Undercover Wolf novel Chapter 15

"You must be Ace's mate. It's a pleasure finally meeting you. My mate and I couldn't wait to meet you. Ace is like a son to us" I smiled warmly at her as I shook her hand, except, inside I felt terrible.

She told me that I could call her Zorah, and that her mate would be here later when I return from training.

I didn't want to tell her no, but I didn't want to get their hopes up either. I knew Ace's dad died from what my dad told me, and I don't know about his mom, but this felt like meeting the parents and I wasn't ready for that.

<"Can we talk?"> Aiden shouted in my head. I groaned, then shut the mindlink off immediately.

I reluctantly gave Asia back to Lilly as I joined Aiden in the kitchen. I knew what he was about to say so I prepared myself to give him 'the face'.

"Roxy what's the biggest rule? " He asked me as if I was five. I rolled my eyes as I grabbed the cereal, deciding to eat before I left.

"I know Aiden, 'don't get attached'," I repeated boredly, knowing I was already attached to Asia.

Babies were my weakness. From a tender age, I was always in love with them, and Aiden knew that. He was probably seeing this mission as a lost cause for me already. A mate, very nice people and now a baby. This thing gets harder by the day.

I sighed as I actually thought about it.

They all seemed so...nice. Calum and Lilly were building their lives, Ace was building his pack and I was here right under their noses, plotting to take that all away from them.

Dad said he recruited us because we were the strongest and most trusted that he could think of to send here, but I'm starting to believe that I wasn't cut out for this mission.

All I could think about for the next hour was how I'd probably be dooming Asia to a fate like mine, to grow up in a broken pack, and probably with one parent.

I thought about the possibility of Calum dying in the war, which was unlikely but not impossible. Do I want that for these people?

'Nobody thought about your people when they were attacking your pack,' my subconscious taunted. I sighed, not at all liking how all this turned out.

I was supposed to come here, live under their roof, hate them the whole time while pretending to like them, get whatever information we needed and attack. Not meet my mate, get my wolf against me, meet wonderful people and fall in love with a one year old.

I need some air.

I had about thirty minutes before Zack would be ready, so I decided to go do some extra warming up.

On my way I saw a lady picking some yellow buttercup flowers, my favourite.

I was about to go get one, when I heard Aiden shouting my name, running to catch me up. My attention was drawn to him, but I could see from the corner of my eye that the lady's attention was now on us.

I didn't miss the growl that came from Ace, as footsteps came closer to us.

"Not fast enough princess" Zack smirked, feeling as if he'd won.

I quickly kneed him in his stomach, taking the advantage of his crunched position to flip him over my shoulders, taking him by surprise once again.

By now Aiden had already shifted, wearing shorts as he came closer to us, screaming in our mind link to tone it down. I got up and was about to walk to him when Zack swept under my foot with his right leg, making me fall once again. Except this time, I heard a crunching sound when I fell.

A cry of pain escaped my lips as I clenched my ankle which was throbbing in agonizing pain. Zack scurried to his feet, trying to help me, but a low warning growl from Ace stopped him in his movements.

By now both Aiden and Ace had made it to where we were. Ace threw a swing at Zack, punching him square in his face before he plummeted to the ground once again. Aiden examined my ankle and the damage, but I was sure it was a sprain.

"What the hell Zack! You f**king hurt my mate! " Ace shouted with his Alpha tone in anger, something I have never heard since I got here.

Zack shook in fear, trying to move away from his wrath. Over the weeks, I've learnt that Ace was a stern but an approachable Alpha, so his pack wasn't scared of him. But now, he was really scary.

"I- I'm sorry. It was just a part of the training Alpha. I-I didn't mean to hurt her" He stuttered out as Ace's chest rose and fell in anger.