Chapter 11
Romeo
The packhouse dining room is unusually full today. Most either eat at their homes or come in sporadically to eat the buffet-style meals. Cj must have called an all-pack dinner that I didn’t know about. I was sitting at a table with a couple of my friends from patrol. I stopped sitting with my family because they kept pressuring me to go find my fated mate. I didn’t want my fated mate. I wanted Cj, after that one night more than a year ago, I couldn’t get her out of my mind. Her little moans as I licked and sucked on her c.lit, the way the carpet matched the drapes set against a mouth-watering caramel background. Just thinking about it had me hard as a f.ucking rock. She was a one-of-a-kind woman and meant to be mine no matter what my family or the damn moon goddess said. How else was I to surpass my father and gain recognition as the alpha of the largest mixed species pack there is. I am meant to be more than just a warrior. I would’ve been the alpha of our sleuth if it was just us bears. But when my dad settled into the area and pledged allegiance to Cj’s dad, we became a part of the pack. Thus, ending my father’s time as alpha, he is now just an advisor. The dining room was abuzz because there was to be an announcement made, so the omegas haven’t put out any food until Cj arrives. The dining room slightly quiets as two huge males enter. Neither of them are pack members but they instantly grab the attention of all the single woman in the room. The blonde seems to enjoy being in the spotlight while the dark-skinned one seems to be looking for someone. I watch as my father gets up to greet the two visitors and walks them over to the alpha table. They all sit down and my father motions for my mother to join him. I turn my attention back to the guys at my table enjoying the small talk before the buzz in the dining room goes silent. Cj and her crew just entered the room. It’s always a sight to see. Four of the most gorgeous women in the pack, even if that four includes my twin. As always, my eyes go directly to Cj. She’s dressed up today in business casual clothes. I like it. So much more professional than her usual of a tee and jeans. When I take over as alpha, I’ll make sure she’s dressed like this more often. More appropriately for her position as Luna. As she makes her way to the alpha table, I noticed how the dark-skinned visitor seems to sit up straighter. I notice how they make eye contact and I swear they’re mentally undressing each other. What the f**k is going on, Cj never gives someone that type of attention. Not even when she was on her f***k’em and leave’em phase, she always kept her thoughts and emotions on a short leash. But looking at her look at this male with obvious lust in her eyes has me pissed the f**k off. I get up from my seat about to join my father, mother and now sister at the alpha table to get a better feel for the situation when suddenly, the blonde jumps up. His chair falls to the ground in a loud thud and he growls out mate. I look on as my sister stands deathly still, her delicate hand covering her heart as she whispers mate in return. I am standing there in shock as he walks around the table grabbing my sister’s hand, placing a kiss on it before he introduces himself to her. My father is doing nothing, and by the look on his face he is happy about the situation. My mother is silently crying tears of joy as the rest of the girls are all smiling at the happy couple. I shake myself out of my stupor and head towards the table, taking a seat to the right side of my mother. Blondie escorts my sister to where he was sitting placing her in the chair beside him. His buddy had already moved to the seat to the left of Cj. The Lunas seat if Cj were a male alpha. While Nola took her usual seat to the right of Cj. I noticed when the girls sat down but didn’t notice that Martha and Tony had joined the table as well. Cj looked around the table, her smile seeming to dim slightly when she noticed me sitting by my mom. She then stood up to address the room.
“Well, it seems I have more than one announcement to make tonight” a chorus of laughter rang out in the dining room. “As you might have noticed we have two visitors to the pack Mr. Bishop Monroe head IT specialist for Monroe inc. here to update our security systems to help us better protect the pack and businesses.” Ah so that was the dude’s name. He was just a visiting business partner; good I can just let him know he can f***k whomever he wants but Cj is off limits. “And his associate Thomas Drummond who by the looks of it is our very own Juliet Vonn’s fated mate. Let’s all wish the happy couple a blessed and long union.”
There was a chorus of claps and congratulations as the omegas began setting out the various burritos, tacos, chips salsa and dip. I got up to go get myself a plate of food and hurried back to the table. Cj was explaining the different types of burritos and tacos we had and what each consisted of. It seems dude was hanging on her every word. I mean yeah, she is gorgeous, but damn dude she’s just talking about f.ucking burritos. They seemed to be in their own little world not paying attention to anyone or anything. I can literally see the s****l tension between them every time their hands brushed against each other. If I didn’t know any better, I would say they were mates. My sister, on the other hand was showing her mate the right way to pick up and eat his burritos. By the looks of it, they wanted to hurry up and leave the dining room, probably to go ahead and get to mating and marking.
“So, Thomas” my dad says, “where are you from, what do you do?” what are your plans for my little girl.” “Dad” my sister whines. But the blond just smiles and starts to answer my dad. “Well sir, I am the beta to Blackwood bear sleuth in northern Vermont just outside the Canadian border. Like Bishop here, I work in IT I am a website designer and programmer. I work remotely and usually contract myself out to companies to work around my pack duties. As for my plans for your daughter, well I plan to love and treasure her for the rest of my life. We can either stay here or we can go back to Blackwood to stay. Even though I am the beta I am not tied to Blackwood and can easily live here with my mate with my current alpha’s approval. So, if you’re worried that I could take her away, please don’t be. If she wants, I am very willing to stay here or anywhere else that she wants to stay. She is my world and where she goes, I will gladly follow.”
The look of unadulterated love my sister has on her face right now as her mate is talking to my dad is almost sickening. “That’s good to hear son. Well welcome to the family.” my dad said before going back to eat his huge plate of food. For the rest of the time, I tried to ear hustle what was being said between ole boy and Cj. All they seemed to talk about is pack business and blondie and my sister, nothing flirty at all. But I just can’t shake the feeling something is going on between them. When dinner was over, my sister and blondie excused themselves hurriedly while everyone just laughed at their antics. I went to stand just as Cj did, wanting to offer to walk her home. She wouldn’t deny my offer in front of so many people, it would be rude. But before I could, she turned towards ole boy and asked him to take a walk with her. Like what the f***k! What is really going on? I am seething as I watched them leave the dining hall. I glance towards Nola, and she’s laughing with a s.hit-eating grin on her face. I just turned and stormed off towards my rooms in the warrior barracks.
Juliet
I love being in college, but at times like this, I really miss my girls. When Nola mind linked me that Cj had an emergency and needed all hands-on deck. I practically ran out of my parents’ house over to hers. I will always be there Cj she’s like the best big sister anyone could ask for they all are really. So here I am sitting on her couch in disbelief that she had found her second chance mate. Like wow just wow out of the 4 of us, she’s the only one to find a first damn mate, let alone a second. I’m not jealous or anything, but seriously I’m dying over here. I spent my whole life trying to be a good girl and waiting for the one. But after what happened to Cj, once I got away from my overbearing father and brother. I took a page out of CJ book and popped that cherry with the quickness. My random hooks up aren’t anything to write to the girls about and leave me rather unfulfilled to be honest. I just want what my dad and mom have that endless love. But how do I get that when every bear, wolf or witch within a 100-mile radius has been threatened within an inch of their life by the males in my family. So, when Nola mentioned that Cj’s mate had brought with him an attractive male bear, I was all ears. It seemed like she was calling dibs on him, but the thing about Nola is she is never serious about anyone. I think out of all of us she’s had the least s****l partners, no matter how she acts. s*x kitten is just her natural persona. She knows she makes males weak in the knees and so she makes it her life’s mission to fracture and crumble their fragile egos.’ All I know is whomever gets mated to that girl better have some serious big d.ick energy by the truck loads. The topic goes from Cj’s apparently fine as f***k mate and his equally fine as f***k friend to our nonexistent s*x lives in a matter of minutes. What can I say, boy’s locker room talk has nothing on us. Before we know it, it’s time to go to the pack house for dinner. Cj is just a bundle of nerves, The closer we get to the packhouse. I have never seen her like this, she’s usually the more confident and stoic of us. Her and glory takes the brooding motif to an all-time high. We walked into the dining hall grabbing the attention of everyone there. I spot my brother on the far side of the room. As I glance at the alpha table, I have to say Nola wasn’t wrong. I am looking at two extremely attractive males. I don’t give the darker of the two a second glance, knowing that he is Cj mate and well I like my face exactly the way it is. Thank you very much. But his friend is f.ucking delectable just like Nola described. We might just have to play rock paper scissors for him. He was talking to Hershey yup that’s what I am nicknaming Cj’s mate. When a slight wind blows into the room. Mystic my bear went crazy honeysuckle that’s all I can make out the sweet smell of honeysuckle. That’s when he looked up. Oh, my f.ucking god he’s my mate. I couldn’t move or really comprehend what was going on. This Adonis of a man was my mate. He walked up to me taking my hand and the tingles, the f.ucking tingles. His smell, his height I just know everyone in the room including my damn parents, smelt my arousal. I just wanted to pull him out of the packhouse and find a nice dark corner to do all the bad things to him. As I looked into his eyes, Nola said they were light blue but that didn’t even cover it. They are a light Caribbean sea blue that sucks your soul into their never-ending abyss. “Umm hello” “hey beautiful what is your name” “Juliet Vonn and yours” “I’m Thomas Drummond mate” His voice was music to my ears. It did things to my core that not even my battery-operated boyfriend did. Urgh, I needed to pull my s.hit together, this is embarrassing. Thomas guided me to sit next to him. Which inadvertently made Hershey have to sit in the Lunas seat. I chuckled at that and caught Nola’s smirk at it too. As we sat down, I was officially introduced to Cj mate Bishop still going to call him Hershey just not to his face. As Cj made the announcements, I couldn’t stop glancing at or touching Thomas. I am addicted to this man, and I haven’t even ridden his magic stick yet. Goddess help me I am a goner. Once that was over, we were able to grab our food and sit and eat. It was comical watching Thomas try to eat his burrito without all the food falling out of it. I had to help the poor man out by showing him the proper way to hold a burrito also which chili’s went best with what he had chosen. My high almost crashed when my dad started in with his questions. Especially when he asked where Thomas was from. I didn’t want to leave Desert moon and just be in a sleuth. This way of life is all I have ever known. I don’t think I could function properly being around just bears all the time. But then Thomas started on about being where I am and living here with me. That I was his life, and he would follow me wherever I wanted to be. I swear I almost swooned right then and there. Heart in eyes and everything. This damn meal was taking way too f.ucking long to be over, I thought to myself. About an hour later, the meal was slowly dying down and everyone was just chatting away. I looked toward Cj; she was distracted by her mate and their conversation. My dad, Tony, mom and Martha were talking while my brother seemed to be solely focused on what Cj was doing. Nola kept giving me sly looks. while every so often Rainbow would wiggle her eyebrows asking what I am going to do with all my batteries now. Those damn women even had the nerve to mind link me singing bow chica wow wow. I couldn’t take it any more, so I stood up, taking Thomas’ hand in mine and excused ourselves from the table. I turned beet red from the laughter that followed us out the hall. I was so focused on getting away from my friends and family and getting some alone time with my mate. I totally spaced that I still lived with my parents. I stopped just in front of the packhouse door. “ummm Thomas” “Yes love” he replied with a huge grin on his face. “I still live with my parents” “Well, if you’d like we can go up to my guest room here in the packhouse”, he offered. The relief that flooded me was visceral. I spun around, still holding his hand, and made my way towards the stairs to the upper floors. I know all the guest rooms are on the second floor, it’s just figuring out which one is his. Once we arrived on the 2nd floor, I stopped again, not knowing which direction to take. He took over, leading me to his room. Once inside his room, the smell of honeysuckle was clinging to everything, and I couldn’t hide the smell of my arousal from him. He looked me directly in my eyes as he closed the door, locking us in his room. Damn, I am so ready for this.