When We Were Mates (Demetra and Emris) novel Chapter 97

We Were Happy Until Everything Novel 97

Chapter 97

Chapter 97

Alpha Emris.

The moment I wake up, I groan.

Something about seeing Demetra naked has got my morning rise, rising more than usual.

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Isn’t my life just so unfortunate? One would think after a wolf has bonded; he would no longer have to spend the nights on his own. But just take a look at the other side of this large bed.

Empty.

The sheets are still crisp. The pillows are still fluffed.

Another ironic thing is the fact that I can smell Demetra. I can hear her heartbeat if I focused, meters away from each other’s wing but I can’t even go in there. She’s close enough that if I walked down the hallway and turned two corners, I’d be at her door. But she might as well be on the other side of the continent.

I’m bonded. Mated. Yet sleeping alone like some rejected rogue.

Then my mind helpfully supplies the rest as I think about how flushed her body was in that shower.

Blushed Tits with the prettiest nipples I’ve ever seen….soft pink little things. Mmm, I can’t forget how those perky sizes shook when she first saw me. Just the right handful of bounce.

Let’s not even talk about her waistline cause I stepped in when she was bent. Her ass so provocatively full like they were made to be grabbed and spread and marked. I don’t think she knows she has the body of a goddess. The sexiest thing I’ve ever seen on this earth.

Last time I had her on the yacht, I couldn’t and wouldn’t stop…so yeah. I know what I’m missing out on.

Moon Goddess, I’m suffering. Help me. I’m suffering.

I want to punish Demetra for lying to me about my daughter but I’m miserable like a loser.

Miserable because she stands there in my house like a beautiful insult, talking about dates and other men as if I’m supposed to sit quietly and accept it.

How dare she have the nerve to say she would go out with someone else!?

She was ready to marry that fucking geek who couldn’t hold a candle to me if he tried.

Does Demetra think that bastard can handle all of her the way I could? Even when she was on top riding me, I found myself crying, and what…she thinks that geek bastard would last a minute. He would never be able to satisfy her the way I would.

“BZZZT! BZZZT! BZZZT!”

The fucking alarm rings and I slap it off the table with a growl!

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Right, the interview. Today is the day the Pride Pack arrives and everything gets dragged out into the light.

I drag myself out of bed and head straight for a cold shower to clear the fog from my head and settle the heat in my body. It doesn’t help nearly enough, but at least it keeps me from walking out looking like a man who spent the whole night at war with his own instinct.

Right after, I put on the first grey snug shirt I see. No tailored pants today so I choose a pair that sits baggier on my bulk which is functional.

That being said, I leave the Alpha’s Grove toward the weapons room in the pack house.

Bright and early, Creed and Jupiter… the Zeta heads are at the automatic doors. They stop joking around the moment they see me arriving with an energy drink pinched between my fingers.

The weapon’s room is where we handle major interviews when we discover a pack traitor or anything of that sort. It’s where this interview is going to be conducted. Well, the official name is the Intelligent Unit, but I like to call it the weapon’s room because it holds the painful tools we use to investigate.

Such as the silver–laced audio scrolls that trigger pain if falsehood is detected.

Some professionals from the neutral territories are coming to assist. I’m going to need their help for all the witnesses Ronin Pride brings along with him. We’re going to run a full check on their backgrounds. They’ll probably be here for three days.

The neutral territory folks will then return to the witnesses‘ families and cross–check alibis. Yeah, it’s going to be that detailed. I don’t leave things to chance. Never have.

“Is everything set?” I say as the first door opens automatically.

“Yes, Alpha.” Creed nods, falling into step beside me.

“What’s going on in the Pride pack currently? With Slade? Did anyone fucking go out or come in?”

“No.” Jupiter says from my other side. “However, Slade has not been in the pack.”

“Mmm.” I continue walking.

Cold smoke exhales as another automatic door opens. Everything in here is metal, reinforced titanium and black iron like a superhero’s lair. The walls are dark grey paneling with LED strips running along the seams, casting everything in a cold blue glow that makes my wolf feel right at home.

I stop in front of a keypad mounted on the wall and punch in my code.

The wall hisses as hydraulics release. The entire section slides open with a deep mechanical groan, and cold smoke pours out from the seams like a tomb opening. The temperature drops ten degrees instantly.

Inside is my modern armory.

Weapons of all kinds line the walls. The ones strapped to fingers…tiny silver blades that fit under fingernails, invisible to pat–downs. The ones that are used on the knee to find serrated edge weapons that lock onto joints and don’t let go. Silver bullets in rows and wolfsbane guns in their glass chambers.

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“The interview is definitely going to take more than a day, Alpha.”

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“I know.” I crack open my energy drink and take a long swallow. “But since I have Ronin’s daughter, he’s gonna stay here for thirty days if I need him to. Start setting up.”

I tell them, and they leave to do so. I spend the next hour checking the equipment…filling silver into the Wolfsbane–Silver Hybrid Cartridges. They’re custom rounds; a hollow–point filled with liquid wolfsbane for when I sense a small lie.

By the time I check my watch again, an hour and thirty minutes have passed.

Usually, Milo is up by now, and I want to make sure I’m there to get him ready for the day so he can have breakfast.

When I get to Milo’s bedroom, imagine my surprise to find Demetra brushing his hair.

In a…she’s wearing a backless yellow summer willowy dress that moves like water. Her hair is in a frizzy state, still messy from sleep, and she’s smiling so much at whatever trick Milo is showing her in the mirror. He holds a water gun while she moves the brush gently against his curls.

The back of that dress is open almost to her lower back, so I can see her skin.

So… this is what Demetra looks like in the morning getting our kids ready….how soft she looks when she’s not trying to fight me. How normal…this is

Moon Goddess, I…I forget how to breathe.

“Daddy?!”

Demetra looks back at me when Milo yells.

How domestic this is.

It’s everything to see her hair slightly rough in my son’s room where the toys are messy on the floor, wearing just fuzzy slippers and that yellow dress that can easily be-

“Daddy!?” Amira joins in.

She’s already dressed up too. Demetra put her hair in braided lavender ribbons.

“Milo was up already so I figured I would get him ready too.” she says, letting Milo go.

After yesterday’s argument, I almost forget to correct my face fast enough. I need to look less stunned.

“I hope it’s not a problem?” Demetra asks.

“Um, no.” I clear my throat. “Come here, kids.”

I crouch and give them both kisses. Milo’s forehead first, then Amira’s cheek. Over their heads, I watch Demetra walk back to the dressing table, where she clears the hair lotions she used on Milo. The backless dress shifts with her movement. I see the curve of her spine.

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I’m just… in awe.

:

I can’t exactly place it. It’s like everything she does makes me in awe of her.

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The kids run from my arms to wherever children run to, and I get up slowly, like a man waking from a spell.

“Amira’s nanny will be joining us in the pack,” Demetra says, not looking at me directly. cause she’s organizing the table. “I can’t trust my daughter with your Zeta or Deltas or your mom… so Amira’s nanny-”

“Fine.” I agree.

She just looks at me in my reflection in the mirror.

“Milo is a sweet boy,” she says after a moment.

“Yeah… sweet like me.” I respond, bending down to pick up a race car toy from the floor before one of the kids trips on it.

I don’t see Demetra’s reaction to me saying that, but she walks toward me in those fuzzy slippers.

“My dad is coming today to the pack for the interview-”

The kids rush back into the room, chasing each other and giggling.”

“Yeah. Women are not allowed in the area-”

“Excuse me!?”

She fumes instantly, exactly the way I know. I just made up a rule on the spot to keep her out of the scene for when I give her father the first real slap of the day.

Trust me, I’ve been wanting to slap that bastard for a long time, and I don’t think I’ll be able to resist it when he starts lying to me. So of course I’ll make up something. Anything to keep her out. Anything to keep her from seeing that side of me.

“I know you are many things, Emris but sexist cannot be one of them.”

“Okay then. Not women. Lunas instead.” I say with a smirk. “Every woman but you is allowed in there.”

I notice the kids suspiciously whispering into each other’s ears behind us. I don’t take too much notice of it because Demetra is letting me know exactly what sort of scum she thinks I am.

Together, the kids join hands and push her.

She stumbles at the point of saying something horrible—

Then squeals instead. I know I’ll catch her

All until-

Until my foot catches on one of Milo’s racing cars!

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So, we fall.

Not to the floor but onto Milo’s bed-

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