Antonio: coming into it

Chapter 2

3 years later.

Somewhere in Italy...

"Sasha get your butt over here !!! Look at this !!" I heard my best friend Vanessa or Nessa for short yelled across the way at me. We were on vacation enjoying our Summer before college. Oh, I'm sorry let me introduce you to my other best friends. You've met Nessa she is the oldest next is me Sasha then Hope and Faith. We all met in Grade school, we are as thick thieves!

Nessa was the crazy one she loved to have always been up for a party or to do anything crazy. She loved to take pictures she was our photographer. I was more chilled out was into music and reading, didn't mind if we stayed at home or went out I could go both ways. I Loved to sing and perform, everyone always told me I had the voice of an angel but I never believed them. Hope was the artsy type she loved to paint and couldn't imagine her life without color. She was always wearing something bright, but it always looked beautiful on her. Faith was the Dancer. Always moving and looking like a beautiful bird. since she was a baby she had thick skin and was usually very tough when she needed to be. We had been working for the last two years to save money for this trip. Our European trek as Faith liked to call it. I finally made my way to Nessa and where she was standing. "Ness this is beautiful" I whispered in awe. We were looking at this beautiful scene. It was in the forest and it had a clearing where there was a lake. There were wolves around all paired up. the sky was a beautiful blue and it's like you could see the joy in their eyes. Ness took pictures so we could look at it all later she could tell this was gonna be our thing for the summer. We kept walking in the museum and chatting and goofing around. When I felt like someone was watching me. it made me shiver...

Antonio POV

She was the most beautiful girl I had ever seen . she had dark curly hair the went down to her butt, which I must admit was nice and round. She had to be around 5' 5". She was curvy, reminded me of an hourglass. Her skin was a nice deep caramel, beautiful brown almond eyes, my favorite nut from now on. She looked like she was with friends on a vacation. They stood out among the crowd, the prettiest girls here. I had stopped walking with my father long ago when I saw her. My wolf was trying to come out. I was trying my best to keep him in we were in a human town and couldn't bring attention to ourselves. I was so lost in my thought I didn't even feel my father pulling towards the meeting room under the museum ." Antonio what has gotten into you ? We are here for a meeting with the other Alphas, not for you to ogle females." he scolded me "Father I think I just found my mate I have to go back !!!" I pleaded with him. My father stopped right in the hallway with his eye as wide as saucers "Are you sure she is here?" he whispered. if it weren't for my werewolf hearing I wouldn't have heard him. I closed my eyes. Took a deep breath, once I opened them "yes father all the signs are there please let me find her so my wolf can confirm." I begged him. He turned me around and pushed me back towards the side door we came in ."go, son! Don't worry about the meeting, go get my new daughter-in-law." He smiled at me. I went back into the museum and searched for her. I could smell her, it was strong she smelled like an apple pie with hints of vanilla and cinnamon. That made me smirk because dutch apple pie with vanilla ice cream is my favorite dessert. I turned a corner nearly running her over. She almost fell back. I grabbed her as quickly as humanly possible. I heard her gasp. My hands were touching her hips, I could feel the sparks thru her clothes. Imagine what it would feel like to touch her bare skin. As I was pulling her up we finally locked eyes. I could feel my wolf howling in my head, together we both said "mate" only mine was more like a whisper. Hi was a shout and more howling. Since I was closer to her now I could see her face better and let me tell you it was beautiful beyond words. her eyes were brown but not too dark and had flecks of gold in them like all around her eyes . she had a cute button nose and beautiful full lips that she kept biting. Someone came over to her a got our attention. "Sash you ok? did this i***t hurt you !" she looked at me with anger in her eyes. "Faith I'm ok. He was helping me after he almost made me fall. I shook my head so I could start talking and not look like a fish out of water. "Buongiorno signore. My name is Antonio Santori. it's a pleasure to meet you." I said with a smile. She looked up at me and blinked several times without saying anything. one of her other friends came up to us. "hello Antonio, the girl who you still haven't let go is Sasha. I'm Vanessa, this is Faith who scolded you, and that one behind us is Hope. The pleasure is all ours " she smirked at me.

I finally let her go since it was pointed out to me. as soon as I did though I noticed a little sadness in both of us. I shook it off and started talking before they walked away "so you ladies aren't from here?" I c****d my head to the side. Sasha was still next to me I felt like my heart was beating out of my chest. "no we are doing our summer vacation before college." she told me. Her voice sounded like an angel I could listen to her talk all day. I showed them around the museum and told them about a few of my favorite scenes. It was getting late but I didn't want to leave her. "so I know you are here on vacation, I wondered if you wanted to hang out sometime I could show you around." I asked her. She looked at me with wide eyes. She shook her head yes and then put her eyes down. We exchanged numbers and went our separate ways. I found my father next to the car waiting for me. He handed me a gelato vanilla caramel my favorite. "I take it, my new daughter- in law isn't coming with us today?" he mused "no father she won't be coming yet. She is a human and it's gonna take some time but she is worth it" We hopped in the car and rode back to our packhouse.