My Not So Perfect Mate (boyxboy)

Chapter 22

Despite the thoughts running rampant in my brain, my wolf was forcing me to go to Sam. Before our eyes met, he seemed to be in distress, all those people fussing around him, even now when his eyes were fixed on me, utter shock written all over his face, I could still make out the pain hidden deep in his eyes. Someone had dared to bring harm to our mate and just that thought was enough to let every other thought disappear from my mind and my body moved purposely towards Sam with the only intent to soothe his pain but just as I was about to crouch down before him, something made me stop at once.

My mate smelled of another wolf, no not smelled, he reeked of another wolf. The scent so potent on him, it felt like he had taken a bath in it.

He has been intimate with another wolf and not a long while ago. It must be someone from his team of warriors. It has to be. The realisation made spikes of red hot anger and bitterness fill my body and I was rendered motionless, burning with an intense desire to find the horrendous wolf who had dared to touch my mate.

The girl who was standing before him just a while ago came back with a glass of water. She once again stood in front of him blocking my view of him.

This can't be happening, this has to be a joke, right? How can Sam be my mate? I have never felt anything for him except resentment and dislike and though recently these deep dark emotions have subsided, on the verge to be replaced by trust and respect, a feeling of fellowship but none of these sentiments are even close to what you would name as having an affinity for someone and especially in a romantic way. It just seems very gar far fetched.

The women from earlier came and stood before him offering him a glass of water and effectively breaking our staring match.

I took a minute to gather my bearings, I was having a really hard time wrapping my head around that fact that Samuel was indeed my true mate, someone moon goddess had hand-picked, for me to spend my entire life with, to love, live and grow old together with, but seriously standing here at this very moment, I could not even imagine any of those scenarios manifesting into reality.

This just was not making sense to me. It's not like I was homophobic or anything, there were numerous same-sex couples in the pack. We, as a pack have only ever celebrated the mate bonds that the moon goddess had decided to bestow her blessings on, irrespective of anything, the mates being of the same gender being the least of our concerns.

Surely, it had been a point of dispute and outrage in the earlier days when it was not a normal occurrence but in the present day and era, a same-sex mate pairing was as normal, common, accepted and honoured as any heterosexual pairing.

Likewise, on a personal front, I have only ever looked at a same-sex couple with a heart full of happiness, for them having found their forever and maybe a little bit of envy, no make that a lot. There was never a feeling of disgust, resentment involved, not even a speck of it. They were just like any other couple who loved and cherished each other to the moon and beyond.

So, I was in no way disgusted or abhorrent by the fact that my mate was a male wolf, the rationale for my shock and utter disbelief was that in case of every single same-sex mate pairing that I have privy to in my pack, including two of close friends, both the parties had either already come out as gay or bisexual or whatever it was under the LGBT+ spectrum that they identified to or at least had an inkling about their authentic identity and sexual preference.

I had never heard of a case where even one of the two people forming the mate bond was unaware and completely in the dark regarding their sexuality, getting the shock of their lives when they come face to face with their god sent mate.

In short, I have never witnessed or even heard stories about people feeling any of the emotions that were running haywire inside me at the very moment avatars, my brain was a mess, still not able to make complete sense of what had just transpired, something which has shaken my entire being to the very core. I am not dreaming, right?