Chapter 57 - Crazy In Love.

'To my beloved wife, when you wake up from your much-needed rest, please shower and get dressed, I'll be waiting for you on the beach, all my love your sexy husband X'

This is the note that I woke up to this afternoon after having what my husband describes as a much-needed rest which he's right about.

After spending the majority of the day at the beach soaking up the sun and having sex, Cole carried me back to the beach house to rest, in fact, the last thing I remember was him placing me on the bed and telling me to rest because I've got a long night ahead of me and I knew that if he intended to do to me all night what he'd been doing to me all day then I needed as much sleep as possible so I welcomed a peaceful slumber with open arms.

Anyway, after I woke up and read the note, I went straight into the en-suite bathroom where I brushed my teeth, washed my face and had a really nice hot shower washing my body with a watermelon body scrub and body wash, it felt so good to wash off the ocean and the beach and make myself all clean and fresh again.

When I was done, I got out and got ready, I didn't know what to wear and was torn between some of the clothes that Cole had packed for me which wasn't much just stuff that was either see-through, lingerie or something that was easily ripped from my body, it was only when I looked over at the vanity table and saw several small boxes and a bag on the chair that I walked over to it and realised that my amazing husband had picked out a perfect outfit for me along with some stunning jewellery.

When I was ready, I slipped on a pair of flip flops which weirdly enough matched my dress and I left the beach house heading straight for the beach, almost instantly I saw what my mate had planned for us and I was blown away at him doing this for me.

There was a table and chairs set up next to one of the beach beds with lanterns spread all around the beach lighting it up just beautifully, everything was all beautiful and white but nothing compared to the sexiest sight that managed to get all of my attention which was my handsome man who was sitting on a stool wearing a pair of black skinny jeans and a white shirt which was fully unbuttoned showing off his perfect body and his amazing artwork.

I immediately ran over to him and embraced him in a hug which he quickly reciprocated by wrapping his arms around my shoulders and kissing my head.

"Finally babe, I thought I'd f****d you into a coma"

I chuckled as I lifted my head up to look at him.

"I'm sorry, I wanted to make sure I looked good for you even though I wasn't happy to wake up alone again"

Cole placed one of his hands on the back of my head and leaned down connecting our lips in a slow and gentle kiss, he then pulled away brushing his lips against my lips before resting his forehead against mine.

"First of all babe, you would look amazing and beautiful in a black bin bag secondly, I'm sorry you woke up alone again, it won't happen from this day forward"

He said whilst burying his face into my neck and kissing my mark.

"You can't promise that Cole, you're an alpha, there's gonna be a lot of times where you won't even be able to sleep next to me at night let alone wake up next to me in the morning"

Cole growled as he tightened his hold on me.

"Like hell that's gonna happen, babe, I'm gonna make it my life's mission to always sleep next to you and wake up with you in my arms"

I smiled knowing full well that he won't be able to live up to this promise but it'll be interesting to see if he can.

Cole placed a kiss on my neck before pulling away from me and grabbing hold of my hand.

"Come on baby, I made us some food"

"You cooked?"

I asked with a smile which he thought was me mocking him but I quickly explained that I was just shocked that he cooked for me, Cole and being domestic doesn't exactly go hand in hand like a perfect marriage.

We sat down and my stomach instantly rumbled from the many different scents that were on the table.

Cole has cooked us an entire Spanish feast including paella, chicken and rice as well as many different appetisers, he also said that he's made us a chocolate gateau for dessert but he had to buy some vanilla ice cream for it since our ice cream maker is broken, I know the dessert isn't a traditional Spanish dessert but I wasn't bothered, Cole's got a really bad sweet tooth and will eat anything sweet no matter what part of the world it's come from.

I didn't waste any time in digging into the delicious food specifically the paella which was magnificent, before everything happened with Aubrey I was a huge fan of Spanish food because my adopted father is Spanish and for a huge chunk of my life, I thought I was too so I was an eager beaver when it came to fully embracing my culture and who I am.

My father is a proud Spaniard and he wanted to make sure all of his kids knew just as much about their Spanish roots as we did our American roots, he would always cook traditional Spanish food for us and made sure that myself, Cole and Angelo were all fluent in the language so that we could speak to our grandparents who weren't native English speakers and had no desire to learn the language.

"How is it, babe?"

Cole asked nervously.

I swallowed my food before taking a sip of my champagne.

"It's amazing, babe, you've done a really great job with this"

He smiled with pride as he dug into his own food.

For the next hour or so, we just sat enjoying each others company and talking as we ate up all of the delicious food, afterwards, we went for a walk on the beach before going over to the beach bed and laying in each other's arms watching the sun go down as the sounds of the ocean slapping against the shore mingled with the sounds of Ed Sheeran's music which was playing on the docking station next to the bed.

"Give a little time to me or burn this out, we'll play hide and seek to turn this around, all I want is the taste that your lips allow, my, my, my, my, oh give me love, my, my, my, my, oh give me love"

Cole was running his fingers through my hair as he stroked his other hand up and down my arm.

"Baby"

"Hmm"

I said whilst tracing the tattoo on his chest with my fingers.

"Why did Emily pick this song for our first dance? I thought you hated Ed Sheeran"

"What are you talking about? I've always loved him, he's a great singer"

"Babe, you used to call him a less attractive dollar store version of prince Harry"

I chuckled.

"Ok, maybe I did say that but it's true, he looks like prince Harrys less attractive twin"

"You're mean"

"Well, it's not my fault one's got princess Diana for a mother and the other hasn't"

"Yer but prince Harrys father is prince Charles"

"Eww!!, I know, I feel so sorry for princess Di having to wake up to that every morning when she was married to him, Charles and Camilla are a perfect fit"

"Why's that?"

"Because she looks like a horse and he's a horses ass"

Cole laughed loudly as I looked up at him with a smile, he looks so handsome when he's smiling and laughing.

"Anyway, back to my question...why did Emily pick this song for us?"

I let out a sigh as I lay my head back down on his chest.

"It was played on The Vampire Diaries and I..."

I stopped talking and looked up at Cole when I heard an angry groan.

"You got a problem, babe"

He looked down at me with an annoyed expression.

"Please don't tell me you're into that stupid shitty programme as well, f**k me, if I had a dollar for every time I would hear girls talking about how hot one of the guys are or what team they prefer or just the whole thing in general, I'd be a multi-millionaire"

"First of all Cole, you ARE a multi-millionaire and secondly, it's not a shitty programme, it's an amazing show which I love"

He groaned as he ran his hand over his face.

"I was kind of hoping my mate wouldn't be interested in that show, it's so stupid"

"What's stupid about it, babe? vampires, werewolves, people finding their true love"

"It's not real, Nat"

"We are"

He looks down at me and I could tell that he was dying to smile but didn't.

I narrowed my eyes from his face to his neck where he's got a red flower tattoo covering his throat, I stroked my fingers up to his neck and started to trace the tattoo remembering the first time I saw it after we had discovered we're mates.

"The first time I heard this song was on The Vampire Diaries, it was during a dance sequence where Damon and Elena were paired together as well as Klaus and Caroline, I always wanted Damon and Elena to be together whereas Emily was crazy about Klaus and Caroline which is something I didn't understand until I watched The Originals, anyway, I instantly fell in love with the song and told Emily that if I ever got married then my first dance would be to Give Me Love"

"And she remembered that?"

"Of course she did, we're best friends"

"So, I don't remember everything my best friends tell me"

I rolled my eyes.

"That's because you're a guy, girls are like elephants babe, we never forget"

Cole chuckled and I could feel his gaze on me but I was still looking at his tattoo.

"See something you like there, babe"

I smiled slightly at him.

"I was just remembering something, that's all"

I lay my head back on his chest listening to his steady heartbeat.

"What did you remember?"

"Nothing, it doesn't matter"

"Hey"

Cole gripped my chin and lifted my head up to face him.

"Tell me"

He more or less demanded whilst caressing my chin with his thumb.

I let out a sigh as I looked deep into his beautiful green eyes.

"I was just thinking about the first time I saw that tattoo after we found out we're mates"

Cole's body stiffened and I felt bad, I should've just kept my mouth shut.

"You mean when I rejected you?"

"Yes"

I whispered as I closed my eyes.

"That was the biggest mistake of my entire life, I shouldn't have rejected you"

"It's ok Cole, I understand why you did"

"You do?"

I nod my head.

"At the time, you and everyone else was blinded by Aubrey's lies and on top of that, you believed that we were still siblings"

"Don't justify what I did babe, I was in the wrong, I should've known that the moon goddess wouldn't have paired us together wrongfully, she never makes mistakes and I should've known that"

"It's ok, Cole"

"No, it's not...I know everything has worked out well for us, we're married, we're alpha and Luna and all we need now is to start our family to make our lives complete and perfect but it'll never erase everything I put you through and how I almost lost you and for that, I'll forever regret what I've done to you even in the afterlife when I die"

I reach up and cup his face gently stroking his cheek with my thumb.

"You shouldn't torture yourself like that, Cole"

"Why not? I tortured you"

Touche.

"Please don't torture yourself, Cole, everything that's happened is over and done with...as bad and as...h..horrible as it is, it's over with, it's in the past now where I want it to stay...I want us to move on and forget all about what happened between us before I gave you a chance"

"But..."

"No buts"

I shut him up by placing my finger on his lips.

"Now promise me that when all of this with Mason is over and done with and we're free to live our lives together happily that we'll forget all about the bad shit in our lives...I don't wanna bring kids into this world with all of that still hanging over our heads like a dark depressing cloud...I don't want them to know about it"

"And they won't, babe"

He said whilst gently gripping my wrist and holding it against his chest.

"Then promise me, Cole...I don't wanna hear another word about you rejecting me, your relationship with Aubrey, my relationship with Brody or anything else...our love story may not be perfect babe but I want it to be a fairytale for our kids"

Cole smiled down at me.

"If that's what you want babe then fine, I promise you that once I've killed Mason and you've taken great pleasure in killing Aubrey that we'll live happily ever after and forget all about the ugliness that we've been through"

He said in an old English accent whilst smiling brightly at me.

"Are you mocking me?"

"Never, mi amor"

He leaned down and kissed me as he rolled us over so that he's on top of me, I wrapped one of my arms around his neck and cupped the side of his face with my free hand.

Cole pulled away first and brushed his lips over mine, he then kissed my lower lip before looking me in my eyes.

"I love you, Mrs Natalia Vasquez"

"I love you too, Mr Cole Vasquez"

I said with way too much giddiness in my tone, I don't know why but hearing him call me Mrs Natalia Vasquez filled me with so much happiness and excitement which is weird considering it's been my official name for eighteen years, I guess the excitement was because he used the term Mrs along with it.

We stayed out on the beach until late at night and only came back in when it started to get chilly, I didn't mind staying out there but Cole didn't want us to sit out in the cold because in his words 'you're my wife Natalia and there's a high chance you could be pregnant with my baby and I don't want you both getting sick'.

I rolled my eyes at his comments whilst mentally awwing, I love how caring he is but at the same time he's not too bright, pregnancies for werewolves are very different from human pregnancies, humans normally have to wait at least two weeks to find out if they're pregnant or not whereas with wolves we can find out within hours of us having sex because the females scent immediately changes and normally one of the first people who notice this is our mates so I don't think I am pregnant if my scent is still the same.

Anyway, after we returned back to the beach house, Cole immediately ran upstairs and locked himself in our en-suite bathroom for about fifteen minutes which I thought was weird until he opened the door and beckoned me inside telling me he had a surprise for me and what a surprise he had, Cole had set up a romantic bath for us and had stripped out of his clothes.

I was so blown away by his surprise that I didn't even notice Cole had stripped me of my dress and underwear until I felt a chill on my naked body.

After putting my hair up in a clip so that it doesn't get wet again, I got in the steaming hot bath laying my back against Coles front.

I closed my eyes as Cole's hands massaged my shoulders, I felt like life couldn't get any better than this and I'd hoped that we could stay like this forever but one sentence from Cole was enough to bring me out of the clouds and back down to reality.

"Are you looking forward to going back home tomorrow, babe?"

"No"

I said in a stroppy tone whilst pouting.

"Don't be like that baby, I've already told you we can come back here whenever you want, all you have to do is ask me"

"I know, it's just..."

I sighed.

"It's just what?"

I turned my head to look at him, he wasn't looking at me because his face was against my shoulder kissing it.

"The past few days have been amazing and blissful, I've never been this happy or relaxed in my entire life and knowing that we have to go home tomorrow to stress and so much drama thanks to my pervy, weirdo uncle, is just so depressing...I'd much rather we stayed here where it's just us"

Cole chuckled probably from what I called Mason as he placed gentle kisses from my shoulder to my neck.

"You don't know how happy it makes me feel that just by bringing you here, I was able to make you feel this happy and relaxed"

He rested his head against mine as I lifted my hand up out of the water to Cole's hair and running my fingers through it.

"You really scared me the other day, Nat....you were so out of control my love that I thought I was gonna lose you forever"

I closed my eyes tightly feeling guilty.

I know I couldn't really help how I felt or acted those few days but it still hurts and makes me feel guilty knowing that I caused my family and friends but most importantly my mate so much anguish and stress.

"I'm sorry Cole, I really am"

"I know you are babe but you don't have to be...I know you're scared to lose us but you don't have to be ok, we're gonna defeat that bastard, I promise you"

"I know, Cole it's just that...over eight months ago, I wouldn't have cared what happened to me or if Mason came after me because I didn't really have anyone except Angelo and Emily and I knew that if anything did happen to me then they'd always have each other but now....now I've got so much more than I did back then and I don't wanna lose any of you"

"You won't"

Cole growled as he kissed under my ear before burying his face into my neck and kissing my soft spot.

"Have more faith in me, in yourself and everybody else, baby, we will defeat Mason"

Cole said through our mate link as he continued to kiss my neck.

We stayed in the bath just relaxing until the water turned cold and afterwards when we got out, we dried ourselves off before going into our bedroom where we made love all night long taking full advantage of our alone time whilst we still had it.

Mason's P.O.V.

"Is it done?"

"It is your highness"

"And what about the spell?...have you made any progress with it?"

"We have sir, we've tested the power out on quite a few powerful hybrids and it seems to have worked"

"Seems?...I don't want to hear that word ever again, do you understand me? it either works or it doesn't"

"Yes sir"

"I need this spell to work so that when I bring your future queen here, she won't be able to escape from me again"

"Of course your highness, I'll run some more tests and give you a definitive answer as soon as possible"

"Tomorrow morning"

I said before downing a shot of whiskey.

"I want a definitive answer by tomorrow morning"

"Yes sir"

"Is there anything else?"

"Yes sir, we haven't been able to locate your mistress Aubrey in quite a while now, it seems she's missing"

"I don't give a f**k about that bitch, if she's been caught or got herself hurt it's her own f*****g fault just concentrate on our plans and those spells"

"Yes your highness"

"Dismissed"

My second in command leaves and I pour myself another glass of whiskey.

"Seer"

I close my eyes as I call for my own personal seer.

"Calling for me again so soon handsome, I'm starting to think you've got a thing for me"

"I've only got a thing for your powers, seer"

"That's a shame"

She pouts whilst gently running her fingers over her crystal ball.

"What can I do for you today your highness? is it your usual or would you like to see something else?"

"You know what I want seer, show me what my woman has been up too"

She smirks as she hovers both of her hands over the crystal ball and chants a spell to show me my beautiful Natalia, it's been a few days since I've had my seer show me my future wife and I couldn't wait to see what she's been doing but more importantly, I couldn't wait to see her reaction to my latest gift.

What I ended up seeing though was something that I really wasn't expecting and I almost shifted out of anger, that's how apoplectic I am.

A cloud of smoke appears showing me several visions from the past few days including Natalia becoming a Luna to that pathetic pack and her marrying that f*****g mutt Cole which had me destroying my office.

The visions continued on and I nearly pulled my hair out of my head when the visions showed Natalia repeatedly having sex like some f*****g whore with that bastard.

"STOP IT!!"

I trashed my office until there wasn't anything that hadn't been smashed or broken, I stood huffing and puffing trying to calm myself down but I was made even angrier by my seer.

"I don't think Natalia is taking you seriously your highness, she thinks you're a joke"

"SHUT UP!!"

I turned to face my seer who was smirking.

"If Natalia thinks I'm a joke then let's see how much of a joke I am when I rip her PERFECT f*****g LIFE APART!!"

I storm out of my office whilst mind linking my second in command, it's time I put my plans into high gear.

Watch out my love, I'm coming for you.