Alpha Adryan

"Alpha" Violet instantly shows her respect by acknowledging Adryan's presence, bowing her head respectfully.

"Violet" Adryan addresses her presence,” Would you be able to bathe him? I need to talk with Jade for a few moments".

Violet felt like the spotlight was put on her, she felt conflicted. On one side was her best friend whom she knew wasn't ready to talk with Adryan and on the other side was her Alpha, and the said mate.

"I-" Violet is saved from answering when Jade speaks up.

"Talk about what?" she questions Adryan, turning towards him with an eyebrow raised in question.

"Talk about things" Adryan's eyes flit towards Violet's direction. Making Jade realize that he didn't want to speak about whatever he wanted to in front of her.

Heaving a sigh, she speaks up. "Okay", She wanted to get this over as soon as possible, denying him would only make him pursue her harder later on.

"Come with me" he motions her to follow after him, which she does. She turns back to see Violet mouthing her the word “sorry’, to which Jade just shakes her head and mouths back "it's okay, not your fault’ with that she flashes Violet a reassuring smile and continues to follow Adryan outside.

"Would you like a tour of the pack?" Adryan asks her after a few moments of walking in silence.

She stops walking when she catches his words, Adryan too stops in his steps when he realizes that she wasn't following behind him, “I thought you wanted to talk?".

" do, I thought why not kill two birds with a stone?". Jade stares at him for a few moments, to which he holds her stare.

She walks past him, a smile appears on his face on her actions.

So far Adryan has showed her almost all the places in the pack there was to visit, the pack house which was bustling with a bunch of energetic people moving about, doing their thing. She got to see the kitchen where a few omegas were cooking, which led her to remember the time she had met Malia. Next he had shown her his old Alpha office which still held some of the paper works of the pack related things. The pack infirmary where she was able to see a few pregnant she wolves with their mate, visiting for a routine check up, doctors and nurses running around when a patient requires emergency care. Then they visited the pack nursery, where she watched as toddlers and others played on the playground or ran around chasing others, seeing them and their carefree self brought a smile to her face. She couldn't wait to bring Adonis here, among children his age.

The thing she noticed when she visited all of these places where how everyone stopped what they were doing once they spotted Adryan and her, bowing their head in respect soon afterwards, what shocked her more was how they turned towards her to greet her, flashing her a smile and bowing their head at her. She felt overwhelmed with all of it, all she could do was smile back at them politely, not to seem rude. Three years ago, she never interacted with any of the pack members, except a selected few, like Adryan, Violet, Brian, Malia, Nate and how could she forget, Lucia.

"They're excited to meet their future Luna" a voice whispers near her ears, causing shivers to run throughout her body, she could feel the effects of their mate bond, crackling like fire between them. She turns to her side, catching a pair of ocean blue eyes staring back at her. "What if I don't want to be their Luna?" she asks him, and instantly she could she physical changes in his appearance, how his ocean blue eyes darkened, his jaw started ticking like a time bomb.

'Good' she thought, he was getting angry, she could tell by his reaction. She wanted to see if he'd make any scene in front of his pack members. "Only time will tell" was his only reply, with that he continues walking. Next they come to a stop at the training field, she'd always known that The Blood Moon Pack was a huge pack, hence also holding the title of the strongest pack in the world. Their fighting techniques and strategies were immaculate and done precisely. She admired how there were the same amounts of females trainees as the males, doing combat with their training partners. She was also surprised to see small children being trained off to the side.

"Your pack trains children too?” She asks Adryan, who was stood beside her, looking at the pack members training with pride in his eyes, her question makes him turn towards her.

"Yes. Children above the age of eight and above get the basic training, not too much for them to handle. When the need arises, they might be able to protect themselves from harm.”

"That's really good that you guys are training the children” She says genuinely. Adryan felt warmth spread through his body at her words. He had always taken pride in the fact that his pack never discriminated against men and women, young and old.

"Can I ask you something, Jade?" Adryan's voice suddenly takes on a serious tone, catching Jade's attention immediately, wanting to know what he wanted to talk about.

Before she could say anything back to him, someone interrupts them by literally barreling towards she and Adryan stood, she lost her balance and was about to kiss the ground when a pair of arms snake around her waist.

"Adryan, you're back, oh, thank God, I was bored to death doing nothing” a female voice says, her arms circling around her neck, hugging him tightly. Adryan had to remove his arms from around Jade's waist, because the woman hugging him and him holding onto Jade put him into an awkward position.

"Adeena” he pulls her back from the hug, "I was only gone for a day, two at the most.” he replies.

Adeena was a woman with a beautiful olive skin tone, with her dark brown hair cascading down her shoulder, she had an angled jaw with a pair of deep set brown eyes that appeared golden when the lights hit them.

It takes Adeena a few moments to acknowledge Jade's presence, who was standing by Adryan's side awkwardly. Jade also knew for a fact that this wasn't Lucia since this female didn't match the description of Lucia, Violet had given her three years ago, nor did her scent matched to Lucia's.

Adeena turns towards Jade, "Who are you?".

Adryan realizing that he hadn't introduced them both and that they were literally strangers to each other.

"Jade, This is Adeena, My-" he turns towards Jade and speaks up, but gets interrupted by Adeena.

"Wait, this is Jade? Jade Estrada...as in your runaway mate?" Adeena questions in bewilderment, staring at Jade with a strange emotion in her eyes. "Wow, you're even prettier in person, the photos in those flyers don't do you any justice.”

"What photos and flyers are you talking about?" Jade asks, genuinely confused by Adeena's words. Adeena's eyes move towards Adryan's with a deer caught in headlight look on her face. Seeming like she had said or mentioned she wasn't supposed to. Jade too looks at Adryan with an enquiring face.

"I, I- uh managed to see a picture of you, yes, that's what I was talking about" Adeena instantly replies, Jade knew that she was lying for she wasn't a good liar, and she was stuttering while making up excuses. She thought she might let the lie go for now.

"Well, I'm Adeena. Adeena Mayflower. Adryan's childhood friend.” Adeena introduces herself formally, with her hands raised in the air for a handshake.

"Hi Adeena, it's nice to meet you" Jade places her hands in Adeena's outstretched ones, in a handshake.

"Likewise" Adeena replies with a smile on her face.

"Oh, I almost forgot" Adeena starts to say, placing a hand on her forehead, "I need your help with something" she says to Adryan who remained silent for the past few minutes as Adeena and Jade interacted, who turns to look at Jade, Jade knew that Adryan wanted to ask her about something important before Adeena interrupted him, Adeena catching onto Adryan's actions turns to Jade.

"You wouldn't mind if I steal him for a bit, do you, Jade?" she asks Jade. "No, Not at all" with that Adeena starts to drag Adryan with her, who reluctantly followed after her but not before shooting a look back at Jade. It was funny to see someone as tiny as Adeena drag a giant like Adryan around.