What’s Left Of Me

Sweet Moments and Progress.

Chapter Nine: Sweet Moments and Progress.

POV: Hazel

Here is the thing, I’ve been here for a week and two days. That’s it and I’m trying to come to terms with how I feel about Eric. Normally, wolves who are mates, immediately complete the mate bond. I’m not about sleeping with a stranger a bear with me. The first night being here I don't remember at all. 

I was having a panic attacking my sleep and my mate comforted me by cuddling up next to me. It’s the little things that are making me fall in love with him. 

The reason why I am giving this any thought is because I’m ready to be properly marked if he is. He forcefully marked me the first time, I’m ready to put it behind me. I put some thought into opening a second business here and I think it would be a hit. 

My mate and I are in bed. I am the first to wake up. It’s kinda cute because he rolled over is cuddled up against me. His head on my boobs and his arm was wrapped around my waist. I lay there running my fingers through his hair and look down on his face. It’s like the stars aligned for me, Yes I want to spend the rest of my life with this man. I will accept being luna, I’m ready.

I reach over and grabbed my freshly charged phone, it hasn’t been charged or looked at since I got here. I’m happy, I am a silent mode all of the time type of girl cuz my phone froze with all of the notifications flooding through. It took a good five minutes before I could open any message. 

 Luther, I have over three hundred missed calls from him and texts. I send a quick message saying, I’m alive, I lost my phone arms just got it back. With is a half-truth. Luther is human so he doesn’t need to know all details. I look over my app that shows sales and profits and clients and employees. 

We have gone up in sales and clients everything looks good. I read through my text and it’s nothing major. I feel Eric starting to wake up so I put my phone down and run my fingers through his hair once more.

 “Your so comfy.” He mounds in a tired voice. 

He worked late last night so I let him sleep in. I kiss his head and he looks up at me with the cutest boyish grin on his face. I move so he and I are face to face. We meet in the middle and kiss. I feel our sparks, even more, day by day. Eventually, it’s a full-on make-out session. His hands find their way up my shirt and we just go from there. He pulls away from me in a huff and says sorry. His back is now turned away from me with his head down low. 

My wolf and I want to comfort him. I resist because I know what I have to say. I have to get this out. “Eric look at me please.” 

He turns around and I see the sadness in his eyes. He looks down and says, “ Hazel baby, I’m sorry. I don’t want to hurt you again. I feel so ashamed of what my wolf did. That mark should be something, we both are proud of and I know it only brings you to hurt.” 

With that he stood up, walking towards the bathroom. I quickly get up and catch up to him. I grab his hand and make him look at me. “ Eric, I have to say this. Yes, you hurt me when you marked me. Can you take that back? No. Can we move past it? Yes. I am in love with you. My life has been h*ll for the past few weeks and you have been there every step of the way. Taking time to make sure I am okay with everything, you have been patient, your wolf has done what he thought was right to protect me, don’t be ashamed. that being said, I’m ready.” 

He is looking at me with so much love and passion in his eyes, there is also now a mix of confusion. “ Ready for what?” 

I couldn’t help but smile and wrap my arms around his neck. I bring him closer to me and kiss him. I bring my lips to his ear and say, “ I want you to mark me again, I accept. I want to mark you, and I want to complete the mating bond. If you accept. I promise I accept to be by your side and be your Luna. I am yours and you are mine.”

 I feel him relax under my touch and words. I feel his arms wrap around my waist and hug me close. He buries his head between my shoulder and neck.

He pulls back looking me in the face like he is trying to read me. I just give him my best smile, he eventually smiles too. I couldn’t help it, I put my hand on his cheek and look him in the eyes. His eyes hold so much emotion, I got lost in them. 

He finally speaks and says, “I’ve been waiting so long for you to say that. It’s funny how your words can bring me so much comfort yet, make me weak to my knees at the same time. I’m in love with you too.”

After that, we both were done. He kissed me with so much passion and I couldn’t help but return it. We were glued to each other for hours. He made my whole body light up like the Fourth of July. We found each other's neck and we marked each other. Pure love, bliss, peace, pain, heartbreak, and any other emotion we both shared at that moment. I wouldn’t trade it for the world.

For the next couple of days, Eric asked Elijah to take over. Eric and I were joined at the hip. We are spending time to ourselves. We haven’t left our room all but three times. This time spent with him has been nothing but love. We know every detail about each other. 

From body and soul, we become one quickly. We didn’t want any of this to end. Eric had planned us a private date on a boat. It was almost like the scene in the notebook. It was the cutest thing. At the end of that night, we cuddled and watched scary movies. I found out, Eric hates scary movies. My big bad alpha hates scary movies, this is so funny to me. He gives me the little kid look when I suggested one. 

Waking up, with him by my side is one of the best feelings in the world. My world is so much brighter, knowing how much he loves me makes me look forward to waking up in the morning. I go into our closet and I look for an outfit to go to the pool. I want to start my day off with a swim, then I have to go to Eric’s office for a meeting. 

I go a bit further into the closet and stomp my toe on something. It hurt so bad. After calming myself down, I look down and I see my suitcase. I haven’t had to get anything from it because Eric had surprised me with a full closet. I grab it and open it. I slowly put my things away and I get to the bottom and notice that big envelope. 

It was the one, shelly told me it will have everything I would ever need. I slowly open the envelope and I see, debit cards along with bank information, I have family pictures, a will?! I feel tears slowly fall on my face. There is so much in here, I dig farther and I found papers from my parent's company. They didn’t sell the company, they let someone else manage it. 

The man's name is Greg Fielding. 

Wait if they didn’t sell it, who owns it? I look through the will and I own it. They handed over the company to me. Who is after me and why? I set the papers aside and bring my knees to my chest. I break down crying, I slide to the floor crying. 

Eric comes running in, he takes my chin and makes me look at him. I couldn’t talk I started crying harder. He cuddles him closer. I feel him reach for the stack of papers. He goes through them and him lefts out a huff. 

He says, “Baby, do you know what this means. You just got us the best lead we have had since you got here! It’s go time my love, let’s bring your parents home.”