The Prince’s Unwilling mate by Mutya

066 Griffin I'm starting to get a headache, Ayla has hardly textedtoday. And | know she toldbefore and | know she cannot help it but | miss her. Dillion has been acting weird today, and so has Dillion since getting back from picking up Jessa on top of all of that | had the extra work Dad askedto do.

Dillion and Gerald had both left to go to their respective offices to get to work. Finally not botheringanymore but now someone was knocking at my door. The second | raised my head | was greeted with the overwhelming scent of lilac. Could it be? Could it be that Ayla said she wouldn't be able to textbecause she was coming here early? There was only one way to find out but | found myself eager. Rushing to open the door there she was, like a dream ctrue. My breathtakingly beautiful mate was standing in the doorfryelling “Surprise” | grabbed her hips to lift her and spin her around, and when | was about to put her down on the floor she wrapped her arms around my neck- pullingclose to be able to kiss me. | didn’t care why she was here so much earlier than we agreed on, or how we were kissing in the hallway for all to see. | didn’t even care for the fact that | had to work now when she was here. All | cared for was the fact that she was here withnow.

“What are you doing here, Darling not that | am complaining?” | asked her when we finally let go of each other.

0.00% 15:22 066 Griffin 288 iVouchers you “There is straining | have to go over with your mother, and like said we are going to need to make an effort to interact with the pack. With all that | had to do, | got the day off because | was exhausted so what better way than to sleep in and then spend the day with you?” She beamed up at me.

Knowing her idea of relaxing was spending the day withmadefeel elated. Suddenly | remember the shitton of work Dad leftwith. | can’t even take her out, I hardly have the tto show her the surprise in the living room. Ayla must see my face fall, before | know it she is cupping my cheek with her hand askingwhat's wrong.

“I have so much to do, that | can’t take you out, and | am a bit bummed out about it,” | answer and to my surprise, she just smiles at “Is there anything | can help you with? So we can go on a casual date tonight? Something on the pack ground maybe?” She asksto think about ways to help me, to make the best of this situation.

ways “If you really don’t mind. | do need to go over the rapports every pack sentabout their members. To see if they changed packs, or if they went rogue?” It is a tedious job, so when I told Ayla what | was doing | figured she would decline.

But she didn’t she settled down on the couch in my room and opened up her laptop. Fully trusting her | gave her the login info to the email. She would start reading from the bottom up and | would do the exact opposite.

19.15% 15325 066 Griffin 288 (Vouchers Reading all the emails and then making the changes to the archives still was tedious. But with Ayla next to me, thad flown by. Not only because we joked and teased between emails. She has also done about. have of my job so that | finish work a lot sooner. We decided to go to the diner-style restaurant on pack ground. Excusing myself that | had to shower first | led Ayla to our private chambers. She seemed to pick up how overly excited | was to show her the bookshelves. But other than raising a brow atshe didn’t say anything, which was good because | was bursting out the seams to tell her.

“Grif, tellyou didn’t?” Ayla’s voice skips a beat when she asksabout the wall covered with wrapping paper.

“Darling, in a few weeks this will be our apartment, our bedroom | want you to feel at hhere. It’s not totally selfless though | want our livingroom to be cozier so that we can spend tin there, Ayla praisesfor the idea about the living room but her eyes are immediately drawn to the wrapping paper.

“Go one Darling rip it open” That is all the encouragement she needs.

She begins tearing the paper down, and when | start to help her she grabsby the collar and kisseshard, passionate. Before returning to the task at hand, In the tshe is pulling down the wrapping paper. She does this cute little dance every tshe discovers a new book.

38.82% 15:22 066 Griffin Most of the shelves are left empty though.

288 Vouchers Not only does she have a ton of books at her Grandparent's place already. We need space to fill up. | want her bookshelves to be full of books I got her. Our fridge is full of magnets from places we went to together. There is even a bookstore on pack ground. Looking at my watch | notice that we can still make the bookstore if | hurry.

“You look beautiful Darlin, but | have to take a quick shower so feel free to use the shower afterif you need to,” | tell her before walking to the bathroom.

sok The shower was wonderful, and it wokeup. Ayla had changed into a simple tight tight-fitting dress. She was read too, and so | offered her my arm. Arms linked we made our way into town. Where she had no idea where | was taking her to, she still seemed to think we were just walking towards the restaurant. She would never be able to find or do any thing on pack ground on her own. | silently tell myself to print the maps of the pack for her this weekend so she can’t study them. If she finds the tto do so in her busy schedule that is.

Now | can benefit from her not knowing her way around the pack. | ask her to close her eyes for the last few feet.

She is confused seeing as she thinks she already knows where we are going. But she does as | ask her without any questions. When we are in front of the bookstore | let her open her eyes. She squeals and jumps into my arms, | waste no tin wrapping my arms around her lifting her off the ground again. I will 57.73% 15325 066 Griffin 1288 Vouchers never stop loving the feeling of her petite frmelting intoas | lift her off the ground. It makesfeel like | can protect her from everything in this world. Suddenly | am overwhelmed with the need to tell her that. Even Conan is ringing through my mind, whining our mate needs to know we will keep her safe.

“I will always keep you safe Darling, | will always keep you in my arms because it is where you belong.” | tell her giving in to the need to tell her.

“I know you will, Griff | trust you with my life” Her answer is like balm to my soul.

Her feet are firmly back on the sidewalk again and she takes a step closer to me. So | bent forward to give her a kiss. Instead, she just grabs my wrist and pullsinto the bookstore. And | cannot but help laugh at her enthusiasm. She is picking up books, smelling them, and reading the back. She even grabs the books by their spine waving them around. According to her, it is to testy how floppy they are. Honestly, | don’t get it, | don’t get what the fun in reading is. But if you enjoy it why not just download an e-book? “That is why | can’t wait to have mom over for a visit when | moved in here. She will love going to this bookstore with me.” Ayla tells makes sense her mother loves books just as much as she does.

me, it “Oh, so you do plan on living here? You actually want to be the Queen” Rhonda snaps at Ayla.

78.32% 135.23 066 Griffin 1288 (Vouchers Arms crossed ready to tear into Ayla, | want to intervene and tell Rhonda to mind her own business and to leave her alone. But when | look at Ayla | know | am too late and | no longer have the chance to.

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