The Alphas Hidden Mate

Chapter 5; Bright

"Serena, may I have a moment?" Archer said, catching my attention. I inwardly groaned. This could not be happening. I put on a smile to hide my frustration and turned to face him. 

"Sure" I said through my teeth. I waited for him to catch up to me and played with the strap on my gym bag. I looked longingly at the door and sighed. Crace was probably halfway to my place by now and I hadn't even left the gym. This was where I wished that I had his phone number...WAIT! Duh, I can link him I thought to myself, inwardly rolling my eyes. 

Crace? I said, hesitantly.

Yes, princess? I'm almost there He replied with. 

I'm held up at the gym. Archer wants to speak with me. I might be a few minutes late I told him, sadly. Crace chuckled.

That's okay. I have to swing by mine anyways, quickly. We'll meet there at the same time then. I felt nothing but love and adoration in his voice. 

Sounds perfect. I'll try to be there quick as possible I told him before severing the connection. 

Archer finally stood next to me. He smiled at me. "I just wanted to say that I have been monitoring you the past few weeks, and I have to say...I'm very impressed with your work these days. You've made great strides in your training. So much so that I'm deciding to overlook your indiscretions in the past. I have also come to the conclusion that you are much too advanced to be in this training group." He informed me and I just stared at him.

"What do you mean?" I asked him. I was no longer focused on getting home.

"I mean, that I'm bumping you up to a more intermediate training group. Something more challenging and better suited for your talents. I am also training that group, so I'll be able to see how you do. However, as it's a more challenging group, I will not be going as easy on you as I am in this group. Understood?" He said,  looking at me sternly. 

I nodded. "Thank you, Archer. This is amazing" I said to him, beaming. I was ecstatic. My parents had told me that they worked their way up in to the most challenging training group there was when they were my age. Eventually, they excelled at that group and it was deemed that they didn't need anymore training. This was when they were 19. 19 years old and they had already excelled at what most wolves take several years to excel at. I was getting there. I hoped that by the time I'm 19, I would be the exact same. I hoped though, that I would be met with a different fate - no matter what an honour it is.

"Well, I'm sure you've got places to be today so I'll let you go. You can finish the week in this class but beginning of next week, I hope to see you in the intermediate group. I'll give you the details on Saturday." He said, smiling before leaving me. I stood there, still dumbfounded at what happened.

Princess? I heard in my head and I snapped out of my trance. Sh*t! Crace was waiting for me. I quickly left the gym and ran all the way to the cottage. I went in through the front door. I dropped my gym bag on the little couch before making my way to the back door and opening it. Crace entered and he looked at me, suspiciously. He was carrying his own small bag as well.

"What's up?" He asked me, placing his bag next to mine. I smiled at him.

"What do you mean?" I said, grabbing his hand and linking our fingers together. He pulled me to him, and stroked his thumb on my hand in comforting circles.

"I can tell when you're lying, first of all, princess." He looked at me pointedly and I smiled. I knew I wouldn't get away with it for even a second. "Secondly, for the past half an hour, I could feel your heart race and emotions spike through the bond. Now, unfortunately for me, the mate bond doesn't tell you what emotion rose. So, please, ease my anxiety and tell me what happened?" He asked me. I pursed my lips and pretended to consider telling him.

"Hmmm...okay. I'll tell you, but only because you asked ever so nicely" I said, teasing. He just shook his head at me. I took him to the bedroom so we could sit. Considering our bags were on the sofa, there wasn't really another option in my small cottage. "Archer wanted to tell me that he's been watching me the past few weeks and he's very impressed with my work." I started.

"That's good news, princess!" He said, smiling at me. I held up a hand to stop him from saying anymore.

"I'm not done, yet." I told him and he pretended to zip his mouth shut. "He said that I have been doing so well that he's decided to look past me being late and he's also decided to move me up to the intermediate group starting next week!" I finished, beaming excitedly. Crace looked at me, waiting. "That's it, you can talk now" 

He just sat there for a second, looking at me and saying nothing. I started to get worried but then he crash tackled me on the bed and enveloped me in a bear hug.

"Ahhh" I exclaimed in surprise. I wrapped my legs around him and hugged him back. We both sat up and he beamed at me. His happiness for me radiated of him and through the bond, it was like sunshine and the smell of pastry coming from him was stronger than ever. 

"This is amazing news, Serena! I'm so proud of you! You're parents would be proud too." He said, tucking a lose hair behind my ear. "I told you that you didn't need extra training" He said, smugly. I rolled my eyes.

"Yeah, yeah, I know, I know" I said to him. 

"You need to learn to believe in yourself as much as I do. Even before we were mates, I still had so much faith in your skills. Those weeks before when you were late, I felt disappointed because I had expected you to take pride in your training. There was never not a time where I doubted your skills though. I had high hopes for you then and I still do now. You are, after all, the future Luna of this pack, my love" He told me. I sighed and looked at him. I couldn't even fathom the thought of being a Luna. There was no way I was ready or prepared for it. I needed so much more time before I let Crace announce it. 

"Yeah, I wasn't feeling too good that week and a half before. I wasn't sleeping well, I was having nightmares and I even was running a minor fever. It stopped though on my birthday." I told him, truthfully. He frowned, thinking for a moment.

"Hmm, that sounds like what happens before you meet your mate and wolf." He concluded. "Judging by the fact that you're feeling better now, I would say it's nothing to worry about. You are feeling better, though?" He asked me, concern in his eyes.

I wrapped my arms around his neck. "Much, much better" I told him, smiling. He gave me a sexy smile back.

"I should hope so. Although, I'm sure you have some nasty bruises on you from our sparring today. How's your butt?" He asked me, playfully squeezing it. I yelped in surprise and narrowed my eyes at him.

"Hardly any bruises. It's going to take a lot more than what we did today to hurt me, Mr Ashford" I told him. He grinned.

"Is that so, Miss Hastings?" He asked me, gripping on to my hips. My body became livewired as the sparks of the bond zapped throughout my entire being. 

"Mmhmm" I hummed, nodding slightly.

"Well, I'll just have to change that now. Why don't we do another sparing match? A different one though." He said, cheekily. 

"Tell me more"  

He leant down and kissed me. I opened my mouth, allowing him to kiss me deeper. Our tongue danced together and our mouths moved in sync with each other. He stood up and took me with him. I wrapped my legs around his waist, holding on to him. We continued to kiss.

"Where's your bathroom?' He asked, quickly while moving his mouth to my neck.

"It's through...oh god...uhm...it's through that door behind you" I said, trying to think. It was so hard to focus on a single sentence while his mouth assaulted my neck like that. 

He turned around so he was facing the door and my back was to it. He walked to it and opened the door. The bathroom was average size. Not too big as this was a cottage after all, but I wouldn't have minded a bigger one. Everything in this place was small. Unlike me. He set me on the sink counter and he turned on the shower, breaking the kiss. My lips fell into a pout, naturally. He chuckled at me before he picked me up by the legs again and carried me into the shower. The water rained down on us before we realised we were still wearing clothes. We both laughed a little before undressing each other. I unbuttoned his pants and pulled his shorts down with his boxers. I came face to face with his impressive length. He took my shirt off and I unhooked my bra for him. He licked his lips and bit his lip at the sight of my breasts. 

"Perfect" He said. I yanked his shirt off and he took off my pants and panties. He growled at the back of his throat as he smelt my arousal. I thanked the Goddess that I had recently waxed down there. He kissed me again and it was full of passion, lust and desire. 

"Crace..." I moaned as he moved his lips down to my breasts. He sucked on n****e and I moaned again. There was something I needed to tell him. "Crace" I said, again, this time with a little more determination. He hummed into my navel, letting me know that he was listening. "We can't go all the way" I told him. He paused for a moment and looked at me. I was a little out of breath.

"Okay" He said, after a moment. 

"I'm serious, Crace. I need time for this. I promised myself that no matter what, I wouldn't abandon my values and beliefs. And I have always firmly believed that s*x shouldn't happen on the first date. We've only known each other for two days. That's too soon for me." I explained, earnestly. I was so worried that he would ignore my plea and still try to f*ck me.

"Are you finished talking?" He asked, smiling at me and raising a brow. I nodded, quietly. "Good. Okay. If you're not ready for it, then we won't have s*x. You just tell me when you are and I will be too." He said, looking into my eyes. 

"Really?" I asked, looking at him in surprise. 

"Yes, really. You're my mate and I wouldn't do anything to disrespect you. I know that if I pushed you into it, you would hate me and I would lose everything - your trust, your respect and your love. I would never risk anything that would cause us to fall apart. I promise you" He said. I looked at him, amazed at the man before him. He truly was something else, how did I ever get so lucky to be mated to him, the Alpha?

I kissed him, pouring all my love into the kiss. He moaned into it and it lit something inside of me. "We can't have s*x but we can do other things." I said, suggestively.

"Your wish is my command, Fairy Nymph Queen." He said as he knelt down in front of me. I couldn't believe it. The Alpha was on his knees for me. I knew right there and then, that I would be the only one he would kneel before. He was the Alpha and I was the future Luna and together, we could rule the world, let alone the pack.

Crace grabbed the shower head and bought it down to my pubic area and the pulsing sensation and pressure caused waves of pleasure to rise and I lost myself in it. I grabbed Crace's shoulder as the waves got closer and closer. Suddenly the pulsing and pressure was gone and the loss of contact was momentary as Crace inserted two fingers and pumped them inside me. I gasped as I felt myself get closer and closer to the edge.

"That's right, princess. Let it happen." He said, kissing me. His tongue stroked mine and he flicked his tongue against my cl*t and the waves finally crashed over me and I fell of the edge.

"Ahhhh, Crace" I moaned throughout my orgasm. My legs shuddered and I threw my head back against the wall. He growled a little and nipped at my lip a little. My orgasm came to an end and I leant my head against his chest as I tried to catch my breath. "That...was amazing." I told him. He smirked at me.

"I know. I make it a point to be good at everything I do." He said. He kissed my forehead and I bit my lip. I looked down to see that he was still hard.

"Now let me make you feel as good as you made me feel" I said, getting on my knees and I went to work on pleasuring him. His groans filled the room in seconds and I could only hope that things would stay this perfect forever...Ah hope, such a fickle thing, isn't it?