What’s Left Of Me

The Right Feeling.

Chapter Eleven: The Right Feeling.

POV: Hazel

I was waiting for Eric and I decided to go into the closet real quick to change my shoes. I noticed a pair of pants on his side that must have fallen. I walk over and pick it up, and I notice something thick in the pocket of the pants. I reach in to find a small box. I slowly hang up the pants and as the box, I put it back in the pair of pants. I stand there and stare at them, ‘it's none of my business I say to myself on repeat. My curiosity gets the best of me and I go for the box again we slowly opened it.

My heart started pounding so hard in my chest, it was the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. Can you guess what it was? No, okay…..It was an engagement ring. Was he holding it for someone or did he want to marry me? I have so many mixed emotions. I honestly, would marry him if he asked. 

What if I just have high hopes and he is holding it for someone else? Then who looks like the stupid one. I hear him walk into the closet but couldn’t bring myself to turn around. I hear him let out a sigh and walk towards me. 

He wraps his arms around my waist and says, “ I was saving that for a special day. It’s what I get for just throwing my things on the floor.” He puts his head between my neck and shoulder where his mark sits. He takes a deep breath and turns me to face him. 

I can’t help but keep my eyes on the ring, there are so many emotions right now I don't know what to say. He lifts my chin and says, “ I know, you don’t have to say anything.” He closes the box and gently takes it from my hands.

 He kisses my forehead and says, “ you look beautiful.” 

He turns to walk out of the closet. As he reaches the doorway, my shock wears off and I grab his arm. As he turns, I stand on my tippy toes and bring his face to meet mine, I give him my best kiss. It takes him a second but he does the same. 

We part lips but forehead to forehead, it was like we were the only two in the world. That world was so beautiful, I whisper, “ If you would have me, I would love to marry you and be your wife. I know we haven’t known each other very long but, I feel like we have known each other our whole lives. Will you Marry me?”

His eyes go wide and a smile comes to his face he pulls me impossibly closer and says yes, against my lips. He pulls away and kisses my cheek, all the way down to my neck. Making me giggle, he looks like he is bursting with excitement, like a kid in a candy store. He opens the box and slips the ring on my finger, and surprise it fits perfectly. 

He looks at my hand and then to me, and repeats. I smile at him and say, “ what?” 

I’m curious about what’s going on inside of his head. He gives a short breathy laugh and says, “ I was meant to propose to you, it was going to be a magical moment, maybe some fireworks or something. You beat me to the punch using your engagement ring! You, beautiful amaze me more and more every day. I thought I had to make this grand gesture to get you to say yes, but no.”

I throw my head back laughing and say, “ I would say yes over Spongebob and a pint of ice cream. My love, you have won my heart. I don’t need this extravagant proposal. The simplicity of getting dressed in our closest and being proposed to in here is just fine with me.” 

 He takes a step back still holding my hand, he looks me up and down and makes me do a spin. Smiling in approval, we walk out of our room. Going down the hall, Eric says, “ I have a surprise for you.” 

I give him a raised eyebrow but don’t say a word. We keep walking and I notice no one is around, even the omega’s who clean some of the guest rooms. I’m starting to worry a bit. My heart starts pounding, something is going to happen. I can feel it in my bones. 

My mate and I walk into the dining hall, it’s deeply lit. All of the doors to our huge patio are open and there are twinkle lights everywhere. We walk out onto our patio, every single pack member is out there dressed up and cheering for us. I couldn’t help but smile, since I’ve gotten here, they all have made me feel welcomed. 

My mate walks up and turns to me reaching for my hand. I take his hand and step up. His voice booms as he says, “ I Alpha Eric Gambino, Accept Hazel Domain as Luna of our pack, The Gray Moon Pack. I also accept her as my mate and Fiancé.”

 Everyone does a gasp and then cheers even louder. They are so excited to hear we are engaged. My heart swells with pride, I couldn’t ask for a better pack to be a part of. My mate steps aside so I could say a few words. I step up, not knowing what to say I take a few deep breaths. I just want to speak from my heart so that’s what I try to do. 

“I Hazel Domain also Accept You, Eric Gambino, as My Alpha, Mate, and Fiancé. I also Accept you the people of The gray howls pack. You all have done nothing but shown me love and kindness since I have arrived and I vow to always do the same for you. I couldn’t have asked the Goddess for a better pack and Mate. I will always stand beside you, and I will always fight for you. I hope you all will accept me as your Luna and friend.”

No one makes a sound, they all get down on one knee and now to me. I feel a wave of love from the whole pack, I feel communication open up to all of them. It’s an over amount of love and I couldn’t be more grateful. The moon is full and it’s 10, we all start a party eating, drinking, and dancing. 

My mate doesn’t take his eyes off of me and I cant take mine off him. When it hits midnight, we stand in the middle of the grounds and shift into our wolves. We have a huge pack run. This gives my wolf time to bond with those I haven’t met in person yet. When I do I will recognize their scent.

This is all so new to me. We have never done anything like this in New York, seeing as our territory was all city. We met in Nicely decorated Buildings and done our ceremonies. Packs accept new people differently, some with blood some with the moon. 

As it hits one in the morning, we all head to our rooms. My name and I were hands in hand. He just had so much love in his eyes, it makes me so happy to have him. I open the door first and he follows. He stops in his tracks. There is a table full of mini foods like kababs, small sandwiches, and sweets. My favorite is the chocolate-covered strawberries. Our Tv is ready for movies and our bed is nicely decorated. 

He turns to me and says, “what’s this?” 

 I smile and rock back and forth, acting innocent. I say, “ You have been working do hard and have put in so much to help me find my family. I wanted to celebrate you for a night. I thought we were gonna do it sooner but it just so happens we had planned our surprises on the same night.” 

I kiss him and I go into the bathroom. I change into my night stuff, I’ve gotten from Victoria's Secret and it’s nothing suggestive but my mate gets going just seeing my legs so let’s see how this goes. I walk into our room and he has already changed into some night pants and no shirt. He turns to ask me a question and stops dead in his tracks. 

His mouth hangs open and he has a small smirk. He picks me up bridal style and takes me to our tv and coffee table full of food. I’m in his lap while we watch a movie and we feed each other. To be honest with you, we haven’t paid any attention to the movie. We just can’t help admiring each other. 

He says, “ I can’t do this.” Before I could ask him what he meant, we both end up in a full make-out session. 

Waking up the next morning, I don’t remember what happens exactly but we are both not clothed. My head falls back onto my pillow as look at my mate. He is snoring softly and is wiggling his nose. I notice part of the pillowcase is brushing gently against his nose making it tickle. 

I giggle and cover my mouth. He wakes up and pulls me to him and starts tickling me. I try to push him off me and he traps both of my hands. He starts kissing my face all over. When we finally pull apart he says, “ I have a surprise for you.” 

I look at him like he is crazy. What more could have had in store for me? I kiss him and he says, “ Take a shower and pack some warm clothes, we are going to be gone for a week, my love.” 

He pulls away and runs into the closet. As he is running, I see him and all of his glory. Mainly, his butt. I couldn’t help but whistle and cat-call him. He just laughs not looking behind him. I go into the bathroom and take my time showering. I grab my bathrobe and head into our room he has our suitcases out and he is full. 

 He walks to me hugging me saying again, “ pack warm.” Saying nothing else he goes to take himself a shower. I go into our closet and look around. I feel clueless so I pack a bunch of long sleeve stuff and a few jackets. I put on a comfy sweater dress and come with converse wedges. 

I curl my hair and put on light makeup. He comes out as I am finished up. He gives me an approving kiss and gets himself dressed. I sit waiting and I hear a knock on the door. It’s one of our omega’s and he takes our stuff down to our car. My mate comes from the closet and says, “ I was going to book us a plain ride but why not just drive it’s only five hours. We will have breakfast and then head out.” 

I shake my head and then ask, “ Where are we going?” He shakes his head no. 

He takes my hand and leads us down to have breakfast. Everyone is so loving and there are many flowers with cards congratulating us on being engaged, also welcoming me into the pack. As we are headed to the door, this cute older lady from the kitchen stops us. 

“ Here you go dears, I heard about a special trip so I made up a few baskets full of goodies for you to take.” I hug her and she kisses my mate and me on the cheek. Wishing us a safe trip she waddles her way back into the kitchen. 

My mate takes the baskets from my hand and looks at me with wide eyes. The reason for that is they are heavy and I mean heavy. That’s saying a lot for our wolves. 

We dive for hours, we only stopped two times to fill our gas and use the bathroom. Those snacks are amazing! She filled both baskets to the brim. There were cakes, all the way to loaded meat sandwiches. My mate already had drinks in the car so we had no reason to stop anywhere else. I notice the atmosphere change, it’s getting colder. 

Not bad cold seeing as we are naturally warm but it is cold for us. It weirdly feels like our territory. We must own this land. A huge beautiful cabin comes into view. The view around the place is amazing! Not only that we have it all to ourselves. 

We get out of the car and he walks around to me. I jump up and latch onto him like a Kuala. I give him kisses and in between that I tell him how much I love it. He just laughs. I get down and we quickly get our things moved into the cabin. It’s so beautiful and open. 

There are games everywhere, cozy pallets on the floor with a projector and a huge Tv behind that. It’s a modernized cabin. I walk out onto the balcony and there is a huge hot tub. My mate is hot on my trail, following me to see my reaction. 

I turn to him after seeing the hot tub and wiggle my eyebrows. His eyes go wide and gave me a wink. We go into our room and guess what? A hug tub 10 person tub. I can’t wait to test this baby out. It’s all so amazing. I can’t believe my eyes.