Chapter 21: Chapter Twenty-One
**Annie**
I make my way around the party, and I see so many good-looking wolves, but I am only interested in finding one, but I am having no such luck so far, I have walked this whole party twice the first time with my girl Alex right beside me and I still haven't found my mate. I start to make my way outside to the back yard when I smell this amazing scent and my wolf is going crazy spinning and swishing her tail around.
It’s got to be him, he's got to be here somewhere, so I take a huge deep breath and follow the scent, it smells like the outdoors like fresh rain and pine trees, it's amazing. I take another deep breath and when I find out where it's coming from, and I see just across the yard a very handsome, tall wolf.
He seems to be over 6‘3” and dark hair, and as I get closer I can see he sees me as well and when we make eye contact all I hear is MATE in my head and when we get closer to each other I can see he has the prettiest hazel eyes I have ever seen in anyone, they are mostly brown with a little fleck of green in them but they are perfect.
When we are finally close enough to each other I try to find my voice and look into his eyes.
“Hi.”
when he hears my voice, he instantly smiles, and I got to tell you, it's a gorgeous smile, then he.
“Hello beautiful, what's your name?”
He draws out the ‘hello’ like he can’t believe I am standing here right in front of him, and I must say I am having a hard believing the same thing, I didn’t think I would find my mate so soon. But thank you Selene for bringing him to me.
Goddess his voice is like heaven, how lucky am I to be given this fine specimen from the moon goddess. I can’t wait to see what happens with us in the future. I am anxious to see where this life takes us already.
“H-Hi, I-I’m Annie.”
Goddess what happen to my voice, why am I a stuttering mess? I take a minute to compose myself and try to put as much confidence as I can into my next words.
“What about you handsome? What is your name?”
Good Goddess he looks adorable when he blushes. I need to find more things to make him blush over.
“Sorry I'm John Blackwell, and I'm the Beta to my Best Friend here Jaxson Thomas, and we are from the Red Crest Pack, and I think I just found my very beautiful mate. Am I right?”
I try to hold my blush, but I don't think it's working very well because he has the cutest smile on display, and I think it's just for me.
“I think you might be right John, pleased to meet you, and you too Alpha Jaxson.”
I put my hand out in front of John and Jaxson to shake their hands but as Jaxson grabs my hand, he bends his head down ever so slightly and takes a deep breath.
“Who are you here with tonight?”
I’m a little shocked because I look at John and he looks a little miffed like he thinks I'm here with another male wolf. I quickly cover my behind with the truth he looks awfully mad.
“It's okay John, I'm only here with a very good friend of mine, her name is Alex, well Alexandria but we all call her Alex.”
He lets out a breath and seems to calm down quickly. Speaking of which where is this girl she has been gone for a while and she said she would come to find me.
“Speaking of which, if you boys will excuse me for a minute, I need to go find her, she had to use the restroom and that was a while ago and she was supposed to come to find me after.”
They look at each other and their eyes glaze over like they are talking to each other then John says, “We will come with you to look for her.”
“Okay sure thing handsome.”
They follow me inside and the Alpha has his nose in the air like he is trying to sniff something out it has my curiosity going a mile a minute. I wonder what he is up to, then out of nowhere he turns to me and grabs my arm and smells my arm again, what the heck? I turn to look at John and he looks like he going to blow a gasket, he then turns to growl at the Alpha and Jaxson turn to John and their eyes glaze over and again.
“Sorry Jax, it's just she’s my mate man.”
The alpha gives him a nod as he understands, as we continue through the house, I am starting to get a bit worried about Alex, we have been through most of the house, and still no Alex. The Alpha must sense my uneasiness.
“This way.”
When the Alpha turns down a hallway that has a bunch of closets and a couple of bathrooms, he turns to walk down the hall a little more due to some knocking on a random closet door, I try to open the door, but it’s jammed, and I can’t get it open.
“Someone is in there; we need to get this door open.”
Then we hear this voice from inside said closet.
“Annie? Is that you?”
“Alex? Are you in there?”
“Yes. Annie? It’s me, I can’t get out, someone locked me in here.”
What the hell is going on? Why on earth would someone lock her in here. I bet it was Jackie or one of her cronies, we need to get her out of here.
“Hang on girl, we are going to get you out.”
“We? Who is We?”
“Girl have I got some news for you. Just hang tight a minute.”
I turn to the Alpha and my mate.
“Okay boys get my bestie out of there.”
Next thing I know I’m gently pushed aside so the Alpha can get the door open, and with one mighty pull he gets it open like it was never locked, to begin with. When he opens the door, he goes stock still like he was struck by lightning like it turned him to stone or something.
Then out of nowhere I hear him growl out the one-word Alex and I have been hoping to hear for her since she was rejected. But then I see a look of confusion on her face, like she doesn’t quite understand why he would say that. But either way he knows who she is to him, and she will soon figure it out.
“MATE.”
I am trying so hard to contain my excitement right now, but when John sees that I am having a hard time, he gently grabs my hand and pulls into his chest and puts his nose to my marking spot and inhales deeply. It seems to do things to me that I don’t know how to react, but when he tells me how good I smell and how he can’t want to see his mark on my neck, it makes me want to take him back to his place and complete the mating and marking right now, but I know Alex won’t let me get away that easily. That seems to calm me down quite quickly.
After John manages to calm me down, I regain my train of thought and I am back to wondering how Alex ended up in the closet to begin with. But when I look towards Alpha Jaxson and Alex, he is looking at her like he has seen the goddess himself.