Chương 4: "MATE!!"

"Where's Derek?" Emma asked Clem.

She had turned back to see Clem and the other two guys walk into the house after her, but not Derek. She refused to think on why she was searching him out.

'What's there, if not to trouble him the more'She thought, smiling to herself as she remembered the look on his face when she double tripped him.

"He might be outside" Clem replied, staring at the ceilings of the living room.

'Outside?'Emma thought. She could feel herself boiling up again. She concluded that Derek was a real piece of work.

"What's he doing outside?, can't you see we need more hands here?. She asked Clem, her hands on her waist.

This whole house is in ruins, one of you guys should get him" Emma stated finally.

Clem was perplexed. He couldn't deny that the human girl intrigued him greatly. Looking at her, he could tell that she was fuming, silently. Not wanting to get on her bad side, for he had seen what she was capable of, he asked Leo to get Derek.

After Leo left, Clem turned back to Emma, in a bid to make small talk until Derek arrives.

"Where are you from?" , He asked.

"I'm not from around here." She replied.

"But where..?" Clem queried, getting more curious. The human girl was so secretive, He thought.

" Don't worry about it, I'm not a spy" She said, chuckling.

For a minute, Clem panicked. He thought she might actually have a clue on what they are really are. But then looking intensely at her, he discovered Emma was just making small talk, just being vague as usual, and he got more interested in unraveling her.

"Well, I wouldn't be surprised if you were a spy, you got good moves babe! How did you learn that?" Clem inquired, noting the blush that appeared on the new girl's cheeks.

"Dad enrolled me in a martial arts school while I was younger. You know, for protection." Emma replied.

She didn't think he needed to know the truth of how she learnt taekwondo. How she defied her father's orders, sneaking out every night to Mr Tammy's place to learn it.

"Okay, cool" Clem said, looking at her with open admiration. When he saw a speck of dust on her cheek, he thought it an opportunity to feel her skin texture.

Her skin was soft, he thought as he rubbed off the dust from her cheek with his right thumb. And as he watched her closely, he saw a blush taint her cheek, and he smiled.

"Clem, He's here now" Leo said,coming into the room with a still annoyed Derek.

Emma shifted away from Clem, at the sound of Leo's voice. Now noting how close Clem had been to her, and the feel of his thumb on her left cheek, she blushed again.

His touch was sweet, and she had to admit that he was a handsome guy, although Derek was more handsome.

'Wait, did I just think of Derek as the handsomest? No way" Emma said,and scoffed.

She turned back to see Derek looking at her weirdly.

Derek had seen Clem touching Emma's cheek, but had scoffed. Clem is a puppy, He had thought. But when he saw the blush on Emma's face, he was out of it for a second.

His insides tightened, but he had brushed it off as a feeling of resentment for her and betrayal for Clem.

'He shouldn't be fraternizing with that little witch' He thought, as he remembered how she had double tripped him few minutes ago. It got him curious. She's only a human female teenager.

'So where did the strength and skill come from.?'Derek asked himself.

"So how are we gonna do this" Shane asked, holding a vacuum cleaner.

Derek snapped out of his thoughts at Shane's words, and looked around the house properly for the first time.

" Was this a drug house" He shrieked, as he pondered on the colorations on the wall, and the messy furniture.

" Exactly my thoughts, when I met it" the witch,like he termed her replied, like she hadn't tripped him some minutes ago. Derek scoffed.

" Leo call Mike, tell him we need them at No 10 moonway now" Derek said.

"Okay" Leo replied, taking the cell phone and walking out the front porch.

Emma didn't know what to think of that. It was obvious Derek commanded Leo. His voice was..but...well it's best she minds her business. She doesn't know the relationship between the guys.

" You both should start carrying out the furniture, I will check out the kitchen" He said, referring to Shane and Clem, while walking towards the kitchen.

Emma followed him. She didn't know why she did, but she found herself also walking towards the kitchen.

Derek sweared,as he walked into the kitchen. Everything was a mess, from the cupboards to the dirty sink.

"Dirty right?" Emma asked, with a chuckle.

Derek looked at the little witch, and wondered whether she was taunting him or making a statement, for the kitchen was beyond dirty obviously. The knowledge that she might be mocking him,made him cringe and curse silently. If not his father's nonsense punishment, he wouldn't be here cleaning up this mess.

"Cockroaches!!." The little witch screamed and jumped on him.

For a moment, time stood still for Derek.

He had been fast enough to catch her, more of a reflex action. But the feelings that assailed him made him immobile. They were so foreign and unacceptable to him.

Her scent was so intoxicating, a mixture of finely brewed coffee smell, plus chocolate and some sweet flowery he couldn't explain.

"Mate!" Maru said.

"No no" Derek thought. He couldn't have anything to do with this witch. It was cool he could communicate with his wolf since he was 16, a feat that pleased his father much. It was a rare gift, and it was believed that the so wolf would be very powerful. But not this, He can't deal with a human mate. He would wait till he was 18 in a month time for his initiation ceremony, to confirm this. But then, his body had a mind of it's own. He found himself holding her so tightly to himself while stepping around the broken plates on the floor.

Looking down, he found a couple of cockroaches running around, and smiled. The little witch was scared of cockroaches. His smile metamorphosed to a full blown laughter.

This seemed to catch Emma who had found Derek's body more comfortable than her bed for reasons unknown to her. She cursed herself silently, and tapped Derek to drop her, which he did, ungracefully. He dropped her like she was a bag of onions on the floor. She looked up to see him smirking.

"We're even now" He said

Emma cursed again, and tried standing up, but her legs which were sprawled on the floor were numb and couldn't move.

Derek seeing that she was actually hurt, felt bad too. He could feel his wolf annoyance at what he had done. And so he stretched his hand towards her, hoping that she would drop her big pride and take it. She did, to his relief and stood up, staring at him.

They looked at each other intensely,still holding hands until Shane came in.

" The boys are here". He said

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Chương 5: MATE!! II

Shane watched the duo in front of him spring apart at his voice, and smiled. He remembered they were holding hands when he walked into the kitchen and concluded that this would be the beginning of an interesting affair, which he would be delighted to watch.

He couldn't wait to see his soon to be alpha smitten over a human girl, although he couldn't help but wonder whether she was his mate or he was just attracted to her. Whichever one, he hasn't ever looked at a girl twice, so this drama would be too sweet to miss, Shane concluded.

He had watched her trip Derek, and the look on Derek's face when Clem touched her. And one thing he was so sure about was that, the girl intrigued Derek. Damn! She intrigued him too. She had looked so hot when she performed that acrobatics on Derek. So hot.

Looking at them now, both scratching their necks nervously, he chuckled.

When Derek heard Shane chuckling, he cursed silently as he knew that Shane wouldn't let him be when they got home. His gamma was a damn teaser.

He looked at Emma to see her staring at the ceilings. If he didn't know what had happened earlier between them, he would have thought she was really interested in the ceilings. But he knew, and he was again intrigued by this strange girl.

No other girl has caught his fancy, maybe because they were all busy fawning over him. He had never dated, just flings here and there. But the new human girl, Emma, intrigued him. He even feels weird around her, and Maru even confirms her as his mate.

"But Father wouldn't approve this" Derek muttered to himself. Knowing that although the mate bond was something honorable, his father might ask him to reject her, because she's a human. He wouldn't want a weak mate for the pack. They had a lot of upcoming battles to fight, especially with the White wind pack, and a human Luna might be a liability instead of a help to him.

Emma looked down from the ceilings that she had suddenly found interesting to see Derek mutter continuously to himself, and wished she could know what was going in his mind. She watched how his lips moved, and for a second there was an alien thirst within her to taste it. It was an impulse, but a strong one.

"No no," Emma muttered. The guy was a jerk. There's no way it could happen.

But in no time at all, her eyes found its way to Derek's lips. And this time around, his eyes caught hers, and she looked elsewhere. Damn those deep blue eyes, Emma cursed silently. His eyes were the deepest shade of blue she had ever seen.

She looked up to see Shane still chuckling, and thought she was doubly doomed. Now some one else caught in on the tension. Fucking great! Emma muttered.

" Derek, what are you saying? Should we start up " He had asked.

"Yeah, there's a lot to be done" Derek replied.

Emma wondered what she would be doing as the guys worked, she didn't know how to clean. But Derek saved her from the uncomfortable thought plaguing her.

"Emma, you could take a stroll around, just get around to know the place, and maybe get us some food if you're not cold-hearted" He had said, with a funny look on his face, obviously taunting her.

Emma loved the way her name sounded on his lips, and maybe that was why she had bit back her reply, which she knew would be so sacarstc, and just replied in affirmative. This seemed to suprise him, Emma noticed. Taking in his widened eyes and scrunched up eyebrows, she smiled, a little. It felt so good knocking him off the balance.

She skipped around the broken plates on the floor and left the two guys in the kitchen, knowing fully well that they were watching her keenly as she went. This made her nervous, and she faltered on her steps as she walked towards the master bedroom, where she had kept her purse when she was touring the room on her arrival to the house earlier.

As she went, she whispered greetings to the new guys that came around to help. They responded to her greetings with looks of open curiousity. A look, she noticed on Derek's face earlier, including Clem, and she wondered why. But they were all handsome,she thought, but not more handsome than…

'No no,' Emma rubbed her forehead.

"You shouldn't be thinking of him like that, he's the enemy" She peptalked herself as she went, but her mind had its own will. 'His lips,his voice, his strength as he held her, his… no no," Emma mused, cutting of her thought.

"The new human girl is quite beautiful and unpredictable. Don't you think so?" Shane queried Derek, as Emma left.

" Yeah, she is" Derek muttered. He had been so sure of a comeback from her when he had indirectly called her a cold hearted. But she had just replied in affirmative. He wondered what stopped her, and realized in a jerking speed, that he had wanted her comeback so much.

"She's so intriguing too. Don't you think so?" Shane continued smiling.

" Yeah" Derek replied. He knew that Shane wouldn't give up, and could easily tire him out if he doesn't reply.

"Do you think she is a spy? You know this area is only reserved for us. Would you tell your father?" Shane asked worriedly now.

Derek looked up at his friend, and affirmed thoughtfully that it would be a problem if his father finds out that a human was staying around the area reserved for werewolves specially. And suprisingly he didn't want the little witch to face his father's questioning gaze, he felt protective of her.

"That's because she's our mate" Maru said tiredly.

"I don't know that. But I will, in a month time" He thought back.

" But I've already confirmed it. You would rather wait till you're 18 in a month time? What of if someone else claims her then? Perhaps another human? Maru asked

The thought of another guy with the little witch made Derek growl.

"Hey, why are you growling?" Shane asked, walking closer to him.

" Nothing, just thought of something" Derek replied, suprised that he had actually growled loudly.

"What? You thought of her and Clem right?" Shane asked, smiling.

Derek scoffed.

" Clem wouldn't dare" He said, now growling again unknowingly.

" You like her then" Shane commented with a smirk

"Yes I…" Derek paused, and glared at Shane who was now walking out of the kitchen laughing. He roughed his hairs widely, and cursed himself silently, for he knew deep down that the new girl had already laid a hold on his heart. He liked her. The acknowledgement of this made him curse again.

"Traitor heart" He muttered, as he walked out of the kitchen.