Best Friends Mate

chapter 6

A few hours passed and Im dressed waiting for Ryan. I picked out some black pleather pants, gold flats and a sparkling gold top. When he finally shows up, he will barely look at me. Hes chivalrous enough though. He opens my door and tells me I look nice. We ride in silence to the pack house arriving early.

Typical warrior for ya. We have this saying “if youre early youre on time and if youre on time youre late”.

Ryan leads me to the Alphas office. “ready?” He asks.

“yeah, why wouldn’t I be?” He just looks at me. Suddenly the door opens and there is who I assume is Joshua, their son. He runs up to Ryan hugging

his leg! “Uncle Ryan!” he squeals. “Hey buddy” I hear Ryan say in return. Hes looking down at Joshua hugging his leg when I hear a domineering voice.

“come in Kiara, lets finally see what all Dustins been bragging about”

There stood a tall lean muscular man with red hair and green eyes and pale skin almost like a porcelain

doll. He stood to shake my hand before saying “its nice to meet you Kiara”. I took his hand shaking it and he turned to look at the woman standing behind him, a woman with black wavy hair and blue eyes, pale skin but nothing in comparison to the alphas. And I thought I was pale. She spoke to me in what sounded like a French accent. “It is so nice to meet you Kiara. I am Ana and this is my husband Ethan”

“so dustin tells me youre here for a couple weeks and that you two were a warrior, part of the special operatives at silvermoon” the Alpha asks

“Yes sir, Ill be returning home after my birthday. The middle of march. Thank you for allowing me to vacation here. You have a beautiful home.”

He waved his hand “No problem at all. It is no trouble. I hope you make yourself at home. I hear you already took part in our training today” he smiled and then looked over at Ryan who was playing with

Joshua and showing him some game on his phone. I lowered my head, blushing, simply saying yes. “well you must teach us some of your aquatic tricks before you leave. Ryan especially enjoyed them” He

smirked at me and then called for his son from Ryans lap. Ryan just rolled his eyes. “we better get down to dinner” Ana interjects.

“we’ll meet you there” says Alpha Ethan and Ryan and I quickly turn to exit.

As we walk down the hall in silence I turn to Ryan “youre good with kids” Before he can respond we’re at the pack dining hall. We take our seat and at that moment I see Dustin walk in followed by the Alpha and Luna. The Alpha sets at the head of the table. His Luna to his right, his beta and betas wife to his left. Dustin sits next to the Luna, then Ryan and then myself. At that moment I couldn’t help but wonder if Ryan regrets giving up his alpha position to his brother. Everyone is looking at me. Some have looks of curiosity, others hesitation, and some wolves looking at me in lust. Dustin is talking to the current Beta about something and Ryan glances over at the wolves, giving them a glare. They quickly go back to their dinner. I just turn and look at him but he refuses to acknowledge my stare. He eats as if im not there. After dinner I thank the Alpha and Luna and briefly introduce myself to the Beta and his wife.

“So youre Dustins sister” the beta states flatly.

“no he’s my brother” I retort. I hear the beta female snort. She steps towards me. “My name is Jasmine

and this is James” looking to her husband. “We’ve heard a lot about you from both Dustin and John and

Emily”

“you know them?” I ask her.

“of course. Our pack has recently acquired an official alliance with the silver moon” James broke in.

Well that explains Alpha Wyatt and Johns “business” trips. It made sense. This was a large pack and the silver moon had the special forces unit. My unit. It benefited both.

“well it was very nice meeting you” I turn and see Ryan and Dustin talking to some she wolf. She was flipping her shoulder length brunette hair and giggling. She was flirting with them both. Dustin being mated looked very annoyed. Hell, Dustin was always annoyed with women or girls I should say who acted like air heads. The moon goddess set him up with a great match. Alyssa was smart having a degree in marketing and business management. I could sense he was in a hurry to get back to her when he

quickly excused himself leaving Ryan with the she wolf and by the looks of it, Ryan would continue to entertain her bullsh**. Why the hell do I care? Good grief, im acting like im jealous. I decided it was time to leave. I would run back to my cabin. It was only about 3 miles. I step out of the pack house and smell

the air. It was so beautiful here in Northern California. The air reminded me of home.

“Where ya going?” I hear Ryans voice behind me.

“Back to my cabin” turning to look at him with a raised eyebrow.

“Can I walk with you?”

“Shouldn’t you get back to your flavor of the week?” I retorted.

He rubbed the back of his neck. “Shes the betas daughter. Shes like 17” he said thinking that meant something.

“Im 17” I said with my arms crossed.

“Kiara, theres a big difference between your 17 and her 17” he laughed.

I didn’t say anything, I just stared. He had a point.

“yeah, you can come, Dustin split so I guess a familiar face wouldn’t hurt” I paused before saying “you know Id think my brother would be spending a little more time with me”

Ryan shrugged. “I guess that happens when your mate is pregnant” He said it so non chalantly. I don’t think my jaw could have dropped any further. No one told me this!

“wait.. what?! Why am I finding this out from YOU?!” I nearly shouted.

He grabbed my hands. I felt sparks, like someone had just shocked me with static electricity. He continued holding them, looked at me in the eye and said “I shouldn’t have told you. They wanted it to be a special announcement. You know dinner and all that with the rest of her family.”

I guess I could understand that. I cant believe im going to be an aunt. I mean I knew I would eventually but not this soon! I looked up at Ryan. He hadn’t loosened his grip from my hand. I looked down at them. When he caught me looking inquisitively at us holding hands he quickly let them go, throwing his

hands to his side. We walked in silence for the first mile when curiosity got the best of me

“Ryan…” I began

“yeah?” he asked looking up, hopeful that we were finally breaking the silence.

“Have you found your mate yet?” Why did I just ask him that? Why would I care? Something in me felt protected by Ryan even though he was mean to me growing up. Something in me was stirring for him but I couldn’t quite put my finger on it.

“No, I don’t believe I have” he deadpanned.

A part of me felt disappointed. I look over at him and he looks confused and hurt. It wasn’t unheard of for wolves not to find their mates at 22 but it wasn’t the usual course of events. I wasn’t going to push the issue anymore. I gently nudged him and said “like anyone could put up with you anyways.” And winked at him. I began to run and from over my shoulder I yelled “Ill race you the rest of the way. The look on his face was that of surprise, like he wasn’t expecting me to be so playful considering our recent interaction.The truth was, I wanted to be. I felt good and I knew Ryan had something to do with it. He caught up to me quickly and smiled when he looked over at me. Damn Alpha blood. We were almost to my cabin when we collided, rolling through the forest floor with each other stopping right in front of my driveway. When we stopped rolling Ryan was on top me. We were breathing heavily and began laughing. We stayed there, Ryan resting on his elbows and forearms over me laughing until he fell silent and just stared at me. His lips only two inches away from mine.