Chapter 19

Chapter 19: Meeting His Wolf

After Lynel took Calla to Ahma's house, Calgary and I went out for a walk in the woods. I realized he would explain why his daughter called me 'Mommy', maybe he was thinking that I didn't like it at all.

As soon as we got deeper into the woods, I cleared my throat and looked at him. "It's the first time I heard Calla speak."

There was a glint of loneliness in his eyes when he met my gaze. "She stopped talking since her mother left us. She was barely four... and that was the worst night of my life not because I just lost my Luna, but because Calla's painful plea for her mother not to go was the last thing we heard from my daughter."

I swallowed when my chest felt a different kind of pain, as if Calgary was letting me feel how he felt the night his Luna left to be with someone else. Maybe if I was in his shoes, I wouldn't be able to handle the pain, and I know, even if Calgary wasn't telling me, what his Luna did left a scar in his heart. A fear that no matter how strong and powerful he might be, he would never be enough for someone whose heart belongs to someone else.

Is that the reason why he was so jealous of Luhence? Did he think that despite us being true mates, I would still choose Luhence someday?

"I'm sorry it happened to the both of you. Calla didn't deserve that... and neither did you." I took a silent breath as I dodged his gaze. "Maybe she had mistaken me as her Mom. She was young when your Luna left, and kids like her would have a hard time remembering faces. Even I would've forgotten how my Mom looked like if only I didn't resemble her a lot."

"Thank you for your understanding. I'll expain to Calla everything so she will stop calling you that way."

"You don't have to stop her at all. I know how it feels like to crave for someone you can call Mom, and I would love to hear Calla call me that way... if you will allow of course. Not that I'm insisting to replace your Luna in your lives."

I chewed my bottom lip as my cheeks turned red. Calgary, on the other hand, took a deep breath while he was staring at the large canopy of leaves way above our heads. "Why Luhence?" he suddenly asked.

I found myself going on a trip down memory lane until I reached the part of my past where I was at my lowest. The memory made my chest tighten, as if in my head, I was reliving everything again.

"When... my parents died, Alpha Lawrence gave me a choice. Either I would leave Zenios and be on my own, or I would stay as their slave. I chose the latter not because I was terrified to live alone. I stayed... because Zenios was the only home known to me." I forced a smile while his eyes remained watching my face. "Luhence was the only one in the pack who didn't let Alpha Lawrence's threats to stop him from showing me sympathy. We became good friends, and maybe, because he was the only friend I had since my parents died, we had mistaken our friendship as a mate bond."

He flashed a broken smile. "Calla's mother and I experienced the same. We were friends even before she won the selection night. We both thought that what we had would be enough, but as we grew older, we also grew apart until we could no longer look at each other the same way, as if we're seeing each other as a barrier that's stopping the both of us from experiencing what we truly wanted."

"And what do you really want, Cal?" I asked, almost a whisper.

His Adam's apple bobbed up and down as we both took a halt to face each other. "A family built with love as its foundation..."

There was no words that left our lips after I heard his answer. We just stared into each other's eyes for a few moments as if we were finally letting our bond draw us closer until it could no longer falter anymore.

I scanned his handsome face and wonder how could someone this good-looking be in a small village in the woods, destined to rule a pack of wolves when he could definitely own the outside world? Look at that strong jaw, narrow and pointy nose with a downturn tip, a pair of lips that looked so sexy even when he was cursing, and his eyes, those wild pair of green eyes with brown strands, I could be lost in his stares forever... and I finally admit that now.

His chest rose and fell for a moment. "I guess you must formally meet my wolf."

My eyes blinked and my heart banged loudly inside my chest when Auror started cheering in excitement. The anticipation thrumming through my veins even reached my eyes that when Calgary met my gaze, a ghost of a smile found its way to his rosy lips.

I turned around immediately when he removed his jacket and his white shirt. I even heard him let out a soft chuckle before he crossed the length between us. God, I had to hold my breath when his bare chest hit the back of my head, and when he lowered his face while he was holding me by my waist, my eyes finally turned gold because of Auror's excitement to meet Calgary's wolf.

"You don't have to look away when all of these would soon be yours," he uttered in a low, almost raspy voice. I shuddered when I felt his palm sliding to my stomach until he finally drew small circles on my belly button. My knees wobbled with all the heat I was feeling in every fiber in my body, and when I understood what he really wanted me to do, I swallowed the pool of saliva in my mouth before I began taking off my clothes.

Calgary watched me carefully as my clothes left my body one by one. I could smell his desire to come forward and touch me, but we knew that wouldn't be a good idea.

His eyes burned with lust as I stripped down my underwear before I went all fours, and as our eyes focused on each other, we slowly turned into our wolf forms together.

Calgary turned into a massive big black wolf. He was twice or even thrice my size, yet the moment Auror whimpered in fear, Calgary's wolf began licking the spot on Auror's neck that would soon have Calgary's mark.

I belong to him, to the great Alpha Calgary Grivence of Claivan Pack, and I now honor the bond I share with such powerful man...