Today was the day that I finally told her everything.

Jake and I sat in the car and waited to see Jade sitting at the park bench waiting for us, next to her was most beautiful woman in the world.

We left the bored looking Riley in the back of the car as we approached our waiting mates. Nala looked up and her eyes glinted with what looked like happiness but quickly changed to wide-eyed fear. My back tingled when I noticed she was staring at me with those big beautiful blue eyes.

The wolf inside stood tall and begged her eyes to never leave mine. I nervously gave her a crooked smile and ran my hand through my hair, trying to keep them busy.

"Theo...." She breathed, thankfully, I had supernatural hearing otherwise I wouldn't have heard it. But now that I had, it took every cell in my body not to get too excited.

"You're going to have a great time with Theo, got it?" Jade asked my mate as she stood and nodded. "Good, because afterward we are having dinner at my house with Breanna. She's already cooking up a storm." She said trotting back to Jakes car leaving my stunned looing mate and I alone.

I felt so stupid, why didn't I just take her into my arm and treat her like a princess. 'She's absolutely beautiful.' My wolf howled.

"Why fight it?" she asked. "I mean I already have the marks. I want to know the truth." She said finally making full eye contact with me as her blue eyes called to me. "What's stopping you from making me yours and making me feel how you promise you wolf you would make me feel?" she whispered and I cocked an eyebrow. "I saw a lot yesterday when I 'read' you." She said making air quotations around read.

I almost touched her and lavished my love on her like a wild animal, but I couldn't. she would be overwhelmed if this went to quickly. "I'm not a wild animal. And besides I wouldn't want you to just have your turn with me and leave me, now would I?" I asked playfully wiggling my eyebrows. "But in all honesty, I am very curious as to you having lunch with me Nala." I said smiling.

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As she open the door my jaw dropped.

She was wearing a nice fitted red dress that flared out and stopped at her knees. It had no back and a shallow V-neck that showed off her perfectly rounded chest without seeming extravagant. Nala's long tan legs ended in black heels and she was wearing blue and green earrings to bring out her eye colour. Right now, one was green and the other blue. When our eyes met, I noticed the difference to her usually blue eyes. This obviously didn't happen a lot but when it did, I could tell I would fall in love with every time. This time included.

"Your eyes?" I asked quietly and she fluttered her eyelids.

"Um, they change. Blue when I'm passive, green when I'm passionate and feel strong emotions." Nala explained avoiding my eyes. I put my finger under her chin and lifted her gaze to meet mine. "I love it." I said quietly. Her cheeks coloured and I smiled. "Come in Theo. I left my purse and phone in the bedroom, I was gonna have a coffee first anyway." She said stepping aside so I could come in. "I'll just grab my things." She said and left for what I assumed was her bedroom.

From the moment her scent faded as she left the room, I could smell the man, 'no, THING!' I thought, who claimed Nala for his own.

Then she came back.

"The male who marked who all those filthy times, he lives here? With you?" I asked, trying to keep my wolf inside my body.

I looked up at my beautiful mate as she nodded. "Callen and I have been dating for eight months and to be completely honest with you, I think he's cheating on me but somehow I think I love him."

At those words, my spine stiffened and I inhaled sharply. But when she looked at me it didn't matter. The only thing that mattered was that she was there with me. At least she hadn't rejected me out flat.

'Wait, what if she didn't know you can reject your mate?' my wolf growled in my head.

"But then I met you and.... well I don't know exactly. I met you, I knew things were going to change. I didn't know how. You make me feel different, as if I don't need Callen. I don't know what to do Theo. This is all so hard to understand and grasp." she said as I watched a tear slide from underneath her eyelashes.

Instantly my wolf backed down and let me comfort her.

"Nala..." I said before pausing, it was then that I realised I hadn't ever actually comforted a girl before. I had no clue what to say. Then after a moment of contemplating weather I should just shhh her and tell her everything was going to be okay, or whether I should just hug her instead I, (not completely sanely) chose to unload the truth on her.

"Nala... there are men who go hundreds of years without finding their mate and some die. You have honoured me with a wait that only counts to twenty-five years. A wait that was of-course twenty-five years too long." He said with a grin. "I don't think you understand the bond that I feel for you. I would never be able to hurt you physically or emotionally. We would have an eternity together and I would never harm you. The 'Moon Goddess' made you specifically for me. Every curve of your body would fit perfectly against me. Your skin would spark under my touch and your heart would remain forever intact." I said lifting her chin to meet my gaze. "I won't give you up. My Luna."

And before I knew it, her lips were against mine. At first, it was a slow pace but it meant more than any other kiss I had shared with anyone else. I knew by the way she froze, that she was having a vision and I slowed the kiss so she could handle the vision but her hands tangled in my hair and pulled me impossibly closer. I thought about the way she made me feel and how much I wanted to be with her. I prayed that she saw it and when she began to straddle me, I begged the heavens she wanted to be with me too. Everywhere her finger tips played on my skin I felt tingles travel down my right arm and across my chest where I knew my mates marks covered my skin like tattoos.

Nala's light, feathery lips moved over my lips and then peppered kissed over my jaw line and down my neck. I let out a growl from my chest to tell her how much I wanted her and she must have gotten the message because her hand travelled to my crotch and she felt what was steadily growing under her palm. I breathed in against her neck wanting to catch every part of her delicious scent but leapt away when all I smelt was a mate thieving mutt.

She froze before turning quickly and started for the bathroom.

"Nala? Nala wait!" She stopped and looked over her shoulder at me, just long enough for me to notice the tears streaming down her face.

"Nala, you don't understand." I said moving toward her but she stepped away. "No, your perfectly and fantastically correct Theo. I don't understand. The other day, I was happy. A happy woman in love with who I thought was a human, then less than a week later, I begin to fall for my hunk of a wolf mate. I begin to fall for someone who doesn't even wanna kiss me." she said, the tears still falling. "Even though I can feel how you feel when I kiss you, there's just a small nagging feeling that you don't want to kiss me." She ended and I shook my head.

"Nala, I want to kiss you more than I want to take you to lunch, and honey I want to take you to lunch with every fibre in my body. I mean I'm starving. Listen, did you not just witness that kiss? Didn't you notice how perfectly our lips moulded together? And in all honesty, you make my pants tighten. How else can I put it?" I asked running my hand through my hair. She smiled through the tears and bit her lip lightly. "That doesn't help." I muttered and she giggled lightly.

"But your almost fully mated with someone else." I said and her smile vanished. "Oh my god! I have a boyfriend! What am I doing?" she asked herself. "Theo, we can't do this. I can't do this." she said fixing her hair as she started back for that polluted bedroom. I leapt up to her side instantly.

"Stop." I whispered as I turned her to face me. "Don't push me away and deny what just happened to your heart." I said putting my forehead on hers. She pulled me up and led me to her bathroom and began to take of her dress. I stopped her and my eyes widened. "I don't think I'm ready for this step in our relationship yet..." I joked and she rolled her eyes. "No, you idiot, I want to show you something and she let her dress fall to the ground.

After noticing her amazing figure, I stared at the marks on her skin. They were beauty and were blessed to be attached to such perfection. "You really are the most beautiful woman I could ever have been blessed with." I said smiling at the beautiful marks that I knew her 'boyfriend' would see.

"What am I going to do about Callen?" she asked solemnly, as if reading my mind. "Wait, his mark?" she said loudly. "Will I always smell like him to you?" she added, her eyes wide.

"No pancake, he has to mark you at least every two days for the smell to seem consistent." I said hugging her. "I never knew why he bit me so hard or so savagely. He always said it would start to feel good. He said that I would grow to love it." She whispered. "I never did and it always hurt." she said lowly.

I could see the tears welling up but I decided to let her get it out. "I repeatedly asked him not to, but he just slapped me and told me I'd get over it." I could tell by the way she shook her head, that she was finished telling me. We sat in silence for a while as I slowly ran my hands through her hair.

"Wait. Theo? Do you have marks the same as mine?" she asked, slyly grinning at me.

God that smile. I would go to the end of the earth to see that smile.

I nodded. "Well it's only fair that I see yours don't you think?" she said with a coy smile. I grinned, knowing she wanted to see her marks on my body so, I lifted my shirt over my head.