The Silent Alpha (Natalia)

Chapter 26: Date 1
***Jane**

My hands shake anxiously as I watch the clock tick, both nervous and excited for my first date with Talia.I was stunned when she asked me out a few days ago but I greedily accepted the offer, desperately wanting to get to know her.I consulted with Aurora and Rosalie over what we should do, both of them insisting that I take Talia to the local amusement park to reduce the tension between us.

To make Talia feel more comfortable with me, I suggested that Kota join us for the first half and she readily accepted.

In all honesty, having Kota around would make me less nervous too.

We could then head over to the Lake at the AL pack for an evening picnic with just the two of us.

“You’ll be fine,” Agnes reassures me with a kind smile.

“You just have to be yourself and Talia will fall in love with you.She won’t be able to resist,” she wiggles her eyebrows.

“You’ll see.” Kota jumps around the living room like a bunny, already dressed for the park.

It took me a while to get his sunscreen on but the little tyke finally gave in when I bribed him with a cookie.

“Can we go now?” he asks, tugging at his little baseball hat.

“J-j-just a few m-minutes.Mom-my sti-ll n-needs to come ho-home and get read-ready,” I assure him sheepishly as she races into the room.

“Just give me five minutes to change and touch up my makeup and then I’ll be good to go,” she says over her shoulder as she rushes up the stairs.

Kota groans, swinging his arms around in boredom as twenty minutes pass by.

My palms grow sweaty in fear that Talia may have changed her mind entirely, but she finally descends down the stairs looking as beautiful as ever.

She looks amazing in a pair of high waisted jeans and an off the shoulder blouse, her golden skin glowing against the white of her shirt.

Talia flashes me a shy smile as I gawk at her, nearly falling over the chair I am sitting on.

Dude, snap out of it!Grayson growls.

She’s going to think you’re a moron! I try not to make a fool of myself and stand up straight but as I catch a glimpse of the bracelet on her wrist, my entire body fills with butterflies and I trip over the leg of the chair, crashing ungracefully on the ground.

Kota and Agnes burst into laughter while Talia rushes over to help me up.

Sparks tingle up and down my arm when our hands meet, the sensation startling Talia enough that she lets go, letting me fall back onto the floor.

“Oh my goodness,” she mutters to herself.

“I-I’m so sorry.I…I’m just nervous,” she gulps, tucking away a loose strand of hair behind her ear as she once again reaches over to help me up.

“It’s been Oh great, two nervous idiots going on a date to an amusement park with a child” Graysonmutters.

What could possibly go wrong? I block out his voice as I dust myself off, Talia holding out her hand for me to take.

“Let’s go,” She says quietly, waving over Kota to join us.

She checks Kota once more to make sure he’s ready to go before we walk over to the pack house.

Evan takes us to Aurora’s office where she appears to be hiding from the visiting Alphas.

“I’m not hiding,” the Queen mutters as she looks over some documents.

“I’m just very busy.”

Suddenly, a portal opens to her left and she grins at us, wiggling her eyebrows in mischief.

“Now you three have fun!”

She giggles, pushing Talia and Kota through the portal.

“And good luck!”

She hisses in my ear before shoving me through as well.I nearly lose my footing and crash into Talia, my chest bumping against hers.

She timidly looks up at me, our eyes locking in an intense gaze.

“H-hi,” Talia whispers, her lips curved into a small smile.

Now’s your chance, Say something to her, Grayson urges.

I open my mouth but end up choking on my tongue, coughing furiously into my arm.

Smooth, Grayson mutters as I struggle to regain control of my Talia hands me a bottle of water and I finally manage to catch my breath.

We look around the area Aurora sent us to and realize it’s a small alley beside the park.We will have to return here to be transported home again.

Talia takes the lead, leaving Kota to me and we head for the ticket booth to get our park passes.

at the

having never seen so much color and lights

towards me, but I manage to put up my walls

Aurora has been great but I still could not filter out voices among

I’ll have to use nods and gestures to

a bouncing ATV ride with flashing lights and

stay with Mommy or Zane,”

“Don’t run off.”

halfheartedly, his eyes locked on the Blue ATV

able to

go with me?” He asks me, dragging me into the line driver’s

“Beep! Beep!”

screams when the ride

suddenly starts to bounce up and down, my hands

type of movement before, and while we were

I tell myself as Kota and

every time we pass

five? Grayson laughs but I ignore him, just wanting to

the ride is over,

like you were having more fun than Kota,” she giggles as we walk

if we can go again when Kota starts to

one!” Kota calls out, pointing

this ride and I happily

strapped in, Kota and I pull on the lever, the dragon slowly ascending until it

face when we pass

into his mouth to pull his lips apart and

lead, pushing out my lower jaw so that my teeth stick out and pulling my eyelids back with one hand while the other continues

bursts into laughter when she sees our faces, snapping

complete control of the date, dragging us from ride to ride, but I don’t

train, the merry-go-round, and the spinning

and Kota couldn’t help but laugh at me as I held onto the grip for dear life, some of the people in line joining

me, I liked seeing Talia laugh.She was worth getting on a terrible

us to

the Octopus!” Kota smiles, pointing to

toss where we have to knock over a tower of 6 milk bottles

tries but knocking all of the bottles in

first throw narrowly misses the tower of bottles but her

sweetie,” Talia sighs

to

some ice cream?”

the operator another dollar

coordinated than you, Grayson grumbles but I refuse, wanting to prove to myself that I could be useful.I line up to the toss and aim for the center,

ball strike the center of the tower, all 6 bottles

and I

waddles over to me as I get down on my knees to show it to him, stroking the

have it?” He asks shyly,

biggest smile stretches across his mouth when I nod, the little boy jumping into my arms and

his arms around the large octopus, the stuffed animal nearly twice

He cries, dragging the toy

melting away to focus on the little boy who just claimed

face off with the Alphas but it’s different knowing Kota

it again but I eye Talia nervously, knowing Kota calling me Dad

flickers in her eyes, but whatever it is disappears before

says, shoving the octopus in Talia’s

what Zane got

grins at him, taking him by the

we get some

little boy nods, handing his stuffed toy to his mother to skip

looks over at me, the smile on her face a little tight as she reaches for my hand and pulls me towards

her toes and kisses me on the cheek, my heart feeling as though it might burst out

for not overreacting about what Kota said,”

him tonight and make

at her, wishing I could put into words that it means the world to me that he sees me that way, but only a small groan escapes my lips.I sigh in frustration to myself, but she doesn’t seem

flavor do you want?” she asks, pointing to the little menu on the glass window of

so I stare at the assortment of colorful dot-like

try Cookies and Cream,” Talia

can’t go wrong

last time being when my mom snuck some into my room to share with me

rarely available to us back at the

pack of Oreos made an appearance in the pantry, they were gone before Agnes, and I could ever grab some.I nod my head at her suggestion, and she hands me

Rainbow dots and

treats to a nearby table and Talia watches me careful as I take