Aurora’s Life of Dreams

Unconditional Love

Hayley’s POV

I have just met my mate and man was he gorgeous. Six foot four, chiseled face, gorgeous body and one hell of a kisser.

“I’m......Ian....by.....the way.” He got out in between kisses.

“Hayley,” was all I could mutter out as our tongues danced with each other. Every moment he was pulling me into him making the kiss deeper and deeper. I couldn’t believe this. I joked about finding my mate at that party, I JOKED and the Moon Goddess thought to make it ironic. She’s a funny one that Goddess.

I felt his hands wandering all over my body, touching every inch of me as my legs stayed wrapped around his waist and my hands intertwined in his fiery hair. I didn’t even realize we were walking up the stairs at the pack house, “where are we going?” I asked. “To my room,” I placed my hand on his chest, removed his hands from me abruptly and hopped down.

“Your room?”

“Yes, I’m the Gamma’s younger brother. I just turned 18 two days ago.”

Why did I not pay attention to the pack leadership before now. I mean, I may only be an omega but I literally live at Rory’s most of the time and she’s always at the pack leader events you know being the Alpha Daughter and all. How did I miss this gorgeous man standing before me now?

“Well now I feel stupid, I’m best friends with the Alpha Daughter so I feel like we should have met at least once.” I frowned and looked at the floor. He cupped my cheeks in his hands and lifted my face, “you are not stupid, don’t ever say that again. So what we didn’t meet each other before, we have each other now and that is what counts. Besides, if anyone is stupid it’s me.” I looked at him confused, “how did I not notice the most hypnotically beautiful woman in the whole world constantly standing by Rory?” I felt my whole face instantly turn red. He never released my face and slowly brought his lips down to mine, kissing me more gently than our make out session before. “I know we’re mates, but I want to get to know you. I know most people just jump to the mating ceremony then get to know each other later but I want you to know me. Like really know me before we even speak of our mating ceremony, okay? I want us to work through our insecurities, troubles and hardships together so that we’ll always be a compatible team.” I felt myself grin from the ear to ear as I nodded and pressed my lips against his.

It was insane, this man who knew nothing about me knew exactly what to say to me to make me feel loved and wanted. I never wanted to be just like everybody else: find my mate, mate and mark each other then have our mating ceremony. I’ve always wanted to court that person so we really know the ins and outs of one another before we start our whole lives together, like humans get to. Being wolves takes a lot of the mundane customs I’ve enjoyed watching humans do out of the equation so it was nice to know that Ian, my mate, wants the same as me. Mating before the Moon Goddess is something I’ve always taken seriously, especially after my dad rejected my mom a couple of years ago. So it made my heart happy to know that Ian wanted the same thing.

“So let’s start with a proper introduction, I’m Hayley, Hayley Rose Benefield to be precise.”

“Ian. Ian Michael Tran.” We shook hands and he pulled me into him. His lips found mine, we kissed for a moment, then he took my hand and led me upstairs to his room.

We laid in bed and talked about EVERYTHING. I was never willing to just open up to someone the way that I was opening up to him, but talking with him was just easy. Luna told me once that the mate bond is like finding the person that completes you, the person who understands you without ever meeting you, the individual that loves you unconditionally. I never believed that it was like that. All love was conditional, at least a little bit anyway, but as I lay here with him seeing the way he looks at me as I speak. The way he wiped my tears when I told him about my parents rejection after the death of my baby sister Kaci, held me as I reminisced on the last two years of basically not having a mother and smiled at me as I talked about my friendship with Rory I could see that there are no conditions here. He just loves me. Whole heartedly. And I love him the same.

When he was telling me of his family legacy I could see that it was quite the burden to him. He never wanted to be a part of pack leadership, but because of his name he wasn’t left with a choice. The Conners have always been alphas, the Staceys have always been betas and the Trans have always been gammas was exactly how he worded it so he has this obligation to the pack. It’s been our packs way of life since it was first created. Luckily for him he wasn’t the first born son, so he didn’t have to take on the direct responsibility of being Gamma, but since he is a son of the previous Gamma that came with its own responsibilities. He is one of the finest warriors that we have here in our pack since he had to start training at 12, he is an executive within our army and he is over the packs training of new warriors now that he’s 18. In all of that he told me his parents story, how they fell in love and conquered all as no one wanted them together, told me of his brothers and how amazing each of them are (four boys, bless his mom’s heart), his memories of wrestling and kick boxing, and the life he’s led as Gamma Son.

Even in telling each other all of that I can tell that we have barely even scratched the surface of the perfect life we’re going to have together. After we talked for what felt like ages, we just lay there staring into each other’s eyes holding hands until we both drifted to sleep.