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Annabelle hasn't had the best of lives, living with an abusive adoptive family, the Leften's, who treated her more like a slave than so...
The next morning I woke up to the smell of bacon. I rolled over with outstretched arms to find my mate and pull her close, fully intending to fall back asleep with her in my arms but shot up when I found her side of the bed empty.
After a second to allow my brain to catch up with the situation I realised the smell of bacon was probably my mate cooking me breakfast again. She sure seemed to be an early riser, the clock on my bed side table hadn't even reached seven o'clock yet.
I quickly pulled on some tracksuit bottoms, forgoing the top, and slowly padded downstairs and into the kitchen where I found my gorgeous mate frying off some eggs while some bacon was sizzling in a nearby pan. She looked fully at home in front of the hobs, knowing exactly what she was doing, and I couldn't help but smile at the image. She was going to make a fantastic Luna and mother someday.
"Morning baby" I yawned as I leaned against the doorway with my arms crossed, making my presence known. "You know you don't have to make me breakfast every morning, right? You can just sleep in and we can order breakfast delivery or something" I shrugged. "That's what I usually did if I fancied something other than toast.
She shrugged, still not looking up from her pans and just muttered a quiet "I don't mind". She was getting a lot better with talking to me lately. I think last night brought us a step in the right direction with getting to know each other and I couldn't help but smile at the thought that she was starting to trust me. She was now comfortable turning her back on me to go and do something and she didn't flinch away from me whenever I reached out to touch her which was a good sign, especially as she hasn't been here that long. I'm sure in a week or two she'd be fully relaxed around me and then we can properly get to work on finding her wolf and getting her fully integrated into pack life.
I padded over to her and took her in my arm, needing to see her pretty face this morning. "So how did you sleep last night?"
She smiled and blushed slightly before nodding her head "good".
I chuckled and lifted her face up so that I could get a good look at her cute little blush. "What's with the blush little mate" I questioned, finding her reaction completely adorable.
She blushed harder and tried to look down and hide her face from me but my fingers on her chin were stopping her. "I...Umm...I sleep better when you're next to me. I fell... safe" she muttered and hid in my bare chest as if she were embarrassed with the fact that she liked being around her mate.
I chuckled and kissed the top of her head "that's normal Annabelle, that's how most wolves feel when they're around their mates" I explained. Sometimes I had to remind myself that she wasn't brought up in our world and even the simplest of feelings for us, like wanting to be around our mates, could be extremely confusing and almost foreign for her.
I held her for a minute in my arms, just living in the moment with my mate securely in my arms, until I started to ever so slightly smell burning bacon and reluctantly released her so that she could save our breakfast. I sat on the counter in silence watching her whilst she finished cooking and plating up our food, thanking her as she placed a full plate of bacon and fried eggs on toast in front of me.
"So what did you want to do today" I asked around a mouthful of food.
She just shrugged and carried on eating her soup, seemingly not bothered with the plans for today. I smiled as I watched her eat spoonful after spoonful of the liquid, feeling happy that her appetite only seemed to be increasing with each passing day.
"How do you feel about going out again today? Maybe show you some more of the pack lands" I suggested, hoping that she would agree so that I could show her off a little bit. I had found my mate, my perfect mate, and I wanted to scream it from the roof tops and rub it in everyone's face. Not very mature and Alpha like I know but sue me, I was too happy to care.
"We might even get a chance to meet a pack member or two, how does that sound?" Please say yes, please say yes.
"Umm..." was all I got back from her and I smiled at the nervous look in her eyes.
"It's decided, we can go for a walk around the grounds and if we bump into a few people I can introduce you to them, but I won't go out of my way to search for them okay? How's that for a compromise?"
She just shrugged "okay I guess".
"Great, well go get ready and we can make a day of it then, I'll even bring a picnic for us". I knew she was nervous, but it was only because she was panicking about the idea of being around new people, once she meets the pack and realises how nice they are I'm sure the nerves will be all but forgotten.
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