The Moon Valley Pack

Chapter 5: Bonita

*** Sebastian POV ***

“Calm down, man. It’s just a date. You’ve gone on these before, you’ll be ok.” I say to myself as

I’m getting ready. I’ve dated before, I’m a good-looking man and I check myself out in my full length

mirror in my bedroom in the packhouse. I have a strong jaw, brown eyes, black hair, am extremely 

muscular and I'm also, 6'6". You wouldn’t know it by looking at me, but I have a few tattoos that you can’t 

see. Since we work in the human world a lot, anyone that sees a lot of tattoos they tend to get the wrong 

idea until you can prove them wrong. I didn’t want to give anyone a chance to doubt me. This included 

girls. I’ve been around the block a few times, but it was all very casual. I’ve never wanted to get too 

invested, since all the girls that I’ve dated before have been werewolves they’ve all been aware that if I find

my mate, I’m going to be devoted to her 100%. Thankfully, all of them were happy for me when I told 

them. There’s nothing worse than a clingy girl, even when you were never official. But once I found Jolene,

 I knew that I would never take anything more serious than being committed to her, which is why I’m so 

nervous. She’s a human, so she doesn’t understand just how serious having a mate is, no one else 

matters ever again. So, I need to take her on dates and help her adjust to my world before bringing her 

fully in, because as soon as she’s comfortable there’s no way I will ever be able to sleep alone again.

                I decided to do a casual, but nice look. I want my Bonita to take this seriously, to take me

serious, but I want us to have a nice time too. So I’ve put on navy blue slacks, a white polo shirt, white

vans a burnt orange socks, the packs colors. I pick a silver watch from my collection. After that’s done, I

start to style my hair. I have the sides of my head shaved and long enough hair on top. Most of the time

my hair is curly, but I decide that I’m going to slick it back today. I’m almost done when I hear a knock on

my door, I yell come in and Jack steps through.

                “Hey, man! I would’ve thought that you’d be hiding in your office the rest of the night. Why you

would work on a Saturday night after finding your mater earlier is something that I don’t understand,

though.” I say not sparing him a glance.

                “Man, f*ck you. That was a cheep shot. I want to be with her more than anythin’, but I need to

take care of my businesses too. If I let those slip, then I could slip on bein’ able to provide for her, that

any of us could end up not bein’ able to provide for our mates. So, if I have to take time away from

Genevieve then I will. I will never do anythin’ to jeopardize her future with me, financially included.” He

stated.

                “I’m sorry, man. You’re right, I know you hate being away from her especially so soon. I, also,

know you, and I know a part of the reason you wanted to come back here was to look into this ex-

boyfriend Tanner. What did you find? Since you wouldn’t come up for air otherwise.” I ask while turning

to him. He smirked and stated, “You know me so well. I found somethin’ that is actually quite disturbin’

me. I need to look into it a bit more before statin’ my thoughts out loud, but I was hopin’ you would do

me a favor tonight?”

                “Aw c’mon, Jack. You know I’m going on my first date with Jojo tonight.” I complained.

                “You can still go on your date; I’m not stoppin’ you or askin’ you not to. I just want you to go by

her work at some point and check on her.” He asked while looking at me in the eyes. Jack would never

say it, but he was worried. Whatever he found out about Tanner has him concerned. He’s never been

the type to just check up on people. He figured that if they weren’t reaching out to him, they were doing

good in their life and can be left alone. He’s not an asshole, he just doesn’t see the value in being in

hovering over people, especially if they won’t reach out to him first.

                “Alright, I was planning on taking Jojo to a bbq joint and then taking her dancing, but I can

switch out dancing for Gen’s bar instead. As long as you update me as soon as possible about whatever

it is that’s got you freaked out. I can’t have your back and protect our future Luna if I don’t know what

the threat it.” I tell him.

                “Of course, I’ll tell you. I just want to make sure that I’m 100% correct before speakin’ about

this, but I appreciate you doin’ this for me. Please call me immediately if somethin’ happens.”

                With that he left the room and I soon followed after him. We all have many cars, but today I

decided to go for an older model and grab the keys to my black 1970 Chevy Chevelle.

                I pull up to Jojo’s apartment and park. I grab the red roses that I made sure to stop and get. My

ma would be proud, I think to myself.

                I step in front of her door, take a deep breath and knock. As soon as she opens the door, I lose

the breath I just took. Dear goddess, thank you. I say a silent prayer up to Selene the Moon Goddess that

she paired with me an angel. I shake my head to clear my wolf, Hades, loud howling.

                “You look gorgeous, Bonita.” I say a little breathlessly while handing her the flowers. She blushes

and says thank you. I look over her again trying to commit this moment to memory. I see that she’s put

her hair half up, half down with the portion that was up in a small bun and curled the ends of her slightly

dirty blond hair. She’s wearing an olive-green summer dress that dipped in the front showing her

glorious cleavage, it wasn’t overly large, a nice C cup can go a long way. It has a slit halfway up the thigh

and she paired it with a short jean jacket. She decided to wear a small white heal with it.

                She came out of the apartment and turned to lock the door. “Allow me.” I held out my hand for

her keys so I could lock the door for her, a lady like her shouldn’t touch another door, not while I’m

around. She hands me her keys and I lock the door. I give hand them back to her and she puts them in

her small cross body purse. I grab her hand, give her a kiss on the knuckles and head on to dinner.

                Once we arrive and order we start talking and realize that we actually have a lot in common. I

know we hung out earlier, but we didn’t exactly do too much talking.

                She likes baseball, I used to play baseball. She owns an event planning company, I’m a COO at a

catering company, and, also, help out Jack with any consulting that he might not be able to take care of

himself. She likes older cars since her dad has a collection, she’s in love with my car that I brought today

and was floored when I said that I had more back at the packhouse.

                “Are you kiddin’ me? My dad would absolutely love to see those, I would love to see those!

When can I come and see your packhouse it all sounds amazin’!” She exclaims.

                “You can come any time you want, Bonita. I would love to have you around more.” I say and

wink at her.

                “D*mn you’re smooth.” She says while finishing the last of her meal.

                “Ok, so, I planned to take you dancing tonight to burn off all these calories we just ate, you more

so piggy.” She giggled and threw her napkin at me. “Hey! No violence at the dinner table or I will start a

war.” I tell her semi-seriously, and she smiles some more.

                “Like I was saying before I was attacked. Jack said that he isn’t able to spend tonight with Gen so

he wanted to know if it would be cool to head over to her bar and keep an eye on her for a while. He

said that he found out some stuff about Tanner and didn’t feel comfortable with her being on her own

at work.” Jolene looked shocked and asked. “What did he find that has him so concerned? If there’s

somethin’ wrong, then we need to know so that we can protect ourselves. I mean this is Texas and we

will protect ourselves with whatever possible.”

                “Bonita, you don’t need to protect yourself, that’s what I’m here for. I will protect you with my

life for the rest of my days. You don’t know how it is for werewolves, but we will do anything and

everything we can for our mates.” I explain to her. “So, back to my original question. Do you mind if we

go over to the bar instead? I promise to take you dancing another night.” I promise her.

                “Of course, I don’t mind.” We get up and I pull her in for a kiss. I rub my tongue across her lips

just for some small tongue action. I taste the sweet tangy barbecue on her mouth and realize that this is

my new favorite flavor. I then take a deep breath of her fresh citrus smell; I’ve already committed this to

memory. After we take off and head to the bar, we find really good parking spot. We get out and walk

toward the bar entrance. Jojo greets the bouncer and then we head inside. We realize that we got there

a little early, so we decide to get a seat at a high top near the bar. Neither of us wanted to distract Gen

while she was working but wanted to be close enough to keep an eye on her.

                After about 10 minutes we see Gen come in and head straight to the back, I assume to put her

purse away and clock in. Not even two minutes later Jojo and I hear screaming and see Gen coming out

of the back while viciously slapping a man before getting behind the bar and angrily stocking her bar

before her shift with her coworker next to her. I look back at the man who’s rubbing his cheek and going

back into the managers office.

                “Oh no!” I look at Jojo, “That’s her boss. He must’ve put his hands on her again. She only ever

acts that way if he does that.”

I immediately call Jack while Jojo goes over to Gen to make sure she’s ok.

                “What happened?” Jack asks as he answers the phone, he knew I would only call him if I had

something to tell him.

                “It seems that her manager at the bar touched her. I don’t know where and I don’t know how

intrusive it was. All I know is that she came in wearing her work uniform, went into the back of the bar,

came back out two minutes later while screaming and slapping a man Jojo claims is her manager.

Apparently, she only acts like that if he puts his hands on her.” I could hear his heavy breathing through

the phone and I knew he wanted to murder this man, I think his name was Chad.

                “Her bar is only 20 minutes away; I’ll be right there.” He says before hanging up the phone. I

knew for a fact that her bar was not 20 minutes away, but I figured Jack would be driving like a madman

to get here.

                Sure enough 20 minutes later Jack, Harry, Eddie and Josh show up and look ready to draw blood.

                Josh, Harry and Eddie head over to my table while Jack goes behind the bar and pulls Gen out

from behind it and to a dark corner to talk. The guys all order a beer and take a seat. It would either be a

long night or a short one. We would find out soon enough. 

*** Genevieve POV ***

                This wasn’t the first time that Chad had tried to put his hands on me, but it was the first time

that he’s ever been that successful. After I came out, I went to the bar to stock up on everything that I

would need. Scarlett was already there and was in the middle of stocking up her side. We were the

biggest bar in this side of town and lot of people liked to come here. Since it’s a Saturday night we were

sure to be packed. I thought about leaving, but I decided against it after knowing how much money in

tips I’ll make tonight, and I couldn’t leave Scarlett by herself. I definitely considered her my other best

friend, and her, Jojo and myself has even hung out before so we’re all friends. Which is great once I see

that Jojo is actually here too with Sebastian. Scarlett and Jojo come over to me while I’m stocking up and

start asking what happened.

                “Well, I came in and saw him hitting on one of the bottle girls so I knew it was going to be one of

those nights.” I explain and both girls’ nod. “So, I tried to steer clear and went to the back to put my

purse away. As I’m doing so Chad comes up to me and comments about the smell that I’m wearing and

once I don’t respond, because I’m not trying to lose my job I feel his hand on my bare a*s trying to, also,

move down into my… personal… space! Why of all days did I pick today to wear the skirt?!” I question

myself.

                “What do you mean personal space?” Scarlett asks, “He was already inappropriately touching

you, how much more personal could he get?” She asks flabbergasted. I look over and raise my

eyebrows. “No… You don’t mean that he tried to basically finger you, do you?”

                “Yes! It was the most uncomfortable experience! I swear I actually felt his finger and the

entrance before I pushed him off. I started to yell and just get away from him, but he followed me out

here so I slapped him as hard as I could.”

                “Good for you, girl. This is ridiculous. I can’t believe he did that.” Jojo says while shaking her

head. “You should quit! You just got promoted today so it’s the perfect time to.”

                “YOU GOT A WHAT?!?!” Scarlett yells while smiling ear to ear.

                “Jojo offered me a partnership with her company, well our company now, and I accepted!” I said

smiling. I would’ve been more excited at this moment to tell her, but that had been ruined thanks to

Chad.

                “Girllllll, we need to celebrate. We should go out for a girls weekend trip or something. Just a

three day weekend. This is major.” Scarlett says. I’m about to respond when I see Jack, Josh, Harry and

Eddie come in. Jack starts to come across to me while the rest of the men go sit down with Sebastian.

                “Baby? What are you doing here?” I ask as I see him come around behind the bar and pull me to

a corner. I can tell he’s angry and I assume that Sebastian called him. I smile to myself as I realize that

Jack dropped everything to come to my rescue. I feel bad for making him step away from work once

again, but I’m secretly really happy that he’s true to his word and will in fact try to protect me at all

costs.