One & Only: Divulge

CH1-I

"Tyler would you get out of bed already. We have a meeting to get to." David said as he pushed me off the bed.

I was fifteen when I first met him and he was the only one to keep me from my obsession with becoming perfect for my multicoloured stranger. He helped me with the stutter I had as a volunteer at the language training centre where I used to go for therapy. When I finally healed during my coming-of-age ceremony, he was the one my parents trusted to take me to Aldira Mountains our true home. We'd rejoined the Mountain Peak Pack who were apparently my parent's old pack.

My Mother and father were born without their wolves so they had chosen to move and live in the human city. My actually being as a were-shifter came as a big surprise both to them and to their families. Apparently, it might have been the main reason why everyone thought I had autism. My wolf was masked and since it was a part of me being suppressed, it made me sickly as years went by.

I missed him, my stranger, with all of my being. His appearance was the start of my cure but then his family moved the next weekend and I never saw him again. Not from lack of trying, but their tracks seemed lost. It was like the minute that family entered the airport, they disappeared. Trackers from the pack tried to help me find him but there was no trace. We had even considered that they were of supernatural origin and might have gone into hiding but even through the super grapevine, they were nowhere to be found. Some of our vampire friends were also still helping trying to locate him because I only had a few more years before I either lose my mind, die, or become rabid if he was not found.

He was mine at least that's what I deduced from the description of mate and how to identify them that I was given. For four years, David and I had tried for a relationship hoping we would develop a bond out of mutual understanding and trust. That would have negated the one I would have had with my true mate. It was also one way of me to hide since I was still afraid of rejection.

I understood that I need my true mate but I also resented the fact that I was expected to swoon over somebody I didn't actually know, and the automatic trust I would bestow on him would not be by choice but because I was genetically driven to do it. I also resented the fact that he knew me but he wasn't looking for me. Even after the encounter with him, yes, not tried to ever seek me again. He'd just forgotten me.

"David honey can we just skip this once please?" I tried to beg

"No, we can't put this one of. As a matter of fact, we can't put off the next six months meeting or training. You are in line for consideration in becoming the beta and I will not let you lose this chance. It will be a good opportunity for you especially since your great grandparents were once great leaders in the pack." he said as he picked out weapons from the hidden room behind our closet.

"I know but I don't want to be a leader..." I whined and realized it was too late. I had made him angry.

There was one thing David valued more than he loved me, heritage. He believed we lived our life as memory for those gone before us and in doing so, we walk in the path that they did upholding their values.

"Don't ever repeat that again." He warned me as he dropped star darts in the bag making me jump quickly from the bed and into the bathroom duly chastised.

I understood where he was coming from since he actually didn't know his own parents. His foster family had found him abandoned near an old factory wrapped up in an old sheet and they had raised him with love like he was their own. It was their heritage that he proud himself on. I washed up while in thought about what I actually needed to do.

I loved David but even with our relationship, there was no bond development. I knew it was my fault that we had actually not gotten that close. He loved me with his all but I had tasted what my mate would give me, completion and as much as I tried, it felt like I was settling with David. Settling with him wasn't a bad thing either because he kept me safe, he provided for me, he stood by me and most of all he gave me space to do whatever I wanted.

But he didn't give me colours. Whenever he was near, I could feel the imbalance in our wavelength and the out of rhythm heartbeats. We just didn't mesh and I had already glimpsed into paradise. I sighed and plucked the towel then got back into the bedroom. He'd already packed and was waiting for me.

Lying on the bed with his right hand on his temple, the T-shirt clung to his body defining the muscular chest and mouthwatering abs. I stretched my hand and caressed him causing him to moan. It was always the same reaction and though I knew what I was doing wasn't fair for both of us, I couldn't stop myself. I felt guilty, and every time I did, I ended up seducing him to make myself feel better. Yeah, I was a jerk but I didn't know what else to do, he'd always done everything for me.

"Love, if we start now, we are not going to make it." He said as he held both my hands kissed them as he said the rolled off the bed. "I will be downstairs."

I tried to pout but he just laughed and closed the door after him. Once he was gone, I sighed and forced myself to dress up. It was going to be a long week. A week that would have trials of its own and possible change due to the upcoming pack meeting, the training, with other packs meetings, and then the general meeting with other supers for the annual social ball.

"I am ready now can we go before I change my mind?" I said as I walked into the living room where David was waiting.

He looked at me up and down then licked his lips, adjusted himself, bent down seductively, and picked the bag just to frustrate me. I laughed at his antics and smacked his ass before I ran out laughing.

It was fun running into the forest and up the mountain to meet up with the rest of the pack. The air smelled fresh and I could pick up the scent of the oncoming rain. The leaves drying below our feet mixed with the soil was producing an earthy smell that was beckoning me to bury my snort in, but we had somewhere important to be and we were almost running late.

Running really, really late.

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