Chapter 73: You Make Everything Better

Chapter seventy-three: You Make Everything Better


Elena

I had been waiting for this moment all day, I was skipping my way to Bernard's house. I even went back to the gamma's house to change my dress because I wanted to look good and feel my best around him. I have been floating on cloud nine since our kiss and I hadn't been able to wipe the smile off my face. I wanted nothing more than to be completely lost and indulged in him. If this was all a dream, I never wanted to wake up from it.

I walked up to his door and was about to knock but suddenly the door opened and a smiling Bernard was staring down at me. His hair was damp meaning he had just come out of the shower and his cheeks looked slightly flushed.

"Hi." I beamed at him.

He pulled me into his house and closed the door behind us. I heard him lock the front door and he enveloped me in a warm hug immediately. I was overtaken by his scent and I inhaled it greedily, wanting nothing more than to bottle it up and have it as a fragrance I could wear. We pulled away and just stared at each other like two love sick idiots but it was wonderful.

"I have missed you all day." I blushed.

"I miss you too. What did you do all day?" I asked.

"I rested, got some work done, and missed my girlfriend like crazy." My heart fluttered at the word girlfriend. I knew being his mate was great but hearing him say the word girlfriend had me giggling like a little school girl but I loved it.

"What?" He rubbed his nose against mine in a gentle quasi kiss.

"I just love it when you call me your girlfriend." He pulled me in even closer.

"I would love to call you my wife but you said it is too fast." I could see that he was teasing me. I playfully slapped his chest and stepped out of his embrace and started walking towards the kitchen but he quickly caught up with me and threaded his fingers through mine.

I walked towards the island, ready to sit down but he pulled me away. We walked towards the back door that leads to his garden.

"I thought maybe we could sit in the garden for a little bit. I think the fresh air will do both of us some good." He looked over his shoulder at me.

I followed him out of the house and onto his back porch, I gasped when I saw the back of his house. The yard was bigger than what I had initially thought it would have been like. There was a large infinity pool in the center, off to the side, there were lounge chairs and a barbecue grill with an assortment of garden furniture near it. Then there was the view, Bernard's house was situated on a slightly raised piece of land and it overlooked a cloud of the forest hand within the back. I could see the mountains that decorated the river road.

The sun was setting behind the mountains and the sky was painted different colors of yellow, orange, and red. I had never seen anything like it.

"This is beautiful." I muttered.

"Yes, you are." I turned to him and saw him staring at me. It was such a cheesy and corny thing to say but it had my heart soaring. He gestured towards the bench and faced the mountains.

"Do you want to watch the sunset?" I nodded and allowed him to lead me down the steps that led to the bench.

There was a certain level of peace that surrounded his house and I could imagine myself building a life here with him. We settled down onto the bench, his arms draped over my shoulder and I was leaning into his side. I played with his fingers in his lap as we enjoyed the sunset. We sat in comfortable silence together. It was so strange how at ease I was with him. There was no awkwardness, no pressure to feel like I had to be a different version of myself. I felt like I could be a hundred times like myself with him and that is how I knew, he was one in a million.

"What are you thinking about?" He kissed my head, pulling me in closer.

"How you are my one in a million." I felt his chest rumble as he laughed lightly.

"What do you mean by your one in a million?" He asked.

"My mother always used to tell me that my father was her one in a million. He treated her like an absolute queen, they were best friends and partners and they were everything to each other. She would tell me that to find a connection like she had with my father was one in a million because it is so rare. She always wanted me to find my one in a million one day, she would always tell me that when I found him, I would never have to question anything that it would all just feel right and I would never be able to run from it. It is one of those inevitable types of things." He kissed me again.

"I feel you are my one in a million too, sweetheart. Nothing has ever felt more right than being with you like this, holding you, and touching you like this. It was like you were specifically designed for me." I looked up at him and smiled.

"Just like how I feel that you were made for me. I just wish my parents could have met you because I know my mother would have loved you."

"What about your father?"

"He would have grilled you for sure. I remember when I had my first dance at the age of eight, he made sure no boy was allowed to go with me. He even came as my date so he could make sure no hormonal teenage beasts won't touch his little precious daughter." I smiled as the memories flooded back to me.

Back then, I hadn't been so amused but now I missed and longed for those days. I wished they could see me now.

"Do you miss them?" His striking green eyes pierced into my blue ones.

"Every day. After they died, I never thought that I would be happy again. I thought all the joy had been sucked out of my life and all I would ever feel was emptiness but then I met you and everything changed." He placed his forehead against mine.

"I never truly started living until I found you, Elena. You make everything better and I can't wait to grow old with you, I can't wait to marry you, I can't wait to see you get all swollen as our children grow inside you." My heart swelled three times its size.

"You want children?" He nodded.

"How many children do you want to have?"

"As many as you are willing to give me, I just want to have it all. I want all the big things and all the little things. You complete me, Elena."

"I love you." I pulled back.

"And I love you more. Come here." He pulled me into his lap in one swift moment. I placed my palm against his cheek and felt the subtle stubble that lay beneath it.

He craned his neck in my direction and captured my lips in his. The surge of heat that traveled throughout my body was overwhelming. Our lips danced intricately with one another, he pushed and I pulled, he turned and I twisted. We got lost in each other all over again like it was the first time.

Swollen lips and endless kisses later, the sun had set and we were lying on the grass, cuddled up together. We stared up at the sky as we talked about everything and anything all at the same time. We talked about our favorite foods and hobbies. I learnt that he hated cheese which I found so strange. It was safe to say that he didn't enjoy pizza that much which was okay because I never liked pizza. I also learned that he loves the outdoors, lives on adventure activities, and loves to go camping. I loved listening to him talk and I would never grow tired of his voice.

"Do you like being an Alpha? I know you were born into a position like this and it is not really a choice. But did you always want to be an Alpha?" He was silent for a while and I started thinking maybe I had asked a question that was a bit close to home.

"If I am being honest, the answer is yes and no. There was a time when I hated the idea of becoming the Alpha. I saw what the position did to my father, he was often worn down and tired all the time and it was like the position was sucking the joy out of his life. There were times I wouldn't see him for days because he was working so nonstop. It got to a point where I started resenting the Alpha position because it had taken my father away from me."

"When did your perspective change?"

"A rogue wolf had breached the boundaries and stolen one girl. She was fifteen years old and the rogue had gotten it into his head that she was his mate which she wasn't because you had already found her mate. When she went missing, my father went out to retrieve her. He brought her back home a little shaken and bruised. I remembered the look of elation on her mother's face and then I realized what a pivotal role the Alpha plays. The rogue had set up traps all around the cave he was in, it had wolfsbane scattered everywhere and booby traps. A normal wolf would have died after taking one step in that place but the Alpha gene protects more than other wolves. So it could have only been my father who could have saved her and no one else." His eyes seemed to glaze over as he went to another place in his mind.

"For a long time, I felt I wasn't worthy to have the title of an Alpha. All I had done to earn it was being born into the right family. I have done nothing to deserve the position but I remember what my grandfather said to me that a man was named king when he was a boy but he had done nothing to earn it. He was simply chosen and then he earned the title of kind and the choosing." He paused and looked at me.

"Then he said that we are chosen and that is the reason my family carries the Alpha gene. I am called to be something and if I were not to answer that call, I wouldn't be walking in my purpose."

"That is beautiful." He nodded.

"And then I started to accept who I was and who I was called to be. Our lives were already predestined even before we were born. I was called to be Alpha and you were called to be my Luna."

Luna? Not once had I ever thought that I would be a Luna. In the last ten years, my only thoughts were to run, find shelter and food and not to die. I didn't know how I would handle being a leader. Bernard had trained for this his entire life, I had barely learned real human skills.