My heart broke seeing her cry like that. I thought as I carried her bridal style back to my room. Her arms around my neck as she buried her face in the crook of my neck taking deep breaths in of my scent to calm herself.

My right arm under her knees and left arm around her back with my hand holding her head against me whispering sweet nothings in her ear trying to calm her.

Once back in my room I sat down on the couch and held her a little longer. She had stopped crying by now but seemed content. We stayed like that for a while then suddenly she got off my lap.

"Take me to the training field I need to let off some steam." she said.

She started looking around the room then searching around a bit she asked "where's my bag?"

Earlier this afternoon alpha Michael had one of his men bring her bag over when she told us where it was. It was just outside the back border of his territory up in a tree.

I went into the closet to retrieve her bag that I had placed in there earlier. I also grabbed a change of clothes since I was going with her.

I came back out, "looking for this?" I said as I held her bag out wiggling it.

She sighed, "yes!" walking over to me reaching for it. I held it up just out of her reach as she went to grab it. She reached for it again, an I held it up higher which earned me quite the death glare from her. She's so cute when angry.

"Xander stop playing and give me my bag!"

"All right, sorry babe here you go." I said as I brought the bag down lower. As she reached for it I jerked it back up in the air laughing amused. Her tiny little butt trying to reach for it, going up on her tippy toes.

I was laughing till she swiped my legs out from underneath me. Taking me down to the ground landing on my back, as a not so happy Abigail straddled me in one swift movement.

To say I was shocked would be an understatement. The girl is fast, I didn't see it coming! Her evil glare slowly turned into an evil smirk seeing the shocked look on my face.

"Next time don't mess with me!" She said as her smirk turned into a smile.

The smile was enough to knock me out of my daze. I quickly flipped her over, a squeak escaping her lips.

Now I was the one on top I thought with a smirk.

"Feisty little angel are we now!" I said to her.

She rolled her eyes at me, "come on Xander let's finish getting ready so we can go."

"Of course my lady." I said jokingly hoping off and holding my hand out to help her up.

Once at the training grounds and done warming up I led Abigail to the mats. With a smirk I said, "okay let's see what you've got."

She smirked back at me as we got into position. Marcus gave the signal to begin and we started circling each other. Once obvious neither was going to make the first move I lunged forward. Abigail swiftly dodged it and jumped on my back at lightning speed.

She wrapped her arms around my neck throwing her body over my shoulders. With the weight of her body, she flipping me onto my back and was straddling me before I even had time to register what happened.

I blinked a couple times before saying, "wow you're fast!

How the hell are you that fast?"

She just smirked at me then jumped off.

We got back into position and went again. This went on for quite a while. Abigail was so fast I was never able to land a blow. She would sidestep every advance either kicking me in the stomach or landing a punch to my stomach or sides.

Marcus just stood on the sidelines laughing at me and my poor attempt at beating my mate in a round.

I just huffed and glared at Marcus, while Abigail smiled triumphantly.

I thought of the perfect place to take Aiden. Although the river is one of my favorite spots to go, there is another spot I thought would be better for this occasion.

There's a lake on the east side of our territory I thought would be more appropriate for the occasion. It's a good size lake that has a long dock I like to use when I'm in my wheelchair.

Since the lake is shallow until you get out a ways, the dock is perfect since I'm in a wheelchair. I can go to the edge of the dock and hop off into the deeper water.

It's also fun when in wolf form running down the dock and leaping into the water.

I managed to get Zendaya to help me earlier and set everything up.

It's nothing overboard. I just had her lay out a large blanket and take a picnic basket full of food that Grace prepared.

I looked around for Aiden and didn't see him anywhere on the first floor so I mind linked Zendaya to see if she can find him for me.

Since Aiden and I are not mated yet and he's not a part of the pack we don't have the link to use. If we were mated we would be able to use our own link. With just a mate bond he wouldn't be able to mind link anyone else since he's not an official pack member. With the pack link he would able to mine link anyone within the pack.

I came down the stairs and found Thaddeus waiting by the door.

He had on black washed jeans with holes around the knees and a on his thigh near his pocket. He was wearing a black tank top that hugged his muscles. His biceps were bulging against his sleeves so bad I thought if he flexed his shirt would tear.

I felt like I was drooling and wiped my mouth to see if there was actually drool there as my face heated up.

I think he caught me checking him out since he smirked at me.

After embarrassing myself he led me outside and started heading for the tree line

"Where are we going?" I ask. I wasn't familiar with the direction we were heading. I pretty much have only been by the river.

"You'll see when we get there." He said with a smile.

Once we got past the tree line a little he had me go behind a tree to shift. When I came back out he was already shifted to his big beautiful wolf.

I'm not sure how tall his wolf is but he easily stands over 5 ft tall.

My wolf gets excited every time we see him. He wanted to play with them so we ran over to him and started nipping at his tail and tugging on it.

Zeus seemed annoyed when we tugged on his tail and tried to nip back at us. That only made us run circles around him then went for his tail again.

Zeus whipped around fast just before I latched on to his tail and tackled me to the ground, dropping his body weight on us with a thud as the air was pushed out of my lungs.

The darn mutt smirked at me then started licking my face all over. He then stat rubbing himself all over me trying to scent me.

After wiggling around for a little bit I finally gave up with a huff pouting. His wolf let out a noise that sounded like he was laughing at me then hopped off before he took off running. I got up mumbling to myself "stupid Alpha!" then took off after him.

As I was chasing him I was slowly starting to close the distance between us. I was surprised at first because my wolf is normally not fast. We're actually pretty slow. Last time we ran no matter how fast I went I wasn't able to catch up with him.

I assumed he was just letting me catch up. But as I glanced at the trees that were passing by so fast I realized I was running faster than I ever have before. I was surprised. After thinking about it I actually felt really good. I don't feel weak anymore. My body feels stronger, maybe that's why I'm faster now.

I was too busy in my own head trying to figure that out when I suddenly collided with a hard fuzzy wall. I fell backwards on my butt with a thump.

Zeus turned around and looked at me with concern. I stood up and shook my fur out then walked over and nuzzled him letting him know I was okay. I felt silly for not paying attention.

As he stepped away from me and I realized why he stopped. It looks like we've reached our destination. Just beyond the tree line was a big open field with a large lake just at the end of it. I slowly walked around him taking in the scene. There was a blanket laid out near the water under a giant weeping willow with a large basket in the center and a couple pillows sitting on both sides of the basket.

My heart skipped a beat and it felt like little butterflies were swarming around in my stomach. He did this for me I thought to myself? He walked over to me with a little backpack and nudged his head in the direction of the tree line. I noticed another backpack laying by the blanket, that must be for him. I took the backpack in my mouth and trotted behind a tree shifting. I dug the clothes out then quickly put them on.

There was a pair of charcoal gray sweatpants and a white T-shirt inside along with a pair of swimming trunks. I went for the sweatpants and t-shirt for now because I wasn't sure if we were actually going to go swimming or not.

When I came out from behind the tree Thaddeus was already dressed, sitting on the blanket. He had on a pair of dark gray sweatpants and a black tank top. This man sure likes his black tops I thought to myself. But damn he sure looks good in them!

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