Page 14 of His Human to Charm

“Well, she would probably prefer that to my cock poking her all night,” I answer, doubt starting to creep into my mind. Did I do the wrong thing? I thought I was being kind when I left her bed, but Lyath’s questions are starting to worry me.

“Yes, the worst possible thing for any mate is knowing they are able to arouse their mate.” Lyath shakes his head as he says the words. “She may have woken this morning, the alcohol out of her system, and been willing to touch it if you were still in bed with her.”

I look down the hall to where her door is still shut. “I could return now. Do you think it is too late?”

“Of course it is,” Lyath laughs as he claps a hand on my shoulder. “Your mate is already out at the bathing pools with the other females. She was crying last I saw her, but that was when she saw you sleeping out here in the chair instead of holding her in bed.”

I am up and out of my chair before Lyath can even try to brace himself for me pushing against him. He must have warned his mate, who warned other brothers that he might rile me up because as soon as I enter the dining hall, there are a few brothers ready to try to stop me from getting to my mate. Most of them seem happy about it like I have not undone all of the progress I had made with my mate.

At first, she was scared of me and scared to talk to me, but when she is finally comfortable, I manage to offend her by leaving her bed when my intention is the exact opposite. I need to make this right, but the brothers guarding the door to the great hall look like they are amused in trying to contain me.

“Let me find my mate.” I try to keep my voice rational, but it is a mix of hissing and clicks, showing just how angry I am.

“Our mates are out there bathing, too,” Erkoz says as he leans against the wooden doors. “Can’t be having just any male out there admiring what is ours.”

My claws extend a bit more from the tips of my fingers. “Like, you care,” I spit.

Erkoz and Xoth enjoy watching their mate being admired by many males, and she enjoys entertaining males. They wouldn’t care about me seeing their mate naked, but it gives them a chance to annoy me, so they are taking it.

“Maybe we would not care, but Ralleth and Almaac would take turns sealing you if you saw their mates. Do not pretend like they would not.” Erkoz makes a good point.

Almaac and Ralleth are both very possessive of their mates, much like Dath and I are over ours. It’s what finally gets me to take a step away from the door that leads out of the great hall and lean against one of the stone pillars that acts as a support. My claws are still extended. The fangs that are usually hidden in my jaw have dropped as well. I don’t know when or how to get them to return to their original state, but I know it will take a long while for me to calm down. The rage is unlike any I have ever felt, and it seems to get harder and harder to control the longer I am without Alice.

I’m about to let my body slide down the pillar to sit on the floor when I feel a harsh tug on the tether wrapped around my soul. Dath, Yril, and I are all tied to one another just as they are tied to their mates. I am not tied to Alice yet since I have not completed mating her, but once I do, I will feel tied to her soul as well as theirs. The tugging on my chest is soft, but I can feel it coming from Dath from just outside the gates of the tribe.

“Where is Dath?” I ask. The brothers around me look confused as I change the subject so quickly.

“He and his mate went to pick flowers for his mother,” Erkoz says, cocking his head to the side. “Why?”

“Something’s happened.” I push past the brothers, who now let me get to the doors without a fuss.

They must see that I am no longer thinking of my mate bathing with the other females and am now more focused on why my blood is outside the gates, tugging on the bond between us. I push the doors open just in time to see Dath’s mate, Deja, come walking through the gates of the tribe with another female at her side. I was planning on running out of the gates to go find her and her mate since he was tugging on the bond like he needed help. Now, it has quieted.

“We need Olivia’s mate!” Deja yells at me and the other brothers, who have now followed behind me. A few brothers run off in different directions, all looking for Ralleth as I stand there and wait for Dath to show up. I can feel him growing closer and closer to us, and I am even more surprised when I see Ralleth’s brother, Rallan, walking with him, a sled of supplies dragged behind them.

“Simone needs to be shown to the new female room,” Deja says to me when she’s close enough. I’m watching Rallan when I nod to her. I am more concerned about a male none of us really know being in our tribe. Ralleth has told us that he has already shown his brother our humans, but that does not mean I want him to know about how many we have or how wonderful they are. When I look back down, Deja is still in front of me, a confused look marring her features. “She’ll still be sharing a room with your mate?”

My lips pull back in a snarl. “Yes.”

“Okay,” Deja smiles sweetly at me as though having to admit that I am still not sharing a bed with my mate is something to be proud of. I want to gnash my teeth at her, maybe hiss a little. Dath is looking at me like he might murder me if I do, so I keep myself in check and let Deja and the new human walk past me into the great hall.

“We need to speak with Ralleth,” Dath says when he and Rallan get closer to me. The other brothers remove the supplies from the sled and are taking to them to where they need to go. Beren and Lyath are looking through a sack of what are probably the seeds they were hoping for. They speak to each other in soft voices, smiles on both of their faces.

“There may be others coming to see if your tribe has been gifted with females,” Rallan says in a hushed voice so only Dath and I can hear. The hiss that rattles around in my chest is loud and catches the attention of many brothers. Thankfully, I am always angry now, so they think very little of it.

“Others went to find him,” I say. “We can wait for them in the dining hall if you want.”

“Very well,” Rallan says, allowing Dath and I to lead him to where Ralleth and his mate normally sit.

He tries to make small talk with us, which Dath is thankfully able to deal with. I am too focused on the great hall doors and every time they open.

On the third swing of the door opening, my mate comes through. Her dark hair is still wet and clinging to her face. Her tunic is wet in spots where her body didn’t fully dry, and it clings to the slopes of her breasts in a way that has my cock hardening in an instant. Her eyes meet mine for a long moment, and it takes everything in me not to stand and run over to her, to fall to my knees, and beg her not to be upset at me for leaving.

I fail at stopping myself. The chair screeches against the stone floor as I push it back. I am halfway to my mate when Ralleth walks through the door to the great hall, his eyes blood red. Alice looks from Ralleth to me, and then her face falls slightly. She turns away from me, running down the hall to her bedroom, making it perfectly clear I am not wanted at this moment. Maybe it is for the best so Rallan can tell us all about the others who are coming for our humans.

9

Alice

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