Page 7 of Stuck With His Mate
“Hey Angelina! Here’s someone I want you to meet” She announces gleefully, skipping towards me, and it takes all I have to not instantly burst in laughter at her childlike mannerisms.
“Hi Alyssa. Good afternoon.” I greet her happily, looking around her to see who she wants to introduce me to.
I once had someone say that couples who were in tune with each other seemed to take on each other’s traits over time and Judd and Alyssa seemed to prove that theory right.
The moment the huge bear of a man walks around Alyssa and stretches his hand, I know I am looking at her mate. There was just something about him that spoke of Alyssa.
With blonde hair, blue eyes, and an impressive height of around six and a half feet, he is the polar opposite of Alyssa who has jet black curls, gray eyes, and she’s a little over five feet.
“It is so great to meet you, Angelina. I have heard only good things about you.” He tells me, as he shakes my hand with a firm but soft grip.
“The way I heard it, I’m a weak and worthless human, who can’t do anything to save her life I dryly say, prompting belly aching laughter from both him and his mate.
“We know you’re nothing like that and I am spreading the word. Trust me” Alyssa jokes, drawing a smile from me.
“Not as far as I can throw you, for sure” Another cackle from the couple let me know they find me just as amusing as I do them, and a smile curls on my face in response.
”We have to go now, but I will enjoy seeing you around.” Judd promises as his mate drags him away after gesturing a farewell of her own.
I watched them leave, shaking my head in amusement. Now that, that was love!
I am not exactly sure what I think of Williem. Of course I know and acknowledge that he is otherworldly handsome and just the sight of him could get my heart racing. But beauty is just superficial, and it is not a criteria I based important decisions on.
He is quite simply unlike anybody I know, in both good and bad ways.
Alyssa has explain some of the pack dynamics to me. Letting me know that Williem was the alpha of this pack and that her husband Judd, as well as some of the sentinels were lieutenants, his closest friends and advisors. I had met a couple of them already.
Elijah was a sweetheart with shaggy brown hair and matching chocolate eyes. I had also met Lake; outgoing and jovial he never stopped making me smile.
Josie and Sierra rounded up the rest of his lieutenants, and although Josie and I hit it off, Sierra didn’t seem like my biggest fan, but I chucked it up to me being human.
If the alpha didn’t like me solely because I was human, then it didn’t shock me to find out that at least one of his lieutenants didn’t as well.
Williem might have been the stereotypical alpha of this pack, and grade-A asshole to me, but Alyssa had promised I would get to see other parts of him than just the fearless leader.
“Williem is alpha because he is loved and respected, and not the other way around.” She had proclaimed, but personally I struggled to see that.
Days after I become part of the healer group, Williem and I broker a strange and uneasy truce.
He walks up to me as I return from a session, and he must notice that I am not thrilled by his appearance.
“Angelina.” He greets.
“Williem” I curtly respond in kind, not pausing my stride. I am ready to be as uncivil as he is to me. I am still smarting from his comment during my trials and the anger I felt then hasn’t dissipated. “What do you want?”
“To talk. I am not your enemy, you should know that I even root for you. I want you to come out the other side of this the same. Human.”
“Oh I know you don’t want me to die, but that doesn’t mean you are rooting for me. You have not shown in any way that you’re on my side.” I start, and this conversation reminds me of another I have wanted to have with him for some time now.
“Why do you hate humans?” I ask plainly.
“I don’t see how we could have possibly hurt you that bad. I really don’t. Sure, we aren’t the best with our pollution and all, but I know for a fact that we aren’t that bad.”
Williem mulls my question over for a bit before he replies. “Humans didn’t hurt me directly, but their pride did. Their arrogance and false confidence in their superior intellect robbed me of everything I had.
You humans think you are so much wiser and better, and you don’t even see half of what is really happening in the world.”
“So to answer your question, humans like you, thought themselves too strong and powerful to fall prey to rogues, They refused our help and protection, and as they condemned themselves to horrible deaths, they did the same to my people. They turned into those very monsters and attacking us. That is the reason I don’t like humans. Their poor decision endangers everyone.”