Queen in the Making

Lines Drawn

Chapter 6: Lines Drawn

"Shall we?" he said as we continued to stand there. I have finally come out of my stupor and look him up and down. He is insanely handsome standing at about 6'4" with light brown hair and green eyes. He has a muscular body but not all jacked up like body builders. As my eyes come back up to his face I see he has a slight smirk as he noticed me silently checking him out. "If we must" I said with an eye roll for added effect as I started to walk away. Now it was his turn to be in a stupor as my attitude changed in an instant. "Are you coming or not, I do have to come back here since this party is technically for me" I said to him once I got to the doors and noticed he wasn't still standing in the same spot. I heard one of the guards at the door snicker at my comment but I acted as if I didn't hear it. Adam seemed to come out of it and walked directly up to me grabbed my hand laced my fingers through his and lead us out of the ballroom. Once out he stopped looking around thinking, I rolled my eyes and said " hallway to your left third door down on the right" He looked at me curiously and started walking that way. We entered the office, I pulled my hand out of his and went to sit on the loveseat with a coffee table and another loveseat across from it. This is usually where my dad has meeting for just Alphas and Lunas, hence the loveseats they love to sit together when having meetings. Adam starts walking as if to sit next to me but I scoot over on the seat so I can take up as much room as possible. Not that I can actually take up much room but he sees what I'm doing and takes the hint to sit on the opposite side of me in the other loveseat. "Well this isn't exactly what I was expecting when meeting my mate" He starts off with. "Honestly I'm not sure I even want a mate so I'm not sure how I would have planned for this to go" . He looked shocked for a brief moment then it morphed into hurt. It kind of hurt to see his face looking all sad, but I can't just jump into being his mate until he knows exactly how I feel and if he's not willing to accept me as I am then I will reject him. I think about how I want to word everything as to not hurt him more, it's not as if I don't like him or anything I just don't want to lose myself or the things I've fought for to being a mate or someone else Luna for that matter. Am I ready for that when I am meant to be Alpha here? How will this work between us? I am not willing to give up my position and I know since he's an Alpha he's not going to want to give up his position either. "Why" he says breaking me out of my thoughts. "It has nothing to do with you specifically, there are just things I have worked very hard for and I am not willing to give them up because of my mate." I say honestly as I look at him. It seems to be thinking it over for a minute before he says " What kind of things? I would never expect you to give up anything important to you just to be my mate. That wouldn't make me a very good mate would it?" Surprised would be an understatement for his reaction. From what I've heard most mates are very possessive of their mates when they first meet and many mate and mark within the first few hours of meeting. "Look Skylar we don't have to rush things, we can get to know each other and take things slowly". I instantly feel relieved and say "thank you I really do appreciate that and do look forward to getting to know you". " If I may ask though, who is that man that hugged you? He isn't the reason for you not accepting me is he?" " Oh no, not at all. That is my future Beta and also best friend. We are like brother and sister that would be disgusting" I made a gagging face as he chuckled. "Thank the Moon Goddess for that, thought I was going to have to wage war on someone over my mate before I even got to know her" he said as he winked at me. "No need waging war over me period, but definitely needed with Brett." I laughed out.

"So wait a minute, did you say your future Beta? Will you be taking over the Alpha position from your father?" "Yes he is my future Beta and again yes I will be taking over as Alpha after my dad steps down. Which is the hang up, I refuse to let someone take the title I have worked so hard for just because they are my mate. I have fought, bled, lost sleep and ran myself ragged at times doing everything I can to prove that I could take over as Alpha and I refuse to allow anyone to take that from me. So now you see we are both soon to be Alphas of different packs. How would this work? I don't know if I could be one packs Alpha and another's Luna. I mean this is all just so messed up" I was rambling but I couldn't stop myself, well until I realized that Adam had gotten up was down on his knees in front of me holding one of my hands. "I would never expect you to give up your title. I can understand exactly how you feel. I have worked very hard for my title as well and would not be willing to easily give it up either. With that being said, yes it may be confusing and a little difficult to work out. I do believe that we can figure things out and make things work, if your willing to give it a try" I couldn't believe what I was hearing. He's sitting in front of me saying I don't have to give up anything I can still be who I believe I was meant to be! So overwhelmed with excite and emotions I leaned forward and threw my arms around his neck to hug him, almost knocking the both of us onto the coffee table, thank the goddess he caught us before we could land on it that could have been awkward. He chuckled as he straightened us out while holding onto me with one arm. "Shall we return to the party, I heard it was technically for you and we wouldn't want you to miss your own party" "I would if I could, but I can't. Sooo.. I guess if we have to" He laughed as he stood us up and took my hand to lace his fingers through mine.