Fate

9

Gabriel waited for the party to die down a bit before going to the clearing.

When he was sure that now nobody would notice his absence, he made his way towards the woods. Reaching the clearing, he saw a dark grayish wolf sleeping by the lake.

He knew it was Nitara.

For a while he just stood there and looked at the wolf, it looked so peaceful just lying there. Then he approached her with quiet footsteps not wanting to stratle her and disturb her slumber.

He reached her and sat beside her. Just like her skin, her fur seemed to be silky too. Before he could control his urge, his hand reached out and touched her head.

He wasn't dissapointed a bit. Her fur was a velvety texture, so soft to his touch. He continued to pet her head. He was startled when she moved her head sleepily and nuzzled it in his lap making blood rush to his crotch.

He gulped, and tried to relax himself with deep breaths. Wolf, nuzzled a bit more trying to tell him to continue the petting.

When he was calm, he resumed his actions.

He was actually enjoying doing that.

.........

Nitara started to wake up and felt someone's hand stroking her head that was rested on, what seems to be the lap of the person who was petting her.

She sniffed, and it scent of roses and cranberry and cologne entered her senses. She opened her eyes and looked up to the person.

She stood up with a jolt, moving away from him. He just rose his hand in surrender stance.

"I am not here to hurt you. I just wanted to make sure you were okay."

Nitara relaxed after listening to him.

She then sat there still maintaining distance.

"That was very impressive, what you did back at the pack house"

Nitara gave him a wolfish grin.

"Even I didn't think you could do that considering you're so short. What are you 5'1"?"

Gabriel asked her in a teasing manner. The wolf just scoffed and jumped into the lake.

A few moments later Nitara's head emerged from under water.

"For your kind information, i am 5'4"."

"Tomato, tamayto" he said with the smirk.

"I am not so short, you are just really tall." Nitara said with a pout.

Gabriel just chuckled.

"Aren't you going to get out of the lake? You will catch cold."

"Ummm.. I.. I.. don't have mm.. my clothes ww.. with me." Nitara told him, with a faint blush appearing on her cheeks.

'And there is the stuttering girl again.' Gabriel thought to himself.

He, then, stood up and took his shirt off, kept it on the grounds. He moved a few steps backward still looking at the girl in the lake. Then turned around.

Nitara waited a few seconds, then she got out of the lake and put the shirt on. It was long enough to reach till her mid thigh.

"You can turn around now."

When he turned around she had full view of his tatoos. His front torso and left arm were covered in tattoo. There was a single tattoo on his right arm: an eagle.

During her inspection of the tattoos she didn't realised that she wasn't the only one gwaking.

The sight of this girl was doing things to him, that he didn't knew how to control.

"Umm.. what's the time?" Nitara decided to break the silence.

"It's half past midnight."

"We should go back, i think."

"Yeah, we should."

They said that and started walking towards the pack house beside each other.

"Where did you learn to fight like that?"

"Umm.. I was trained with my brothers."

"Really?"

"Yeah! Alpha David always treated me as his own pup. He always let me train with Hudson and Oliver."

"So, you are trained to be an Alpha?"

"Yep."

"Cool."

Then the silence fell over once again, until Nitara remembered a question she wanted to ask him earlier,

"How did you know I will be here?"

"I come here when I am frustrated too. This place has a soothing effect." he looked down at her.

Nitara looked up and stared in his forest green eyes.

"Yeah, it does."