Chapter 68: Chapter 68

“You are mine, Charlotte….and I am yours…!”

Charlotte could feel the tears prick her eyes as Azraiel uttered those words that she has been dying to hear. She has someone to call hers…just hers…like she has always wanted. Her person…Hers….

“You mean…we are…we are…?” She asks shakily, still unable to believe her ears. The man she has worried about having feelings for….is saying that he is hers…!

“Yes...yes…yes, love…we are mates…!” He kisses her hands again and this time she can’t resist. She closes her eyes with a sigh of relief and lets the tears fall down.

We are mates…

“Charlotte…why…Oh God...did you not want it to be? Why are you crying?” She could sense the panic in his voice as he gently lifts her head by holding her chin and wipes the tears from her face.

Ugh…men…These are tears of joy and relief, dear Alpha…! Psst…You have a lot to learn…

She smiles through the tears and opens her eyes…

“Azraiel…!” She whispers his name, hoping that her voice could tell him what her words can’t.

“Yeah?” He asks, still looking a hell lot of worried.

“Just hug me, please...” She says with the tears still streaming down her face.

Azraiel doesn’t waste any time complying with her wish. He leaves her hands and instead wraps them around her back and she does the same. She clutches him with every bit of strength, afraid that he’d go away if her grip loses. She buries her nose in his neck, completely aware that he was doing the same. They were breathing each other in…. letting their scents mix with each other. Charlotte was completely aware of how her body was pressed against his and how her body was reacting to his touch and closeness. She didn’t get the tingles those wolf books said about… but she felt the heat…. not only on her skin but in her bones. She was aware of his arms pressed tightly against her back, leaving burning imprints and lighting her up on fire…. her breasts smashed against his hard muscled chest…making her nipples go achy and hard…and most of all…she knew where this heat was traveling… .south…

He is ours…You can do whatever you want. Her wolf chimes in…

Charlotte smiles at her input. Of course, her wolf knew he was our mate but never said it outright, just dropped hints here and there.

They stay like that for lord knows how long…relaxed…excited…complete…all at the same time.

When she leans back, her tears have dried up since she stopped crying after a while.

Azraiel is looking at her with that expression again…the one she always wondered about but never figured it out…the one filled with love and pain….

His eyes roam all over Charlotte’s face and when he realizes that she isn’t upset, he grins.

Azraiel …the Alpha…grins…

Uh..strange world.

He takes her hands gain and kisses them both.

“When did you know…?” he asks, the smile still present on his face making him look vulnerable and relaxed.

And Charlotte realizes….he is vulnerable right now…the man who has aced the poker face is slowly breaking the walls he built around him…and at that moment she

vows to herself….to make him the happiest man alive….to make him hers.

“The white wolf…Theo told me about you being a Trueblood and the only white wolf in the pack…and also about the mate’s saliva thing...” She answers with narrowed eyes.

Azraiel chuckles at that. “Yeah…My wolf took over that day…He just wanted to be near you…But why didn’t you say anything…?”

He has the nerve to ask that question…

“Because I thought if that were the case, then you’d have told me as soon as I accepted to stay in the pack…Why the hell didn’t you tell me Azraiel..?” She asks, in a serious tone...because she does have the right to be pissed at being kept away from her soulmate.

He sheepishly turns his head away…

“I thought it’d be better to give you some time to adjust in the pack. You were new to the werewolf world and I didn’t want you to feel as if you had no choice…and you still have a choice by the way…at any point of time, you don’t want me….you can reject me…it’s like a divorce…” His voice cracked when he said reject…

Idiot….

She knew he was respecting her right to choose but right now she just wanted him to be hers….

“I doubt I’d ever want to leave you, Azraiel…!” His whole face lit up at that and Charlotte has to bite her lip to prevent herself from smiling…

She abruptly stands up and pulls him up… They need some air or else she’d embarrass herself soon…“Come with me…!” He follows her without any question.

Dragging him by his hand, she takes him to her room and then opens the door to the backyard. She pulls him and then gestures to sit on the stairs. Once they sit down, she sighs as the light wind makes her hair flutter and then turns towards him.

“You know…you should have told me everything earlier. Do you have any idea how much time I have spent on these very stairs, wondering if my feelings for you were any good….or that if I would ever be able to tell you what I feel for you?” She asks….she wanted to let him know that by keeping this a secret, he has robbed them of the time they could have spent together….and put her through so much agony. She felt like an idiot when she thought she had a crush on him and that he’d never reciprocate her feelings because he has a mate.

“Yeah…I do…” He says in all seriousness and Charlotte furrows her brows at his answers.

“Wh..What do you mean..?” She stutters.

Is there a camera installed here that she doesn’t know about..?

Azraiel just looks at her silently for a few seconds….a small smile on his lips…He takes her hand again…

God…she has lost the count of times he has done that today…

He looks at her hands in his for a few seconds and then turns away toward the woods briefly. When he looks at her again, his eyes are filled with adoration.

“When you moved here…in the cottage…my wolf found it extremely difficult to stay away from you…so …I…I’d shift into my wolf and spend the night here…in the woods…! I saw you, Charlotte…. every day…when you were walking here in the middle of the night…muttering to yourself about me, your uncle, the Grishams…I heard everything. I…I know…!” He explained, his cheeks turning red a little…

Charlotte’s mouth dropped open at his confessions.

So all those nights when she felt that calming energy around here when she’d feel too unsettled in her room…It was him…

He made her calm down…and go to sleep…and he heard her….

God….He heard everything…and he still didn’t say anything….

She snatched her hand away from his and lightly punched his shoulder.

“You are an idiot, Alpha Azraiel. If you already knew that I had feelings for you then why the hell did you keep it away from him…?”

He looks down guiltily and says “I am sorry…!” and looks at her face to see if his apology was accepted or not.

It wasn’t…

“You’ll never let me forget this...will you?” He asks when he realizes that she’ll always pester him about this…in their arguments…in their conversations…!

He takes her hand…AGAIN….

It’s like he can’t help it.

“Charlotte…after what happened today in my house, I want you to stay with me from now on. I was able to calm you down today and I know I am the only one who could do the same in the future. So…please move in with me…?” He says, his eyes pleading for her to not disagree.

“Okay…! I will…” She smiles when he kisses her hands again…

I wonder when he would actually kiss you?

Her wolf snickers and she almost laughs at that.

“Come on then…I’ll help you move your stuff…and Charlotte…don’t wander in the woods anymore…okay…? There were rogues sighted near the borders today. I don’t want you in any danger.” He speaks sternly and Charlotte now knows better than to disobey him.

He sounds excited by the idea of her moving in with him…so much so that he pulls her up from the stairs and starts a rant about their room in his house.

But she isn’t listening…because his arm is wrapped around her, sending jolts of electricity down her spine.

He enters the room first and when she steps inside, he pulls her close.

Charlotte gulps as his one arm is wrapped around her waist and with the other, he closes the door behind her. He puts his palm flat on the door, trapping her between the door and himself.

They are close…so fucking close….

He puts his other arm on her cheek and lifts her chin up…She could feel his breath fan her face…..

“Charlotte…I…I really really want to kiss you right now…” His eyes flicker from her eyes to her lips and then back to her eyes…

Charlotte drags her hands upwards on his chest, feeling the hard abs under her palms, and then stands on her tiptoes and links her hands behind his neck.

For once, she doesn’t feel nervous. Sure, she can hear her heartbeat in her ears and he could probably too…but it isn’t nervousness…but excitement.

With every bit of sanity left in her mind, she glances at his inviting lips and leans in… As he drags his index finger down her spine, she tilts her head up to brush his nose slightly with hers, breathing him…looking into his eyes, she mutters softly…

“Then what the hell are you waiting for....?”

And then, his lips slam into hers without any restraint…and the last thing she hears before surrendering into the kiss is her wolf making moaning sounds with a triumphant...

"Finally...!"