The Alpha's Mate

The Alpha's Mate - Chapter 8

Word count - 900

"I'm fine to talk from a distance, thank you."

Noah let out a sigh but took stock of my room. From my bed side table to my bathroom to my closet, he just surveyed. I took the chance to open the window wider. It was a quick push and practically silent. I brought my hand back down to my side slowly. His eyes finally made it to the side of the room I was standing on and noticed the window. His eye began to grow darker, and they connected with mine. I couldn't help but look away toward something else, not being able to hold his stare.

"If you jump out of that window you will seriously hurt yourself."

"Then don't give me a reason to." I met his eyes again, anger flaring up inside of me, replacing the panic and tears.

As if Noah had been presented with a challenge, his chest puffed up and his eyes stayed trained on me, and I raised a brow, resting my hand on the windowsill.

"Katherine." His voice was deep now. Deeper than it had been before, and full of emotion, and not the nice kind.

"Make this worth my while before I jump out of the window."

"Are you always so difficult to deal with?" He let out a frustrated breathe.

"I'll let you know when another random male ends up in my bed without my consent."

His eyes were blazing now, black, but blazing. I hadn't seen the colour of his eyes properly when I had first seen them, so I wasn't sure if black was their usual colour, or if this was part of the unusual situation that I was still not understanding.

"There will be no other random males in your bed." His voice was strained, still deep, but gravely now, another layer added to his voice. It was like nothing I'd ever heard before, and I lived with 3 hot headed males.

"Are you going to explain what the fuck you're doing here or are you going to keep stalling?"

He forced out a breathe. "What I'm going to say won't make any sense to you. I didn't know that your brothers had told you absolutely nothing, and I don't know why they expected you to be shielded from our kind for the rest of your life, but here we are." He stopped for a minute, looking at me, but I just nodded, urging him to continue.

"We are destined to be together." I held his eyeline and his expression was unwavering.

And then I laughing.

It was a full bodied laugh. I let go of the windowsill and held my stomach as it contracted with each breathe in. The tears were now a side effect of laughter and not panic.

"Alright, which one put you up to this? Xavier or Kohl? You almost had me in the first half, I'm not going to lie." I continued to chuckle as one hand held my stomach and the other wiped away the tears on my face.

Noah didn't even flinch, it almost looked like he wasn't breathing. His face was bored.

"Are you done?"

"No, the question is whether you're done with this prank? You can give it up now, I got you."

Still nothing from Noah.

"When your brothers had contacted me to ask for passage through my land to get where you are now, I had granted it to them. They have continued to be competent allies, not only them, but your father as well. I hadn't expected a run in with them at all really, until your family stopped for a lunch break before you last leg to Washington. I just happened to be in the right place at the right time with my pack. And then there you were. I definitely appreciated the view, but I didn't think anything of it until you looked me dead in the eyes. I'm not even sure you remember."

Noah slowly got off of the bed, advancing toward me.

"That was when I felt it. The connection. It was only faint, because you had stopped looking at me as soon as you started, but then I smelt you." I crinkled my nose at him, I normally prided myself on being clean and fresh smelling. My eyes continued to follow me as he continued to advance toward me, getting dangerously close.

"Your scent. It was like nothing I had ever smelt before. I was so caught up in it that I hadn't even noticed that you had had gotten back in your car and had driven off. But just like that, you were gone."

By the time he'd finished his sentence, he was right in front of me. He was looking down at me, his eyes now softened and a dark green. He ran his knuckles up the side of my arm and it was like I was stuck in a trance. The warmth followed all the way up my arm, and followed his knuckles when they brushed my neck, and then when his hand came to rest just under my ear, his thumb rubbing my cheek.

"I don't even know what to say. You're really commited to this bit aren't you?"

He looked at me as the words registered and his face slowly morphed with anger. I didn't stick around long enough to see the end result, instead opting to lunge around him, jumping over my bed and racing down the stairs. I could hear his heavy footsteps follow me.

I ran past Xavier and Kohl who were tense on the couch and made it to the front door, making work of the lock and opening it quickly. I stood just off of the porch and turned around with my arms crossed. Noah was back to brooding face and blazing eyes, standing just in front of my brothers, who were emotionless.

"Guys, the prank was funny at first, but he is wasy too committed to the bit. I want him out of the house. I'm not coming in until he's gone. Next time, don't find such a method actor." I held my hand where Noah had placed his, the warmth still lingering.

"Listen, Katherine. This isn't a joke." Xavier piped up in the background.

"If only you heard what he was saying. That there was some big secret, connecting eyes and scents and shit. No, I don't believe it. This is bullshit and the moment I get you an inch, you're going to laugh in my face, so no, I'm not having it."

"Katherine, there is no fucking joke. He means everything that he says." I could see Xavier silently pleading with me to believe him.

"You're all fucking psychopaths. I'm going in to grab my keys, and none of you are going to touch, and then I'm going to go for a drive. Then I want all of you to really think about how fucking stupid you-"

"That's enough!" The sheer power from Noah's voice made me halt my sentence in my tracks, whilst Xavier had switched from emotionless to furious.

"Don't you fucking dare use that tone of voice with me." He stalked towards Noah now, in a stance that showed everyone he was ready to fight.

And then that's when we heard it.

The screeching of tyres.

The glass shattering.

The high pitched screams of my mother.

And then I passed out.