Chapter 10 — The Next Morning

I woke up the next morning feeling like I was being suffocated only to realize that it was Dom and he still had me wrapped up in his arms. Slowly I maneuver myself from his grip and escape into the bathroom. Looking at myself in the mirror I try to process that in less than twenty-four hours I have: found my mate, realized my mate was Dom, have decided to pursue this mate bond and see if we can build from it.

In all the places that I was going to find my mate, last night would have been the last place I thought that I would see Dom. I still have no idea what made him go to the event, especially since it is three packs over and a bit of a drive to get here.

We still haven’t had the chance to obsess over the fact that Silas had found his mate and is going to be a father and he never mentioned any of this to me!!!

Knock, Knock.

“Charity, are you ok?” Dom asks through the door.

“Yeah, I will be right out,” I tell him.

Taking a few deep breaths, I turn and head over to the door and unlock it before opening the door and seeing those icy blue eyes staring at me with concern.

“Hey” he says to me when I peek my head from behind the door.

“Hi” I answer back softly.

“A lot to take in, isn’t it?”

I nod my head as I continue to make my way out of the bathroom.

He grabs my hand and pulls me into him. I take a deep whiff of his scent and slowly start to relax. How is that possible?

“I noticed Silas was there last night. How long has it been since you have seen each other?”

I looked at him surprisingly, “How did you know that I was thinking about that?”

He kisses my forehead before saying, “Just because we are not fully mated doesn’t mean that I can’t sense your feelings. You know for someone who has a degree in wolf history, I am surprised that I have to be the one to tell you these things.” He smirked.

Punk.

“Ha! I was learning more about the packs and how they were run, rather than focusing on the whole mate bond thing.”

I turned and started making my way into the kitchen.

“You know Charity, they have a lot to do with each other, especially for an Alpha.”

I started making coffee, I need caffeine in the worst way. Then grabbed some eggs and bacon from the fridge.

“Hungry?” I ask as I show him the items I pulled out.

“Starving,” he says as he pulls up a chair at the counter on the other side.

I start to prepare breakfast as we sit there in a comfortable silence.

“When are you going to make your way back to your pack today?” Dom asks with hesitation in his voice.

I smile.

I turn to look at him before saying, “Don’t worry I fully intend to keep my promise of coming home this weekend. I just have a few loose ends to tie up with in regard to work and I think I might try to make my way home later this afternoon. What about you? Should you be making your way back already?”

He pulls out his phone and looks at the time and then opens it, to send a text to someone before answering, “Nope, my Beta has things under control this morning. I don’t have a meeting until later this afternoon.”

I nod my head as I continue to cook. I felt his arms wrap around me and his lips laying kisses on my neck. I let out a little giggle as he continues to fill me with his scent.

Sasha: I am in utter bliss right now. Now if only you will let him mark us and we be fully mated.

Me: Don’t start Sasha not right now.

“What’s wrong?” He whispers into my ear.

I look at him surprisingly, “Why would you think there is something wrong?”

“Your whole body started to tense, and you have this little wrinkle between your eyebrows when you are deep in thought.”

I rub the spot that he was talking about before saying, “It’s nothing, my wolf is just scolding me about us not mating yet.”

Sasha: Scolding! I will show you a scolding. This girl. Goddess, what did I do to deserve this one?

“Ah I see.” Is all he says as he removes his arms from around my waist, I whine a little already missing his touch. He moves back to the chair and sits down.

“You don’t have anything else to say about it?” I ask as I start to dish up the plates with our breakfast.

He raises his hands in surrender before saying, “I don’t want to get into an argument right now.”

I placed his dish in front of him and continued to stand on the other side of the counter, “No, please I would like to know your feelings on this.”

Sasha: No, you don’t.

Me: Yes, I do.

Sasha: Ok, but he is going to agree with me on this.

I look at him waiting for him to give me his opinion, but he continues to keep filling his mouth up with food.

“What cat got your tongue?” I say since he has refused to respond.

He shakes his head and when he has cleared his mouth he says, “My mom raised me not to talk with food in my mouth.” And then precedes to keep eating.

“It’s okay, I can wait,” I say before putting a fork full of food into my mouth.

His shoulders hunched at that moment and said, “TM you know I have waited for years to find you, would I like us to be mated absolutely as would my wolf, but I know that is not what you want right now, and I am trying really hard to respect that.”

My heart hurt a little knowing that once again this is all because of my selfish ways that he is waiting. Wait? Did he just call me TM?

“What’s TM?”

He smirks, “TM stands for Troublemaker, I know you hate hearing it, but you still are one, so I decided to shorten it,” he says before putting a piece of bacon in his mouth.

I roll my eyes to the nickname. He gets up and walks around the counter pulling me into his arms to look at him. He places one hand on the side of my head and the other around my waist. Making sure that I give him eye contact and not move.

“Look Silas calls you Char, Sam calls you Squirt, I tried cupcake once and you about threw me out of a tree for it.”

I smile at that memory.

“I need to call you something that is all my own,” he says as he rubs my cheek with his thumb.

I shake my head before saying, “Fine, we can try it for a little while.”

He smiles and leans down to capture my lips with his. The kiss is heated. But I pull away before I lose himself completely to him.

Sasha: No fair, I was enjoying that.

Me: Get over it.

“We can’t be doing this right now. We need to wait, please,” I say as I am trying to catch my breath.

He lets out a husky laugh, “All right, but I’m holding you to your promise that we will be finishing this.” He motions back between us.

I nod my head in agreement.

“Do you mind if I use your shower?” He asks still in a husky tone.

I catch my breath as I try to clamp on the dampness that is forming between my legs.

“Uh-huh go ahead.”

He lets out a laugh at my uncomfortableness before walking back into the bedroom to use the shower.

Sasha: Let’s go and surprise him in the shower. Come on, it will be fun.

Me: Sasha, please I can’t.

Sasha: Why can you not just lose yourself to our mate, why are you fighting this?

Me: I don’t know, I am scared.

Sasha: It’s our mate, there is nothing to be afraid of.

Me: I am not afraid of Dom.

Sasha: Then what are you afraid of?

Me: I am afraid of giving him my heart.

Sasha: Ok, you got me on that one.

Me: I just need to take my time on this for just a little bit. I need to see that he has changed before I decide to give him my heart and mate with him.

Sasha: Alright, but please I am begging you on this, please give him a full chance to show you. Don’t let the past get in the way of this.

Me: I will.

I walk over to my desk and flip on my computer to check my emails at work and try to finish some things before I start packing for the weekend.

After a short while Dom walks back out freshly showered. Looking delicious with his wet hair. I bite down on my lower lip as I take him all in.

Sasha: If you are not careful you are going to draw blood.

Dom walks over to me and pulls on my chin to release my lip. “You could hurt yourself if you are not careful. I would like to be able to kiss that lip later as you promised me I could.

My heart started to race, and I could feel throbbing in a particular part of my body.

He bends over and gives me a kiss on the forehead, “I’m going to head out, you will let me know when you are back home correct?”

I extend my hand out.

“What?”

“Let me see your phone.”

He pulls his phone out from his pocket, opens it up and then hands it to me.

I take it and enter my phone number and send myself a text. My phone beeps and I can see him look over to check it. I smile as I close his phone and hand it back to him.

“There, now we have each other’s number and yes I will text you once I am there.”

He nods his head as he saves the number to his contacts, closes the phone, and puts it back in his pocket.

By then I have stood up from my chair and walked around to him wrapping my arms around his waist and burying my head into his chest while taking in his scent.

He wraps his arms around me and holds me for a long moment, I feel his fingers on my chin as he raises my head to look at him. He brings his head down and brushes his lips against mine in a soft kiss. I raise my hand to place it at the back of his head, but he grabs my wrist before I am able to and releases my lips. He kisses my hand and releases me.

“That’s all you get until later,” he says with a devilish grin.

I whine a little and pout, looking at him with sad eyes.

He bends down to give me those icy blue eyes “Not going to work right now TM. I have to go before I carry you into that bedroom and show you how I can please you and your wolf.”

I sucked in my breath to that declaration.

Sasha: Do I get a vote in this? Cause my vote is yes please. Take me to bed or lose me forever.

Me: He is tempting, isn’t he?

Sasha: Are you serious? You are actually going to let him do this! Thank Goddess!

I raise my eyes at him and give him an alluring smile as I take his hand and give him a gentle tug.

He stands there frozen not allowing me to pull him with me, “TM please I am serious, don’t play with me. I am really trying to be a gentleman.”

I wrap my arms around his neck and jump into his arms, he catches me while I wrap my legs around his waist. I start to give him little kisses across his face till I get to his ear and whisper, “I’m not playing Dom, please show me how you are going to please me?”

I pull back and look him dead in the eyes, those icy blue eyes that looked hopeful and cautious all at the same time. I kiss him on the lips, and he finally starts walking making his way into my bedroom.