Chains of Betrayal

Chapter Five: Mate

Kira's POV:

"MATE MATE, MAL, THAT'S OUR MATE!" I yelled into my human counterparts' mind. My body tingled, and the smell of woods, pinecones, and male musk filled my nose, intoxicating me. Who would have thought those would smell so good together! I craved more. I wanted to pounce on him and claim him immediately. Yet I couldn't move my human; my Mal was still not moving. I couldn't detect her genuine emotion because they jumped everywhere.

I pushed and pushed, begging to take over, wanting to interact with our mate. She wouldn't let me; that bitch stopped me from our mate? Was she insane? I frantically looked through our eyes, wanting to stare at him, lock eyes again at the glowing amber eyes looking at us. She felt me pushing and snarled at me in a warning tone. My head spun in confusion. Wh-what was I missing? This was our mate; why couldn't we go and get even more lost inside those eyes and more drunk on that smell?

"Mal, please, it's him; it's our mate. We need to mark him; we need to be closer." I whimpered to her, letting her know it was hurting me.
"No, We have no mate Kira; the sooner you learn that the less pain you will have." She ended abruptly and growled at the man in a ~stay back~ type of way before biting our kills neck and running back to the mansion. My mind raced, and my heart tugged to go back. Why was she suddenly so against a mate? And how had we grown so strong as to run with the massive deer in our mouth?

My whimpers didn't cease the whole run home. I didn't want to lose a second with our mate. My heart felt like it had a hole that was getting wider the further we got from him. My mind was stuck thinking about his silky black fur that looked so inviting to touch, his amber eyes beckoning me closer, telling me they needed me as much as I needed him. "We have no mate" Mal's word crept up and into my thought process. Had she gone crazy? YES, we had a MATE, and she left him; what does she mean by this running away? Was she planning to reject him? NO NO NO, she wouldn't, she couldn't. That would not only kill him but weaken us. "Mal, the moon goddess, gave us him; we are fated. Why are we running from him." My voice was now in a hurt tone, whimpers still leaving me, and the heart tearing inside of me. 'We can't reject him, Mal. It will kill him and ruin us. We need him; he needs us" a snarl left our muzzle brought on by her. I retreated a little to the back of her mind wanting to lay down and cry with every step further from him we got.

We trotted back into the mansion's ground, my heart a wreck, my mind a blur. We wolfs were usually more solid and clear-headed unless provoked than our human counterparts, but my human was breaking my heart. I didn't understand, and she wouldn't explain why we had left, only an ambiguous protest. We dropped the buck off at a building to the side, more of a shack made for the butcher to clean the animals as everyone shifted back to human forms and prepared for the rest of the evening events. We turned, and Mal lost her balance, seeming as if she was weak and something was wrong. "Mal, why are you doing this to us?" I asked in what could be considered a whisper as Mal slipped into a green dress not as fancy as the first one, for it went to her mid-thigh, but it had a corset top and a deep v-cut. She slipped into black heels before answering me as she slipped her red hair into a simple twisted bun to the left side by our back. "Kira, you know my parents, we don't get a happily ever after with our fated mate unless they had chosen them for us. We can't get our hopes up. Not until we see what happens, not until they have chosen, and don't worry, they have awaited this day my whole life we will know before dawn." She said almost emotionless if I weren't a part of her, I would have thought her indifferent, but since I was, I knew her fear was rising, and she was experiencing pain out of control.

She stood slowly from the chair she was sitting in as she put on her shoes. After a quick look in the mirror then, she darted outside. I could feel her dread and desperation for tonight to be over. I wanted to hide for the rest of the night. I couldn't face her parents; I would urge her to kill them. I would like to test her every ounce of control to keep me from coming out and hurting even those not responsible for the ache in my heart. I took a moment to recollect myself. I knew we needed to trust each other for our fate to play out the way the moon goddess had intended, but I couldn't.

When we walked outside, I had decided to cut off my communication with her to keep myself from bursting out and doing something we couldn't take back. I watched and heard her walk and got her congrats and happy birthday wishes while she walked the courtyard. The smell of jealousy from the young female wolfs and desire from the males. They all knew our power; at least they knew we could be powerful. Little did they know what I, what WE, had inside us. I scoffed and growled just before a smell, a new one evaded my brain once more; it was him! OUR MATE! He was back. Mal knew it too. Our body turned towards it without a moment to think it through. That's when we saw him in all his glory, standing in black slacks and a red button-up rolled up and around his beautiful thick forearms. We stared and stared until we saw who he was talking to. My and Mal's hearts stilled with hope as he turned and locked his hazel green eyes on us. We were frozen in the decision to run to him and to run away, knowing what our parents had in store. That was until we saw who he was talking to. That would be Alpha king and Luna queen of the kingdom Mals, no our parents. We both gulped one large lump to the back of our throats.