The Legend of the Chosen

CHAPTER 8: COULD IT BE?– Eric’s POV

I was looking at Alexa heading for the stairs and off to bed when Liam asked me point blank “You like her don’t you?”.

There was no point in lying to Liam, he was always the perceptive one so I replied honestly: “ I feel like I already know her, her scent is familiar to me and I always have this urge to protect her, like literately all the time. I don’t understand. We can’t have human mates because we can’t procreate with them, so I don’t understand these feelings.”

Liam nodded and asked: “How does your wolf Max feel?”

I put a hand through my hair and answered: “He’s confused too, he wants to stay near her all the time, but when we are close to her, we smell her human scent and it just confuses us.”

Liam looked at me and said rationally: “It’s physically impossible that’s she’s your mate, so maybe you like the feeling of being the personal hero for the helpless damsel in distress.”

I smirked: “She’s no damsel in distress” and Liam smiled at me: “That’s probably what you like about her”.

I went to my room, took off my shoes, laid on my bed with a sigh and started thinking about the day I had had.

The first time I saw her, she looked like a lost puppy, with her confused and scared expressions, drooled mascara and untamed hair. She looked so hopeless that I just felt like hugging her. However, when she came out of the hospital room full of confidence and elegance, I really wanted to kiss her starting from her neck and slowly head for her lips. 

Then later on, in front of the tailor’s shop, when I saw her gasping for air underneath that wolf, she looked hopeless again and I was so angry, it took everything I had to not let my wolf out and kill everyone.

After that when I got nervous at her for being so careless around werewolves, she didn’t even listen to a word I said! She just said to me she wanted sugar and completely through me off guard, that I couldn’t even remember what I was talking about. I smiled at myself remembering this. 

When we were at the ice-cream shop, I came out with our orders and she had her eyes closed and was humming, she didn’t care of the odd looks she was receiving, she was just living the moment and she looked so beautiful. When she opened her big brown eyes and smiled at me, she looked even more amazing, that I couldn’t take my eyes of her.

While we were talking, I saw the bruise on her arm and I felt so much rage, I had to make a fist with one hand under the table to calm myself. She didn’t deserve all this… he clearly had horrible intentions, I can’t think of what could have happened. Anyway, I couldn’t resist myself, so I caressed her arm and kept caressing it, maybe in the hopes of healing it, I don’t know…

As I was looking into her eyes, I felt myself leaning in wanting to get closure to her, I was on the verge to kiss her but thankfully we were interrupted.

But what I really didn’t expect were the emotions she made me feel while she was freshening up in her room at the pack house.

When she hadn’t joined us after 40 minutes, I stated to get really worried…what if she was hurt? I had to check on her. I knocked on the door and kept doing that until I started banging really hard, but she didn’t answer.

Blood drained from my body and my mind started to panic, I began to feel really scared, which rarely happens to me and I just had to barge in and see if she was ok. When I entered, she jumped up from her bed, frightened to death by my intrusion, but perfectly safe which made me relax instantly but also made me feel really guilty. I later noticed that she half naked, only wearing a lace black bra and matching underwear and I couldn’t take my eyes off her. 

I tried to look away, but she was so perfect…she had petit feet with a vivid red nail varnish on her toes, long sexy legs, wide hips that would be perfect for my hands to grab on to, a small huggable waist, and petit breasts that could easily fit in my mouth for me to suck on. 

Wow I wished I had a photo like she sarcastically offered which made me chuckle. 

As a was thinking of her and trying not get to aroused, my bedroom door flung open unexpectedly and instinct kicked in: I leaped off my bed and I through myself onto the person that had barged in, changing into my wolf midair. Changing in matter of seconds was second nature to me, I had been doing it all my life and had trained hard to strengthen both my body forms.

I landed on the person, throwing them to the ground and pinning them in place with my paw.

“Ah! It’s me! It’s me! Alexa!” she screamed under me.

“Oh c**p! What is she doing?!” I thought.

She continued “Someone is in my room!”.

As soon as I heard that, I got off her and ran to her room and looked and sniffed everywhere, but no one had been there except her. I phased back into my human form and asked her: “No one is in here, are you sure you saw someone or was it a nightmare?”. 

She looked at me with an embarrassed expression trying to hide a smile that was creeping on her face and then looked at the floor saying: “I don’t know, I saw a shadow and I just bolted to your room, I’m sorry.”

I smiled warmly at her: “No worries, I’m sorry a turned into my wolf, it’s a defense mechanism, I didn’t mean to scare you.”

She nodded but kept looking at the floor which made me realize I was naked and I had to chuckle: “I’ll go to my room now. Goodnight Alexa”.

She looked at me hesitantly, but in the end, she said: “Do you mind if you stay here, with me? I can’t seem to be able to sleep… every time I hear a noise or see a shadow I freak out. It’s not like me at all, I have never been afraid of the dark, but I don’t know… I...”

I interrupted her: “Sure, no problem, you had a traumatic experience and it’s messing with your head, it’s normal, I’ll go get my phone and I’ll be right back.”

She nodded and looking me in the eyes grinning: “Maybe some clothes as well”.

I left smiling, thinking how on the first day we met we had already seen ourselves underdressed, what a weird day. I came back wearing a pair of shorts and found her already lying in bed, so I joined her. She closed her eyes and whispered “Thank you” as she quickly fell asleep while I looked at her. 

We had known each other for only a few hours but she trusted me already with her safety. I was used to people putting their trust in me, but this felt different, I really wanted to protect her and for her to want it.

She looked so at peaceful, so I inched closer to her, inhaled her scent and fell asleep.

During the night, I woke up when she started making noises and moving around in her sleep, she looked distressed and I could smell sweat on her, probably a nightmare I thought, so I wrapped my arms around her, hugging her and hummed a song to her. My mother used to do that when I was young, and it had always been helpful to both me and my sister when we had bad dreams. As expected, she calmed down and put her head on my chest and hugged me back. I tried not to laugh as she started to drool on me, I kept my arms around her and fell asleep thinking that if she were a werewolf, she would definitely be my mate.