Battle of the Roses [Book 2]

Chapter 52

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Chapter Quote:
"I believe the answer that will not get me in trouble with you is: the happiest day of my life."
~Ren Laroche, Nightshade
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Chapter 52

Spencer

I woke up around eleven-thirty with Elsa curled up in my arm, her head resting on my chest. I kissed her on her forehead which didn't even make her stir. She'd always been a heavy sleeper but I guess after all we did last night, she was going to be more exhausted than usual. I was pretty sure neither of us meant for it to go as far as it had but knowing what we were going to be encountering in the next couple of days, I think the both of us knew we might never get the chance to be with the other again. After the end of the week, one of us may not be alive anymore.

As wolves, when we mated, we mated for life. When one of the mates died, it was rare that the other would ever remarry. As wolves, we knew when we'd met our soulmates. Deep down, we just knew. It was why Lily had been so attracted to Caleb when they first met, or how Hunter and Josilyn knew they were meant to be together. How Ren and Arya were near inseparable and with all the problems that they'd encountered, they'd still survived it together and had still stayed together.

Elsa was meant to be my mate; she was my soulmate. It was why we kept coming back to each other after even after I'd lied to her, after her family had tried so hard to prevent her from seeing me again, after my ex-girlfriend tried to kill her... She had no idea but I'd been thinking about proposing to her. But now that we were about to fight in a war, I figured I should make sure we both survived. If we got engaged now, and one of us died, the heartbreak would be that much worse.

"What's wrong?" Elsa murmured, breaking me out of my thoughts.

"Nothing, just thinking."

"Something's wrong with you, I can feel it."

"Just thinking about last night," I whispered, rubbing her shoulder gently.

She smiled. "I enjoyed it. What time is it?"

"Almost noon."

Elsa groaned. "We have a pack meeting at two and I need to shower because as much as I love you, if I smell like you right now, some people I know might go a little-"

"Berserk? Yeah, I know. I need to shower as well for the same reason."

"I'll see you in the dining hall?"

"Yeah, and if I get there before you I'll make us some lunch."

"I love you," she whispered.

"I love you too," I replied, giving her a kiss. Afterwards she got dressed and disappeared to her room. I went to shower, trying to scrub off her scent because if her dad or her brothers smelled it, despite them being relatively okay with me dating her, they wouldn't appreciate knowing our activities last night... they might actually have my head.

After convincing myself that Elsa's scent was off my skin, I stepped out of the shower and got dressed. After fixing my hair up a bit instead of having it plastered to my forehead, I left my room to go to the kitchen where unsurprisingly, I'd beaten Elsa. I was halfway through making some peanut butter and jelly sandwiches when Hunter walked in.

"Hey," I said casually. The future Laroche alpha and I were on better terms now but that didn't mean I trusted him to know about what Elsa and I had done last night.

"Hey, what's up?" he replied, going to the fridge.

"Just making lunch for me and Elsa when she gets here. You?"