Second chance

Chapter 5

Amber’s pov

Saying I flew back to my room is an understatement, I ran faster than I could blink,I was mortified by kora’s behaviour. Would I fight for Liam? Without a doubt but would I force a mark on someone? Apparently I would. I tried to speak to Kora and to understand why she would do something like that but she was blissfully asleep. What’s more I felt hot and bothered something I had not felt in years and a reaction I thought only Joey could cause and I felt embarrassed and sad, Kora whimpered in sadness as well though she remained asleep. How was I going to face Kai after doing something like this? Should I be embarrassed given that Alaric had behaved the same way kora had? I don’t know but I guess it would sort itself out at a later time because one thing I know is I couldn’t face Kai anytime soon. A later time turned out to be two hours later when I went to pick Liam from a play date he had with Keenan, beta Fiona’s son who was a year older than Liam , to be honest I was kind of glad because the questions I got were a lot and difficult for me answer given I showed up rocking a maté mark I didn’t have in the morning. It’s not like I had advertised it, I had hidden it under a scarf like a normal embarrassed person would, I don’t normally wear silk scarfs , so they gave me weird stares but otherwise ignored it but of course my son happened. I guess the scarf was weird for him too because as soon as I picked him up he quietly pulled it and dropped it on the ground. The mark was seen, the scarf hidden, questions I didn’t know how to answer followed and I stood there like a deer frozen in headlights, my reaction and lack of response didn’t stop the questions from coming and Gabbie the female gamma came and shook me. Before she could shake the life out of me Kai arrived with a smile, zipper collar t shirt, zipper open, mark displayed for all to see and he hid me behind his back so Gabbie couldn’t get me and any protest from the ladies there was quickly silenced the moment our marks showed we are mates

“Kai when did…” Henley screamed but was cut off by Kai

“ later ladies, right now my mate and I have a few things to discuss

“ then let Liam stay the night” Fiona said already taking him, I wanted to pull him to me as I didn’t like to be away from him for too long and Fiona knew me enough to say something before I did

“Come on Amber you know your son is safe with me and as much as you want to take him you and Kai seem like you have a few things to discuss” she wagged her eyebrows and I left quickly a little embarrassed at the gesture and Kai just laughed. They had always addressed Liam as my son so it was not something new.

“ we will pick him up tomorrow then” kai said pulling me away from the ladies and I gladly left.

“ we really do need to talk” he said, I guess there was a look on my face. I had expected to go back to alpha Cullen’s office but we ended up in Kai’s room, I looked around a little uncomfortable because I had never been in his room though he had come to mine almost everyday to drop off Liam. He was on the alpha floor , he had moved back after Lottie left him. When they mated he had moved out of the pack house, because Cullen didn’t like Lottie that much and the feeling was later cemented with the fact that she had tried to actively seduce him. So they had lived in one of the houses near the pack and I think that is also one of the reasons she had finally left realising how near yet far away from the power that she had obviously craved. When she left he had moved back into the pack house as he couldn’t live in a house that reminded him of the failure of his mate bond and the other reason was because Cullen liked to have his brother near him. Though Kai was younger than Cullen they got on very well like how I thought siblings should be and because they were so close most of Cullen’s friends were his friends and he is so close to the current beta and gamma and they respect him almost like their alpha. I had moved to the second floor refusing the alpha floor as a room had been offered as I had lived with Kai and my sister before.

“ I have never been in this room before” I said awkwardly

“ I know” he simply answered looking at how uncomfortable I looked

“ you do know you have to move in with me now right?” He asked and I nodded my head

“ Jewel maybe this is too much for you” he said softly holding my chin so I could look at him and tears quickly filled my eyes as the only other person who called me that was my Joey

“ do you want to break the bond?”He asked with a soft voice

“No” I shook my head “it’s just that Joey is the only person that called me by that name as he always said I was his jewel amber” I said surprised that I was not opposed to this chosen bond.

“ can I call you Jewel or is it going to be weird?” He asked

“I’m fine with it, you can call me whatever you like” I said in a small voice my hands covering the hand that was still on my chin.

“Whatever I like?” He asked and I nodded “are you sure?” I nodded again turning a little red as he made it sound naughty somehow