Her Brother, Her Mate

Mitch POV

It was a long f*****g night. Loooong f*****g night. After the talk with dad, he and Amanda started prodding and probing me and Mark, taking measurements, doing weird s**t with our auras, taking samples of our b***d. Matt, the bastard, ended up staying the night just to witness and enjoy our displeasure from the constant torment.

2 days. Dad said the materials needed to perform the unbonding ceremony so we have access to our magic again will be ready in 2 days. 2 days and we could claim our mate, after, of course, breaking the news to her about what we are. One of the things needed, Matt and I are on our way to retrieve now.

“So, I imagine Lady Delilah’s court being just one giant orgy between her and all her sires all the time. Is that really what it’s like? With red leather couches, no windows and black walls?” Matt asks, making me laugh.

“Not at all. It’s like a high-class ballroom with lots of light and Victorian furnishings. Lady Delilah is a little anal about her court. It’s clean and proper. I think the orgies happen somewhere else,” I joked.

“She really has orgies?” Matt asks in surprise.

“I don’t know, you dork. She’s my f*****g boss. I don’t ask and she doesn’t tell me about that shit.”

I did see Carli’s mom, Luna Mary, in there one time, though, and it thoroughly creeped me the f**k out. She was lying across Delilah’s lap like a f*****g dog while Delilah combed her taloned fingers through her hair.

Luna Mary is a sire to Lady Delilah too, and because of that, she needs Delilah’s b***d to stay sane. Lady Delilah sends it to her mixed with wine, but sometimes the sire bond is too strong and Mary feels compelled to go to her master, seeking out her presence and comfort. Lady Delilah would soothe her, but never touch her inappropriately. She calls for Alpha Jared to retrieve her after the sire bond is sated and sends her home unscathed.

“Will she help us?” Matt asks, as if mine and Mark’s predicament somehow pertains to him as well. “Isn’t it a big deal for her to give us her b***d?”

I shrugged, “She gives it to Luna Mary. Lady Delilah is a good person, well, vampire. I’m sure if she knows why she is giving it to us she will help.” She scares the s**t out of me, but I know her intentions are always good. Her life is far too long to make intentional enemies.

When we reach the posh ballroom, her sires stationed at the doors nod to me, familiar with my comings and goings, but they look at my brother apprehensively.

Unlike Mark and I who look similar, being born identical, Matt came from a separate egg and looks nothing like me. He looks more like my mom, whereas Mark and I take after our father.

The sires don’t say anything as we make our way through the doors, so I figure we are alright. They would have stopped us if we weren’t.

“Wow, it is fancy in here,” Matt gushes, looking around, “It looks like she used the same designer as Vincent. Do vampires all have the same taste?”

I shrug, “How would I know?”

“You do work for them,” he pushes my shoulder.

“At the b***d bank. I don’t really spend a lot of one-on-one time with them, besides Suzie, and that’s not really by choice.”

“How is Suzie? Carlos doesn’t speak about her.”

“That’s because he doesn’t talk to her anymore,” I mutter, exasperated that I’m the only one that she seems to cling onto now that she has no one else. I have a mate now. That changes things. I don’t want Hadley to be uncomfortable because of Suzie when Hadley learns what I am and that she’s our mate.

“She talks to you, though?”

“She doesn’t have anyone else.”

Matt thought for a few seconds, “What would Hadley think about Suzie? Even human mates can be possessive. Your mate might not like another woman clinging onto you all the time.”

“f**k, I don’t know, man. I’m too worried about what she thinks about me right now to think about how she will react to Suzie. Mark and I might overwhelm her enough as it is. I’ll think about the Suzie s**t when I don’t have to worry about my mate rejecting me.”

“You think she will reject you?”

“I f*****g hope not, but she doesn’t even know about our world. I don’t know how she’s going to handle it.”

“Hmm, well, she won’t know how to reject you then.”

He’s right. There’s a positive to her not knowing about werewolves. She won’t know how to reject us.

We walk up to the reception desk, telling Leslie, the receptionist, that we’re here to see Lady Delilah.

Leslie is used to me flirting with her, and gives me a dirty look when I ask in a professional tone for once.

“She can see you now,” she snaps in a snarky voice after picking up a phone call.

I offered a small smile and nod of thanks before walking past the desk and down the hall.

“That girl did not like you,” Matt says in amusement.

“She did. Vampires have good hearing. She probably heard us talking about my mate.”

“Ah,” Matt chuckles, “ breaking hearts everywhere I see. f**k. Poor Hadley. You and Mark are making her public enemy number one in Miami to every unmarried woman.”

“Even some that are married, in Mark’s case,” I grimace, thinking about the time he slept with the mayor’s wife during the mayor’s annual fundraiser he held in the resort a few years ago. The mayor never found out, but that cougar still tries to take another bite out of him every time she visits the resort.

“Again, poor Hadley. You guys aren’t going to be easy to be mates with.”

Don’t I know it. I’ve gotten better over the years, really only going wild when Mark is with me. Mark was getting new a*s daily for a while. I’m glad we’re werewolves or I’d have to worry about STDs. I hear 1 in 3 humans nowadays has herpes. Statistically, if we were human, we would have them.

Our f*****g dad could have given us a heads up that our s*x drive was so high because of the witch DNA in us. I thought we were just extra horny wolves. It explains a lot, but still makes me feel like a douchebag. Poor Hadley is right. She deserves so much more than us.

Mark and I will have to spend the rest of our lives worshiping her in every way to make up for being not worthy of such a gift. She is a gift. A pure, amazing gift from the moon goddess. She is ours. It will work out or the moon goddess wouldn’t have given her to us.

“Ready to face Lady Delilah, man? She can kick your a*s with a flick of her wrist, so keep that in mind.”

“Psh,” Matt purses his lips with humor, “Speak for yourself. I’m the f*****g Gamma, dude. A vampire can’t scare me.”

I smirk at his smug words, “Remember that time Vincent laid your a*s out, along with half the other warriors in a matter of seconds, when he thought you were talking about Simone’s a*s in her shorts?”

Matt cringed, “Yeah.” He wasn’t talking about her a*s with the other guys, but trying to make them stop and just got caught in the crossfire.

“He’s a second generation. Lady Delilah is pure. She is powerful beyond our understanding and can have you dancing like a monkey before slitting your own throat with a single look. Quit being arrogant and show her respect. You can’t brag about being Gamma if you’re dead.”

Matt gulps nervously before putting on a brave face, “Fine. I got it. Lead the way. Let’s get this over with so you can go claim your mate.”All text © NôvelD(r)a'ma.Org.

I smile when hearing those words. I can’t wait to claim Hadley.

I was so lost in my thoughts about what being with Hadley would be like I didn’t notice the figure watching us from the end of the hall, glaring at us with her thin eyebrows drawn down, having heard our whole conversation.