I sat in the middle seat beside Roman our Alpha with our mate's legs in my lap. I'm excited that Roman's the one who found her. And on his last find too. Just to think we almost missed her. If his replacement found her she would have gone to live at the boarding house.
The boarding house looks like an office building standing five stories tall. The kitchen, living room, the library, the dining room, and even the showers are all on the first floor. The rest of the floors are rooms for the new females who join the pack.
Each room has half a bathroom. No shower or tub but it has everything else. The men are only allowed on the first floor. The elevator only works with a badge. Each female is given a badge which opens their room as well as the elevator and the shower room.
The boarding house is in the center of town. The Yosemite Wolf Clan keeps their town in the back of our territory. Our pack doesn't make it to town often. Some other pack would most likely have gotten her by the time any of us would have realized she was our mate.
Packs that don't have a female come to hang out on the first floor. They hope a female will take a liking to them and join their pack. Usually the packs looking for a female send their best guy to the boarding house. The best looking or the smoothest talker. It makes me sick going there watching all the women fawn over the men.
Now that I've met my mate I can understand the need to impress her. If she was at the boarding house I would be there in a heartbeat. They would have to drag me away. I've only been with her a few minutes and I don't want to be away from her.
Our mate would be the prettiest one there. All the mate-less packs would have been after her. But here she is with her legs in my lap and her head resting on Roman's chest. Damian has taken her shoes off and is now rubbing her feet while I rub her legs and Roman is petting her head. It seems we each feel it. The need to touch her.
If she would have ended up with a pack bond to some other pack I have no doubt we would have to fight that pack to the death in order to get her from them. That's Clan law. The rules haven't changed in hundreds of years. The rules state that if you want to claim your mate from another pack you have to fight to the death.
I look over at her where she seems to be sleeping. Her breathing is a little ragged which concerns me. Damien was a Combat Medic Specialist among other things when he served his military contract. He joined the Army Special Forces also known as the Green Berets.
"Damien you were a Medic in the Army right? How does her neck look to you? Her breathing doesn't sound very good." I asked Damien next to me.
"It doesn't look good. Something might be broken. I won't know for sure till we pull into a hotel for the night and I check her out. For now let's keep her neck as straight as possible. Keep her calm and don't wake her up for now." Damien said, going back to rubbing her feet.
I hope she likes me. I'm a Beta, not a very strong one at that. My father wanted me to join another pack so I put in to join and they told me I had to fight their omega female in order to get in. But I just couldn't hit her so she wiped the floor with me. I dodged most of her hits for the first twenty minutes but then I got tired and that was the end of it for me. I was hoping she would get tired and I could just pin her into submission. That didn't go very well and my father was so mad at me that he beat me in front of everyone. I was packing my stuff to leave the Yosemite Wolf Clan when Roman approached me.
Roman had wanted me to join his pack for a while from what he told me. He had gone to my dad to ask him, but my father never told me about it. To be honest I had always looked up to Roman.
Roman was an Alpha born from a beta father and an Omega mother. Everyone looked down on him thinking he wasn't going to be a very strong Alpha. Most Alpha born to a Beta and Omega are usually just slightly stronger than a Beta. But he wasn't going to let anyone put limits on him and now he's one of the strongest Alphas within the small packs. He might even give the Counsel a run for their money in strength.
The Counsel is a group of Alpha that are right under the High Alpha. The High Alpha is the strongest and is the head of all the small packs within the Yosemite Wolf Clan. The High Alpha turned to the Counsel to vote on important matters. The High Alpha usually went with what the Counsel decided but still had the power to overturn their decision.
Roman told me we were meant to be pack brothers and to be honest I didn't believe in that fated scents bull but when I was near him, I always felt that I had known him all my life like we were real brothers. Then he found the rest of our pack and I felt the same about them.
Our pack is one of the bigger ones with four of us now five with our mate. According to Roman there's still one more pack brother left to find. He said that our Pack doesn't feel whole. Now that we've found our mate I wonder if he'll still say it's incomplete. Most packs only have three people plus their mate. A lot of people said that Roman had to get extra pack members since I was so weak. Roman told me not to worry about it and to never listen to what others said. The only thing that mattered were our pack brothers and mate.
I don't want our mate to live in town and hear about me getting beat up by an Omega. If she hears that she'll never look at me the same. When Roman left to fill his quota to form our pack he said he was going to go find our mate and for me to train and get stronger. I'm only nineteen so I don't expect to be as strong as Gabe who is 26 and has already completed his military contract but I did want to be strong enough to protect our mate from betas my own age. I did grow stronger but I want to keep working on it.
I'll have to do my military contract soon but now that we've found out mate I don't want to. Once I get my training done I can come home until they call me for a mission. I have six months till I have to leave for my training. Hopefully she likes me and I don't have to worry while I'm gone.
"Hey what's her name?" I ask Roman. He turns to me and points to the purse he had brought with him. I hand it to him, and he pulls out a wallet and starts to go through it. He pulls out a Driver's License and looks at it.
"It's Jazmin Duran. Jazmin with a Z." he said handing me the Driver's License.
I look at it and the face that is looking back at me makes my heart beat faster. Her eyes just sucked you in. But her eyes look like a silver blue, but the License says they're green. "They have her eye color wrong." I say as Damian reaches for the License.
"No, they change color. I saw it for myself. It's funny cause it's like a mood ring. It gives away how she's feeling." Romans laughed.
"They change in human form? I know our eyes change when our wolf comes to the surface but only silver or gold. I've never heard of an omegas eyes changing though." Damian said, staring at the license.
"Her eyes changed into more than just silver or gold. I saw violet and green as well." Roman said.
As the License finally finished making its way around to everyone, I felt her twitch under my touch. Is she waking up? I hand back the License and notice her breathing is becoming more ragged as she's struggling to breathe.
"Hey, I think she's having a hard time breathing." I say as I reach out and look at her throat. It's become really swollen. "We need something to bring down the swelling or I don't think she's going to make it home."
We just crossed the border back into the United States when I saw a Motel just off the freeway. "Hey let's stop for the night. It will give us a chance to get her some medicine and maybe an ice pack." I say pointing to the Motel as we drive past it.
Gabe looks in the rearview mirror at Roman to wait for his answer. Roman nods his head and we take the next off ramp. We make our way to the hotel and there is a twenty-four-hour drug store across the street as well as a gas station with a food mart.
"Gabe, drive to the rooms to the back of the Motel and see what the room numbers are. I need you to find one that's empty with two beds. Once you find one, ask for that room. Damian, I want you to go to the drug store and get her some meds for the swelling and an ice pack then go to the food mart and get her something she can swallow easily. Tristan, you're coming into the room with me. I want you to get the ice bucket and go fill it up. Does everyone understand what they're doing? Any questions?" Roman asks as we all nod our heads.