From Below

Some Kind of Arrangement

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Chocolate by The 1975

Reina's POV

"As I said, you're going to have to live with me," Phillip says to me after I woke up from passing out for a few minutes. He's fully dressed again. A few moments ago, he brought me back to the car in wolf-form. I still can't believe it but it's all been laid out for me. "You're my mate."

"Who even decides these things?", I ask them as we near the city again. I check my phone to see it's only 10:56.

"The moon goddess picks who our mates are. And once she chooses, we can't really complain." Phillip answers my question patiently again.

I clutch my phone to my chest. "So if someone is human and they're some wolf's mate, they don't really have a choice?" I ask seriously. This system sucks.

He scratches the back of his neck again like he did before at the library. "Yeah.. and you can't tell your parents about this.. "

"What?! Why the heck not?" this is outrageous. You take someone from her home making it seem like an abduction or that she ran away. "That's stupid."

"It's for the safety of our kind's entire existence." He tells me with seriousness in his tone. "I understand how you may feel right now, I want you to take your time. But I'll be always here with you, now that I know you're my mate."

"He is the Alpa!" Scott says.

I try to look him in the eye, he's so good at it, but I can't do it without my cheeks blushing so I look at my hands again. "But, since I'm human, how do I know that you're my (I can't believe I'm using this word) mate?" I do smell some chocolate but maybe because that was just from his perfume or something. I'm pretty sure I'm not a wolf.

"You feel it in your heart. I guess. These situations are very rare." he shifts his stare from me to the window "Tell us when we're at your house so we can drop you off."

"You're going to let me go?" I ask him.

"For now. Like I said, I'm not kidnapping you. But soon, we are going to have to take you with us." Phillip says.

"I still don't know if I can trust you." I say honestly.

He looks a bit sad all of a sudden. "I understand. But that doesn't mean I'm not going to do everything I can to change that."

That's what did it. I feel heat rising to my cheeks and my heartbeat quicken again. His deep voice doesn't help too. It's like I'm talking to a god.

Suddenly, I see my house through the window. "We can stop here." I gesture to the direction of our place.

Calvin, the guy who drove, stopped the car and Phillip is quick to get out to open the door for me. I step out but my knees were asleep and I almost fall flat to the ground when Phillip catches my back with his hand and helps me stand up.

"Are you ok?" he asks.

I straigten my back and shake my legs. "Yeah, uhm.. So when do I see you again?" I ask him to know when to prepare myself, not as a date kind of thing or whatever.

He takes his arms off my back once he made sure I can stand on my own and gently holds my hands. "I'll make sure it's a good time when we do. As I said, I'll do everything I can to change how you feel about me," he lifts one of my hands to his lips and kisses it, and I blush again. "For now, be safe and please don't forget about me."

He slowly lets go of my hands and goes back to the car, they don't leave yet. I think they were making sure I go straight inside my house so I walk faster to the door.

"Bye Luna!" Scott says, with a grin. "See you soon!"

Calvin rolls his eyes at Scott and smiles at me. "Be careful, Luna."

I nod my head at them and before closing the door from the inside, I look at Phillip. He doesn't smile. It's the look on someone's face when they're doing something they don't want to do but they have to. It's a bit of a sad look.

I don't wave at them goodbye. I close the door and look out the window. The car starts to move and I let out a deep breath. Finally.

This has been the weirdest thing that's ever happened to me. Doctor Strange runs up to me and I pet his back. "How was your day, Doc?"

He just wiggles his tail and goes walking around the house again.

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