His Lost Mate

Chapter 10

Freja

The pack meeting started at sundown, and all pack members were required to attend. Everyone gathered on the back lawn of the pack house. It’s big enough to hold everyone comfortably. Alaric has a big presence in the pack; everyone looks up to him. Ares told me before his father is respectful and just. I can now see that he was right. As Alaric walks through the crowd, he stops to talk to several pack members. He smiles at the children, even jokes with some of the older ones. He is loved.

When he reaches the front, everyone falls silent and waits for what he has to say. I see Claire in the crowd and she locks eyes with me. She smiles and I nod to her and her daughter. She looks sad; the other pack members give her a wide birth, not really wanting to associate with her.

“As many of you have noticed, we have had someone new here for the past few weeks. We haven’t introduced her properly because, well she just can’t keep herself out of trouble,” Alaric jokes and smiles at me. “It’s a pleasure to introduce Freja to our pack. Not only is she Ares’ mate, she is the rightful heir to the thrown. She is the daughter of King Allen and Queen Francesca, who died twenty-two years ago. Freja is your future queen.”

Everyone looks stunned and a little confused. But to my own surprise, they start to kneel one by one and bow their heads. Alaric turns to me and kneels as well, something I really was not expecting. I feel a burst of pride and look to Ares. I realize the feeling is coming from him. He takes my hand and kisses it and then he kneels.

Ares looks at me with so much love in his eyes. It almost makes me want to cry because I don’t feel like I deserve it. He’s been so loving and sweet, everyone I’ve meet here has been. I start to feel like the air is being sucked out of my lungs. Ares takes my hand again and it makes me feel better; he makes me feel better. Like I can be what the moon goddess made me to be.

“You should probably say something,” he whispers to me. My eyes widen but I nod. Although, I’m not sure what I’m going to say. I guess I’ll just wing it. I turn to the pack, “Um, hi, you can all stand.” I jester to everyone to stand.

“My name is Freja, but you know that already,” I say nervously. “I’m not big on speeches, so please bare with me. It’s kind of scary standing up here in front of you all.” I find Tomas and Elena in the crowd, Elijah is with them. They look just as proud as Ares and Alaric. Elena winks at me and mouths you got this.

“As your alpha said, I am the heir to the thrown. I don’t quite know what it means to be a queen; I don’t know what it means to be a ruler. I was not raised to be a queen, or anything else for that matter. All I can hope for is that I’m merciful and just, much like your own alpha,” I turn to Alaric and he nods.

“What I have to say next is hard because none of know me and I understand if you not to stand with me,” I’m starting to get more nervous now. I don’t know how I can ask them to join me in a war they have nothing to do with. Ares grabs my hand again for comfort.

“A war is coming and I can’t say exactly when this war will be. All I know is it’s going to be soon. I can’t ask you to leave your families to help me fight, but I would greatly appreciate if you do choose to stand with me.”

Again, they start to kneel. Ares squeezes my hand. “You’ve got your army, my queen,” he whispers close to my ear. I feel tears start to well up and I swipe at my eyes. I didn’t expect to have the whole pack stand with me.

Alaric returns to the center of the makeshift stage, “How about we celebrate our future queen?” Everyone stands and starts cheering. “Tomorrow we will have a cookout and big bonfire. Maybe we can finish the fall festival, since it was cut a little short.” More cheer erupt. I feel Ares’ hand in my back as he guides be down through the pack. They bow their heads as I pass by them.

“Where are we going?” I ask him. He’s leading me towards the forest. “We’re going for a run. The pack will join us.”

We reach the forest and Ares shifts, his clothes ripping to shreds. “You’ll have to shift before the pack. It shows leadership,” he tells me through our mind link. I remove my clothes because I don’t want to ruin the clothes Lily bought me. Shifting has gotten easier, it doesn’t hurt nearly as bad as when I first shifted with Ares. I shift into my wolf and the pack follows.

My wolf is black like Ares’ but I have a white diamond shaped spot on my chest. My paws are big, and my legs are long. I’m not quite as big as Ares or Alaric in their wolf form, but I’m bigger than most of the pack. Ares tells me it’s the alpha trait. Alphas are naturally bigger than betas and omegas.

The night air is cool, and getting colder as the days go by. The leaves have turned brown and have started to fall. Autumn is here; winter will be here soon and the snow will blanket the forest. Winter is a close favorite to autumn. I like the way the snow feels like powder under my feet; I can’t wait to run as my wolf through the snow.

Howling pulls me from my thoughts. The pack is howling to the full moon. This is when we are at our strongest; when the moon is full. We feel closer to it, closer to the goddess. It’s a harvest moon tonight so it have yellow-orange hue. It’s beautiful.

Ares bumps into me and it takes me by surprise. I growl at him, “What the hell was that for?” He tilts his head, “Follow me, I want to take you somewhere.” He takes off in the opposite direction of the pack and I follow. We run for a couple miles when he start to slow down. I almost run into to him when he come to a stop at the edge of the forest. He shifts back to his human form and so do I.

We walk out of the forest and a lagoon comes into view. There’s a small waterfall and Ares walks toward it. Why would he bring me here? Does he want to swim? He knows I’m not a strong swimmer. I’ve only had one swimming lesson with him. My heart starts to beat faster because I don’t know what he’s thinking.

“You worry too much, Freja,” he says and chuckles. Of course he can feel my anxiety. “Come on.”

I follow him to the waterfall and I can see a little walkway. There’s a small cave just behind the flowing water. Ares reaches for my hand and guides me up into the cave. The rock is slick and I try not to slip; I’m kind of clumsy sometimes. Ares enters the cave, his massive body taking up most of the space.

“Do you come here often?” I ask him.

“I used to,” he says.

“Bring all your girlfriends here?” I say, joking. He laughs, “No. You’re the one and only. I knew when I found this cave, I would only bring my mate here.” He leans into me and places a soft kiss on my lips. I melt into him, my kiss turning hungry as his fingers find my now slick folds.

He swallows my moan. His fingers work my c**t and I’m quickly climbing to climax. He pulls me onto his lap and I straddle his legs. “You’re so beautiful. I don’t know what I did to deserve you,” he says and trails kisses down my jaw to my neck and down my chest. He palms one breast and flicks his tongue across my n****e. My back arches as pleasure runs through my body, settling between my legs.

“Ares,” I moan his name and tug on his hair. I grind myself on his c**k and the motion has both of us moaning. His hands travel down my back until they reach my butt. He grips my hips and guides me down his c**k. He groans, “f**k, Freja, you’re so tight. You feel so good.”

I bite my bottom lip to try and stop my moan. It futile, though. Ares’ c**k feels so good inside me. His eyes close for a moment and when he opens them his irises are swirling gold and blue. He grips me again and we start to move in rhythm. He sets a slow tempo, almost painfully slow. I let a small whine and Ares chuckles.

“Be patient, baby. I’ll get you there, but I want to make love you tonight. We can f**k later,” he voice is low and smooth. Ares grabs my hair and tugs my head back, giving him access to my neck. He inhales deeply as he draws his nose up the column of my neck. He nips and lick at my mark, sending sparks of pleasure to my p***y.

Ares flips me to my back and thrusts slowly into me. The rock scraping against my back adds to the pleasure. My orgasm starts to build, a warm sensation low in my belly. I moan loudly and Ares covers my mouth with his. His tongue slips past my lips and dueling with my tongue. He growls deep in his chest, making my wet p***y even wetter.

I meet his slow thrusts, trying to spur him into going faster. He’s not having it, though. “I told you to be patient.” He places one hand my hip and leans back. Lifting my leg to his shoulder, he continues his slow pace; enjoying torturing me this way. Building up my orgasm. He runs his hand down my thigh and squeezes the sensitive spot on the inside of my leg. He says this is one of his favorite parts of my body. He likes to trail kisses there when he’s eating me out.

As my orgasm builds higher, my moans get louder. I hear the pack howling. It sound like they are close. Ares puts a finger to his mouth, shushing me. I know he doesn’t care if they hear us, but it makes our coupling more clandestine. He grows harder inside me and I know he’s as close to cumming as I am. “Don’t c*m until I tell you,” he says. His dominance turns me on even more.

He thrusts deep into and pulls out until only the head of his d**k is inside me and then thrusts deep again. He repeats the motion and I can feel myself squeezing his c**k. “Not yet, baby,” he says. I can’t hold back my orgasm much longer. My breath comes out in pants and moans.

“Please, Ares, let me c*m,” I beg him. His hand goes to my throat but it travels down my chest and stomach to my c**t. His thumb strums my sensitive nub and I arch my back. He leans down, his mouth close to my ear, “Cum.”

I c*m to hard, my world spins and shatters. Ares roars loudly as his orgasm follows mine. He fills me with his c*m and continues to thrust slowly until our breathing evens out. “See what happens when you’re patient, my love?”

“Whatever,” I say and he laughs. “When you said you wanted to take me somewhere, you meant you want to take me somewhere.” He laughs again, “Well, I didn’t plan this but seeing you here and in the moonlight. It was too hard to resist.”

I will love this man for the rest of my life. Nothing will take me away from him. I will kill anyone that tries to tear us apart.