The Sweetest Honey

At the Table

(Clara’s point of view)

All of a sudden, this large Blonde man comes running through the door. Mate! he yells. Wendy shoots out of her seat. “Mate?”

Everyone at the table is dead silent. The man grabs Wendy’s hands and holds them. “I am beta Jack.”

“I am Wendy.”

“would you like to talk upstairs in private?” He asks her.

“Absolutely!” She says to him, smiling bigger than I have ever seen. He picks her up bridal style, and she squeals in delight, making him let out a little growl. Goliath yells back at them “ Better be back in time for the meeting.” He doesn’t answer back. Instead, he takes off running with Wendy in his arms. I look at Goliath “Is she going to be ok?”

“That is my beta Jack he has been waiting longer than me for his mate. She couldn’t be in better hands.” People around the table look delighted and are in good spirits, so I feel free to be happy for them despite how odd that felt. People from the back come out putting plates of food on the buffet tables on each side of the room. It all smells so good that I am dying inside to eat. “Wait here, sweetheart. I will get you a plate.” The way he calls me sweetheart makes my heart flutter. I wish I had the confidence to be more flirty with him because I really like him. It is also hard to compete with how well he takes care of me. He sets a plate in front of me, and it is the biggest plate of food. There are pancakes and ham with scrambled eggs. Even though there is ham, he put bacon on there, too. “Thank you so much, but I don’t think I can finish all of this.” I hear a woman at the end of the table “Goliath dear, the girl is human she doesn’t eat like us wolves do.” He looks at her “I know, mom, but I want her to have everything she could possibly want.”

“That is so sweet! Atlas isn’t our son so sweet now that he has found his mate?”

“He sure is dear!” The guy next to her says while eating a piece of bacon.

Goliath covers his face with his hands. “Please just stop!”

I hear everyone snickering at his expense. I have a feeling he wasn’t so soft before he met me. He uncovers his face and stands up. “Everyone this is my mate, Clara.” Everyone starts cheering and whistling. I am unsure what to do, so I just smile at them. “Let me introduce you to everyone starting with my mother.” He points up to the woman who was just talking.

“Hello darling, I am his mother Farah, and this is my mate and husband Atlas.” He gives me a smile and wave. “Hello dear!” he says, going back to his bacon.

His mom and dad look like they aren’t even 30. His mom has beautiful long black hair that goes down to her butt. The only thing that makes her look aged at all is her smile lines. His dad is handsome despite the large scar that goes down the side of his face.

“Hello, It is nice to meet you both. Your son has been a real gentleman.” The girl across from Goliath spits her water out and laughs coughs, banging her fist into her chest. “Shut up, you brute.” he whispers yells at her.

“Sorry I didn’t know gentleman start bar fights.”

“I don’t start them, I end them.” Goliath says with an intense serous face I have never seen before. He looks back at me. “Sorry Clara, this is my sister Mindy she lives to pester me.” His sister looks pretty tough. She has black hair like the rest of them, but she shaved one side and has a tattoo of a moon on her head. Her eyes are more of an ocean blue, unlike Goliath, who has more of an icy blue. Her knuckles look a bit beat up as if she was just in a fight.

“Hello Clara, I have always wanted to have a sister so I am sure you and your friend will be the best treasure to this family for me.”

The thought of this being my family warms my heart. It feels like Goliath and I are married, but we have only known each other for 2 days. I am unsure if this is normal for werewolves, but it feels a bit weird.

“HI Mindy, I am glad to finally meet you.”

“Next is my future gamma Tyler he will be training today with the present gamma to see if he is ready to take over.” He looks familiar, and he is acting kind of antsy in his seat.

“Hello.” He says, giving me a wave and a short smile.

“You look familiar. Oh, I think I seen you at school before. Nice to officially meet you.” He let’s out a breath like he was stressed about something.

“Nice to meet you too.” he says.

“I am sure you will get to meet my beta Jack later.” Goliath says. He stands up and puts his hand on the side of my mom’s chair. Everyone, this is Jenny Clara’s mom. Everyone waved and said hello.

“It is so nice to meet you all. I wish my mate would have come from such a loving pack like this. Things would have been so much better.” I see a little sadness in her face.

“I had no idea you had a mate. What pack were they from.” Farah asks my mom.

“Well he was from the Silver blood moon pack, but he passed away many years ago.” The room went into a deep silence.

“He was from the Silver blood moon pack, and you are a human?” Atlas asks in disbelief.

“yes, we went on the run for years, but his brother caught up to us.” My mom starts dabbing her eyes with her napkin.

“Mom you said he died in a mugging?” My head is spinning now that I realized I still haven’t actually talked this through with her yet.

“Clara I only told you that because I thought you were human.” Everyone around the table gasped. “You aren’t a human?” many of them said at once.

“OK, Okay everyone calm down. Since this is opened up, I will just mind link Jack and Wendy back in here and set up some guards to get rid of snoopers.