King of My Heart

C4: Memories

I honestly have never been more scared in my life. I know that I said that I wanted things to go slow but I feel like if Bentley's wolf is as kind as the human part of him has been to me so far, it wouldn't really be a bad thing if I met him. Plus, how am I suppose to love all of him, eventually, if I only get to know half of him.

I let Bentley drive my car this time. I was too lost in my own thoughts to even consider driving. He took us to his house where he opened the car door for me, again.

"You know," He began, "If you're scared, which you shouldn't be because I would never hurt you, we can always do this another time." He sounded like he was scared too. I looked down at the ground as we walked into his house.

"I'm not gunna lie to you and tell you I'm not scared, because I kinda am." I looked up at him, "All I know is that you have been nothing but nice to me all day, and if what you say is true—that we're mates—I want to get to know both sides of you. I don't want to just get to know the human side; I want to know the wolf side, too." His grip on my hand tightened, telling me he understood.

"There's a little clearing not too far from my backyard, we can go there." He suggested leading me through his house by my hand and to the backyard.

As he was leading me through, I didn't notice anyone else there. "Do you live by yourself?"

"Um, yeah. It's just me." He sounded awkward talking about it so I let it drop.

We walked silently to the clearing that was just a little over a mile from his house. He let my hand go and they started to shake, I was so nervous.

He noticed too, "Hey," Bentley lifted my head so that we were looking eye to eye, "You have nothing to be scared about. I would never hurt you, not as a human and definitely not as a wolf. You have my word as Alpha and as your mate that I will never intentionally hurt you."

I raised an eyebrow, "So you plan on accidentally hurting me?"

"I'm a guy. I'll eventually do something stupid that will piss you off to no end and have no idea what I did." He shrugged with a smile, "That is a lesson I learned from my father very early on."

That made me laugh. He successfully made me relax. Point Bentley.

"I'm going to shift behind that tree," He nodded his head in the direction behind me, his hands still holding my face to look at him, "I won't be gone long." He says that and I get butterflies in my stomach.

I close my eyes to calm the nerves that were rising again, "C'mon, Emersyn. If you can swim 10,000 yards in a single practice you can literally do anything." I muttered and I gasped and my eyes flew open when I felt something warm and wet touch my hand, "Bentley?" I whispered.

He nodded his wolf head. He was huge. He came up to my shoulders, easily.

"I thought wolves were suppose to be, um, ya know, smaller?" I questioned. He shook his head no. "I get it." I cleared my throat and held a finger up in his direction telling him to hold on, "I'm a werewolf, I'm an Alpha. I'm bigger so I can protect you, Emersyn." I deepened my voice to do my best Bentley impression.

He gave me a look that told me he wasn't impressed.

"Oh, c'mon. That was really good. For knowing you not even twenty-four hours, I think that was really good." I defended myself as I just stood there.

He made a move towards me but I stood my ground and didn't move. I let him sniff me while I stood there. It was super weird but I let it happen. He moved around me in circles, still sniffing. That is until his nose got a little too close to my butt.