When You Were My Mate (Demetra and Emris) novel Chapter 122

Chapter 122

Demetra Pride Covenant.

Just as I step out of the shower after a full day at the office, my phone buzzes on the vanity table. I pick and have a sit on he rushioned stool when I see Lolly’s name lighting up the screen.

‘Lolly, I literally clocked off work two hours ago… what could possibly be so urgent?”

You won’t believe it, Metra.”

“Well, if you don’t tell me, you’re right… I won’t.” I stand and tip my head sideways, shaking water from my curls while I study my reflection in the mirror. I reach for the eye cream on the corner of the table and dab it carefully beneath both eyes.

Our last piece of the final adventure collection just sold!”

What!?”

Yup. We’re back in business, baby!”

‘Um, w-who… who bought it?” I stop moving. “Lolly, that was the most expensive piece in the entire gallery.”

It was only just today we did a reassessment to put that task to the sales department. We wanted to sell every remaining piece in the gallery and prepare for our next project, wherever the inspiration took me. It could take weeks, months….as far is eight months but I’m prepared to take that much time for the next movement of our pieces. Because I’m confident that when it does arrive, it could so easily shatter the European competition entirely.

The name on the bank account says Lake…but that’s not all, the surname is Covenant.” I can hear Lolly’s typing sounds in he background

Okay, but watch this. We’re delivering the package to Black Covenant Pack tomorrow. I can literally see the address right now, and the map says it’s well in your territory. Whoever this is bought an entire estate in the covenant pack and…get this – hey donated a significant amount of money to the coastal cleanup charity in your pack last year. I did a little digging.”

‘Lolly, really?” I say, blow-drying my hair while I hear her giggle over the phone. “Are we searching our customers now?”

I shake my head, though I’m smiling despite myself. I think I can hear Emris in the Alpha’s Grove so I know he’s home already, which means I need to get off this call.

And how do you even know about the donation?”

“Well, a girl needs a boyfriend. And no offense, but our customers are rich. And a girl needs a rich boyfriend”

Right What else?

‘Don’t you think you should invite them to your bonding gala?” she says, and I can tell she’s been sitting on this the whole time. “If it’s a woman, even better you need allies before the next Luna Chapel, someone already in your corner before those women have a chance to circle”

“Oh MOONS. The Luna Chapel

I completely forgot about that.

“Yeah. I figured.” She sighs like she’s my personal assistant and I’m the world’s most exhausting client “You need people on your side. Metra.”

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But isn’t the chapel by vote? I mean, I can’t just become the leader automatically. I don’t wanna become one–

“Well. Elena’s tenure wasn’t over, so… you’ll still have to go to the meeting to find out. Anyway, if the customer turns out to be a male well. then you introduce him to me and we all win-”

I think about it. Bye.”

Demetra, just say yes-

“Bye. Lolly. I’ll see you at work.” I end the call and look at myself one more time in the mirror, scrunching my hair with my fingers and leaning in to sniff my own shoulder – because I do have to check if that the lotion is actually doing what the bottle promised.

I pull on my silk short gown and its matching robe, slide my feet into my fuzzy slippers, and pad down the hall toward the Alpha Groove.

But the second I push the door open, Silver fills the entire frame.

‘Sil- Silver?”

“Oh.” He props one hand casually on the doorframe, broad enough that I genuinely cannot see past him into the room. ‘Hey, gorgeous Luna.”

What are you doing in here?”

What do you mean?” He clears his throat. “I can be in my brother’s room.”

I- yeah, obviously, I just-” I try to peer around him and he shifts. I frown,

Is Emris in?”

‘He’s having his bath.” And then, before I can process what’s happening, Silver claps both hands together so loudly that I linch, and breaks into the widest smile I’ve ever seen on his face. “You know what I just realized? I have never hugged you.

Come here.”

“What-no-Silver-”

He hugs me anyway and lifts me clean off my feet while I flail with all the dignity of a cat being picked up against its will

What are you doing-

“Okay’ He sets me down. I’m done. Emris is in the bath. Go on.”

I stare at him. He stares back like he didn’t just bodily launch me into the air for no reason.

‘My goodness, what is wrong with you-”

I just stop talking and look into the room for a moment, wondering if Emris is hiding something Because I swear Ive never seen Silver this hysterical before, blocking the door like his life depends on it

I push past Silver and step into the room.

Emris is taking a bath apparently. Einris is taking a bath? Since when does Emris take baths? I go into the bathroom cross the doorway and stop dead

Alpha of the Black Covenant Pack, the most territorial, stone-faced wolf I have ever met in my life submerged in a bathtub

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absolutely drowning in bubbles. And I mean drowning. The foam is piled so high I can only see his head floating above the white like some disgruntled island.

Since when does this wolf take bubble baths? Since when?

I glance back over my shoulder but Silver has already evaporated into thin air.

“Hey,” Emris says, like this is completely normal.

“You’re taking a…” I point slowly at the tub. “Bubble bath.”

“What Do I not deserve some Alpha… self-care time?”

He grumbles it and I press my lips together.

“Emris.” I tilt my head and really look at him. Then at the tub. The tub that is, frankly, embarrassingly small for a man of his size… his knees are probably bent at a ninety-degree angle under all those bubbles.

“That tub is tiny. You barely even fit. I bet the one in my suite is three times bigger.” I squint.

He doesn’t answer. Just stares at me with those dark eyes.

Hmm. Silver was literally stalling out there. Is Emris hiding something? And then it clicks to me that Emris said he was going to speak to my brother today and now here’s, sitting in a bath he would never voluntarily choose, in a tub he barely fits in, surrounded by enough bubbles to supply a spa –

‘Emris.” I smile with my hand on my waist and it’s kind that says I already know, so you might as well tell me.

‘Mmmh.”

‘Get up.

…What?”

Get up from the tub. If you actually wanted to relax, you’d have used the hot tub like you always do… the one that actually its you. So get up, please.”

let that sit sweetly for a second. Let him remember that I was once his charity case and I know his habits.

You think I’m hiding something?” He gruffs.

Less talking. More moving.”

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