Chapter 13

It was a couple of minutes later before I smelt my mate. I focused on my documents as she made her way into the dining hall. I felt her heading towards me before backtracking and making her way into the kitchen.

I sneaked a glance in her direction and saw the moment that Tricia tense before relaxing when she realized my mate wasn’t after her. I strained my ears and frowned when I heard my mate asking for her food and the reply, she gave my mother when she asked her why she was eating alone in the kitchen.

My frown deepened when she asked for Matthew and I guess Matthews was just as confused as I was too with the surprised look on his face when my mother came to fetch him. I sat back in my seat and tried to find a reason as to why my mate was so cold all of a sudden.

I knew it wasn’t about Tricia and me because from the little I have seen from her, I knew she would have raised hell as soon as she had found out. I sat there thinking before getting up.

I walked into the kitchen and asked her where she was going with Matthews and why she didn’t ask me to take her out when she wanted to go out. Her reply was cold and blunt as she told me, she was going into town and didn’t ask me because she saw I was busy when she entered the dining hall and didn’t want to disturb me.

She went on to add that our pack members and pack duties were our top priority and the double meaning of that simple sentence had me tensing up. My mother and Tricia must have heard it too because they also tensed up too. I was in so much shock that I couldn’t answer her question.

But thankfully my mother answered for me. Before I could recover fully from my temporal shock, my mate was already out of the kitchen and out of the door with Matthews trailing after me.

The three of us stood there in tense silence and only snapped out of our stupor when we heard Matthews’s car peeling out of the pack compound. I let out a deep breath before walking back into the dining hall and slumping into my seat.

“Do you think she knows?” My mother asked worriedly “I think she does” Tricia answered quietly

“She doesn’t know.” I tried to reassure them and myself “Are you sure?” Tricia asked shakily

“Yes... if she had known you would have been hurt or dead right now” I said bluntly

“Yeesh such comforting words” Tricia replied sarcastically

“Well it’s the truth Tricia. We have to be careful next time. This was close. Way too close for comfort”

“I know Jay bear and you were right, she didn’t look like the kind of person you messed with. The tattoos on her arms were cool but the dead look in her eyes accompanied by her stone-cold tone will give me nightmares for a while”

“I know Trish. She’s different like that” “And also, beautiful”

“Don’t go insecure on me now Tricia. She’s her and you are you... don’t go comparing yourself to her now. It wouldn’t end well”

“Okay... I’m going to the clinic to help out. I will see you later”

“Sure, take care”

Tricia left as if something or say someone was after her and I knew meeting Chaos had ruffled her feathers or say her fur. I know I told them that Chaos didn’t know but the more I think about it, the more uncertain I become about that fact. But I guess I would have to wait and find out.

I spent the rest of the day in my office working till it was time for the daily meeting with my high ranked members and Matthews and my mate were still not back. I entered the conference room and smiled when I found them chatting and making fun of each other. They can be childish at times but that’s just who they were.

I settled in my seat and as soon as I had made myself comfortable, my gamma Richard Davidson asked the whereabouts of Matthews. Drawing the attention of the others in the room

“He’s taken my mate to town” I replied

“Your mate?” He asked with surprise

“Yep Richie. I found her on the day you left for the Blue Moon Pack”

“How come nobody told me?” he shrieked in outrage.

For a man, he sure knew how to be dramatic Jeremiah rolled his eyes before cutting in, “You just arrived idiot and before we could welcome you, you were going on and on about all the women you fucked at the blue moon pack”

The rest of the men in the room laughed whiles Richie tried so hard not to flush with embarrassment. They were going at it when the door to the conference room opened and my mate walked in with all her cold glory. But the person behind her was what caught my attention. A young beautiful woman with a cold mask matching Chaos’s on her face.

I watched silently as they all entered with Matthews at the end. My mate walked to the other end of the table whiles Matthews grabbed the hand of the lady they came with and after pulling a seat for her to sit down, he pulled another beside her and settled down. I turned back to face my mate only to find her already staring intensely at me.

I held her gaze and tried to get a reading on her but as usual I came up empty because she had her lovely blank mask on her face. As I watched her, I couldn’t help but wonder if she knew about Tricia. I don’t know why but I couldn’t help but feel that she knew. Kaeden has been unusually quite since morning and I know it’s because of the guilt he feels from caring about Tricia just like I do.

He had despised her at first but just like me he had grown to like her and now our mate was with us and he couldn’t help but feel guilty. Our staring match was interrupted by my mate clearing her throat. She looked like she wanted to say something and after taking a deep breath, she opened her mouth to speak. The words that left her mouth next had me dropping my jaw in shock. She wanted our mating ceremony to be tomorrow that is if I would allow it. Hell, yeah, I would. I chuckled when my immature friends started hollering with excitement.

I looked at her face to check if she was just pulling my legs only to get a small smile in return that had my pants tightening. After I had giving my approval, she went on to pack business and I couldn’t be more proud that she already saw my pack as her own. I listened tentatively with the rest as she proposed a different training technique for the wolves that didn’t favor hand to hand combat and gruesome blood shedding but still wanted to be helpful in times of war and even when they needed to defend themselves.

I was a tad bit surprised when she said her mother had trained her in swordsmanship, archery and dagger throwing. My mate was more dangerous than I thought her to be.

But I am glad she has decided to share her knowledge for the better our pack. She will make a great Luna and I know my men agree to that from the respect and pride that shone from their eyes.