Unwanted Mate

Chapter 3 • Inner Battle

"Mate." Will's Alpha calls out.
His eyes are pinned on me like I'm his prey.

My head is spinning, it feels like the world was flipped upside down. I can't think straight. I need to get away. I shot up and started for the exit. I was caught by the arm, I look up at the most handsome pair of baby blues I have ever seen and shocks are sent up my arm. I shake his hand off and dart through the door and the sweaty club out to my car. Fight or flight response am I right?

I'm sitting in my car with my hands gripping the steering wheel, my knuckles are white.

"Nina!" I hear my best friends familiar voice call out.

She hops into my Jeep and we take off.
The drive home was silent, I pull up to our pack house, all I want is to be alone. We walk upstairs past Jonah and Gwen. They can read my emotions, no need to say hello. I get to my room and Piper is reluctant to go but says one more thing to me before shutting my door.

"It could be a lot worse Nina, you could be mated to a brutal killer."
"If you need me I'm across the hall." She calls out.

She's right, it could be a lot worse. Most girls would kill to have an Alpha as their mate or even find their mate. But Will? He's so arrogant and selfish, I don't think his ego would allow for him to care for anyone else. I don't want some man to be so possessive and ruling over me. I heard Alphas at times can be unbearable mates.

"Oh Goddess, why me?" I say out loud sitting against my door.

I go to my connecting bathroom and turn the shower on. I'm staring at myself in the mirror. The light brown locks that frame my face and a pair of hazel green eyes stare back at me. I don't recognize myself.

I hop into the steaming shower. As the smell of my shampoo fills the air but my mind keeps racing.

I am not fit to be a Luna, I'm not ready to become royalty. I'm not even sure I want to become a Luna. A thought crosses my mind and I start to panic. What if Will rejects me, I don't necessarily what to be his mate but I don't want to be rejected. I'm at a loss right now. My emotions are scattered everywhere. I need to sleep on it, I'm tired of thinking about it.

I put on my pajamas and throw back my covers and lay in my bed for what feels like hours before I drift off into restless sleep.

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Will's POV

Her hazel green eyes are the prettiest thing I have ever seen. She stares back at me in fear and angst. I feel the shocks that happen when I touch her. She darts off so fast I can't catch her.
I feel defeated, absolutely defeated.

"Why doesn't she want me??" I yell out in frustration.

I can hear the blood rushing in my ears. Im left there pacing as I'm holding my wolf back from taking control. Her mate need and want should be pulling her towards me, not taking her away. I am now sitting on the plush sofa where I smell her all over it. My hands are holding my head as I'm holding back angry tears.

"Oh grandson, my sweet baby boy." I hear my fragile grandmothers voice call out. She sits next to me and pulls my head out of my hands.

"My love, do not be alarmed, she is not seventeen yet, she does not feel the same as you do yet." She pauses.
"You have a few days until she turn seventeen, but it won't be all sunshine and roses from there. You will have to work to make her love you, she is a strong and feisty one William. She reminds me of myself." 

I look up into my grandmothers eyes, only she can ever see me at my worst. My grandmother means the world to me.
She then nudges me on the shoulder.

"I hope she saw those baby blues, they'll make any woman fall in love."  She then squeezes my hand and leaves the room.

I mind link to my mother.
(The mate thing didn't go so well Mother, she's not seventeen yet and I believe she thinks of me in the worst way.)

She responds in a heartbeat.
(Be patient my son, come back home, I'll tell Father to send everyone away.)

I'm laying in my king sized bed that feels too empty now. Lyndsi tried to come home with me but those girls mean nothing to me. I regret being a player. I can't believe I would ever think that, but I do. It is what drives my beautiful mate away from me, my reputation. I look at my bedside clock and it says 2:37 AM. I have been laying here for 2 hours. I need to go to sleep. Screw it, I'm going for a run. I run across the cold state in my wolf form. I don't know if I'm angry or heartbroken. I replay my grandmothers voice in my head

"You have a few days before she turns seventeen."

You can wait a few days Will, you aren't a love crazed pup.

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So that's that! These two are more alike than Nina would care to admit.

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10:21 AM 7/11/17