Beauty and the Alpha [BEING REWRITTEN]

Chapter 25

*Xander's POV*

It took everything I had in me to restrain myself from marking Ava right there while I was hugging her. My wolf was nagging me "she's 18 now, you can mark her!" he kept saying but I knew she would freak out if I just sank my canines into her neck. I needed her consent

One thing I know I know is that from now on it's going to be very hard to control myself, I don't even know how I've managed to keep it together for this long, werewolves have intense feelings and a strong need to mark their mate once they find her, being an alpha means I feel ten times more of what a normal werewolf normally feels under these circumstances.

I would hold on to her for the entire night but knowing that it's her party I had to force myself to leave the room and go get some air outside. I put my hand in my pocket to make sure her gift was still there, I got her a bracelet that has been passed on from Lunas of the pack. It's a welcoming gift and I couldn't wait to put it on my mate.

While watching her interact with others I couldn't help but notice her beauty, everything about her is perfect, her eyes, her lips, her beautiful smile, her dark cherry hair which made me wonder what her natural hair colour is, her curves. Everything about Ava is just amazing and no its not the mate pull that's making me think like this, my wolf is not the only one that's smitten with her, so am I.

I managed to pull her aside from the crowd

"hey" she said with a smile

"are you happy?"

"very happy, but exhausted now"

"Yea, Kayla told me about your busy day"

"she really went all out. It was fun"

Mark her

Dammit this was getting harder by the minute and she noticed

" are you ok"

I just nodded and closed my eyes for a while knowing that they had changed colour, I opened them again and she had a confused look but I just shook my head

"I got you something" I said as I took out the box with the bracelet

"It's been passed on from the previous Lunas of the pack from my great-grandmother and now I would like you to have it"

"wow, it's beautiful Xander" she said as she hugged me. Normally I'd be happy to have our bodies so close but tonight it was torture, so much torture.

I instinctively tilted my head to her neck, I could smell her, every part of me was begging me to mark her and I almost did. Until I remembered that this isn't how I want to do things. I want her to be on board with it but dammit it's hard.

I quickly pulled away "I'll be back, go mingle with your friends" I said as I walked away even though I felt her sadness. But I had to walk away.

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*Ava's POV *

I woke up early in the morning to clean up, luckily Kayla slept over so she was there to help me clean up before my mom got back, which had me wondering where she was. There was not much cleaning to do as we were using paper cups and plates.

After cleaning up we went back to bed to relax and reflect on yesterday

"so yesterday turned out to be a blast" she said

"Yea it was, I can't believe you spent the entire day with me and never slipped up"

"believe me, I wanted to tell you so many times" she giggled "I noticed you and my brother having a moment there"

Right then my mood dampened "Yea... Then he left"

"did something happen?"

"not that I know of,  he was just too uptight. Like he didn't really want to be around me"

"oh" she said as she looked down

"oh?"

"he's probably just overworked, you know.. Alpha stuff" she said. Soon we were looking at yesterday's pictures, we had so much fun and I felt like doing it all over again but I couldn't get my mind off Xander. The pull was at work again because I desperately wanted to be around him.
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My mom ended up arriving later that Sunday evening just after Kayla left.

"how was your day.. And night?" she asked as she sat down

"it was amazing mom, I had so much fun"

"I'm glad all that planning paid off. My baby girl is all grown"she said as she put her arms around me

" ok mom.. Ok I can't breath now "she then let go

" I'm really proud of you Ava Anderson, you've grown to be a fine young lady and no matter what life throws at you, you just keep moving"

"no tears mom" I joked and she just smiled, we chatted for a little while until I remembered I didn't know where she slept.

"so where did you sleep last night"

"I went to a friend's place"  she said quietly

"a friend?" I stretched the word friend.

"yes Ava, a friend and no you can't anymore questions" she said trying to end the conversation but I wasn't about to let it go

"a friend huh.. Does this friend have a name?" I pressed on

"hey, don't forget I'm the parent and you're the child in this relationship we've got going on" she said as she stood up and started walking to her bedroom

"This conversation isn't over Eleanor Anderson"  I laughed and rolled my eyes. I'm not dumb and I don't expect her to remain single forever, my dad is out there living his best life and all she's ever done was take care of me. Maybe now is the time for her to start focusing on herself and happine6and most importantly not have to worry what I will think about the whole situation, as long as she isn't going out with a psycho