When I woke up this morning my thoughts instantly went to Allison. Which instantly made my wolf anxious. Getting out of bed and working on getting ready for my meetings in town, Knox felt the need to harp on me.

"I want to go see here." He demanded.

"Chill!" I commanded. "I just woke up."

"Don't you want to be with our Mate?" Knox whined, sounding more like a scolded child then a strong Alpha Wolf. What has she done to us?

Sighing I had to admit the truth, Ally was everything that I had always imagined my Luna, my Mate would be. I had no self-control when it came to her, which is how it should be with the bond, I suppose. "I do want here Knox. I want every piece of her. The good... the bad, I want it all. "

Knox left the conversation that now that he was happy to know that I wanted Ally as much as he did. However, I was still at odds over how it was all going to work out. My father had a specially laid out plan for my future and the future of this pack, which all depended on me being with Kimber. Just thinking about Kimber made me shudder, which was an odd feeling.

It was only a few days ago I was all wrapped up in Kimber, but now... now I realized my father was using her as a pawn. Just like he was using me. And I knew that if this is how I felt about my Mate that Kimber, as annoying as she could be, deserved this feeling with her own Mate. Neither of us should have to give that up. I wasn't sure what I was going to do yet, but I knew I had to do something.

Walking into my office, my phone rang pulling it from my pocket the screen flashing Kimber's name. I hesitated for a brief second but knew if I didn't answer she would just keep calling until I did. If nothing, Kimber was persistent and hated to be ignored.

Begrudgingly I answered my phone, "Hello."

"Hey, baby!" She squealed. "Miss me?"

Ignoring her question, I asked, "What's going on? It's not like you're up this early? "

"Oh, silly, I'm 3 hours ahead of you," She giggled. "Anyway, Daddy had meetings today and I didn't want to be alone, so I'm at the beach with a couple of new friends."

"Sounds like fun." Getting a bit impatient and wanting to cut this call short I asked, "So what do you want then?"

"No need to be snippy," she snapped at me, "I just wanted to say hi, tell you I missed you and that I loved you." I knew by the sound in her voice she was sticking her nose up in the air like she would if she were here snuffing at me, this is a usual part of our conversations. Even though we were together, we both held a bit of animosity toward the other.

"I'm not being snippy, I just have REAL work that I need to do." I emphasized the REAL, Kimber did not understand what work really was. "I have to go, I will talk to you later." Without saying bye or giving her a chance to respond I hung up my phone.

Grabbing my keys from my desk I walked to the garage and jumped in my truck, I had a meeting with my realtor about an empty building in town that my father was thinking of purchasing. He thought it would make a good place to open a training facility for the pack members. An Elite Members Only Club, which I hated the idea of. If we opened something in town the humans were going to want to join and that was just a bad idea.

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After leaving the meeting I jumped back into my truck and headed down the road, just then I caught sight of Ally's hair as she was walking down the sidewalk. Some guy following a couple of steps behind her.

I abruptly stopped my truck and jumped out growling, no way was anyone going to touch my mate. Especially not some human. As I approached, I could hear him asking her out, what the hell I thought to myself! Does this guy have a death wish? Cause I would happily oblige him.

And this guy just made it even worse when he touched her! He actually reached out to tuck a strand of my hair that had fallen into my face behind my ear. As I saw this, I instantly became very protective, she was MINE, no one else should be touching her, finally reaching her I pulled her away from him and shoved her behind me, "You will do nicely to keep your hands off of her . " I growled.

Whoever this guy was he had no idea who he was messing with, he took a step forward acting like a macho man, I growled again in warning. This guy must be pretty stupid, he obviously had no idea that I could tear him apart without a second thought if he didn't back down.

"She's a big girl and certainly doesn't need someone like you telling her what to do. Last I checked this was a free country and she could do as she pleased. " He looked at me as he placed his hands on my chest to shove me.

Man, this guy just didn't know how to take a hint did he? It was priceless, the look on his face when he went to shove me, and I didn't budge. At that time, I was taking a step closer leaning towards these guys face, I was going to murder him, I could feel myself losing control to my wolf. But just then Ally grabbed a hold of my hand, which had an instant affect on me which helped ease my agitation.

Ally came up beside me, getting really close to my ear whispered, "Hey, Tate, let's go. Take me home? " Her voice sent shivers through my body, instantly relaxing me. My Mate was demanding my attention and wanted me, me!

"Mine," I growled wrapping my arm around Ally's waist and pulling her into my side, but only loud enough for her to hear.

I think this guy finally took the hint, he stepped back and raised his hands in what I could only imagine was his surrender, "Sorry, didn't realize you had a boyfriend." He said pointedly to Allison, turning on his heels he walked away.

Still not happy about someone putting their hands on my Mate I turned to Ally, "Who was that?" I demanded.

"You know, you didn't act like a jerk!" She yelled at me. "How the hell did you know where I was anyways?" Ally was now glaring at me. Her look and the tone in her voice letting me know that I had majorly messed up. But I don't know how, I was only protecting what was mine.

"I didn't know you were here." I started, "I was checking out a few things when I drove by and saw you, so I stopped to say hi." I left out the part about me being insanely jealous that she was getting attention from another guy. And even more jealous that she was giving said attention back to the unnamed asshat who thought he had a chance with her.

Ally, was still giving me a look, so I continued, "But then I saw him touch you and I couldn't control my wolf." Yes, blame it on Knox, that works!

"That was all you" Knox snickered at me with a chuckle.

"Shut up! Ally doesn't need to know that. I'm trying to get out of trouble. "

"Aww..." Knox was patronizing me now, " Little Pup can't handle his Mate being mad at him?" Knox was laughing at me now.

"Well, learn to control him." Said sticking her index finger out and shoving it into my chest. Then she looked at her phone "Shit! I have to go, McKenna is going to be picking me up soon. See ya later. " She said pulling away and running down the street. I stood there for a second before shaking my head, filled with disbelief that she just walked away leaving me standing there.

"That's what you get for going all big bad Alpha on the human!" Knox chimed in.

"Oh, would you shut up already." I rolled my eyes at Knox and his 'words of wisdom', I say that sarcastically because what he was offering was neither wise nor wisdom.

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A couple of hours later I couldn't stand the radio silence from Ally any more, so I sent her a text, intent on apologizing for earlier.

Well there goes that thought, this girl knows how to get me riled up.

Okay, so I know how the tone of my message was coming off, but I couldn't help it. I sat strumming my fingers on the table in front of me waiting for Ally to answer me, but she was making me wait. The more the seconds ticked by the more impatient I was getting.

Okay, so now I felt like an idiot. I really needed to calm down, but just thinking about her made me go crazy. The Mate bond was already strong, she is all I wanted. She was like the oxygen I needed to breathe.

It was at that second, I knew the only thing that would help me was seeing her again. It was beyond a want, it was a need. A need that was laced into every fiber of my being.

After her last message a smile spread across my face. Now, I just had to plan what we were going to do.