I look to Manuel who is just gazing at me, which I can’t help but smile at. I seem to have been blessed with the sweetest guy for a mate I truly do. I should probably look to get up and look after him, I don’t want to fail him as a mate on the first day together, or else I’d be heading straight back to my pack before I’d even moved away. I want to make sure I am a good mate, I need to make sure I am doing all the things I need to do as a mate, running the home, making sure Manuel has everything he needs at home…. We had all this drummed into us growing up. I need to make sure I do not fail. I do not want to lose him. He is just the sweetest guy, so I am not sure he would even tell me if I wasn’t doing something right either. That’s the difficult thing. I should maybe address that with him, make him give me a rota of jobs he needs me to do, like my Mami has. That way, I make sure everything is done, plus I need to make sure I do everything he wants in the bedroom too, or els
I stand looking at Lola, worried by what she has just said to me. It sounds like their pack has truly messed with her head. I thought my issues were over when she had let me mark her, but it seems I am going to have to help her reprogramme her way of thinking. I do not want her thinking she has to answer to me. I do not like that idea at all. My Mami never answered to my Dad, haha I’d like to have seen him make her try! They were equals, and that is how a couple should be, isn’t it? I hope the way I explained the relationship between Dan and Indie and Lilah and Knox will have helped Lola see we can be different to what she was expecting. We can be happy, we can be equal and work well. She should never feel she has to run around after me, bow down to me and try to please me. The thought of that actually hurts me. “What do you say, Carino? You think we can try?” I ask. “I don’t know if I am honest, Guapo. I need you to realise we were brought up as girls in pack to be tra
I watch Manuel walk to the door, wanting nothing more than to escape out of the back door of the house before he lets his parents in through the front door. I can’t believe he landed this on me! Though considering Esme's actions, that probably wouldn't reflect well right now.....dammit.... who ever came up with meeting the parents? Surely I could just avoid them the whole time? Go out each time they come over or stay home when he visits?...... anything to avoid the horrendous nerves inside of me right now.......... I think i feel sick....... I haven’t had chance to tidy his house, do the good mate thing and sort the house or anything….. they will think I am a terrible mate…… “Hola Manuel, you going to let us in son?” I hear a deep voice say. I assume his Dad. I really want to hide, though I am not going to get way with that now…. “Lola, come say hi, Carino” I hear Manuel’s voice now from the hallway. I walk through from the kitchen to meet him. He is stood with who I a
Hearing my new mate pretty much admit to the fact she has been mistreated in her previous pack has sent my emotions into overdrive, not to mention sending my wolf Rey crazy too. He is wanting to go to their pack now and rip them all apart for hurting his mate. I guess I am going to have to get used to this protective streak coming out more often now. It was already there for family and close friends, but it seemed even stronger for Lola. I seriously feel like I want to go and kill these bullies from her old pack, I am just glad that she allowed me to mark her and that she will be with me here from now on so I can ensure she is safe. Maybe we need to consider having her family move here too, I did faintly hear my Dad mention it to her when I was making the drinks, and that makes a lot of sense. The more things she mentions about her pack, the more I think it is an unsafe place to be, so perhaps it would be better for her family to get away from there. Though if Knox does r
We head to the packhouse. I love the buildings here. They are like ski chalets, with the pack being up in the forest and up toward the mountains, a lot of the buildings seem to have been built with a ski chalet-type style and they look gorgeous! The pack house looks like a large ski chalet type lodge hotel building at first glance. I can’t believe how lucky I am to call this my new pack! Our pack is run down and barely looked after. You can see how much this pack is cared for and looked after, and like I said, the buildings are just gorgeous. Plus, living up here means I would actually get to experience snow too! Being down near the southern border meant we didn’t get snow, but up here I would imagine they get plenty of snow in the winter, and I bet the pack looks stunning glistening with snow and ice……. “You ok beautiful? You look like you are off in a dream world” Manuel asks as we are walking. “Just wondering what the pack must be like when it snows” I explain. I see h
I had headed to the Beta office with the warriors. I had intended to let Jake deal with all this but I wanted to let him know what my Dad had said. It looked like Jake, Manny and Lola had already been there along with Gabe and Manny’s Dads in preparation for the meeting. I am sure they just want to get down to Crimson Night Pack and get this show on the road, deal with this situation so Manny and Lola can be together with no worries hanging over them. Because I imagine it must be lingering over their minds right now how this Alpha was going to accept that they had marked and mated one another without his permission. Not only that, but they were also massively worried about Gabe and his well being, as they had seen how he was struggling with the situation he had found himself in. “Right, let's get this started” I say as I stand at the front of the room, which is now feeling very full with a couple of warrior teams, as well as the others that were already in here, and me a
Manuel takes my hand as we walk from the meeting. Everything seems like it is planned out. I assume Beta Jake and Alpha Knox have done all the behind the scenes planning, plus with the additional help of Knox’s Dad. It appears he had been aware of our pack from the past, which surprises me as our Alpha, the current one and the ones from the past always made sure our pack did not interact with other packs. Maybe that was an oversight on their part on that one occasion, as from the information they mentioned, it seemed they did not return to the inter-pack warrior training sessions in the following years. And that would make sense as there is too much risk involved and too many possibilities of awareness of issues within the pack being brought to light. Alpha would have seen that as too risky and put an end to that. Even if the additional warrior training could have benefited the warriors and the pack, it would have been counterproductive if it brought awareness of how poorly the
Hearing Lola say her Alpha likely had a mate lined up for her makes my blood boil. I do my best to hold in my temper. Most people would say I am chilled out and sweet, and yeah I guess I am, though, obviously, as a warrior I have a switch I can flick to turn myself into a fighting machine if needed. That is how we have been trained. Gabe is the same. But the thought of my mate being with another man makes me angry, like nothing else I have ever felt before. And the thought that an Alpha believes he has the right to have arranged this infuriates me. It is not normal, and it is not right. This prick needs punishing, and the sooner the better in my mind. Plus, the sooner the better I get my mate away from that place, in my opinion. I think we need to find a way to get Esme away from there too, because I hate the thought of my cousin’s fated mate being subjected to that if the werewolf council are not able to close the pack down. “Stubborn as always then” I hear Lola’s Dad s