Her Alpha Soulmate

Chapter 10: Clara POV

Chapter 10: Clara POV

A strange sense of ease washed over my usual anxious self. After Damon marked me I felt all kinds of new sensations including a deep lust for my mate. He was the most beautiful and interesting person in the world to me at that moment. The best part was I felt a new level of trust develop. He hadn't promised it would not hurt but he had promised to do it in such a gentle way I would not even bleed. I think I felt a very small trickle of blood escape my freshly marked skin but I let it slide. The way he held me and cleaned the mark made me feel so safe and cared for.

I became dizzy after the marking so Damon and his mother took me into the pack house kitchen. "Name a dish, any dish. I can make it for you," Damon's mother said. After grilled chicken and vegetables were made and put on the table Damon fed it to me. "Let me, Mate," he insisted. I didn't fight him. I let him feed me as strange as that sounds. His wolf started talking to me in my head, this time without having to be in wolf form to communicate with me, and he said this was Damon tending to me and to let him. He also explained that he was talking to me in my head via something called mindlink. He said I'd only be able to mindlink him and Damon until I officially joined the pack.

I felt much better with a full stomach. After asking if I was sure I was ready Damon took me around and gave me a tour of the pack house. It was really big and beautiful. There has to be fifty bedrooms. During my tour he mind-linked a few people at a time to come meet me. I met ten teenagers. Everyone seemed to be close. Damon explained most of the pack lived in surrounding houses in the area and that the people who lived here were directly related to him, the titled members, or didn't have family. "We take in a lot of rogues and they live here with us." He told me that rogues were werewolves who did not have a pack. That made me sad. Even an orphan like me had my uncle and cousins. 

"And here is the most important person to meet," he said gesturing at a red-haired boy coming up the stairs. "This is Jay. He is my beta, basically my right-hand man. When he meets his mate she will be like your beta." I smiled and shook his hand. "Nice to meet you," I greeted. He smiled back and said, "Great to meet you too Luna, now do you happen to have any hot friends who could be my mate? Alpha boy here won't let me roam looking for her like he did." I wanted to be amused by his joking tone but his words confused me. "What do you mean look for her? Don't you all meet your mate by coincidence like  Damon did?" The two boys shared a look. I assume they were mindlinking. "Umm...you see Kitten, it's not unusual to just go looking for your mate. There is no right or wrong way to find your mate." I scrunched my face up. "So you were looking? Does that mean you dated girls before me?" Damon's eyes widened and Jay started to laugh. "Oooh, you're in for it now Alpha!" Damon growled at Jay who just kept laughing. I put my hands on my hips and said, "Be honest Damon, how many girls have you been with? How many did you think were your mate before you found me?" He hesitated before saying, "Four, maybe five. I thought I was looking in the wrong way so I thought kissing them would help me figure it out." I felt my nostrils flare. He had given me so much s**t about thinking I'd mated consensually when in reality he was intentionally kissing random girls. "Did you sleep with any of them?" He looked offended. "No, I'm a proud virgin. I waited for you." My anger dissipated. That was the sexiest thing he had ever said to me. My mark pulsated with warmth and I reacted by lunging at Damon's lips. He kissed me back feverishly while Jay made fake over the top gagging noises. "Couples....yuck..." Jay said, walking away. "What was that for?" Damon asked when our lips parted. "For waiting." He looked at me with the kindest eyes.

Suddenly I felt my melancholy return for a moment. I pulled away from Damon who caught my hand in his. "What's wrong, Baby?" I felt tears threaten my eyes as I said, "I wanted to wait too. That's why I kept saying no to Brent and he didn't take kindly to being rejected. I'm sorry I wasn't strong enough to fight him off." Before I was finished speaking I felt his arms envelope me in a tight hug. "I don't blame you for what happened. I hope you know that. When you're ready we will mate on your terms and it will be amazing." He turned me around to face him. "I will make you feel so good you will cry tears of happiness. I will make you forget every unhappy memory. I will make it so Brent and his abuse never crosses your mind ever again." We weren't ready for that step yet but I bit my lower lip thinking nothing would make me happier than to move forward with my soulmate and forget Brent ever existed.