Daughter of the Moon

Getting to know you part 2

I get up and stretch, lifting my arms above my head and curving my back slightly. Suddenly an arm is wrapped around my waist and a mouth is pressed against my lower stomach. I yelp and try to move away but Dominic has me in a tight hold. He presses his face against me and starts to nuzzle my lower stomach. I feel the muscles in my stomach quiver as well as some muscles farther south start to tighten. I give a full body shiver as my hands sink into his hair. Suddenly I come back to myself and my insecurities rush back into my mind and I tug on his hair and pull away. I take a few steps back before turning and going to my closet. I pull out one of my pullover sweatshirts when it is pulled from hands and strong hands spin me around.

                Dominic’s face is set in a snarl but almost instantly softens when he sees the tears in my eyes. He gently cups my face in his hands. “I’ve seen this look in your eyes before, when we were in the hallway at the school. What does it mean?” He asks firmly, letting me know that I won’t be able to back out of the questions but also gentle enough that I don’t feel intimidated. I swallow hard wondering how to talk about my insecurities without sounding weak or pathetic. I close my eyes and take a deep breathe remembering something my mother once said.

                “Little light, having a weakness doesn’t mean that you are weak. Always remember that a weakness is a chance to be stronger. There is always a way to learn more, get stronger or faster, to turn your weakness into a strength. It takes guts to be honest with yourself, and bravery to be honest with others, but to be honest with others about yourself is courage.”

                “I’m just struggling with some insecurities about myself. A lot of shifter women are a lot leaner and more athletically built than I am, not to mention that I’m also short in supernatural standards.  Then there’s you, looking like a Greek god, all tall, dark, and handsome. I guess that I have a fear that any attraction you might have for me is solely because of us being mates. I don’t know, maybe it doesn’t matter why you like me, or maybe there truly is no way of knowing and so I shouldn’t bother worrying about it.” I stopped myself knowing that I was right on the brink of going into a full-blown ramble.

                When I opened my eyes, because yes, I said all that with my eyes closed, I saw that Dominic was watching me with an expression that I couldn’t quite put my finger on. “You are my mate. Mine. Made perfect for me in EVERY way. Can I say that I would have been attracted to you without our mating?” He shrugs and I feel my heart drop a little. “The only thing I can say for certain is that I’ve been waiting and searching for you. You are my mate and not a single female will ever compare to you. To be honest I never really noticed other girls. I mean I will admit to not being a virgin but it has been a long time and even before it was never about what the other girls looked like or even really about them because that simply didn’t matter to me. They weren’t you. Now that I have you, I can’t even recall anything about them, I can only see you.”

                He paused and tugged me closer gently sliding his hands under my shirt and around my waist. “I know that I will forever regret that I didn’t wait for you. I will spend the rest of my life making that up to you. I think that mates are always overwhelmingly attractive to each other. I mean mates are literally made for each other, how could you ever not like someone who is perfect for you?”

                I think about what he says. While it was definitely not fun hearing that he had past partners, I do understand that he was trying to use that as an example to help me understand. I also can’t help but be a bit hurt that he didn’t wait for me. In the supernatural word most younger people wait for their mate before having s*x. It isn’t until supernaturals are around 100 where it is more socially acceptable to have s*x if you haven’t found your mate yet. I know that is a long time to humans but since supernaturals all have lifespans ranging from 500 to thousands of years that’s not long in the supernatural world.

                I wrap my arms around his waist and lean my head against his chest. He wraps his arms around me just as tight. Neither of us say anything for a few moments, we just enjoy the moment. Or at least we try to when suddenly there’s a banging on my door “Come on kids, it’s story time!” Anthon’s loud boisterous voice yells through the door. I roll my eyes before stepping back and turning towards my closet. I pull out a cream-colored cowl neck sweater and a pair of dark army green leggings. I take a few steps to go to my bathroom to change when Dom grabs my arm.

                “Please change here where I can see you. I need to know that you believe me and feel comfortable with me.” When I give a slightly timid nod, he gently tugs my clothes from my hands to hold them for me while I get undressed to make sure I don’t chicken out.

                I pull off my pants before folding them and placing them on the shelf that has the clothes that I can wear again before washing them. I then pull of my shirt before grabbing a hanger, keeping my head tilted down letting my curls cover my face. I hang my shirt up and I become even more aware of the fact that I’m standing in front of my gorgeous mate in a nude colored lace bra and dark red silk panties.

                I hear Dom groan and I feel a burst of courage that causes me to lift my head and look up at him. He is staring at my body with barely contained lust. I peak down and see that he is extremely excited, and quite big. I lick my lips before looking back up and seeing Dom staring at my mouth. I blush realizing that he totally caught me checking out his package and then licking my lips afterwards.

Feeling boldened by his genuine and strong reaction to me I step forward until I’m pressed against him. I feel his hands settle on my hips before slowly trailing up until his thumbs were brushing against the undersides of my breasts. He looked into my eyes taking in my heavier breathing and heavy-lidded eyes before lowering his head and pressing kisses to my neck and down to my chest then moving to the tops of my breasts. He moved his hands closer together, so my breasts were pressed against each other allowing him more ease to kiss back and forth across each of my breasts. He lowers his head even more and presses a kiss to my hard n*****s which can be clearly seen through my bra. Then he opens his mouth and lightly sucks on my n****e through my bra.

I moan loudly as I rake my fingers through his hair. Just as he growls and pushes one of his giant man thighs between my legs there’s a pounding on the door. He lets a loud roar followed by a very impressive snarl. I let out a squeak before grabbed my clothes and quickly pulling them on. I race forward to grab Dominic’s arm as he pulls open my door, breaking the lock, I grab onto him just as he pulls back his arm to hit Anthon. I slip under his arm and with a little jump I wrap my arms around his neck and pull his head down for a kiss. Totally forgetting about his rage, he wraps those strong arms around me once again and kisses me back.

I hear vaguely register hearing Anthon scurry downstairs so I pull back and take a much needed breath before letting my head drop back down against his shoulder while I work to get my breath back under control from the kiss. Dom leans back and looks at me before giving another, quitter, snarl at finding me completely dressed again. I laugh before letting go of his neck and sliding down his impressive body.

“Come on Esperon, let’s go downstairs. You deserve to know what you’re getting yourself into.” I take his hand and pull him so he’s following me, though really, he just chooses to follow me since I wasn’t using enough force to actually physically pull him.

“Esperon?” Dom questions as we start down the stairs.

“It means love of my soul in my mother’s people’s language. It is similar to Latin.” I explain I knew he was going to ask about my mother’s people so once we got to the bottom of the stairs I turned to him “You’ll understand after we tell you about ourselves.”

Dom nods though I could tell he was getting a bit warry of what kind of background we had that was so secretive. I give him a reassuring smile and lead him into the family room. I see Aria and Lucas cuddled up together on a loveseat and I give them a smile and wave. I then guide Dom over to where Gwen and Anthon are standing. The introductions don’t go as bad as I feared though Dom does growl at Anthon which caused Gwen to laugh loudly giving him the ‘I-told-you-so’ look.

I then guide Dom over the chaise part of the sectional and after he is settled, I sit and curl into his side. He then brings his arm around my shoulders having grabbed a blanket from the back of the sofa and placing it over my lap. I have no idea how he knew my feet were freezing but I loved him all the more for it.

I took a breath before looking between Aria and Anthon. “Where do we start?” As always whenever we have to tell our story I always get overwhelmed with where to start. So far, we have only had to tell our story to seven people. Gwen and then three alpha pairs who we created alliances and friendships with. Now with finding our mates we will eventually have to tell their pack and the news would then spread throughout the supernatural community.

“As someone who got hit with this story may I suggest starting with Aria and Anthon then letting that lead into your story.” Gwen said as she gave me a reassuring and encouraging smile.

Anthon cracked his knuckles and then rolled his head from side to side as if he were a boxer getting ready for a fight. I rolled my eyes and braced myself for whatever ineloquent statement was about to pop out of his mouth. “Aria and I are part God and we are the immortal guardians to Silver.”

I shake my head as I let out a sigh. I’d like to say that Anthon usually has more tact than that, but he honestly doesn’t. Feeling Dom’s shock, I squeeze his hand and look over at Aria hoping she could smooth this over because I was still trying to figure how I was going to put my part of the story together.

“Anthon you suck,” Aria stated as she wraps an arm around Lucas’s waist “Ok so basically our Grandfather on our father’s side is the God of the sun and he raised us in the immortal realm when were ten and our father and mother’s pride was killed along with my father’s family. Our Mother’s pride kicked her out since they didn’t agree with her mating. Yes, we are her guardians, but we are also her best friends s***h adopted siblings.”

Ok so Aria’s explanation was only a tad more tactful than her brothers, but only because she added more detail. Or maybe it’s because they both tried to not say anything about my part of the story. “Why do you need two guardians’ mate?” Dom asked his tenseness apparent in his voice. I stroked my hand over his tight stomach trying to calm him, but it didn’t seem to make a difference.

“I need two guardians because I am or at least I was a demi-goddess. My story isn’t all to dissimilar from Anthon and Aria’s. My mother was a Goddess who mated and fell in love with my father, an alpha wolf shifter, he was in an arranged mating but he broke it off and even left his pack to live with my mother.” I also explain about my mother being snapped back to the immortal realm and how my father was murdered. Dom was quiet through all of it, but he rubbed my back giving me silent support when I had to talk about my father’s death. “Everything was fine for the first year or two but after that…” I trail off as I try to think of how to explain it.

“Wait, you never said what your mother is Goddess of” Lucas says. That’s the first time I’ve heard him speak; he seems to have a slight accent but not one I could place.

I smirk a tiny bit as I sit back to watch Dominic while I deliver the news. “My mother is the Moon Goddess.”

Dominic stares at me not doing or saying anything. “The Moon Goddess as in creator of the supernatural world and mate giver?” Dom asks quietly while continuing to stare at me with a blank look.

I decide that he doesn’t seem wowed enough, so I pull out one of my party tricks. I stand and step into the middle of the room then I let my power flow through me. I feel my feet leave the floor as I levitate then a breeze that only seems to affect me starts blowing lifting my hair causing my inky black gypsy curls to float round me then a silvery light starts coming off my body simmering and fluorescing similar to a moonstone. Then to complete the effect I let my clothes shift to the traditional clothing of the Gods and Goddess. A long flowy navy-blue chiffon dress appeared on me with silvery diamonds placed randomly on the fabric and a tiara on my head with a large moonstone in the center flanked by diamonds and opals. I had silver arm cuffs on that had our family crest engraved in them that pulled matched the silver I’m sure my eyes were shining.

I watched Dominic stand up with a look of awe on his face. He reached forward and gently cupped my cheek as if he was scared I was going to disappear. I slowly started reigning my power back in feeling my feet touch the floor before my hair fell back around my shoulders and my clothes returned to their original state. I smiled up at Dominic who still had a look of awe on his but now it was mixed with love. He kept one hand on my cheek then used the other on my butt to help lift me up to his lips. I don’t know how long we kissed before I pulled back.

I gave him and amused smile which caused him to arch a brow at me in question. “This is the first time I’m looking down at you.” He had lifted me up so that my head was just a bit above his. He gave me a lopsided grin before lowering me some and tucking my head under his chin and cuddling me against his chest. I took a peek around.

“It seems we have been deserted.” I whispered. I felt him laugh as he pulled back to look at me.

“You are by far the most amazing creature I have ever beheld milady.” He placed me down then gave an exaggerated bow.

I giggled and curtsied back, much more elegantly than his bow if I do say so myself, “Why thank thankyou kind sir.” I paused and sniffed the air. “I think they are getting dinner served.” I barely got the words out before Dominic was pulling me through the house to the dinning room table.

Apparently we had been kissing for a while because the large roast had been put into a large serving dish, The rolls had been warmed and placed on the table which was set for all six of us. I sat down next to Dom who was sitting at the head of the table. He patted the seat next to him, the way the table was made was that it was wide enough that two people could sit at the ends of the table then two on each side.

I sat next to Dom and he surprised me by serving me a generous portion first before letting Lucas and Anthon serve their mates. Then it was a free for all as the boy’s borderline fought each other for food. I wasn’t as surprised by them fighting each other for food but serving one’s mate was a custom I thought was long lost in the mortal realm. If someone didn’t know the meaning behind it they might assume it was a male controlling thing but actually it was a custom that was often used to appease the males wolf spirits whom enjoyed the practice of showing off that their mate was well taken care of.

“We don’t do it for every meal, mainly dinner and any formal meals.” Dom said with a shrug his shoulder obviously having caught me gaping at him. I smiled and leaned in to press a kiss against his cheek.

There were minutes of silence as we all satisfied our immediate hunger after our eating had slowed, I decided to ask Dom some questions about him. “So what pack are you from?”

“Dominic is alpha of the New Haven pack and I am one of his betas.” Lucas filled in since my mate had his mouthful.

I smiled at Lucas in thanks then waited for Dom to swallow. “Can you tell me some about your pack?”

He wiped his mouth off then turned in his chair to face me. “Our pack is the largest in the region with over a hundred and fifty members. I also happen to be the regional alpha for the northeast,” he blushed a little when he said that which was adorable “my parents were the regional alphas before me. I have three betas two of which are now beta pairs.” He nodded his head toward Lucas obviously meaning that Lucas was now one of the mated beta pairs. “I also have four gammas only one of whom is a pair.”

Despite what most people think shifter packs had a proportioned number of betas for the size of their pack. Honestly for a pack the size of Dom’s I would have expected more betas. Betas were essential for taking care of smaller issues and filtering what issues were most important and needed the alpha’s attention. This not only made sure that the individual pack members problems got solved in a timely and efficient manner but it also prevented the alpha from getting burned out due to managing that many pack members and all the pack businesses.

The gammas were the ones that went out and checked up on all the pack members and businesses. They made sure that rules were followed, and no pack members were being mistreated and weren’t able to come forward. They also made sure all the businesses were in good condition and working well.

“We have a few thousand square acers of forest about forty-five minutes from here, which you will all be moving to, we have a refurbished mountain resort that we turned into the pack house. We also have some non-shifter supernaturals that our part of our pack.” Lucas added since Dom went back to eating. I shook my head at him but let us finish eating knowing that his attention was limited when food was in front of him.

After we were done eating, I cleaned using my magic before we went back to the family room. Ari and Lucas were back on the loveseat with Anthon and Gwen sitting across from them, but this time Dom sat in the large oversized leather chair before pulling me into his lap. “Finish your story mate, what happened after your first couple of years there?” Now that Dom’s stomach was full his attention was fully back on me and he was once again a bit tense.

“We aren’t sure exactly why but so far our best theory is that because I had Goddess blood the magic of the immortal realm didn’t register my developing wolf and so it started filling what it perceived as an emptiness. My power would have pretty minor flare ups, but we didn’t recognize that as a warning of bigger issues that were yet to come. It wasn’t until I was eight and we realized the flare ups were getting bigger and more frequent that we also realized I hadn’t shifted at all, which as you know should have happened around five. As I got older and lots of tests and research was done to find out why this was happening it became too late to stop my body from allowing the absorption of magic.

The flare ups became violent and destructive. Not only to the environment and people around me but also to myself. You see my body just wasn’t equipped to handle that much power. My mother sent us here to try and halt the addition of more power.”

“Why?” Dominic asks gruffly he was now even tenser than he was before we ate. I could see that Fenrir was pushing forward too. “What could happen to you if it doesn’t work?”

I swallowed hard preparing myself for the freak out that was about to happen. “I’d die. If this doesn’t work, then the magic will continue to build up to the point that it will become too much for my body to handle and eventually I will die in a magic overload…”