What’s Left Of Me

What’s this feeling?

Chapter Seven: What’s this feeling?

POV: Hazel

It’s been a few days now and let’s just say the progress we thought was made, not so much. Apparently, there has been no news or any public announcement about my parents selling their company. So this lets us know they want to keep quiet until I’m found. 

Good news though, Eric isn’t going crazy about men touching me anymore, well much. 

Bad news, I go crazy when a girl looks in his direction. He finds it more attractive but it weirds me out. I also watch his every move. My wolf wants us to mark him, like now. I’m tempted just I keep these urges at bay. I’m a modest person. Talking about s*xual needs and things like that in public is not my cup of tea. 

My mate even looks at me cross eyed when I get these urges in public, he can feel it through our bond and smell it on me from a mile away. 

We are training in the pack grounds right now and I have a tight-fitting tank top on along with shorts. There is a visiting pack today, and let’s just say there are many men checking me out. We are sparing, when going up against the best female warrior in our pack, it will gather a crowd. 

Luna V.S Beat Female Warriors. So if you know, you know. 

We circle each other eyeing each other for weak points. I observe, her left shoulder and left leg are a bit uneven. This is probably both defect or she got injured a lot as a child. Yes, though my pack in New York is a unique type of pack we studied the art of fighting, took courses, and also learned human anatomy. Does this mean I have a slight advantage, no? She is still a trained warrior. 

She takes the first swing, I grab onto her right arm and swing her over my back. She roughly lands on the ground. I have her pinned. She kicks my leg, knocking me off balance. We both make a speedy recovery. Our spar goes on for a bit, nonetheless, everyone was invested. She tries to kick my legs using her left side to sweep. 

Bad mistake. This gives me time to jump and land fast enough to grab her left arm, breaking it. She stands up and tries to come at me with her right arm but I use her to sweep the leg move and knock her to the ground. I take her broken arm and pin her putting my power on her left leg. With that, she taps out.

Everyone stands up and cheers, they also clap. I do a little bow in the direction of my impressed-looking mate. He gives me a smirk and continues talking to Elijah. I give the girl a hand and escort her to the pack Nurse that is on hand for these training spars. She gives me a fist bump using her right hand, which I notice is bloody. 

I don’t have a single scratch on me. Something tells me she might have been taking it easy on me. I walk to observe other pack members until I feel a tap on my shoulder. 

It was a tall muscular Ginger-headed boy, he had the biggest smile on his face. The first thing he said to me was, “ You done amazing! May I get your name beautiful?” 

I do an eyebrow raise and say, “Hazel Domain, Luna.” 

He looks stunned but does a small laugh, “ Well princess, will I get a chance to spar with you?”

The next thing I know is, my mate steps between us and says, “ Over my dead body Hayden.”

The boy just laughs and says, “Come on cousin, I’m just making a nice chat with a beautiful lady.” 

My mate is quick to growl and say, “ This Woman here is my mate and Luna. She deserves more respect than you are willing to give out of a conversation. Leave her be, She will have nothing to do with you. She is mine, do you hear me? You will not lay a finger on my Luna.” 

With that, the boy puts his hands up in surrender. My mate takes me by the hand and we walk to the center of the field, His voice booms, “ EVERYONE LISTEN I HAVE A ANNOUNCEMENT! My mate is Hazel Domain, Future Luna of this pack. You will treat her with the utmost respect. Treat her as you do me, she is my equal and nothing less. Anyone that dares try to flirt with her or even touch her in any unnecessary way will be severely punished. Now get back to your day, training is concluded.” 

Everyone bows and walks away. Soon it was just us left on the training field. I turn to see my mate staring at me. I grab him and hug him. With both in my arms wrapped around his neck, he hugs me back. 

He whispers, “ I know it hands the been long but this pack and you are my life. I know you haven’t marked me yet, I’m just grateful you are still here with me.” 

He picks me up bridal style and leads me down to the lake, he has the cutest picnic set up for us, we also will go swimming and go for a run in our wolf forms. My wolf has been itching to go for a run. 

While eating my fruit I look up at my mate who is zoning in on a slice of homemade pizza. I feel something in my chest, it’s something I can’t explain. I think I might be in love with him? He before taking his first bite looks up at me with shock on his face, I giggle and say, “What’s that look for?” She just shakes his head and smiles. Soon, he goes back to devouring the pizza.

POV: Eric

I get ready to eat this beautiful, cheese-covered pizza when I feel something. It’s like a wave of peacefulness mixed with love? I look up and see it’s coming from my mate, through the bond. It’s one-sided right now since she hasn’t marked me, I don’t think she knows she is letting me feel what she is feeling.

Does she love me? OH, SHE LOVES ME? I couldn’t be happier. 

This is like the best feeling in the world knowing the woman I have been dreaming of my wolf life, loves me back. I’ve loved her since I met her. Getting to know her was just a bonus. 

As a kid, I dreamed of finding my mate and what she would look like. Going into my teenage years, I rebelled against everything that I was taught, meaning wanting a mate. Going into my twenties, Karma hit me like a ton of bricks. The longer it took for me to meet my mate the more hope I lost. 

Just before getting a call from Hazel's parents, I stopped looking and was just becoming happy being by myself. 

After the little date I planned for us, we become closer. As the days go by she becomes more and more like my best friend. The feeling she puts off is hurt, it’s a deep hurt. Her family means so much to her and I can’t imagine what she is thinking and going through internally. 

This makes me fall in love with her, knowing how much her family means to her, how much I mean to her as well. 

I need to do something, I want to do something for my mate. I need to bring her family home. If I can. From what I could tell, I think her dad might be dead and they probably have her mom. From what I also think they both could be alive because she hasn’t felt the loss of a parent or alpha. 

That’s why we are waiting to officially accept her into the pack, just to be on the safe side. At one point, Hazel did mention everything her parent had they left to her in case of an emergency, I wonder why they meant by everything? 

Maybe there is a clue in the things she bought here. I would have to talk to her about it. There is some News from the elders, apparently, some wolfs are coming up missing. Someone or something is taking wolves from their homes. 

Learning this I set a curfew for everyone, except a few guards, who still have security cameras and guards on watching them at all times. Most of the disappearances are happening in America but I’m not going to take a Chance on it reaching us. I’m here to keep my pack safe, and healthy.