Walking inside I see Anastasia walking towards me. Her presence has an immediate calming effect on me which I hadn’t realized before.
“You’re back, how was it?”
“Okay, nothing happened,” I reply with a shrug and then turn as I see Einar walking past, “Einar,” I call but he continues walking, what the hell is up with all these assholes today.
“What’s wrong?” Anastasia asks as she steps forward and places her hand on my chest.
“I need them to agree to help finish the flat, only like that will your parents be able to come and visit.” I see her eyes widen in surprise.
“Wow, how long have you been back? News really travels fast.” I lift my hand and place it around the back of her neck, pulling her forward I kiss her. I had a calmer life before Anastasia, I didn’t have flats to build or worry about being home every day, but I also didn’t have meaning in my life. Anastasia Is a handful, but she is courageous and caring. If she wants her parents here, then I will make sure that her parents come to visit, I just hope they don’t stay long.
I lift my head seeing the blush that has tinged her cheeks, “Long enough,” I mutter as I turn to go find Einar.
“Ulrich,” I stop looking back at her, “don’t worry about the flat, if it’s not ready they can always stay in Town, I phoned them today to say that I was staying here.” I feel my stomach tighten at her words, turning back to her I wait for her to continue.
“I also told them that I am with you.”
“I’m sure they are thrilled to know that you are with a biker,” I mutter knowing what the consensus are among the population about bikers.
“Umm, well I didn’t really tell them what you did but they will find out when they see you and they will see what a good man you are.” At her words I grin, that is one thing they definitely won’t think when they meet me.
“Really, they are going to think I’m a good man?” I ask with an amused grin, which has her slapping my chest playfully.
“Yes, they are because I’m going to tell them you are, and you are going to do everything in your power to show them the man that hides behind all the bluster.” I grin in amusement at her words. We really do have rose coloured glasses when it comes to our mates.
“I will be on my best behaviour,” I quip.
“I will make sure that you are,” she says with a playful glare, “now don’t worry about the flat, I will get the guys to help. I am quite persuasive when I want to be.” I frown at her statement; I don’t know how much I want my woman cosying up to my brothers trying to persuade them to help her.
“How are you going to persuade them?” The thoughts that explode in my mind have my body tensing in anger. Instead of appeasing me she winks which just has my imagination rioting. “No,” I mutter.
“Don’t be silly, I will be much better at getting them to help you than you are.” She rises up on her tiptoes and kisses my lips, “I will just tell them that if they don’t help ill freeze them while they sleep.” I pull my head back and look down at her in surprise only to realize that she is teasing me, this is one side of Anastasia that I haven’t met before, a side that interests me. I know that she likes to tease me, but I thought that would only be sexually, looks like my life has just become more interesting.
“Don’t ever try to make me jealous, you know what happens with that.” That was the first time she called me a caveman, but the thought of her finding any other man to her liking has me seeing red.
“Yes, I know, but you should also know that there is no reason to be jealous,” she says with a gentle smile. She lifts her hand, her soft skin like silk against my unshaven jaw as she strokes my cheek. “When you found me I was slowly starting to give up on hope that I would ever find a way out of what life threw at me, but then you exploded into my life and you have shown me a different way of seeing things. A way of life that I never imagined myself living, I was dormant, aware of everything around me but not letting myself live it.” Looking down at this woman before me I know that I love her completely, I might never be the man that she wants me to be, but I will always try to be the man she needs.
“You bring life back into my soul, I always felt that I was only existing, but you have erupted into my life showing me another way of living, a way that has washed away my fears and blossomed with new opportunities.” I see her eyes mist up with tears, “what I’m trying to say is that for the first time in my life I know that I’m in love and even though I know that we are explosive together I know that I wouldn’t want it any other way.”
Hearing her say those words, words that I wasn’t expecting to hear from her so soon as I realized earlier on that Anastasia hides her feelings has me pulling her firmly against me as I crash my lips down on hers. We still have uncertainties ahead of us when it comes to the trafficking of women, it will be a long track to try and find the source of the trafficking operation, but we will chip away at it one go at a time.
What is important now is that I have found my mate, I have found a woman that isn’t scared to stand up to me, that fights my fire with her ice, that is prepared to change everything in her life for us and that stands by me with all my differences. Anastasia is a rare gem among the pebbles, and I have been issued with her protection, with the responsibility of loving her and making sure that our future is long and happy.
“I love you Vixen, and I am happy to be mated.”
THE END.