The Pack's Luna: The Pack Series Book 4 novel Chapter 398

Zach

The first thing I thought when I was told that Alpha Squad was deploying immediately was that I was going to miss my opportunity to get to know my mate. I turned and looked at her, standing in the crowd watching us with rapt attention.

“Cipher!” Raptor snaps.

I turn back to him. “Yes, sir?”

He clenches his teeth. “You finding your mate today is not ideal. However, our jobs are not nine to five and we don’t have the luxury of putting work aside for personal matters.”

Damn.

“I understand, sir.”

“However, mate bonds are extremely important. You won’t always get this level of grace, Cipher, but take tonight. Get to know your mate, mark each other if you’re both in agreement, and tomorrow, meet us at the Academy at eight o’clock sharp.”

“Thank you, sir!” I say, thrilled that I have one night to be with my mate.

Before I go talk to my mate, I go to Alpha Nevaeh. “Alpha, a quick question,” I say.

“Yes, Cipher.”

I realize that from the moment Raptor gave me my new name, everyone would begin using it.

“Alpha, as you know, my mate will be a student here next year. I was wondering if, rather than us having to move off campus, could I just keep my room on the freshman floor and have her move in with me?”

“If your mate is willing to share a room with you, Cipher, I’m okay with that. Are you sure you want to stay on the freshman floor?”

I shrug. “I’m already there, Alpha, and it will put Sadique closer to the other students in her year. I can ask her what her thoughts are, but I think it would be better for her to be closer to the other students than to be isolated from them, especially if I’ll be travelling on assignments.”

“Spoken like a caring mate, Cipher. Talk to her and let me know. We have time. The next semester doesn’t start for a couple of months.”

“Thank you, Alpha.”

When I turn, Sadique hasn’t moved. She’s still watching me with those intense grey-blue eyes. Damn, I’ve never felt my body yearn like it is for her, and I don’t even know her yet.

I make my way to her, our eyes never leaving each other. I swear the room could be burning down and I wouldn’t notice. All there is in the world is her.

“Sadique,” I say quietly.

“Zachary,” she says and it’s like her voice has pushed a button to ignite the nerve endings in my body. That one word has me aching for her in a way I’ve never ached for a woman in my life.

“I’m being deployed,” I say.

“I heard. You need to leave?”

I shake my head slowly. “Raptor, that’s my boss, he gave me tonight to be with you. I have to report for duty tomorrow morning at eight o’clock. Do you want to spend the rest of today and tonight with me?”

She smiles and it feels like my heart is swelling from just that look. I imagine it will every time she looks at me that way. I want to do everything in my power to make her smile at me like that again.

“I’d like that.”

“Good. We have some things to talk about. Do I need to speak to anyone about the two of us staying here together?” I ask.

She looks around as if suddenly realizing that there is more than just the two of us in the world.

“My parents, they’re here somewhere,” she says, looking around.

“We are literally standing right beside you, darling,” an older woman says. She looks enough like Sadique that she must be her mother. She turns to me. “I am Luna Pari, Sadique’s mother.”

“Luna, I am Alpha Zachary, Sadique’s mate.”

“And I am her father, Alpha Ramin,” the large man beside Luna Pari says.

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