Damon's POV
"Girls, this is Damon, my... boyfriend." My mate held my forearm and pulled me closer. "Babe, these are my friends, Cassie, Sharon and Becky." I looked at my mate in surprise as she called me babe in front of other people which she never did before and she smiled at me. She knew the reason I was shocked.
"Ooohhhh! Sanjo's going to be sad!" I hear Cassie exclaim, holding her heart pretending to be hurt and making my mate laugh. Is there a human trying to get into a relationship with my mate? I feel my heart start to feel faster in anger. No one tries to get my mate away from me and walks away just fine.
"No, he won't. He'll be thankful I am one less responsibility to think of." I heard my mate say jokingly but was shocked when a male voice answered behind her.
"You were never just a responsibility Lu-Ann." My mate shrieked with a wide smile and turned around, hugging that man just like the way she hugged her three female friends.
I growled; I could not help it. My wolf was starting to get angry, moving around wildly in my head as we watch my mate embracing another male. I took her hand in a tight grip, pulling her from him, at the same time trying hard to calm my wolf. This isn't wolf world where I can just growl and show him my anger, or I could just rip his throat out and no one would blame me. This is the human world. The world where sadly, my mate was accepted warmly. Where she is obviously liked, loved and protected. Where I see her smiling and laughing. Where she has friends.
My heart aches deeply. This human world provided what we should have provided for her years ago. Now I know why saying sorry is not enough. Why promising to make up to everything is not enough. She has found heaven away from the hell world we all provided her and now, she is forced to leave it again.
I see the startled look on her friends' eyes and the surprised look on that man, Sanjo's eyes.
"Chill man, nobody's stealing her from you." He says in a friendly way. Humans are weird. One minute he was embracing my mate and now he says he wasn't stealing her from me?
I feel my mate hold my forearm, softly touching my hands, up and down and I start to feel calm. I take hold of her hand going up and down my arms. I nod when she softly asks. "You okay babe?"
I gently let go of her hand, feeling angry at myself for being the shitty bastard who made her life a living hell. I turned my back to her and her friends as they continue to talk about her almost one-week absence, facing where the car was parked and where Mark and Rick were standing.
Mark links me. "Everything okay?"
I look at him, standing by the car. "She loves it here. She was accepted and loved. Her friends truly care for her." I mind - link back. Now I hear her saying goodbye, explaining that she just has to get her things and I keep the link open, so Mark and Rick hear what I hear. Then her friends tell her not to worry, that they would visit her where she works.
Shit! None of us even knew she worked until the day we went in search for my mate. And here her friends were saying they would be visiting her as if it was usual for them to do that.
"Yeah...of course. But I won't be going there yet today. Will be there perhaps tomorrow." Lu-Ann says to her friends.
"Oh. Don't you still have your phone with you? Maybe we could text you for this weekend." Cassie says and the two other girls nod. That guy at least, just listens to them.
"Uh... no. I still don't have it."
"Okay, we'll text Kaylee then."
They even knew about Kaylee?
"Umm... I might not be staying with them either." And they got quiet, obviously shocked. I feel their gazes obviously moving to me and back at her. Their thoughts were so obvious, I almost laughed at them, and I hear Mark snicker.
I continue to have my back on them, and even bring out my phone, pretending to be busy so I would know what they were going to say to my mate.
"You moved in with him already?" Sharon? Was it? It was a whisper but my werewolf ears can still clearly hear it.
"Uh... yes. It was kind of...arranged." My mate tells them.
"Arranged? You mean, it was an arranged marriage?" I don't know why they bothered to whisper. I could clearly hear everything they were saying.
"Yes."
"You're already married? Where's your ring?" They were still whispering.
"We're still... um.. planning the wedding." My mate whispers as well. Now its time to rescue her...
I turn around and they all looked at me like I kidnapped their friend. Except the man... who was smirking at them.
"We should go babe. Why don't you take their numbers and you can just contact each other?' I told my mate as I hander her my phone. She looked at my outstretched hand with my phone as if she was about to refuse but Cassie interrupted.
"Can I have your number then? It's my birthday next week and the three of them agreed to be at my party." Cassie explained.
We exchanged numbers then went to get Lu-Ann's things from her locker after she hugs every one of them once again. That man wisely kept his embrace short. Finally, we walked back to the car and drove to Dark Moon Pack.
Kaylee was at the entrance of the Dark Moon packhouse when we reached their territory. She was smiling and waving, walking to the car we were in even before the car stops. She immediately opens the door where Lu-Ann was and immediately took her in a very tight hug.
"I so missed you!" She said and Lu-Ann hugged her as well. "I missed you too friend."
They stay like that for at least three minutes, not saying anything, just hugging each while we stand nearby, feeling uncomfortable, even me feeling a little jealous. If she would just hug me just like that one day.
At last, Kaylee decides to lead us into the packhouse. Still linking her fingers with my mate's, walks inside with us following behind and I still feel the pinch in my heart I have been feeling ever since we got in her school. The pain of jealousy and guilt over everything I have witnessed as I met my mate's friends.
I was starting to feel stupid for having treated her badly for so many years and seeing that people outside my pack loves her make me nauseous. No wonder she did everything to avoid seeing her mate belonging to the Dark Midnight Pack.
Lu-Ann's POV
I walk hand in hand to my bedroom with Kaylee and I see Damon walking behind us. I stop and I was going to request that I be with Kaylee alone when Kaylee talks to Damon. "I'll be with her every minute." She says to Damon with a smile.
I look at Kaylee with round eyes.
"I know everything. You didn't think I would not remember to ask about your welfare when you went to a new pack did you?"
I smiled and looked at Damon as he walks back to the living room where Mark and Rick sat down with the other pack members of the Dak Moon Pack.
When we entered my bedroom, I immediately went to open the windows to let the fresh air in but I smelled something else. It was faint but it was there. Kaylee saw me sniffing and paused what she was about to say. Softly, with fear in her voice, she asks, "What is it?"
"The stench. The stench in my vision. It's here." I look at Kaylee in horror.
"Are you sure?" Kaylee asked as she comes near me by the window, sniffing as well. She looks at me, as if saying, I don't smell anything.
"It's here." I insist. "It may be far, or in a closed room because it's faint. But I smell it here." My voice was now rising in panic.
Kaylee pulls me as she goes out the door. "Let's meet them at the Alpha's office, they're going there right now." she says and by them I think she meant the Alpha, Beta, future alpha and future Beta as well as the Luna of Dark Moon Pack. Then I see her call someone on her cellphone.
"Prince Alpha, kindly meet with us at Alpha Cain's office."
Alpha Cain and Luna Camille as well as Kaylee's father, the present Beta were already there. As I take a seat beside Kaylee, Damon, Mark and Rick comes in followed immediately by Jason, the future Alpha of Dark Moon Pack and his future Beta.
Damon immediately comes to seat beside me. "Are you alright?" He asks as he takes my hand in his.