The Alpha's Long Awaited Mate

Chapter 2: So, We Meet Again.

Chapter 2

                Alani was a bundle of nerves. She started work the next day. She spent the whole weekend going back and forth between home and the lodge getting rugs, accessories, and necessities from storage, organizing her new home, and double checking that her brother had everything in hand as the lodge coordinator. He’s basically taken over the last year, with her mainly acting as his assistant as she searched for a new position. By Sunday afternoon, her home was sparkling clean, rooms organized and decorated, and her wardrobe organized and ready for use. Her new job wasted no time getting her acquainted. By Thursday night, once her office was set up, she received several emails for on-boarding paperwork. Once she filled all of it out, her new boss, Kade James, welcomed her and began sending her a list of all of things that she would need to complete her first week. Luckily, he’d given her resources with the email and she was able to complete much of it by the end of Saturday. As she was salary, she didn’t think they would care that she was working on a weekend. By Sunday, with the exception of a few things, she had everything completed. Once she made her way to the office supplies store and got some supplies for office, she had all of her tasks printed, notes made, as well she made a shareable doc between their emails and made notes there as well. Her and Mr. James were corresponding between notes all weekend.             

                She felt she was as ready as she could be for the work week. She pulled out her towels and started running the bath water for a long soaking bath. She took a quick shower to remove the grime before she got in the bath. She popped in a fragrant bath bomb and bubble bath after she finished her shower, mixed the water and luxuriated in her bath. She brought a glass of cabernet up with her and had her a good book. As she settled in, her mind could not help but drift to the gorgeous man she had seen at the bistro that first day. She remembered him vividly. Tall. Maybe 6’5”, he would still be taller than her 5’11”, even if she wore heels. He had broad shoulders, and a muscular frame, the most beautiful green eyes she’d ever seen. Those eyes were intense on her and made heat and arousal course through her then, and now. Alani was mildly shocked. The instant need and lust that hit her was mildly unfamiliar to her. She’d felt arousal before, but nothing like what she experienced at the look of a man. She was after all, still a virgin.

                Not by choice really. She’d been in love once. When she was in high school, she was smitten by a boy named Daniel. She should have known he was no good for her, but the attraction that she had for him couldn’t be swayed and when he finally reciprocated that, she fell for him. Hard. Daniel was a consummate gentleman though. While they kissed and mildly petted, they never went past that. No one really knew that they dated either. Daniel said it was better to keep it under wraps with her being part of one of the wealthier families, he didn’t want people to think he was with her for her money. She didn’t think much of it, even when she was paying for a lot of things and giving him money for his mother’s “bills”. Soon she learned what Daniel was really up to. He’d been dating a girl who went to school in the neighboring district as well. He also had been dating her for at least a year before he and Alani started dating. She overheard him one night over the phone speaking with her telling her that he was only dating Alani so that she gave him the money to get him what they needed for the baby they were having. Heartbroken Alani gasped and he spun around to see the tears in her eyes and then watched her flee. She didn’t speak to him for months afterwards.

After graduation, she saw him, his new wife and their young child at a soup kitchen she was volunteering at. While it was clear that they were struggling, they looked much in love and happy together. When he saw her, he paled, got his family’s food and ushered them to a table far from her. Later, Alani tracked him down and took what was in her meager savings, just a little over $8000 and gave it to him. He and his wife cried and Alani let go the hurt that she had been holding from the experience. It was obvious he loved the woman and would do anything to provide for their family. A couple of years later, she saw his face as the general manager of the local chain grocery store and heard that his wife was a teacher at a daycare. They were on their 3rd child. Alani sighed at the memory of it all. She cared for Daniel and while she may have let go of the hurt, she was wary to let anyone in in such a way that they could hurt her heart that way. She may have been young, but Alani had always fostered dreams of home and hearth and a cozy family like hers. She would be a working business woman, possibly alongside her husband, just like her parents. They would run their business and raised the children they created. But since Daniel, Alani couldn’t bring herself to date. Then as she had to work and do school, she just didn’t have the time to pursue a relationship. By the time school was finished, traffic at the lodge was picking up, her brother was home and things were hectic.

Even yet, Alani had never felt what she felt when she met the eyes of the man at the bistro. It was like everything in her screamed that he was hers and she was scared of what that meant. Would she have that reaction to every devastatingly hot guy she met. Was this a delayed rampant lust brought on by the fact that she as 23 and still a virgin. Who knew, but just thinking about him had Alani’s body heating up. She felt her n*****s distend and her breast felt full. Liquid heat was culminating between her thighs. She rubbed her legs together to relieve the tension but it didn’t work. Knowing that she would be frustrated until she relieved herself, Alani began to touch herself. She may have been a virgin but she was not unfamiliar with an orgasm. During her time with Daniel, she was often left unfulfilled and soon found ways to relieve the tension. Cupping her breast, Alani cradled and squeezed them. Soon she was playing with her n*****s. The pierced peaks were sensitive and shot fire to her center. Sending her fingers down her center she began to tease her nubbin. Soon she was writhing in her bath water. Alani pictured the man from the bistro and felt her desire heighten. Her imagination ran wild as she pictured him teasing her clit and suckling her breast. The fantasy was too much, and she soon found herself climaxing, her back bowed, water sloshing in the tub. As she came down from her high, she felt that feeling again. As if the fantasy of him brought his presence to her. She looked out, but saw nothing. Shaking off the feeling, she got out of the tub, drained the water and wrapped her body in her towel. After moisturizing her skin, she put on her pajama set and blissfully went to sleep. Unaware of the prying eyes outside her windows.

Kade was aroused. He’d left Laurie and Michael’s home and shifted to run. Halfway around the compound he smelled it. He smelled her. First the sent was hot and spiked just like when he first seen her. Then he smelled sorrow and hurt. He tracked the smell until he was in a hill above the DuPont home. He stilled as he saw her in the tub. His position was slightly above her bathroom windows overlooking the woods. He was about 50 yards away, and the darkness and foliage covered him. He dropped his clothes and shifted back into his human form and watched her. He wondered what was making her sad, then he felt the heat course through him as it coursed through her. They weren’t bonded, but he felt her need. It pulled at him fiercely which meant she was thinking of him. That made him smile. Who was this woman? He had a feeling she was one of the executive assistants, but was she HIS assistant? The well-spoken, efficient woman he’d been corresponding with since Friday. He supremely hoped so. He was already impressed with the woman’s professionalism and efficiency.

Suddenly the smell of her arousal spiked and he watched her touch her breast. His c**k filled in arousal. It’d been nearly a year since he had a woman, and his body was primed for his mate. She watched her begin to tease her n*****s. Her pierced n*****s! His c**k already began to leak pre-c*m. He wanted those chocolate drop n*****s in his mouth. Her breasts were large, more than a handful, with big areolas and dime sized pierced beauties. He watched as one of her hands coasted down her lush body. She had long legs; she was tall. He wanted those legs around his waist or on his shoulders while he pounded his c**k deep within her delicious body. As she frenzied in her tub, he rubbed his c**k in time with her strokes. He felt her arousal spike through him again, and that could only mean she was fantasizing about him. He pumped his c**k harder and faster and watched as she exploded. Her long body bowed up lifting her body out of the water. It was enough to make him shoot his load into the awaiting foliage.

As they calmed together, he watched as her spine stiffened and she looked around. She looked directly at him, unaware of him there, but he knew she felt his presence. Already the bond was pulling her and he couldn’t help but smile over it. He watched her leave the tub and drain the water. She dried herself with a towel and began moisturizing her skin. He was right, she was tall. She had long legs that made him salivate at the thought of them. She was lean, but not skinny with a lush ass and heavy breast. Her stomach, while not flat, was not big either. She had a softness about her midsection that conjured thoughts of him laying his head on that soft belly, or holding those sides as he pummeled that p***y from behind. As his c**k began to stiffen, he shifted back and headed to his home.  Once home made his way to his bedroom. He showered and prepared for the next day of work. Before sleeping, he checked his email once again for any update from his efficient assistant. She’d shared a document through their email and had the foresight to encrypt and password protect it. Once she bypassed the security, he looked at the notes and comments and smiled. He really hoped that his mate was his assistant as well. He loved an efficient, smart woman. If this was his mate, he was proud of her already. He closed his computer and readied for bed, the scent of his mate still in his head.

When he arrived at his office the next morning, he smelled her. His smile slowly grew as he made it to his office and found the steaming cup of coffee on his desk. He tasted it and it was brewed just the way he like it. He felt himself warm as her scent became headier as she drew closer. No doubt, she knew he was here. He turned the light for his office on when he arrived. Alani was smart. She’d opened everything in his office but left the light off as an indicator to his arrival. He heard as she exited the small kitchen between his and her office. She must have been getting herself coffee. He listened as she stopped, now aware of his arrival. She put her coffee on her desk, and pick up something. He assumed it was the files from the weekend work. He watched as she knocked, her head down looking in the files. When he acknowledged her, she began walking forward. He knew the minute she realized it was him. Her spine stiffened as the hairs on her arms raised and her head snapped up. She stopped, mouth open. He raised from his seat, hands in his pockets and walked in front of his desk and sat on the edge. “Hello Ms. Mitchell. So nice to finally meet you.”