Chapter 7: Kissing Chasity’s Ass Alex’s POV
Felix lost control. His wolf was always fighting him for dominance. He grabbed Chasity and pinned her to the wall. My wolf snarled. He wanted to mark Chasity too but he was a more level-headed Alpha. Felix was f*****g up the last shred of a chance we had. Sure, even if forcibly marked, she would be bonded to us for life but she would resent us and a miserable mate would make us and our wolves miserable. Nothing made a wolf happier than a happy mate. We needed our Luna to really love us. Felix pressed his nose to Chasity’s neck, inhaling her scent and searching for her marking spot. He bared his canines. His eyes were black. He was totally out of it. I was so stunned, it took me a second to react.
“Stop!” Squealed Chasity.
Her cry broke me out of my stupor. Calix and I jumped into action. We grabbed Felix and pulled him off of her. We slammed him into the other wall.
“Calm down!”I yelled in my Alpha Voice, making the whole room shake.
Felix breathed deeply in and out, trying to calm himself. I couldn’t truly command another Alpha but as the eldest Alpha, my commands were powerful enough to sway my Alpha brothers momentarily not permanently like other wolves.
Felix’s eyes slowly turned blue. Calix and I held an arm each and walked with him back to the bed. We sat down. I should go to Chasity. I wanted to pull her onto my lap and comfort her. She was probably so shaken up and frightened but I couldn’t let go of Felix. What if he tackled her again?
“Oh my God,” said Felix. He was panting from the effort of suppressing his wolf. My command had helped. “Chasity!” He breathed. “I’m so sorry, Baby.”
She wouldn’t want to be our Baby now. I doubted she had even wanted to be our Baby before he almost forcibly marked her. Oh God, she was all I wanted. I pictured myself sleeping with my arms around her tonight, my nose in her beautiful dark golden curls, breathing in her floral scent. I tried not to get my hopes up. I pushed my daydreams away. She was probably about to crush me as payback for all the years of servitude. All I needed was for her to not officially reject me. Then, I could sway her, winning her over, little by little, day by day.
“It’s…ok,” She said slowly. She laughed half-heartedly. “Actually that’s not the worst thing you’ve done to me by a long shot. That won’t even make the top ten.”
She laughed awkwardly at the situation. f**k. She was right. We had been complete assholes. We didn’t deserve her.
“So after Felix has gone and ruined the scrap of a chance we had left…what do you say?” Said Calix.
She laughed wholeheartedly this time. Thank goodness for Calix. He could sweet-talk her. I smiled.
Calix’s POV
As if Chasity didn’t have enough reason to reject us, Felix had decided to add to it by losing control. Why hadn’t he mind-linked us that he was struggling so we could’ve been ready to hold him back? If Alex and I had been a second or two slower, Chasity would have been forcibly marked and she would hate us forever. There was no faster way to spoil the beauty of the mate-bond than to not even give the she-wolf the option to refuse I was looking forward to winning Chasity over if she would let me. I had dozens of
romantic date ideas. I wanted to take her cruising on our yacht. I looked at my Goddess and she was staring straight at me, ignoring my elder brothers. In that moment, I knew she would give us a chance and I knew I was a big part of why she was willing to do so. I grinned at her.
Felix’s POV
I had totally f****d up. I had almost forcibly marked my Baby. I wished the earth could open and swallow me up. I felt awful. She already disliked me the most. I wanted to be her favourite. She was too busy staring at Calix. I didn’t like to admit it but I was jealous of the relationship they’d always had. She always seemed to have a thing for Calix. The anxiety was killing me as we waited with bated breath for Chasity’s response.
“I don’t know what I want,” she told us.
My wolf told me she was being honest. Chasity was still of two, or perhaps three, minds about us. She hadn’t said no. She hadn’t blatantly rejected us. I felt like doing a victory dance.
“That’s completely fine!” Said Calix. “Take your time,” said Alex. “All the time you need,”I added though I hadn’t been very patient with her mere moments ago. “Ok, that brings us to the second part of this discussion,” said Alex. Igrinned excitedly. Finally, I could openly do nice things for Chasity. She was giving us a chance. “Happy birthday, Chasity!” Said my brothers and me unison.
She smiled. Her smile made me weak in the knees. My brothers and I had stashed all of her gifts under Calix’s bed. We pulled them out. Chasity squealed in excitement. I grinned at her. That was the first of many adorable ecstatic noises I would elicit from her. I wondered if she would want to be all romantic at the party downstairs. I wondered if she liked PDA. I usually didn’t but now that I had my mate, I wanted all the other young males in the pack to know she was mine. No one was to touch her but my brothers and me. Suddenly, the smile slipped off of her face and she bit her lip.
“Baby, what’s wrong?” I asked immediately. I hated seeing her disappointed.
“I had thought about getting you something but I really couldn’t. I had literally no money,” she said, her tone apologetic. She looked embarrassed by her lack of funds. That was nothing to be ashamed of and we already knew money was an issue for her so we hadn’t been expecting anything.
I laughed, relieved it wasn’t something major. We would support her financially obviously even if she didn’t need us to. “Baby, we know you have no money. That’s ok,” I said.
“You never let me forget it,” she muttered.
I frowned. She always took the things I said so differently to how I meant them. I brushed the comment off and waited expectantly for Chasity to open her gifts. She seemed hesitant. What now?
“Alex, Felix, Calix,” she said. My grin was back. My name from her lips was music to my ears. It seemed like the first time she had ever said my name sweetly. We were making progress already.
Alex’s POV
I had never been more relieved in my entire life. Chasity was giving us a chance. I had also never been more excited. I was greatly anticipating tonight. Chasity should obviously sleep in one of our rooms. I knew she might pick Calix but I had the duration of the party to convince her otherwise. Unless, we all bunked together like we used to as kids so that we could all be in the same room as our Luna. It might have to come down to that. We were taking over the pack so proper sleep was paramount and what Alpha could possibly sleep well without his Luna safely nestled beside him. Chasity wasn’t completely sold on the prospect of being our mate but that was easily remedied. A pup would fix that. She was left on our doorstep. It was a little underhanded of me but I knew she would never leave us if we had a pup together.
She would want the best and most stable life for her child. I wanted to give her children anyway. Why not sooner rather than later? Did that make me as conniving as Sandra? No, Chasity was my rightful mate.
“I want to open these later ok, when I’m thinking about stuff,” said Chasity. “We wanted to see your face…” pleaded Calix. “It’s not about what we want,” I remixed him quickly.
It really wasn’t. We had gotten our way the vast majority of the time since we were kids. Now that Chasity was revealed to be ours, we needed to put her needs ahead of our own.
“I’m just going to put the gifts in my room. Thank you so much!” She said. Calix’s POV
I was bummed that we wouldn’t get to see Chasity’s face when she opened our gifts to her. I loved seeing people’s reactions to presents. Alex wanted us to yield to Chasity in every way that we could, to offer her every curtesy and comfort possible, except for non-negotiable things. For example, we had agreed upon a curfew for Chasity. She would have a lot more free time now that we were relieving her of all of her household duties but that didn’t mean she could stay out all night. Alex had wanted her curfew to be ten o’clock. Felix had said eleven with supervision and ten without. I was surprised my elder brothers were being stricter than I was but both of them had been yearning for a Luna.
She walked up to us shyly. We had never hugged before. Felix grabbed her first just as I expected, squeezing her tightly and lifting her feet off the ground. She giggled. Felix let her down quickly, stiffening in response to the giggle. He didn’t fully trust himself and his wolf around her yet especially with what had happened earlier. I bent down to hug her gently while my hands massaged her back soothingly. I wanted to kiss her soft pouty lips but I knew it was too soon. Alex grasped her by the waist and spun her around. He placed her gently on her feet. She immediately started carrying an armful of gifts to her room.
“Wait!” we all said in unison.
We had also agreed upon the room situation. She was free to sleep in any of our rooms while we got the best guest master bedroom set up to her liking. Even after she got her new room, she was still very much welcome in any of our rooms. My wolf wagged his tail thinking about sharing a room with his mate. We were so excited to hold her in our arms tonight.
“You can’t stay in that room. It’s too small. We will organise the best guest room and turn it into your room,” Alex said.
Instead of being excited at the prospect of a fancy spacious bedroom, Chasity seemed annoyed with us.
“So this room isn’t good enough for me now but it was good enough when you didn’t give a s**t!” She snapped.
My wolf and I winced. She was right. We were offering her this new room only because we were aware of the mate bond now. It had always been inappropriate to have her in that cleaning supplies cupboard. I felt so guilty. I should have stood up to my family more often and sooner.
“If you’re not ready for your new room yet, that’s ok but I’m very uncomfortable with you staying there. It’s not even a bedroom and it’s a complete disgrace that my parents put you there,” said Alex.
He always had something diplomatic to say which eased the tension a bit. We were quiet now as we moved the gifts to Chastity’s small room as per her request. We headed back downstairs to find all of our
guests eagerly awaiting our arrival
“Boys!” Said Mom, looking a little peeved. “Where have you been?” She seemed shocked to see Chasity with us even though she had lived here for nine years.
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