SHAWN'S HOUSE

VALERIE I walk upstairs and open two to three doors to select a room. Every room is neatly designed and decorated. Like I said the last time, each and every single detail is being attended carefully. From what I have seen about Shawn's house so far, I have come to the conclusion that Silver and grey are his favorite colors. In one room the curtains are cocoa and silver mix, in another the wall is painted in a grey shade. The covers of the cushion, beds, couch, tables everything has a hint of silver in it. I open the door to another room and immediately recognise it. This is the room where I slept in the last time Shawn brought me here. It is beautiful and huge. The walls are painted dark grey. The white bed is as big as my room in the Pack House and there are two dark color sofas that has silver color cushions on them. But Shawn's scent is spread everywhere in the room, meaning this is his room. So I close the door shut and walk in through the passage to search for another one. The next best room which is far from his is the one that has cocoa and silver curtains. I place my bag in the room and start unzipping it when Shawn walks in. "I accepted." he says staring at me. "Good." I say opening the closet. "Shit!" I mutter when I realise that I'm the one who has to accept Cherry to my Pack. "What?" he asks me. "I have to go to the Pack house." I say walking past him. He catches me by the elbows and stops me, "Why?" "I have to.... I mean I want to watch Cherry being accepted into the Pack." "It's Keith's duty. You are not needed!" he states. I'm needed but I don't tell him that instead, "I should at least know that my oh so great sacrifice didn't go waste." I say and he smirks at me while I glare at him. **** "I'm back!" I scream as I enter the Pack House. I'm tackled to the ground immediately by my Pack Members. "I knew you would ditch that asshole and come back!" Nathan says from somewhere. "I cannot breathe!" I say when I can't take the weight above me any longer. Slowly, I feel the weight reducing as one by one gets up and then I can see the ceiling again. Sitting on the ground I arrang my shirt. When Evie lends me her hand, I take it and stand up. "Where's your bag?" she asks me frowning. "Oh! I am not back like that. I came back to accept Cherry." I tell her and turn to close the door of the Pack House. There are gloomy groans from everyone. 'You don't have to do this!' Ivan says through the link. 'I am not doing it just for Cherry. I am doing this because I want to be with him.' I tell him and he nods slightly. "Ready?" I ask Cherry smiling. She just stares at me with a confused expression. She looks around at everyone in my Pack who are all smirking or grinning because they know the secret and she doesn't. "Ivan?" she calls looking at me. Immediately Ivan kneels on the ground with one knee "Alpha!" he says to me and bows his head. Everyone in the pack does the same, even Evie. Cherry is the only one standing other than me. She covers her open mouth with her hands. "You... you are the Alpha?" she whispers in shock. I nod while she blinks repeatedly and shakes her head. "Oscar?" she asks. "I am her Beta." he tells her smiling. She smiles and kneels on the ground with one knee, placing her right hand on her chest; she says, "Alpha." and bows her head at me. She's giving her submission to me. My wolf starts reacting instantly. I only get time to remove my jacket before shifting into my white wolf. Cherry falls back on her butt and stares at me in shock. There are tears in her eyes when she sees my wolf. I growl at her asking for her submission and she immediately shifts into her red wolf. I walk towards her and she slowly lowers her head and rests it on her paws. I never take my gaze off her until she lies on the ground and whines softly. 'Welcome to the Pack.' I invit her through the link when my wolf finds a link to hers. 'Alpha.' she says sighing. 'Get me some clothes.' I tell Evie and she nods and then goes upstairs. After changing into a pair of blue jeans and a printed t-shirt, I walk to the living room and see Cherry who is sitting next to Ivan. "Recovered?" I ask him chuckling. "No." he tells me soothing her hair. "Cherry," I call her sitting next to her and she looks at me with soggy eyes. "Why won't you tell anyone?" she asks me. "You are a, a white wolf!" she whispers the last part. "I am a white wolf only for the rogues, for my Pack I am a normal wolf and their friend. I want nothing else other than this and as for not telling, my pack has enough enemies. I don't want more." I explain to her. "I have never met someone as sweet as you!" she says while smiling. Ivan clears his throat and we all chuckle. I get up and I'm about to leave when I decide to burst another news to Cherry. "Cherry, you like Dorah Karen?" I ask her while Ivan rolls his eyes. "Yeah." she says looking between me and Ivan. "Sa-" I'm about to say but I'm cut off by Ivan. "Dorah Karen is her pen name." he informs her lucidly and I smack his arm. "Idiot ruined my surprise." I say frowning at him as Cherry looks at me with her mouth dropped open. "I am the novelist Dorah Karen" I tell her grinning. "Oh my goddess!" she squeals and then hugs me. "I love your books. The leading girls are so kick ass!" she beams and Ivan scoffs. "She is a feminist writer." Ivan mumbles and I poke my tongue at him. "Any other thing I should know?" she queries innocently looking between me and Ivan. "Yeah, not a word about this to anyone outside" I order narrowing my gaze and she gulps and nods. **** SHAWN I'm sitting in the living room waiting for Valerie. Within five minutes of her coming here, she has gone back to the Pack House. I'm gritting my teeth at that. It has been twenty minutes since she went but to me it seems like an hour. I'm getting frustrated. The only good thing I've done in the past twenty minutes other than watching the clock is shifting her bag to my room. I know she has purposely chosen the room that is far from mine, but whatever the circumstances, I will not let that happen. I want her with me. My cell phone rings and I check to see Jasper calling me. I groan. What does he want now? Apparently, he's very disappointed that I didn't tell him in prior that I was going to ask Valerie to move in with me. He isn't happy for three reasons- One, Valerie is his sister and he doesn't want her living with 'some guy'. Bastard shuts his mouth when I growl at him. However after a few minutes of silence, he says that he has lost the right to call himself her brother. I had seen the hurt look on his face when Valerie called Nathan her bro. She didn't acknowledge him. Hell, she doesn't acknowledge anyone other than me in my Pack! Who am I kidding? The only reason she talks to me is because I am her mate or else I would have been given the same cold treatment! Another reason is that he wants his mate to be with him and not in the Pack House because he doesn't like Oscar at all. And if he suggests it to his mate, she will definitely destroy his house. She is a little ball of spitfire. Poor guy's car was destroyed because he marked her! And lastly, he is still not letting the white wolf thing go. He thinks it is true. I don't know what to make out of that. His great grandpa was blessed to have one and that was ages ago so if there is a white wolf it should have come and also be gone by now. Because his grandpa was blessed so it should have been either his grandpa or father. And besides I don't know any wolf that shifts only at night since that is the curse given to the Hunters. But still for his sake, I appoint few agents to investigate on this white wolf and the Hunter clan who is all MIA since then. I disconnect the call and switch off my cell phone. I am not in the mood to talk to anybody except her. It has been twenty two minutes now and still there's no sign of her. The sound of a car from my driveway makes my wolf to perk its ears and then her incredible scent hits me. I get up from the couch when she walks in. "Why so late?" I ask her harshly and immediately regret it because her smile turns into a frown. "I'm here. Don't be petty!" she replies in the same tone and then again smiles at me, "I hope you will be pleased to hear that my sacrifice didn't go waste." I cock an eyebrow at her for the use of the word sacrifice. I know she didn't accept to live in with me just to help Cherry get into her Pack; she did it because she wanted it! "Don't do that!" she snaps and heads upstairs. It is funny to watch her frown whenever I cock an eyebrow. "What the hell? Where is my bag?" I hear her shouting. Newton's third law worked again. I hear her footsteps from above and I go upstairs to see her kicking the door of my room, I'm surprised that it doesn't break apart from its hinges. I lean on my side right next to the threshold of the door and see her picking her bag. When she turns she sees me standing, "Why did you get my bag here?" "Because I want you in this room!" I tell her smirking while she glares at me. "Then where are you going to stay?" she asks and I frown at her. "Here." I state in a duh tone. "What rubbish? Where did you get the stupid idea that I am going to stay with you in your room?" she yells. "You are staying here!" I say, my tone final. "I agreed only to stay in your house not-" she says and I cut her off. "You agreed to stay with me because I want you with me here. To know that you are safe and I cannot know that if you stay in another room!" I tell her. She gives me a blank look and shakes her head and drags her bag. I place my arms on the threshold blocking her way. "Move!" she says growling at me while I growl back. I sure as hell won't let her have her way! "It won't work that way!" I tell her shaking my head. She has a distant look on her face and I know she's thinking of something. I won't change my mind and I sure will change her mind if she is against this. "Look, you said I shouldn't mark and 'do that' with you right?" I say using quotes for her words 'do that'. She stares and says nothing so I continue. "So if you are thinking that I am going to mark and 'do that' with you then I won't." I tell her. "Not until you want to." I add. "Really?" she asks me and I nod at her. "In return you have to stay in this room." I tell her and she gives me a full on nasty glare. "I knew this. I was right about you, you... you big, arrogant rhinoceros!" She says and I roll my eyes heavenwards at her nick name for me. Seriously, Rhinoceros? "Do you know why a rhinoceros is called a rhinoceros?" she continues and I raise an eyebrow at her. "Because of its horn and nose. That's the same with you; you have a big nose and horn in your head filled with 'I'm the alpha' ego." She says glaring at me. "I won't let you have your way. I will take my bags back and be going because I am not living with you in this room." she states and starts dragging her bag again. "You can have your way." I tell her. "Thank you." "But listen carefully. Every time you leave the room with your bags, I'm going to come after you and get both you and your bag to this room because this is where you belong." I tell her and she stares at me. I step closer and wrap my arms around her waist. "Pick any room you want to hide from me but at the end of the day I am going to get you back here." I say and crash my lips against hers. At first she doesn't respond but then I bring her closer to me and she gasp, parting her lips which gives me more access to her mouth. She tastes of sweet. She wraps her arms around my neck and kisses me back. The husky sound she makes in the back of her throat is intoxicating, however I want more, much more from her, for which she isn't ready yet so I immediately pull back. I know each and every passing day I'm falling for her. This has never happened to me before. I had girls in my life in the past but they meant nothing. They were all a quickie. But Valerie is different, she was different right from the moment I came to know she is my mate. I knew I would never be able to get her out of my system. Each day I get addicted to her scent, her laughter, her beauty, her voice, her innocence, her tender kisses, her stupid fights and everything about her. The only time I talked to her when we were kids was to mock at her. Every time she left crying. I knew what we said didn't matter to her much than what Jasper used to say. She didn't care much about me earlier, but now I do matter to her and I'm happy with that. She stares at me; her lips are swollen from the kiss. I know I have her and I try my best not to smile. I then proceed to kiss the tip of her nose which is flooded with anger. "If I am going to sleep here then you'll sleep on the-" she says and turns to look at the sofa where even a tiny person like her won't be able to sleep comfortably. "Floor." she finishes. I chuckle and kiss the tip of her nose again, "We'll see." "Na, na..... I am serious!" she says frowning and I kiss the freckles on the bridge of her nose. "I have to unpack and change." she says shoving me in the chest. "I can help." I tell her smirking and she narrows her eyes at me. "I can manage. Now leave!" she says shoving me hard, releasing her from my hold. She places her bag and begins unzipping it. I wrap my arms around her and whisper near her ears what I wanted to tell her since she agreed to stay with me, "I don't know why you agreed but I am glad you did!" and kiss beneath her earlobes while she starts trembling. "Welcome to our home." I say releasing her and walk out of the room to take a bath in the guestroom. Pulling a black t-shirt down over my head, I enter the kitchen and see Valerie rummaging through the almost empty fridge. She's wearing a white angry birds T-shirt with blue shorts that reveals her long legs. My wolf raises his horny head at the sight of her. "You don't have anything here, what do you eat?" she queries with her back to me. It's almost eleven in the night and we haven't had our dinner yet. "I eat out." I tell her. "Always?" "Always. I own hotels and restaurants, remember?" "What should I eat? I am hungry!" she says opening the freezer. There's nothing in it. "You can use this as a closet." she says sarcastically closing the door. She looks at the boxes in the shelf that are empty. I come to the kitchen only for water or beer, other than that the kitchen is useless to me. "Urrgh!" she says stomping her foot on the ground and walks past me after deliberately knocking my shoulders from her side. She goes upstairs and I decide to order something from the hotel for her. I'm ordering the food when she comes downstairs with a packet of oat biscuits. "Dessert?" I ask her. She immediately comes running and snatches the cell phone from my hand and orders food for herself. "I am going shopping tomorrow. Tell me what you need!" she says handling me my cell phone. "Shopping for what?" I ask her. "Well, your fridge is empty and I like mine being full!" she states sitting next to me. "So give your list to me." she adds and I growl loudly because I remember the guy who was hitting on her the last time she was in the mall. "What?" she snaps. "You are not going alone, I am coming with you." I say growling and she rolls her eyes. "I could have easily taken him down. You know Nelson had taught me some cool punches that I use only on humans." she says and I growl at her. I hate this trainer cum friend Nelson of hers. He is a mateless Alpha and my wolf already dislikes him and any other man that my mate talks to. She looks at me and chuckles while I growl at her. "He is a good guy, you can be friends." she says and turns on the T.V. I growl at her and she turns to look at me. "He is not your mate, I am." I say pulling her to my lap. She doesn't say anything when I nestle my nose on her neck inhaling her scent to calm myself. "Then what are you going to do when he will come for Nathan and Edith's wedding?" "What?" "He is Edith's cousin." she says and I frown. I didn't know that. "I am not letting him come here." I growl and then crash my lips against hers. I'm trailing kisses on her jaws when the doorbell rings. "We'll see!" she says getting up and heads to answer the door. I pull her back when she's about to open the door. "Stay here!" I warn and go to answer the door. I don't want to see another lecherous bastard ogling at what is mine! It's almost midnight when our dinner is over. I'm switching off the lights of other rooms while Valerie is washing the dishes. The noise from the kitchen stops and I see her coming out. "You will sleep on the floor?" she asks me while I raise an eyebrow at her. She growls and I smirk at her. Like hell, I am going to sleep on the floor! "Oh look, you forgot to switch off the light from that room!" she says looking past my shoulders. I turn to look back and grin when I hear her running upstairs, closing and bolting the room door. That is the best she could come up with? I am ready to break the door if that is what she wants me to do!