Chapter 16 (Part 2)

Ryan replayed the events of the previous night in his head as he pulled the sheets off the bed. It has been such a mind blowing experience mating with Angel for the first time. He had slept with other girls in the past, but it never felt anything like what he had experienced with her. It was like her body was made for his. He fit perfectly inside of her. Every move that he made seemed to send pulses of pleasure throughout her whole body. He could feel all of her muscles tense around his shaft as he made his last few thrusts before he released. It was timed perfectly. They had both reached a point of ecstasy and released together as one. He let the feeling of his love for his mate wash through his body as he carried the sheets into the laundry room.

He placed the blood stained sheets into the washer and started the cycle before heading to the kitchen to make some coffee. He sat at the kitchen table waiting for the coffee to brew, when he caught the scent of Angel behind him. She kissed him on the top of his head before sitting in the chair next to him. No words were spoken they just sat there together deep in thought staring out the window. The both jumped a little at the sound of the front door opening. Jack and Tony walked in, gave them wide grins, and walked over to get some of the fresh coffee. Do they know what happened last night? Angel thought to herself. She ran back through the memories of her loud screams of pleasure the night before, and her face flushed as she was sure that they knew. They had just as good of hearing as she had, and was sure that with them only being a few feet away in the cottage they would have heard the events of last nights encounter in her bedroom.

They came back over and set a cup of coffee in front of both her and Ryan, while placing their own cups on the opposite side of the table. She didn't even want to look up at their faces, she felt embarrassed about what they must be thinking.

"Are we going to start on the kitchen today?" Jack asked breaking the silence in the room.

"Yeah, we should be able to get all the demolition done today, then start rebuilding tomorrow" Ryan replied still looking out the window.

Angel wondered to herself if he was as embarrassed to be sitting in the room with the two other werewolves as she was right now. She looked up to try and judge his face. There was nothing there that looked like embarrassment to her. He was just smiling staring out the window as if he were lost in thought.

"I was going to run into the city today, and see if anywhere is hiring. I figure we should start getting ourselves established in the community" Tony said.

"They just finished building a new mill about 10 miles to the east of here. I bet that you could find a job there, and it would save you the 30 minute trip into the city" Angel added.

The three men looked over at her with pleasing looks. Angel had heard a few men talking about the new mill in the diner a few weeks earlier had forget all about mentioning it to them until now. She hadn't even thought about them needed jobs or money. She had accounts set up in her name that received automatic deposits every month from the life insurance money her parents had left her. She never worried about money; she only worked at the diner and bar for something to do. An idea popped into her head at that moment.

"Wait here" she said as she stood up and ran into her bedroom. She grabbed a briefcase out of the closet, and headed back to the kitchen laying it on the table.

"What is this?" Ryan asked eyeing the black leather briefcase on the table.

"I was thinking about what you told me about how a pack works together. How they support each other, and help each other out. You said that everyone in the pack chips in to help build housing and maintain the territory. I would say that were a pack now, wouldn't you?" She asked as she looked around at the three men.

"Yeah we are a pack. Why, what are you thinking?" Ryan said shaking his head lightly. He could only imagine what she had on her mind. He could see the excitement in her eyes, and knew that she had something planned that was probably going to shook them all. Angel smiled widely as she started to open the briefcase.

"I'm doing my part to support the pack," she said as she lifted the lid.

The briefcase was full of money, all the money she had made working at the diner and the bar over the last three years. She never spent a dime of the money that she had made, she never had to. She had just lived off the inheritance money, and saved all the money she made. She knew that someday she would find a good use for it, and figured what better use than to support her new family. The three men started at the money in shock.

"Absolutely not!" Ryan said slamming the briefcase shut. Angel jumped back in shock.

"We are not going to use your money to finish building our house, Angel. We have money left in our account, and we will work for the rest. We will not take that money from you." He growled.

"Why not?" she said a little disappointed at his response to her offer.

"I don't need this money. I never have needed this money. This is just the money I have made since I moved here. I have way more money than I could ever use in my accounts. I want this money to go to the good of the pack." she said sternly. She looked over at Ryan to see the stern look of determination on his face. He didn't want to take money from her. She was his mate and it was his job to support her, not the other way around. She took his face in her hands and tuned him to face her.

"I am giving this money to the pack. You have all accepted me into your pack and it is only right that I give you something in return. I know that you feel it is wrong to take this money from me, but you are going to take it and there will be no more argument over this matter. If you do not take it now, it will just show up as an anonymous deposit in your account by tomorrow." Angel said standing her ground. Ryan let out a deep growl as he stood up and stormed out of the house. Angel frowned and sat down at the table. She looked up at the other two men, her eyes begging for their input.

"Thank you Angel, this is a very generous offer from you" Tony told her. "Ryan will get over it; it will just take him some time. You have to understand that this is hard for him. It is his job to support you as his mate, and he feels that you giving us this money is reversing the roll. That's why he is upset." Tony continued.

"Fair enough, I can understand how that could upset him. This is a gift to the pack, to help us finish our housing. It was not meant to upset him in anyway." Angel explained to the men. They both nodded understanding where she was coming from. At the same time they understood why their Alpha was upset at the gesture.

"You can help pay me back" Angel added, a new idea popping into her head. "I need the upper level of this house finished. There are four more bedrooms, and two more baths up there. When you are finished with the farm house you could finish that for me." Angel continued feeling thrilled at the new idea.

"Yeah, that's a good idea. This could be the Alpha house, and we can make the farm house into additional housing when we add new members to the pack" Jack suggested looking at Tony for approval.

"That sounds good to me, but we will have to run it over with Ryan first" Tony responded.

Ryan paced back and forth in the farm house trying to calm himself down. He was so angry at the offer Angel had made to give all that money to pack. 'she's not supposed to support the pack. She is an Alphas mate, she is my mate. I am supposed to support her. I am supposed to provide for her,' he thought to himself. He heard footsteps on the front steps, and the front door swung open. Angel walked in and stared at her mate trying to judge his emotional state. She knew that she had stepped out of line when she demanded he take the money, but she figured it was the only way to get him to accept. He could feel the anger start to fade away as she looked at the beautiful woman that stood in front of him.

"I am sorry if I upset you, Ryan" she said in a soft voice. "I was not trying to make you feel like you couldn't support me. I just wanted to give what I could to support the pack. I told Tony and Jack that they could help repay me by finishing off the upstairs of the estate." she said with pleading eyes.

She couldn't stand to have the man angry at her. She just wanted him to hold her, to love her. Ryan thought about the words from his mate, and couldn't help but smile at her. She was such a giving person, always looking out for everyone else. Just like she had when they first moved here and had no where to stay. She accepted them with open arms, and no questions. This is just the way that his mate was a loving, caring, giving person. How could he be mad at her for that? She smiled back when she seen that her mate was no longer angry, and ran over to his open arms. He hugged her tightly to his body.

"I'm sorry I acted like that my little Angel. I should not have gotten upset with you. I really should have expected that you would do something like this�" he said with a chuckle. "Why would I have ever expected anything less, from someone with a heart like yours." he added and kissed her on the top of her head.

"How are you feeling, are you still in pain?" he asked.

"Not really, I'm feeling much better now." she replied.

"Good, how would you feel about getting to know your wolf a little better?" he asked looking down at her face.

Angel didn't know if she was ready to get to know her wolf. She was a little frightened to turn into the wolf. What if she wouldn't be able to turn back? What if she had no control over herself when she was the wolf? She thought back to when she had phased into the wolf in the forest. She felt like she was still in control. She figured she had to get to know the wolf sometime or another. According to Ryan the more in touch with her wolf she was, the more she would be able to control it.

"Yes, I think that is a good idea" She finally replied.