I should be your Beta, not your Mate

Side-Story: 14

Side-Story: 14 - A new stage of life - Part 1

Kyran

With a concentrated look I fixed my tie in the mirror and almost gave up when I messed it up for the fifth time. This was too hard.

»Taking your time, sweetheart?«

Cassian appeared in the doorframe and I met his gently green eyes through the mirror. »No, just having trouble with this stupid thing,« I grumbled, annoyed.

My hair had already been a problem. After showering yesterday, Cas had plunged at me and we had some fun but my hair had been still wet and today I needed to shower again in the morning because of the mess on my head.

He was already wearing his suit and looking all perfect - like always. Even the small wrinkles that had appeared on his face. But at his age it should be almost normal to get a few wrinkles. Still, even a few wrinkles wouldn't damage his handsome face.

Nothing could. Not even gray hair in a few years, or later on when his muscles and tight skin disappeared. I loved his soul and the look in his eyes. The eyes that would never change looking at me with so much love.

Not his body or handsome face. Though I couldn't deny I loved it too.

Today was a day to celebrate. It was the graduation day of our five children.

All of them had turned 20 by now and finished their 13th year of school.

And both of us were a little bit over 40 years old by now. Beautiful 20 years at the side of my mate and husband.

Of course, we had our ups and downs and not just one time, I got sick. Or something else happened that made us feel sadness, anger or frustration.

However, we held onto our happiness.

Nothing could be as bad as the time we were separated and my death. I may have come back to life but my death had still happened and hurt Cassian in a way I could never understand because I hadn't lost him to the everlasting darkness until now.

»Let me help you,« he purred and walked up to me and untied the tie around my neck. Sighing I let him help me fix the tie and after he finished, he wrapped his arms around me and kissed me on the lips.

A smile spread on my lips. »Just one?«

»Yes, because if we start now, we won't stop. And I can already hear the footsteps of your mini-me stressing about us coming too late though we have enough time.« Fair enough, I did that too. A lot.

Although he was also very often the startled chicken that rushed us.

He brushed his fingers past my cheek and grinned before our daughter arrived in our bedroom.

She wore a peacock colored dress that ended at her ankles and thick straps around the shoulders held the dress up. The top had the shape of a heart and a golden pattern made of pearls. Her light-blond hair was put up in a braided crown around her head and her colorful eyes were highlighted with make-up.

I sometimes wondered how my little girl could turn into such a beautiful woman. I still saw my little girl at first glance and then I saw the woman she was now.

Normally her light-blond hair fell in waves over her shoulder blades. Her face was heart-shaped and her expression was always kind. Her skin was a pale ivory.

And Azrael was of a relatively big height for a woman and an Omega. She was just about four centimeters smaller than I was.

»Do you need much longer or are you finished?« She nervously played with her fingers and stopped when she saw Cassian and I almost laying in each other's arms.