Chapter 12: ""Nice Package!""

**Chapter 12**

Matt rolled over and sat up on the side of his bed, his feet on the floor. He looked back and saw the giant sweat puddle in the middle of his Wolf King sized bed. Matt heaved a sigh and stood up.

He stripped his bed and put the now soaked sheets in the laundry closet. His room was like a small studio apartment. His bed was on a deep wide platform in an alcove off of his sitting area with two large floor to ceiling windows to either side of his bed.

Stepping off the platform to the right, was a door leading into a large bathroom with an enclosed double wolf sized bathtub and standing shower combo, on one side of the bathroom. On the other side, was a large toilet alcove, next to that a dual sink with vanity in the middle, then a floor to ceiling linen cabinet.

Next to the bathroom was a large walk in closet, the closet had a floor to ceiling mirror on one wall with lights above. A storage bench combo was in the middle of the closet. Next to the closet, by the bedroom entrance, was the laundry closet.

The laundry closet had four different dirty laundry bins. One for bedding, one for towels, and the other for regular wash, and the last and rarely ever used one, was for dry clean and hand wash only. There were shelves that folded and clean laundry would be set on, and a bar for clean clothes to hang.

There were two doors to the laundry closet, the door inside the room, and one outside the room in the hallway. The door inside the room only had a handle on one side. You had to be inside the room to open it. You couldn’t open the door leading into the room, from inside the closet.

The door outside the room had an electronic lock that required a staff key fob to open from the outside. Just in case you ever locked yourself in the linen closet, there was a door handle on the inside of the hallway door. So you could at least let yourself out that way.

The Moonstar Mansion employed a lot of lower ranked Pack members. They took care of the cooking, all the cleaning, the grounds keeping, and all the required maintenance. They were highly paid, received many benefits and were well respected. They were the beings who kept the Mansion running like a well oiled machine.

Matt pulled out new bedding from his bathroom linen cabinet and remade his bed. After, he stripped off his shorts, and tossed them in the laundry closet. Then he went and took a shower. Inside the shower, Matt stood with his head down and his hands braced on the wall holding him up.

Matt had turned the water to high heat, hoping to burn away the last of the vision still haunting him. The water washed away the last of the fear and helplessness he had felt during the vision.

*“I want to go for a run…or a swim.”*Ares told him.

Matt chuckled, he’d have to take another shower after, but it wasn’t a hardship to let his wolf out for a run or a swim. Both sounded good to him actually. He probably wouldn’t be going back to sleep anyway.

Turning off the shower, Matt stepped out and grabbed a towel off the rack. The towel rack was attached to the glass wall in front of the tub side of the enclosed bath and shower.

He dried his body off first, he had a lot of body at seven-foot six. His body was tightly packed with medium thick muscle. Muscle that had gotten thicker, as Matt had taken to training every spare moment he had.

He had a light dusting of hair over his chest, and a trail of hair that led from just under his belly button down to his pelvis and round his privates. He kept the hair there neatly trimmed.

Tossing the towel around his neck, Matt looked in the mirror at his face. After scrubbing a hand over the stubble on his cheeks, Matt opened one of the draws under the vanity of his sink, and grabbed a razor and some shaving cream.

It didn’t take him long to shave, the stubble was short, so it was easy to get all the hair off his face in no time. After shaving, he rinsed his face off and patted it dry with the towel. Putting back the shaving supplies, he grabbed out a tooth brush, toothpaste and floss.

Being a supernatural creature didn’t make you exempt from dental care and deadly morning breath. He swished around some mouthwash, after spitting, he rinsed his face again. Matt walked out of the bathroom while using the towel around his neck to dry his hair.

Lauren had come to Matt’s place while he was in the shower, seeing his freshly made bed, she knew Matt had another vision. Matt’s sitting area had a fireplace, and a square coffee table surrounded by four overstuffed chairs. There was a door leading out onto the courtyard balcony between the fireplace and the bedroom alcove.

On the other side of the fireplace was an open doorway that led to a twelve foot by twelve foot office. With a large floor to ceiling window that let in plenty of light. Matt had a triple screen setup he used for gaming, school, and work for the Clan and Pack.

Lauren was sitting in a chair that faced the bathroom, she looked up from the game she had been playing on her phone, Black Desert, when the bathroom door opened. Lauren’s jaw dropped and her eyes widened and a gasp of surprise escaped.

What she saw made it quite obvious that Sarah’s lack of faithfulness to Matt, was not because he was lacking in the equipment department.

Matt heard the gasp and froze, he looked towards the sound and immediately bunched his towel over his crotch. He felt the blush burn across his cheeks as he looked at Lauren’s wide eyed expression.

Lauren was six foot eight, she had medium thick honey brown hair that hit her mid back. Right now it was in a hightail. The mass of hair, a little wild. With her hair out of her face, you could see the striking color of her eyes. The inner ring is a glittering emerald, the outer ring a molten gold.

She had high cheekbones, a long straight lupine nose over a wide full lipped mouth that looked a little pouty. Her skin is a pale latte color with freckles dusting across her shoulders, collarbones, cheekbones, and nose.

Laurens muscle tone was lean and tightly packed. Her round perky breasts were a medium size, and she had a high tight round bottom to balance them out. In each of her ears were four round silver colored studs.

She wore a tunic length black tank top, with a thick silver colored zipper from the round neckline to the hem. Her bottoms were a pair of light blue denim short shorts. They had a normal front fly with zipper and snap, but on each thigh, from waistband to hem, were thick silver colored zippers for easy shedding.

On her feet were a pair of strappy black slingback flip flops. The only makeup on her face was some mascara, and a dark brown eyeliner that made the gold outer ring of her eyes glow.

Since Sarah’s spell over her was broken. Lauren wore what she was actually comfortable in, and barely wore any makeup besides eyeliner and mascara now. On her peach colored lips was a layer of Carmex for moisture, nothing else.

Matt had to clear his throat before he could speak. “So…um…couldn’t sleep?” He stumbled out the question.

A wry grin of amusement lifted one side of Lauren’s mouth. “Nope.” she said, making the last letter of the word pop.

Matt’s blush got redder, making his dual colored eyes stand out more. The inner ring is a bright shallow ocean blue, the outer ring a pale icy blue.

They graced a broad face with high cheekbones, a wide full lipped mouth, and long straight lupine nose. The red of Matt's blush spread easily across his creamy golden colored skin.

“I’m,” Matt had to clear his throat again, “I’m going to…” he gestured with a tilt of his head, “going to uh…go dress.” Then he rushed into his walk-in closet, slamming the door closed behind him.

Lauren threw her head back and laughed loudly, she paused long enough to shout “Nice package!” laughing harder when she heard a thump and a curse from inside the closet.

Matt, inside the closet, picked himself back up off the floor and finished putting on a pair of black cargo shorts with a quick release buckle. He’d been putting them on when Lauren’s shouted words startled the fur out of him.

It didn’t help that Ares was inside rolling around laughing at him either. Grumbling about ‘evil females’ and ‘traitorous wolves’, Matt tugged on a pale blue sleeveless v-neck t-shirt. Sitting on his bench, just in case, he put on a pair of black slingback trail sandals.

Getting up he walked out of his closet, running his fingers through his short hair to tame it. Most of his blush was gone, but there were still twin streaks of it left over his cheek bones.

Unfortunately for him, his new best friend, and Gamma to his Beta, knew just exactly how to get a rise out of him.

“So what’s got you waking up needing a shower and a sheet change first thing in the morning.” Lauren drawled, her eyes glittering with amusement.

The blush fired right back up, covering his entire face again. ‘Did she have to make it sound so dirty?!’ He mentally shouted the question.

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