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Alaric stopped moving closer to her when he felt like he was close enough. Which meant he was close enough to smell her scent that over filled him and touch her if he wanted to do so. Sometimes he didn’t give a shit about the rules especially like right now. Not when all Alaric really wanted to do was reach out and touch her. Fuck. He loved her. He couldn’t deny that. He loved her more than his own life. Times like this he wish that he knew what she was feeling. And it was hard for him not to know. Which was why he wanted to see her to begin with. He was done with this little guessing game. Alaric had to know.

Nodding his head slowly, he gave the best small smile that he could. “It really is. Sometimes I just run while it’s nights like this.” He admitted. 

It was hard to be around her and not touch her in some way. Sometimes he hated this life of theirs. All of this would be easier if both were human.

Neither of them would have to fight this or fight this hard.

When she offered him a sit, he moved over to the bench and sat next to her. As close as he could possible get. His knee brushing against hers. “Sorry.” He spoke with a small smile, acting as if it was an accident. “So Ms. Angelova, the floor is all yours. What was that meeting about?” He questioned, raising a brow slightly. Honestly he didn’t care about it because they were getting time together right now.

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It wasn’t as if she could even tell him and then compel him to forget. A werewolf was immune to vampiric abilities such as that. Instead, Katerina was doomed to have her emotions magnified and suffer silently. She was unable to open up to anyone about it, lest it get out to the wrong person and have him killed. Even if he felt the same, it was doomed. Katerina had to be the one to be strong. 

Even if everything in her screamed to act. 

The simple act of his leg bumping hers had every muscle in her body tensing and she drew away. Her hand brushed his knee in an attempt to shield herself with the padding of her skirts. The only exception to a woman in her position being alone with a man was her immortality. “I believe Gospodin Black and I established something of a rapport on tightening boundaries. There have been whispers of rogue wolves near the territory. The last thing we all need is an attack.” Keeping her tone light was nearly impossible. Had she been human, her tone would waver. “It’s mainly been spotted on your side and the security concern is there.”

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Honestly he wished he had a reason for why Katerina took his breathe away, and made his heart beat faster and slower at the same time. It shouldn’t. But it did. She bewitched him somehow. Sometimes he wished it was someone else that made him feel this way but it wasn’t. It was her. Staying away from her had to be for the best, but he couldn’t help how he felt even without being around her. It hurt to be away from her.

Alaric continued to move closer to her. He couldn’t help it. Because well he wanted to be around her, even if it was for a short time. God. He knew right then and there that he couldn’t stay away from her any longer nor did he actually want to.

“I don’t blame you for that. It is awful peaceful.” He commented. “Sometimes it’s nice to run in the rain.” Alaric couldn’t help but smile over at her for a moment. God, her smile made him smile. It made him happy just to see her in this moment. Even if he had come out here to get away from his own thoughts and feelings as well. But yet here she was and he wasn’t complaining at all.

“It’s alright and completely understandable. I too had something come up that I could not cancel. Alpha stuff.” That sounded really lame now that he said it out loud. But yet it was there. “Shall we just do the meeting now?”

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Katerina wanted to tell Alaric to stop coming closer. She wanted to run, anything to keep herself from doing something she would later regret. Giving in wasn’t an option. He would be killed simply for the fact that she loved him and, oh, did she love him. The love she nurtured was different than that of Ivan or of her sire. This made her ache. It was impossible to tell if he loved her the same or if she conjured this in her psyche. Running from her feelings would no longer suffice, not if she wanted to actually retain peace between two packs and her clan. This sort of behavior was cowardly and unbecoming of a queen. 

Katerina could hear his heartbeat, a solid thud in his broad chest, and her tongue slipped over her lower lip. “It is. It’s peaceful and cleansing,” she agreed. 

Every step Alaric took towards her, she felt her chest squeeze that much more. If she was human, it would have made her knees buckle. For once, she loathed her immortality.

If I were human, it wouldn’t have mattered. I wouldn’t have to fight so hard.

Her fingers bunched into her skirts as he drew nearer. In some other lifetime, she could be with him. When they were apart, it was torture. When they were together, it hurt even worse. “We can,” she answered. She slid to one side of the bench to offer him the opposite side and could only pray that they wouldn’t touch. 

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This alliance that Alaric had formed with Katerina and the Stone Alpha had went surprisingly well. At first he was worried that they wouldn’t be able to get along. But the three of them worked together so very well. So much that Alaric started thinking. Bringing both of the packs together might not be that bad of an idea. The pack would be much bigger than anyone could imagine and they would all protect each other. Like a family. Maybe his intentions of bringing them all together were honorable. But his intentions to spend more time with Katerina weren’t. He had broken a rule, a law. He fell in love with the vampire.

They could never fall in love, it was the law. But yet here they, somewhere along the way he had fallen in love with her. Of course he did his best not to let show but he failed in that department. Especially with the subtle glances that he tosses Katerina’s way. Plus something happened whenever he was near her. Something that he couldn’t deny was drawing him towards her.

Honestly he was glad that others were around because being alone with her was too much at times. Even if he craved their alone time. But they couldn’t do anything right? The Order would definitely put a stop to it. There was a big part of him that just wanted to give in. Give into his desires and wants for once. But it was also her choice as well. And he would respect whatever Katrina decided to do about them. If she wanted to ignore it. Then that is what Alaric would do as well.

Moving among the outskirts, that was when he noticed the brunette. Giving in to himself, he decided to follow her.That was when he noticed the little garden and her sitting there alone. And he couldn’t help but stare a little bit. God, she was so beautiful. He moved forward and that was when he broke the twig under his boot. He hadn’t meant to do that. 

“Good evening, Katerina.” Her name rolled off his tongue with such ease. “Just taking a walk actually. What about you?” 

His heart had started pounding faster the moment that she finally noticed him. And he couldn’t help that.

Why did it have to be him? Why not the Black alpha? Katerina could handle seeing Jeremiah Black, but not Alaric Stone. Having Jeremiah didn’t send her heart leaping to her throat, but Alaric took away her ability to breathe in a way she had never experienced. Staying away had been her only option, even if it killed her to. 

Her fingers twisted into the material of her dress as he edged closer and she swallowed hard. Don’t come any closer, she wanted to beg. Her resistance was so weak and she was on the verge of breaking. Everything in her begged to.

“I love being out here at this time. Just before a storm when the air is thick and it’s about to rain,” she replied with a small smile. The air had been so warm and so humid, the area was overdue for one. It was a lie, of course. Her intention had been to search for a reprieve that could distract her from her feelings and thoughts. 

“I’m sorry I had to...reschedule our meeting. Something came up and I simply couldn’t get out of it.” Another lie. This was around the time they had been supposed to meet to begin with. 

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The first thing Katerina had ever done right in the eyes of The Order was investing in an actual pack versus a solitary werewolf as a guard. One werewolf was easy to pick off, but an entire pack took work and two packs meant she was well-protected. Working with said packs meant lots of face time with both the Black alpha and the Stone alpha, the latter of whom someone she had decidedly tried to not spend too much time alone. After all, she won the favor of The Order by making a smart decision. The last thing she needed to do was expose that she had broken the oldest of laws, one that would end in one of their demises.

A vampire could never love a werewolf and she did. Katerina had somehow along the way fallen in love with Alaric. She’d consider herself crazy to entertain the idea that it was mutual, but the subtle glances her way and the way the air seemed to thicken every time she was near him meant something.

Instead of being alone with him, she kept another wolf with them or cut their solo meetings down to the barest of necessities. Even now, she had shirked their previous meeting. Her only reprieve from it all came from her daily walks around the territory, through the woods and into the little garden she had made for herself. Mauve Angel Face roses, smoky purple Ebb Tide roses, the delicate daisies, fragrant lavender, all of them seemingly took away her worries.

Katerina took her seat on the worn chair she’d had fashioned specifically for this place, shuffling the long blue skirt of her dress aside. The sound of twigs snapping in the distance caught her attention and she looked up to see Alaric standing in the mouth of the entrance.

“Zdraveĭte, Gospodin Stone,” she greeted. “What brings you here?”

And God, if her heart wasn’t in her throat when she saw him.

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