Mishaps and Wolves (OLD VERSION)

Chapter 9 - Wake Up Call

Chapter 9 - Wake Up Call

Roman's nose twitched as a pounding began in the back of his head. His eyes felt like they'd been glued shut together, his body slow and sluggish but slowly gaining strength. He took a deep breath, despite the small pang in the back of his head, and opened his eyes.

A blurry hand moved out of his sight with a small blue bottle and and Andrew's face came into view as his sight cleared.

"You alright?" Andrew asked him as he shone the pen light into each eye.

Shaking the daze out of his head, he brushed Andrew's arm away and ended up holding his head as the ringing pain came again, thankfully less than before.

What the hell...

Roman looked back at Marissa to find her on the opposite side of the room, crumpled on the floor, with her wolf companion kneeling over her.

As he watched her, his memory returned and he groaned as he put his head in his hands.

"Why me? Of all the people in the world, why me?" He complained under his breath.

Andrew snorted as he got up to check on Marissa, "Better you then me."

Roman leaned back against the wall, wallowing in self pity. The electric shock was a sign among their people. It signalled the meeting of two similar souls; mates. And the more powerful the shock, the more alike the two were and how strong they would be as mates.

The fact that he'd flown across the room and had been knocked temporarily unconscious showed just how powerful they would be if he mated with her.

But she's human, questioned his inner panther. His beast was ecstatic to have found its mate. It was just curious to how he would bring her into their world if there were rules about bringing humans into the realm of magic. It was an unsaid taboo.

I'm just going to have to be rational, he kept telling himself.

When he realized that his mate was in the vicinity of another unmated male, his beast made that thought fly straight out the window as he leaped forward and knelt at Marissa's side, pulling her closer to him and giving both the new wolf and Andrew death glares.

"Let her go," the wolf growled, the amber of his wolf leaching into his gaze.

Roman felt his panther rising and let the glow feed through his eyes. He knew his eyes were almost neon green, his alpha presence fighting the wolf easily.

The wolf resisted and Roman found himself respecting the strength in the newly made wolf, but not where his mate was concerned.

"Just calm down, everyone," Andrew's calming presence slightly soothed the tension between both men. "She's fine from what I can hear of her heartbeat from here, but she'll need rest and food."

Roman was still being irrational, but he knew he had to make sure his mate was alright.

He picked her up into his arms, being careful of her injured arm and clenching his jaw as her skin came into contact with his and sent small currents of electricity running through him. The currents had his inner panther jumping to try and claim his mate. He moved out of the room and carefully made his way past the people in the corridors who were still being checked out and climbed the stairs up to one of the residential floors of the building. 

His beta, Dorian was out seeing that the patrols were still kept up whilst every other able body was helping clear up the burnt homes. Cameron, a leading commander of the Pack's sentries, was waiting for him with a report on everything that had happened in his hand. He opened the door and Roman walked in. The room wasn't the fanciest: there was a large bed, a chest of drawers beneath the window, a vanity table with a chair and another door to an adjoining bathroom. Roman walked over to the bed and placed Marissa carefully on the bed.