Her Second Chance Alpha

Chapter Five

I wake up to the smell of breakfast; Bacon and pancakes it seems. I get up and head to the bathroom, once finishing my business I grab a quick shower and get dressed into some high wasted, white jeans and a grey cardigan which is long sleeved but cropped to where the top of my jeans start, it hangs with a V shaped collar resting perfectly to show off my cleavage. I brush my hair into a high pony tail and head towards what I can only assume is the kitchen as the smell fills my nostrils, I feel my stomach start to growl.

Opening the door I see Beth and Cameron cuddling, as soon as they see me their arms leave each other’s embrace and Beth is by my side in a second. “How did you sleep?” she smiled sweetly but her eyes still hold so much pain for me.

“As well as could be expected, Thank you again, for letting me stay here, I don’t know what I would have done” I shrug apologetically.

“Probably stayed asleep under that street lamp” I look at Cameron’s face which is bursting with amusement.

“HA!HA!” I say with more sarcasm than can be expected.

The door swings open and misses me by an inch which caused me to spin round as fast as I could with a crinkled nose and pissed expression, I lock eyes with a tall man who has a serious look on his face and he looks to be a little older than us, maybe by a year or five? I laugh at myself trying to keep a straight face. He has short blonde hair and stubble along his perfectly, sharp jaw line, his eyes are crystal blue and he stands with an amazing aura or power surrounding him. He’s wearing a white shirt which is perfectly crisp, I don’t think I have ever seen one so well ironed. The top two buttons are undone allowing a little sneak peak of his tanned pecks underneath, he has grey suit pants on and a black belt hanging perfectly round his hips. I can feel myself looking him up and down while my wolf growls at me. I look up again to only realise that he was stood there watching me check him out, my face feels like it’s on fire as I can feel my cheeks turning to the colour of tomatoes.

I’m pulled out of my gaze by the sound of laughter coming from behind me. Not taking his eyes off me I hear a deep growl come out of the tall guy’s throat and the laughter comes to a halt. He quickly brings my attention back to him when he eventually speaks “and who might you be little one?” I can’t help but scowl at him and scoff as I rudely reply forgetting that I am in another packs territory “you just nearly wiped me out with a door and you expect me to tell you who I am?” a small smile creeps on his face and just like Hunter he has the most perfect set of straight, pearly whites which makes me tilt my head a little without realising that again, I am falling into his gaze.

“Well this is my pack and I don’t recognise your scent, so yes I am asking who you are. As far as the door incident, I do apologize, I didn’t know you were standing so close, maybe next time when you enter the kitchen you should actually….I don’t know…. Enter it.” He says waving his hand motioning to the enormous kitchen that we are stood in. I turn to see Cameron and Beth both have their backs to us and their heads down continuing to cook breakfast. I can feel myself growing more anxious as I realize just how embarrassing this is. I can’t believe I just spoke to the Alpha like that! He allowed me to stay in his pack house no questions asked and here I am being cheeky! I feel my face turn red again as I look down and pull on my fingers nervously.

“I’m sorry, I forgot where I was for a second, my name is Eleanor...” I look up meeting his gaze again and holding out my hand in hope we can forget what just happened “…Eleanor Hale”

He looked at my hand quizzingly and let out a small chuckle before grabbing it and shaking, god his hands are huge. “Well hi Eleanor, you can call me Elijah, or Alpha Cleary.”

I couldn’t help but frown. Why is he telling me his first name? Alpha’s never go by their first names unless they are related or mates. For some reason I couldn’t help but get lost in his eyes, the connection was so surreal, we weren’t mates or we would have sensed it by now, with me being 18 it would have been clear from the start. But this was beginning to get creepy. I could feel myself wanting to just jump on him and lock my lips with his, but I resisted the urge when my wolf howled in the back of my mind. I didn’t understand what was happening, but I had no one to ask about this either since I was now banished from my pack land.

“What brings you to the Blue Moon Pack, if you don’t mind me asking?” He said pulling me from my thoughts and with a wide, sarcastic grin on his face; I knew it was in reference to my fiery response earlier.

“ermmm…” was all I could get out, thankfully the door opened again, this time the door hit Elijah with a force which made his eyes finally move from mine as he looked over his shoulder with a frown and let out a loud warning growl which almost made the room vibrate.

A terrified looking man around my age poked his head around the door and looked at me but then set his eyes on Elijah with fear all over his face “I…I am so sorry Alpha…” he bowed his head in submission.

“What do you want Clarke?” His tone harsh and straight to the point.

Not lifting his head to respond, he continued “There has been a breach on the border, two rogues got through, but we have captured them and they are now heading to the cells.” I could see him shaking with every word, nervous of what Elijah was going to say.

“I will come down shortly, tell Shane and Emmet to stay in the cells with them until I am there, I need to know why they dared cross onto my land.” He said with a stern voice, but I couldn’t help thinking about how adorable he was and that voice only made me want him more. Dominating and in charge.

Clarke bowed his head and quickly exited the room. Elijah turned his head and locked his eyes onto mine “You not entering the room made me get hit by a door.” I looked down at my fingers feeling sheepish before I could feel the warmth of this hand reaching to pull my head up so that my gaze was back on him. “I was joking you don’t have to be so scared, I have to go take care of some pack business, I will be back in an hour to continue our discussion Miss Eleanor. Please don’t leave until I return.” I nodded politely with a small smile, and with that he turned on his heel and left the room. I let out a long, hard breath that I didn’t know I was holding and turned to see a shocked Cameron and Beth who were both staring at me with their mouths in the shape of an ‘o’.

“What’s wrong? Why are you looking at me like that?” I said feeling a little confused and embarrassed.

“That was Alpha Cleary…” Beth responded still looking at me is shock. “He’s one of the strongest and most feared alphas around… and he…he just…” she pointed at the door then looked and me, words failing her. “He just like… he just smiled at you and touched your face and stuff and you were so rude and he laughed... I was expecting him to come over here and kick our ass’ for letting you in the pack house and not informing him.” She couldn’t help but let the amusement cover her face as she burst out laughing at my blank expression.

“W-what do you mean without his permission? He knew I was here right? You did mind link him yesterday didn’t you Cameron?” I said in shock, making Beth laugh harder. Cameron’s head sunk in shame looking at the floor.

“CAMERON!” I screamed almost picking up a pan and chucking it at him.

“I’m sorry, I completely forgot” he blurted out joining Beth in hysterical laughter.