He's Broken

Chapter 18: Date night

"We have five Alphas coming each bringing four warriors and three unmated females. We have eight unmated females and thirteen unmated males. Christian is coming for the day to see if his mate is from another pack and then he will either go back to the academy alone or with his mate." I said while walking around the office in my pajamas while I waited for Thomas to finished calculating how many rooms we needed to use. The pack house was now empty, each of our 36 members had homes of their own in the human city nearby. Unlike some stories say packs of werewolves usually ranged from 30-50 wolves, anything over that is considered a super pack. 

(T: Jesse will you have 40 rooms set up please. That is in addition to the six that has already been prepared for Alpha Matias and his wolves.) Thomas stood up from the desk and stretched before walking over to me and pulling me to the living room. He plopped down on the couch with me beside him and turned on the TV, he put on a random movie while he held me close to him. I rolled over so my front faced him and I noticed he was zoned out. I watched his face stay blank until I rubbed my thumb over his cheek bone. he smiled sheepishly down at me and put his lips on mine and threw his leg over mine. 

"I love you Maya." He said brushing a few strands of loose hair out of my face. 

"I love you most Tommy." I said playing with his messy undercut hair, his brown eyes sparkled and he turned his face and nipped at my wrist before softly kissing it. "I want to show you something." I got off the couch and ran to our room and grabbed an old paper from a drawer in my night stand and brought it downstairs and walked to the office and grabbed a small photo album off of the book shelf. I left the office and handed the paper to him, he took it and read it. His eyes were full of emotions as he got a glimpse into my 15 year old brain. 

{A flower. My parents had an event and ordered flowers one of which was my favorite color, my mother was disappointed and tossed them away, not letting me have a single one. Later that day I was walking around looking for the flowers, when I found out she had them all burned I began to cry, I had only wanted one. I ran to my room and sitting on my bed was a single Cattleya orchid. I lifted the purple flower from my blanket and found a small note. It read, "I heard what about these flowers being burned and I thought they were too beautiful to be destroyed so I secretly saved one. I know purple is your favorite color and girls like getting flowers so please accept this one.-Thomas". It was the first time I had ever received a gift from someone who didn't want something in return. It was also the first time anyone had remembered my favorite color was purple. One day I hope to use this flower to remind the person who gave it to me how much of an impact he has already had on my life. You see, this person is my first love and hopefully the person I end up with for the rest of my life.}

I handed him the photo album, the cover opened to find the flower in the spot where a picture should be. He traced the flower with his finger and a few tears escaped his eyes. 

"I had no idea this flower have such an impact on you." He said softly looking into my eyes.

"It was more the fact that you thought of me, every one of my "friends" wanted something in return for staying by my side. Money, status, power....everyone except you." I said pressing my lips to his. 

"Is it bad that I'm thrilled that you had never gotten flowers before?" He asked with a small laugh. 

"No, I would be over the moon in your position too." I said sliding underneath his left arm and resting my head on his bare chest. He sighed and closed the photo album before gently setting it on the mahogany coffee table along with the essay I had wrote just over three years ago. He fell back on the couch and pulled me onto his stomach, his strong arms held me in place as I rested my head on his chest. 

"Sometimes I can't believe that you don't have a harp and halo and huge white wings." Thomas said rubbing my back. 

"I have something so much better than any of those things." I said playing with his soft, brown chest hair. "I have a stuffed Lemur, Cattleya orchid, and Thomas Nikolai Maverick as my mate." Thomas grabbed my face in both of his hands before rolling us over so I was underneath him and leaning down and kissing my lips with every emotion he felt. I returned the kiss softly, I felt something wet fall on my face so I broke the kiss and saw that Thomas was silently crying.  I wiped his tears away before placing small soft kisses all over his face. 

"I love you so f*****g much Maya Grace Kilter." He said before putting his face down into my neck and relaxing into my embrace. "I would die if I ever lost you."

"I would too Tommy." I said putting my right hand into his super soft hair. 

..........Thomas POV..........

I needed to marry her. I had to make this goddess Maya Grace Maverick, she had to be mine. 

(I agree!) Deimos said happily. (We have to get a ring for her, and more flowers. She needs to get a proper bouquet of purple flowers!) 

'You're a romantic sap.' I said laughing at him. 

(Aaaannndddd? Your point?) He asked sounding annoyed. 

'I don't have one, how can we get out without her noticing?'

(Say you are going to help Xavier with a Raider problem, we all know how dramatic he is.) I laughed inwardly and agreed. I opened a private mind-link for just Xavier and I. 

(T: Hey, I'm going out and you're coming with me, Maya is to think you need "guy advice" about your relationship with Raider k?)

(X: Yes, sir!) He said mockingly. (So what are we really doing?)

(T: Ring shopping. I need to make this woman my wife Asap.)

(X: About f*****g time.) I growled at him and he rolled his eyes, I felt it. 

(T: Shut up.) I said like a kid. (We leave in half an hour.) I closed the link and looked at Maya who was still playing with my chest hair. 

"I've got to go get dressed, Xav and I are going to town." I said kissing her small turn-up nose, she sighed and pouted before kissing my lips softly before letting me up. 

"Don't forget your phone." She said grabbing her small photo album and essay off of our coffee table. I went up to our room and pulled off my sweats replacing them with faded blue tight fitting jeans that hugged my thighs. I slipped on a loose red v-neck tee before pulling on a random pair of socks and putting on my black boat shoes. I grabbed my phone off Maya's night stand where it was charging and went down to the kitchen where she snacking on a box of Ritz. I chuckled and kissed her before heading out the front door and getting into Kit, Maya's Porsche that she said I could drive whenever. Xavier joined me a second later and sat down with a sigh. 

"I love this little car." He said rubbing the dash board.

"So does Maya." I said as we pulled away from the house. "By the way how are things with Raider?"

"Spectacular!" Xavier gushed. The entire way to Jared, the ring store closest to the pack. 

...............Maya POV...............

"He's gonna love it Maya!" Raider said from beside me. As soon as Thomas and Xavier were gone I called Raider over and we set up the perfect romantic date night. Well two of them actually, Raider and Xavier were having a romantic picnic dinner under the largest oak tree in the territory. We had set up fairy lights in mason jars that ran on batteries and made dinner at my house. He was having casserole and spinach puffs, I helped him make Xavier's favorite chocolate lava cake. 

Once he was done I set up my night with Thomas, I used sticky notes to guide him on a small scavenger hunt through the house eventually leading him to the basement where the hot tub sat unused. I used fairy lights in mason jars and a few scented candles to light up the room. Rose petals sat on top of the clear water that had a few drops of sandalwood essential oil dripped into it. Before he could reach the hot tub a small round table with two chairs was set with our dinner on it. He and I were having pork chops with garlic oven roasted potatoes and carrots. I smiled at my creation and ran up to the bed room and slipped on my purple triangle bikini top and matching tanga bottoms. I set a pair of black briefs on the bed for Thomas then ran to the living room and sat in the bay window and waited for him to arrive. 

..........Thomas POV............

After an exhausting three hours I found the perfect ring, it was a rose gold three stone ring. The two stones on the side were a blazing purple while the center stone was the most amazing diamond I had ever seen. It took me three years of working at a huge company to make enough money to pay for the ring, but my angel was worth every cent. I hid the ring and the small purple box in my pocket as we pulled up to the houses, I saw a glimpse of something in the bay window, but when I looked again it was gone. I parked in the garage and walked Xavier to the end of the driveway before saying good-night. When I got to the door I noticed a small yellow square and read the small handwriting. 

{Follow the clues! 

#1: Waffles!} I chuckled and went to the kitchen and looked at the waffle maker where another square was placed. 

{#2: Too easy....Big bad wolf} I chuckled again and walked to the living room and pulled her copy of her favorite book was placed, with a blue sticky note.

{#3: Solve my riddle.} I walked to the office and opened the drawer where Maya kept a copy of puzzle books. One of them had another square. 

(#4: Can you spare a minute?} I went upstairs and into the spare room to the right where a note was on the door. {Wrong one.} I laughed at how well she knew me, I walked to the opposite end of the hall and went into the spare room finding the next clue on the plain grey wall.

{#5: Suri's name sake.} I trudged back down stairs and went to the movie shelf and pulled out the Disney movie Dinosaur case and found the next hint. 

{#6: Dancing in the mirror, singing in the_______.} I smiled and walked to the master bathroom and looked in the shower. 

{#7: You passed a note! Hehehehe!} I scowled and walked back to the bed where a pair of black briefs were sitting on the bed next to another clue. 

{Put these on!} I took off all of my clothes and put the ring in my sock drawer before slipping on the underwear and finding a note on my junk. {Time to hit the gym} I laughed and walked down to the gym. I stopped when I found a small path of petals. After a minute of trying to piece everything together I followed them into a room I didn't know we had. Maya was standing next to a round table in a purple bikini, I notice the room was lit by candles and lights in mason jars. 

"Sit down Tommy." She said. I went to the table and sat down and looked down at the food on my plate, pork chops with potatoes and carrots. Maya sat across from me and began eating, I was still so shocked I didn't know how to react. 

(Go get the ring moron!) Deimos yelled into my mind. 

"I'll be right back." I said to her as I practically ran from the room, I rushed to the room and grabbed the ring before rushing back down to her side, she looked so confused and hurt. "Maya." I breathed out. She looked up at me with teary eyes. "I....I have no words to say how incredible this is." She smiled and wiped her eyes. 

"I.." I cut her off with my hand and got down on one knee. 

"I was planning to do something like this for you, but as usual you beat me to it. I love you Maya, and after showing me the flower and the essay this morning I knew I had to do this. Maya Grace Kilter will you be mine in every way and become my wife?" I held the box out to her and popped the lid open. Tears spilled from her eyes down her cheeks as she tried to speak. 

"I....Y....The...." She ended up nodding and throwing herself down into my arms. I slid the ring on her finger as she cried happily.