Filed to story: Owned by the Alphas Novel
It was tensely quiet as Pearl pottered.
She served the tea then sat in the seat opposite me.
“There must be a reason I have earned a visit from three well-dressed Alphas who normally wear no shirts and muddy my floors with their bare feet,” Pearl teased lightly, a small smile lifting the corners of her mouth.
“There is,” I said.
Now that I was sitting there, I wasn’t sure how I was meant to do what I had come for.
I had read parchment after parchment, studied humans, questioned them with the hopes that I would get it perfect for our Luna.
But then what if it wasn’t perfect?
Kai cleared his throat and stepped forward, holding out the small box we had made from the bark of my home tree.
“Little Luna has respected every one of our traditions. She has become a part of the way we live and has done everything it requires to be a Luna. We thought that maybe it was time we honored some of her people’s traditions too,” Kai said then put the box on the table in front of Pearl.
I swallowed hard, my heart racing as tears pricked at Pearl’s eyes.
“We understand that normally this tradition of marriage is done through the choosing ceremony but we have come to understand this is part of obtaining parental approval for the couples,” I said as Pearl opened the box.
Her hand went to her chest as she gasped.
If Lorelai had even half that reaction, I would be happy.
I just hoped she would be because we hadn’t exactly told her what we were doing.
“We plan on asking Lorelai to marry us, Pearl, and we were hoping for your blessing in doing so?” Brax asked.
Pearl’s tears overflowed from her eyes, dropping onto her fair cheeks.
She tucked a blond strand of hair behind her ear and gave a small sniffle before closing the box and handing it back.
“She is my daughter. I want every happiness for her. Despite being terrified for her when you took her with you, I see now, she was never meant to have what others had. She was always meant for more. I believe you are her ‘more’.” Pearl smiled through her tears.
I grinned, my heart unclenching.
I stood up and met her for a warm hug.
She was as small as her daughter and we towered over her, taking her in our arms each as we thanked her for giving us Lorelai.
“She has made no secret of her wish not to marry though, so you may have a tough time with her,” Pearl admitted, going back to her tea, wiping the stray tears from her cheeks.
“It is another way to claim us, I think she’ll agree to that,” Kai smirked.
Ever cocky. I wasn’t so convinced.
I hoped she liked what we were trying to do but our mate never seemed to react how I expected.
She constantly surprised me.
I was looking forward to doing the same to her for a change. I tucked the ring box in my pocket and looked to Pearl.
“I’m sure you will hear how it went either way,” I said, then emptied my tea.
We didn’t spend long with Pearl after that, leaving so we could find Lorelai.
I was a nervous wreck but I was trying hard to hide it.
I knew what I wanted. I knew she wanted us.
But Pearl was right, she had openly spoken of her disdain for human traditions.
And we were asking her to be a part of one.
We went to the forest, the snow of winter crunching beneath our feet. We were preparing to run back to the city when I shook my head, “No, this isn’t going to work. She’ll be so angry we even thought of this. She doesn’t want to be married,” I said, running my hands through my hair.
Brax grabbed me, keeping me still as he met my eyes with his, “She is ours. This just tells her kind that. It is nothing more than a mating ceremony in a different way.
We can do that. We can give her that,” Brax tried to reassure.
“Yeah and we can show all of those people who told her she would never marry because of her curse, that she is better than all of them,” Kai grinned.
I smirked despite not agreeing. Kai had an odd way of thinking and it might just help our Luna agree.
Brax too.
“She is better than all of them,” I whispered.
“Which is why she is going to love it,” Brax said and I wasn’t sure if that was true but we had already committed to the idea.
We had to follow it through. It was my idea in the first place so I couldn’t back down. I didn’t want to.
I just hoped our mate wanted it too.
As if taunting me, her scent filled my body, her presence hovering.
I frowned and eyed the path that led to the city.
A carriage made its way to us and I grimaced. It was moving fast, which meant she was intentionally making it. That wasn’t a good sign.
“Here we go,” Kai grinned as the carriage stopped.
The door smacked open and our mate climbed out of the carriage, a scowl on her soft features as her eyes found us.
“Beautiful-” I went to step forward but she stalked toward us, her dress bunched in her hand so it didn’t drag on the snow.
“Don’t ‘Beautiful’ me. You three disappeared and cut me out of the link. You didn’t even tell me where you were, I had to send out my shadows to find you. How is that fair? You all reek of anxiety, I had no idea why. I was so worried,” she scolded.
She looked so cute when she was angry. Her cheeks flushed like they did when we pleasured her.
“We were luring you out here, Little Luna,” Kai intervened.
She went to snap again but all the anger left her in a whoosh of her breath as she eyed us suspiciously.
“Why?” She huffed, folding her arms.
It pushed her breasts up out of the curve of her dress and I licked my lips.
“We have a surprise, c’mon,” Brax smiled and held his hand out to her.
She looked at it warily. The snow started falling lightly and she shivered.
I shrugged off my cloak and laid it on her shoulders, pushing her forward lightly.
She sighed and took Brax’s hand, holding the cloak closed around her.
“The moon will be out soon,” I whispered in her ear. She looked up at the sky where the moon was beginning its ascent.
We had every intention of proposing marriage to her in the mansion, in our suite, maybe the dining hall but instead, we pulled her through the forest.
Kai led us, Brax holding one of her hands, me on her other side.
She was tense, nervous as she eyed the trees, the snow making it harder to see through the others.
But I knew where they were heading.
A clearing in the trees that was highlighted in the moonlight when it was full.
It was beautiful, just like she was.
“This isn’t suspicious at all,” Luna bit out of her sarcastic mouth.
I kissed the side of her head as we walked, smirking at her teasing.
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