CHAPTER 4 – LET'S TALK

-HUDSON'S POV-

I can't begin to say how many potions I have tried and then I am dragging my mate into this mess. I waited in my room on the fifth floor until it was midnight. I scouted the other floors for her scent and found the last room to the left on the third floor. My wolf was eager to see his mate and so was I.

I turned the knob and the door opened, without knocking or seeking permission. With my night vision eyes, she had awakened and sat up in bed looking directly at me as I entered and closed the door. The light flickered on as she switch on the bedside lamp. I stood where I was to avoid making her uncomfortable.

"Hi" I began. I have never been this nervous in my life. It was usually the other way around because of my authority and aura. "I am the Alpha here, and I apologize for not greeting you properly earlier."

She nodded and straightened up in the bed. I moved closer and sat beside her since she did not rebut.

"Why did you run away from me?"

I swallowed anxiously. "I had an emergency to deal with." It wasn't a total lie, but I am sure I could not just tell her the truth. She nodded in understanding.

"What do you want to do with this mate bond?" She was very direct. "Are we going to accept being mates or reject each other?" She looked everywhere else in the room except at me. "I am not rigid about having a mate, so if you have a lover, or want to marry that Tisha girl, I understand."

It seems my Gamma has told her a mouthful. Tisha was one of the potential she-wolves that the council handpicked to be my chosen Luna. I wished he had kept his damn mouth shut. Right now, she was irrelevant and I wanted to get to know my mate instead.

"My name is Hudson, and I have waited for you." I said, not wanting to sow false hope. "I do not want to reject you, but having me as your mate is totally up to you."

Her eyes narrowed quizzically. "Why would it be up to me?"

"Perhaps, I am not a man that deserves to have a mate." I started to say when she adjusted her silk night gown that made her womanly assets very conspicuous. 'Nice' my wolf drawled. I gulped down my naughty thoughts and cleared my head.

"What curse could you be under to be so undeserving?" Her cherry lips smiled in amusement.

If only she knew the truth to her words. "Somethings cannot be said," I yearned to touch her face and kiss her lips.

"I don't like secrets, they tend to destroy relationships." She touched my arms and sparkles erupted through us.

I flinched and stood up immediately. I felt the electrical jolts coursing through me but I can't get caught up in it. This was harder than I thought. When I glance back at her, I saw eyes with pain because of my reaction.

"I'm sorry," I apologized quickly. "I…..I.....I can't do this right now."

Turning abruptly to leave the room she caught up to me so fast that she tugged at me. Again the sparks worked their way into having us stare so intently into each other's eyes that I could not move. Bewitched by my little warrior mate.

"Hudson, wait," Her touch was the softest and most inviting.

I froze under her affectionate gaze with curiosity as to what she wanted. "Huh?"

"Don't go so soon." She came closer so that her breast brushed against my chest. My breathing hitched. I paused as her her hands trailed up my arm. She was communicating that she desired me. Her actions eradicated the tension in the atmosphere.

'Move idiot,' Regis warned, 'Or I will do it for you.'

He liked our mate because she went after what she wanted. It would be a shame to have to let her go. 'No, we keep her,' he protested in my head.

Her lips came up and met mine, and I was swept into an euphoric bliss. The sweetness of her soft lips had me in a daze. Automatically, my arms went around her, squeezing her into me. Dominating her mouth with my tongue. My wolf cooed and wagged its tail.

In this format, we made it to the bed and I laid her down, hovering over her and taking in her pine with blueberries scent and beauty. I leaned down to tease her lips with small peppered kisses which made her smile.

My lips moved to her neck, pecking several soft kisses, and Regis urged me to mark him, claim her and make her ours. Our mark would look so lovely at this spot. As if it were honey, I sucked her neck. I was content to hear her writhe and feel her doughy breast press against my chest.

I'd give anything to have her right there. But, I backed away and her smile faded.

"What's wrong?"

""You arrived today and must be tired," I noticed with her furrowed brows that she had the cutest facial expression, though it was one of confusion. "Rest, and we will talk tomorrow."

Swiftly, I went to my room and locked the door. I stared at the vial in my hand. 'Wuss,' Regis cursed me.

"We've had this problem for years." I snapped at him. "What do you think will happen when she finds out?"

'Mate will be different. Trust her.' Regis urges and I shrugged.

"That's easy for you to say!" I slapped back at him. He's not the one that has to talk to her.

'She's the only woman for us.' He grumbled in complaint.

"I fucking know that," I shouldn't be mad at my wolf. He couldn't help himself. "I'm sorry, Regis."

He humphed, he was my best friend and most important to me. He went silent and I knew he'd be like that until I made it up to him. So, I gave him a fantasy of Phoebe and us in an open field mating in bliss.

'Let's go back to her room.'

He was starting this shit again. I blocked my wolf so that I could hear my own thoughts. I'm leaving the pack for an overseas trip tomorrow. By the time I came back, I was sure that she would be gone.