My Mate

Signe POV

There he was. My mate. What the hell? How did this happen?

I broke my gaze from his and looked to Alpha Lance who was just smiling at me. As I looked around the room I saw a mixture of expressions, from shock to anger, concern and even pleased. Such an array of emotions from others when I couldn’t even figure out what the hell was going on or how I felt about it.

Mate? No…we must have that wrong. It’s a joke. Right?

“It’s definitely not a joke, Signe.” Aerona said, and if

we were in wolf form right now, I know she’d be drooling.

I looked back at the man who I’d just met. Actually, I haven’t even met yet. He just simply barged into the room for goddess sake and here I was, swooning over him.

I mean, he’s not bad to look at. Mate bond or pull aside, I mean, yeah, now I’m almost drooling. His green eyes, that I’d be more than happy to continue to be lost in for the next few hours are the first thing that I noticed. He has gorgeous dark brown hair that’s cut short, but not military short. His t-shirt is tight and stretched taut across his upper body. His muscles disappeared underneath the sleeves, but not completely. They’re just somewhat hidden by the fabric, but still very visible and impossible to miss.

As I was studying him, he flexed his forearm and watching the muscles ripple across his arm had my heart rate increase. Goddess, I wanted to see what else his muscles could do.

What the hell, Signe?! What’s gotten into you? I couldn’t believe myself. There are lots of attractive men in my pack, but not once had I ever looked them over quite as thoroughly as I was looking him over.

But not even our biggest warriors in the pack are built like he is. He’s built like a brick shit house. He probably stands about six feet four inches, which makes him a good six inches taller than me.

I looked back up and met his eyes. He was just staring at me. His body most definitely in flight mode and tense. He looked ready to bust out of here at a moments notice.

I mean, I know I’m not the most attractive female. I have one blue eye and one green eye. I’m five foot ten, which seems to intimidate most men. I’m athletic and in great shape, honestly. I literally work out every single day. Could I afford to put on some makeup occasionally, sure. My hair can be, well, unruly and such a pain in my ass.

SHIT! My hair! Oh my goddess, why today?

I groaned and that seemed to spark his interest a bit. But instead of my mate speaking up, the other guy, who I can only assume is his brother due to the uncanny resemblance, spoke up instead.

“Hey. Pardon my brother’s serious lack of manners. I’m Beta Alex and this is my brother, Alpha Asher.” Alex says with hands down the most amused look out of anybody else’s face.

So my mate is, in fact Alpha Asher then. I stick my hand out to shake his hand, “good morning Beta Alex. I’m Gamma Signe, or rather, soon to be Gamma Signe.” He takes my hand and shakes it.

Once our hands connected for the handshake, I hear a growl escape from the Alpha’s lips that was more than a little intimidating. I looked quickly up to him to see his gaze fixated on our connected hands.

“Calm down brother,” Alex chuckles. “It’s just a handshake.”

Alex looked at me and gave me an amused sideways grin, “who knew he’d be so possessive over his mate when he found her. Can you imagine if I tried to hug you?”

Another growl. This one a touch more feral than the first. A reminder to Alex that the Alpha doesn’t like what’s being said to me. Even though Alpha Asher and I haven’t even spoken one word to each other.

But that didn’t seem to phase Alex at all. Either he enjoyed pushing his brother’s buttons or he knew nothing would come from those growls.

With our hands still gripped in our handshake I felt Alex pull me into himself as if to give me a hug. Which, turns out, is exactly what he was doing. Does Alex have a death wish?

“He must, because our Mate looks like he’s about to murder his brother in cold blood.” Concern laced Aerona’s words causing me to glance back at our mate yet again.

Alpha Asher began to lunge at Beta Alex and it happened so fast, I almost didn’t have time to react, but I somehow I managed to place myself between the brothers.

“STOP!”

This seemed to wake Alpha Asher from his murderous rage towards his brother. He looked me dead in the face and without blinking said the absolute last thing I was expecting.

“This. This is why I will never accept a mate.”