Chapter 68: He Is My Home
Chapter sixty-eight: He Is My Home
Elena
"You can't kill him, Bernard. He is an Alpha and if you were to attack him and not succeed, that would insight war between your Pack and his. It is not worth it, you wouldn't want to risk the lives of innocent people like that." He looked at me like I had grown two heads but I felt like I was being the most logical one out of the both of us.
"What do you mean that I can't kill him? I have to kill him." I jumped out of his lips and stared down at him. I looked at him incredulously.
"You can't be serious, Bernard. Why would you want to kill him? Why would you risk everything for something stupid like that?" He stood at his full height, towering over me. He grabbed my face and forced me to look into his eyes.
"Because of you, Elena." His voice came out soft but firm. His declaration made my heart soar eighty feet into the air. This man couldn't be serious, could he?
"You can't go to war just because of me, Bernard." I told him.
"I would take on the whole world for you, Elena. Don't you get by now? You are my everything and I would risk whatever just to keep you safe because I truly love you." I placed my hands over his and smiled at him.
"I will never grow tired of hearing you say that." I stood on my toes.
"I love you too." His lips crashed down onto mine and once again we were lost in each other's, completely consumed by the sheer existence and feeling of one another.
"You can't still kill him, there is too much risk if you do that and I don't want you getting into any sort of trouble." I murmured against his lips as we pulled apart.
He looked like he wanted to argue but I gave him a look that told him not to even try it with me. I don't want to put anyone in danger and as far as I knew, Richard had no idea where I was. I am safe within his borders, Richard couldn't enter here without Bernard's permission.
"Fine." He relented.
"We will put a pin in it for now but this conversation is far from over."
"Bernard, I am safe as long as I stay within the borders of your territory. Richard can't get to me here and so far I haven't left this place, his trackers can't find me. Besides after, we mate, my scent will change." His lips tilted upwards slightly.
"So, are you saying that we need to mate right now?" My heart skipped a beat at his words.
"Waoh, big boy. No one said anything about that. I am not in a rush and neither should you be. I don't want the first time we mate to be because of Richard, I want us to mate simply because I love you and we are both ready."
"I know my love, I was only teasing you. I don't want the first time we mate to be because of some deranged psychopath who wants to harm you. I want it to be special and I want to make it an experience you will never forget." I felt giddy inside just talking about the whole experience. No one had ever spoken to me about the whole mating process but I knew the guts of things. I knew that it was something that should have been saved specifically for your mate. I knew that it was the time you completed the mate bond and it was also the time in which you gave your mark on mate.
"Who would have thought that we would get here." I reached for his hands.
"After all the stress and turbulence we had to face from the very beginning. Thank you for accepting me as your mate." He squeezed my hands.
"You don't have to thank me, you make loving you so easy. I won't lie to you, Elena, after you told me what Richard did to your parents, my wolf is itching for blood and he will get it. That is one promise I can make to you but I won't do it now. For now, we will live our lives and tackle this whole Helen issue together. You are safe from him as long as you stay within my boundaries where I can ensure your safety." I nodded.
"I can do that because I don't want you to put yourself in harm's way just for me."
"I would walk through fire for you, my love. There is no hardship I wouldn't face to be with you and to ensure your safety. You are my main priority and after we have children, they will join that category too."
"Children?" I couldn't help the smile that took over my face and he mirrored my expression.
"Yes, of course, I want to have as many children as you are willing to give me. I want it all with you, the corny cheesy dates, the late nights with babies, and early morning school runs. I want to experience all aspects of life with you. I never realized how much I wanted an ordinary and simple life until I met you." His words warmed my heart.
"But you are an Alpha. Our lives will neither be ordinary nor simple."
"Being with you is simple and easy." He countered.
"The rest to me is just business. That reminds me, I think it is time that you move back into the house." My back stiffened slightly.
"Like, move back into this house?" He nodded.
"Yes, with Helen gone, there is no reason for you to keep living in that gamma's house. You aren't even a gamma anyway, you are a Luna. So, technically speaking you aren't even allowed to be there."
"But they don't know that, we still have not yet announced everything to the rest of the Pack, Bern. I don't want us to rush into things. Besides, we just became official mates, do you think it would be a good idea to just put us into the same space so quickly? Shouldn't we learn to miss each other from time to time." He pulled me towards him and circled his arms around my waist. He stared down at me with a tender look on his face and it had me blushing over again. His hand brushes my cheek gently, sending shock waves throughout my entire body.
"So beautiful." He whispered and my face continued to heat under his gaze.
I cast my eyes downwards, unable to take all of his attention at once. He chuckled at my actions and drew me closer to his body and no distance remained between us.
"I have been missing for twenty-five years, Elena, and I don't want to miss you any longer. I think moving in together would be the most logical step, don't you think so?"
"Wouldn't the most logical step be dating? We seem to have skipped that step." I was only teasing him but to my surprise, he pulled away and went down on one knee and my eyes nearly bulged out of their sockets.
"Elena Rosalie Williams, will you do me the honor of being my girlfriend?" I let out a relieved breath and he threw his head back in laughter when he saw my reaction.
"I thought you were about to propose to me just now." I breathed.
"Don't get me wrong, I wanted to but I know you would much rather I do things in order. So what do you say, sweetheart? Will you be my girlfriend?" I had smiled so much today that I was surprised my face hadn't frozen like that.
"Yes." I responded.
He stood up and circled me around in the air causing fits of giggles to leave my chest. There is no describing how happy and content I was at that moment. I hadn't known that I had been waiting for a time like this. After my parents died, I never thought I would be happy ever again. I had lost the will to even think of happiness at a certain point. I thought running and loneliness would be the only things I would be able to have in life then I met Bernard.
"Why are you looking at me like that?" I shook my head with a smile on my face.
"You make everything better."
"And you make everything worth it, Elena." He dipped his head to capture my lips in his gentle kiss. I could get used to this feeling.
"Marry me?" I could hear the teasing in his voice and I shook my head and laughed slightly against his lips.
"No." I murmured.
"Okay fine but soon you will marry me someday." I pulled away to look into his eyes.
"Yes, I will marry you someday." I placed my head on his chest and pulled him to me by the waist. His arms came around me, giving me that safe feeling that I always loved him.
Finally, I realized that home wasn't necessarily a place, it was a feeling. My old Pack wasn't my home nor was Bernard's Pack. He is my home, he is my everything.
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