At his disposal

Chapter 9 - Make a run for it

Alexander POV

As soon as I reached the pack house I went straight to bed. It was late and I wasn’t going to wake my dad up yet to tell him about my discovery. Further I wasn’t quite sure on how to tell him about my discovery.

Like ‘hey dad, I just found out that my mate is clearly a werewolf because she growled out loud when having a s*x-dream tossing and turning in her sheets because of my presence’ - that’s not what you want to tell your dad or anyone for that instance. She and her growls are for my ears only.

But I needed to find a solution, because I was going to tell him first thing in the morning.

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As I woke up, I headed straight for the shower and jumped into some black jeans and a wide t-shirt I ran my fingers through my hair, so it fell nicely and tousled around my ears, the curls still soaking from the shower. I jumped in some white canvas shoes and mind linked my dad.

Hey dad, are you in your office I have some updates and information about our mission I need to tell you about.

Oh yes son, just come in, I’m only here with Cory we have just finished a business meeting.

Great dad I’ll be there in a few.

Cory was the packs beta and Lucas’ father, and he was surprisingly nothing like Lucas. Temper wise at least. He was this calm and very noble man, never foolish but always rational and to the extent that he didn’t like how Lucas wasn’t serious about his future mate. But to me he had always been the best kind of uncle you could get. I rushed in there not quite sure on how to explain things to them yet. With a short knock on the door, I entered seeing my father behind his desk and with Cory by his side.

“So, what’s going on son, you made any progress with your mate?” he asked as soon as I closed the door behind me.

“I did actually...” I said feeling the heat rise to my cheeks which led to my dad and cory arching their eyebrows in unison.

I cleared my throat of the big lump and swallowed as I spoke the next few words.

“I heard her growl last night, and nothing about it was human, she is definitely a werewolf…” I said now completely red as a tomato.

My dad looked at me with suspicion and I could see he was contemplating whether to ask the next question or not but Cory surpassed him.

“Dear Alexander, please tell us you didn’t touch that young woman, you know it isn’t safe yet, you promised to stay away from her, for her safety as well, you don’t want to hurt her, do you?” Cory asked and I sensed the relief from my father for not having to ask me those questions.

At the same time, it made a little anger bubble inside of me. How could they think I had hurt her or ever would? And despite the longing to touch her and be with her my priority of keeping her safe was even bigger. I wouldn’t want her to meet me like this or force anything upon her that she wasn’t ready for. But I knew that it was not Cory’s intention to anger me, so I just looked at my feet while answering, holding back the anger.

“No, I promise, I could never hurt her and I didn’t touch her, she was sound asleep in her room and I was watching from afar” I told them, no need to mention that she had almost caught me in doing so and that I wasn’t that ‘afar’ from her…

“Well son, then that is good news I suppose that means we only need to figure out how much she knows” my dad tuned in breaking through my thoughts.

“Yes, I thought about that too and I will be going to watch her for today as well even though I’m quite sure she has no idea of this world existing, then we can come up with a proper way to go around it” I said.

My dad nodded and I took it as a sign to leave, “but son, remember to keep your distance, she is not ready for all this yet” he tuned in before I managed to close the door behind me. I nodded in acceptance and ran off towards the city and her house, if I was lucky enough, she hadn’t left for school yet.

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Nathalie POV

As I woke up, I was still so confused about what had happened in the night. Confused to a point that I was sure I was losing it. I didn’t feel like going to school and I knew my parents had already left for work, so the bed was so comfortable and appealing that I never wanted to leave. I just wanted to sleep it all off and wake up realizing this had all been a nightmare. I wish I had never seen that guy, cause then I would never have been in this position, and who was he either way? I felt the lusting feelings inside my body slowly being replaced with anger and fear. Because who did he really think he was? Messing with my mind like that, attacking an innocent man at the club for whispering something to me? I mean he was actually kind of scary as I came to think about it, he could snap my neck in an instant, I was sure about it. And was he even that good looking or was it just my dreams enhancing it, I couldn’t quite remember anymore it had been a week by now. And anyway, he clearly had not been that much into how I looked because he had just left without anything not a phone number not a name, just nothing. Who does that, just shows up attacks a guy for hitting on me and then leaves with no further notice? I was done using all my energy thinking about him. I needed to go back to school I couldn’t skip the whole day, I just needed to shake of all this anger and frustration and then I would tune in later.

I jumped out of bed and quickly changed into my favorite tights for running and my windbreaking jacket on top of my sports bra, a quick run through the city would do it and give my mind the reboot it needed. I felt the heat upon me again but this time it just enhanced the frustration and anger build up inside my body as I ran down the stairs locked of the house and made a run for it.

I ran through the city on the sidewalk, normally I would take the route through the forest to enjoy the silence, but right now I needed all the noise from the city around me to keep out the noise in my head. As I ran, I felt the strong urge to look around me as I crossed the road to get to the other side. I felt like being followed and when I did look around, I saw him. I froze right in my steps pierced to the ground in the middle of the road, he was right there on the other side of the road a little behind me but staring at me intensely.

I couldn’t move, was I hallucinating again or was he really there this time? Had he been there all the time? Was I going crazy or maybe I wasn’t going crazy at all, and he was the one who made me think that?!

I was so lost in thought I didn’t see the car racing towards me at full speed before I heard the horn and it was too late for me to move and I just closed my eyes in horror. But all of a sudden, I was swept of my feet and when I opened my eyes again to see what had happened I was pressed against the wall of a building on the other side of the road with him leaning his full body weight against me covering me from any danger just looking down at me with his piercing dark eyes.