The Alpha's Sunshine

sunshine: nine

"So, let me get this straight. Nicholas Kingsley, Alpha of the Shaded Falls pack, was a band geek in high school?" Alison asked seriously.

"Believe it or not, I was," Nick chuckled.

"I believe it. I just can't imagine it at all," she said.

"Why not?"

"Because all this? In a band uniform? I just can't picture it," Alison asked as she gestured towards Nick.

"All this was only after puberty kicked in and Elliot taught me all I needed to know about working out."

"Well do you have pictures? I would kill for pictures of you before you became this tall, handsome and brooding Alpha," Alison asked excitedly.

"You think I'm tall, handsome and brooding?" he teased as Alison's face got redder after realizing the words she used to describe him.

"Shut up. Are there pictures or not?" she rolled her eyes.

"There are, but I won't show them to you," Nick said.

"Why not?"

"Because they're embarrassing and I want you to keep thinking of me as tall, handsome and brooding," Nick answered with a smirk.

"Whatever, I'll just ask Elliot then. I think he would gladly show them to me just to embarrass you," Alison said with her own smirk.

"Nice try, but I doubt he'd show them to you considering I'm his Alpha and I can make sure he's on night patrol duty for a month."

Alison gasped, "That's evil, you're evil."

"I know," Nick flashed Alison one of his killer smiles which essentially made her heart skip a beat. For a few seconds there, she couldn't stop staring at his smile and the way his eyes lit up.

Nick cleared his throat and Alison snapped out of the hypnotic effect his smile had on her. "Didn't anyone tell you it was rude to stare?" he teased her, clearly knowing the effect his look had on her.

"You're one to talk. Don't think I don't notice you staring at me whenever I'm not looking," Alison countered and Nick laughed.

"Well, what can I say? I like my view," he said and it made Alison blush more.

"Shut up," Alison muttered under her breath and went back to looking at the scenery. The sun was just beginning to set, painting the skies with beautiful splashes of orange and pinks. Alison was perched in one of the comfortable chairs on her balcony with Nick on another seat next to her, staring at the same scenery, caught in the same moment. A perfect moment.

The two had conversed and learnt more about each other in the past week compared to the first few months when they had their differences. And the past week had made both of them happier than they've ever been in their entire lives.

Nick finally understood and felt first hand the kind of happiness people with mates had bragged so much about. It was the kind of happiness that was intoxicating and in a league of its own. It completed them, like a perfect puzzle piece that fell right into place, like the way she completed him.

And in those moments, he caught himself once again thinking about the future that flashed before his eyes upon their first meeting. A future that could bring happiness to them both. And he couldn't stop thinking about how it could be so easy to have that. How it was so easy for them to act like they had been mates who had known each other for years. How it was so easy to be happy with Alison.

He wondered what it would be like if he wasn't afraid of love and loss, if he was able to let himself be happy. He wanted that so much, as much as he wanted to accept her as his mate. He wanted her.