"I don't have one." I see four pairs of eyes focus on me unbelievingly. "I mean I don't have my phone with me. I forgot to take it with me when I left home." Everyone is still looking at me. They sure do not believe that somebody has no phone.
"When?" Mark asks.
"When what?"
"When did you forget your phone at home?" Damon now.
"On your birthday."
"You didn't have a phone for a whole week?" He asks again. Obviously could not really comprehending that anyone could survive without a phone.
"So how does anyone get in touch with you?"
I shrug my shoulders. "I don't have much "anyone" who needs to get in touch with me. And I usually schedule ahead of time when I need to with "anyone." I tell them with emphasis on the anyone.
"Okay. So how will you call us?"
"Through phone? Duh!" I roll my eyes. Then I laugh when I see them staring at me, not sure if I was joking or irritated at them. Goddess! It feels good to laugh. I feel the tension leave my body and I feel them relax as well. I didn't realize there was so much tension in the air.
"Leave your number to Kaylee later and I'll call you through her phone." I say as I walk to the door, ending our meeting. Goddess, I'm hungry.
I hear a growl as they follow me to the dining room.
Damon's POV
Tension leaves my body as I see my mate laugh. Goddess! I love her laugh. I also feel my future officers start to relax. Mark even mind-links. "Finally."
"Leave your number to Kaylee later and I'll call you through her phone."
I growl at that. How will I be able to call her any time I want if I have to go through Kaylee?
Trust the Goddess to make it really difficult even to communicate with my mate. I feel three pairs of eyes look at me with sympathy. Cellphones are now a must-have gadget. Why would Lu-ann allow herself to exist without her phone? Does she not need to talk to anyone at any time about something important?
We follow Lu-ann to the dining room where we were informed to go to after we're done with "the talk".
We hear voices as we near the dining room, but it stops as Lu-ann makes her entrance, followed by me and my future officers.
King Alpha immediately straightens up. "Everything alright?" He asks, smiling at Lu-ann.
"Yes, King Alpha." Lu-ann simply says and sits on a chair beside Kaylee. I immediately sit beside her, and she looks at me as if asking why. I just smile at her, feeling safe because she laughed earlier at her own joke on us.
My three future officers sit at the empty chairs near me.
"Huh. Kaylee, can you get Damon's number? I'll need to call them tomorrow about our plans."
Kaylee smiles at me sweetly while looking me directly in the eye. Then she smirks. "Later." she says. "After we eat."
Just then, she-wolves with aprons enter the dining room and serve us our food. I notice they weren't wearing uniforms as maids, though I know they were omegas.
Something to talk about with Lu-ann later.
Dinner was amazing though a little embarrassing as Damon kept cutting my steak into small pieces with his own fork and knife, for me when he noticed I cut mine a little smaller than the usual bite size. Everyone around the table noticed and smiled at us, making me blush all throughout dinner. Not to mention Kaylee kept making soft fake moaning sounds and saying words such as sweet, most beautiful girl in the planet or longest hair on earth when obviously it's not.
When I was younger, my stepfather and I would only be having steak at least once or twice a year. At the very, very, very rare times that he is sober or not thinking of his next hit and finally remember that he has a young pup at home to feed. Whenever that time happens, I would always cut my meat pieces smaller as much as I can so that I can eat it more than the one time it should be eaten. This is one luxury my stepfather ever let me have as he even got a container to stock my little pieces of meat in.
This habit must have been so ingrown to me that even now that I know, I can have steak anytime at the pack house, I still cut my meat smaller, though I now consume everything served to me and no longer lock them in a container.
After dinner, we all stepped to the living room, the Alpha's and Luna's to talk more about pack business and for us, younger generations to catch up. I sat on a couch with Kaylee on one side and Damon on the other side, again.
I was feeling tired and sleepy, and I wanted to go to my room, but I knew that would be rude as this small gathering was held because of me and my mate. So, I just let the conversation flow through me, keeping quiet, breathing in Damon's scent and letting it relax me. At one time, I hear him getting Kaylee's number, his breath seems to fan my forehead, which was not covered by my bonnet, but it made me even more sleepy.
I wake up at midnight, feeling comfortably snuggled with a warm body. Thinking I slept with Kaylee, I let sleep take me back to dream land, snuggling even closer. Smelling my most favorite scent in the world, I embraced the warm body beside me. Feeling even more relaxed, for the first time not having any care in the world...
I wake up early that morning, feeling alert and refreshed. This must be the first time in my whole life that I felt this lighthearted upon waking up. I yawned and stretched like a well-rested cat, feeling a hand around my waist, barely covered by a sleeveless undershirt.
I was going to move the hand embracing my waist when I realized, it was bigger, more muscled and rougher than Kaylee's hand. Just then, I also noticed that my legs were bare, and I was only in my panties. Shocked, I followed the hand with my eyes, turning around to see a sleeping, Damon.
Instinctively pushing at him, I shouted. "What are you doing here?" Not caring that Damon fell down with a loud thud on the other side of the bed as I continued to push him with my hands and foot.
"Ouch!" Damon complained. Slowly standing up and holding the side of his bed. It must have hit the floor first as I shoved at his chest first.
"What are you doing here?" I screamed at him.
He looked at me sheepishly. "I wanted to be near you. It has been a week since I knew I had my mate around and I was really going crazy. So when you fell asleep last night and I carried you here, I asked Alpha Cain if I could sleep here."
"And he allowed you?"
He nodded. "As long as I didn't do anything you didn't want me to."
I looked at him incredulously.
"And why would he do that?" I challenged Damon's words.
"Because we're mates. If you hadn't been hiding from me, we would have been together already."
"Huh! Really now? It's my fault that we haven't been together? Really?" I rolled my eyes at him. Anger coming out full blast from my heart.
"Well, if you hadn't run that night, then we could have talked earlier." Damon seemed to have remembered that he was not really on the clear regarding our being mates.
I silently glared at him as I sat on the bed. Holding the blanket above my breast as I noticed I didn't have my bra on and was really only in my panties.
"Did you undress me?" I silently asked.
He nodded slowly. "But I swear I didn't touch you inappropriately. I really just needed to be near you." He explained softly.
I sat quietly. Trying to feel if I felt something different with my body. Surely, I would know if he had sex with me while I was asleep as I was a virgin and I heard it could get uncomfortable the first time.
I faced away from Damon while thinking. Still wrapped in my blanket. But he walked around my bed to stand in front of me. He was wearing his boxers and a white shirt but it still made me uncomfortable looking at him as I was only in my underwear and undershirt.
I focused my eyes on the dresser and looked at him when he sat down on the bed in front of me.
"Look, I'm sorry for sleeping with you without asking for your permission but I just truly wanted to be near you. And you were so adorable last night, sleeping peacefully even when I carried you that I couldn't just resist staying here with you."
"Nothing happened between us?" I just had to ask.
Damon smiled. "You would know if something did, sweetheart." he said huskily.
He was about to hold my cheek with his thumb but I moved my face away. Uncomfortable with our nearness, with our lack of clothing and with my morning breath. I can't talk to him when he was this near and I haven't brushed my teeth yet. I once again looked at the dresser.
"Can I go to the bathroom?" I asked him softly. Trying not to breath out a lot.
I felt Damon looking at me, then he breathed deeply. "Of course. You shouldn't feel uncomfortable around me you know. We're mates. We're each other's half."
I did not answer him. I just wanted to get to the bathroom without him looking at me in my undies.
"Can you turn you back?"
He slowly turned away. Giving me the privacy, I asked of him, and I rushed to the bathroom.