Hey everyone, long time no write. I know. This chapter isn't perfect, but I just want it off my computer before I go crazy editing and rewriting over and over. Well, enjoy. :)
SSG
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The morning sun was just beginning to peak through the sheer white curtains, yet Annabeth was already awake. Lying on her side, she studied Collin's sleeping form with her head propped up on her palm. She couldn't find the strength to wake him. He was beautiful awake, yet asleep he was even more so.
Her mind was still spinning at the fact that he actually wanted her.
Well, that didn't quite mean he was in love with her yet. Mates were always a strange thing, when she was growing up even. Her mother had been her father's mate. Just thinking about the way it killed him when she left made her shake her head in disgust. He would have killed himself, but there was the fact of three little girls that needed raising that helped him stay going. But, she never thought she would have her own.
Yet, it was how ironic that mating instinct had both gotten her in and out of her mess. It all started six months ago...
She can remember the day like it was yesterday. She had stood leaning against her kitchen cabinets, a cup of coffee gripped in both hands as she sipped at gingerly. Then her peace had been quickly destroyed as her dad flew down the stairs.
He was forty-five, yet he didn't look a day over twenty-one. That was because he hadn't aged since twenty one, the day he shifted he froze in time. He looked like he did everyday with that perpetual tan, short dark brown hair, and those piercing yellow-brown eyes she had inherited.
"Don't leave this house. Keep the doors locked." He ordered quickly flying out of the house. Yet, he left behind his shoes and shirt in a neat pile beside the door.
Her dad had left to go see who was trespassing in their territory. That person she would soon find out to be Gustavo Gala, a so called peaceful lone wolf in search of a mate and a warm place to sleep. Annabeth's dad being the kind man he was welcomed him into the pack, even organizing a little pack dinner that night to help Mr. Gala in finding the thing wolf's spend nearly their entire life doing, his mate.
That night at the pack feast Gustavo's eyes met hers and she watched him shiver involuntary. From that moment on her life changed.
"Annabeth," Collin's velvety voice broke through her painful daydream.
"Huh?" Her head snapped to look at him her expression dazed and mouth slightly ajar. For a few moments it had been like she had been back in time.
His hand moved to up cup her cheek in his palm. "Go put some clothes. I'll call down to Alec and Eli and have them meet us in the restaurant downstairs for some breakfast."
"Okay." She answered and attempted a small grin.
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Emma lay directly in the middle of the bed, yet she was far from comfortable or sprawled out. She lay on her side uncomfortably close to the vampire/man Alec. His morning hard-on was pressed far too firmly into her butt. She knew it wasn't sexual, but that didn't ease her mind one bit. And the fact his face lay buried in her neck didn't help either.
The weirdest thing about it all was he seemed to be purring. It was the strangest thing she had ever heard. It was an abnormal mix of a low growl and a contented sigh. It hurt her to admit it, but... it was kind of sexy. God, what was she thinking everything about this man was sexy. His entire fucking body looked to be built for sex. She needed to clear her head. She had been on the way to rape the previous night! The only conclusion she could come to was that she was obviously fucked up in the head.
She just wanted to grab a fist full of that hair and...
Taking a deep breath she exhaled the naughty thoughts and came back to reality. He could be some kind of rapist killer!
All of a sudden the phone rang.
Emma felt the cool breath on her neck suddenly stop, whilst the arm around her waist tightened. Then, quicker that she could have moved herself he peeled himself from her back and was up standing beside the phone.
With a hand flat on the night stand and back hunched over he answered, "Hello." His voice smooth, but yet still a bit husky from sleep. "Everything went perfectly. Yes." She watched him nod his head a few times before he spoke again. "We were spotted in the southern border, but they were completely evacuated by the time we arrived. They left the girl for some untold reason." He stood up and leaned against the nightstand.
All of a sudden someone knocked on the door.
Alec caught Emma's gaze and nodded toward the door. Reluctantly she slipped from the bed and smoothed her wrinkled shirt.
He lost all focus for a second as he watched Emma shyly tip-toe to the door. The way she looked in his silk light blue button down was affecting him more than he realized. Shaking his head he wrote off his hungry eyes on the fact that he hadn't been laid in a while.
Emma reached the door and opened it slowly. As the door creped open she finally laid her eyes on her visitor.
"I'm Stella." She grinned even wider pulling her into a hug. Yet, Emma's eyes were wide. She knew absolutely nothing about where or why she was here. "Here you go." She passed her a shopping back with everything she would need.
She was far to confused.
"Oh, I guess I should explain." She giggled. "I'm James mate." Yet, the confused look in her eyes didn't subside. "James is Collin's right hand man."
"Who's that?" She asked lowly still holding the bag.
"Your sister Annabeth's mate silly," She smiled.
"What?" Emma set the bag at her side eyes wide.
"You can't be saying Alec told you nothing?" She raised an eyebrow. Emma just nodded as the woman pushed past her and into Alec's room. Closing the door she followed Stella back into the room.
Stella literally stole the phone from Alec's hands. "Yeah, hey Collin. Do you know that you supposed best vampire didn't tell Emma anything when he rescued her?" She snapped. "Do you even know what Annabeth would do to you if she knew that Alec had let her sister think who knows what for an entire night!? You're trying to get her to fall in love with you and you send insensitive jerk here?" She growled into the phone.
"Fine. Fine. FINE." She hung up the phone.
With a deep breath she faced Emma and smiled. "Okay, so this man here," She picked up his tattooed forearm and waved his arm around, "is Alec. He was sent with a bunch of other vampires to save you," She used his arm to point at Emma, "on Collin Sangue's order. Collin found your sister a few days ago and has been helping her get you and your sister from the werewolves. And yes your sister Kadence is here and safe."
Emma simply nodded.
Stella eyed Alec fiercely and then strode out of the room slamming the door behind her.
He just stood there for a moment still clad only in his boxers pinching the bridge of his nose between two tattooed fingers. After a few moments he finally opened his eyes and looked up at her his gaze suddenly as cold as ice.
"The bag by the door should have everything you need in it." He informed. "Go get ready. We'll be meeting your sister's downstairs for breakfast in an hour."
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Stella stormed through the hallway, Eli's room in her sights. If he hadn't told Kadence anything either Eli would get more of an earful than Alec had gotten. Pulling the universal key card out of her jean jacket she unlocked it and stormed in.
Yet, she quickly slowed to a tip toe as she laid her eyes on the sight in front of her. Annabeth's other sister still lay in the middle of Eli's bed. She was on her stomach with her golden brown hair thrown over the pillow and her face; while Eli sat across the room his feet up on a desk whispering into a phone.
She dropped the last bag of clothes she had and stepped the rest of the way into the room.
