The Alpha King is My Mate?

8

Completed, Word count: 1578

For the rest of the journey, all is quiet apart from Hunter's heavy breathing – there isn't a sound from within the car – Jackson knows better than to talk too loud and to wake Hunter up... He'd learned that lesson the hard way. Hunter wakes up just as the car is pulling up the long road towards the huge house like castle that the top pack members live in, although Hunter is King of all werewolves, he had his own pack which was the inner circle that he trusted above all else.

Hunter looks down beside him and can't help but let the smile tugging at his lips win, Isabella is sleeping soundly, curled up into a ball beside him. Even in her sleep, she looked completely adorable. Hunter could only think about how lucky he was to have her as his own, he would protect her and make her happy at all costs... at that thought, Tobias makes a small meow as he stretches out his legs. Hunter stares at him with disgust written all over his face.

Noticing Hunter was awake, Jackson turns around his seat and notices the look on Hunter's face – it really was a good job Isabella was asleep so she didn't see it.

"Now do you understand?" Jackson smirks with an 'I told you so' look on his smug face. Hunter drags his eyes away from his sleeping mate to look at his best friend, making sure his hand never leaves Isabella's back where he was making comforting circles with his finger.

"I really do" Hunter sighs happily, his smile faltering for a moment

"What's wrong buddy? The cat really isn't that big of a problem" Jackson teases trying to put a smile back on Hunter's face, it was such a rare thing that Jackson wanted to savour it, it works but then as quickly as the repeat smile came, it disappeared again along with another sigh

"I don't know how, I never understood the mating pull but I already know I love her and yet I also know she is keeping something from me, it's like an itch that I can't get too. I know it is something to do with that pack, I just know it is.... Not to mention it scares the hell out of me that before I met her my full attention was on the pack and now I'm thinking to hell with the pack, I need to protect her" Hunter explains knowing that his trust in Jackson was a secure one, Hunter could tell Jackson anything in confidence and know it would never go further than the two of them

"You just found her, you've never known what it was like to love something or someone with your whole body, I'm sure it's normal that while you're getting adjusted to this huge change things are going to feel strange and take some getting used too but soon enough your wolf will balance things out including your love for Isabella and your commitment to the pack" Jackson shrugs with an empathetic smile

"When did you get so smart?" Hunter grins reaching over to punch Jackson softly on the arm

"What was that?" Jackson laughs but stops when he sees the look on Hunter's face "Okay! Okay! It's just that I've been waiting to hear that leave your mouth for ages... we're talking years here pal"

The car finally comes to a stop and Hunter jumps out of his side of the car, eager to show Isabella around her new home he waits for his sinking feet to get adjusted to the pebble driveway before walking round to Isabella's side of the car. Hunter opens the door ready to catch her if she fell which she starts to do but he simply scoops her up in his arms, not even waking her up, despite it not waking Isabella up, the move startles Tobias who jumps from Isabella's lap and runs of in the direction of the dark woods.

Hunter curses under his breath and he holds Isabella closer to his chest, he looks around to notice everyone waiting for his and his mate's arrival are stood around not doing anything with awkward looks on their face. Cats don't mean anything to werewolves so they don't think that Tobias was important but he was important to Isabella meaning he was important to their Queen

"Go after him, bring him back safely!" Hunter finally yells knowing they weren't going to do anything without direction from him.

All but one person scurries off towards the forest to go and look for Tobias, Hunter notices one man from the lower end of the pack with his feet firmly placed on the floor with no plan to move. Hunter could almost feel the anger making his blood boil, how dare this nobody disrespect his orders?

"You knew that meant you too, go!" Hunter growls trying to control his anger so he stays quiet for a still sleeping Isabella.

"I'm not going to chase a cat that doesn't matter to me" he smirks cockily not moving an inch even when Hunter squares up to him, if Hunter hadn't been holding Isabella he would've been in front of the man in an instant with one of his hands wrapped around this insolent fools throat

"It matters to me, your Alpha and your future Luna so suggest you get running little boy" Hunter yells, in a quick second before anyone can even see what is happening, Hunter kicks his leg out powerfully against the man's knee sending him tumbling to the floor with a whimper.

"I suggest you go now," Hunter says in a scarily quiet voice, the man nods his now white, shaken face before limping off in search of Tobias with the others.

Decided there were people on the job, Hunter doesn't wake Isabella to tell her about Tobias, he simply carries her to his bedroom this would now be, of course, their joint bedroom. Hunter lays Isabella down, she instantly relaxes as she curls up into the soft duvet. Sitting down at the desk across the room Hunter starts to catch up on some work but not without regularly looking up to make sure Isabella was okay.

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When Isabella stirs from her refreshing sleep, Hunter is almost instantly by her side smiling comfortingly but with a nervous look on his face which she picks up straight away. Despite not knowing what is wrong, Isabella finds herself looking around the room she has never been in before, it takes a couple of minutes but she quickly sees what is wrong with this picture she is finding herself in.

"Where is Tobias?" Isabella asks, trying to sound calm but her voice wavering slightly. Isabella jumps out of the bed and gets to her knees to look under the bed where he liked to sometimes hide at home but he isn't there which makes the ball of anxiety in Isabella's stomach grow even bigger.

"When I picked you up from the car when we got here he got scared and ran off" Hunter explains biting his lip which Isabella finds incredibly attractive but is so blind sighted with the fact that he lost Tobias and didn't wake her to tell her the horrible news makes him momentarily look like the ugliest man in the world

"Why didn't you wake me?" she yells scrunching up her fists angrily

"You were so sound asleep and well I have a big team out looking for him, you or I couldn't do any better than what is already being done" he shrugs with a smug smile on his face, feeling proud of himself for even doing that. Isabella understood that he could not totally understand that this was Isabella's best friend and that she needed him but she still felt hurt, Hunter might not have known the extent of their friendship but he knew that Tobias was incredibly important to Isabella.

"He won't come out for strangers," she says softening only slightly looking past Hunter's shoulder out of the large window that faces the forest and the now very dark sky "He'll be so scared"

Isabella heads towards the oak door of the bedroom but Hunter grabs a hold of her hand and pulls her back

"Where are you going? I already told you there were people already out looking for him" he questions raising his eyebrows

"To look for Tobias," Isabella says like Hunter is stupid while she wriggles out of his grasp quite easily because Hunter was too scared to hurt her by holding tight

"No, it is too dark!" Hunter explains walking over to the curtains that he closed to show the dead of night even though she had already seen it

"I don't care and don't follow me!" she yells going back to being angry at him again as she flings out the door to walk out of it hoping that her senses would kick in and lead her towards a door out of this maze-like place

'Our first fight and it about that stupid cat' Hunter thinks to himself with a sigh, Isabella didn't even have any shoes on so quickly Hunter packs a backpack with shoes and a jacket for Isabella then quickly runs downstairs to get food and hot drinks as it could be a long night searching. No matter what Isabella said about not following he was always going to.