Celena and Alec laid entangled together in nothing but there underwear. Celena wasn't quite sure when she had lost her jeans and t-shirt in the battle for dominance but she knew that she had enjoyed every moment with Alec, and now laying with him made her feel safe something she hadn't truly felt since her parents were alive and she was eight years old when they had been killed. Fane was only four.

"Lena?" Alec extended the word making it sound almost sing song voice.

"Mmm?" She mused

"Yesterday on the train you said you would explain what this is," he said indicating there bodies, "and why it is just for now,"

"It's like I said its a wolf thing I don't exactly know how to explain it,"

"What's a wolf thing?"

"Mating for life," she sighed.

"So what when you say for now you mean forever,"

"Not quite, I mean until my true mate comes along,"

"And what makes you sure I'm not him,"

"Your not a wolf," she sighed refusing to look at him this next part was going to hurt him and she knew it. "Because I am a pure blood my true mate has too be either a pure blood or a dominant even if you are turned you will only be a submissive."

"So what I'm just to keep you occupied until you decide you get bored and go looking for a wolf mate." Alec stood and pulled on his jeans,

"Alec, it's not like that, me and who ever my mate is have been matched since we were born,"

"Great so you knew about him and you still decided to date me anyway, you could of said no Lena, and then maybe I wouldn't feel so used," he strode to the door of the bedroom intending to leave

"In this modern time every wolf has the occasional fling before they find their true mate. You can go a life time without finding them and those flings are the only thing to keep you sane." Celena stood up and rushed to him

"So that's what I am to you a casual fling that you can date when you want to be admired and completely ignore when you don't, my dad was right about you,"

"Alec when I agreed to go out with you that's all I thought you were looking for just a fling I had heard Savannah's reputation and thought maybe you were the same, but I was wrong and I fell for you," celena was standing in front of the doorway stopping Alec from leaving, "in the name of the moon I fell, I fell for you more than I would of ever thought possible,"

"Thanks for that explanation," he grumbled pushing past her and pulling on his shirt

"Alec, I'm in love with you." She called to his back

"Si u te ibusec razbonic moo angel," Alec did his best to speak Romanian but didn't quite make it. "You said that to me on the phone what does it mean?"

"Și eu te iubesc războinic meu angelic," celena corrected, as Alec walked back toward her,"it means, as I love you my angelic warrior,"

"You know you make my life incredibly difficult when you speak in different languages,"

"Buono,"

"French?"

"Italian, for good,"

"Your incredible, you know that,"

"Yep, and I take that your not still angry at me,"

"I'm angry that you didn't tell me sooner, but no not at you,"

"Alec we got back together yesterday, and it was half the reason I broke up with you I blamed it mostly on the whole breaking my promise thing,"

"I know," Alec sighed and collapsed onto the edge of the bed. "I still don't regret wanting to be a wolf, I just understand your reasoning behind it,"

"Alec understand this, please because I will only say it once," she sighed and sat down beside him grabbing his hands, "I love you for who you are, I don't care if you are natumeste or a fairy, or a warlock, or a human or even one of those filthy bloodsuckers, I love you for you, if you get changed into a wolf it is possible you will loose all your memories, every thing that makes you you. I don't even want to consider that one day I will have to let you go as a lover, but you will always be my friend, and who knows my mate may not even come looking for me,"

"But your immortal, I am not," he sighed still not meeting her eyes

"I am as mortal as you are," she said with a small smile "until I am bonded to my mate,"

"Bonded?" He gave her a strange look,

"For now can I just say it is the wolf way of marriage. It is extremely hard to explain." She sighed and laid back.

Alec laid back with her and she twisted so the her head was on his chest, "for now, I can wait for answer until you actually meet this guy, but I have one final question, how do you tell if they truly are your mate."

"With marks, like the ones we are born with. When we connect with our mate, we will both get marks that are only for the others eyes, its not anywhere private as such mostly on the back my mother and fathers wrapped around there torsos each pair is unique, sometimes it takes days or weeks before the marks show, sometimes it may even take months." She said as Alec traced the pattern on her collar bone, "as unique as a finger print."

"As much as I hate to admit this. It is actually pretty cool, the whole love makes you immortal thing the marks that binds you to one another,"

"But the thing that I worry most for is the fact that once you are bonded to your mate, if one dies so does the other," she sighed " you literally can't live without each other."

"Okay so whoever came up with that had read far to much Shakespeare,"

"What?"

"Romeo and Juliet, they commit suicide because they can't bare the thought of living a part,"

"Okay now you sound like Jess,"

"She has that affect." He smiled and looked at her almost nude body, "perhaps you should put a shirt on or fane will kick me out of this complex,"

"Not before I rip his throat out for barging into my apartment,"

"Don't you share anymore,"

"Not since his 16th birthday. He still waltzes through this place like he owns it, but in a way he does since he is alpha,"

"But your alpha female,"

"Only until he gets bonded, I wouldn't be an alpha if I wasn't older than him," she sat up and pulled on her jeans and t-shirt. "The oldest child is alpha once their parents die or in my case they turn 16 unless they are female and then it falls to the male, but because fane and I were both under age when our parents died, that means I was alpha for four years until he turned 16 and now I still hold power over the pack but he holds the majority,"

"So once fane finds his girl you loose that power,"

"No I hold the position of the second Romulus's roll,"

"So that's why he doesn't like you very much,"

"And the fact that he never found his mate, that he acted as alpha until I turned 16 and that my father banished his brother,"

"What why?"

"Well sometimes wolfs get upset and try to bond with un mated females, at the the time Remus was in this pack he locked onto the only unmated female, who also happened to be 7 years old,"

"You?"

"Yep, so that's my sop story,"

"I have one final question, is Romulus's brother really named Remus. As in Romulus and Remus from the Greek myth,"

"Some purebloods like to express their pureness and their mother was one of them and it didn't help that they were twins,"

"Twins are said to be cursed in our race, if twins are born one is said to have nothing but the evil parts of a human within its soul, they never make it past 10 years of age," Alec sighed sitting up to look at celena, "I'm going to have to go, Jess will flip if I'm late,"

Celena walked down the stairs with him and stopped in what was once the lobby. She lent up to him and kissed her lips to his. Softly he pressed back she didn't want to pull away but knew she needed to.

Before she knew it she was thrown backwards hitting hear head into the corner of the reception desk and someone stepped between her and Alec. Sergei Renwick stood between Celena and Alec, snarling like a possessed dog. "Stay away from my mate!" He snapped

"Your mate?" Questioned Alec. "Correct me if I am wrong, but I do believe Celena is un mated."

'Shut up Alec he will kill you' a voice in Celena's head was screaming but she couldn't manage to make the words reach her throat. Fane knelt down beside her and pressed a towel to her head, it came away stained with red. Blood.

"What would you know about being mated, natumeste!" The words were like poison and dripped with cruelty

"Obviously more than you if that is how you treat your so called mate," Alec pointed to Celena's limp figure. "Look at her, who is to say that wound is not fatal, I've seen people die of less,"

"How dare you speak to me like that, you filthy demon hunter. You know nothing !" Sergei snapped before launching himself at Alec. Before he could react there was a massive brown wolf on top of him.

"Alec!" Cried Celena attempting to get to her feet but fane held her back.

Alec slid out from underneath the wolf and spun kicking it in the ribs. He was glad to hear the satisfying crunch as the weaker ribs broke under the force of the kick.. The wolf swiped out again, Alec jumped back avoiding the swipe. He jumped forward and rolled over the beasts back confusing it again he kicked hard into the front paw, and then swinging his leg around causing the wolf to crumple to the ground. Several other members of the pack went to go to the aid of Sergei but fane snapped. "No, this is his fight, and his fight alone,"

The wolf submitted lowering himself to the ground. Alec was triumphant. He turned to rush to Celena but was knocked to the ground he rolled and saw a great paw coming down on his face. Suddenly the world turned scarlet and not long after turned completely black. The last thing he heard was Celena screaming his name.