It had been a little while since we got into the hall, I had been making little adjustments before the other packs arrive. Malik had informed me that only the Alphas in the closest packs were coming, the rest would speak to us through Skype. Wasn't sure how it all worked, I had an idea but I left the human world when they were still using flip phones and they were just introducing the touchscreen ones. Honestly technology gave me a headache.

Aria walked over to me in the shortest dress, she looked hot! Slaying a short navy blue dress. It looked classy and fun but kind of slutty, if you looked at it right. The dress had literally no back but absolutely covered the front, from top to a little above mid thigh. It had long sleeves and little slits at the side. She looked like a model, with her long legs even longer with the high heels and curly red hair.

"The wine is here, where do you want it?" She asked.

"Oh put it at the bar" I say.

"No" a voice calls out from behind me, instinctively I roll my eyes. "Tell the wolves serving to pour about fifty bottles into flutes and keep the rest in the cooler." Talon corrected shooting me a small glare, I give her a small sarcastic smile.

"Are you sure you should be wearing that?" She says as she walks away.

"Are you sure you should be wearing that?" I imitate her in a less that appealing voice.

"Come on Iris, she's my friend." Aria warns.

"Yuck" I gag.

"Iris."

"Hey, I'm just saying you could do better" I raise my arms.

"Oh yeah? Like you?" She smirks.

"Of course like me"

Hey little witch, come on out they are arriving.

"I have to go the Alphas are here" I nod to Aria and walk away.

Cold air bites my skin as I step out and I immediately regret wearing such a revealing dress. But I internally remind myself that I had a point to prove and scores to settle.

I walked over to where my handsome mate was standing, he was in a grey tux, it hugged his muscles in the right places, his wild black hair was tied behind his head. Putting my arms in his as I reached him, I leaned my head on his shoulders. At least I could reach the top today in my heels.

He instantly relaxed as I touched him, I could tell he was tense and on edge, can't blame him. He hasn't had company in long while. The first car pulled up and a big man stepped out. His dark skin almost glistening in the light, his hair was all cut of and sat in little curls on top his head. He came alone, mustn't have a Luna yet I assumed. He was also pretty young too so that must mean he hasn't met his mate. As he looked at us, it wasn't hard to notice his reaction, his eyes darted from me to Malik and finally settled on me. I smiled at him as he walked towards us, his eyes never leaving me.

"Alpha Malik" he said curtly barring his neck in submission.

"I assume you are Deacon" Malik says. He nods. "Your father informed me he would be sending you instead."

"And Luna, I've heard a lot about you, but I must say Absalom didn't do any justice to how beautiful you are." He says with a coy smile, I hold out my hand for him and he takes it and presses a small kiss at the back of my hand.

I heard Malik growl, in fact we both heard Malik growl. He immediately let my hand go.

"I'll be going in" he said clearing his throat as he walked in.

"What the hell are you trying to do with that dress?" Malik asks, looking down at me with an intense glare. Any one else would probably no definitely break but not me, not today.

"What? You don't like it?" I ask smiling innocently.

"Iris." He warns with a low growl.

"Okay fine... what do you want me to do?" I ask.

"Will you do it if I tell you to?" He asks.

"No" I shake my head "but I still want to know what you want" I shrug.

"Don't test me Iris, you don't want to know the results."

I scoff "ooh I'm so scared."

He grabbed my upper arm and pulled me to him, I slammed against his hard body and we stared daggers into each others eyes. As he opened his mouth to say something another guest arrived.

"Alpha Malik, it's been a while." A woman interrupted. He grip loosened but he didn't let go of me, still keeping me close.

"Esme what a lovely surprise, didn't expect you to come." He nodded.

"And why would I pass up such an opportunity? I had to come see how my daughters godfather is doing." She smiled.

Godfather? Huh.

"Luna" she nodded a greeting to me.

"How is the baby?" I asked with a small smile.

"Alive and kicking thanks to you" she smiled back.

"And where is Alpha Eli?" Malik demanded.

"Right here" a voice spoke up from behind her, and he step out and stood beside her resting his hand behind her, I assume he was resting it on her butt.

"Iris" he grinned.

"Eli" I grinned back.

Malik cleared his throat "it's Luna to you" he stated.

"Ah of course, Luna you look good, absolutely breathtaking." He smiled.

A small laugh escaped my lips "oh I know."

Before any more pleasantries Malik gestured for them to go in and his attention was back to me.

"We have a long talk, for now I can't have any more Alphas eyefucking my Luna, so you're going to go change. Non negotiable." He says in a low whisper.

"But I thought I was supposed to greet them with you" I pout.

"Iris!" He growls.

"Well I'm not going any where, I'm all ordered out" I huff turning away and folding my arms.

"What?"

"I'm sorry I'm not the Luna you want okay, after everything I did today, after ignoring me all day I refuse to give into your demands." I say shoving the unnatural waves cascading down my belly away.

"Where is this coming from?" He asks "is this because of me asking you take care of the preparations?"

"No... well not only that. You basically just told me that you intended on mating with some random chick and you expect me to be okay with that?" I ask.

"Iris it's not a big deal, we never went through with it, so stop blowing things out of proportion."

"Blowing things out of proportion!" I yelled.

Malik closes his eyes and groans, sighing out of frustration he looks at me "Iris, honey, I get that your pissed but look I hadn't seen you for almost three centuries, you've got to understand I have a pack to look out for."

"Well you should go mate with you chosen Luna then. For the good of the pack" I sneer, holding back threatening tears. Ugh stupid mate bond, I'm emotional over such stupid things.

Another Alpha arrives and I quickly wipe my eyes and give a fake smile as he walks in.

"Iris" Malik spins me to face him. "Look I'm sorry, I did not realise you would get this upset, it's really no longer a problem anymore really. You arrived, I didn't get mated to anyone else but the love of my life, so let's take the win, huh?"

I bit my lip and stare daggers at him, he is right. But it doesn't make it any less annoying though, at least now I know why Talon is such a bitch and I have more than good reason to hate her.

"And so you decided dressing like this was my punishment? You do realise how childish you are behaving right?"

"Whatever." I mumble.

"Ok fine, you've made your point now please change?" He asked curtly.

"Do I really?" He nods "but I really love this dress" I whine.

"Well I don't, you belong to me no one else so go change before you force me to do something to you we will both regret" he whispered low into my ears nibbling on my earlobe as he said it. That little gesture sent shivers down my spine and lit a fire of passion that I never knew existed till last night. I was sure I was already red by the time some other Alphas came by. Honestly the only thing one my mind was last night.

Answering all their greetings robotically, I fisted the side of my dress, the wind doing nothing to calm the fire I had began to feel inside.

Why is this happening? Why am I feeling so delirious and heady with desire?

"What are doing?" Malik asked in a low voice "I could smell you from the end of the pack borders. "

"Who told you to bite my ears?" I whispered.

He smirked, "oh forgive me I didn't realise that it would affect you so much, I can sense how turned on you are."

Damn it! How did the tables manage to turn on me? I was supposed to be in charge tonight.

"Ha ha, very funny" I glared at him.

"Honestly seeing how sensitive you are to me is such a turn on" he stated.

I rolled my eyes, telling me he was also turned on was doing nothing only adding fuel to my already burning fire.