Love in time

Museum Outing

    He couldn't believe he found his mate, in a place like this. He was walking down the street to the museum when he smelt it, peaches. He f*****g loved peaches, the smell, the taste, the way the juices dripped on your chin. He followed the scent and there she was adorably bundled up in a winter coat with no hat, her beautiful blond hair shining like a beacon. She was staring longingly at the museum's poster. Lady luck for once was on his side, for it took little to convince her to go with him. He could tell she was human, but that didn't bother him.     He was alpha, he did what he wanted and the pack didn't question him. She felt the pull toward him as well, he saw her sneaking glances at him all the way over here. then when they got to the exhibit, he was all but forgotten. She became completely engrossed in every minute detail of the artifacts. He would have to come back again, because he didn't look at anything but her. He watched the pain she tried to keep hidden as she looked at pictures of the hideously grotesque human skeletons when the allied troops liberated the camps. She wiped tears from her eyes as she passed pictures of children with swollen bellies. "Why did you come if it upset you this badly?"

            "It's a part of our history, and it can't be forgotten or it will be doomed to be repeated," she told him wisely. He had never met someone like her in his life, even if he had just met her. He could tell she was sweetness personified, caring which is what the Luna of the pack needs to be.

            Luk had to figure out his next move wisely, he found his mate one that he had been searching over fifty years for since he became the alpha of his pack. If she was a shifter like him the feelings would be recognized instantly. However, she was a human, and humans have widely discredited what she was feeling, which is what humans akin to love at first sight. His wolf craved her presence, and didn't want to be separated from her for more than a minute now that it 

found its mate, but he would have to give her the appropriate amount of space or risk losing her forever. His wolf growled his frustration, but he held it in. We have to go slow bud or we will lose her forever, he told his wolf. His wolf let out a low whine but sat down knowing that ultimately, he was right.

            "So where do you work?" Luk asked her trying to find out what he could about her while her guard was down.

            "At the diner by I-74," she replied without looking away from what she was studying. Luk thought about it, and the only diner he could think of was an old beat up diner on the other side of town. What in the world was this beautiful woman doing in that part of town?

            "That's a bit far from the college isn't it?"

            "Yeah, but it close to where I live," she replied absently. Luk realized then that she must still live with her parents and not on campus like most college age children.

            "I bet your parents must love that you still live with them," that cause Phillipa to look up at him with a sad smile.

            "They died two years ago; I live in the house I grew up in." Phillipa turned away from him and continued on looking at the exhibit. Luk watched her as she walked and his heart physically hurt for her. While he was currently the pack's alpha that didn't mean his father was gone, he had just "retired" he had enough of the politics after two hundred years and passed it onto one of his sons. Luk stepped up as alpha, his brothers had the right to challenge him for the position either a vote or fight to the death, they choose neither and let him rule the pack. Flip didn't say whether she had brothers or sister but he could just tell that she was alone, just the amount of pain in the words, it was as if it had happened yesterday.

An hour later he was still watching her, unable to believe the way fate had intervened in his life. Luk was meeting on neutral territory with a few other alphas to discuss several issues that have been cropping up lately, the main one being hunters on their lands. However, Luk truly believed the call for the meeting was for him to be pressured into marrying Alpha Perez's youngest daughter. It was an alliance both his pack elders wanted as well as Perez, the only people who didn't want it was him and Sylvia.

            While he had been young and naive, he believed he would find his mate right away as he was an alpha's son and needed a strong Luna by his side. The older he got, the less likely he believed that he would find his true mate. When he was approached by the other elders, he didn't outright turn the idea down, but spoke to Sylvia as he had known her for a very long time. However, she was adamant that she would find her mate one day, and he would never deny any wolf their mate just because he believed he didn't have one out there anymore.

            So, while he was prepared for the upcoming fight with Alpha Perez, he found his one true mate.