Alpha Ace and his Undercover Mate

Chapter 30

I perked up at surprise, already jumping up and getting dressed. I really needed a mood lifter after the week I've had.

"What is it?" I asked eagerly, pulling on a top. Text © 2024 NôvelDrama.Org.

"Right this way"

I followed him down the stairs and towards the living room where I heard muffled voices. They got clearer as we walked, and a very familiar scent washed my nose.

"Jane!" I squealed as I entered the living room, cutting off her and Lilly's conversation and jumping on her.

"And Jace" I heard him say with a faked hurt look on his face. I quickly shot him a smile as I released Jane and hugged Jace too.

Soon after, I pulled both of them in a long, long , long hug.

"You guys don't know how happy I am to see you."

"I thought you might need someone to talk to. I'm here for you sis" Jane mumbled and my heart soared for her.

It's not that I couldn't have talked to Lilly, but I wasn't comfortable talking about my mate that I almost screwed over, to the Beta's mate who I almost screwed over.

"Thank you, I really do"

"We can go right now if you li-"

She stopped suddenly as I felt her body grow tense in my arms. Jace noticed it too as he stepped away from our embrace and watched her weirdly.

She slowly turned around and her eyes landed on something in the doorway. I followed her gaze, seeing a very stunned Scott mimicking her reaction.

I looked between the two of them as I knew too well that type of feeling. Soon after, Scott's face broke out in a grin and in two steps he was already in front of her and scooping her up in his arms. She giggled sweetly as he lifted her and spun her around, her eyes filled with tears.

Lilly, Aiden, Jace and I watched them in awe. It was such a beautiful moment.

"You don't know how long I've been waiting to find you" He whispered as he tucked her hair away. She just stared at him in adoration, already seeming in love.

"Can we go and talk?" He asked as he beamed at her. She quickly nodded, as he held her hand and started leading her out of the room, not seeming to notice our presence.

Then out of nowhere her eyes widened and she looked back to me. "Oh my gosh Roxy we were suppose to talk"

I waved her off with a 'are you serious' look. "Go it's okay. We can talk later"

"I love you" She cooed before turning to leave again.

I smiled at their retreating forms, hearing her laugh at something he said.

It made me think about my first time meeting Ace. Oh how I wished it could've been like this. Like how normal mates act when they meet.

But it also made me realize that even if we didn't start off as a fairy tale, we had a pretty good thing going. And I believe it was still there.

My dad once told me that there's nothing a real heartfelt apology and some making up won't fix, and that's exactly what I was going to do.

I quickly jogged upstairs to Ace's room, since he was barely ever in his office nowadays. I barged in without knocking, seeing him sitting in his couch with his head in his hands, obviously totally oblivious to the wonderful union that just happened downstairs.

"Ace" I called, and his head immediately shot up at the sound of my voice. He looked drained, tired and sad. I didn't like it. My wolf didn't like it. My heart didn't like it.

"Ace can we please talk?"

He looked unsure as he gave me a once over. It wasn't with disgust or repulsion, it was with longing and want. But nonetheless he was still being difficult.

"I don't wanna talk" He mumbled, resting his head in his hands again.

I huffed at how he wasn't even giving me a bloody chance. I decided that whether he liked it or not, we were gonna talk today. I'm pulling an Aiden move on his ass.

"Ace" I started again, this time with a little more sternness and determination. I definitely caught his attention, since he raised an eyebrow at me.

"We need to talk. And we're going to"

I waited for him to protest and again, but instead he just stood there with an emotionless expression. I took that as a sign to begin. With a deep sigh, I softened my demeanour and looked him deep in his eyes.

"I'm hurt Ace" I said almost inaudibly, and his face flashed with concern as he rushed across the room to check every inch of my body.

"Where?" He asked as he scanned my body.

"Here" I pointed to the left side of my chest where my heart sat, and I watched as his eyes found the area that I was showing him. At first, he looked relieved that I wasn't physically hurt, but for the first time since last week, his eyes softened.

"Ace I cant express to you how sorry I am. I hate that I hurt you and I hate that you feel like you can't trust me" I paused as I took a step closer and held his hand. "But I assure you Ace that you can, and I really am sorry."

He sighed and looked deep into my eyes. " We're mates Roxy. You should've told me"

"I know Ace. I know that now. But please understand, at first I was so conflicted. My whole life I've been told how evil your pack was, and when I learnt that you were my mate, I didn't know who or what to trust. Inside my heart I knew that the moon wouldn't have mated me with the enemy. So trust me, deep down I knew you weren't but I wouldn't admit it to myself."

"When you tried to reject me" he mumbled, but it wasn't quite directed at me. He looked like he was remembering all the times I gave him the cold shoulder.

"Yes" I admitted "But that night when I accepted you instead, I stopped telling myself that you were the enemy. But that was the problem, I didn't know who to choose. I knew that I could have never brought myself to hurt you and your pack, but Ace I didn't want to betray my pack either.

"I came here on a promise to get my pack back what was theirs, and I wanted that as much as I wanted you at first. But I couldn't have told you without hurting my family, and I just didn't know what to do. So I tried to come up with ways to fix it, and one of those was to talk to you. But since you always shut me down, I just didn't know if I could really tell you"

I sighed and sat on his bed. I was happy when he sat beside me, actually looking as if he was willing to listen.

"On many occasions I swore that I would've told you. But then I was also worried about what you would've done to Aiden, or what you would've done to me" I looked up to meet his eyes, and they held so much assurance that he wouldn't have hurt me. "I didn't know if you would've felt so betrayed, that you would hate me or reject me"

"I could never hate you Roxy"

"But I thought you would. I was living under your roof, going behind your back. Even by the time I would've told you, Aiden would've already sent half the information on your pack to dad. I just thought that you would be so mad that-that-"

"I wouldn't have done anything to hurt you" He told me again.

"But you would've hurt Aiden"

"Did I?" He asked, making me realise that even before Aiden apologized, he didn't hurt him.

"No but I didn't know that. So I tried to fix it by myself. I tried to help my pack without jeopardising what we have."

"That's too much pressure on you alone Roxy. You could've said something" His soft voice took me off guard, and I felt my eyes well up with tears as I noticed that he was loosening up.

"I was scared. And Aiden didn't want me to" I sniffled as my throat closed up.

He pulled me onto his lap and I buried my face in his neck. "I know. I forgive you. It's all over now"

"Why didn't you want to talk to me sooner?" I mumbled, remembering all the times he would shut me out.

"I was hurt. I didn't want to believe that my Roxy did this to me"

"I'm sorry" I repeated with a small voice. He simply pulled me closer as I got comfortable on him.

Then all of a sudden, he let his walls down for the first time in a week. I panicked for a moment, but it was gone when I noticed that the emotions he felt last night were replaced with love, relief and content.

"Ace?"

"Hmm?"

"Last night when you came into my room, I wasn't sleeping" He stiffened at that but he didn't say anything. "When you let your walls down, I felt everything"

He eased my head from his shoulder so he could look me in the eyes, and he had a look of regret on his face. Leave it up to Ace to feel bad about me knowing how he was hurting.

"Roxy I-"

"Ace no. You shouldn't feel guilty for hurting. I knew you were trying to protect me from falling into deeper hurt, but I hate that you went through that alone." I held his face in my hands and leaned my forehead against his.

"Promise me that if something should happen in the future, you let me know how you feel okay? We're in his thing together, and even if I can't make it better, at least you won't be going through it alone" He sighed, looking unsure. But I urged him. " Promise me Ace"

"I promise" He repeated with promising eyes. I smiled warmly at him as I softly pecked his lips.

"Good." I mumbled "I love you Ace"

"I love you too baby" He replied sweetly just before his lips caught mine in a kiss, and I immediately returned it.