His little mate

Chapter 10

Anna’s POV

We went downstairs to eat something, I was not hungry, but that could also have been because I barely ate anything before I came here, three weeks ago. This is my third day here being awake, and I have already eaten more than I normally do in a month! I am getting heavier by the second, and I do not like it. But the doctor told Marcus I had to gain some weight to become healthy again, and deep down I knew they were right, even Hope was telling me this, but I cannot forget something that I have been told my whole life. Before I knew it, we were downstairs, and Marcus was walking me to the kitchen. He sat me down on a barstool. “So, what would you like to eat?” he asked me. But I would not know the answer, I always cooked for the other pack, so I knew a lot of different kinds of food, but I had never eaten any of it. “I-I do not know-know, y-you c-can ch-choose.” I told him. He looked at me with a worried face, probably because I had not eaten much the last couple of days, and I did not have breakfast this morning, this was just an early lunch, at least I hope it is because if I eat now and he wants me to eat again in an hour or so, I do not think I can. “How about I make you some toast with butter and a fruit salad and some milk, or do you want something else? Maybe pancakes, French toast, some cornflakes? Or something else to drink, we have a lot of options like orange juice, water, chocolate milk, another kind of juice, you say it.” I was a little overwhelmed by the number of things he told me “T-t-the f-f-first t-thing soun-sounded good.” I told him. He smiled at me, and he began to make my food. When he was done, he put it in front of me. A plaid with 4 slices of toast with butter, a big bowl with all different kinds of fruit, some scrambled eggs, and a big glass of cold milk. But he had nothing himself, this made me frown, why would he give me so much food but not take any for himself. “Why d-do y-you d-do not have a-any?” I asked him. He looked at me and frowned, he probably thought it was strange of me to think that way, but what if there was some kind of drug in the food, he just gave me, it would not have been the first time something like that happened to me. “Because I already had breakfast but if you think it is too much, we can eat it together.”, he told me. I looked at him and I thought I would like that. So, I nodded my head and said or more like whispered: “Please.” He looked at me and he stood up, he picked another set of cutleries out of a drawer. He sat back down next to me, pushed the plate a little more to him so it was in between us. He smiled at me, and he picked up a piece of buttered toast and put some scrambled eggs on it and him at it. I looked at him and I just picked a piece of buttered toast, but I did not put any eggs on it and me slowly at it. When I was done, he had already started and almost finished his second one, I did not want to eat any more toast, so I picked up the fork he gave me and I started to eat some pieces of fruit. I liked to eat fruit, when I made fruit salad for the pack I just to pick a little peace, but once Max noticed this he made someone else make it, this saddened me back then, but now I can eat a lot of it. And somehow, I did. I was so lost in thoughts that I had eaten the whole bowl, without noticing, I put my fork back into the bowl, but I did not pick any fruit. I frowned at myself, and I looked up in the bowl and it was empty, I looked at it in aw, did I just it all of it? “You ate the whole bowl,” Marcus told me, first I got scared, that he would be angry that I had eaten everything and that I had not left any for him, but then I looked up at him, and he was smiling like an i***t like he was the happiest man in the world, and I could not help but smile back at him a little. I was still in shock that I had eaten everything. “Do you want me to make you some more fruit?” he asked me, but I shook my head no, I had enough. He still smiled, like he was expecting it. He just finished off the plate, there was still some eggs left and a piece of toast. “Can you drink your milk or some of it, I can also give you some water. But you have to stay hydrated.” He told me, I looked at him and the glass, and I thought by myself that I could drink some of it, so I nodded and picked up the glass and dunk it while he was eating the rest of my breakfast. When I was halfway through the glass, I was full of it, I did not realise that milk would give you a feeling that you were full, so I placed it down in front of Marcus. “Do y-you want the r-rest o-of i-it? I-I am f-f-full.” I told him, and this seemed to make him smile even brighter like that was even possible, but it was. I giggled at his big million-dollar smile and gave him the glass. He took it in one gulp and looked back at me. “You have a milk-moustache.” He told me, holding back a laugh, I glared at him a little, still not feeling completely free around him, but then I laughed too because he had one too. He looked at me in awe, I was laughing at him, and it got me a little scared so I stopped laughing, afraid he would punish me for laughing. But when he saw my face chancing from fun to scared, he quickly calmed down. “Hey easy, easy you do not have to be scared of me, I love to hear you laugh, nothing more, nothing less. You can laugh, smile and giggle all you want, I will not love you any less for it or hurt you.” I blushed at his words, there was that word again, love, he loved me, but I could not say it back because I did not know what I felt for him. So, I did something, I never thought I would so, in my whole life. I hugged him shortly, it was just 3 seconds before I let go of him, but I still did it, I hugged him. He was frozen still, in shock, that I touched him. He smiled at me, rechurning I did nothing wrong. “Thank you for the hug, I hope you will do it more often and that you will become more comfortable around me.” He told me, and he just kept smiling at me. Then there was a ringing sound, which surprised me, I jumped a little at it and grabbed Marcus his arm. He smiled at me with a comforting smile. “It is just my phone, my mother is calling me, you have nothing to be worried about.” He told me while showing me his phone, which was still ringing and there was this name on the screen with a picture of a beautiful woman and a green and a red button. “I will be right back; I have to answer my mom.” He told me before he stood up leaving me here alone, while he was answering his phone.

Marcus POV

We were having a great time upstairs before we came down to eat and I wanted to keep it that way. So, when we were downstairs and she was sitting on a barstool, I asked her what she wanted to eat. She looked at me and she told me she did not know what she wanted to eat, and she was looking deep in thought while saying it, like she was thinking about something. So, I just started to name something I could make for her. But then I started to doubt if she would like this because I did not know what she liked, I had not seen her ate much. So, I started to name other things I could make for her. But she only got confused and overwhelmed so I stopped, and she told me she wanted the first thing, so I started to make some, not noticing I was making a little too much and added some scrambled eggs, when I was done and placed everything in front of her, I noticed how much it was. So, I offered to eat it with her, and she gladly accepted it. When I had my extra cutlery, I just started to eat looking at her, she just picked up a piece of toast and started to eat it slowly, when I was done I made myself a second piece and I kept looking at her but she was in her little world. When she had finished her piece, I figured she would stop eating and I had already embraced myself to ask her to eat a little more, but she picked up her fork and started to eat some fruit and I thought she would be done soon, but she kept eating the fruit deep in thought not knowing what she was doing. Is stopped eating and I looked at her eating every piece of fruit in it. When she had eaten everything, she just placed her fork back in it expecting to be more in it, but it was empty. Her cute little frown showed up on her forehead. This made me smile. Then a panicked look started to form on her face. “You ate the whole bowl,” I told the obvious to her, but this made her even more scared. But she also succeeded to smile back at me. “Do you want me to make you some more fruit?” I asked her, but she shook her head no, so I asked if she could drink her milk, or if she wanted some water because she had to drink something. She smiled at me and started to have small sips of her milk. I finished off her breakfast, and I realised it was indeed a little much for her. She put her milk down a little to my side and asked if I wanted the rest because she was full. I smiled at her and gulped the milk down. When I looked at her, I had to suppress a laugh because she was having a milk moustache. It was so funny, I told her, and it looked like she was trying to glare at me but failing. Then all of a sudden she started to laugh at me, and I just stared at her in awe. Her laugh was beautiful, but then she stopped and started to look scarred again. I quickly stopped staring at her in aw, and told her: “He easy, easy you do not have to be scared of me, I love to hear you laugh, nothing more, nothing less. You can laugh, smile and giggle all you want, I will not love you any less for it or hurt you.” Because it was the truth, and it made her blush. Then she did something, I did not expect, she hugged me, for three seconds tops, but she still did it. I was over the moon happy; I knew she was not ready to be hugged back yet. So, I just thanked her, “Thank you for the hug, I hope you will do it more often and that you will become more comfortable around me. ”Then my phone started ringing, and she jumped and grabbed my arm, this made me smile but also frown. She had never heard a phone, or was it a signal for her to pain, or had she just not heard it often. So, I explained to her it was my phone and that it was my mom calling me, probably asking me if she could come over with my dad and the twins. They were feeling lonely when I took over as alpha, so they decided to have another kid, which ended up being twins. A boy and a girl, and then I also have my younger brother, who is travelling the world for his mate, the last thing I heard of him he was in Japan, and telling me if he could not find her, he would stay a little longer because he liked the country. And I cannot forget my younger sister, she had just finished high school and was away to college, she wanted to be a doctor. I left Anna sitting at the table and picked up my phone to answer my mom. “Hey mom, how are you doing? How are dad and the twins?” I asked her before she could speak. “It is nice to hear your voice again, we are all doing great, thanks for asking. But what is this rumour, I heard, YOU FOUND YOUR MATE BUT DID NOT TELL YOUR MOTHER!!!!” she screamed so loud I had to get my phone away from my ear, I stared at it, a little scared, thinking about what to say when she was screaming things like, your mother, I waited my whole life for this, I want to meet her, your dad too, we are very disappointed and I want grandbabies. I stopped her when she was taking a break to breathe “Look, mom, I was going to tell you, but she just woke up three days ago from a coma she had been in for three weeks after my scouts had found her in the woods, she was barely a life. She has been tortured, raped, abused and probably other stuff I cannot even imagine. She is just starting to trust me a little and started to eat a little. I am already in love with her mom. I just have to take it slow because she is not ready. I was going to call you soon, to tell you everything, but I was just busy, and… well… it was not the first thing on my mind.” I told her, then it went silent on the other end of the line, which never happens. “I am so, so sorry son. I had no idea. H-how are you holding up with everything, do you need us to come over and help. I am sorry for screaming at you like this. I, I, I think it is best if you tell me what to do, she is your mate.” She told me, and this made me smile, she loves me so much, she would never do anything to do anything, and I know she already loves my mate, without even meeting her, and she would not do anything to hurt her or make her feel uncomfortable on purpose. “If you for now just can stay home, I would appreciate that. Maybe we can see each other here, at the packhouse in two weeks, when she is a little more comfortable and I have told her about you guys.” I told her, I was expecting another scolding because I had not told my mate about her, but she remained calm. “I think that would be great, when you two are ready, not earlier, do you hear me? I do not want to overwhelm her. If you see that she is not ready when I come in two weeks you call me and tell me, then we will just pros pone another week and see if she is ready then. Her response made me happy, and I told her it was alright. We talked for a few more minutes before we hang up and I went back to my mate, to tell her about my excited mother. When I walked into the kitchen, she was still sitting at the breakfast bar. But she was listening to April and Olivia talking to her about James and Luca, she was just listening and nodding her head, too shy to answer. I walked in and stood behind Anna and looked at them talking and Anna just listening. This was a really good sight, she was not talking yet, but she was not cowering away and just sitting there. “Hey, I am back from my talk with my mom, I see these two kept you busy. Do not believe everything they say, they are not the angels they say they are.” I told her, which made her blush and look up at me. I mind linked Olivia and April, asking if they could clear so I could talk to my mate. When Anna looked back, she frowned wondering where they went. “I asked them to leave, I wanted to talk to you about something,” I told her, I could feel this made her nervous, so I started to make circles with my thumb on her back because I saw my mom doing it to my dad, and I thought it was worth a try. And it worked, she calmed down. “My mom has asked if she could come to visit, and I told her she could come in two weeks. She will be coming with my dad and the twins.” I told her when I was starting to sit down in front of her. She looked at me in shock, not being able to say anything for a moment. “W-w-will t-they l-l-like m-me? W-what i-i-if t-they do not.” She whispered in a scarred tone, worried they would hurt her, or that I would kick her out if they did not like her. “Do not worry they will love you; my mom already does. She always wanted for me to find my mate; she probably already has her photo book with embarrassing photos of me ready to show you when she comes.” This calmed her down, she even giggled at that, probably thinking what kind of photo’s I was talking about. “C-can you t-tell me some-somethings a-about them?” she asked me, and I was happy to tell her everything. “Alright how about the basics, I will tell you more about them over the next few weeks. So, my mom, her name is Sandra, she is 45 years old. She has blond hair and blue eyes and she is very lovely and small, I think she is about 5’5, a little bigger than you, but compared to me, still small. My dad’s name is Alexander, he is 46 years old and at the moment he is bald, but he used to have black hair, just like me. He is 6’2 almost the same as me, he can be a bit serious sometimes, but he is kind and loving. Then the twins, a boy and a girl, Julian, and Lily are 5 years old and going to school, they are a pair of pranksters, but we leave them, nonetheless. Then you have my little brother Oliver, he is 18 years old and travelling the world looking for his mate so you will not meet him. And my little sister Emma which I do not know you will meet because she is studying, she is 21 years old. She is studying to be a doctor.” And I think this covers it.” I told her; I was a little nervous about how she would react, but she took it well. “T-that’s s-s-sounds l-like a b-big happy f-family, I-I c-cannot w-wait to m-meet t-them in t-two weeks.” She told me with a smile, and I smiled back at her.