Maximillian’s Cruz POV
I need to find a way to make Veronica stop coming when I'm at the office. She is my personal assistant, so personal that I know her perfectly both outside and inside her body.
I pay her well and she keeps her mouth shut and her legs open, and that's it. Love without obligations. She is one of my pack members, not too smart but good looking.
For the goddess sake! I am almost in my 30’s, mateless, rich and good looking. What should I do ? To become a monk?
She just left after she took more than an hour from my time and now I hear her screaming from the lobby.
“Stark, I will fire her! I can’t stand her voice anymore ”I say to my wolf.
“I can’t stand her at all and you know it. She is too low for my taste, ”said Stark with a growl.
"Don't be a princess, Stark! You were moaning a few moments ago ”and I opened the door only to find a commotion right in front of me.
A woman who is with her back on me, almost beats Veronica. But I really don’t care, what I care is that Stark yells something in my head and I am too shocked to contradict him.
"Mate!" I hear him saying.
Mate? She is my mate? I look at her carefully and it doesn't take me even two seconds to realize she's human.
"She's not our mate, Stark, She's human" I tell him without moving and looking at her as she almost breaks Veronica's hand.
"She is ours. She is our mate and if you will not accept the fact, I will force you to accept her and I will imprint myself on her! ” yells Stark.
“Smell her! She is our mate! ” he kept saying.
And she really smells divine, like strawberries and vanilla.
Smelling her, I look at her once more and try to make my presence felt.
“What is going on?” I ask but she looks at Veronica who is still blabbering about spying us.
"Maxi! She almost broke my arm!" yells Veronica and looks at me with pleading eyes to save her.
“What the fuck man? She is a werewolf and she is beaten by our human mate? Stark asks furious. "How can Veronica be so weak?'
But I don't have time to think about anything else because I immediately I hear her the voice that anoints my soul:
"Because she tried to slap me for no reason!" says the woman still without looking at me.
"Because she stayed and spied on us, Maxi!" Veronica yelled.
"Max, make her shut the fuck up or I will beat her!" Stark said, completely annoyed.
But suddenly the woman who seems to be my mate takes the lead and turning to me says:
"I DID NOT!" she says bluntly and she looks at me in shock as if she saw a ghost.
"Who are you?" I ask her, looking at her perplexed.
She is the most beautiful woman I have ever seen. She must be somewhere at 5.9 feet. And she is dressed decent in a beautiful light mint green midi dress that highlights her perfect figure. She is not voluptuous but her shapes are perfect. She is gorgeous. I didn't know that women wearing Louboutin shoes are so sexy.
Her brown hair is slightly wavy and falls from her shoulders to the waist, but at the moment I can't take my eyes off her. Her blue eyes are so clear that I lose focus looking at her, and her mouth is so plumy that I feel the need to kiss her. On her little nose I can see a few pickles.
She is like a living doll, and looking at her and at my reaction I realized that she is really my mate.
“We found her, Max. You found our mate ”Stark is howling in my head.
And I just can't concentrate anymore. I immediately send Veronica and signal her to enter the office, but I take only a few steps and surprise: she's not moving.
"Are you deaf?" I ask her, completely annoyed. I'm an alpha and I'm used to it happening when I say something.
This is like messing with people! They are temperamental, they don't have that respect for an alpha.
But just when I thought I made her follow me, the lightning struck me.
"Is it safe to enter this office?" she asks me "Surely I don't get any sexually transmitted diseases?"
And immediately I felt my blood boiling in my veins and heard Stark growl.
"Get in the office now!"
I signal her to come in only to see her very skeptical as if intentionally trying to annoy me and she just looks around in disgust.
“Where can I stay? “She asks me. "Are you sure that I will not get some....?"
"Sit on the chair now!" I say to her and she is not even blinking while I yell at her.
Calm down, Maximillian. I say to myself. She is your mate but she doesn’t know about it, She is human and she is not feeling your struggle. calm down!
I look at her as she looks into my eyes and she doesn't sketch anything. I open her CV and immediately tell her :
"Meredith Quinn..." This name sound familiar " Did we meet before?"
"No, Mr. Cruz, but you pay for my studies in Paris, MaxLine offered me a scholarship, That's probably why my name is known to you," she tells me immediately.
I had nothing to do with those scholarships that my father offered as facilities for students. The strange thing is that I really feel that I met her before.
"You would have known if you had met such a beautiful girl, Max. " Stark said" You know what? Just shut up and woo her."
"What do you do besides listening to people’s door.?" I ask her arrogantly just to annoy her as she annoyed me earlier.
"Today, for example, I intend to quit from MaxLine Design!" she says and immediately gets to her feet and walks to the door without looking at me.
What is she talking about?
"Catch her!" Stark yells and almost transforms but I manage to control him and catch her before she comes out from my office and I hold her in my arms.
"What are you doing, Mr. Cruz?" she asks in a harsh tone while I pin her to the door.
“You can’t quit,” I say growling.
"I don't want to be here anymore!" she said pursing her lips.
Fuck! I want to kiss her!
“If you choose to leave MaxLines you must pay the scholarship back and also some compensation. In two days! ” I say desperately inventing an excuse to force her to stay.
"I can't work with a perv that is having sex in his office while his employee are working. I really need to get out from here!" said the woman, I mean Meredith...my mate.
But right now I think that I suddenly become stupid, because I ask her.
"Are you jealous?"
"Do you say that I must pay all the money in two days?" she asks me, changing the subject and making my heart stop. Does she intend to give me my money back and just leave?
“Yes. Five million dollars, in two days. ” I tell her, grinning.
She looks at me while I cling to her body and continue to hold her in my arms, but hearing what I said she yells in shock lifting her knee and hitting me directly in my groin, making me bruise in pain .
“Five million dollars !!! Are you nuts Mr. Cruz? ”
But I can't say anything. She broke my balls.
Max’s POVI stay like a dumbass, holding my balls in my hand and swearing at all the saints while she is looking at me with her arms on her chest.“Why did you do that!” I ask her and I almost feel like strangling her."Hit you in the balls? It just happened!” she says as it would be nothing.“ I can't do it, Stark. I'm sorry. Let me reject her. She is out of her mind if she just hit her new boss in his balls and she laughs in my face. ”"No," Stark said growling at me. “I want her! I didn't wait thirty years just to reject my mate! ”"But she is crazy and just look at her! I can say that she wants to kill me for some reason I don't even know." I call him annoyed.“You know what, Max. You have no choice in this. Accepting her is only my decision and you have nothing to do about it. Don't make me imprint on her! Don’t try anything or I’ll make your life an ordeal! ”"I do not agree with this! My luna will not be a weak human! ”"Mark my words, Maximillian Cruz!" Stark said, "Just like
Author’s POV"What are you doing?" Lori asks, looking at James. "You look like you've just seen the Big Bad Wolf.""You could say that, too," James says, looking at the phone in his hand."Stallion, did he say that Mer was his mate or did I go crazy?" he asks his wolf in horror."Call him and ask him one more time.” Stallion says agitatedly. "If he is, we are doomed.""My love, you are acting strange, what is happening with you?" Lori asks again but this time James takes her and puts her in his lap and signals to her to calm down. He takes his phone and calls Max again, putting him on the speaker so that Lori can hear it too.“Max, sorry. I accidentally dropped the phone on the floor. ”James tells him and then looks at Lori. "I didn't understand what the icing on the cake was .""My new employee, Meredith Quinn, is my fated mate!" Max says again, snorting at the other end of the phone, Lori is shocked and immediately puts her hand to her heart and mimics a shocked "WHAT!?!?!?" as big
Author’s POV"So tell me" Cara asks Meredith as they sit in the canteen of the company "How did you get from Paris to the New Moon Pack?" and immediately Cara’s face becomes red."I mean in here, near Vancouver" she is trying to change the topic because Cara has just realized that Meredith is a human. Her alpha will take her head if he finds out that she talked about werewolves so freely to a human."Cara" Meredith said looking straight in her eyes and feeling that she is worthy of her trust. "I know!""You know what?" Cara asks her in a panic.“About you being a werewolf, about what this place is and how Maximillian Cruz is. Don’t worry I won’t talk about it, but you can talk about everything you want. ”"And you're not running in fear being in the wolf den?" Cara asks in shock.“No, and don’t ask me why because this is something I don’t want to talk about. “ Meredith tells her."Then let me ask you something else." and Cara looks at her finding that Meredith is not just gorgeous but
Author’s POV"Veronica, stop!" Max said on the verge of a nervous breakdown.“Why, Maxi!?!? Why are you always with that woman? ” she ask humming and pretending to be hurt.“Because she is my fucking mate! That’s why! ” Max would like to say in front of her, but to tell her that would mean putting the posse after Meredith's trace, and he doesn't even know if she'll ever be his mate in the true sense of the word. Why risk that woman's safety?Looking at Veronica carefully, he realizes that no matter what he does, Veronica has no right to behave like that."What's the point of this whole circus, Veronica?" he asks her but, like a sly fox, Veronica starts to walk past Max trying to seduce him as usual."Maxi," she said, placing her hands on his chest and beginning to kiss him on the cheek.“That employee of yours is too disrespectful, and she is always with you. It’s the second time I see you with her on the same day. ” she said, pursing her lips and letting some light love bites on his
Author’s POVIn the evening just before to leave at home, Meredith looks at Cara face and asks her:"Why don't you take a day off, this wound will look even worse tomorrow.""I can't, Mer, Alpha Max will be mad if I don't come to work." and she lowered her head.She knows very well that tomorrow everyone will look at her face and no make-up will be able to hide the marks left by Veronica, but all she has right now is this job. She can’t lose it.“I will take care of this, don’t worry. I am your superior and if Maximillian Cruz will try anything against you, he will talk to me. Please stay home tomorrow and take care of you. Meredith said and smiled at her.“Are you really sure? I don't want to make things difficult for you. " Cara asks, completely overwhelmed that someone wants to help her. Except for Lisa Cruz nobody cared about her, even her parents neglect her."You know what?" Meredith asks her. "I will take you home!""Meredith, I don't want to bother you!" Cara says shocked.Mer
Author’s POV"Did you bring it?" Max asks, pausing after walking in circle for half an hour in the office, completely agitated and chewing his nails in stress."I have it!" Sam tells him and gives him the envelope from the Human Resources Department.Max takes the envelope and quickly unwraps it, almost tearing it in two, but he doesn't notice that the door opens and Luke Navarro, his gamma, enters the office.Seeing their pale and agitated faces, he looked at each of them and asked slightly in a panic:"What's going on?" but Max ignores him and immediately starts reading Meredith's resume."He found his mate!" Sam said.“This is wonderful, man!” Luke said smiling but seeing Max face he looks at Sam and asks him again."Isn't it wonderful?""No, on the contrary, it's awful, Luke!" and sighing and taking a desperate attitude, he says, "She is human!" can you believe it? ”Luke looks at Sam and them at Max, wondering if they're somehow stupid.“So what if she is human?” he asks them."S
Author’s POVNext morning at first hour, Max entered Meredith's office and struggling to not squeeze her neck he asked her:"Why the fuck didn't you answer my phone?" and yells with a growl shocking all the designers, which by the way are all werewolves.Meredith looks at him and knowing well that he is out of limits asked him trying to look dumbfounded:“Mr. Cruz, did you just growl at me? How is it possible for a human to growl like a wolf? ”And Max just looks at her being unable to say anything else. How does she know how a wolf growls?And he looks at her and trying to control himself asks again in a more calm voice."Why didn't you answer my phone?""But I answered Mr. Cruz. And I told you that I am in my free time and that you can tell me today what the emergency was. I see that you are already here. ” Said Meredith looking sweetly at him."Kiss her!" Stark said. "Please kiss her, Max!"And he just looks at her as she stays in front of him, smiling sweetly, without knowing that
Meredith’s Quinn POV"What the hell just happened?" I wonder, collapsing in my chair. I just kissed Max Cruz. No, he kissed me!For the goddess's sake, how did something like this happen?Please goddess, give me strength because I feel like I'm going crazy here. What is the purpose of this madness?But I can not get rid of a madman as soon as another one enters my office. Yes people! The one and only: Sam Jackson."Where is she?" Sam asks looking at me in panic and I know he means but why respond to him when he was a jerk with Cara? So I'm fooling around and pretending I don't know what he's talking about."Where is who?" I asked him, looking at him with an innocent look.“Where is Cara? You left with her last evening and she was not at her place and now she is not at work! Sam tells me, trying to control himself and not rush to me."Oh, Cara ... She took a day off. “But now I will play dirty because that jerk deserves it.“She had a hot date and now needs to rest” and that’s the re
Elias left his own party and as soon as he was outside, his mate's fragrance became more subtil.“Can you find her, Kan?” and his heart is small like a flea.“Yes, I am the best tracker , I will find her no matter how much time it will take.”“I am scared,” he said. “I was more than sure that I will not find my mate tonight, it seemed so impossible to me. I fuck up royally, man”“We both did.” Kan said “Let me focus” and he looked to the shore area and started to walk after her.“Elias!” suddenly one of his whores called him and jumped in his arms. “I have a gift for you!” she said and tried to touch him in his intimate parts, but Elias caught her hands and pushed her a little without harming her.“There is no need.” And he looked around .Suddenly this girl's smell makes him feel sick.“Did you find your mate?’ the girl asked. “ Whoever she is, I can be better. I can offer you more”Elias just watched her .“Why did I sleep with this girl?” Elias asked.“Fuck me if I know.” and Kan w
“Hey, dickhead!” someone yelled in the middle of the training room;“Holy shit!” Kan, the sexiest wolf ever in the royal pack, growled.“I am going to kill her!” Elias said and turning around he sees Theo blinking at him and he almost falls from his own feet.Every time he is trying to woo a girl, miraculously Theo and Bella appear and ruin everything. He loves Bella with all his heart , being his twin, but Theo brooked her head.Yes, that’s what he is saying daily. If she wouldn't be such a good friend with Theodora Cruz , he is sure that she would have been a perfect little girl. But no, she had to have as bestie the one and only: the princess of the werewolves, the absolute perv and scoundrel girl that ever existed.“She’s just like that great grandfather of hers, man!” Kan said, gritting his teeth.“No wonder she didn’t find her mate, and who'll be able to stand her?” and he looks at the sky and raises a prayer.“Thank you Goddess, because you protected our race and left her matel
(One week later)“Holy guacamole!” Vivi yelled and jumped in Luke’s arms.“Will you stop, Viv! You are pregnant for the goddess ‘sake! “ and he ran to catch her because as soon as she put her foot down the helicopter , she sprinted to the Royal Packhouse as if there were some Christmas promotions and she won't find anything if she doesn't hurry up.“Vivienne Navarro!” Luke yelled seeing her like that.“Cassel” Francoise said ,coming from behind, while he was holding hands with Leia.They had their alpha and luna ceremony, to the shock of the entire pack , that is still processing the fact that Max is not their alpha anymore.“What?’ and Luke keeps an eye on Vivi but he can’t stop from looking at Francoise as well.“She is still Cassel, if you forget that. You didn’t marry my sister, and I'm really glad that she forgot about this, because otherwise I will need to search for a beta.”Luke just stays there and watches Vivi as she hopping around when she met Cara and Meredith.“Shit!” and
Author’s POVAs soon as all the alphas left, Max gathered everyone in his condo, in his private living room. Even the girls are here , wondering what is going on.The boys are serious and no one speaks.“Who died?” Vivi asked but the girls just looked at her while their mates continued to stay mute.“I don’t want this. I didn’t ask for this.” Meredith said in the end.“Mer” James whispered. “It’s your destiny!”“No , James . Is it not” She said with tears in her eyes.“I can build my own destiny, with my own thoughts and decisions. I don’t need a gang of alphas to come and tell me that suddenly I am their queen and that I need to live somewhere else. They don’t deserve me! They abandon my family!” and she bursted in tears.“WHAT?” Cara asked, jumping from Sam’s lap and almost dropping the babies on the floor.“What queen? No, you can’t leave us!” and she starts to shiver, scaring Sam.“Take the babies!” he shouted and Leia and Francoise jumped from their seats and grabbed Elias and Be
Author’s POV“Sweetheart” Carter mindlinked Meredith the next day in the morning. “ Can you take Max with you and come to the training room? Your father is here”“What?” she asked and jumped from the bed.'What’s going on?’ Max asked grabbing her arm and pulling her back in bed, making her sit over his naked body.“My father is here,” she whispered. “Something happened.” and her heart almost stopped saying this.“What do you mean he is here?” and Max helped her to get out of the bed and both of them ran to the closet and took something on them, without taking a shower.“Max ,” and Meredith already has tears in her eyes. “What if this madness is not over yet? What if we made plans for nothing,” and she touched her lower abdomen closing her eyes.“Hey, look at me” and Max pulled her to his chest and lifted her chin and kissed her lips.“You have me, no matter what's going on, you have me and you will always have me no matter what. I am yours forever. Am I clear? We are together in this.
Author’s POV“I should punish you!” Grandpa Cruz said, pointing his cane to Meredith.“I am sorry, grandpa” she said and went to him and took the old man in a warm embrace.“You even took off the bracelet I gave you!” he said, pouting at her and making her smile.“And you know exactly why” and this time he looked him in the eye. “I thought that I was protecting you doing this”“Protecting my ass!” Vivi cried out. “We almost died here having a stroke because of you!”“I am sorry, sweetie,” Meredith said, smiling at her.“Don’t smile at me Meredith Cruz!” Vivi cried. “I was so stressed. If my baby wolfy will be agitated when he is born it will be all your fault!”“And let me guess” Max said laughing “You are the embodiment of calmness and tranquility.”“Of course, I am,” Vivi said, blinking her eyelashes and making everyone laugh.“Look,” Meredith said “I am really sorry, but at that moment it seemed the only option. I promise that I will neve do something like that and looking at Grand
Author’s POV“Where is she?” James cried like a baby as soon as he arrived at Crescent Moon Pack. ”Where is Lori!” but he was stopped by Landon.“Will you calm down!” he said, catching his arms. “In this state you will scare the poor woman.”“You don’t get it dad!” He said “She was alone, she suffered and I could have helped her, holding her hand at least, to calm her wolf but I just missed the most important moment of our life.”“It’s my fault” Meredith whispered, coming closer ”I am so sorry James.” but seeing her like this and hearing her Max stepped between them.“Will you stop victimizing yourself?”And he is damned serious.“You!” he said commandingly and shocking everyone.“Lori loves you and you didn’t miss this because you were drunk in some bar , you were saving your sister's life. “ and turning his face to Meredith said in a more calm voice.“And about what you just said, darling. You have nothing to blame yourself for.” and caress her face with the back of his palm.“But”
Author’s POV“What the hell was that?” an alpha asks looking slack-jawed at Meredith.“Holy goddess!” that’s not possible. “We came here to fight and kill that jerk, who hunts our brothers all over the world and she just killed him with two punches?” another one asked Max.“That’s my mate!” Max said with a lot of pride and he ran directly to Meredith and lifted her in his arms, forcing her to put her legs around his waist in front of all these alphas.“I love you, Meredith Cruz!” and he is not waiting for her response, he just kissed her, he kissed her with passion.“Will you forgive me for being so stupid to talk with you like I did yesterday?”“No. I will not” Meredith said calmly. “Actually” and she just watches his reactions.Max’s heart stops.“You can’t leave me!” Max said in a very commanding way making everyone around to laugh, and an alpha from Europe just says with a very funny accent:“Leave him, please! And choose me!”But Max has no sense of humor and he wants to leave Me
Author’s POVIt was all like a click. You know what I am telling you about? That moment when the world stops moving around you and the movements freeze , everything disappears and in the center of everything is only you. You just stay there , like a very bored spectator analyze everything.Meredith just looks around her and she can’t ask herself:“Artemis, What the hell is going on?”“I will honestly say that I have no idea!” and Artemis activates all her senses fearing that there is some magic around.“Max...” Meredith whispers remembering that he is wounded and she runs directly to where he lays on the ground, helped by Sam and Luke. He is looking in her direction and he just stays like a statue. His eyes are so scared that it breaks her heart.“Oh.,..Max” she said and tears started to flow down her face. “I am here, don’t be scared, everything will be alright "and kneeling near his wounded body she kissed his lips.“Please, just get well” and she looks around again. Everything is s