Hah... sometimes I wonder why I didn't die at my birth.. If I won’t have been born my pack and my family wouldn’t have been killed... and the triplets wouldn't grow up without their parents and pack... And for sure I wouldn't be bothering Alpha Dalton and Luna Merlya to adopt us... or more like becoming our tutors. „Hey! I'm talking with you! „ I was so deep in in my thoughts that I didn't even notice that Thomas stopped the car and grabbed my shoulder untill he yelled at me. „I-I apologize alpha.. I-I was to deep in my thoughts and I didn’t heard what you were saying..” „I saw that.” I didn’t expect him to talk so calm to me after he yelled at me. And I wasn’t expecting him to touch my cheeks again. „I asked you if you're okey. Are you cold? You are shaking all over.”

He put his other hand on my forehead, making my heart to beat faster. Why is he doing all this for me? He usually doesn't even talk to me when it comes to seeing each other the city or when he is going past my house. And with him touching my face, I was again lost in my thoughts. Why? Because suddenly I woke up with a huge leather jacket over my shoulders. I look in the direction of Thomas who immediately turns his head back to the road. „I don't want to have a sick wolf next to me. Be careful not to get sick, do you understand?” I nodded and turn my head back to watch out of the window.

After the semafor's light turned green and a few good minutes of driving passed, we got to a cake shop. Wait.. I know this cake shop !! It's the one in front of.. Oh no! We are in the area where I work! No no no!!! I don't want Alpha Thomas to know where I work!! Suddenly I feel a hand that pulls me out of the car in bride style, then put me down and pulls me into the cake shop. „Ih.. sometimes I think you're deaf...”

He tells me to stay near the door as long as he goes to ask for the order. I look at him as he goes to Mrs. Clark, the owner, who is at the counter. He tells her he has an order made up of two enormous cakes and a bunch of cookies, other sweets and snacks made by her. She smiles at him and told him she will bring them immediately. After a few minutes, her son and nephew bring everything Thomas had in his order and after that he takes the two heavy cakes, telling me to take the bags with the rest. When I got the bags off the counter, Mrs. Clark greets my friend. I greet her politely, taking the bags and heading to the car with them.

Thomas tells me to leave them on the back seats until he pays. I do as he told me, then I'm dragged to the winery near Mr. Clark where Mr. Smith works. A sympathetic old man who owns the best winery in the town. After he will die, he will leave his grandfather's business to his nephews, who want to expand the business. When he sees me, he smiles under his mustache, then looks back at Thomas who begins to tell him what wines and champagne he wants to buy. After Mr. Smith's grandchilds help Thomas to load all those bottles in the car, Thomas pays everything. Then he takes my hand and he drags me on the other side of the street and when I saw where we're going I feel like I could die in that moment.

We are going in the place where I work! No no no!!! This is the biggest nightmare that I can live! Okay... Beside the other big nightmares.. But let's forget I said that... We entered the salon and the first person we saw was one of my bosses, Clarisse Beamer. She is the best hair stylist in the salon. „Hello! What can I do...” Then she have seen me and she made a pause bifore she continued her sentence. „...to help you?” „I would like to talk to mister Bane about mating tattoos.” Mating tattoos? What are those? „Of course. Sylver !! You have a client, buddy!!”

„Coming!” the one of my other bosses comed running to the reception desk. „Hello! Sylver Bane, nice to meet you! What can I do for you?” The he saw me and wanted to say hi and hug me, but he is interrupted by Clarisse. Thank goddess she didn’t let him come near me! If he started to act like he always does around me, Thomas wound have suspected that I know this place! „This gentleman wants to talk to you about some mating tattoos. Why don't you get to a table to talk until I make some cups of tea and coffee?” and with that poor Sylver got scared by her. Why? Because she was smiling, but not her eyes too. „Of course! But I want...” „I know. You want a cappuccino with no sugar and coffee condiment.” She stoped him from talking again, then looked at me and Thomas. „What can I get for you two?”

„A glass of water is enough for me. But give him a tea to warm up, please.” And he checked if his jacked was on my shoulders. Is still weird to have him so.. I dont know.. Worryed for me?! I can’t put my finger on what is going on with him! „Of course! Until you two talking, how about you cutie come with me to give you that warm tea? Here's the air conditioning so we don't want you to get sick.” And with that, Clarisse pushed Sylver to go with Thomas but not before tell him at his ear to be silent and not to talk about me.

Then she took me in the kitchen of our salon and made some warm tea for me. After the tea it's done she takes the cup and put it in my hands, but not before taking me in a big hug. „Oh Marky! You are cold like an iceberg! And you are shacking like a gelatine!” „Sorry...” I bowed my head because I don’t want to worry anyone.. And Clarisse, Sylver and our boss know about my health from docter Jinx. So they are always with their eyes on me to be sure that I won’t be hurt. And that makes me feel like a rock on their shoulders... „Sweety.. It's nothing! Don’t worry so much! I realized after your scared look that you don't want that guy to know anything about this place. To understand well, he is the future alpha of the Wild pack?” „Y-Yes ...” „Is he your secret lover~?”

After she asked that I started to blush a little and told her that he isn’t! She thought that we were together here for those mating tattoos, but I told her that he just wanted me to help him with the shopping for the party. She look at me with a big smile on her face and put her heand on my head. „It will be okay, don't be afraid. I'm just gonna make Sylver wash the dishes if he can't shut his mouth.” The she got on the level of my face and told me „If that guy hurts you, tell me as fast as you can and I’ll kick his alpha butt! No one make our little ice fairy cry!” I smiled at her words and took her heand in mine. „Thanks Clary.. I appreciate..”

„Anything for our diamond! Now drink the tea to warm up until I get the cup of coffee and water of water to the boys. Ah, and if you're here, go a little to the boss’s office. He wants to tell you something important!” she winked at me and with that she went to the other room.

I was left alone to drink my tea and of course, she made me the plants tea that helps me not to get an ugly cold and that it's making me calm down. It really works and after I finished my tea, I went to my boss's office but somebody took my arm and draged me in the opposite direction. „Lets go. I finished tolking with mister Bane.” It is Thomas who just ended his discussion with Sylver. „Don't worry mister Wilson. I will give this request to our best tattoo designer. He will sure surprise you. He always managed to satisfy our clients expectations.” And the silver haired boy looked at me with a soft smile on his face. Oh dear goddess.. This day can be even worse? „Thanks. Please tell him to call me when the drawings are ready.”

And with that being sayed, we exit the building and got back in his car. Thomas tells me to put my belt faster and after I put it he starts the car and leads back to the pack. I try to stay silent all the way back home, but my curiosity got bigger so I risked and open my mouth with the hope of not annoying or angry him. I don’t want to make him throw me out of the car. „A-Alpha Thomas ..? Can I ask you something ..?” „Talk” „W-Why did we go to that salon?” He looked at me for a second then he look back at the road. „Because that guy is the only one in our neighborhood that makes mating tattoos. He is one of the few once that are making those from his pack.” R-Really? Even since I joined them at the salon I’ve never heard of ‚mating tattoos’. „You didn't know?” I turned my head to Thomas who was looking at me again. „N-No.. I didn't know that after finding our mate we have to make some mating tattoos...” then he started to explain me that those tattoos shows the unity bewteen mates beside the mating marks and that those tattoos dispar once your mate dies.

So.. That means Mister Wilton doesn’t have his mating tattoo anymore..? That is sad... really sad.. „I thought your parents told you when you were little about those things” „Ha..? N-No... They didn't told me that... I think they didn’t had the chance to talk with me about those matters.. Thank you for answering my question Alpha Thomas.” I turn my gaze back to the window, looking at the buildings that disappear quickly behind us. Now that he mentioned my parents... I miss them again... And the rest of my pack... All of them... I would like they could be here with me... Especially when I'll be eighteen years old... Although I'm sure I won't find my mate... I mean, who would like a soul mate that has no pack, no family and could die any second... A cruel killer.. Yeah, some members of the Wind pack called me a ciminal,the one who killed all the IceSnow pack. But I won't forget that night. I will never forget his face.. What he did to my family. After I'm sure the triplets will be able to live without me, I'm going to start looking for taking my revenge. He will not remain unpunished.

„Don't get the jacket down until we get back to your house.” Thomas sttle better his jacket again on my the shoulders while we are waiting for the green light of the semaphore. „You should wear much more warm clothes if you knew you were getting a cold.” He closed the jacket zipper before checking if I’m still cold. „I-I didn't thought I'll catch a cold... But it's always happens to me when outside are over 15 degrees..” It’s true.. Because in my pack’s land were low temperatures, we were used to cold weather. If we went to a place were was a higher temperature we could catch a cold. „Strange.. But be careful next time.”

Shortly after our little conversation, we arrived in front of my house. I got out of the car, thanking Thomas for allowing me to join him. Oliver was already outside playing with the triplets. When they saw me, they ran directly to me, jumping into my arms. I catched them and hold them to my chest. What? I'll do this until I won't be able to get them up in my arms. Nobody stops me from doing this. But something made me look for a second at Thomas and I saw that he was watching me with a little blush on his face. Wait what?! H-He is blushing?! H-How cute..

„Oliver come on! We have to go back home!” Thomas told his best friend and Oliver looked back at the game he was playing with my siblings, then back at Thomas. „Oh, come on. I just managed to win one game!” he look at Thomas with puppy eyes, making me and my siblings laught at his childish behavior. „Come on. You can play with them again tomorrow at the party.” Oliver didn’t trop his puppy look until my siblings wento to him and gived him a bug hug. „Bye bye, Beta Oliver! We will play tomorrow! After all, what it’s a party without games!” They smiled at Oliver, making him hug them back. „Bye bye, little ones!” After they hugged, I thanked Oliver for taking care of my little ladybugs, then I sayed my goodbyes to them. Oliver waved me before getting in Thomas’s car, then the alpha turned his head at me before he looked back at his car. „B-Bye Mark.See you tommorrow. Don’t forgot what we talked about.” And with that he started the care and went home.

„Big brother? Will you take a nap with us?” Jun asked me with a sleepy face. „Yeah. We played so much with Beta Oliver that we got really tierd..” LingMyn continued. I nodded and went inside the house starting to get us all ready for a nap time together.

Thomas’s P.o.v.

„Okay.. So what was with that? You usualy don’t even greet him. Nor look at him!” Oliver looked at me with a confused face. „Not even I don’t know what I was doing.. I don’t know what was wrong with me all day!” I yelled, trying to focus on the road. „What do you mean by that?” „I mean that I don’t know why I’ve comed here in the first place! I could have just get back to my room instead of doing what dad told me! I could just leave after I told him that dad forced me to take him tomorrow at the party and left without an other word. I could have not just ask him to come with me to get those thinks for the party! I don’t fucking know what is wrong with me!” I yelled and went a little faster because I just want to get home and scream in a pillow! „Wow! Easy buddy! Mabye you just start to like him a little.After all those years you should think again about the subject ‚Mark being a part of the pack’.”

I sigh and parked the car in front of the pack’s house. „Hah, mabye.. Now I just want to take a warm bath and sleep a little..” „Do what you want, man. But don’t over think. Tomorrow is the big day!” Yeah.. The big day. I’ll be eighteen years old and I’ll find my mate. I don’t really mind if it’s a girl or a boy. Just not to be someone that will hurt my people. I want to treasure and protect my mate, to love him or her.. I want to have a big family and be a great alpha. That is all I want. Hah.. Hope nothing bad will happen...