I was going to continue on rambling when she cut into my sequence of words. And said "And sex and girlfriends, you're not telling me you're twenty three and a virgin? Because I've heard the Erika story." I was happy she interrupted me with that question. It meant she was taking an interest in my love life.
I turned my head to the left to glance at her. She was on her tippy toes, taking a pretty greenish coloured leaf off of the tree branch of a pacific dogwood tree, she then proceeded to take a white flower from it too. She spilt open her novel to a random page and pressed the leaf in the novel, then she did the same with the flower.
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I had seen her do this before too, not pressing them into a novel but taking a leaf or a flower, except when I saw her do it, she was taking a leaf from a tree, outside Cafe Sofa, before we walked in.
She told Sophie to put the leaf in her pocket. I smiled at her action and asked "Why do you always do that?" She turned her attention to me, gave me a childish expression and she started laughing as she said "Well so then they're mine forever. They stay with me forever. Sometimes I'll paint them too if I really want too."
I looked at her with a desire to kiss her, I thought in my mind. "You're mine forever." She gazed into my eyes for a few seconds. I didn't know why she did that. She shook me out of my thoughts: "So can you answer my question now?"
I looked at her in the eyes with lust in my own, I saw her cheeks getting a little red so i smiled and just looked away.
Looking up at the trees, I pretended I was admiring them. I said: "Well, all flings and romances were kind of like an un-said forbidden thing because it was just a distraction, but no I'm not a virgin, and I sure did break the rules sometimes and had a few flings, but like I've told you before Arabella, for a wolf, you can only be in love with your mate. Anyone else you can become attached to, grow to love, but you can't be in love with them."
I paused for a second, to check if Ara was listening, and when I confirmed that she was, I continued: "And about Erika. Well I know Michael told you the story already, but that did crush me a bit. The only reason I didn't have her executed, even though it would have been valid, and the council agreed with it too, is because I kind of felt like if I had acted out in revenge, and had her killed, I would have gotten bad karma or something like that, and I would not have found you, my real mate. There have been others too, who pretended to be my mate. I'm not the only one either. Lots of powerful Alpha's have had this happen to them, there's women Alpha's too, and there's men who have pretended to be their true mate."
Arabella's eyes went slightly wider "Really, there are women Alphas?" I smiled "Yes, there is. I have a family friend, named Cora, she's the daughter of one of my Mom's oldest friends, and that friend of my mothers, she had a son, Cora's brother, but Cora proved much more worthy of a Alpha then her brother, and she's been Alpha now for a few years." Arabella smiled "That's cool. She's probably a cool person." I said "She is."
