Alpha Zander
Chapter 15

The final bell rang through the school ending the week, I was soo excited to be out, don’t get me wrong l love school usually, It just means I get to see Zander in a few more hours. I smiled at the thought of seeing him tonight. I was excited about seeing him again.

A little strange that in the short amount of time I have been around him I’ve already become so attached?

I guess the talk we had this afternoon really helped me relax and replace out what he wanted. He wanted me. He wanted to be mates. Yes, we have a lot of different challenges ahead. I would like to build my relationship with him before anything else. I’m glad he just didn’t claim me in front of everyone. I’m glad he understands.

I tried to get my thoughts off Zander. Surely it isn’thealthy to be thinking about him this much.

Kia wasn’t being helpful, flashing all kinds of images through my mind of him naked and dirty and just looking so dam sexy standing there in the dark closet and so close.

I tried all my might to get him off my mind, epically, since I was about to get in the car with Ollie and Brent.

‘Kia please. now is not the time, the others will smell me’ I hissed at her as she flashed another one of her desires through my mind.

We had better see our mate tonight mumbled.

“We will just please stop dirty thoughts right now while I’m around others’

‘Fine, fine, fine’she sighed.

She finally stopped with the craziness and I was able to settle down until they came over.

“How’s your day been?” Ollie asked.

“It was good” I shrugged. “I was able to catchup with the girls and just go to classes. I’m excited for tonight though. It will be good. I haven’t been to clubs before”.

“Ohh yeah that’s right. I forgot about that”, Ollie laughed. “Well I’m sure Chloe will make sure you have a good time.”

I rolled my eyes, “True, she is a bit like you in that sense. She loves the night life.”

Ollie sped home driving like a maniac. We needed to get ready before people started coming over. It wasn’t many, but it was enough to make me nervous. At least I knew I wouldn’t replace my mate, it was hard to be around everyone now I knew Zander was my mate.

But we couldn’t do much about it until I had accepted him fully. I need to decide what I am going to do.

We are not rejecting our mate, Kia snapped.’I will only allow you to reject him if he displays any sort of abuse or cheating, not because of our packs or their stupid disagreements that happened nearly 100 years ago.

‘Fine, I’Il accept those terms, but we still need to be comfortable with him and be OK around him before telling uncle or any family. Do you agree ?

‘Yes I suppose’ she sighed. At least he does understand that. He is trying to make us work and trying to get to know us before anything moves forward,’

At least both Kia and I have come to an agreement on Zander. I hate being out of sync with her. It’s nice she’s been more herself lately.

There weren’t many people coming tonight, just our head warriors and one or two of our chief leaders.

Mum and uncle wanted to invite some single alphas around the area to see if they were my mates, but I asked them to keep dinner small and with some pack members for now. Maybe in a few weeks we could have something bigger if they still wanted it. I suppose I don’t really need anything now I have found my mate.

I certainly wasn’t going to tell them Zander Blackwood was my mate, maybe later on when we have a more solid relationship, but I wasn’t going to tell them now.

As we arrived home, Mum and Auntie hurried us all inside and upstairs to get ready. The boys had to put on nice dress shirts and jeans and I put on the dress that I had bought with Meghan. I decided to put on some of my s3xy lingerie to help make me feel confident and comfortable. Zander won’t be seeing it tonight, but just for myself, I wanted to feel s3xy.

I had to stop myself looking at the clock every minute. I was already counting down the time until l could see him again. Its so weird I feel this way about him even after this morning.

Yes, I was annoyed about what happened, but I can’t hold that against him. People have a past. We wouldn’t be able to move forward if I kept bringing it up every time.

He stopped instantly when he found out we were mates, and by the sound of things he broke it off with Grace also. Yes, I wanted to trust him a lot, but a part of me is still hesitant and I think I will always be hesitant until we become one. I hope in time we can trust each other and become one. I didn’t want to be angry and bitter about it, especially if I was going to be his Luna. I wanted us to be equal.

At about 6.30pm, people started showing up. I have mentioned to Mum we are going to head out around 9.30pm. We had about 18 people all together who showed up for a small intimate dinner.

Usually there will be a big party, but considering we are going to the clubs tonight and we invited everyone to come, I didn’t want to bother. We were close to all those people who came to dinner tonight. I really enjoyed talking to the leaders and going over the week with them.

Even though they still call me Beta, I knew deep down I would be Zanders Luna one day. It hurt a little that I had to keep this secret from my family, from Ollie and Brent, but right now, I was not going to tell them. I couldn’t tell them until I figured it out myself. I could see some disappointment in my mother’s and uncles’ eyes when they saw that no one they invited was my mate.

Would they be disappointed if they knew Zander was my mate? Would they be angry? Would they disown me?

I knew Father respected the mate bond, but would he be accepting enough that Zander was my mate? Or would our packs histories outweigh the mate bond entirely?

So many different possibilities running through my mind of what ifs, I was startled when Ollie came up to me and asked if I was ready to head out.

Ollie drove the four of us, Chloe had joined us towards the end of dinner, just making casual conversation until we were ready to head out.

The car was buzzing with excitement, it was nice to feel energized. I hope Skyla was able to come out tonight. I really would love her to come. Once we all got to the club, the line was huge, it was already buzzing with so many people, a lot of humans and supernaturals.

It seemed the word really got around or maybe this was a normal Friday night.

Ollie nodded to the bouncer who opened the rope and let us in, followed by annoyed g****s and shouts by some of the people in the line.

I giggled as we walked through, “Thanks for getting us on VIP Ollie.”

“Hmm, ohh no worries, they know it’s your night, so how could they not allow it?”

I sighed ” Do they know it’s my birthday?”

“Yep, you have a few surprises later” he grinned and tossed a wink.

“Ugh, fine, but can I please have a drink before that starts?”

“Yeah, this way” he motioned towards the bar and we all followed in line.

“Just get me whichever” I shouted over the thumping music. He nodded in response.

I leaned against the bar and looked out onto the dance floor. The Club was medium sized, it had a DJ Up front with the lights flashing bright colors, a dancer was on a pole next to it wearing a silver and gold bikini showing her flexible moves.

Stand-up tables were around the dance floor and tables with seats were down the back. There were two staircases that led upstairs. One had a rope tied to it with a sign saying ‘Closed private function’. The other staircase was a ‘smoking zone’!

An overpowering smell of wildflowers and honey drifted through the unsavory club smells of s*x, sweat and smoke. Kia perked up and started jumping around.

‘Mate, mate is here!’ she shouted.

I smiled a little, trying not to let my brother or Ollie know anything was going on. They were too busy trying to order drinks and talking.I looked around to see if I could replace him. I spotted him with Danni and two females. Instantly my smile dropped. I felt sick to my stomach, Kia was pushing forward, trying to make herself known, her possessive side was coming out, she did not like what she was seeing. One of the females leaned to him and whispered something and walked off.

He just looked back at her once and turned his attention to Danni. ‘Relax Kia, He is an Alpha, his pack has females they are going to need to talk to him.’

‘Not like that they aren’t’ she growled. I sighed. I didn’t like it either, but I can judge just from that interaction alone. I don’t want to always be so insecure in everything he does. It wouldn’t be fair to treat him as such. I just shook it off and turned my attention to Ollie and Brent. If Zander wanted to see me he was going to have to talk to me himself.

Ollie made a motion to sit at one of the booths across the way. We made our way over and started to chat and talk. I had already finished my drink and the boys and Chloe still had another one of theirs left. I waved my hand to Ollie and let him know I was running back up to the Bar to grab a drink.

I made my way through the crowd of people stumbling up to the bar. His scent is still so present, stronger than before. Is he close by? I didn’t want to look around to just be disappointed again. “Hello mate” a husky voice whispered in my ear as I grabbed my drink.

I shuddered at the closeness of his breath soft against my neck. I wiped around to see him standing there in all his glory.

He had a dark navy button-down top with jeans and nice dress shoes. Did he dress nicely for me tonight ? Or is this something he always wears out? | scolded myself for thinking negatively again. I didn’t want my stupid thoughts to ruin tonight.

“‘are you free?” he asked.

I looked over to the table where my friends were sitting, it seemed Skyla had joined them at the time I had been away. I nodded, no one was paying me any attention, so if I got to quickly spend some time with him now, it would be OK.

He grabbed my hand. Sparks shot through me like freaking fireworks. I never wanted to let go, it felt somewhat peaceful. He led me towards the staircase that had the closed sign. I frowned and pulled back a little. We aren’t allowed up there. I pointed to the sign and shook my head instead of explaining myself over the loud thumping music. He rolled his eyes and pointed to himself and then back to the sign.

l C****d my head in confusion, looking between him and the sign, trying to make note of what he was saying.

He must have set something up for us’ Kia mumbled. Jace won’t tell me anything, just that it’s a surprise.’

I widened my eyes in understanding and nodded, motioning him to move forward.

He led me up the stairs, to an outside balcony. It was beautifully set up, little fairy lights hanging all round.

Making the area light up with soft colors instead of the crazy flashing like downstairs. A cream and pink love seat was against the back wall looking out at the city views of the river and buildings. A tree on the balcony was hanging over the seat to offer some shade on the hot summer days. The music had gotten quiet as we moved up with the door closed behind us, we were able to hear each other . “Happy Birthday sweetheart” he said with a smile.

“It’s beautiful.” I gasped, looking around at the beautiful space.

He just shrugged. “It was nothing. I wanted to spend some time with you and this is what they were able to set up. I know it’s not the best place or anything, but considering our circumstances, it would be OK.”

I nodded, taking in the beautiful space. It made me feel guilty for the earlier thoughts I had about him. I needed to learn not to judge so quickly before making any type of assumptions about him.

“Ohh, here l brought this for you too. I hope you like it.

He gave me a small blue box with a lace ribbon around it. It was beautiful and soft velvet. I opened the box and a beautiful hairpiece was sitting softly on a soft white cloth.

The hairpiece was silver with sapphires, diamonds and white pearls all around. It was so beautiful I didn’t want to reach out and touch it in-case I broke it, it looked so old and well looked after.

“It was my mother’s”, he mumbled. My eyes snapped up to his. My heart pounding, is this what I think it is ?

“My mother used to wear that when she was Luna, so did my grandmother and all previous Lunas. It’s an heirloom passed down by generations.”

“Zander… , It’s beautiful, thank you” I said breathlessly:

“I know we have had a rocky start, but I wanted to show you I was serious about us being mates. The only way I would back down is if you rejected me.”

Kia pushed forward, making herself known. I know my eyes were probably flashing silver as she tried to talk to Zander. It was hard to control her around him.

“Then who were the two skanks you walked in with?”

She demanded.

He frowned and smirked at Kia before answering her ridiculous question.

“One was my cousin and the other was the human woman who owns this club with her husband. She actually helped me set up this tonight for you” he waved his hands around with his smirk deepening. “Jealous Swearheart?”

Kia just growled in annoyance instead of responding. He chuckled back at her, shaking his head. mumbled in embarrassment.

“Sorry about her, she wouldn’t calm down” I

“It’s alright sweetheart” he laughed and raised his hand to stroke my face, “you do look beautiful tonight, I had to put Jace in his corner too many times when males looked your way.”