A Killers Mate

Introduction/Chapter 1-3

Tiana Foster

          I'm a 18-year-old girl, due to be 19 in a month. 19, the age I get to find my mate. Though, I can feel the pull of it already. This makes me scared, the only way I could feel that pull is if my mate is 19 now. Only one person in my pack turns 19 today, Jackson. Jackson Richmend, the eldest son to the alpha. Alpha Jace, well ex alpha. He was killed, killed by his own son. In a fit of power because he was claimed unworthy. I suppose he was considering. He challenged him and won. Now, he is a different person. He isn't the Jackson I knew as a kid. He changed, he changed for the worst after that day. I'm scared he is my mate, by the goddess I know that sounds wrong.

Jackson Richmend

       19. 19 years old today, I can feel her. I can feel her wolf calling me. Tiana, my mate. She is perfect to be my luna, the only problem is. She knows what I did to get to where I am now. She is afraid of me; she knows I'm not the same person anymore. If only she knew that the way I feel never changed. I would have and still would protect her with my life. It's my fate to do so. Whether she will let me or not.

Chapter 1

Tiana's POV

       19 in a month, I thought to myself. "In a month I will find my mate, but why can I feel the pull now?" I asked my mother, Paris. "Your mate might already be 19 sweetheart. It's his wolf calling, or her wolf I suppose." She tells me with a soft smile. Only one person turns 19 today, Jackson! My mother must have noticed my discomfort, because she asked me "You have an idea of who?" I look at her with a with a serious face as I say "Unfortunately I do, and I really don't like it."

       She cocks her head at me in wonder "Who do you think it is my dear?" She asked me as calmly as she could, all though I can feel her worry in my soul. "Alpha Jackson" I feel my stomach turn, it's not that he is an unattractive man. That is quite the opposite. Jackson is a very handsome young man! He just, isn't the Jackson that I used to know. I watch my mother's jaw almost hit the floor, literally "Alpha Jackson?" I hear her repeat in a worried whisper. "Yes mom, he is the only wolf that has turned 19 today that lives in our pack." I look at her in tears "Mom, I don't want him as my mate... He isn't the Jackson I knew all that time ago."

       I feel my mother wrap her arms around me in a tight hug. "Don't say that! He is the same Jackson you know; I know it." She tells me in a shaken voice. He isn't. I know he isn't. He hasn't been since that day. The day his own father tells him to challenge him. Jackson killed his father that day, and a part of his mother. Alpha Jace saw his son fit and the pack didn't. It was horrible, luna Stella's screams. The sound of ripping flash and fur. Alpha Jace's last words, 'Kill me. I will not surrender.'

       The sound of Jace's last breath was the worst I feel. For the pack. For me, it was the sound of Jackson's pain filled howl that night. He regrets it, yet he has changed. He is cold, towards the whole pack. The worst part, he is even colder to me. Why would the bond change that? It won't, and I would rather run from the bond then be rejected by my childhood friend. So, that's what I plan to do. Run, run and never come back. If he wants me, he will find me. If not, he can find another she-wolf. I hear my wolf, Persephony, growl in my head at that thought. She is a tough wolf, and she won't take no for an answer.

Chapter 2

Jackson's POV

       It's December 13th. My date of birth, and the day before my father was killed. I killed him. He asked me to; I get lost in my own thoughts and work when I feel my wolf go uneasy. "Mate!" I hear Venom whisper. "Mate?" I whisper after him as I look up just as Tiana walks past my office door. "Mate!" I hear Venom yell in my head. "What are you doing? Go get her!" He snarls at me even louder in my head.

       "I can't Venom." I say in a low tone. "She knows we are not the same. She knew us as pups, you know this." My eyes have yet to leave from watching the door. "No matter if the way we feel and have felt about her hasn't changed?" I hear him ask me in a whimper. I feel my power is sucked from my soul as Venom locks himself away in the back of my mind. "Venom?..." I hardly whisper as I sink down into my chair. Great, I think to myself, now how am I supposed to get any work done with the both of us distracted. Damn it.

 Chapter 3

Tiana's POV

       I leave for school in a week, 150 mils away from here. Far far away from here, far far away from him. I hear my wolf whimper, but she doesn't understand that he has changed for the worst. That Venom has changed for the worst. Jackson is crazy! He killed... He killed alpha Jace all because he asked him to. Does he not realize he almost killed his mother too? Is he just that blind? Is he just that power hungry? He could have just been given that power, he didn't have to kill for it.

       'Take the power... please.' I hear in the back of my mind. Alpha Jace's last words, luna Stella's screams and pleads for him to stop and not to kill him. "Take the power... please." I mutter to myself. "Just ask him! Please!" I hear Persephony yell at me. "I can't! I can't even look at him anymore and you know that, and now it's going to be so much harder to keep that promise to myself!" I cry out to her in my head. I feel the hot tears roll down my cheeks. Damn it... I have loved him for so long and I want to hold him. I want him to hold me. I can't though, I won't let myself get close to him. Not anymore.