Alpha Adryan
fifty two

When she had lied to Adryan she didn't expect to actually end up at theclearing. Her eyes take in the beautiful scenery ahead. In this part of theforest, the trees stood far from each other, a considerable amount ofdistance, but the canopy they formed overhead was enough to makeup for the distance casting a shadow on the area. Through the spacesbetween leaves and branches, a small amount of sunlight managed toescape, casting enough light. Lastly, most of the forest floor wascovered with wild flowers and vines that climbed up trees.

She kneels on the ground spotting a flower that caught her interest, hereyes inspect the reddish brown flower blooming among the other wildflowers. Her fingers delicately touch its petals, she moves forward toinhale its scent, its rich sweet fragrance causes her eyes to close indelight.

He was content with watching her from a distance, for now.

His eyes take in as she kneels on the forest floor. Her long red hairfluttered in the wind. Her fingers found the red flower growing amongthe wild ones. He watched with warmth in his usually cold heart as sheclosed her eyes after scenting the flower as if she was saving it to hermemory. He was mesmerized by her beauty. Her eyes caught under thesunlight appear like gems. He takes a step back, his foot accidentallystepping on the dried leaves on the ground, causing a crunching sound,he closed his eyes in slight anger and curses internally. He opens hiseyes after a moment to watch, only to replace her standing now, heremerald green eyes trying to replace the source that made the noise.

She couldn't replace him, he had done a good job at concealing himself.He was used to being in the shadows his whole life, blending in cameto him so naturally. He could hear the fast thumping sound of his heartbeating.

She was nervous, he could tell. She had detected his presence but shecouldn't spot him. She thought she would get attacked if she didn'tstay alert. But, what she didn't know was he could never hurt her, evenif she tried with his everything. She wasn't someone meant to be hurt,she was meant to be cherished.

She was busy looking for him that she didn't notice the male wolfapproaching her.

Jade could feel her heartbeats in her ears, surprisingly she didn't feelafraid, she was more nervous not knowing what was out there watchingher.

A hand comes to rest on her shoulders, making Jade jolt away from thetouch in surprise. She turns back to face the culprit only to see a manwith his hands up in surrender motion.

"Woah," the man says.

"Who are you?" She asks, ready to attack if he pulled any surprisemoves on her.

"Ouch, I thought since we went on one date, you'd at least remembermy voice,” he says with humor lacing his voice, now that she took hisappearance in, he was an attractive male, with messy brown hair andbaby blue eyes that twinkled. Her eyes widen when his words register."Nathan?!" she asks not sure.

"Voila!" he exclaims with a smile on his face.

"What are you doing here? and why didn't I see you before when Icame to the pack?” she asks.

"Well for your first question, I should be the one asking you that. It'snot safe to be here especially when you are alone, all by yourself.Secondly, Alpha had sent me away to train a pack down east for a fewmonths, I just arrived yesterday, probably the reason why we didn'tmeet when you came a few months back."

She nods her head, "Well it's nice to finally put a face to the name.” hervoice filled with humor.

Nathan's eyes light up at her words. "You know even though I was gonefor a few months, I've heard everything that happened between youand Alpha, and about your eyesight, and I also heard that you have ason now?" he asks her, even though she and Nathan went on a datetogether, he didn't sound bitter about the fact that she never got backto him or about the fact that she hid the fact that she was his Alpha'smate.

She smiles at his words, "Yes, the past three years have been crazy.”Nathan nods his head, agreeing with her. "Tell me about it," he says,"Come one, let's go back to the packhouse, It's almost time for thelunch to be served and I'm so hungry.” As if on cue his stomachrumbles causing Nathan's cheeks to redden in embarrassment and Jadeto let out a laugh. Both of them turn to way away towards the packhouse.

He feels warmth fill his insides hearing her melodious laugh, the arrivalof the male had strayed her earlier search for him, he watched as thepair turned to walk away. He was about to walk away as well, but hewas surprised to see Jade turn back to look back at the trees where hewas hiding in, his eyes flash violet when they meet her green eyes, hereyes widening after catching his. To his surprise once again, she doesn'tgive away his presence to the male beside her.

Jade felt her heart almost stop when she spotted a pair of violet-colored eyes staring back at her, but what scared her was how she feltinside when their eyes met for a moment. She felt like she could drownin those violet eyes that stared back at her with so much intensity. Shefelt a slight fluttering in her stomach. Jade didn't dare mention aboutthe unknown person's presence to Nathan.

The last thought on her mind before she left was confusing even to her,“was he the reason drawing her to this place?’