Chapter 15

Like I said before, I never expected to have a bullet flying towards me when the news delivered went south.

I had woken up that morning nicely wrapped in Zithanial’s protective hold with not much worry in the world.

I look up expecting to see Zithanial’s eyes closed but it took me by surprise when I was caught in his green forest eyes.

Zithanial smiled sweetly down at me,“Good morning Beautiful.”

I blush and buried my head back in his warm chest, “How old have you been watching me?” I mumbled complete embarrassed.

Zithanial chuckled and smoothed back my hair, which was probably a mess. “I’ve been awake since dawn.”

This made me shoot up and turn to look at him with wide eyes,“That long?! You could have got up if you wanted to, I wouldn’t have minded.”

Zithanial rolled eyes and got up off the bed, turning back to hold his hand out for me to hold. I timidly took his hand and climbed off the bed, once I was up Zithanial pulled me so I was pressed against his body. “If I wanted to get up, I would have. But you were so perfect in my arms that I simply couldn’t move even if I wanted to.” With that Zithanial leans down and brings his lips to mine, slowly parting my lips with his. He slides one of his hands up to gentle cup my head and tilt it in just the right angle so he has perfect access to my waiting mouth.

I moan as his tongue slides across mine, exploring my mouth. Zithanial grips my body closer to his, his body is curved because he has to lean down to match my height. This cause me to bend back as my body moulds to his.

With are both too carried away in each other that we don’t hear the door open and it isn’t until Mum is standing there clearing her throat, do we break apart both breathless.

“As much as I want grandchildren, I really think we should wait until after the Elders announcement to do that,” Mum says as she shakes her head at us.

I for one, am absolutely mortified that I had been caught making out with Zithanial. I bury my head in Zithanial’s chest as he wraps his arms over me, “Mum,” He whines. “You couldn’t have knocked for something?”

Luna Stone just laughs,“I did knock, you just never held. You are luckily that it was me who came up to get you and not your father. He would be saying much worse things than a simple wait until after.”She suddenly gets serious, “But you two need to come down now, the Elders want to announce their judgement.”

“Yep okay, thank you for coming up and telling us. You can go now, we’ll be right down.” Zithanial nods towards his mother, trying to hold back a smile I can see is threatening to break through.

“Okay sweet, just don’t take too long or else I’ll send your Father up here.” With that Luna Stone walks out of the room leaving the door wide open.

“Come on,” Zithanial says as he untangles himself from me. Immediately I am missing his warmth that was surrounding me. “We better get going, we can continue where we left off later,” Zithanial looks over his shoulder and winks at me.

“If you are luckily,” I flirt back.

Wait, I just flirted back?

I smile to myself as I can see the change is already starting.

Zithanial pauses in is his walk and slowly turns around on his heels, he narrows his eyes at me,“What was that you just said?” He asks as he stalks towards me like a wolf creeping up on his pray.

I take a deep breath and hold my ground,“I said, if you are luckily. What, are you already going deaf Old Man?” I try my best to keep a serious face, but this is too fun and I feel the corners of my mouth tipping up.

I have never been able to do this before, I have only watched others mates and wondered.

Now that I am here, I can see why it is so fun.

Seeing my smile coming through, Zithanial’s eyes soften but he continues walking towards me at a slow pace.“Last time I checked, I was only two years older than you.”

I was taken back for a second,“When was the last time you check?” I asked with a frown.

As far as I know, Zithanial never really noticed me until we found out we were mates.

That actually sounds really bad doesn’t it? My mate didn’t like me until he found out it was his destiny. Is this all it is? Him just doing what fate had in mind, cause I am sure that even though I was acutely aware of his presents growing up, he never knew of mine.

Zithanial tilts his head to the side, “I’ve know since you first came to the pack when you were five. I could never forget the day I first saw you with your big brown eyes staring down at me from  where you were being carried in my mother’s arms.” Zithanial gets a puzzled look across his face, “You are my pack and my mate, how could I not know you?” He places his rough warm hand gently on my cheek.

I cast my eyes down, “I just thought that no one ever knew me or were aware of my presents.” Just when I thought I was making progress, I get a set back.

Dammit, why can’t everything go perfect for once?! My mind just has to go into over drive, ruining a perfectly good moment.

Zithanial shakes his head and with his green eyes darken he says, “I have always known you. I always knew where you were and what you were doing. It killed me those times I knew you were crying in your room alone. I feel like I have let you down, because I knew what as happening. I knew that you were being teased and bullied, I just throughout they would realise and grow out of it. I never knew it would come this after; I know you don’t want an excuse but I know I should have done more for you and not be so afraid was everyone.” Zithanial hangs his head in shame as he slides down to his knees.

“Why were you afraid of everyone?” I ask, I know there are so many more questions that could have been asked but I chose this is to go first.

“Because I was only a kid and I was constantly being reminded that I was going to be Alpha one day so I need to do this and do that, and act a certain way. I was scared if I acted different to everyone else that I would let down the Alpha status.” Zithanial’s voice was weak through his explanation, but with knew found determination he continues. “But I now see that I should have followed my heart.” Zithanial looks up into my eyes, for once I am the one who is above him. He takes my hands in his, my hands also shrink in size when enveloped in his. “So that is why I will spend every breath making it up to you because this is all my fault.”

My heart breaks when I see the pain and suffering in his eyes. He had been carrying this around with him for all these years. And more pain was added to it when he discovered what happened when he went away.

Truthfully, you would think that I would hate him. But he couldn’t have done anything about it, if Zithanial did get involved and told Saxon and his gang to stop, it would have just made Saxon hate me even more. No matter what, Saxon would have found a way to torment me because that is just who he is; a bully.

I am actually glad that the Elders decided to banish him and Tiffany.

I pull Zithanial to his feet and take a hold of his handsome face in my hands, “It is not your fault, not matter what you could have done Saxon would have still found a way to hurt me.” I stand up on my tipy toes and pull Zithanial down, when he is low enough I press his lips softly to mine. The kiss wasn’t of passion or love, it was of tenderness and forgiving.

I leaned back, “Come on, we better get down there before Alpha Stone comes up to get us.” I reluctantly pull away from Zithanial and head for the door.

“Um, aren’t you forgetting something?” He asks still standing where I left him.

I turn around confused.

“You are still wearing the clothes you wore yesterday,” Zithanial says with a smile.

I look down suddenly realising that I had in faced slept in the clothes I was wearing yesterday. Zithanial had as well, that is obviously why in one swift motion he pulled his shirt over his head, giving me an amazing view to his sculpted body in the process.

With a blush rising to my cheeks stammer, “Well - I ah, I better go to my room and change then.” I try to pull my eyes off his body but can’t seem to be able to. The sight of his abs and defined chest catch my interest and don’t let go.

I watch the body as it moves across the room to Zithanial’s walk in wardrobe, “Don’t be silly, your clothes have already been moved into my room. Although there was only a small amount so we send someone out to by you some more.” Zithanial stuck his head out through the door way, “You really should wear what I just picked out for you.” He says as he wiggles his eyebrows up and down suggestively.

I shake off the thoughts of Zithanial’s body as I walk into the wardrobe myself. Like he said my clothes had been moved in there, as well as hundreds of new and bright look girl clothes. It ranged from dresses to shirt to tops, everything was colourful and bright with no sign of my past big shirt and jeans vibe.

On the rack right next to where Zithanial was standing with his arms crossed over his now button down clad chest, was a very stunning red dress. It has spaghetti straps going down to a sweetheart neck line with an almost blouse-like top half of the dress then it flowed down into a free falling shirt that should end just at my knees.

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So that is what I was standing there wearing in front of everyone with the Elders by my side when they announced their decision.

The oldest of the Elder step forward, “The punishment for those who were involved in Amelia Sparks’ abuse, we assign 15 extra weeks of patrol and 15 months of communities services.”

You could feel that the whole room let out a breath when the verdict was called, murmurs began to fill the hall.

“However,” The Elders voice booms when the noise gets too loud. “For Saxon Davison and Tiffany Andrews, we fine that with attempted murder, they shall be banish from the pack as of immediately.”

I thought that the room was start singing with the sound of angry voice, but no one said a word as we all looked at Saxon and Tiffany.

It was Tiffany who broke the silence, “You. Fucking. Bitch!” She screams at me. “If it wasn’t for you I would be the next Luna and not a peasant like you. You have ruined everything, you whore.” She continues to scream at me.

But with my Mate by my side, brother in from of me and Alpha and Luna close by, I feel no pain from her words because I know that they are not true. And she deserves everything she gets.

With the power of the people closest to me, a gain the courage to do something I never thought I would be able to do.

I spoke in a room full of people who once hated me.

“You would never be Luna, Tiffany. Not only you are a tart but you are an ugly heart one too. If you had any respect for yourself, you would leave quietly.” The room is once again shunned to silence, this time it was my voice that did this.

“Oooh Amelia,” Saxon’s voice sang, drawing my attention to him and the gun he is holding. “I don’t think Tiffany is the one you should be worrying about.”

With a sinister smile on his lips, Saxon fired the gun and the bullet come rocketing towards me.

My mind froze still contemplating what was going on, everyone in the room was also frozen hardly believing their eyes.

I never expected to have a bullet flying towards me when the news delivered went south.

Time seemed to slow down as I waited for the impact, but it never came. The only sound I heard was a shout of a young male and his body colliding with the ground.

The world came back into focus and I looked down to discover that it was my brother who stepped in front of me and absorbed the impact of the bullet.

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