Little Dove

Chapter 13

Phoenix POV

During breakfast, Jared is quick to get on his phone and start texting... who knows, probably one of his one night stands from last night. My eyes keep darting to Emily’s dress riding up, as her leg shakes with her nervous tick under the table.

Not able to fight the urge, I reach under the table and rub her knee to calm her shaking.. but also to give in to my craving of touching her skin. I hear her swallow hard, trying to keep calm, but her heart rate picks up at an unnatural speed. She grabs my hand, and to my surprise she pushes it further up her thigh. I let out a quiet growl, that my brother doesn’t seem to notice, and I start rubbing my thumb in circles on her upper thigh. I can smell her arousal.

Suddenly... the most uncomfortable interruption walks in. “Phoenix, Jared!” Dad walks in, takes a wiff of air, and turns his head directly to Emily. “hmm Emily, I presume” He smiles at her and walks to her with his hand outstretched. “You smell....” I throw daggers at him with my eyes knowing what he senses, and he smirks. “divine dear.”

“Oh my goodness, Good Morning Sir...uhh King.. Um.. Do I bow, I’m sorry I am very new to all of this” her face turns a shade of pink and takes his hand. Jared chuckles in the background. I glare at him, and he throws his hands up as a surrender. “Please dear, no need to be so formal with me. We are family now!” he kisses her hand and takes a seat at the table.

“Phoenix has told us so much about you, and your new discovery of your wolf! What a shame she has been locked away all of these years. I cannot wait to meet her! Shall we all shift and go for a run this evening?” Emily turns her head to me in pure horror. “Dad that is not necessary tonight. I am trying to get her comfortable and understand how everything works before we jump into that” I retort. “No problem, dear, whenever you are ready!” He gives her an apologetic smile, and I can feel her relax.

We stop the chat about Emily, and start talking about business and our meeting with Mr. Sampson. He seems proud with the way Jared handled the situation and closed the deal.

We finish up breakfast, excuse ourselves and head to the corridor, leading to the back doors, to the garden.

Emilys POV

Breakfast was... interesting. I wasn’t expecting to meet his brother, his friend And his father so soon, but I don’t think he was expecting them to be present either. His father seemed very pleasant, and his brother and friend seem like quite the flirt. I can imagine they get a lot of girls with those looks. Everyone is so tall, its very overwhelming to be the only human sized person around, in a sea of very strong, large Lycans. I haven’t met his mother yet, which makes me a little nervous. Will I be good enough in her eyes? Will she even like me? Calm down Emily, she will like us. I know it Amber reassures me.

Phoenix takes my hand and leads me down the most beautiful and elegant hallway. “Where are we going?” I look up at him, as he smiles down at me. “A surprise Little Dove.. I think you will really like it”. I’m kind of over all of these surprises, but give him a smile and a nod. He opens the double doors and light blinds me for a moment, until my sight focuses... Oh my gosh.

A large garden, with beautiful stone walkways every which way. A fountain placed towards the back with benches around it. I can imagine myself reading countless books back here. Looking past the fountain is a large stretch of land, that looks almost unmaintained in the most flawless way possible, with wild flowers growing everywhere. Heaven

Letting go of his hand, I run down the steps and look everywhere not knowing how to take in all of the beauty. “It’s gorgeous, Phoenix. It looks like My home!” I say, meaning the pictures on my walls. He pulls me away from my focus and into his arms and leans down to my ear and whispers “This IS your home Emily”.

We sit on the benches by the fountain for what feels like hours. Learning a little about each other. I learned he is actually 122 years old, which is shocking! Apparently Lycans age much differently then humans.. err wolves. He named off his royal guards and warriors, including Jaxon. Jaxon is a long time childhood friend, along with Chase and Isaac. His Mother is a very active woman on the Royal council, she leaves earlier in the morning to help out where she can. She sounds like a wonderful, strong woman!

I told him my family lives in a small town in Utah, where I grew up, and I am an only child. I visit them when I am not so busy with work.

“So you had something important to discuss with me about the Lycan bond?” I smile looking up at him. “Oh... right. I don’t know if this is the best time to talk about it. I don’t want to ruin the mood” He caresses my cheek and I feel the heat radiating off of him. “Okay.. well I can respect that.."

"So... I wanted to ask you something, if you don’t mind. My friend, the one you met at Vision, well she has been really worried about me and has really wanted to..” He cuts me off. “Yes we can go and see her!” “Oh.. we.. yes of course, I’m sure she would love to meet you in a more relaxed environment!” Suddenly my stomach growls loud, and he lets out a laugh. “How about we go upstairs to the room and order some food, you can make a call to your friend.” I blush a shade of pink and give him a nod.

Getting into the bedroom, Phoenix makes a call to order some food, and I walk over to the couch near the windows and call Sadie.

“Hey girl!! I was so close to calling out the search party, you’re lucky! I went to Morning Rise this morning for some coffee and you weren’t there. Your boss said some guy called in for you. what the hell Em??” She says fast and angry. “Sorry Sadz, the past few days really got away from me. Do you want to meet up this afternoon, maybe at my house? Phoenix would like to meet you...” I whisper the last sentence, not remembering Lycans have Super hearing, which I learned about today. “Okay... this Phoenix guy is super mysterious, but I’d like to hound the guy that took my best friend away from me the past few days. So sounds good to me! I’ll come over around 6.. sound good?” I roll my eyes and laugh “That’s perfect Sadie, see you later, Love you!” “Love you too girl!”

Phoenix ordered some Chinese take out and my stomach is doing backflips in excitement. We eat in silence, until his phone rings.

Phoenix POV

“Phoenix speaking” I say after picking up my phone knowing exactly who it is. “Hey baby, I was wondering if you would like to come out to dinner with me and my parents tonight. Daddy was asking about you. Maybe we can play the game we used to play...” She seductively says.

I figured she had taken a hint in my office a few days ago, this is not a discussion I need to be having right now with Emily in the room. “We will talk about this later, and the answer is No.” I sternly say back. “Oh my goodness, she is there with you, isn’t she?” She giggles, and I say nothing. “Okay, well remember that time we were having dinner with your parents and I slipped under the table without anyone noticing and unzipped your..” “Allison, that is Enough!!!” I bark back stupidly realizing that is exactly what she wanted from me. I hang up the phone and turn around to see Emily glaring at me, with a cold expression on her face. Shit

“Who is Allison?” She asks, her face goes flat without any emotion as she looks me directly in the eye. “Just an employee of mine” I try to brush it off without having to go deep into discussion about her. She means nothing to me anyway. “Oh... Okay, of course” she continues to eat, but somehow I know she is fuming inside.