The Silent Alpha

Chapter 68: Preparations 

***Zane*** 

"Please marry me,"

Talia repeats, her eyes full of tears as she sets Kota down on the floor.

"W-what?" I ask, unsure if I just imagined her proposal.

She steps on the tips of her toes, cupping my cheeks in her warm, soft hands and repeating the most wonderful words to ever leave her lips.

"I love you," she murmurs, my heart pounding against my chest as I struggle to hold back my own tears.

"And I just realized that I’m going to wake up tomorrow...And you won’t be there," she shrugs with a sad smile on her face.

"And that scares me," she whimpers softly.

"Because I-I don’t ever want to wake up without you.I want your face to be the last face I see at night and the first one I see every morning...for the rest of my life." I can’t seem to gather my thoughts and for once, Grayson is as useless as I am.

"I used to be so afraid of your love," she whimpers.

"But now I fear living without it.Please marry me, Zane,"

Talia whispers, gently brushing her lips against mine as sparks tingle across my face.

"I want to be your wife."

No words seem sufficient enough to express the blissful joy I feel in my heart right now as my mate kisses me with all her heart, begging to be mine for the rest of our lives.

I grew up thinking the and now it seems surreal to have a mate love me enough to give me her broken heart.

Despite all her fears, Talia loves me and I love her with all of the light of my soul.

"Y-yes," I reply, wrapping my arms around her waist.

"Y-yes.I-I’ll marry y-you."

She smiles against my lips as I accept her over and over again, forgetting the horrible truth of our reality to share a single moment of true happiness with my mate.

She's going to be my wife! Thank Goddess! Grayson howls ecstatically.

I thought we were going to die alone at this rate! lignore my wolf’s commentary, lifting my beautiful mate in my arms as I deepen our kiss.

"Come back to me, Zane," Talia murmurs between kisses.

"You have to come back so I can be your wife." I nod emphatically as I set her down, taking her hand and kissing it.

"I-I promise.I-I promise I’ll come back to y-you and Kota." I cup her cheeks and shower her head with kisses, Kota hopping up and down with excitement.

"Ewww!" Kota squeals, a huge grin on his face as I kiss his mother.

"No more kisses," he shouts, running up to us with his hands in the air.

I bend over and pick him up, Kota placing his hand over my mouth to stop me from kissing him. Aren’t you forgetting something? Grayson says, his tail flicking side to side.

What? I ask, completely confused.

Must I do everything, he sighs tiredly.

A ring, you gump! You need a ring for our mate! Oh! Right! I gasp, realizing I don’t own anything that remotely resembles a ring.

I’ll have to improvise.Pushing his little hand aside, I whisper instructions in Kota’s ear, the little boy nodding obediently and running off to complete his task.

"Zane, we have to go," Tylen insists.

"We don’t have a lot of time-"

"I-l know," I interrupt him, lifting my hand to silence him.

"J-just give m-me one more minute, p-please."

Tylen eyes Talia and I, sighing tiredly to himself as he gives in.

Just then, Kota returns with the four bead bracelet he made for me a while back.

"Here you go, Daddy," Kota says, placing the bracelet in my hand.

I untie the string, removing the pink and blue beads from the bracelet and handing the blue one to Talia.

"K-Kota made this for m-me.It's our family," I explain, pointing to each bead.

now ho-holding a piece of m-me

for y-you yet but I-I promise to c-come back so

"I promise."

"Zane! Now!"

I kiss Talia one more

I nod, pecking Talia

love you Talia,"

"I love you."

door when he suddenly halts, his jaw

turns around, storming towards Agnes who stares

and for what seems like an eternity, they simply stand

Interesting...

hums to himself, leaving me to

but Grayson never gets the chance to answer me as Tylen suddenly

her gently

past me and

remain frozen in place, all of us staring at Agnes in

again yells at me

and mate goodbye once more before running out of the "Ty-Tylen!"I call out after

"Ty-Tylen wait!"

back without looking at me as I

and we

"B-but Agnes-"

in his

kissed her," I say

"And?"

walking past

kiss your mate.Why can’t

widen

I ask, completely

me," he

and I clear my throat to demand a proper explanation,

not an afterthought to me," he

I think

turns to face me, his features

just thought you should

again, greeting his father who is busy speaking with the

son’s obvious hatred

change of

not just

and opening a portal to what appears to be a

has its

I do not know

appreciate your

gesturing for us to step through

been an honor to be

the compliment with a nod, Toran stepping into

I follow after him and I take a deep breath to calm my nerves as

table and a large monitor mounted

cabin to create a sophisticated atmosphere and there is a

down for a meeting, Toran pulling up a

are located along the Samish Bay in

and ocean but Ravenstone is very remote,

the pack lives and equipment, food, and the training

the island ring, there is an abandoned missile silo located on a fifth island and a series of underwater tunnels connect the

been converted into a fortified bunker and is perfectly camouflaged on the island, buried nine

it contains

his soldiers on the eastern side of the island

a smaller crew

reaches our main dock on

and Tylen fall silent as they study the map intently

are greatly outnumbered,"

utilize guerilla warfare if we

"Precisely,"

Torans smiles.

yet located the entrances to our tunnels so we'll use them to our advantage to strike and slip out unseen between the islands.We'll have teams stationed here, here and here, and

but are still figuring out your gift?" he asks, though it

and he thinks

sure Sebastain’s men don’t find the bunker entrance.Zane, due

much of your gift does your father

doesn’t kn-know what m-my gift is," I

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