It was an angel, my angel

Noah

The attack kept replaying in my head, over and over. The ground covered with my brothers' bodies. The funeral pyre that Lucas, Eli and I had built. The terror when I realised the beast was coming for us too. We fought with everything we had, but we couldn't even see our enemy. Once it had me in its jaws, I knew it was over for me.

Strangely, though, right now all I felt was peace. I felt weightless. Was this limbo? Was I dead? It had to be, because I had never felt this good in my entire life. Every worry I had ever carried, every insecurity and every bit of pain, simply gone.

I felt like I was floating, but there was this strange warmth about the place I was in. I really hoped I was dead so I could stay in this warmth forever.

Suddenly, though, I felt a tingling sensation on my forehead and it spread throughout my body. It made the warmth even stronger and I fought to open my eyes to see where it was coming from.

My eyelids felt heavy, like it was an impossible task to open them, but I was determined to find the source. As the fog in my mind cleared even more, I realised it wasn't just tingling, it was actual electricity coming from my forehead. It pulled me awake.

What I saw and felt was even better than my limbo. It was an angel, my angel. Her beautiful face was looking at me with concern and I realised it was her hand on my forehead that had brought me back. Her straight, black hair framed her face as she looked at me. She had the most attractive full lips I had ever seen, and her eyes... her eyes were the most beautiful shade of green I had ever seen.

My beaten and dying lycan was also awake, and we were both staring at her. He didn't need to tell me, I already knew.

"Mate..." It whisper and she came closer to me to make sense of what I had just said. Could she not feel it too?

"Mate..."

And then the fog and darkness claimed me once more.

*****

Again I felt the fog lifting and I knew she was close; I could feel her. I fought to open my eyes to find her; I needed to see for myself that I hadn't dreamed her up. Before I could completely wake up, the first thing I noticed was her smell. So she was a wolf, and she smelled like vanilla and honey, but... there was another scent to her that I couldn't quite identify.

My eyes finally opened, and she was even more stunning than I remembered. I was apparently in some kind of hospital and she was writing down notes while looking at the machines attached to me.

The more I looked at her, the faster my heart beat. She frowned and looked over at me as the machine started beeping faster. Her eyes finally landed on mine and I could feel myself smiling like an idiot. I didn't know if it was because I was high on my mate's smell or high on the drugs.

I tried to speak. I wanted to ask her name, but my throat felt like I had swallowed sand. She brought a glass of water to my lips and I drank. My lycan stirred awake too, which surprised me because of how banged up we were. I suppose he was also excited about meeting his mate, but strangely, we couldn't fully sense her wolf; it was like she was hidden somewhere.

She was looking at me intently, her eyes steady, and suddenly I forgot what I was going to say in the first place. I took her hand and placed it on my chest, then put my hand on top of hers. She lifted her hand to my cheek and all doubts disappeared; it was very clear to me that we both felt this.

"I knew I couldn't have dreamed someone as perfect as you." I told her, although this was more of an internal thought I had accidentally said out loud.

I vaguely noticed the lights turn on. She turned her head towards the door, breaking our connection, and I took the opportunity to keep admiring her. Her skin was fair and smooth and her eyes were a colour I had never seen before, so light they could look white in certain lighting. Her straight hair was cut to her shoulders and it looked thick. I couldn't wait to wrap my hand around it and..

"Is this a new way of checking his temperature, doc?" My train of thought was interrupted by none other than Eli's grumpy presence. I felt guilty that I hadn't thought to ask about them. He called her 'doc' and I realised.

"So you're the one who saved me, huh?" I said to her. My hand instinctively went up to hers, keeping her where she was.

"I merely operated on you. From what I hear, your friends here carried you all the way to the clinic from goodness knows where." Now I turned to look at both Eli and Lucas and it grounded me to our reality. We had been attacked and nearly killed, and we didn't even know by what.

"Don't be so humble, doc! We might have carried him, but when we got here, he was basically dead. You brought him back to us. Literally." Lucas told her with a big smile. He was like a little brother to me, but if he smiled at her any longer, I was going to break his other arm.

"I think it's getting rather late, isn't there somewhere you need to be?" Eli clearly didn't like her and I wasn't surprised. But if he continued to look at her like that, I was also going to have to break his other arm. I was about to growl at them to back off, but my angel spoke to me first.

"I'll be back tomorrow morning. For now, try to get some rest." Rest?! How could I get any rest knowing she wasn't in bed with me?!

"What? No! I'm coming with you!" I told her. Panic set in at the thought of her leaving, but also at the thought of whatever had attacked us coming here and me not being able to protect her.

"You need to rest and I need to go to our Alpha. She's called me into her office. I'll be back tomorrow morning. I promise." She stepped out of the room and all I wanted to do was follow her.

"What the hell, Noah?!" Eli was angry enough to dare yell at me.

"What do you mean 'what the hell'? She's my mate." I told him very calmly, knowing full well how much this was going to irritate him.

"WHAT!?" His scream was loud enough to wake everyone nearby, and his face grew redder with every passing second. But any complaint he might have would fall on deaf ears.

She was already mine.