Alphas mated to a human

Chapter 23- Date Night

Val POV

After spending the day at the courthouse I return to our little cottage, where I am greeted by Johnny standing at the door smiling with a bunch of flowers. I feel a huge smile appearing on my face,

“Hi babe.” Johnny greets me, pulling me in for a hug and a kiss before handing me the flowers.

“Hi honey, wow they are gorgeous, thank you so much.” I say, smiling and smelling the flowers. They are a mixture of red and white roses, all neatly bunched to look like a blossoming flower. The time and effort taken to create this bunch of flowers makes my heart swell up with love for Johnny.

“You are worth these and much more. Now, come in and go get changed. I have plans for this evening.” Johnny then takes the bunch from me and ushers me upstairs while he heads into the kitchen.

I walk upstairs and head into our bedroom. When I open the door I find on the bed a beautiful black strapless dress, covered in sequins creating a beautiful pattern. The sequins cover the bust area and then fade down to the hem, giving the illusion of falling snow on the dress.

I quickly shower and then put the dress on, the dress fits me perfectly and enhances my bust and hips.

I walk downstairs and find that Johnny has already changed into a suit and is waiting for me. I quickly put my heels on and take his outstretched hand.

“You look breathtaking babe. I am going to have to keep the males off you.”

I smile. “You look so handsome honey, like a movie star. How’d I get so lucky?”

“No idea.” Johnny says laughing. We head out to the car, smiling and chatting or singing along to the radio all the way to the restaurant.

Johnny pulls up outside a riverside restaurant. The restaurant is designed to look like a ship, allowing the parking lot to look like the water in the reflection of the lights outlining the place. The Sinking Ship Restaurant sign is adorned with lights and a life buoy design.

Johnny opens my door and extends his hand for me to take. I take it and get out of the car. We walk to the entrance, hand in hand. When we get to the door, Johnny opens the door before the waiter has time to move.

“Good evening sir and miss, do you have a reservation?”

“Good evening. We do, it should be under the name of Johnny Thunder.”

I look at Johnny questioningly. “Used a mix of my name and the pack name” Johnny whispers in my ear.

The waiter leads us to a secluded part of the restaurant, where the table is set for two and rose petals adorn the table and floor. Candles are the only form of lighting around the room, creating a sweet and romantic feel.

“Please take a seat, your server will be with you shortly.”

We sit down and look at the menu. Just as we are about to make small talk while waiting for the server, we hear a commotion outside. There are raised voices and muffled screams, it sounds like someone is causing a big disturbance.

Before either of us can move to investigate, the door to the room is thrown open and in walks three men.

“It is you! Hello miss, you’re coming with us.” Says a voice I have never heard before. Then all of a sudden, before anyone can react I am pulled out of my chair and into the arms of a man who is so tall that I literally crane my neck just to see him.

The man passes me to two other men, all of them are dressed in black suits with white shirts and they all look like body builders. I try to free myself and get back to Johnny but I am unable to move.

“Unhand her, now!” Johnny orders, standing up and causing his chair to tip over.

“No can do. The b***h is coming with us!”

“How dare you! You will not treat or degrade my fiancé that way.”

My hands would fly to my mouth at this point, if they weren’t being held to the sides of me by the two men. He called me his fiancé. I smile a bit, now I know what he was planning.

A sad look crosses his face as he realizes that he let slip the big surprise. But I do not mind, I think it is sweet that he did all of this for me.

Before I can respond to him calling me his fiancé, I am dragged out of the room. But I refuse to go quietly. As the door shuts, blocking my view from Johnny, I kick, scream, scratch and bite at the two men to try to get them to release me.

Once we are outside, the men change positions, one grabs my arms and pins them behind my back with one hand while the other grabs my ankles and lift me up and carry me between them.

I try to scream and get attention but the one holding my wrists quickly slaps his free hand over my mouth.

I keep struggling but we are getting closer and closer to a van, guessing it is theirs as it is what they are making a b-line for. Then I hear the sounds of feet stomping on the ground, followed by a howl and wolves running into the parking lot from all directions.

I watch as warriors descend on the car park, they are clearly on a mission. At first I panic, thinking that they are here on the orders of my father, but then I notice some of them as our pack members.

Relief floods through my system, Johnny must have called for backup while one of them kept him busy in the restaurant as the others absconded with me.

I am thrown to the ground, my back makes contact and I scream in pain. I can tell the one who threw me to the ground meant to cause harm. I want to crawl away to safety but the pain in my back stops me from moving at the moment.

I should have learned to defend myself better, even though I am able to stand my ground, being taken by surprise and by men built like tanks, my hits did not even make contact.

When I am finally able to move and I try to crawl away, however just as I get onto my hands and knees a searing pain goes through my head as I am pulled up and a knife is put to my throat.

“Anyone moves and I slit this b***h’s throat!”

All movement around us stops. The two men who dragged me out of the restaurant are conscious but only just, with a few warriors each taking turns kicking and hitting them. They stop once they notice the knife at my throat.

“Move to the van b***h, daddy dearest wants to talk to you.”

I gulp.

“What the hell does he want?”

“Don’t know, don’t care but he will pay a lot for you and you are coming with me.” The man starts to pull me towards the van again. I dig my heels into the ground and try to get grip to stop him.

He picks me up and throws me over his shoulder. It is then that I notice one of the warriors sneaking up behind the man slowly. He motions for me to not raise attention to him. I keep kicking and screaming, trying to get him to let me go.

When one of the pack warriors tackles the man to the ground, I manage to break free in their struggle. Once I am free I roll away before standing back up. It is then that I see Johnny coming running out of the front door, panic written all over his face. Relief sweeps across his face when he sees me standing there.

I run to Johnny, falling into his arms crying. My worst nightmare has come true, my father has finally found me. I always prided myself on my strength and courage but just the thought of being dragged back to my father scares the hell out of me.

I would rather deal with Mark again than my father. He was the one who upended my life and sold me to Mark simply for protection. And now that he will find out I am back I am sure that he will keep trying to get to me until he gets hold of me. What he will do then I don’t know, the best I can hope for is that he would give me back to Mark. That would be easy. But knowing my dad, I am sure he has something special planned for me.

Finally the sounds of fighting stops, I look around and see the three men out cold on the ground. The fact that it took ten warriors to take them down is alarming. What are these men made of?

“Don’t worry babe, I will not let anyone get to you. I will always find you and be here for you.” Johnny pulls me to him while guiding my back to the car. I notice that some of our warriors are surrounding the car and keeping a close eye on me.

We enter the car and just sit there for a few minutes.

“Val, I know you’re not going to like this but I want you to have guards with you at all times. What has happened here tonight should never have occurred, had I been smart enough to have guards with us then this wouldn’t have happened as they would not have gotten within feet of you. So from now on you are to have guards with you at all times, even on our territory. Ok?” Johnny looks at me, ready for a fight with me about the guards.

I take Johnny by surprise. “I agree, I think it is for the best. I will have the guards Johnny, as long as they are OK with it also.”

Johnny sits there speechless, mouth open and no words coming out. Then he places his hand to my forehead, I give him a questioning look.

“Are you ok babe? No fight? No argument? Just agreement?”

“If tonight has taught me anything, it is that I am not able to protect myself and if I am taken then I am putting the pack and you at risk. And I don’t want that.”

“You will be safe, I promise. I will always find you babe. The guards will be assigned to you tomorrow evening, so no going anywhere on your own tomorrow, you understand?”

“But the court case…” Johnny shushes me.

“I will clear my schedule or send my beta instead. Either way I am going to be with you tomorrow.” Johnny gives me a stern look, leaving no room for arguments, not that I would anyway.

Johnny turns and starts the car, pulling out of the car park and heading home. The warriors run alongside our car, easily keeping up with the speed and the turns in the road. All of them attentive and make sure that we get home safely.