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There is a knock at my office door but before I get a chance to say anything, it's opened. I huff out a breath and watch as Milo emerges. "What happened to waiting?"

Milo shrugs. "I knocked, didn't I?"

My eyes roll in his direction. "What's up? I'm kind of busy."

"Just wanted to let you know that I got a hold of Nate."

I drop my pen to the desk and lean back in my chair. "Who?"

"My mate."

"Oh shit, really?"

Milo edges closer and perches on the arm of one of my chairs. "Yeah. I mean it took a while for him to even listen to me through mindlink but I asked for him to just give me another chance. For me to prove that this can be fixed and that he can't walk away from this."

I swipe a hand across my jaw. "And what did he say?"

He smiles back at me gently. "He said he will give me a chance to explain. I invited him over here, so he can see my life, see that I'm not some hot mess and I do actually belong to the pack and I'm a beta."

"A beta that barely does any work," I mumble under my breath.

"Hey!" He shouts and I lean my elbows on my desk. "I don't need any of your negative attitude right now."

I guess I'll let it slide for today. "So he's definitely coming over?"

"I don't know. He said he'll see. I guess I'll have to wait."

"Well I'm rooting for you."

"Me too." His shoulders relax a fraction. "Anyway, I'm going to go chill with Reign. She calms my nerves and I need to be around someone who isn't busy right now."

My heart warms at his words. I adore the fact that Reign can keep him calm, distracted. Someone that he wants to be around because he feels comfortable, that makes me so damn happy.

"Well you two have fun," I pick up my pen. "I've got loads of work to do and no time to talk. I hope he turns up."

Milo nods. "Me too. I would help but I think I might throw up so I'd rather go take my mind off things."

My hand waves at him. "Milo, it's fine I get it. Go wait for your prince charming, I'm not mad about it."

He stands from the chair and claps his hands in front of him. "Thank you."

"Tell Reign to come see me later," I say before he reaches the door.

"So she can bother you but I can't?"

I scoff at his words. "I'm stuck here doing work for this pack, I think seeing my mate for a couple of minutes is completely acceptable. Don't you?"

Milo huffs out a breath and presses his hand to the door handle. "Guess so. Anyway I'm going to hang out with your mate now. Enjoy."

Then the door is slammed and I'm slumped in my seat. It's fine. A day of work and then I can get back to training the pack, spending time with my mate and not being up all day and night. One more day. It can be done.

An hour ticks by and then two, I'm still up to my neck in work but every second that goes by is another second completed. I bet Milo and Reign are eating junk food and watching something fun. Boy, I am jealous. More of Milo right now.

Alpha. The guard's voice floats into my head. We have a visitor at the gate.

Give me a minute.

I shuffle together the papers and stand from my chair. As I exit my office and head straight out of the pack house, I head towards the gates where the guards are making sure our territory is protected.

The gates are opened and I stare back at the man before me, dark blonde hair and piercing brown eyes. He's fairly tall, a slim but muscular build. I notice that his hands are shoved into his pockets and when he notices me looking, he removes them and they drop to his sides.

"Hello," I greet him. His eyes stay locked on mine. He's sizing me up. "Is there something you need?"

"I'm Nate." He says quickly and my eyes widen a fraction. "I'm here to see Milo."

I lick my bottom lip. "Yes. Of course. Come in." My head nods towards the guards and they grant him access before shutting the gates behind us. "I trust you found the pack house easily enough."

Nate turns to look at me. For a moment he says nothing and I want to huff out a sigh but I don't. "Yeah I did."

"I'm Everett by the way," I introduce myself. "Milo's brother."

"I see."

I frown at his tone. He's probably nervous. Milo is going to shit himself. "Milo has been expecting you today. I think he was concerned you weren't going to show."

"Yeah... well," he runs a hand through the top of his hair. "He said to give him a chance to hear him out and I-I," he begins to struggle with his words. "I want to hear what he has to say."

My eyes glance at him but he's staring at the floor as we walk. "Milo is a good person. I'm not saying he's perfect but who is? He never wants to hurt anyone. He's devastated, you know?"

Nate turns to look at me, eyes gleaming slightly. "So am I."

"I get that." I agree. What he saw must be traumatising. I don't even want to imagine walking in on seeing Reign getting ploughed by some other guy. If that's the first meeting we have, I'd be fucking livid. The man would die. That's for sure.

I welcome him into the house and head straight for the living room. "I'm sure he's in here."

My hand presses to the door, Nate is close behind me. I can tell he's apprehensive because his eyes can't meet mine and his lips are in a permanent frown. I pray this goes to plan.

As I step into the living room, music is blasting a rather cheesy pop song. Milo and Reign are holding hands whilst singing and attempting to dance with each other, they barely notice our appearance. Milo is smiling and Reign is beaming right back at him. She's distracting him from this moment and any second it's about to shatter to the ground around him.

I clear my throat loud enough for them to hear. Milo jumps apart from Reign, a look of fear in his eye. He turns from me to Nate and his mouth falls open, he steps closer. "Nate."

When I turn to Nate, his eyes are burning into Milo's. The room turns silent and I glance at Reign, her eyes are wide and she holds her hands behind her back.

The tension in the room is enough to suffocate us all. "Hi," Milo mumbles again, he's in complete awe of his mate. "I-I didn't think you were going to come."

Nate stares back at him and says nothing for a few moments. I guess he doesn't want a show, I look back at Reign and beckon my head out of the room. She understands what I'm trying to say and follows me out immediately into the hall.

I take one last look at Milo and give him a supportive nod and shut the door behind them.

My arm is wraps around Reign's shoulder and I walk us towards the kitchen, pressing my lips to the top of her head as she places her arm around my lower back.

"You have a great singing voice," I murmur into her hair.

She chuckles and pushes at my torso but I don't budge. "Shut up. I haven't listened to music in ages."

My heart cracks like a porcelain doll. "Thanks for distracting Milo. I think he needed it or he would be going insane right about now."

"I hope it goes well," she peeks up at me. "Milo deserves this. I feel awful for them both."

"Me too, angel." I kiss her head again. "I've got to get back to work but I'm going to try and get it done as quickly as I can and meet you for dinner?"

Reign pulls back and nods with a sweet smile. "Of course," she says. "I'm gonna go practice archery I think. Haven't done it in a while."

"Have fun," I reluctantly pull my hands away from her. "I'll see you later."

She presses onto her tip toes and I lower my head, our lips colliding in a soft kiss. "Bye."

As she walks away I'm left with blood racing straight to my crotch after a damn kiss.

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It's approaching seven o'clock and my stomach is growling, I have one last thing to do and I'm done for the night. Safe to say I raced through everything so I wasn't working into the early hours.

When I'm done I pack everything away and tidy my office into a presentable space, I won't want to tear my head off when I next come in here if it's clean. I'll definitely thank myself.

As I leave my office and head for the kitchen, the smell of fresh cooking invades my senses. I spot Reign behind the counter, standing at the stove as she stirs around something in a pot.

"Hi," I say to catch her attention.

Her blue eyes shoot to mine, a gentle smile covering her lips. "Hi. Bet you're hungry."

My stomach growls at her words and I approach the counter, looping to see what she's cooking. "I'm always hungry." I admit with a small laugh. "What are you making?"

"Well I took one of the cookbooks and decided to make a carbonara," she raises her shoulders slightly. "I hope you like it."

"For me?"

"For you."

I wrap my arms around her body and tug her into my chest. "Thank you, angel. What's this for?"

"For everything," she murmurs into my shirt. "For giving me everything. I should be thanking you."

My grip tightens around her, chest combusting at her words. "You don't need to thank me," I whisper. "It's my job as a mate to look after you."

"And it's my job as a mate to look after you." She pulls away and there is a glint of playfulness in her eyes.

When she plates up the dinner and we sit on the counter eating our food, Reign tells me about her day and I tell her about mine. Milo left with Nate earlier and they're not back yet. I want to ask how things are going but I decide to give him some space.

"Did you like it?" She asks as she takes my empty plate.

"It was delicious. Thank you."

She smiles over her shoulder and begins to wash up. I stand from the stool and walk towards her, taking the plates from her hands. "These can wait," I say, taking her wrist instead.

"But it's messy."

I grip her face between my hands and tilt her gaze up to mine. "I think they can wait."

"Bu–"

Before she can finish my sentence I press my lips to hers and she gasps into my mouth, pressing onto her toes and wrapping her arms around my shoulders. I swipe my tongue across her bottom lip and she whimpers, our tongues brushing softly.

I reach down behind her thighs and hoist her up around my waist, she laces her fingers into the back of my hair and I nip her lip in response. Then she tightens her hands and I'm about to blow.

We turn from the kitchen and I carry us upstairs, her legs crossed at the ankles around my body. Not once do we break the kiss, twisting and turning and releasing soft breaths as my hands knead into her ass.

I click open our bedroom door with my foot and drop her to the bed. She stares up at me with dilated eyes and swollen lips. God. Those fucking gorgeous lips.

For a moment we just stare at each other, breathing heavily. Then she sits up on her knees and slowly begins to unbutton her own flannel shirt, one by one, eyes still on me. Her lips curve into a smirk as she allows a tiny bit of skin to show at a time until I see her red lacy bra underneath against her pale skin.

I suck in a breath and tell myself to calm down. My wolf is ready to pounce.

Then she loops her fingers into her shorts and pulls them down her legs, revealing her matching lace panties. Now my eyes are hooded and my teeth are grinding down into my jaw tightly. She's torturing me. Agonising torture.

My eyes roam over her perfectly crafted body. So beautiful. So damn beautiful. And I want to claim every inch of it because she is mine.

I study her as she falls down onto her back and takes down her panties with a little tease, letting them hang at her ankles before she tosses them to the floor. Her legs spread and her index finger slips down her glistening slit slowly.

"Angel," I grit out. My chest heaving rapidly.

"Don't you want to watch?"

I bite down so tightly on my bottom lip that I almost tear the skin. When I don't respond she smiles and presses back into the pillow, her finger massaging her clit and then she dips a finger inside her tight pussy.

My erection in my pants begins to ache. Pressing against the zipper of my trousers. God. I'm going to burst before I even touch her. She has no idea what she does to me.

Then she removes her finger from her pussy and drags it towards her lips, giving herself a taste of her sweetness. Before I know what I'm doing, my knees are on the bed and I'm straddling her body. My hand balls into the back of her hair and I force her face to mine, eyes flicking between hers frantically.

"Stop teasing me."

Reign shudders at the tone of my voice. "Then play with me, Ev."

I grip her hair tighter and she moans softly. "Don't mess with me, Reign. You know you're playing with fire."

Her bottom lip slips between her teeth. "I'm not messing."

My hands grip her waist and I twist her around, face into the sheets. I slap my hand across her bare ass and she grunts, moving her head to look at me with lustful eyes. "This ass is going to be mine tonight." Another smack that leaves her skin red raw.

Reign grunts into the bed, fisting her hands into sheets. "Then take me."

Adrenaline rushes through my body knowing I am about to unleash everything onto her until she's screaming my name and my cum is dripping from her pretty little asshole.

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