Falling for your Fate

Chapter 13

Chapter 13

'Are you sure you're okay walking?' He asked worriedly as I stumbled over another loose branch. We'd only been walking for twenty minutes but I'd managed to trip over every branch and every rock along the way.

'I'm fine,' I grumbled, stomping slightly in frustration. 'I'm just clumsy.'

'We should have driven,' he mumbled angrily and I tensed beside him, my hand going stiff in his. No matter how many times I had tried to pull it away since leaving the house, he still held firm. Even more so now.

'I'm sorry,' I muttered, feeling my head drop instinctively as the rest of me tried to gauge his anger. The smaller I could make myself the less of a target he would have to aim at.

'I'm not angry at you baby girl,' he sighed, stopping and pulling me around so I stood in front of him. 'I should have driven you to town because you have been hurt and you are tired. I could never be angry at you.' He smiled, leaning down and pressing a kiss against my forehead. My fear was quickly blanketed in confusion and I looked down at his feet.

'I have a gift,' I mumbled, trying to pull away from him but instead, he pulled me closer, leaning down again so his face was inches from mine, his hand coming up to raise my eyes to him.

'I will protect you Leora, I will never consciously hurt you, not now, not ever. Do you understand me?' He asked, his eyes staring intently into mine.

'You were mad this morning, you wanted to leave.'

'I was frustrated baby girl, not with you, with our situation. It was never meant to be this way. You were hurting and there was nothing I could do to help you. I still can't and it eats away inside of me that there are wounds inside of you that I can't see, that I can't fix.'

'I'm sorry you were cursed with such a broken mate,' I spat, feeling the hairs on the back of my neck begin to rise and my skin began to heat.

'Don't say it like that Leora. You need to accept that I am your forever.' He answered sadly, running a hand along the side of my face, immediately sending sparks across my skin everywhere he touched. I stayed silent under his gaze and he eventually let me go only to take my hand again and start leading me down the well worn path in the forest.

'Are there humans in the town?' I asked after a long silence and I noticed the trees had begun to thin.

'Of course, we peacefully coexist with them. Only a select few know our secret the rest believe we are just regular humans like they are. We work very hard to keep ourselves a secret from them. To protect them and their innocence to our world.'

'Isn't it hard?' I frowned, thinking back to my own pack that kept themselves mostly out of the way of humans.

'Sometimes it can be, but we cannot live isolated from them especially when some of our wolves have found their mates among the human population.' Breadon explained as the first buildings came into view. Even from a distance I could tell the town wasn't large.

'Human mates?' I asked in surprise, in my own pack I had never heard of a human mate. When I had been attending school a female teacher had gone missing and it was rumoured the pack had kicked her out after she found her mate. He was human and they had demanded that she reject him but she refused. Although, the rumours have never been confirmed.

'What kind of pack do you come from Leora?' He asked, his face scrunched up in thought.

'It doesn't matter where I come from,' I muttered, feeling my walls start to build again. I didn't want to speak about my pack. I didn't want to remember everything I came from, the people I had left behind. I never wanted to think of them ever again.