The Mate

Chapter Thirteen

Melody didn't think her life would become what it has. When she was first starting out at the age of eighteen she knew what she wanted. She wanted a small place to call her own and live. She was okay with the fact that she may never meet someone. She wanted a simple life.

Maybe down the road she would find someone that she would possibly want to spend the rest of her life with. Maybe she would love that person and have a little family. One boy and one girl. Only two kids. She didn't want any more than that. She would be a stay at home mom, while her husband was out working. She would send the kids off to school.

She thought that life seemed simple and that she would enjoy it. She would love her kids all her life. She would let them have sleepovers. Their friends could come over, have a party at every birthday. Christmas would be out of the world, Thanksgiving would be small. Halloween would have a picture for every year. She would have photo albums of every major holiday.

She would keep every piece of paper they would receive from school. She would make sure that her children would have a good life. She would make sure her children were loved and they always had a place to call home.

OR.

Maybe she would be a lonely old woman with five cats and ten dogs; maybe some fish or a bird, something.

She didn't know.

But what she wasn't expecting was to be a wolf. That's something that just seemed made up. Her life at the moment seemed to be a movie. There was no way she was sitting in a room with a bunch of wolves trying to figure out what to do about another alpha.

There was no way that she was the mate of two people. There was no way that she was trying to rush this relationship into a mating. It just didn't seem real. She still couldn't bring herself to understand that she just gave herself up to be marked.

She looked around the room and noticed all eyes were on her. She didn't realize what she just gave up. She felt her cheeks turn red from all the looks. She watched as everyone's eyes began to drift to Alex. He stood behind a chair; holding on to the back of it.

Thankfully his lower half was covered because she was trying so hard to not look at him. Although she had an idea of how big he was, she still didn't want to see his dick just hanging about.

"I don't think you understand the process of becoming mates." he looked at her. Lust was beginning to fill his eyes.

"I wonder what gave that away." her smart remark made a smirk come across Alex's face.

"Let me explain in a simple term." He rubbed a hand over his face. "In order to be marked we must be in the act of intimacy."

"Oh," she cleared her throat. "I see."

"Alpha," Aaron spoke up. "If you think this is an inappropriate conversation to have in front of us we will leave."

Alex nodded his head and everyone got up to leave. When Thomas was the last one to walk out and the door shut Alex cleared his throat.

"Let me just say that your mouth is going to get you in some trouble if you don't watch it."

"What do you mean by 'in trouble'?"

"You've got a smart mouth and it may give you some spankings if you aren't careful."

"Wait," she held her hands up. "Are you into that kind of stuff?"

"I'm an Alpha male. I get joy out of seeing my mate roused up by that stuff."

"And who says I even like that kind of stuff?"

"Oh, you will." he told her, walking over to her. She tried her hardest to not look down at him. "You will learn to love it. You will start to beg me for it."

"Mmm." She felt his hand under her chin and she closed her eyes.

Her body warmed up and she felt extremely hot. Her core was vibrating. She felt her underwear get wet. Her breathing became labored. She wanted him. She wanted every piece of him. He sniffed the air, growling.

"When you smell that good it's going to be extremely difficult to not take you right here on this table."

"Well stop making me feel like this so we can have a conversation."

He chuckled. "Okay, let me explain this a little better."

"Tell me everything in great detail because I don't know what is going on. Remember I didn't grow up in this."

"When mates meet each other they will mark them. In most cases once they meet it's really hard to keep them off of each other. It's even more difficult when the mate is older and has to wait for their mate to mature and meet their wolf. Dad knew Mom was his mate as soon as he turned twenty one but mom was two years younger. He ruled without mom for two years.

"When mom became twenty one they found each other. They already knew each other because she was the previous betas daughter. They grew up together and were really good friends. As soon as they got the chance they planned the ceremony and mated that night. As soon as the ceremony was complete they ran off and mated.

"That's when she got pregnant with me. To mark your mate you have to be having sex. You have to be in the moment. And yes you will know when the moment is. But I do want to know something. I've been thinking about how you feel about us being mates. I just want to know how you feel about being your mate. I know how I feel. I want to know how you feel."

He grabbed her hands and squeezed them for a second. "I want you to tell me the truth. Don't let my feelings persuade you."

"I don't know what to tell you." she felt his heart break a little. "I don't mean to say that like a bad thing. I know that I really like you. I just have to- just understand that I am going through a lot right now. I just found out all of this. My body feels different, my hair is white. It's a lot right now."

He nodded his head.

"However," she continued. "One thing I know is I can't imagine my life without you. My heart has had this pull on you ever since I met you. Every time I would think about you my heart strings would pull so tight to you. I was drawn to you. I need you to know that this is all crazy to me but you- you are my home." When he kissed her hands she smiled.

"You are my home and I need you to know that I haven't ever felt like this before. I love that you have been there for me and to help me understand what needs to be done and thank you for helping me try to understand this. I just currently don't know what to do. This is a lot to think about. Can we have tonight to think about it?"

Now, it was his turn to be confused. Wasn't she the one who asked about being marked? And now she doesn't? Did she want to do it to begin with? Or was it just a stupid thing to say?

"I'm sorry," he shook his head. "So you don't want to be with me?"

"No, that's not what I said nor meant."

"Can you please explain?"

"I do enjoy spending time with you and I enjoy being with you. But I just don't know what to do. I want to make the right choice and I just want to be happy for my life. I want the kind of life that when I die, I want to look back and think 'I had a good life. I made a good life.' I want that for me."

"I promise you. I will give you everything and more. I will give you the entire world if you want me to. I told you that I would give you everything."

She nodded her head. "You did."

"If you will, please let me show you that I want nothing more in this world but to make you happy and to be with you and only you." Alex told her.

"Will it hurt?"

"What?"

"Will it hurt when I reject Ethan?" she asked.

"It is supposed to feel like you're heartbroken. It's supposed to be the worst imaginable pain."

"Good. I want him to be in pain every day for the rest of his life. I don't know him but I just get a really bad feeling about him. I will NOT be his mate." looking in his eyes she continued. "But I will be your mate."