Alpha Adryan
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"Alpha" Violet instantly shows her respect by acknowledging Adryan'spresence, bowing her head respectfully.

"Violet" Adryan addresses her presence,” Would you be able to bathehim? I need to talk with Jade for a few moments".

Violet felt like the spotlight was put on her, she felt conflicted. On oneside was her best friend whom she knew wasn't ready to talk withAdryan and on the other side was her Alpha, and the said mate.

"I-" Violet is saved from answering when Jade speaks up.

"Talk about what?" she questions Adryan, turning towards him with aneyebrow raised in question.

"Talk about things" Adryan's eyes flit towards Violet's direction. MakingJade realize that he didn't want to speak about whatever he wanted toin front of her.

Heaving a sigh, she speaks up. "Okay", She wanted to get this over assoon as possible, denying him would only make him pursue her harderlater on.

"Come with me" he motions her to follow after him, which she does.She turns back to see Violet mouthing her the word “sorry’, to whichJade just shakes her head and mouths back "it's okay, not your fault’with that she flashes Violet a reassuring smile and continues to followAdryan outside.

"Would you like a tour of the pack?" Adryan asks her after a fewmoments of walking in silence.

She stops walking when she catches his words, Adryan too stops in hissteps when he realizes that she wasn't following behind him, “I thoughtyou wanted to talk?".

" do, I thought why not kill two birds with a stone?". Jade stares at himfor a few moments, to which he holds her stare.

She walks past him, a smile appears on his face on her actions.

So far Adryan has showed her almost all the places in the pack therewas to visit, the pack house which was bustling with a bunch ofenergetic people moving about, doing their thing. She got to see thekitchen where a few omegas were cooking, which led her to rememberthe time she had met Malia. Next he had shown her his old Alpha officewhich still held some of the paper works of the pack related things. Thepack infirmary where she was able to see a few pregnant she wolveswith their mate, visiting for a routine check up, doctors and nursesrunning around when a patient requires emergency care. Then theyvisited the pack nursery, where she watched as toddlers and othersplayed on the playground or ran around chasing others, seeing themand their carefree self brought a smile to her face. She couldn't wait tobring Adonis here, among children his age.

The thing she noticed when she visited all of these places where howeveryone stopped what they were doing once they spotted Adryan andher, bowing their head in respect soon afterwards, what shocked hermore was how they turned towards her to greet her, flashing her asmile and bowing their head at her. She felt overwhelmed with all of it,all she could do was smile back at them politely, not to seem rude.Three years ago, she never interacted with any of the pack members,except a selected few, like Adryan, Violet, Brian, Malia, Nate and howcould she forget, Lucia.

"They're excited to meet their future Luna" a voice whispers near herears, causing shivers to run throughout her body, she could feel theeffects of their mate bond, crackling like fire between them. She turnsto her side, catching a pair of ocean blue eyes staring back at her."What if I don't want to be their Luna?" she asks him, and instantly shecould she physical changes in his appearance, how his ocean blue eyesdarkened, his jaw started ticking like a time bomb.

'Good' she thought, he was getting angry, she could tell by his reaction.She wanted to see if he'd make any scene in front of his pack members."Only time will tell" was his only reply, with that he continues walking.Next they come to a stop at the training field, she'd always known thatThe Blood Moon Pack was a huge pack, hence also holding the title ofthe strongest pack in the world. Their fighting techniques andstrategies were immaculate and done precisely. She admired how therewere the same amounts of females trainees as the males, doing combatwith their training partners. She was also surprised to see small childrenbeing trained off to the side.

"Your pack trains children too?” She asks Adryan, who was stood besideher, looking at the pack members training with pride in his eyes, herquestion makes him turn towards her.

"Yes. Children above the age of eight and above get the basic training,not too much for them to handle. When the need arises, they might beable to protect themselves from harm.”

"That's really good that you guys are training the children” She saysgenuinely. Adryan felt warmth spread through his body at her words.He had always taken pride in the fact that his pack never discriminatedagainst men and women, young and old.

"Can I ask you something, Jade?" Adryan's voice suddenly takes on aserious tone, catching Jade's attention immediately, wanting to knowwhat he wanted to talk about.

Before she could say anything back to him, someone interrupts themby literally barreling towards she and Adryan stood, she lost herbalance and was about to kiss the ground when a pair of arms snakearound her waist.

"Adryan, you're back, oh, thank God, I was bored to death doingnothing” a female voice says, her arms circling around her neck,hugging him tightly. Adryan had to remove his arms from aroundJade's waist, because the woman hugging him and him holding ontoJade put him into an awkward position.

"Adeena” he pulls her back from the hug, "I was only gone for a day,two at the most.” he replies.

Adeena was a woman with a beautiful olive skin tone, with her darkbrown hair cascading down her shoulder, she had an angled jaw with apair of deep set brown eyes that appeared golden when the lights hitthem.

It takes Adeena a few moments to acknowledge Jade's presence, whowas standing by Adryan's side awkwardly. Jade also knew for a fact thatthis wasn't Lucia since this female didn't match the description of Lucia,Violet had given her three years ago, nor did her scent matched toLucia's.

Adeena turns towards Jade, "Who are you?".

Adryan realizing that he hadn't introduced them both and that theywere literally strangers to each other.

"Jade, This is Adeena, My-" he turns towards Jade and speaks up, butgets interrupted by Adeena.

"Wait, this is Jade? Jade Estrada...as in your runaway mate?" Adeenaquestions in bewilderment, staring at Jade with a strange emotion inher eyes. "Wow, you're even prettier in person, the photos in thoseflyers don't do you any justice.”

"What photos and flyers are you talking about?" Jade asks, genuinelyconfused by Adeena's words. Adeena's eyes move towards Adryan'swith a deer caught in headlight look on her face. Seeming like she hadsaid or mentioned she wasn't supposed to. Jade too looks at Adryanwith an enquiring face.

"I, I- uh managed to see a picture of you, yes, that's what I was talkingabout" Adeena instantly replies, Jade knew that she was lying for shewasn't a good liar, and she was stuttering while making up excuses. Shethought she might let the lie go for now.

"Well, I'm Adeena. Adeena Mayflower. Adryan's childhood friend.”Adeena introduces herself formally, with her hands raised in the air fora handshake.

"Hi Adeena, it's nice to meet you" Jade places her hands in Adeena'soutstretched ones, in a handshake.

"Likewise" Adeena replies with a smile on her face.

"Oh, I almost forgot" Adeena starts to say, placing a hand on herforehead, "I need your help with something" she says to Adryan whoremained silent for the past few minutes as Adeena and Jadeinteracted, who turns to look at Jade, Jade knew that Adryan wanted toask her about something important before Adeena interrupted him,Adeena catching onto Adryan's actions turns to Jade.

"You wouldn't mind if I steal him for a bit, do you, Jade?" she asks Jade."No, Not at all" with that Adeena starts to drag Adryan with her, whoreluctantly followed after her but not before shooting a look back atJade. It was funny to see someone as tiny as Adeena drag a giant likeAdryan around.