Innocent Little Runt

Chapter 5

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"M-m-mates?" It couldn't be possible. I was just a useless little runt. How could I have a mate?

"It's okay little one. There's no need to be scared." I backed up on his bed but I groaned at the pain that was still coursing throughout my body. I glanced up at Xavier, fear in my eyes. He gently steps towards me and sits next to me on the bed. "You do know what that means, don't you?" I nod but wince. This pain was really starting to get annoying.

"Of course I do. It's just that. . . I thought I would never have a mate. The elders that were left of my pack said that it is rare for a runt to have a mate."

"That doesn't matter. You need to rest little one." He reached his hand out towards me but I flinched away from him and then flinched from the pain of flinching. Does that even make sense? He sighed and smiled gently at me.

I laid down and closed my eyes, easily falling into a dreamless sleep with Xavier's scent floating around me.

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Xavier's POV

I look at her as she falls asleep on my bed. She is so tiny, so fragile, so opposite of me. How can she even be my mate?

She is so beautiful though, even with the leaves that were in her beautiful long brunet hair. I reached out to brush the leaves out of her hair and she nuzzled her head into my hand. I sighed and sat down next to her on my bed. I picked her up in my arms and I felt her try to move closer to me and smiled. I frowned when I realized that she probably wouldn't do this if she was awake. I had barely met her but she seemed terrified of me. Then again, who wouldn't be at first? I set her back down.

I glance around my dark room. The walls were a dark brown mahogany wood. The dressers, wall trims, and the curtains were all black. My bed was in the center of the room, taking up a small fraction of the room considering how large it was. There was four doors. One to the hallway, one to a closet, one to a bathroom, and the other was a sliding glass door that lead to a balcony that I could look over the pack on. I feel like I have to change my room's colors. If the room is too dark in her opinion, then I will have it changed. I would change the entire pack house for my mate.

Celeste. Her name is beautiful, just like her. The way it easily rolls off of my tongue only reassures me that the tiny girl sleeping is actually my mate. I never really expected to have a mate. In fact I was sure that I didn't have one until I caught her smell in the woods.

What was she even doing there in the first place?

She's a rogue, that's why she was in the woods. What you should be asking is why our mate is a rogue in the first place? My wolf growled in my head.

I thought about that. She's a runt, so if she was born a rogue then she would have been killed when she first shifted.

My wolf growled at the thought.

I shook my head. That is not my top priority right now. I need to figure out what is going on with her. I need to figure out why she couldn't shift back.

I walk down the stairs and bump into someone. I quickly reach my hands out and grasp the person's shoulders. Their shoulders are small so I know it's a woman. Not that I am saying women are weak. In fact, there are a few women in my pack that could take on some of my top fighters. When I look at them I realize that it's Zay. Zay has been my friend since childhood, she was the last beta's daughter and is the current beta's sister. My father had wanted me to marry her until he realized that we have too much in common, one of those things being that we are both into girls.