Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
“Don’t be.” He was smiling. “It’s your turn.”
“Well, what are you going to do for your future?”
“Well, right now I am a scout, for the pack. But I don’t know if I want to be that forever. I never thought about a career because I didn’t want to leave Riviana with no one to help her with my grandfather. But things are different now so I will have to seriously think about it.”
“We’re still young and we have time.” He nodded at me happily.
“Which pack would you want to live in?” His question was a serious one, one that we would need to put a lot of thought into, but I knew what I wanted.
“I wouldn’t care, as long as I was with my mate.” I looked up at him through the lashes of my half lidded eyes. “I guess it would depend on careers. Our packs are allies so we could live in either one and be happy, right?”
“That we could.”
“What kind of music do you like?” I was too embarrassed to ask any serious questions.
“I like lots of different kinds of music. If it’s catchy, has good lyrics or a good beat I’d probably like it. I get made fun of sometimes for the vast variety of music I like.”
“Oh my Goddess, I am the same way. But different music fits different moods, it’s the only way to truly appreciate it all.”
“What kind of house would you want?” Another major question from him.
“I grew up in the pack house and that’s great and all, but I don’t need anything like that. I wouldn’t care as long as I was comfortable and had just what we needed.” My words made my heart ring with truth and I smiled to myself. “What’s your favorite place to be?”
“Now, or when I was younger?”
“Now.”
“Wherever you are.” I was so taken by his words that my jaw actually dropped. I wanted to bury my face in my hands and hide my crimson cheeks, but I also didn’t want to look away from his handsome, smiling face and those love filled eyes. “How many kids do you want to have?” I did bury my face at that one, choosing to instead answer the question through my fingers, causing the words to come out muffled.
“I don’t know. I never thought about it before. But a couple I guess.” I heard a soft chuckle come from him as he heard my embarrassed answer.
“You’re so adorable.”
We continued on in this way for quite a while. It didn’t progress beyond our game of twenty questions, but we got to know a lot about each other. Favorite foods, things we did when we were younger, good memories, bad memories, there wasn’t anything off limits and that was wonderful.
Just as he was getting ready to leave I walked him to the door and he gave me another one of those kisses. I felt his lips press against mine softly at first but the intensity grew. I was holding onto him for support as my knees went weak, and by the time it was done my heart was pounding and my breaths were coming in pants. He had affected my head, my body, and my heart all with just a kiss. What was I getting myself into?
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Emmalee
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Two days after the big reveal about me and Carter, I was on my way to meet his parents. He had already met mine so it was only fair after all. I was excited, I wanted to meet his parents and see what my in-laws would be like, but I was also nervous too.
Since this was a ‘family’ dinner Riviana and Joaquin were there, as were Noah and his wife Nikki. I had met Noah when they were all back at my house in January, but I hadn’t known at the time that he was married. His mate, Nikki, was pregnant. She and Riviana were just over a month apart and I thought it was going to be so sweet to have the babies that close in age. They would play together all the time.
Eve, Carter’s mom, was so amazing. She was so sweet and so nice, and very polite. I could see how they were all such wonderful people with someone as great as Eve around. And Wesley, his dad, was the nicest dad I had ever met. I thought my dad was great, but he can sound so mean sometimes. But Wesley was amazing. Carter’s whole family was amazing.
While we sat down to an amazing dinner there was a lot of talk and a lot of laughing.
“Emmalee, are you sure it’s this numbskull you want?” Noah asked me with a look of confusion that was clearly fake.
“I’m sure. Carter is amazing.”
“You don’t even know him yet.” Noah pointed out. “I promise you, there’s not much there.”
“Hush now.” Eve snapped at him. “Don’t scare her away. I need another girl around this house. Soon, we might be able to outnumber all of you naughty men.” Eve was giggling as she spoke. “I just know Nikki is going to give us a girl, and Riviana too. Then with Emmalee she will make us all the winners.”
“Too many girls will make all these walking piles of testosterone flip out. They’re all bound to be overly protective dads. You know that, Mom.” Riviana had apparently just started calling her aunt and uncle mom and dad and it had made the whole family happy. She had not thought that she was allowed to for the longest time and now it was something that was out in the open. This whole family was full of so much love.
“Don’t get me started on these cavemen. And Carter is the worst of them all.”
MOM!” Carter snapped his head up from his dinner plate so fast that I thought he was going to break something.
“Well it’s the truth. You were the one that gave me the most headaches. I swear.” She fanned herself pretending to be distraught. “Oh the heartache you have caused me.”
“Stop being mean. You’re going to make her think I’m horrible.”
“But you are.” Noah added.
“If it wasn’t for your bad influence I wouldn’t have done half the things that I did.” Riviana added. Nikki, Joaquin, and I were just laughing as they were all ganging up on him.
“Dad?” Carter was pleading with him.
