Come Back To Me

Chapter 7

Nova could barely focus on her first class all she could think about was how Dustin wasn't his biological son and then her mind wandered to how Riley and Max have never even kissed in front of the pack. When the bell rang Nova ran out of the classroom straight to Kyle, "Text Jazz. I need to go back to the house." 

Kyle looked around frantically, "What happened? Are you alright?" 

Nova nodded, "I just need to talk to Max about something."

Kyle took Nova home and she quickly ran up to the office, "Nova are you okay? What happened, why are you home?"

Nova shut the door once she knew they were alone, "No everything is fine, can I ask you something?"

Max slowly nodded, "Can you finish the story from last night?" 

Max sat down, "Umm sure, so anyway this little boy comes running over and he is no older than two. And running after him was Riley. She looked so sad, I asked her what was going on. Riley told me about how her mate had just died. I don't know how but we got on the topic of us moving her here with Dustin so he could have a father," Max took a breath, "Dustin knows, and that's why he hasn't taken over yet. The pack figured that out after him being here a few weeks, he doesn't smell like me. He needs to challenge me for the pack and he doesn't really want to be Alpha anyway. Me and Nolan have been discussing what to do for a while." 

Nova nodded, "So, did you guys not want kids together or something?"

Max shook his head, "It's not that, we were still getting to know each other. She was obviously not my mate so it was hard for me to just jump at the idea. But the pack had hope and a Luna. A few more years had passed and by the time that I had fully come around to the idea to just prove to the pack that we were in love, and well you were brought into my office." 

Nova sat back her mind going all over the place, "I've never seen you kiss her." 

Max nodded, "You are correct. That is because we never have."

Nova sat up faster than ever, "You've never kissed her? Does that mean..." 

Max leaned forward resting his arms on his desk, "We have never been intimate. I am in fact a very old virgin." 

Nova laughed, "You aren't old, you stopped aging what like 20 years ago?"

Max laughed, "Yeah something like that." 

Nova laughed and sat back in her chair and slumped down, "Is Riley marked by you?" 

Max again shook his head, "No, the pack does know that, we just always said it was out of respect for her mate. Another thing I didn't think of, you can't smell it."

Nova put on a confused expression so Max continued, "When you mark someone your scent mixes with theirs. It lets others know that you have a mate." 

Nova was confused about everything and didn't know what to do. She opened and closed her mouth a few times sitting up, when she couldn't think of anything she sat back again. Nova stood up and came over to his side of the desk, Max raised an eyebrow at her, "Can I have a hug?" 

Max stood up and pulled her into a hug, "Nova, is everything okay?"

Nova nodded into the hug, "I just I am confused," Nova didn't let go for quite some time but when she did it was because the phone rang. Throwing her head back she pulled away from the hug to grab the phone, "Moonlight Pack... hello Alpha Jared..." she glanced at Max who sat down and held his hand out for the phone. She was about to pass it over when she stopped, "...yes that was me...thank you... no it's fine... did you want to speak to Alpha Max?... okay have a nice day." Nova hung up the phone, "He called to apologize to me, he said he has been thinking about how rude he was to me since the other day."