KANE

But I always would think about her, who she was, what she was doing, without a second thought I would always hold onto the dream of finding her one day, and having what others around me had.

Who knew she would be the one to find me.

"Let's go" I say towards Lucas who nods with a grin on his face.

Let's go meet our mate.

We take Lucas's red truck, both not wanting to show up in wolf forms, and scare the living shit out of my human mate.

This is going to be a lot more fucking complicated than I thought.

"She's a painter, from London, short little thing, a bit timid but she has spark." Lucas says with a laugh. "She's shy, you're going to have to take it slow with her.. especially since she just got out of a relationsh-"

"WHAT!" My wolf and I are now growling. "SHE'S MY MATE!" I spit with dominance, hearing my blood pumping throughout my body as I feel myself grow protective of her, despite not even meeting her.

She is MINE I will snap the neck of any man who will dare to even LOOK at her!

Lucas laughs nervously. "Alpha, she's a human, she has no idea about wolves and about our customs.. about Amanda or what a Mate is.. you will have to try not to scare to her away." He grins out and I begin to panic all over again.

"How the fuck am I going to do that huh Lucas!" I clench my jaw and bite my tongue to not let my anger get the best of me. "She's human, Lucas." I say, not recognizing my voice.

Lucas picks up on my tone. "She's a strong human, Kane, she is a fighter, she's made for you and you for her, you have to keep calm." He says as he turns the engine off.

We made it to his part of the land and we are now outside his home, my hands were starting to sweat and I couldn't help but sniff myself, to see if I smelled bad or good, and the moment I did it, I caught Lucas looking at me, before turning his head away and clearing his throat, with an obvious smile on his face.

This fucker is enjoying this... perhaps I'd- no, no fighting, not today at least, not now.

'I can smell her! Mate is here!' Dex says dreamily smelling her air for her scent, which we both agree is our new favorite scent.

There was smell of cinnamon and pine coming from her... becoming our favorite scent.

"I can't believe she's here" I mumble to myself, still not believing it until I see her with my own two eyes.

"She's out back with Amanda, it's probably best I introduce you as the owner of the land instead of Alpha.. for now, Alpha." Lucas states.

I nod. "Right, she's human.." Shit. I'm so fucking nervous I think my back is now sweating along with my hands.

"Honey I'm home!" Lucas tells out as we enter the house.

Her smell was intoxicating inside the house, it was drowning me in the most pleasant way.

I saw a bunch of suitcases down the hall and I know those must be hers from her scent coming off of them, and now it's real, she's really fucking here.

I hear the sound of girly voices giggling from the back porch, and a voice I don't recognize sparks my interest, I wasted no time moving, I followed the voice as I walk behind Lucas.

Her scent was now overwhelmingly making me lose my mind, I could inhale this scent for the rest of my life.

My little mate's scent.

"Babe! What took you so long!... oh." Amanda's voice comes out demanding then she sees me, she sits up more straight in her chair as nervousness comes to her face then she shifts and glances at the woman beside her.

I ignore Amanda and stare at the woman who now is interested in what made Amanda be quiet for once.

The first thing I notice is her eyes, big and round, almost innocent, they are the first I see, and then I feel as though I can't breathe, it's getting harder and harder to allow air to go to my brain as I look at the rest of her.

She's everything.

The perfect woman exists and she's my mate.

"Sora this is Kane, my best friend! Also the owner." Lucas says with the biggest grin on his face and with a hand on my shoulder. "Kane, this is Sora, Amanda's friend from college." He introduces us both, making my heart beat rapidly in my chest.

I'm frozen in awe.

Sora, so that's your name.

I wanted to grab her and rub my scent all over her like a cat, but instead, I walk over to her, not waiting for any fucking longer I put myself in front of her and hold my hand out to introduce myself. "Kane, nice to meet you."

She stares at my hand and then my face, not with fear but curiosity and I drink her up, her expressions, her body language.. fuck, everything.. she's so fucking beautiful I can't help but admire every itch of her.

She clears her throat nervous. "I'm... Sora." Sora shakes my hand for a near second and then releases my hand as if she was burnt.

Tingles are shooting up my arm and traveling through my body despite barely touching her, the mate-bond telling me she is the one.

"S-sorry. I- erm sorry... it's nice to meet you too. " Her long eyelashes look up shyly to meet mine, which has not left hers for a second.

She feels the pull.

I sit next to her on the armchair as Lucas and Amanda are now talking towards themselves almost as if in their little world, I never tore my gaze away from Sora's, afraid that if I looked away she'd disappear in front of me.

I want her.

All of her.

Dex is panting for us to mark her and I almost growl, demanding him to submit and not scare our mate.

I decide to save her from her shyness which I must admit, is turning me the fuck on. But It's quickly getting on my nerves as I want to hear more of her sweet angelic voice, I demand to hear more.

I nod towards the notebook on the table, gaining her attention. "Do you draw?" I ask her, I'm genuinely curious as Lucas mentioned she was an artist.

She peeks up at me from her lap, she was fidgeting with the edge of her shirt with her small fingers which I found cute. I intimidate her.

She nods shyly. "Y-yes.. I draw."

My interest becomes overbearing and I sense it in her stiffness around me and her lack of response.

She looks young, she's in her early twenties at most.

She is barely looking at me and I'm practically drooling over her.

Lucas laughs through mind-link. "You're scaring her, stop staring at her!"

I quickly look away from her almost afraid that Lucas was right- I had been staring like some idiot for a while now, no wonder she's shy.

Ah I know what can help with this mood we find ourselves in. " Do you want a drink?" I nod towards the beers in the bucket of ice, a special kind of werewolf drink that my pack made.

It was beer to humans, but for werewolves it was the only type of alcohol that we could drink and not harm our wolves, or pups if pregnant she-wolves were nursing, of-course human's would never understand, it was a very popular drink for wolves to let lose.

Her eyes light up and she nods, she still wasn't looking at me but at nothing in paticular.

I can't help but grin at her, amused, if only she looked at me, then she'd see just how much she also affected me too.

Oh baby, we're going to work on that shyness of yours, don't worry.

I flick the bottle open using my thumb and she stares amazed, raising my eyebrow I hand her the bottle and she whispers a quiet 'thanks'.

Her lips wrap around the bottle and it takes everything in my body to not let out a groan as her little tongue is slightly out, tasting the drink.

She sees me staring at smiles shyly. "It's yummy.."

Yummy? Well... it was nice, I could tell she was nervous as she cringed as soon as the words left her mouth, making me almost break out laughing as I put the drink to my lips.

What do I say to this fucking beautiful woman who has me suddenly speechless?

The night went on as so.

Lucas, Amanda, and I are talking about some shit that happened in town and Sora excuses herself to use the restroom, my eyes followed her as her small body moved around me.

I'm addicted to this little shy human who already has me wrapped around her tiny wrist and she has no idea that I was hers and she was going to be mine.

"I can't believe she's your mate, I'm freaking out!" Amanda's excited voice squeals out. "This is the best!" She whispers out so Sora doesn't hear us.

"Shh!" I snap quietly. "Keep it down."

"Damn Kane, I thought you would've dragged her back to your bed by now!" Lucas says, his drunk snort-laugh coming out as I rolled my eyes.

The thought wasn't exactly lost on me, I had wanted to just leave with her multiple times durin the night.

Every time I had looked at her I want to put her over my shoulder and drag her home, to our home, where she belongs, with me, just the two of us.

Yet- I knew I need to take it slow, I want her to fucking get comfortable with me and so far it feels like I have to take this one step at a time with her, she's not a wolf, and human's do this differently.

Was I really that scary though?

I roll my eyes and snort. "Fuck off."

"Seriously what's stopping you? She's into you man." Lucas nudges and Amanda nods, her cheeks flushed.

I growl out as a warning as I hear her close the bathroom door inside the house and start to walk her way back to the garden, where we were sitting.

Amanda was drunk and is now grabbing Sora and dancing with her the moment the entered the garden, Sora's eyes found me as Amanda swirled her around, she blushed a beautiful pink when she realized I was already looking at her.

What I wouldn't give to make her blush like that underneath me...

A small grin creeps on my face at the thought as I try not to drag her over my shoulder for the 100th time tonight.. in my head of course.

This minx is driving me and my wolf insane, and she's not even doing anything to me.

I've finally lost it.

"Okay, Amanda, time for bed!" Lucas laughs and grabs his drunk mate as she whines for cuddles, which Lucas simply gives as he carries her inside.

This left me and Sora alone as they went inside.

Fuck it, I can't leave like this, I needed more to calm myself down.

"Can I see you again?" I ask her, making her eyes widen as she slowly turns to face me.

Sora nods and I can tell she's getting more confident around me, she was looking me in the eye while I spoke to her.

I was silently praising my girl for being strong, where other wolves wouldn't dream of looking at me in the eye, she was.

I couldn't stop the grin from escaping. "Could I get your number?" I nod towards her phone as I take mine out from my back jean pocket.

She whispers a quiet 'Sure' that I barely heard, and if not for my wolf hearing I would've missed it.

I move to sit next to her, our legs were touching each out as I sat next to her, the sharp sparks from our connection were traveling up my legs then the rest of my body and from the look on her face, they also affected her as she flinched out, but didn't move away like she did last time.

She smiles as I give her my personal phone number, there were only 4 people that had my number, now 5.

I see her save my number as 'Kane' and my heart speeds up in excitement, even though it was such a small thing.

I forcefully keep the satisfying growl from coming out as I go to put her number in my phone as I try to keep the fucking shit-eating smug grin off my face, but this girl is like the wind, she's knocking me on my ass faster than I can blink with a simple glance.

I saved her number as 'mate' when she wasn't looking, under her actual name, Sora Collins.

Her name was so fucking perfect... Sora Black, yes- I liked that more, it was perfect in every way.

I glance at my wristwatch for the time, '11:46'. I growl out annoyed that I had to leave, causing her eyes to snap to mine in surprise.

"What the..." Her tiny voice comes out.

I almost forgot she was human, each second I was alone with her I loved that she was human, her reactions were interesting, she was like a baby fawn, startled by everything.

"Did you know there are wolves in these parts?" I ask with a knowing smile.

She laughs lightly and puts a long strand of hair behind her ear. "Y-yeah, I think you might be one of them." She jokes shyly, her long eyelashes fluttering up at me.

Mmmh baby keeps looking at me like that.

"And if I was?" I tease her, showing my teeth, my fangs are barely visible but to humans, it might seem like I had some by the shape of my teeth.

She giggles, and it's the sexiest sound to grace my ears. "A modern day wolfman." She says and I sigh, just wanting to touch her again.

Unfortunately, I had to leave, I had to get up early in the morning and it broke my fucking soul in half knowing that I couldn't just bring her home with me, where she belonged, I had to leave her here.

I knew she'd be safe with Lucas and Amanda, but the thought of leaving... fuck- I hated this.

"I need to go." I say regretfully. "And I think you need to sleep."

She nods slowly and I watch her throat as she swallows nervously looking at me then the time. "Mhm, I think you're right." She said shyly, making me smile.

"I'll see you tomorrow." I say, neither a question nor a statement, but as a promise.

She walks with me to my car, 10 minutes after I got here I requested a pack member to drop it here, I didn't want to run tonight, half of me not fucking trusting my wolf to take us home but to sleep outside her window like some dog.

Which I wanted to do but FUCK I don't want to scare her away once she notices my fucking large wolf stalking her, maybe later I can come back and sleep... no, fuck- stop!

I will have guards watching the house the second I drive off, only then can I relax my wolf and I.

"Goodnight, Sora."

"Goodnight Kane"

Sweet dreams my little mate.