“Angyl its Ok baby, your fine, you’re safe, I won't hurt you.”
“Mommy.” Nathan said sounding like he was going to cry.
“Mommy’s fine sweetie, mommy just got really dizzy.” Angyl said, trying to sound strong. She smiled up at her son.
“Ok mommy, I love you.”
“I love you too.” Angyl said while she calmed down.
Nathan then turned to Ace. “Spin me now, spin me.”
“You want me to spin you.” Ace laughed.
“Yes, yes, yes, pleeeaaasse spin me.”
“Ok.” Ace said as he picked Nathan up and spun him. Nathan giggled with glee as Ace spun him, then put him down.
“See mommy, it's Ok to get dizzy, it's fun.” Nathan said matter of factly.
“You’re right; I guess mommy was just being silly.” Angyl said, glad that her son had been side tracked from her emotions.
“Hey sweetie, what do you want to do today after mommy’s off of work.”
“Oh, you gotta go to work today.” Nathan said sounding sad.
“Mommy’s working here today, so when she goes on breaks, she can come spend them with you.”
“Really mommy?” Nathan said sounding excited.
“Yes, really baby.”
“Yay can we go to the zoo when you’re off of work?” Nathan asked.
“Yes we can go to the zoo.”
“Can Ace come mommy?”
“I don’t know honey, Ace might be busy.” Angyl said “I don’t think we should......” Angyl started to say when Ace interrupted her.
“First, I’m not busy and second I would love to go to the zoo with you both.” Ace said smiling at them both.
“YAY!” Nathan yelled jumping up and down with excitement.
Angyl smiled at her son then turned and said thank you to Ace before she looked at her son and said. “Nathan baby, Ace’s sister is coming over to watch you now.”
“Who's Ace's sister, mommy? Is she fun?”
“Yes, my sister is very fun and she loves playing games. Do you know any games to play with her?”
“Will she play hide and seek?” Nathan asked getting excited.
“You know, I think that's her favorite game.” Ace said smiling like a kid. Ace knew his sister hated playing hide and seek.
“YAY!” Nathan shouted.
“Thank you Ace, for asking your sister to baby sit.” Angyl said gratefully.
“It was no problem, and she was happy to do it.” Ace said glad that he could make her happy.
Chapter 8
While Angyl, Ace, and Nathan were playing in the yard Abigail showed up, she sat back and just watched them. She had seen when Angyl stiffened up while Ace was spinning her, and saw him mentally kick himself in the ass. She found it funny that he had this much feelings for one woman. She liked Angyl a lot already, and didn't want to see her get hurt. When she had met her that first day she couldn't help care about Angyl from the beginning. After knowing what she had been through, she had respect for the strength Angyl showed with everything going on. Abigail never had female friends, but Angyl was a female that she wanted to be friends with, so when Ace called her to baby sit, she cancelled all the appointments she had and came to watch Angyl's kid.
Now looking at them she could tell from here that Nathan looked like his mom and even from this distance she knew she had just lost her heart to this little boy. It was during her thinking about that, that she heard Ace tell Nathan that she would be there soon, and that her favorite game was hide and seek. She hated that game, but she would play it with Nathan happily. She decided it was time to go over and talk to them.
“Hey guys, having fun?” Abby asked.
“Hey Abby, glad to see you made it. “ Ace said. “Oh and yes we were having fun.”
“I told ya I would be here to watch Nathan.” Abby said exasperated.
“I know.” Ace laughed he liked to get his sister riled up.
“Hi Angyl, I hope you’re having a good day so far.” Abby said looking at Angyl trying to ignore her brother.
“Yes I am.” Angyl said smiling. “This is my son Nathan.”
“Well hi Nathan, my names Abigail, but you can call me Abby if you want.” Abby said with a bright smile for Nathan.
“Hi Abby.” Nathan said with a big grin on his face “You’re pretty, not as pretty as my mommy, but you come in right after my mommy.” Nathan said innocently, well as innocently as any 3 year old.
“Thanks.” Abby said not knowing what else to say.
“You’re welcome.” Nathan said with a big grin.
“Nathan, mommy needs to go to work, I love you sweetie.”
“I love you too mommy, have a good day at work.”
“Ok I will.” Angyl said to her son then she turned to Ace “I need to talk to you.”
“Let's go inside then.” Ace said to Angyl. He then turned towards his sister and Nathan and replied “See you guys later.”
“Abby, Abby, Abby. Let’s play hide and seek outside, you seek first.”
“You hide, I will count to 20.” Abby said “1, 2, 3, 4......”
Ace and Angyl went inside in the middle of Abby counting.
“So what’s up Angyl?”
“I got a call saying I can go through things over at the book store, so I was wondering if you could take me over there. Also before we stop there, can we stop by your attorney’s office so I can get my son in your care, if anything happens to me?”
“Yes we can do that, just let me go get ready, then we can go.”
“Ok.”
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Angyl and Ace were inside the attorney’s office within an hour from when she asked. Now they were sitting, waiting for him to get back with the papers they needed to sign for her will to be official. She made her will simple everything that's hers goes to her son and her son goes to Ace, under the agreement, that he is to take him to her parents at least once a month, and let her son stay a weekend during school seasons. During the summer he is allowed to stay one weekend a month and for one month he is allowed to spend 2 weeks straight during the summer, being able to have fun with them. Ace had already agreed to her terms on the way here, so now it was all written up all they needed to do now was sign. It was in the middle of her thinking to herself about everything that the attorney came back with the papers.
“Angyl, now I want you to look these over and make sure they are correct.” the attorney said.
Angyl looked over them and then said “Yes, they look fine. Where do I need to sign?”
“Well you will sign on this line.” the attorney said. Angyl signed on her line then the attorney turned to Ace and said, “Now you need to look it over and if it's all right, you will sign here.” Ace looked it over then signed his part. He hadn't told Angyl yet but he had already been in here and left everything of his to her and her son. He made sure the attorney knew not to say anything.
“Well that's everything, I will file this for you all, have a nice day.”
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They walked out of the attorney’s office and drove over to the book store. She had her own key and let them in and was frozen for a moment with memories. She snapped out of it and went over to the books and decided to start packing them up into boxes. They had boxes in the back of the store. They packed a copy of each book that was in the store into boxes to take to Ace's home. After she was done packing books and crying she decided that they needed movers to come do the rest of the books, as this was too hard for her to handle.
“Ace will you please find someone to pack everything up, I want them to take the copies of books that are left to another used book store and sell what they can. The rest that won’t sell, please have them donate. They can take their payment out of what they get from the books. I have packed up one copy of each book that we had here already, we will take them to your place and use what you do not have, any that are left after that I will keep for myself. Also I would like them to
pack up everything else and bring it to me so I can go through what can be sold.”
“Yes Angyl, I will have them do all that, let’s get back to the house.” Ace said hurting for Angyl, knowing that there was nothing he can do to help ease her pain.
“Thank you Ace.” Angyl said sniffling.
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They made it back to the house and she decided to quickly go check on her son.
“Hey sweetie are you being good for Abby?” Angyl asked her son.
“Yes mommy, she played hide and seek with me, then fed me breakfast ‘cause I was so hungry.” Nathan said.
“Wow sounds like you guys had fun. What are you guys doing now?”
“We are coloring mommy, Abby said I could make one more picture before nap time, then after nap we will have lunch.”
“Oh that’s awesome little man. I’m going to talk to Abby, then go back to work, can mommy get hugs and kisses.” Angyl said while reaching down to scoop her son up into a big hug and then gave him a kiss. “I love you sweetie.”
“I love you too mommy, I’m going to finish my picture now.”
“Ok honey.” Angyl said as she turned towards Abby and said “Would you like to go to the zoo with us when I am done?”
“Sure.” Abby said.
“Great. I had to go with Ace to do a couple of errands this morning, so I haven't gotten any work done on the library down stairs. Can you keep Nathan busy ‘til around 4 pm, when I would normally get off?”
“Yep, I can do that for you.”
“Oh and Nathan doesn't take naps, I can usually get him to lay down long enough for a movie so pick wisely on what movie. It's probably the only rest you will get.” Angyl said giggling.
“Ah well thanks for the warning, I will make sure I find a long kids movie.” Abby said while laughing. She was thankful for the warning she was already getting wore out.
“I will be back up when I am done; can you both be ready to go by then?”
“Yep, see you later.”
Chapter 9
Angyl had been working the better part of 3 hours straight in the library. She had gotten all the walls painted with a sky blue color with white fluffy clouds spaced here and there to help make the room feel open and comfortable. She had ordered the new book shelves and painted them all a matching green so it would go with the cloud scheme, she had also put in a hard wood floor, and she had also gotten really pretty purple chairs and a couch with side tables. With everything set up where she thought they would work best, Angyl had decided that she was done. She had worked hard getting everything to look just right and she hoped when Ace saw it he would love what she had done.
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Angyl went to find her son and started to feel like someone was watching her. She looked around and didn’t see anyone, so she continued heading to her sons’ room to see if they were all there, when something caught her eyes out the window. She went to look and what she thought she saw scared her more than anything, because perched in a tree was a man who looked like her ex-husband. She blinked and when she looked again he was gone, as she was pondering if she was losing her mind or not she didn’t hear Ace come up behind her, so when he said hi she jumped and screamed.
“Angyl it’s OK. It's just me.” Ace said looking worried.
“Ssssooorrryy.” Angyl said as she tried to calm down. “ Sorry I just thought I saw my ex-husband out there in the tree.”
“Ok, come with me I’ll call the guards to do a perimeter check.” Angyl followed him to his office.
“Yes, this is Ace, I need a perimeter check around all the grounds, mm hmm, Ok, yes. I want you to look for anyone who doesn’t belong. Why didn’t you call me when you picked up a weird scent, I understand, thank you. When you’re done give me a call back.” Ace said. Ace hung up the phone and blew out a frustrated breath.
“What did they say?” Angyl asked sounding nervous.
“Well they first they told me that they have had guards at every entrance and that no one besides my sister has come in that way. Then they told me that they started to smell a sulphurous and blood type smell, like the blood had a trace of sulphur in it. They do not how or even know where it came from. They didn’t call me because they thought that it wasn’t anything, because they went around the perimeter after smelling it and found nothing. Then they told me that they would do a more thorough walk through, now we are just waiting for a call back to see what they find.” Ace relayed back to Angyl.
“Thanks it's probably nothing, but I appreciate you having them look anyways.” Angyl said still freaked out “Wait did you say a sulphurous smell. Every time my ex-husband would seem to get worked up whether horny, angry, sad, pissed it would smell like sulphur in our home. The only time he didn't smell of sulphur was when he was truly happy, I mean completely utterly happy, which was when he would be so absorbed in beating me he lost control, or when he would show me he loved me. I never thought anything of it; I just thought maybe it was where he was working at the time. I never knew what his job was, but I know that when he would get home is when I would smell it the strongest.”
“It's no problem Angyl. As for the sulphurous smell around your husband, I believe that you didn’t smell things from his work, I believe that it was actually your ex-husband.” Ace said as he moved closer to her. He then ran his hand down her face, it started off as him trying to comfort her, but then when he got to her neck he gently put his hand behind her neck, and pulled her towards him and kissed her so softly that she could feel all his desire for her in that one kiss.
“Wwhat?” Angyl stuttered. “How can you know? We haven’t even known each other that long.”
“I have known you long enough to know that I love you, that I love your son, and that I want both of you to live here with me.” Ace said matter of factly.
“III ddon’t kknow wwhat tto ssay tto tthat.” Angyl stuttered because she knew she was falling in love with him, but she felt it was too early, and she needed time to think. It was then that the phones rang.
“Ace here.” he said into the phone, “Ok so you picked up a strong smell of sulphur over by the large tree in the yard. Yes I will call the Were's and see if they know what can cause that. I'll also see if they can get a better smell, so when they get here, please let them in, and send them to see me. Ok thank you.” he hung up the phone then got back on it. “This is Ace. Please get me Axel, its important. Thank you......... Hi Axel it's Ace, I need a favor. Yes in the treaty we signed says that if you agree to the favor I owe you one of equal value and I will pay it back when you are in need of it. Thank you. What I need is for you to send some wolves. My people have smelled something that is not familiar to us and as your noses are stronger and you know a lot more info of what is out there I could really use your help........ Ok I will see you in 2 hours then. Thank you Axel.” Ace said as he again hung up the phone.
“Why is it going to take 2 hours?” Angyl asked.
“They are about to perform a mating ritual. Were's are as ritualistic as we are about their mating rituals. Once a date and time are set they do not do anything ‘til that ritual is over. Their rituals take an hour and a half; I caught Axel just before he was heading to perform the ritual.”
“Why is he performing the ritual?” Angyl said still stunned to learn there were werewolves.
“He is the alpha which means that he has to approve of their mating and has to perform the mating rights ceremony. They then go into wolf form for the last part of the ceremony, where they also share blood to bind each other as mates before they...... Well the last part is private.”
“Oh, Ok. Well what is your mating ritual?”
“Ours doesn’t take as long as theirs, but ours is similar. Here after everything is dealt with I will find you our records so you can read them.”
“Ok.”
“Just so you know I am only permitted to show them to you if we plan on mating.”
“Um, I don’t know.”
“Angyl I’m not asking for you to mate with me now. I just want you to know that, that is our rules.” Ace said feeling like an idiot.
“Ok, but how do they know if we are planning on mating?”
“Well we.... As funny as it sounds we date for one.” Ace said “Also if anyone asks please tell them that you plan to become my mate.”
“Ok.”
“Sorry, I am doing this all wrong. Angyl will you be my possible future mate?”
“Yes.” Angyl said breathless.
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