I could only wish that we could have stayed in our little position for as long as I could, but obviously life had to continue and ruin things-- and by life, I mean Grey.

I'm sorry, does he have a life or does he just prefer to barge into mine?

Just like before, Grey had ruined the moment that Theo and I were holding on to. A knock on the office door vibrating through the room.

How hard does he want to knock?

I heard Theo sigh, the breath of air hitting my nose and setting a warm breeze upon my face. "Come in."

I didn't look up to see Grey enter the door, but I heard the door creak open as he made his way into the room. "Sorry Alpha, I didn't know you had company." I resisted the urge to roll my eyes at his tone. He didn't sound disrespectful, it was just his presence in general annoyed the hell out of me.

I mean, we didn't have the best meeting-- if it wasn't for Theo then I'm almost positive that Grey would have bitten my head off after seconds of being in the same room as me.

But hey, maybe we'll be the best of friends but for now, I doubt it.

"What do you need?" Theo removed his hands from my waist, moving away from me and turning towards his Beta-- who now stood in the middle of the room with a stack of papers in his hands. He lifted the sheets in the air slightly before speaking;

"Just need you to sign these papers, Alpha." Grey bowed his head slightly after he spoke, showing his Alpha respect. I leaned on the desk as Theo strided his way to his Beta.

While Theo was reading through the papers, I noticed Grey's eyes shifting towards me and he continued to analyse me with his eyes-- which I didn't like very much.

I narrowed my eyes towards him, holding in a growl. He'll respect Theo but he wouldn't respect me? Noticing my reaction, Grey's eyes widened slightly and he quickly averted his gazes away from me.

Clearly we were going to be the best of friends-- note the heavy use of sarcasm.

"I think I'll be off now." I spoke up, pushing myself off of the desk as I made my way to the door. However, when I was passing by both men Theo had grabbed my forearm and stopped me on the spot.

"Where are you going?" His eyes furrowed at me as he looked up from the papers in his hands. Grey stayed quiet and refused to look at both Theo and I.

"Just going to look around." I shrugged, gently pulling my arm out of Theo's grasp in order to get to the door however Theo pulled me back to his side.

"Alone?" He scoffed, focusing his attention on to the papers in front of him. I boiled my blood slightly. "Grey will gladly show you around the house." He nodded towards his Beta before sending me a gentle smile. I tried my hardest not to let out a scoff of my own.

Gladly my ass.

I forced a smile on my face. "No that's fine, he's busy with you anyways. I'll just find my own way." Again, when I tried moving away Theo pulled me back by the forearm and I had the urge to rip his hand off-- however I didn't.

My wolf growled at my thoughts; clearly Grey isn't the only uptight one in this room.

"He isn't busy whatsoever, I have papers to read and I'd rather do that without a Beta breathing down my neck." Theo let go of my arm before making his way to his desk. I looked at Grey to see him continuing to look down to the ground as he refused to look me in the eye.

"Theo I--"

"Grey, could you go show Holly around the house please? Make sure you well taken cared for." Theo spoke up from his desk, his eyes not looking away from the papers in front of him as he ordered his Beta. While it sounded like a question, he spoke in an Alpha command meaning that Grey had no opinion but to do as he said.

"Of course Alpha," Grey nodded to Theo before turning to me, a small smile on his face. "Ladies first." He gestured towards the door.

Great, now I have to spend the day with someone who could have potentially ripped my throat out if Theo hadn't walked in to that room that first day.

The tour around the house was astonishing. I thought that being around Grey would drive me insane, but I didn't realise that he was with me half the time as I was gob-smashed at the house.

In my pack, my family and I chose to live in the Alpha area of the pack house instead of an an actual family house while usual Alpha's lived in-- my family, especially my father, wanted to be as close to the pack we could be so we chose to in one of the biggest pack houses there were. But that house could not compare to the pack house I was currently standing in.

This house had may layers to it that I didn't even notice. The house can consisted of five floors-- five large floors-- that I didn't even notice when Theo had rushed me downstairs once before. I suppose that we were in such a rush and my mind was racing so much of what it was about that I wasn't resigning how many floors I was truly walking down-- Theo's room being on the top floor, as well as the kitchen where I had first met Grey's mate Eliza.

Speaking of Eliza, I hadn't seen her since our first encounter and personally I felt bad. I thought so lowly of her and deep down wanted to hurt her after the words that she had spoken about my father. Despite the fact that she didn't exactly say much, she insinuated that he was a monster and at the time I didn't know what on earth she was talking about.

But now, I understood. His ways were obvious to everyone. To everyone but me apparently as I was hidden from the truth from everyone, from my family.

I wanted to apologize to her, not only was I thinking ill thoughts of her but I was openly disrespecting her Alpha-- Theo. I called him a monster, hell I hadn't fully considered him my mate at the time.

At the time, I chose to stay for my mother but my feelings were quickly changing. So quickly that I wasn't sure if it was the right choice. I didn't know many things about him.

But hey, I suppose I didn't know many things about my family as well.

"--And this is the living room on the ground floor." Breaking me out of my thoughts, Grey had concluded the tour. Each floor of the house having the same amount of rooms-- almost clones of each floor for the pack members to go about their day without having to go up and down stairs.

We went through living rooms, kitchens, training doors, gyms-- we stayed clear of any bedrooms because privacy was key. Plus we didn't know what was going down in those rooms, the walls are soundproof so who knows.

We also stayed clear of the attic and basement as before living the office Theo had made it clear to Grey that we were not permitted to go down there at the moment.

In all honestly, during this tour Grey wasn't that bad. He was much different towards me now then he was the first we had met. Maybe that was because he found out that I was his Alpha's mate, who knows.

Speaking of mates, I spoke up; "Have you seen Eliza anywhere?" Grey's head snapped up, surprise was evident on his face as his furrowed bros complimented his widened eyes.

I didn't know if that was because this was the only time I spoke during our very quiet tour or if it was because I know his mate's name.

"You know Eliza?" I'm going to go for the latter then. I noticed that at the mention of her name, Grey's face seemed to brighten.

"Yeah," I nodded. "Bumped into her in the kitchen, she seems like a nice girl." At my words, Grey visually light up and smile was evident on his face.

"God she's amazing, isn't she?" Grey seemed to gush when he spoke at his mate and it made me furrow my eyes.

The man that had threatened my life and struck me in the face wasn't in front me, it was man who was love-struck by the woman of his dreams.

Grey seemed to notice me staring at me and his eyes widened, quickly averted to gaze to the ground. He cleared his throat nervously; "Sorry about that." My own eyes widened at his words as I spoke up.

"Oh no, it's okay." I shook my head at him, letting a smile crept upon my face. I couldn't help but notice a small smile of his own to creep on his face as he apologised again.

"I'm sorry, I can't help but gush about Eliza when she comes up in a conversation. She's my absolute life." Again, Grey praised his mate as he lovingly spoke about her and I admired him while he did so.

Watching Grey swoon over his mate made me swoon myself-- not over Grey but over the way he reacted. I was adorable thinking that this was how people looked when they thought of their mates, eyes filled with love with a permanent smile on their faces.

Once again Grey noticed me staring however instead of looking down at the ground as if he had disrespected me, his eyebrows raised at me.

"What?" While that word could have been taken as disrespect, he didn't sound like he was trying to be rude to me he sounded confused.

"Sorry, it's just you're different from the first time I met you." And it was true. Grey visually cringed before he spoke.

"Yeah, I'm sorry about that." He bowed his head down to compliment his apology before looking back up at me. "Your pack doesn't have the best relationship with us right now. Plus finding out you were Alpha Hayden's daughter-- well it didn't help." Grey had a slight frown on his face as he gave me a apologetic look.

Now telling me, I understood why he reacted how he did. I now realised that my pack had quite the reputation that I had no idea about and it made me rethink everything I had done ever since I got to this pack.

I was so stuck on protecting my father and mother from anything that was thrown at them-- both my wolf and I's did my hardest and pushed further to ensure that no one was disrespecting our Alpha and Luna. But, was that the best choice.

I knew now that there was a past I didn't know about, how much of it was the truth I will never know unless I ask my family but given the amount of people that have given me shit for it-- Theo, Grey, Eliza and maybe more along the way-- I would assume most of what was said it probably fact.

Despite everything that I was told about my family, part of me didn't want to believe it. I still loved them with all my heart, they were my family and they raised me to be the person I am today but how much did I really know about them.

Obviously not much given the circumstances.

I looked down at Grey's words, my bottom lip tucking itself into my closed mouth. I was embarrassed to say the least. I knew nothing about my family while people I didn't even know knew way too much, I felt embarrassed and I felt out of the loop-- completely.

"I didn't know," I spoke up, still looking at the ground. "--about my family." I looked back up at Grey to see him giving me soft smile which I then returned. "I'm sorry." I was sorry, not knowing how it felt to lose their Alpha and Luna.

Losing your Alpha and Luna so suddenly makes your pack feel like they're crumbling, they are essentially lost everything-- their leaders and their protectors.

Grey shook his head at me, a light chuckle coming out; "It wasn't your fault." He sounded like Theo when he tried to make me feel better. I knew it wasn't my fault, I wasn't even born yet, but I knew that if I didn't apologise then no one would.

"And I'm sorry--" I gave Grey a confused look by furrowing my brows up. "--For the way I acted towards you, and for hurting you. Despite you being Theo's mate, I shouldn't have hit you. None of it was your doing."

"It's okay." I gave Grey a soft smile, before looking around the living room to see multiple pack members all around the place.

I hadn't noticed that there were pack members around the room due to the fact I was so stuck in my thoughts while in an actual conversation with a man I thought was going to bite my head off when he got the chance.

There were pack members all around the house when Grey was taking me on the tour. At first I was hesitant on going all around the house-- the top floor seemed to be my safe haven where there wasn't a soul present as the top floor was only for the Alpha, the Alpha's family and the Beta and their family. This pack's Gamma lived in a home of their own with his mate and children.

When going on the tour I did notice multiple pack members glance at me in confusion, their eyes would occasionally dim and gloss over telling me that they were mind-linking but they were quick to look away. Apparently I wasn't as interesting as I feared.

Over than that no one seemed to glance at me in a weird way, no one seemed to glare or seethe in my present. Hell, no one knew who I was so most people just simple noticed my presence but ignored me.

Thank god, communicating with people wasn't one of my favourite hobbies anyways.

"Hey Grey!" I heard someone yell out from across the very large living room. I turned my head, to see the Gamma-- whose name I forgot about. "Come over here, look what Cameron found!"

Grey turned to me with a strained look on his face, it was clear he wanted to see what was going on but would feel bad if he left me on my own. I let out a small laugh, nodding my head to the direction of Gamma no-name.

"Go, I'm going to head upstairs anyways. Absolutely knackered." And I was, learning so much information in one day was a bit much for me and a bed was I needed to see to fall right to sleep. Grey gave me a large smile, before bidding me goodbye.

"See you later Holly!" Then he jogged his way to the Gamma and I couldn't help but smile as I watched him leave.

Looks like I was wrong and I might actually be friends with him in the end.

Deserves me right for being sarcastic all the time.