CEO's Runaway Mate and Her Cubs

Chapter 363: In neutral territory

Nate observed how Renato Cannella could hug Samantha and drag her further from him. Not just that she didn't knock him out, but she didn't even break free from his clench.

He also noticed how the man would hug her tightly, bow so that his face was closer to her and his lips a few millimetres from her ear before talking. He was playing a game: he was seducing Samantha out of fighting!

That was the power of an Alpha's mate, and Samantha wasn't the first to fall into the trap. Nate knew his father would always concede when his mother asked, and she would hold his hand while making a difficult request because it made it harder to refuse.

He took note of everything, from their skin contact to the way both felt at ease together.

He could ask Samantha to tell Lara about it. She would do the same, right? He couldn't wait for her to find out about the Alpha's mate wily spells and use them on him. He would pay all he had for that!

He bit his lower lip before smiling at the thought. It was the wrong moment to smile. After meeting Samantha and, even more, after seeing how things were unfolding, he didn't feel any tension from the battle.

It was a little annoying to look at the lovebirds in front of him. The couple had barely any wits to notice he was still there, and their concern was all on their own world.

«You're happy here, aren't you?» Nate asked.

If his cousin could smile while living in an unstable pack, who was he to complain? She was keeping the remains of Mayford together, and her presence would ensure Polenta didn't come back.

Well, that he wouldn't take his previous place. As for coming back, it didn't have anything to do with Samantha but only with that man's broken brain.

«I don't know, Nate. I've been here for two days only. How can I know whether I'm happy? My mate is still recovering from the wounds you caused him, and this pack is on the verge of collapse.»

«But you look good even in this situation. It is as if you found your place in the world.»

«Is that so?»

«You can't hide or run away from your true mate. It's pointless and uselessly painful. Just continue being with him, and build a place that you'll like. Even in this pack, if it suits you.»

«You're saying this as a cousin or as the Alpha of my former pack?» she asked, tilting her head.

«I'm talking as an Alpha,» he murmured. «From Alpha to Alpha.»

She didn't need to hide anymore because no one could feel endangered by her. If anything, the wolves from Mayford seemed to trust her. And, if she managed to send Nate back, she would have received even more respect.

With that in mind, Nate talked again.

«Shall we have a drink together?» he asked.

Samantha shook her head and rolled her eyes. Coming in for a coffee still meant walking on the road of the pack.

«I mean, another time and in another place,» Nate added.

«Oh, then it's fine.»

«A neutral place.»

«Okay,» Samantha accepted, shrugging.

Why neutral? It's not like she had taken a side or joined a pack. She was neutral anywhere in the world, wasn't she?

«Then, see you...» Nate said before leaving. He turned and signalled to the soldiers to walk back. They left the place and returned to the cars.

«Are we really leaving?» one of the soldiers asked. Maybe, it was just a distracting manoeuvre, and they were attacking from the back. Or waiting for the Moon to reveal itself.

«We're going home. Polenta isn't here, and he won't come back without us knowing. We're getting back to the start with the research,» Nate said.

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He sighed, already feeling the endless hours of work the tech team had in front of them. Polenta was good at hiding, especially for someone who despised human technologies and didn't know how to use them all that much.

«Why is Samantha with them?» a younger soldier asked his companion, talking in a whisper yet being heard by everyone.

«I don't know,» the other muttered, elbowing him. Where was the brat's brain? Talking like that in front of the Alpha? He was dumb!

«But she was one of us! What is going on? She didn't help with the attack either...»

«That was our Alpha's decision.»

«A wise decision, considering the outcome. Moreover, she is with that man, with Cannella.»

«Yes, she is,» the older soldier sighed. It was late to save the brat either way.

«How do you think they met?»

«I don't know. And I won't inquire. My place isn't to gossip.»

«Oh, but you want to know as much as me!»

The soldier shrugged, not knowing what else to say.

«Alpha Nate would often bring Samantha with him to those business meetings. Maybe that's when it happened. They are both right-hand men. They helped their Alphas through their life, and now neither of them has an Alpha anymore. One because of fate, and the other... I don't know, because of love?»

«Love is scary,» the young soldier said.

He could see the sales agents courting the girls from the secretarial department, but he was happy he got out of there in time and went to fight. Women were complicated, and wolf females even more than humans.

«You think so because you don't know what you miss,» his friend said. «And because the girls don't look at you twice.»

«Hey, they look!» he complained. «That's my problem. They look more than twice. Don't they have their business to mind?»

«Oh, you immature brat...» he laughed, shaking his head.

Nate observed his wolves, amused by the show. The pack needed explanations about Samantha, and he would have told them everything not too personal. There was no need to think she betrayed them.

«Let's go,» he said, getting in the first car.