IGNITE

Chapter 3 - Meeting the parents

*Tims Point of View*

I called her for the 100th time, knowing she wouldn’t answer but hoping to goddess she did.

Why was I so f*****g stupid to think that she would stay and do as I said.

Of course without my powers suppressing her, she would have more clarity, but if she had just stuck to the schedule and eaten the food id left her the potion id been adding to it would have been enough to keep her in my grasp.

Id spent the last 10 years following my father's orders, suppressing her powers and for the most part it had worked fantastically, she had no idea who or what she was, she thought I was just a regular human guy. I grew bored and lazy recently she was weak and I was beginning to question if was in fact a weak human and not the strong Wiccan my father lead me to believe.

None the less I needed to get her back before he found out what had happened, I had no doubt he would kill me for this mistake and take her himself. Whilst I didn’t love her, I would rather she didn’t end up in the hands of my evil warlock of a father's hands, goddess knows what he would do to her.

No I had to get her back and NOW, I quickly whipped up a simple transportation spell to get back to our apartment I was a bit rusty with spells now as I was use to hiding my true form but thankfully I made it back to the apartment in one piece.  She was gone, some of her things were gone and so was our car. At this point I was slowly losing my cool, where the f**k was she and who did she think she was running away from me Timothy Grey Dark Warlock and son of Arthur Grey one of the most powerful dark Warlocks!

I’d find that b***h and make sure she never left me again, next time I wouldn’t be so stupid no in fact why even bother keeping her suppressed I might as well just kill the b***h!

*Bex’s Point of View*

I couldn’t get back to sleep after my encounter with Mike so I thought id get a head start with my day and shower.

I stood looking in the floor length mirror in the walk in wardrobe for far longer than I intended too but I couldn’t help it, I felt like I was seeing myself for their first time. I didn’t think I was the prettiest woman but my blue eyes looked brighter, my skin smooth and soft, light brown hair shiny and waving down past my shoulders, most of all I felt free and light as air.

I slowly dressed in tight high waisted black skinny jeans, tucking my white t-shirt into the waist band at the front, showing of my thick thighs and slim waist. Pulled my hair up in a messy bun on the top of head, a little mascara and some lipgloss and I was ready for the day.

I decided to pack all my stuff up ready to go, I didn’t want to outstay my welcome even though part of me wanted to see Mike just one more time before I hit the road again.

By now it was almost 8am, I decided to head down stairs and have a coffee, as I was walking down the stairs I ran into Nina who insisted I come and have breakfast with everyone… Walking into the kitchen dining area when she said everyone she really did mean everyone!

There must have been about 30 people sitting around the long tables. Everyone talking at once smiling laughing, this really does have to be some sort of cult I thought to myself.

Sitting at the end of one of the tables with Nina a lovely older lady named Sue came over and asked what I wanted to eat & drink. I wasn’t that hungry after my sandwich so I just asked for some fruit that I saw some of the other women eating and a latte. She smiled kindly “certainly dear” she said before taking Nina’s order and heading back to the kitchen, where I noticed a few other older ladies whipping up all sorts of delicious things.

Nina and I fell into comfortable chat for a few minutes talking about makeup, clothes and other girlie topics I had forgotten how much I missed having friends and Nina was so easy to talk to I wish I could stay and be friends with her.

Just then Sue returned with my coffee and fruit & Ninas smoothies, Bacon, eggs, sausages and hash browns! “Wow that looks amazing, where do you fit it all?!” I said shocked at this tiny woman in front of me with the biggest breakfast I had ever seen!

She laughed “I work out a lot and Kurt keeps my very busy” she replied with a wink.

I almost choked on my coffee at her response, but then a few men came into the room talking quietly amongst themselves and looking very serious.

Everyone seemed to go quiet and either nod or acknowledge them in some way, then Mike step forward sitting next to me and Kurt taking the seat next to Nina, the other men took various seats around the tables and the room fell back into chatter.

Mike leant in close to my ear his warm breath brushing along my cheek and neck making me feel all warm and tingly. He grumpily whispered in my ear “ Is that ALL your having to eat?” I looked at him shyly and said “I wasn’t feeling that hungry”.

He sat back and looked at me before turning to Sue who had suddenly appeared again. “Ill have my regular plus a side of bacon and French toast for Bex thanks” he said smugly smiling to himself.

Who is this man and why does he infuriate me and make me a puddle on the floor all at the same time, every time I was near him I felt tingly and like I couldn’t think straight.

When Sue appeared with the food Mike pushed the plate of French toast and bacon toward me “Eat” he said in husky firm tone turning my insides to mush once again.

I reluctantly took a bite “mhmm” I moaned as the French toasted melted in my mouth it was delicious. I heard Mike chuckle next to me “that good huh” he smirked and went back to chatting to Nina and Kurt.

I finished my breakfast in record time, everyone else was still chatting away so I decided to get up and ask Sue if she needed any help in the kitchen.

Sue looked as though she was in her late 50s with greying hair and wrinkles forming around her eyes and mouth. A bit plump around her middle with the kindest eyes, I walked in placing my plates and cup on the bench before turning to her “Please what can I do to help?” I asked smiling at her. She came over and grabbed my dishes and passing them to another woman who was washing a stack of plates. “No No sweetie we have it covered you go and enjoy yourself” she said before turning back to the kitchen.

When I turned around Nina was standing there and she smiled “Trust me its useless she won’t let anyone else help in there, its her pride and joy”.

“I feel like I should help though seeing as I’m a guest” I sighed and followed behind Nina and she walked through the living room area.

This place was massive, I followed along toward some large sliding doors, that lead us out into the most amazing courtyard I had ever seen, Concrete patio area lined with beautifully manicured shrubs a couple of picnic tables and umbrellas and some flower pots scattered around.

We kept walking toward the gap in the shrubs which opened out into a stunning infinity pool and spa “WOW” I stood speechless gazing out over the pool and down into the valley below. I get see lots of houses dotted around the valley and in the distance and river winding between the forest.

Nina turned to me and smiled “It's stunning isn’t it?”

“Stunning is an understatement this is breathtaking, I could spend all day out here” I exclaimed

If it wasn’t 9am id be in the pool swimming and admiring the view but even though it was late spring the day wasn’t that warm yet.

“Oh s**t” Nina muttered next to me, I followed her gaze and noticed a white car winding up the side of the hill.

“Whos that” I asked wondering how many people actually live here, surely there couldn’t be anymore!

“Mum and dad, this should be fun” she said although her tone wasn’t convincing.

We walked inside together, I could see Mike and Kurt waiting near the door talking in hushed voices and neither looked overly happy.

Wow can having his parents over really cause that much tension I wondered, I have more and more questions about this place by the minute.

There was something odd about this place but at the same time Id never felt so safe in all my life suddenly the door swung open and I was pulled from my thoughts.

His mother was beautiful almost and older version of Nina but shorter and a bit softer around the middle, with long brown hair streaked with grey here and there almost as if it had been coloured on purpose.

His father was similar to him tall muscular tan, with intense green eyes crinkles around the eyes gave away years of stress but also happiness.

I couldn’t work out why they were annoyed by their parents presence they seemed lovely to me.

“Darling” his mother shrieked with excitement and she embraced Mike “Where is she, I can’t believe I had to hear from one of the omegas that your mate was here” She said in a disappointed tone.

Omega? Mate? I thought to myself, so many questions!

All eyes were suddenly on me, “huh” I said stunned as his mother launched herself at me with open arms.

“Oh my you're gorgeous” she said beaming at me

“All right don’t scare the poor girl Linda” his father replied gruffly

“I've just waited so long for this moment and I'm excited that’s all Phil” she glared back at him.

“Honey I'm Linda and this is my husband Phil and I know you have already meet my son Mike and Daughter Nina, We are so happy to have you here finally” she stated before hugging me again.

“It's nice to meet you both” I said slowly with a small smile, what did she mean by finally I literally found this place by accident less than 24 hours ago.

When I looked up the room had gone silent it was like they were having a conversation without me, yup this place was getting weirder by the second now.

I decided to break the silence and get ready to leave.

“Well it was lovely to meet you all but I really should finish packing my things and get going” I said quickly and went to walk toward the stairs.

“Oh no Im sorry hunny I didn’t mean to scare you, we don’t get many visitors up here and I was so excited to see such a beautiful guest here, please just stay and have lunch with us” linda said giving me her most apologetic look.

I sighed and looked back at everyone awkwardly standing around not looking me in the eye as if they all knew something I didn’t.

“Ok i'll stay for lunch but I do really need to leave after that” I said and for a second I swear I saw disappointment and sadness flash across Mikes face.

*Mikes Point of view*

Of course she was sitting in the dining room, when we returned from training this morning, I could smell her a mile away today her scent was different then yesterday, stronger and I felt the pull even more.

I sat next to her noticing her small bowl of fruit, surely that’s not all she was eating! In my house she would look after herself or I would do it for her, she had barely eaten yesterday and the sandwich I made hours ago wasn’t enough to fill her.

Of course she wouldn’t listen to me though so I took matters into my own hands and ordered more food for her.

It had been a long morning and I wasn’t going to argue with her, we had had some unwelcome guests on the boarder of our territory and I needed to get it sorted asap.

When breakfast arrived the sound of her moan as she tasted Sue’s French toast made me chuckle and I made mental note to do more things that make her make that sound.

Once we were finished eating Nina and Bex went outside, leaving Kurt and I to start working on an action plan to figure out who and why someone was lurking around our territory.

Our place was well hidden and very unknown to the humans so we rarely had visitors, but this one was different and I didn't like it one bet, my gut was telling me they were up to know good.

The scent was masked and I couldn’t figure out what it was but it was most definitely not human.

I had sent my best warriors to patrol and see if they could find anything as well as upping the numbers on our regular security teams.

I was interrupted from my cover station with a mind link from Nina informing me our parents were on the way up.

“f**k” I said angrily why today of all days Kurt looked at me and chuckled “good luck” he said smugly, fucker I thought.

My parents had apparently been informed of Bex’s arrival could know one here keep anything to themselves! To make matters worse no one had informed them that she wasn’t one of us and in fact was a human so of course they were acting as if she know what a mate and omega were.

Thankfully Nina quickly mind linked them and filled them in on the human details before it got anymore uncomfortable.

Bex had obviously picked up on the tension and was quick to try and leave, thankfully Mom convinced her to stay at least for lunch anyway.

I shocked myself and when she said she had to go I felt sad, f**k she really was getting under my skin. I started going over how I could make her stay without scaring her away forever. I'm sure there was no results on google for “how to tell a human you're a werewolf” f**k!