Filed to story: Luna Lovette and Alpha Kodak Story
He held up his hand. “Viv, I get that you might wish you could have someone to sit there and grieve with you for your daughter, who saw her as special and who you can share stories with, but…I can’t be that someone.”
“Maybe if I showed you some of her pictures and -“
“Viv, you’re not listening to me.”
“Because you’re wrong.”
“No, I’m not. Lovette is my true mate.” He didn’t like the way she snarled at Lovette’s name and nor did his wolf. “Don’t you do that. I get that you’re upset, but Lovette’s my mate and I won’t have you disrespect her in any way, just as you wouldn’t with your mate.”
The stiffness left her spine and she sighed. “I’m sorry, that was disrespectful. She seems like quite a character.”
“She is.”
“And you’re happy with her? She cares for you?”
He nodded. “Even though I’m about as emotional as a broomstick, even though I’m not giving her what she needs. She doesn’t judge me for being the way I am. She’s so different from me it’s not even funny. Lovette’s it for me.”
Viv’s expression softened. “Then I’m happy for you. I won’t lie and say I’m glad Summer wasn’t your true mate, but that’s because I selfishly wish I had some sort of connection left to her. What you have is what’s best for you, and that’s what I should be thinking about, not me.”
“Then you’re okay?”
She nodded, a half-smile now on her face. “I’m okay.” She bowed her head respectfully. “Take care, Kodak. I really am glad you’re happy.” With that, she strolled over to the waiting vehicles and hopped into the backseat of one. Then the cars were beeping in goodbye and driving off.
“I wouldn’t be surprised if at least one of them can’t resist taunting Darryl over his failed attack on Lovette,” said Dante as he and Tao came to stand beside Kodak.
“Hearing Lovette wasn’t hurt and you’re onto his little tricks will make him unbelievably pissed,” said Tao.
Kodak nodded, sighing. “It’s a satisfying thought.” But he couldn’t smile about it like Dante and Tao were. Although he was pleased to know that not all of his old pack was against him, the overriding issue for him was that there was still a threat to his mate walking the earth. That was unacceptable to him and his wolf.
He wondered if Lovette had any real idea of just how difficult it was for him to simply sit back and then go after Darryl in his own time. The need to avenge pecked at him constantly, demanding he go dish out his own personal brand of justice. The whole thing was making him restless, giving him that nagging feeling like the kind he got when there was something he’d forgotten to do. Only this time he knew exactly what he needed to do, and it went totally against his very nature to ignore it.
Now that their cars were no longer in sight, Kodak headed back to the caves.
Dante sighed. “I’ve got a feeling that Don will want to know everything that’s going on – he’ll be pissed to hear his niece was attacked.”
“Do you think Nick will be willing to join us for the battle?” Tao asked Kodak.
“There’s only one way to find out.” As Kodak was making his way to the kitchen, he heard the words ‘hussy’, ‘disrespectful’ and ‘common’ – clearly Greta was taking a pop at Lovette again. Then he heard his mate’s voice.
“No need to take it out on me that you’re so wrinkled you have to screw your hat on.”
And just like that, he was smiling.
“Do you see what I have to put up with? She’s always talking to me like this,” said Greta, outraged – presumably talking to Don, Nick and Derren.
“You know, I hear that bathing nightly in the blood of virgins is scientifically proven to reduce the effects of old age. Maybe you should try it.”
Entering the kitchen, Kodak went straight to where Lovette was perched on the counter and insinuated himself between her swinging legs. He took her mouth in a searing kiss that he hoped told her everything he didn’t know how to say. Near her, surrounded by her scent, he could breathe better. It was odd how this tiny little female could anchor him the way she did. She really was the only thing keeping him rational right now and he wondered if she knew it, felt the weight of that responsibility. Maybe she did, and maybe she felt how close he was to the edge, because she gave him what he hadn’t even known he needed until then. She wrapped all her limbs around him and just held him to her.
Kodak was smiling as he made his way to the kitchen four mornings later. Waking up to the feel of his mate’s plush lips around his cock could do that to a guy. Entering the room, he found a sight that made him halt. Gritting his teeth, he tore his eyes away and glanced at the people around him. Every member of his pack was there, though none of them had acknowledged his entrance. Each were occupied with either eating, staring into their coffee mug, or toying with their cell phone…as if there wasn’t a small pile of gifts in the center of the table.
The pack knew better than to mark his birthday in any way, shape or form – Kodak wasn’t the celebratory type and he didn’t like being fussed over. It wasn’t that he didn’t understand why other people would want to mark their own special occasions, it was just that Kodak didn’t like that whole ‘center of attention’ thing. His pack knew that. There was only one member who would ignore that and force ‘fun’ on him.
He zoomed in on his little mate who was sitting on the counter as usual, dipping mini cookies in her coffee. Slowly he approached her, but she didn’t look up until he snatched the mug from her hand.
“Hey!” whined Lovette, not even slightly surprised by Kodak’s reaction.
“What’s all that about?” He gestured with his thumb at the table behind him.
“What?” she asked innocently. “Oh you mean the gifts.”
“Oh I mean the gifts.”
“Well it’s like this: it’s your birthday, people get gifts on their birthday, and we’re all nice, kind people who wanted to buy you something.”
Kodak copied her innocent shrug. “It’s like that, huh?”
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