Finding the One True Alpha

Chapter 2- The After Meeting Shenanigans; Audra POV

When Alpha James dismissed us I immediately jumped up and said goodbye to the Alphas and went in search of a bathroom. That Venti Carmel Frappuccino from Starbucks that I had hit my bladder about an hour ago and was begging to be released. When I opened the door of the conference room there was an omega walking by and I asked her to please show me where the closest bathroom was. Before I could even finish my question, Saint was there tanking over the situation. “Don’t worry about showing her where the bathroom is Mary I got it. Come on sweets I will take you to my wing of the house. Mason you and the other guys go to the game room and we will be along shortly” My eyes about bulge out of my head but I just say thank you and let him lead the way with his friends snickering behind us. I feel like they all know what is going on and I am on the outside. Just because I am female does not mean I am dumb. When I get Saint by myself I will ask him what is going on.

This house is big when we finally get to Saints part of the house, I can breathe a sigh of relief. I am thinking that he is just going to show me to a half bathroom or something and the leave me to go to the game room I am so wrong. He takes me to his room. I am shocked it looks exactly how I would have imagined it. It is a large room bigger than mine back home with gray colored walls and a dark blue couch and chair in the main part of the room with a giant black king size four poster bed. His bedding is a deep dark blue like his furniture it looks so inviting like I could just dive into those pillows and sleep for hours. Of course in front of the couch is a giant 65” 4k smart TV. I will never understand why men have to have such large TV’s but whatever I prefer to read than watch TV. The bathroom is off to the side of the room. It is white and black and modern I am in love. After I go to the bathroom, I do some snooping before I open the door. Of course, in the shower he has every manly soap, shampoo, and conditioner there is. For a 18-year-old he is very neat and tidy. I think he might have a slight case of OCD. There is nothing on the counter everything has a spot in the drawers. Now that I am done with my snooping, I open the bathroom door and I see Saint leaning on the back of the couch one combat boot covered foot crossed over the other looking at his phone not noticing that I had come out of the bathroom. I now had time to notice what he was wearing which was not a good idea because it made me just want him more. He had on a black V-neck muscle shirt short sleeve to show off his biceps and tattoos with dark ripped designer jeans that looked like they were ready to bust off due to his massive leg muscles.

He looked of from his phone and my face immediately starts to blush giving away that I had been staring probably a little too long. What is wrong with me I have never acted like this around a guy before I have always tried to blend in and be one of the guys. That is clearly not happening now. He tilts his head to the side and starts to do this sexy smirk thing that has my knees ready to buckle and is pinning me down with those piercing green eyes looking like I am his mid-afternoon snack. I finally get my wits about me and stare back at him which make his smirk even bigger. Its obvious he is not going to start off the conversation first so I say “why were your friends laughing at us after you said that you would show me to the bathroom?” His smirk kind of drops and he looks like he is trying to think of the best answer he can come up with on the spot without having to give away the whole truth. “My friends think that its funny that I showed a girl where the bathroom was instead of an Omega. I have never really done that before. I normally try to avoid the female race at all cost unless I have an itch that needs to be scratched if you catch my drift. Even then its all business get the job done then I leave them. They know its just about s*x and that’s it I don’t do girlfriends or dating no time for it. But what my friends don’t realize is that you are not like the other girls you are not a Omega or just a regular pack member you are an heir to an Alpha and you deserve to be treated like the rest of us.” I am somewhat shocked by his answer but not fully. I understand where he is coming from. “Thank you for answering me honestly. Most men don’t treat me as an equal and try to sugar coat their answers like it will hurt my feelings or damage my morals. Now I am very hungry and just peed out my breakfast because I was too nervous to eat all I had was a Carmel Frappe from Starbucks. Where is the game room and can we stop for snacks on the way” He stood up and started laughing and I loved it I could listen to him laugh all day. He grabs my hand and pulls me out the door down the hallway and down the stairs to the first floor to the game room. Saint looks at me and says to the guys “Audra is hungry I am going to have an omega send up some snacks and drinks what do you want?” All at once they say sandwiches, pizza, chips, and soda. Saint sends the link you can see his eyes go cloudy as it happens then a second later, they are back to normal. “the food should be here shortly now who is ready to have their asses kicked in some COD.” he starts to laugh and the guys groan and roll their eyes and grab the controllers to start the game on the Xbox. Saint leads me to the couch still holding my hand making me sit next to him on the end so no one can sit next to me. Major eye roll but I’m ready for the party to start.

I have no idea how long we have been sitting here but I don’t care the food and drinks were good and the guys are hilarious. I am still sitting next to Saint and whenever I had to get up to go to the bathroom he told me to always go to his room to use his, que eye roll. He kept grabbing my hand on and off while we were there like I was going to fade away if he didn’t hold on to it. To say that was nerve wracking was an understatement, but it also felt normal in a since. After they got done playing we just sat around and talked for a while. My phone went off and I forgot that my best friend Morgan was going to call me to discuss party plans for my 18th birthday coming up. She wanted to face time so I answered and she immediately went off to show me her idea boards she created. She hadn’t even realized there were five other heads crowded around me now to look. “Ok Audra I know you are not into the big party thing but you only turn 18 once and we are going big. I have narrowed it down to two different ideas that I want to run by you. We could do a masquerade ball with black and gold being the main colors. Then I was just thinking of a neon rave type party. Which one do you like?” That’s when she finally turned the phone back to her and saw all the guys with me and started screaming. It scared me to where I dropped the phone. Once I picked up the phone and the guys stopped laughing I said “ If I had to choose between those two which I know I will, you won't let me just have a regular party with a barbeque and some friends, I will have to go with the rave theme I'm not really feeling the masquerade party.” she is still looking at me not saying anything “hello earth to Morgan did you just hear what I said?” Morgan takes a deep breath and then starts off with “Audra why do you have five gorgeous male heads around you? Is there something going on with you that I don’t know about? Spill it sister!” I start laughing and say “Morgan this is Saint, Austin, Nate, Mason, and JJ. They are the sons of the Alphas that my father and I were meeting today. Now did you hear me about my party?” Morgan smiles “Yes I did and I was hoping you would choose the rave party I have the outfits for us already and the party will come together in no time. I just told my mom which one you chose and she is starting to call people now. I’m guessing your new friends would like an invite so guys be on the lookout for an invite coming to you. I’ve got to go lots of things to do bye love come find me when you get home.” Morgan ends the call and all the guys are just staring at me. I start laughing and said “You guys just got to meet my best friend Morgan. She is a lot to handle but I love her and she means well.” JJ asks “why did she think there was something going on with you is it not normal for you to be around males? She seemed really surprised that we would be talking to you.” I looked at him and said “I have been really sheltered if it doesn't have to do with training or school, I am not really around any guys my own age. My dad won't allow me to date or anything he said I need to wait for my mate, so the only real friends that I have are girls.” I start to blush but try to hide it. Mason asks “why is Morgan’s mom planning the party? Where is your mom? That is normally a thing most moms would love to do.” I look at Mason with a said smile. He doesn't know what happened and that is understandable my dad tries to keep it to himself and defiantly does not talk about it. “My mom died giving birth to me. My father does not like to talk about it so it's no surprise that you guys don’t know. It’s the reason why I am so sheltered. I think my dad thinks that if he keeps me sheltered and always has eyes on me that nothing bad is going to happen. It would kill him if he lost me since he doesn’t have my mom. I love Morgans mom though and she has taken me under wing as well and has treated me like her own and shown me things that a mother should so I have never really felt like I missed out. I think she is more excited about my birthday than Morgan is.” All the guys give me this sad look but is JJ that comes up behind me and gives me a hug. Saint just grabs my hand and stares at me. Austin is the first one to speak and he asks “how much training does your dad make you do if all you do is training and school that’s a lot. Do you ever get a day off to just be a normal teenager? You can't just spend your life training and working.” I tell him “I normally train twice a day 6 days of the week before and after school Monday thru Friday and then Saturday just for 3 hours in the morning I have Sunday off. That’s normally when Morgan and I hang out besides at school. I normally run at least 20 miles a day 10 in the morning and 10 in the afternoon with some combat training after I run. I might not look as strong and muscular as you guys do but I can still hold my own. My father has made sure that I am able to defend myself in case for some reason he is not there which is not very often.” Saint looks at me with this devilish grin then says “If you think you are that good let's see you in action sweets. We can go down to the training field and see what you got.” I give him the same look he gave me and tell him “lets do it. First do you have a pair of shorts I could wear? I don’t want to get my jeans dirty.” He grabs my hand and pulls me up from the couch and pulls me to the door and tells the guys to go down to the field we will be there in just a second. We go to his room again and he gives me shorts and tells me to leave my jeans there and whatever else I have that I don’t want to take with me. I go into the bathroom to change I put on the shorts of course they are huge on me but I tie the draw strings as tight as they will go and roll up the waist band. I then think about how brave do I want to be I have a sports bra on instead of a regular bra do I want to take of my shirt and go there or not. It didn’t even take me two seconds to decide and I left the shirt in there with my jeans. Thankfully I wore my favorite pair of tennis shoes. When I open the door I see Saint has changed as well but he left his shirt on oh well. He looks at me and growls "where is your shirt go put it back on now then we will go." I look at him like he has two head and tell him "no I am more comfortable training and fighting like this and you are not my dad and cannot tell me what to do now lets go. I am ready to have some fun." I smile sweetly at him and he rolls his eyes. you can tell he is not used to people telling him no and it makes me laugh. He grabs my hand again and we go out of his room down the stairs and head towards the back of the house and out the back door. I look out to the left and see this massive training area where the guys are standing there talking it looks like they have changed as well. When they see us approach all there jaws drop I do a mini internal high five to myself Morgan would be so proud, I am so happy I decided to leave the shirt with my jeans. Saint looks at me and says " you and I will spar first to see what you got the the other guys can give it a go. I will try to take it easy on you but no promises." I think he is still mad about the shirt issue so I just smile and nod my head. He has no idea what is about to happen and its hilarious. Saint is on one side and I am on the other. It is clear that he is not going to make the first move so I move first and make it look like I am going to go high with a punch to the face and he try’s to grab me but at the last second I dip down and when his hands are trying to grab me it leave and opening for a rib punch so I do a quick jab and spin around so I am at his back. He immediately turns around and looks at my like he cannot believe that just happened. Again you can tell he is used to winning and always having the upper hand in these situations. He severely underestimated my power yes I am lean but I am fast and know how to shift my weight to do the most damage. The guys that are standing off to the side start laughing like they cannot believe that just happened as well. I look up and see a few new faces around us apparently we started to draw a crowd, fine with me the more people that can see my strength the better. Saint returns to his stance and you can tell now he is going to make the first move his going to go for a jab at my jaw but I react fast and block it and give him another fist to the ribs this time on the other side so he has one to match the other one. He really looks pissed and tries to kick my legs out from underneath me but I jump back and go into defense mode. He tries to kick me and I grab his leg and spin around and put him on his ass. He is good but not really as fast as he should be he needs to work on his speed and reaction time. you can tell he is not used to fighting someone like me. The guys on the side start clapping and laughing even harder now that he got his ass handed to him by a girl. He looks at them like he is going to murder them but before he could get to them our dads come out and find us. Apparently there meeting is over with and it is time to part ways. I tell them all bye and they give me hugs and high five while still laughing. Saint is still mad but he brings me into a hug and tells me " thank you for sparing with me it is not often I have someone land me on my ass, normally its the other way around. We need to train together so I can learn some of your speed sweets." He kisses the top of my head then grabs my hand and walks me to my dad like I am not able to do it myself and gives my dad my hand like I am a five year old and not the girl that just put him on his ass. I look at my dad and you can tell he is not happy with my clothing choices at the moment "Audra where are the clothes that you came in? You need to change it is time to go home." Saint steps in and says "I will take her inside to change she left them in my room so no one would mess with them." My dad really does not look happy now and you can tell I am going to hear about it later but he nods in agreement and tells me he will be in the car and to go out there when I am changed and lets me go inside with Saint. When we get to his part of the house Saint looks at me and says "your dad looked pissed at you for what you were wearing and what we were doing. Its not like we were having s*x we were sparing." I look up and tell him "it goes back to the overprotectiveness that he feels he needs to use. That I am not able to take care of myself even though I am, but I understand where he is coming from so I don't really put up a fight and I asked for this myself. I knew what was going to happen when I did it but I don't regret it. This is the most laid back I have been in a while and the most fun I have had. So thank you for that I really appreciate it." He looks like he wants to say something else to me but thinks better of it then leads me to the bathroom to change without a word. I change and put the shorts in the hamper that is on the other side of the bathroom. When I come back out he is still in the same shorts and shirt minus the shoes just socks. OMG I want to die if I could stay here I would but I have to go. Saint grabs my hand and walks me outside to my dad and gives me another hug and kisses my head again then opens the door and helps me in the truck. He tells me "thanks for hanging out with us today Audra it was really fun and the guys and I will defiantly be at your party." He looks at my dad and shakes his hand and tells him "thank you for coming today Alpha Brennan you have raised a wonderful daughter and she will do great things." My dad shakes his hand back and says "thank you for taking care of her for me we will see you in a few weeks then." Saint winks at me then closes the door and we drive off. I have no idea why but I feel like I just left part of myself there with Saint and I cannot wait to see him again.