped by my Beta.
" Alpha I know you are raged now but please don't do anything stupid." He says and I stay silent breathing heavily.
I try to slow down my breathing to calm myself down.
At this point, the only thing I'm feeling is utter grief, even Arius has blocked me out completely.
"Just drive me back home. Now." I command and open the backseat door to sit down.
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After A six hours drive, I see my town's sign.
Orhill town. The place I can call home. That reminds me.
"Hayden, Stop by the flower shop by the park. Mom wanted me to get her some flowers when I come back."
"As you wish, Alpha."
Soon he parks on the side of the road where the flower shop is.
My mom is a little obsessed with flowers. My dad might be the cause of it. When they both found out that they were destined for life. My Dad made sure mom got a bouquet of different kinds of flowers every day. He never missed a day in his life.
Now I too bring her flowers whenever I get the chance to meet them.
I get out and walk inside the shop and the smell of several flowers hit me at once.
I pick out some of the white lilies, it's her favorite at the moment, and give them to the florist so he can wrap them up in a bouquet.
"Here you go son," I take the beautiful bouquet of lilies from his wrinkled hands.
I pay him while thanking him and walk out of the shop.
As I'm walking towards my car I feel my heartbeat quicken suddenly making my breathing fellow suit making me place my hand over my chest.
What in the world.
I ignore it and open my car door and get in.
"You okay Ulric?" Hayden asks me sensing my current stage.
"Yeah," I say and he gives me a suspicious look before starting the car.
The car stops after a few minutes at my parent's house. I step out of the car and turn to Hayden, who is already out of the car.
"Thank you for assisting me today. You can have the rest of the day off." I say to him and he looks at me with a weird expression.
"Assisting you? Just so you haven't forgotten before becoming your Beta, I'm your damn best friend! Of course, I'll come with you. Who will do the talking for you then? Huh?"
He exclaims making me smile.
"Get inside now and try to have a nice time with them." He says and gets into the car and takes off.
I watch him drive out of the driveway and sigh.
So I'm lonely for life huh.
I turn around and walk into the house already hearing my mom scolding my father. Home sweet home.
"David I told you you can not have a lizard as a pet in our house! I hate those creepy things!" Mom shouts at dad while he is sitting smiling silly gazing at my mother, Maria.
They are making me feel even lonelier than I already do.
"You know how one of those in my witch school fell into my dress! And you still had to get a pet lizard. Dear goodness."
Mom continues to rant out while I stand behind her waiting for them to notice me. Dad noticed me first sending me a wink which mom seems to not see. I walk right behind her.
"Dad, how could you do that to my beautiful mom?" I tease dad which makes my mother aware of my presence. She instantly turns around gasping at seeing me and pulls me into a warm hug I very much needed.
"Ulric! You're home! You must be so tired. Go wash up and let's have some lunch together." Mom enthusiastically says making me and dad chuckle.
I hug dad and he asks me the very question I'm dreading to answer.
'Did you find her?' Thank goodness he asked through mind link I won't be able to say the answer out loud.
'No.'
' you'll find her soon. I can feel it.'
I don't anymore.
but I nod at him before I go up to my old room to freshen up.
I walk into my old washroom and take a look at myself in the mirror.
I look like a depressed plant.
hate it.
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"Sweetheart, are you going to your office today?" my mum asks me as she passes me my plate for breakfast.
I don't feel like it but I'll have to.
Responsibilities and all that jazz.
"Yeah. Do you want to come with me?" Mom works at the library below my office so we often share a car.
" Yes and there's a new girl in this town. I'm pretty sure I smelt some werewolf in her. So you'll have to meet her." I nod at her and continue with my breakfast.
Soon after we finish our breakfast I walk out with my mom behind me. I open the door for her and she gets in after sending me a smile which I return.
While driving to my office my mom fills me in about what happened in the city while I was gone.
Like how father burned the toast maker and broke the vacuum. How her best friend came to visit her and forgot to inform her husband and had to go back too early.
She also told me some things about her neighbors too but I didn't quite hair that part.
My mom's gossip but and my dad love it. She keeps us entertained.
We reach our destination and I park my car in the parking lot. I open the door for mom and we both walk inside earning a bow from every wolf and vampire there.
Mom walks to her desk and I follow her. I sit in front of her desk while she works waiting for the new member. Was it a boy or a girl? I can't recall. Damn.
"When is that person arriving?" I ask her so I can get this done quickly and go up to my office.
My mom looks at her watch and is about to do something before she's interrupted by a voice I'm familiar with.
"Good morning Maria!" Tyler greets my mom and I turn around to see him. It's been a while since I last saw him.
Him and I are close friends.
"Good morning vamp. Is Aelia with you?" She asks Tyler. She must be the new member.
Shivers run through my body from that name.
Aelia
"Oh yes. She is upstairs exploring the place out. If you want I can go get her."
"No, no need for that. I will go upstairs myself I need to talk with her anyway." he nods at me and I stand up from my sitting position and start making my way up to the second floor.
As I am getting more close to the top of the staircase my heartbeat quickens up like my heart's bout to jump out of my chest.
A sudden feeling of desire runs through my body and I tried to ignore it and keep walking while searching for the girl who I don't even know how she looks?
As I am walking through the aisles of shelves full of books my heart rate quickens up as if it was not beating at cheetah's speed before. I turned into one of the aisles and walk towards the end of the aisle.
A book Fell off from one of the shelves and I went down to pick it up, as I am about to put the book back into its place my eyes make eye contact with the most beautiful eyes I have ever seen in my life.
Suddenly the whole world around me seems to stop and my world starts to revolve around the person in front of me in a matter of seconds.
'mate!'
Arius shouts making me say it, "Mate."
The beautiful eyes widened and before I could stop myself, my feet are quickly taking me to the next aisle where my mate, who very much exists, is.
Damn. My mate exists. for real.
It's like I've been alive again.
I turn into the aisle to see her still in the position looking through the books.
I began walking towards her making her turn her attention towards me, her eyes locking with mine taking my breath away.
" Mate is beautiful." Arius purrs in satisfaction.
She starts stepping back as I'm stepping closer to her.
Oh, my love, you can't run from me now. Besides the wall behind you won't let you anyway.
I step forward, she takes a step back. This goes on until she's pressed against the wall.
I smile and take my final step making sure our shoes are touching.
I place my hands beside her head making her look so small. She is short, barely reaching anything past my chest. This is making me want to hug the life out of her.
She slowly raises her gaze from my chest to my neck, to my lips, and finally to my eyes.
"I found you." I let out softly making her heartbeat quicken.
I can't blame her, she is making my heart dance in my chest.
She seems to be thinking about something. I don't mind. It gives me time to look at her properly.
I move my eyes from her to her cute, crooked nose to her luscious lips, to her mole under the right side of her eye, which compliments her eyes that are protected with long lashes.
I lean lower to press a kiss on her forehead and rest mine against hers, rubbing her nose with mine. It feels so unreal to have my mate, who I've been searching for for so long, finally in front of me.
"Say something, My love," I whisper to her locking my eyes with hers.
"Mate?" She asks me in a questioning tone, her voice is sweet like honey. I take a deep breath, taking in her scent, I nod at her question.
Seems like we both can not believe we found each other.
"May I hold you mate?" I ask her sensing she already seems nervous. I don't want to upset her.
She gulps down and nods before slowly putting get own hands on my chest making sparks light up through my body.
I remove my hands beside my mate's head and place them on both sides of her waist before slowly moving them to her lower back, pulling her close to me. Hugging her.
My sweet mate slides her hands from my chest to my back holding me as tightly as she could.
'I feel whole.'
Arius says and I couldn't agree more.
"What's your name?" My mate asks with her face pressed against my chest with our eyes closed.
"Ulric. Ulric Knight and what might be your name, my love." I ask for her name loving the blush that spreads across her cheeks and neck.
"Aelia Reva." Oh, she's the new member.
Such a stunning name though, just like her.
"Wait a minute, You're the Alpha!" My mate exclaims pulling away from the hug looking at me with wide eyes making ne chuckle. She's so adorable.
" Welcome to the Pack, Mate."
To Be Continued