Chapter 53: An Impossible Mate-3

I tightened my hold around her. Diverting my attention from the bewildered female in my arms, I focused my attention on John who looked dazed and slightly worried. I was about to mind-link him to ask what was wrong but my mate squirmed in my arms making me return my attention to my uncomfortable looking mate. She looked extremely befuddled but color was slowly returning to her pale cheeks and the fearful and drained look in her eyes was gone. That was enough to make me feel somewhat relieved, but I still felt quite concerned about her... It's the mate bond...it's doing strange things to my head... "Are you okay?" I asked as impartially as I could but when her mouth fell open in shock my eyes crinkled in slight amusement. Her eyebrows immediately furrowed and she jerked her head downwards scrutinizing my arms around her waist before her gaze returned to mine in bafflement. But she still managed to nod uncertainly. Then as though she had suddenly remembered something she quickly added, "Yes sir!" Her troubled gaze returned to my hands secured around her waist. I could tell she was waiting for me to remove my hands so I did the only thing that could satisfy me at that point of time. I pulled her closer into my body. Immediately her head shot up again and her frantic wide eyes found mine. She placed the small palms of her soft hands on my forearms and started pushing at them while agitatedly gritting her teeth at me. "Uh...? Um...!" her voice sounded panicked as she wiggled in my arms. "Were you dizzy earlier?" I asked her softly. Her brown eyes first looked shocked as though she wasn't able to believe what she was hearing me say, but immediately after they turned scared again and she looked away making an immediate streak of concern rush through me. It's not possible...for me to feel so attached to a complete stranger! I bent my head towards her but she didn't notice. She was still looking at the ground, her eyes worried and distant. She had stopped moving and seemed to be in deep thought and when I gently turned her in my arms so that she was facing me, she moved without any resistance. I could hear her heart beat pick up speed and her breath came out ragged, but I knew it was not from being close to me, but from whatever memory she was replaying in her mind. The same memory that had left her looking so afraid and drained. I need to know... "Suzzanah", I whispered trying to ease her out of her daze and she immediately shivered in my arms before she blinked a few times and turned her head towards mine. She had obviously not expected to find my face a mere few centimeters away from hers, because the next minute her eyes exploded to the size of saucers and she fell backwards away from me. I hadn't expected such an alarmed reaction and having taken me by surprise, she managed to get out of my grasp and move away, while I desperately fought the overwhelming urge to pull her back into my arms. It's not possible...for me to want someone so damn badly... She breathed heavily clutching her chest and regarding me wearily. Her eyes then moved frantically around the room, and that's when I realized that John had left. When she too registered that fact, she gulped and hesitantly looked back at me. "S-sorry sir", she mumbled and bowed her head, staring at the ground. My eyes refused to leave her frame, and I took the opportunity to observe her appearance yet again. My mate was taller than the average woman, but still only came up to my shoulder. Her skin was fair and healthy. Soft curves complimented her slender frame. She was dressed quite simply, in a light pink dress shirt and black skirt, a skirt very obviously lacking a large piece of fabric on the left. The minute my eyes landed on the slit in her skirt that revealed the milky skin of her thighs, a hand appeared suddenly and clasped the gaping ends together. My eyes shot up to find my mate's embarrassed face now directed toward her damaged skirt. She squirmed uncomfortably under my piercing gaze while trying to keep the ends of the slit from revealing her skin. Her cheeks were tinted a bright red and I found myself wanting to see her blush more often. But only for me...wait, No! I immediately growled out loud and ran a hand through my hair in frustration. When my gaze returned to her, she was staring at me. Her eyebrows were raised slightly, her lips parted and soft brown eyes holding some strange emotion within their inquisitive depths. It was the same look she had given Kai in the forest, the one that, for a second, had made me feel like she was seeing through him, and looking right at me. It was as though she could see how I was a part of him, and he a part of me, that we were one and the same. And it unnerved me. It's not possible...that a human can agitate me this much with just one look! This proximity to her was taking a toll on my clear thinking. I had to get away from her, right now! With that thought I turned and marched out of the room without another word. *** "Alpha", Cole greeted me as I entered the office. It was the same room where I had heard her beautiful voice for the first time. Stop thinking about her! Both Cole and Marco rose from where they were hunched over the map of our secluded lands and bowed. I nodded at them, and then turned my attention to John who was leaning against a window, lost in deep thought. "King", Marco spoke up before I could address John, "Not beating around the bush, I'd like to get right to the point. About that hum- I mean, Ms. Winters, we think that there is a possibility...that she isn't human" I frowned, having expected him to say something like that, while he glanced briefly at John who was listening but still seemed distant.