Unexpected

Killian

Walking in hearing my mate say she wouldn't be claiming me or letting me claim her pisses my wolf the fuck off big time. I reel him in by reminding him that she's been hurt recently, and probably just scared.

I step into the room further and watch my wolves look back and forth nervously. She backs up keeping her eyes on me warily like I might hurt her.

“I'm not going to hurt you, you can relax.” I continue to watch her pull back.

“That remains to be seen.” I have to smile at her snark.

“Fair enough. Your introduction into our world has been extremely violent so I can understand your reluctance. However, mates are special, and refusing yours isn't really done, ever.”

“Well, there's a first time for everything. I was already forced into this shit, I'll be fucking damned before I'm forced into anything more.” She just kept watching me.

I started to realize this was more than just this whole situation. This seemed far more ingrained behavior than that. So, I was going to have to figure out how to fix this. I wouldn't be walking away from my mate, or letting her walk away from me.

“So, what would you like to do? I heard you tell them there's no one to notify. Do you have a house you need to return to, or should we notify an employer for you?” I watched her flinch at my question.

“No, I'm sure I've been evicted for non-payment of rent and lost my job after more than 2 months.” I saw her grit her teeth and her eyes flashed a darker shiny blue for a second. That was very interesting. As human her eyes were a light, almost sky blue, but her wolf was a deep almost violet blue, and had that animal shine to it, I would have to watch for that subtle shift.

My wolf surged forward wanting to be close to his mate, and I saw her wolf respond to Siril, and I had to grin at that, as she didn’t seem all that happy at them wanting to be close to each other. I heard her sigh, “They will want to be close to one another as mates, it’s a whole biological thing with them. Mates are a huge thing in our world, we wait for them, we dream of them, they are the only ones we can truly be happy with, so mates are a blessing to us.”

She rubbed her hands on her face, “Well, I have issues with being told I have to do shit. I had enough of that, so, I’m not overly likely to just fall in line because someone tells me I have to, even if that is the someone currently occupying my brain.”

I nodded, so I was right, this was a bigger issue than her forced change, and I had a feeling she had been assaulted, which made my wolf feral, and I had a hard time keeping hold of him, but I reminded him most of the ones responsible were already dead. That helped to calm him some.

“How about this then. Since you currently have no home, or employer, you stay here with the Lakeside pack. You get to know us, and know me. You give your wolf the chance to be around other wolves who are good wolves, as wolves are pack creatures and need others to truly be happy. So, that way you can get more accustomed to things, and you and I can get to know one another. Would that be more acceptable?”

“Only for now. If I decide to go, you let me go.” Sirll almost pushed forward, but I thought hard, I would have to convince her cause I would not allow her to leave me. I felt terrible about my lie, but I nodded, and I saw her visibly relax. I also saw Nissa looking at me with wide eyes. To her credit though, she said nothing.

“Nissa, how about you take Alora up to her room, and help her get some clean clothes, get what she needs for a shower, and then take her to the kitchens for some food. That should help get your wolf more settled. Then we can talk about when you need to shift to allow her to run.” She looked at me wide eyed at that, then just followed Nissa out of the room.

“That girl has a whole heap of shit she already had piled on top of her before those bastards even laid a hand on her.” Dr. Martin stated as he watched them leave the room.

“Yeah, I gathered that as well. This will be a dance that’s for sure, but Seril will be able to reach out to her wolf, so that should help.” Dr. Martin side eyed me but remained silent.

I left and went in search of Paul and Marcus. They were both in the conference room going over all of the items we had confiscated from the dead men, and location. So I wanted to know what they might have found. They both turned and looked at me as I entered the room.

“She squared away, boss?” Marcus asked me, and I nodded.

“Nissa is taking her up to her room and getting her settled for right now.” He nodded.

“So what can you guys tell me about what we have found?” They both looked through some of the papers in front of them.

“Well, Alora Bannon, she worked at that 24/7 dinner, Pete’s right by that truck stop off the highway. It looks like from what they said before they died, and this bullshit, that they messed with her car so she’d have to walk to work in the dark, through the park right next to her apartment complex there on Ave. J. They were waiting for her, and attacked her, the beta, Rodgers was watching, and he fetched her after they tore her up.” Marcus states from the forms he’s reading.

“They weren’t expecting her to be a female alpha, but I can understand that, as I’ve never heard of that either.” Paul my beta interjects.

“Do we know why they targeted her? I mean aside from the fact that she’s beautiful?” They both smiled at that and I flipped them off.

“Seems they saw her kick a man's ass, he attacked her after her shift one night, she beat the shit out of him, banged his head against her car till he was unconscious, and then spit on him. They were impressed. That’s what got her moved to the night shift. Her boss was worried there’d be some backlash after she was so violent in defending herself. Stupid pussy.” Marcus shook his head in disgust at that.

“Well, she’s most definitely a spitfire, so I can see that. So, now we just have to get past all of those defenses and convince her we’re not the bad guys.” They both blew out a breath along with me. That was easier said than done.