Chapter 8: Possible Promotion

But the time we pulled in the drive way my throat felt dry. I went to the fridge and downed a beer. "That serious huh?" I nodded and grabbed two more sliding him one. "Okay so I got put up for promotion today and I might have to move away after six months if he can't find a spot or funds to keep me here. Then after I get promoted again I'll be back. So I'll be gone for as little as six months, up to who knows." I drank more, and let it sink in with him.

"So you came here to tell me your leaving, to come back?" I grimaced and tilted my head. "Possibly I still have to wait six months to take the test and pass before I become a lieutenant... Then the chief here wants me to take over for him so I'd have to get the new chief to put me up for a promotion and study for six months at least before that test. Unless Chief Landon can keeps me here in which case no worries." He nodded and I took that as a good sign. "Also if I become a lieutenant I'll have to be on call more... and as a Chief even more. So if we have kids I won't be able to be a stay at home Mom. Would you stay home with them?"

His eyes flashed and he grinned. "Kids. Yeah I'd stay home with them. I work whenever anyway, but you can't have pups unless you change." I didn't know that, but it didn't matter. I wanted Oliver and I wanted a family with him. I loved him.

"If by Friday I can make a six month schedule the Chief is giving me two weeks off. I did three months today, and that gives me three days to do the other three months. So I'll have two weeks to go through the change gain control and boom." I smiled and he jumped over the stool slid on the counter and wrapped his arms around me. "Are you sure?" I tippy toed to kiss him. "Yes, I love you Oliver." He froze and pulled away. "Say it again."

"I am sure." He shook his head and kissed me. "Say it again." I smiled saying the same thing. "I am sure." He smirked and slid off the counter and pinning me against the wall. "Say it again Gemma." He prodded and nipped my neck. "I love you Oliver." He yipped and spun me around. "Oh shit." He picked me up and ran up two sets of stairs placing me on the couch and grabbing a big green fuzzy blanket. "I need to disclose one more thing..." He said as he covered me and pulled me to his lap. "Don't freak out." I narrowed my eyes and he gulped. "When you tell me not to freak out I freak out." He nodded and crumpled his brow. I ran my finger between them and kissed his cheek.

"When you are turned, and I suggest talking to Valor before we do... oh man how do I say this to finish our bond we have to do a mating ritual." He let out a deep breath. "And what does that entail, cause I'm really not into pow wows while we have sex." Oliver let out a deep barking laugh. "No my perfect Gem. Nothing like that, just I have to half transform and bite you, and you have to half transform and bite me. Then we can feel each other." I pulled away slightly. "So we bite each other like vampires? And then we can feel each other." I pinched his arm. "I felt you, did you feel me?" He winced and rubbed his red skin. "Ow and not like that. Like our mind we can feel each other's emotions, its like a tingle."

"And you're okay with drinking my blood?" He shook his head and closed his eyes. "No I won't be drinking it. I bite then lick it closed. You bite then lick it closed. And if you want you can bite me first." I nodded and cuddled back into his arms. "So who has to give me the other bite?" He kissed my neck and I nuzzled closer. "The Alpha, and please don't ask who he is cause we can't tell until the night you turn."

I nodded and we snuggled in. "Want to watch a movie?" Oliver asked as he smelled my neck. "Sure handsome. You pick." He turned of The Breakfast Club and laid me on his chest. "You know I've never seen this movie." He moved me to see my face. "For real?" I nodded and he gave me a weird face. "Well it's my favorite!" He declared as he squeezed my shoulders. "I guess I have to see it if it's my mates favorite." I said in a silly voice and laughed. "Are you making fun of me?" Oliver asked ad I giggled. "Nope." He tickled me until I could hardly breath before starting the movie.

He laid on my stomach and I set an alarm before falling asleep with Oliver's head on my stomach and me running my hands over his hair.

When I woke up I glanced at the clock. It read five fifty. I stretched and found myself in Oliver's bed. It was still dark out so I felt the bed for him, but he want there. I ran my fingers through my curls and went to the kitchen. Oliver stood at the stove packing containers of food. "Good Morning Beautiful." He said as he handed me a plastic bag filled with food.

"Why weren't you in bed?" He kissed me and walked me to the door. "I figured I'd cook since I couldn't sleep, and send you off to work with food so you can have a vacation of sorts..." I rubbed his arm. "I didn't really like waking up alone."

I nodded and he kissed me deeply pulling me into his body. "Be careful okay?" I nodded before I walked out the door. "I'll be back tonight okay?" Oliver smiled and kissed me again. He watched from his porch as I got in the car and drove away. He tossed up a hand symbol and held it there. His pointer finger, pinky, and thumb stretxhed out ward. I parked my car and got out. I walked to the front of the porch. "What does that mean?" He put his hand up again. "This means I love you." I smiled and moved my hand to copy his. "I love you too Oliver." I blew him a kiss before heading to work.