Gone, Found and Freed

Chapter 6 - Over Nighter

                POV Alina

                This was a bad idea. Having us share the same bed. What was I thinking? He did offer to sleep on my super shitty couch, but when he went to lay down on it, he didn’t even fit. I mean, he doesn’t even fit on the bed! Hopefully, he doesn’t think badly of me since my cabin isn’t exactly ‘up to standard living’. I mean, a girl can only make so much money selling fruits and vegetables at a food stand in town once a month. I haven’t completely been able to fix it up completely like I’ve been wanting to.

                I roll over and look at him, I can tell that he’s in a deep sleep because of how heavy he’s breathing. I’m kind of annoyed with this because I feel exhausted and all I want to do is sleep right now. What if Drystan does find me? It’s obvious that Ace isn’t going to let me go and if I do accept him, I will be the Luna to his entire pack. That means going to meetings with other packs and their leadership. Of course, we’ll end up coming across Drystan and even Alpha Jon at some point.

                ‘If that happens then mate will protect us. Look at him, he is strong, and he cares about us.’ Lily says with a yawn trying to reassure me.

                ‘But what if he can’t Lily? Do you remember what happened to dad? Drystan is dangerous!’ I respond trying to get her to understand the predicament we are both now in.

                ‘Alina, Drystan is only a Beta. He wasn’t even that strong when we were there. It’s been six years. He’s forty one now, probably even forty two. He’s not exactly a wolf in his prime Alina. Not like mate!’ she said purring the last sentence. I laugh quietly trying not to wake him up. I begin laughing so hard because Lily keeps purring and saying things about how strong and attractive our mate is. I start coughing a little bit due to the laughter. I tried to calm down but couldn’t, so I decided to get up and get a drink of water.

                I slip out of bed trying my hardest to not wake him. I tip toe out of the room and quietly walk into the kitchen to grab a water bottle. I open my fridge and look around for one. I pick one up and open it and take a few gulps. I decide to take it back to the room with me in case Lily starts up her nonsense again. I close the fridge door and turn to walk back into the room and run right into him. I quickly turn the light on and look up at him. He definitely looks tired.

                “What are you doing love? Where are you going?” He said with a very stern voice. I gulped and looked up at him.

                “I-uhh-I came to get some water. Want some?” I said slightly shaking and like an i***t held up the water bottle I had to him. He lifted an eyebrow and had a very stern or confused look on his face. I couldn’t tell.

                “I thought you were leaving me again.” He whispered and looked down.

                “I-umm, no. I just needed some water. I wasn’t planning on going anywhere.” I said trying to sound reassuring.

                “I thought you were exhausted, how are you not sleeping?” He questioned.

                “Well, you see, what happened was… Uhh-Okay so, I was going over in my head about the whole Luna thing and then the Drystan thing, but Lily was like, ‘Mates strong’ blah blah blah and then she start purring and made me start laughing a whole lot and-uhh-I needed water.” I said rambling trying to explain the situation without sounding like a crazy person.

                “Drystan? Who the hell is Drystan?” He said with a bit of anger in his voice. His eyes darkened a bit and I could tell that his wolf was now awake.

                “He’s the reason why I am the way that I am.” I quietly said looking down.

                “Is ‘he’ the person who you can’t let find you?” He now said with concern in his voice. I nodded. “Who is he Alina?” he almost sounded like he was demanding an answer.

                “Huhhh…” I took a deep breath, “I’ll explain everything to you. Do you want to sit down?” he nodded and followed me all the way to the couch. We sat down and for the next two hours I told him everything. Everything about Drystan and mom and how she died giving birth to me and how after Drystan set up my dad when I was only thirteen years old and basically caused his death and then to how he wanted to claim me when I was just only seventeen. How I left my pack and had no intentions of ever returning to it in fear that Drystan would claim me in the end and make my life a living hell because he was a monster. I told him about what Drystan did to me on my last day in my pack and how I’ve basically been hiding out in this little cabin ever since. He just sat there and listened to all of it. He nodded every so often or put his head in hands but other than that he didn’t say a thing to me.

                “So, that’s my story… I have no pack. I have no family. I don’t even have proper training on how to be a wolf even let alone a wolf in one of the strongest packs in the nation. That’s why I can’t stay here. That’s why I can’t do this with you.” I looked down and felt like I was going to start crying again. I just wanted to get up and run away, but I knew I couldn’t. He needed this. I needed this. I waited for him to say something, anything even, but he’s just sitting there on my couch looking at the wall. “So, if you want to go, I totally get it. No hard feelings.” At that he turned and looked me dead in the eyes. He sat up and put one arm on each side of me with his face only centimeters from mine and then he reached down and kissed me. The kiss went on for I feel like was a lifetime. His tongue grazed my bottom lip wanting access to my mouth and I granted it. He laid on top of me and grabbed the back of my neck and pulled me as close as he could to him. We finally had to separate and come up for air and at that he stroked my cheek and looked lovingly into my eyes.

                “You are mine. No one is going to take you away from me. Not Drystan, not anyone. I don’t want to leave, and I never will. You are my mate. My entire life and I will live protecting you.” He said slightly running his fingers through my hair. I felt tears pulling into my eyes and I reached up and wrapped my arms around his neck and kissed him again.

                “Thank you for opening up and telling me everything. I know that it was a lot and I’m glad that you trust me enough to do that.” He snuggled into my neck and laid there until I could feel that he fell asleep again. I couldn’t move so instead I just laid there and slowly drifted off to sleep myself.