Nine.

Jaxxon POV

If I don’t ever give credit to Olivia, she found the perfect time to step in and get rid of Tiffany.

Tiffany scrambles to get to her foot with her sleazy entourage of 3 other she wolves who tried to help her. Tiffany looks at me horrified and I looked away as she looked at Olivia. She turned and walked away bumping in to Amaly in the process. Pyro in my head ready to attack if she disrespects her, but to my surprise she doesn’t.

I could hear the faint conversation:

“Sorry Princess” she says.

“It’s ok, are you alright?” Amaly asked concerned.

“No. But I will be.” As she turns and heads down the steps.

“A*hem.” I hear someone clearing their throat. And looked up to see my own sister’s eyes throwing daggers at me. Then she points her eyes in the princess direction as if asking me to go to her.

As I started walking towards her..

“Alpha Jaxxon, I like to introduce you to my beautiful mate, the future Queen Luna, Nadia.” David proudly presents his mate. She was quite stunning and honestly looked like she can put her mate in check. No one’s beauty can beat Amaly’s though. I’ll admit it, my mate is a perfect site to see.

“It’s a honor to finally meet the woman who is my dear friends equal partner. Not sure how someone so beautiful can land a creature like that?” Pointing at my friend. She breaks out in laughter.

“Please. When it comes to me, this strong exterior persona he plays doesn’t exist.” She says patting her mate on the chest. The looked good together. We made small conversation. My main objective was to really find my mate.

I excused myself, and looked over the railing to see if I could just spot her. There she was, in the middle of the dance floor with her sisters. Gorgeous as she’s always been. She looks up at me to only look away again. ‘She know’ Pyro says, “Akira fight her”. Not sure what he means by that but the thought doesn’t sit well with me.

I see her bodyguard, Alex, who’s not far from her and her sisters. The look on his face made me question his intentions with my mate. What’s his problem? Her sister’s Sienna and Sierra are dancing away as my mate just watches them with a puzzled look.

“Go to her.” I turn to look at the person speaking, her twin brother.

“What?” Trying to act like I didn’t understand what he was saying.

“Jax, are you really going to play dumb with me? I can read you, and I can read your mind. Besides, I can proudly hear Pyro claiming my sister.” Looking at him in shocked. “You better start now before you loose her for good. There’s been a few alpha’s asking my father for her hand in marriage when word got out of her relationship ending. Of course father denies them all. I’m coming to you as a friend, go to her. She needs her mate.”

I looked into his eye and him being my best friend, i never told him the truth and he knew.

“How did you know or when did you? I asked.

“The night I became Alpha King. When the powers came to me. I was able to distinguish why you were so angry. And I understood it. No one can direct your heart bro. She’s yours and you need to claim her. It won’t be easy. After her relationship ended with Allen, her heart’s different. There’s a part of her that I can see that still has him there. But you,” he points at my chest, “are the one who is destined for her. I wouldn’t want any one else for her.”

As I looked around, I could see my Beta and Gamma both nodding to me as they heard the conversation. I nodded towards them and make my way.

It was now or never.

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Amaly’s POV

David has finally found his mate and I honestly couldn’t wait for her Luna Ceremony. Nadia was gorgeous. My brother can be a real brute. But the way Nadia deals with him, she has him wrapped around her fingers. She was a great addition to the family.

“Man, I don’t know what to wear tonight Sierra” Sienna says as she looks at herself in the mirror.

“Please dress cute and not like an embarrassment.” Sierra responds. I couldn’t help but laugh.

“Why are you so rude Sierra. You both are beautiful no matter what you wear.” I say looking at my sisters.

“Because dear sister, she’s dresses like a nerd with no sense of style. Here, let me help.”

“Uhh please don’t. I’ll look like someone from a whore house if I let you dress me” Sienna looks at me “can you help me?”

“Of course”

“Great. 2 embarrassments” Sierra says walking away. “I’ll go check on Nadia. I’m sure she has better taste in style.”

Shaking my head and ignoring Sierra. I highly doubt David would let Nadia walk out looking like a whore, especially being his mate. I think Nadia has class.

“Ok, what kind of style are you looking for? Or do you have a color preference?” Asking my little sister.

“Uhhh… hmm.. Let’s try red. I want to be sexy but modest as well. Show a little skin but not have my body flaunting like Sierra. Don’t get me wrong, she’s attractive but I’m not comfortable dressing like that.” Sienna says likes she’s embarrassed of herself.

“I’m not sure how you guys are twins but complete opposites. If you think she’s attractive then you are too. You twins for goddess sakes.” I laughed. “Ok, soooooo hmmmm.. I have a cute tube top dress. It’s a midi dress so not to short and not to long. And you’ll show your shoulders. Do you want to try it?” Asking her and hoping she says yes. And she nods.

“I’ll be right back.” I walk back into my room and straight into my closet and pulled the dress I knew would fit her figure. Walking back in, I hand it to her. And she looks at it and almost freaks out. I put my hands on both of her shoulders and tried to give her the big sister advice, “Sienna, your beautiful no matter what you wear. It’s ok to look sexy or slutty or even from a whore house. What matters is your confidence in yourself. Please go try the dress on and let me help you with your hair and make up.”

She goes in the bathroom and when she comes out, my goddess, my little sister looked a little bit of seductive devil.

“Damn Sienna” and we both turn to look to see Sierra at the doorway, and she whistles at her. “Boy aren’t you going to break hearts tonight.”

Sienna sits at her vanity while I start on her make up.

Alex and Jake with a few other warriors are in the foyer waiting for us. As we descend, I can pick up many heartbeats racing. I felt someone’s eyes on me and I knew it was Alex. I was right but the minute I caught his eyes, they soon directed to Sienna. I looked to her, and could see she was sporting a shy smile.

I think my sister has a crush.

On Alex.

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We’re outside the club looking for Olivia. It’s me, my two sisters and my future sister in law, Nadia. And the two suv loads of body guards.

Alex is still by my side as well as Jake. I’ve been keeping a little distance from Alex as to not lead him on. I see Sienna would stare blindly looking at him. She’s so innocent compared to her twin. She really had a crush on him. I caught a few glimpse when Alex would look at her, and she would blush shyly.

We see Olivia waving at us at a distance as she was in front of the entrance and is that Marcus behind her. Oh, they’re hold hands too. Hmm.

“Hey best friend. I miss you so much. You are looking to die for. All of y’all!” She’s looking at all four of us. She looks at Nadia and introduces herself.

Marcus looks at me, “Hi Princess. It’s good to finally see you.”

“Same. Did you come with your entourage?” Wondering if Jaxxon was here too. A part of me hoped since I haven’t seen him probably since my parents anniversary party. Which I’m still curious about what happened that night.

“Yes, they are all in the VIP section upstairs. Whenever you ladies are ready to go in, I’ll lead you to the VIP section reserved for everyone as your brother has rented out the whole area upstairs.” We all nod as he leads us inside with Olivia behind him. Oh, and look at that, they’re holding hands again. I better remember this moment to ask her later.

The clubs smells like sweat, alcohol & sex. Typical.

As we’re ascending the stairs, Akira becomes active and agitated. There’s an intoxicating scent of musk & cedarwood making Akira restless. ‘Mate is here. Find him’ she demands. “Oy, calm down please your giving me whiplash’

As we reach the top of the stairs, on the couch on the other end of the VIP area, sat the one and only, Alpha Jaxxon with the she wolf he was on and off with, Tiffany lip locking him. Akira growls in my head, but I could only short stop myself and as I became very tensed.

My mate was Alpha Jaxxon Taylor of the Midnight Shadow Pack. Olivia’s brother. ‘MATE!’ Akira huffs.

In the very next moment, I saw Olivia grabbing Tiffany and swinging her to the other side of the section. I don’t know what happened, but it happened so fast. Tiffany scrambled up, with her friends helping her and she made her way to the stairs. Stumbling and bumping into me.

“Sorry Princess” she says.

“It’s ok, are you alright?” I asked concerned knowing how brutal my best friend can be. She has become an experienced warrior during training. ‘Teach her a lesson for kissing mate’ ‘No Akira’.

“No. But I will be.” She turns to walk down the steps. I felt bad for her. But why did I feel bad for her kissing Jaxxon. I mean there were together or at least from what I thought.

And just thinking of him, I looked up to see his eyes boring into me. Stunned to see me. Was he shocked? It does not look like he was happy to see me.

‘Mate. Go LY go. Get me my mate’ ‘NO’ and I turned to descend the stairs as I grabbed my sisters to follow.

“Let’s go to the dance floor.” I tell both my sisters.

Alex gently grabs my arm “you ok princess?” He asked me softly. “yes, I just want to go downstairs” and he nods.

While Alex and the others follow us, I stopped in the middle of the dance floor. Trying to dance and get my mind off of him. The images of him flashing through my mind and it was all too much. I can feel eyes on me as I looked up. It was him.

Something in his eyes. I could still smell his intoxicating scent. Seeing my brother talking to him, I looked for Alex to only see him starring at Jaxxon with a look I couldn’t describe.

Fuck, I need a drink.

I tapped Alex on the arm, “I’m going to the bar to get a shot, I’ll be back in 5 mins.” Lies. I needed the whole bottle or two. He nods and follows but stays a few feet away from me.

Akira was being frantic and I had to block her out my mind. ‘Not now Akira’. I needed to think.

So many questions.

Does he?

Does he know?

Is that why he avoided me?

Did he want to reject me for Tiffany?

Why did he hate me so much?

Why did he stop talking to me?

Was he mad at me for Allen?

Allen?

Oiiiyyyy veyyy

I down 7 shots of tequila knowing it wouldn’t do much to us but maybe just let me down the whole bottle.

As I reached for the next shot, a hand brushed past me to grab the shot. The sparks that ignited between that touch. I looked up to see Jaxxon downing the shot for me.

Why was he so close. The way his adam’s apples bobbed up and down after he down the shot, sent shivers down to my core. His scent enveloping my space. The body heat radiating off of him.

He looks down at me and smiles. How? It’s been 2 years since I’ve had any contact with him.

“Hi Amaly.” He says my name so casually it radiates down my body to my core. Oh no. Stop.

‘Mate him! Mark him!’ Fuck Akira. I somehow let my block down and focused to block her again. I’m not doing this right now.

I get up to walk away, to have Jaxxon grab my hand and yanking me towards him. My head hitting his chest as he wraps his arms around me. One hand on the back of my head and the other on my back. The sparks traveling my body, through my arms, my legs, my back, to my toes, right down to my core. Him hugging me and sniffing me.

This felt way too good to be in his arms.

I finally get the energy to push him off. More like a power rush of anger and I take off.

I don’t know where I’m going, I just need to breathe.