Sang's Acceptance

Don't call me that

Entering the office we kind of just sit there in silence until the rest of my mates arrive.

"What's so fucking important you couldn't tell us over mind link?" Gabriel says walking in the room. No one responds, "Ok, well damn then."

I start fidgeting unsure of what is going to happen, and I thought the hard part was over.

Once everyone is here we still remain silent.

"Will someone please explain what the fuck is going on?" North suddenly yells after almost ten minutes of complete silence. I jump and flinch back slightly and North looks at me, his eyes seem to soften.

"Miss Sorenson-"

"Don't call me that," I interrupt.

"I'm sorry, Miss Sang," Mr. Blackbourne corrects, "It appears Miss Sang, can shift, into a white wolf," he states.

Everyone immediately starts laughing with the exception of those who were actually there.

"That's funny, but why are we really here?" Brandon asks.

I look at him and flash my eyes, "Oh shit, you weren't joking."

"No Mr. Henshaw Sr. we were not joking," Dopey says and I purse my lips, waiting.

"Yep, fun, cool; now you know my dirty little secret, what happens now?" I ask.

"We tell the counsel," Dopey replies and I stiffen.

"Given how Mr. Sorenson and his beta are still breathing, telling the counsel about your existence, will be the best way to ensure your safety."

I scoff, "I can take care of myself, and as a rogue the counsel only has so much say over what I do," I state.

"And if you want to ensure anyones safety why not your students? Why'd you stand there and almost let that bastard kill my brother?" I finally ask what's on my mind.

"I was wondering when you were going to bring that up," he huffs.

"Oh I'm so sorry your highness. Did that inconvenience you?" 

"Miss Sang," Dopey states, "As I'm sure you are aware, the second both parties admitted that your brother was indeed the child of Mr. Sorenson, we stopped having a say in the argument."

"BULLSHIT."

"No, if we interfered we would have been persecuted," he states, "We opted to keep your friend out of it so that you wouldn't have lost two family members in one day and that was the best we could do for you."

"BULLSHIT," I yell again, "You're the alpha kings, the counsel is there to assist you not walk all over you. You get the final say, not them, they are only there to help you come to reasonable conclusions. You could have EASILY stepped in, kill Eric, lie about it,  no one would have corrected you because everyone in that room knew he deserved to die- don't lie about it, no one would have questioned your intentions. But were going to let my brother DIE, you are a pussy, a fucking pathetic excuse for a wolf, let alone an alpha, let alone an alpha king," I yell at him.

 "Anggle," Silas says sympathetically stepping forward to put a hand on my shoulder, "Don't touch me," I shove his hand off turning back to Dopey, "And why was he here anyways?" 

"Everyone out," he says calmly. When no one moves to leave he growls out, "NOW!"

Once the rest of them have left I just looked at him, "Do you know how badly I want to reject you, I don't know why I can't bring myself to do it but whatever the reason, I hate it, and I hate you," I tell him.

"You should," he states.

"What?" I ask confused.

"You absolutely should, the second we saw you, I- we always pictured our mate running into our arms and being as excited as we were. It's what we all dreamed about as children, the thing that brought us hope. The thing that brought me hope. I watched my father beat my mother every day, he would beat me too but she always tried to protect me even if it meant her life would be harder. One day when I was ten, he took it too far and killed her in front of me. The only thing that got me through that was that picture of my mate running into my arms one day and being excited to start the rest of our lives together."

"Eventually, we all came together as a group of nine, we sought out an oracle who told us that we and five others would have the same mate, so we sought out the five others, the Toma pack, we joined packs and became the alpha kings. Then one day Kayli came along, the five eldest members of our team found their first chance mate. I thought we weren't good enough, I thought that it was some sick twisted joke played by the universe. We drifted apart again, leaning on the counsel more than we should have, but we were children we didn't know what else to do. Eventually Kayli cheated on and rejected the Toma's and they all came back to us heartbroken." 

"As cruel as it sounds, the hope came back. Maybe our mate was all the same person again. We finally grew back together as a family, and then you showed up. That image of you running into our arms, my arms changed the second I saw you refusing to look at us. We all knew that you knew immediately like we did. But you didn't want us, you didn't want it to be true and so our hearts broke again."

"And we took out all that pain and hurt on you. Instead of showing you what mates should be, loving and cherishing you until you were ready; we tried to take your choice away. And I turned into someone I never wanted to be. I am so unbelievably sorry for what we've done to you, what I've done to you, you have every earthly right to hate us."

"Screw you," I said crying, "You don't get to just do that, I-I" I couldn't finish what I was going to say, I just don't know anything anymore; I want to hate them but I can't, I don't want to feel sympathy for them but I do.

All I can do is sit there and cry, and that makes me hate this situation so much more. Rounding the desk, Dopey hugs me, only now do I notice he's crying too. I hug him back and we slide to the floor, just crying and hugging.