Chapter 41
Alec.
“Mate”
Sadie and I say at the same time, both of us frozen in shock.
Fuck! You’ve got to be fucking me. I feel like I’ve been hit by a boulder. Of all the people to be my mate, the savior of my pack, why did it have to be her?
“No,” she snarled, pulling deep breaths into her lungs. “Just fucking no.”
Her eyes are wild, and there is a tremor in the hand as she runs it down her face. I can’t move. I can’t do a fucking thing except stare at her.
How the hell was this fucking possible? Just hours ago, I almost killed her, and now you’re telling me that she’s my fucking mate? There has to be a fucking mistake or something.
“I guess there is no need to ask what is going on,” Micah said unhelpfully.
Everyone in the room is as shocked as the two of us. No one saw this shit coming, I mean, come the fuck on. Fate must be playing a cruel joke on us.
“Sadie, calm down,” the red-headed witch tries to tell her friend, but it seems like Sadie isn’t willing to listen.
“Hell no,” she yelled. “I thought that bitch was done playing games with my fucking life, but this is too cruel even for her cold-beating heart!”
“Who are you talking about, Sadie?” the man with a scar gently asked her.
“The moon goddess! That’s who I’m talking about. Why would she play me like this, as if I didn’t hate this bastard enough, and now she makes him my mate?”
I growled at her insult.
“It’s not like I’m thrilled at this unfortunate turn of events,” I said through gritted teeth.
“I wasn’t talking to you,” she snapped. “So shut the fuck up.”
“Don’t fucking talk to me like that!”
“Or what?” she challenges, her eyes flashing color. “What are you going to do about it, Alec? Lock me in the dungeon and torture me, huh? Kill me? I should have ripped your spine and killed you when I had the chance; then I wouldn’t be stuck with you as my mate.”
Her words, hate, and venom drive me insane. I want nothing but to strangle her and forget that I have a mate.
“Do you think I’m dancing in joy at having a bitch like you as a mate?” I asked, feeling my anger rise to the surface. “I’d give up my balls if I could change this damn fate.”
We were head-to-head when Micah steps in between us.
“Everyone just calm down,” he tried, calming us. “Take a deep breath, and then we can work this out. There is no need for insults and bloodshed.”
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Sadie scoffs, but steps away. She turns and faces the desk, her shoulders rising and falling as she takes deep breaths.
I step away too and run my hand through my already disheveled hair. Damn it! How did things end up so badly? How could one simple trip that was meant to get us an ally turn into such a major cluster fuck?
My mind was a fucking mess, and I felt like I was having an out-of-body experience. It didn’t help that Knox was unnaturally quiet.
“What do you think?” I asked him.
He looks just as lost as I felt. “I don’t fucking like this, but we need her, remember? She’s the only one that can break the fucking curse.”
Shit! I’d completely forgotten about that damn curse and what my mate had to do with it. Again, I ask, why her? Why couldn’t it be anyone else? I wouldn’t have such a big problem with it if it wasn’t Sadie.
“This doesn’t make any sense,” Jason spoke for the first time since we entered this room.
“What doesn’t make sense?” this comes from Micah.
Jason steps forward and stands beside me. “All this. If they are mates, shouldn’t they have been able to sense it the moment they saw each other outside yesterday? Instead, they were both out to get each other.”
Nobody says a damn thing. I frown at that. He was right. We should have been able to scent each other like we did right now.
Jason continued. “I think Sadie had the witch do something. She has always wanted you. Maybe she got the witch to forge a fake bond. That way, she can have you and have her revenge at the same time.”
“You really aren’t the brightest cookie of the bunch, are you?” Sadie turned to him and asked.
“Why you…” he goes to attack her, but she flings her hand, sending him flying and crashing against the wall behind us.
“Well, that’s new,” she murmured, looking at her hands.
Jason gets up, and Micah stops him before he can try to launch another attack on Sadie.
“I’m not happy about this, and Alec is the last man on earth I would want as a mate,” she added after a while.
“Then how do you explain this? Because Jason does have a point,” I asked while folding my arms against my chest.
“I have a theory,” Micah muttered before facing me. “What were you feeling when you saw Sadie?”
That was simple. “Rage”
“And you, Sadie?”
“Fear, desperation, and anger.”
“There you have it,” Micah concluded, as if that was supposed to answer all the questions.
“What’s the point of this?” Jason cut in.
The nameless man joins in. “What he is trying to say is that instead of scenting each other, Alpha douche bag smelled her fear and desperation while Sadie smelled his anger. Those emotions overwhelmed their mate scent because they were both drowned in them. They were too clouded by them to register anything.”
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My hands are sifted into balls, as the asshole disrespects. Didn’t he know who the fuck I am? I swear, once this is sorted and my head is straight, he is going to taste the end of my fist.
Micah nods his head in agreement. “Exactly.”
Shit. Sure, Jason’s theory about the witch was ridiculous, but I wanted to believe in it. Anything at this point, except accepting the fact that Sadie is my mate.
It’s funny how I was desperate to find my mate because my pack was suffering under the curse, but now that I’d found her, I was happy about it.
“If you don’t believe it still, there is another way of finding out,” Micah said, staring directly at me.
Out of all of us, he was the only one calm about this whole spectacle.
“How?” both Jason and I asked.
“The mark,” he answered.
“What mark?” The redhead questioned with curiosity.
I nodded, and he approached Sadie.
“Is it okay with you, Sadie, if I check something?” Micah turned to her.
She looks at him, as if debating whether she should let him.
“Please,” he pushes softly, and surprisingly, she agrees.
Yeah, there was definitely something Micah was hiding from me, because how come Sadie was comfortable with him while she hated the rest of us?
Now, with her permission, he approaches her before standing in front of her. He gently moves her short hair. I take a step back when he reveals a small white crescent moon mark.
“Fuck!” is the only word I can utter.
With the mark, there is no denying who she is to us.
“Where did you get that mark? You never had it before,” the douche bag asked her.
“What mark?”
Wait, what the fuck? “You didn’t know you had a mark behind your ear? And according to him, you’ve never had it before, so does that mean you’re playing us?”
It was a stupid question, even to my own ears. There was no way Sadie knew about the journal entries or the curse, so she couldn’t have faked the mark.
“Again, I ask, what mark? Wait-” she holds her finger up. “Let me ask my wolf.”
Her eyes become unfocused before resuming normal minutes later.
“My wolf said that it appeared when I awakened. It’s a symbol of who I am,” she explained, a furrow between her eyebrows. “Not like she’ll tell me what exactly I am.”
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Chapter 41
Iretat que as I try to absorbs all that I’ve learned today I felt like I was getting an overload of information. I don’t know bow: Dat deep downs. I knew she wasn’t lying. That doesn’t mean that I’ve forgiven her or forgotten what she did. After all,
she did cost the the woman loved
“War Aysens now?” son asked, clearly struggling with the turn of events.
Sadie takes a seat and stares at me
‘s really simple. I reject you” She shrugs as it it wasn’t a big deal.
Before I can recover from the shock of her words or do anything, she says those damning words,
- Sadie Evans, reject you, Alec Ashford, as my mate, and hereby sever our bonds and cut all ties with you.”
