Sam's POV

We stepped out of the elevator into a huge mansion-like entry. I looked up and saw a huge chandelier that lit up the room with many hallways off to the sides and staircases that lead to different floors all covered with white and black marble.

I counted at least 5 floors that I could see from where we stood. People and wolves of all sizes and colors were walking all over the place, looking busy or in a hurry. It was incredible but kinda scary at the same time. I couldn't help but stop and look around as I started to shake a little. This was just too much as a few of the wolves looked over at me but then I saw a group of children all walking together maybe 3 or 4 years old, and two of them were little pups. There was a lady in front leading the group and another in the back of them holding clothes in her arms. For some reason that calmed me a little more.

"Sam," Emmett called getting my attention. I looked over quickly with amazement in my eyes and he smiled at me. "Come this way," he told me as I walked over to him, noticing he was farther away than I liked at this moment. "It's alright, no one is going to touch you here. This is the Blue Moon packhouse," he explained as he started walking but this time I stayed close to his side. "It's been here underground for many, many generations. Everyone who lives here is a pack member and can walk around freely as you can see. Some are more comfortable in wolf form than human," he smiled back at me as he started walking up a set of stairs off to the side.

"So how does no one know a place like this is here? About wolves like you?" I asked, now curious as to how I went for so long without knowing any of this. 

"Actually Sam, people do know about us. I was more surprised you didn’t know before about us since we lived in my pack’s territory but we do cover up most of it and try not to let the humans see us running around as wolves. People fear what is different than them which is why the hunters were first created. So to avoid another full-out war with them once again we try to keep out of trouble and out of the spotlight."

"I guess that would be a good idea," I said as we got to the top of the stairs and I couldn't help but look around this place a little more. Everything was just so amazing but then I stopped and looked at him in question. "Wait, war with them again? What do you mean?"

"I guess if you don't know about us then you don't know about the Dark War or even the witch trials that started it," he said, walking over to a thinner staircase. Two men were standing on the bottom watching me as we walked near but greeted Emmett with a bow. I stood behind Emmett a little closer because they both gave me a weird look. I felt out of place.

"What is a witch trial? Wait so that means there are witches too?" 

"Yes. They were the ones who put together our armies and that's how we, the shifters, witches, and help from the vampires, won the Dark War." 

I stopped and looked at him in amazement. "Vampires too? You have to tell me more about it," I told him, giving him my full attention. 

"I will but first let's get up to the room and I will tell you all about it in the morning after you've showered and rested," he said with a smile and started back up the stairs again.

"What? But that's not fair! You can't just drop a mythical war on me and walk away like it doesn't matter," I argued running up the stairs behind him.

He just laughed until we reached the top of the stairs where he opened the door for us and we stepped into a large room that looked almost like a big waiting room with couches and chairs, a large flat-screen TV, and two women with black hair sitting behind a desk talking on phones.

He waved at them both as one tried to hold the person on the phone and talk to Emmett but he didn't stop to hear it.

"Anyway," he said as we passed a few closed doors. "This is where Viv and her mate Brian, who you've also met earlier, stay. Same with her twin brother Mason, the redheaded one. Both Mason and Brian are my betas and help me with my work. They go most everywhere with me, like the day you took my phone," he smiled at me as he reminded me of that incident. "But they are next in line if I die unless the next alpha is chosen. They're both like brothers to me." 

We stopped in front of an elevator door as he entered a pin to open them. It was a short ride up, maybe one floor or two floors. They opened again to a dark room but Emmett stepped in first and turned on the lights as I walked into the room.

There was a small oak wood table to the right where Emmett walked over to, pulling his wallet and cigarettes out of his pockets, and laying them down with his phone. A small kitchen area was on the other side of that, then two doors between a huge flat-screen TV. Across from the TV was a large king-size bed covered in a red and black blanket with two black nightstands on each side. Everything looked so nice and well organized.

"Wow. This is really nice. Like your own apartment," I said looking around in awe at all the things around the room. They all looked expensive and brand new.

Emmett chuckled as he took off his jacket and hung it on the back of a chair. "Yeah. I never really thought of it that way before." He walked over to one of the doors and opened it. "So, I don't have anything in your size but I'll find you something to wear for now."

I followed him into the door which led into a huge walk-in closet but one side was empty while the other side was filled with hanging suits from light grays to different shades of blues to blacks with different colored dress shirts. Under that were many drawers which I'm sure were filled with whatever else he couldn't hang.

"Why is this half empty?" I asked out of curiosity, looking around.

"That side will be for my mate to fill with whatever they want," he said with a soft smile before turning around and opening a few drawers on his side.

"What's a mate?"

"It's umm, hard to understand for a human but it's someone we are meant to love and be with until death. It's a bond that brings us together and we would do anything to protect them, even die for them if we have to."

"Soo... um, you don't have one yet?" I asked as my cheek started to heat. I didn't know why I asked that.

"I do… somewhere close," he said as he turned his head to me with a smile for a moment before going back to looking at the drawer again.

"How do you know if you find each other?"

"You are asking a lot of questions for someone who didn't want to ask any earlier." He pointed out, moving to the next drawer but I could see him still smiling. "You… just know Sam."

He finally turned to me again and handed me some clothes. "They might be a little big for you but it will have to do for now. Follow me."

We walked into a door in the back of the room that led into a huge bathroom. Double sinks, a big jacuzzi tub that you could fit at least 4 people in comfortably, and a very roomy stand-up shower. He showed me where everything was and how to work the shower as he started heating the water for me then placed a towel next to the shower door.

"Do you need help with that?" He asked, pointing to the homemade sling that was still around my arm.

I looked down, almost forgetting about it completely. "Oh! Um, no. Well maybe. Just-," my face started to heat as I stumbled over my words. "Just untie the back, if that's okay I mean."

He stepped closer and looked over my arm again. "Does it still hurt? Maybe we should have the doctor come look at it?" 

"No, no need. It will heal soon. The wounds are mostly gone now so it's not that bad anymore. I can move it more too so I don't think there's a need to worry a doctor this late."

He stepped closer as I turned around, trying to hide my reddening face while my heart was pounding against my chest the closer he stepped. The steam from the hot water had already started to fog the mirror next to me as I looked over in the corner of my eye but I could still see him right behind me as he slowly reached up and moved my long hair out of his way. 

He messed around with it for a moment before I felt it fall loose, freeing my arm. It was stiff to move and hurt a little. I hissed in pain a little as I moved it slightly but then Emmett's hand slowly raised, brushing the little hair that was left away from the side of my neck slowly. My head tilted a little, allowing him to get a better view as my breath caught in my throat. 

He wrapped his other arm around my side stopping on my lower stomach, making it jump to his touch and I gasped sharply, feeling him pull me closer against him as his head was only an inch away from the skin on my neck.

Feeling him behind me like that made my body start to react in weird ways again. My breath started to heavy as I leaned back a little more against him and showed him even more of my neck as I felt his breathing against my skin.

A moan escaped my lips and before I knew it I was pressed against the bathroom sink with Emmett's hands roaming up my chest keeping my back pressed against him as he softly kissed and nibbled my neck lightly. 

"Fuck..." I mounted without control over myself as my back arched, making my ass grind against him, he too softly moaned at that. Suddenly he bit down on my neck harder than before. It hurt but it also felt even better than I could have imagined as goosebumps filled my body.

He held his bite as my fingers run into his hair and find myself peeking in the mirror to see us together. At the same time, Emmett's eyes looked over to see me in the mirror… watching him. His eyes started to change and I could feel his teeth start to just barely dig into my skin making me cry out a little from the pain as my eyes started to water.

Without warning, he pushed himself away quickly making me jump and slam my hands on top of the sink so I didn't fall completely on top of it. Back into reality, he stepped away from me as I saw him in the mirror covering his mouth, looking down in shock over what just happened.

"I- I'm so sorry Sam. That was-. I… I'll… I'll be just outside the door if you need anything else," he said behind me as his face turned red before he left out another door back into the bedroom. Leaving me completely and utterly confused about what the hell just happened as I too covered my mouth in shock at my own reaction to feeling him against my body.