What’s Left Of Me

The Meeting

Chapter Four: The Meeting

POV: Eric 

My mate is the most beautiful woman I have ever seen. When she comes out of the bathroom, I was stunned not going to lie. She is tall but with her boots, it wouldn't take much for her to raise to meet my lips. Yes, I would love to kiss my mate but I don’t want to scare her off, plus I have no idea what she has been through. Not only the past few days but her life. 

I not only need to get to know her, but I also want to get to know her.  When Elijah walks in and straight to my mate, my wolf and I wanted to kill him. We are aggressive towards males who look at her or touch her because we aren’t mated. 

Waiting this long for her has made us aggressive. Once we mark her, it should calm us down a lot. She looked shocked at the stance I am in right now. Yes, it is an attack stance. 

Would I attack my best friend if he hurt my soulmate, probably? There are so many emotions I have right now it’s hard to point out which I need to focus on.

She stands between him and me, she puts her hand on my chest and says, “Please don’t do this.” She looks very sad. That makes my wolf and I do a 360 in our attitudes. I grab her and pull her to me with a hug. 

I breathe her in and 8m sure she has done the same. I practically make her sit in my lap while we get this meeting started. After her getting introduced to everyone, I couldn’t help but stare at Elijah. It was like death glare, he is gonna be running more laps tomorrow. 

Maybe by a hundred. DON’T. TOUCH. MY. MATE. Anyway….. 

I look at my mate and kiss her shoulder and say, “ Tell us everything.” 

She shakes her head and I can see the sadness in her eyes, she starts by saying, “ We were supposed to have a family dinner. I got home from work and I went to put my things down when I noticed I had a missed message on the answering machine. It was my mom….She was in a car, screaming for me to get on a plane can come here, that bad people were after us. The next thing I know, I hear honking and screaming, and a crash. Then the line went dead. 

I panicked and ran to the phone I was calling and calling but no answer. Shelly our neighbor, apparently comes from this pack to watch over my mom and our family. She come banging on the door she helped me quickly pack my things and when we got to her car, we heard gunshots being fired at us. We got into her car and speed off. We got to this gas station and she gave me everything I needed to get here. Little did I know she got shot. A car come and took me to the airport, and now I’m here.” 

What she has gone through, I can’t imagine. It doesn’t sound that bad but going through it would be traumatic. Losing both parents in one day to losing her home, a family friend, being shot at, to being thrust across the world to an unknown place. No wonder why she passed out due to exhaustion. 

Elijah had his hand on his chin and looked at my mate and said, “ what happens that morning? We need every detail.” 

My mate looked at him and sighed. Shaking her head she lets us know, “ Well that morning we disagreed. My parent told me they sold their company and wanted to move here, they wanted me to sell mine and come here with them. Seeing as I just had finally built it up to be successful, I didn’t want to give it up and come here.”

Elijah looked up and finally said, “ Who did they sell to?” My mate shrugged. She thought about it for a moment and then said, “ Whoever got my parents company could have something to do with this? Or at least know something about who is doing this.” We all nodded in agreement. 

I finally decided to speak up, “ We will start doing some investigations tomorrow, we have many things to do today. Meeting concluded.” With that everyone except my mate and Elijah left.

Elijah looked at us both and said, “ We will get to the bottom of this and get your parents back, and the slight chance we can’t, we will get justice for them.” 

He left after that. I hugged my mate closer, at this point, she was curled up in a ball in my lap. I heard sniffling, she is crying, “baby, it’s going to be okay.” 

She grabbed onto my shirt, and said, “ I can’t believe, the last conversation I had with them was an argument. They only wanted the best for me, I wish I would have agreed and left it at that.” 

We sat in silence for the next thirty minutes. She moves and smiles up at me. I take her hand and we go down to the dining hall for Breakfast. She sits at the head of the table with me. Seeing the way she talks to everyone and anyone with a situation that comes to her for advice, she comes up with quick solutions for them. She will make an amazing Luna. After Breakfast, I take her on a tour of the pack lands. The look on her face tells me, she loves it here.

POV: Hazel 

When we had the meeting, I felt like everyone was listening to me. They even asked me questions and it led to more questions but it was good questions. We made progress. My mate and a team of our people are going to investigate. I couldn’t be more thrilled. After a delicious breakfast, Eric took me on a tour of the pack. He even showed me his parent’s home. 

They are out of the country at the moment but once they get back I will meet them. His mom already knows I’m here, she wants to hurry their trip up faster to meet me. Well according to Eric that is. This pack is huge, many people are walking about and just enjoying life. For a wooded surrounded town it’s actually bright here. 

There are privately owned fast food places, coffee shops, stores and dealerships. All privately owned by Eric and his family. The profits go to the pack and it’s people. The schools and hospitals are well organized, it’s quite impressive. I’m impressed, should I tell my mate that though?

He ends the tour by showing me our floor of the pack house, we have 5 bedrooms, two personal offices, six bathrooms, a main Alpha living area. Attached to our living area is a small kitchen is we don’t have to walk all the way down stairs at night just in case. We are now standing in our main living area, he is looking at me with concern in his face. 

I couldn’t help but raise both of my eyebrows. He scratches the back of his neck and starts whispering to himself. I couldn’t help but laugh at him, his head snaps back in my direction. “What?” 

I couldn’t help but sound amused. He does a huff and says, “ I know this comes off as too soon but would you please go on a date with me? I would like to get to know you more…we are mates after all.” 

I thought about it and gave him my best blank sure to give nothing away. He looked sad don’t quickly smiled and gave him a kiss on the cheek. I finally spoke up and said, “ I would absolutely, love too. We are mates after all.” 

He gives me a life squeezing hug and says, “ Amazing, tomorrow night will be great.” 

With that we both part ways. He goes to his office, and I let him know I’m going to the gym to work out for a bit. This day couldn’t be more perfect, he is already stealing my heart. I know I shouldn’t say or think this but what could go wrong?

I go down to the gym and it’s pretty much empty, a few pack members that were left finished up when I started. I started out with a but of yoga then moved to weights and finished up with some cardio. Since I haven't worked out in the past three days, I thought I should touch a few of them. I am cleaning up after myself when I feel someone behind me, more like I feel them breathing down my neck. 

I do a swift turn, and come face to face with a man. Since, meeting my mate I don’t find other men attractive. Needless to say, he is just a average good-looking wolf to me anyway. He kinda traps me between the wall and the weight rack. I say, ‘excuse me’ and try to walk around him, but he steps I’m my way. I finally get irritated and speak up louder, “No offense but do you mind? Don’t be a creep say something?” 

he just starts laughing and finally says “ I haven’t seen you here before beautiful, we should get to know…” 

he was cut off by Eric he was growling and snarling at this man. The man backed away slowly and started says, “Sorry alpha, sorry.” 

My mate got up in his face and spoke with Venom coming from his mouth, “Never come near my mate again, Booker.” 

The man quickly left and then Eric slowly turned to me, I’m sure my mouth was hanging open. My mate was growling at me too? Yet again, I was pinned up against this wall. He got close to me and shoved his head between my neck and shoulder. 

He breathe out, “ never wear a sports bra, without anything over it again. Unless you want me to Mark you here and now.”  

He threw me one of his shirts from his locker I’m assuming and then stormed out. This man is going to be the death of me.