Unexpected Turning

chapter 8: who are you?!

Ace Knight’s POV

My name is Ace knight, I am a hybrid. I am a vampire werewolf. I was born from a royal female vampire and an alpha werewolf, because of my background and the timing of my birth I was never really welcomed into either societies and consequently became a solitary wolf/vampire. I don’t mind it as it’s better for me. I’ve lived this life for hundreds of years, due to my vampire bloodline I don’t age and consequently have lived a very long time.

I live alone and move alone, my father had told me about mates. I had expected to find mine after I turned 18 but the years went by and I never did so after so long I no longer care or want such a thing, mates don’t exist in my book. I had been esconder around Washington state for a while and was currently in the Seattle area near the airport, for some reason my instincts were telling me to go there. I had no idea why I was wanting to get there so without even thinking I had made my way over. As soon as I got close enough I started to smell a fabulous aroma, since I was still quite far it was fair but because of my extra heightened senses I was barely able to smell it. If I’m honest I don’t know what this smell meant, I was curious and so was my wolf, his name is Midnight he is a full black wolf with a crescent moon on his forehead. While I have flaming red eyes that make them seem like they are shining orange, Midnight had pure glowing golden eyes that shine even more with the moonlight. Midnight tends to be temperamental and rough around the edges, I’m the calmer one out of the two. I had quickened my pace but I didn’t make it on time before the scent started moving more and more, I ended up missing it and decided to moving in the direction the scent was heading to try and locate it.

It had been all day and night that I was tracking the scent, it was faint but was still able to track it, it took me longer then I wanted because I wanted to keep at a safe distance just in case. By the time I knew it I had almost reached a town I had been keeping to the woods and making sure to hide my scent as I knew that a coven of vampires lived near by, I didn’t want to encounter them so I kept a fair distance. I reached the border of the vampire coven while following the scent and wondered if it was a human that they hired for blood. I stayed close just in case.

In the morning I picked up the scent again, it was moving again, it looked like it was going into town, I didn’t want to go so instead I stayed near the boundaries of the coven, far enough away that I wouldn’t be detected. I had been keeping track of the scent and it seems the be staying in one place for most of the day before it moved on to several different places. It never went far so I didn’t have to move too far from my original spot from this morning. It was now getting night time around 8 pm I think when the scent started to get closer, it was at the road nearing the path that lead to the coven of vampires. I didn’t want the scent to slip away again so I decided to confront it at the border of the bath leading to the coven.

It only too a few minutes before I saw a car coming, the scent had gotten awfully strong so at this point I knew it was coming from the car, I stepped forward and stood in front of it. The car skid to an abrupt stop and a female stepped out in a hurry, she was panicking and had a horrified look on her face like she just hit s dear. Her smell was overwhelming, roses and fresh rain. Midnight was pacing back and forth in my head, restless and full of excitement at the sight of the female. I couldn’t contain him and when the female turned and locked eyes with me he screamed “MATE” well s**t, and here I thought mates didn’t exist.

Aria’s POV

I was headed back home after a long day of running errands and exploring the town of Centralia. I was tired since it had been a long day full of events so I wasn’t paying too much attention to the road, the fact that there were no cars or people around made me feel relived because I was honestly too tired to pay too much attention to the road. As I was right at the border of the road leading to the woods and the path to the coven all of a sudden a tall handsome and muscular man popped out of nowhere, I barely saw him in time to skid to a stop. I was horrified and frankly that I didn’t get a good look at him as I hurried to unbuckle my seatbelt and rush out of the car. I hurried to close my door and then turn to look at him just as his scent hit my nose. Okay I gotta say I didn’t catch it soon but when his scent finally registered I was over the moon at house delicious he smelt it wax mouth watering, the scent of lavender and lemongrass. He looked like a good! Dark long black hair, flaming red eyes that made them look like flaming orange. I had been eyeing him like candy all this time, I started from his legs, he was wearing black. Jeans that hugged him just right, his white shirt exposed house for he was, six pack and all muscle all around his arms and shoulders. On top of his white shirt he was wearing a black leather jacket that complimented his outfit perfectly. I will say I was big a shaming of gawking at him like a dog in heat. Finally I looked at him and really looked at him, slight tan skin and gorgeous lips that I could kiss all day long. Finally I met his piercing eyes. I watched them I they turned from curious to shock in a single moment. His body tensed and it looked like he was glued to the spot. I didn’t know why but his eyes started to change from his flaming color to that of gold. It looked like he was having a hard time controlling himself. I didn’t understand why that was. After a few minutes he slowly made his way over to me, his expression was a mixture of love and confusion, it was rather odd and then I finally remembered I almost ran over the guy. ‘s**t I need to apologize!’ I hurried to raise my hands in surrender and said with haste “I’m sorry for almost running into you! I wasn’t paying attention and… well.. I know there is no excuse so I’m really sorry!” I was honestly scared of what he might do to me, I almost ran him over and could have killed him so he had every right to be mad at me.

“What is your name?” The male asked, his voice deep and powerful, he sounded so sexy, damn it I want to taste those lips of his!

“I’m sorry I know I was in the wrong- wait… did you just ask for my name?” I started to apologize again before what he had said finally registered and I was left dumbfounded about the situation. I mean it’s natural to want to know the name of the person who almost killed you so.. I guess it makes sense.

“My name is Aria. Aria Griffin.” I finally said after getting out of the lustful daze I have been ever since I met this man. Don’t get me wrong I was still scared I mean who wouldn’t be in my shoes. I didn’t know what he wanted let alone what kind of man he was even if he is one hell of a man for sure. Okay I have got to stop these lustful thoughts of mine.

“I see, my name is Ace Knight.” He introduced himself as he got even closer to me, his eyes had finally decided to stop changing and I for one was glad, at least it meant he wasn’t completely out of his mind.

I didn’t know why he was getting closer to me though and that kind of freaked me out cause I didn’t know if it was good or bad thing. I was left wondering what the heck was going on when I heard him say the unexpected.

“Mate!” He then grabbed me by my waste and pulled me towards him at lightning speed, I seriously didn’t even get the chance to blink before I knew I was in his arms, man this felt so good! ‘Ugh I don’t have time for this nonsense! I need to get away from him!’ I thought I put both my hands on his chest and tried to push him away.

“Let go of me!” I yelled and that’s all it took! His eyes had complete changed to gold and in the blink of an eye out lips connected, Ace had just kissed me.