The Denial

12: Mate.

~Grace~

Agreeing to the plan I made, Mark left to his room. Now, its my turn to tell Emma everything. I entered our room and saw her on her bed, playing on her phone.

"Hey," She greeted, and I returned her greeting with a grim smile. And explained to her werewolf world.

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"So..Alpha is the leader of a werewolf pack, and his soulmate -mate- is the female version of him and its called Luna. Every werewolf has his mate. And the assistant of the Alpha, other than the the Luna, is called...wait what's the name? Uh.. yeah, Beta?" Emma went on with the other stuff I told her, just to make sure she knew.

"Good, okay. Emma; now as weird as it sounds I'm gonna tell you this.." And I told her about my conversation with Mark.

At first, she didn't believe me. I mean, who would? But eventually, she did.

"So, what will you do?" She asked.

"You brought James' jersey, right?"

James is Emma's boyfriend. I adviced her not to get too attached, but like every girl, she said he's different. What she doesn't know is that he's sugercoating his personality, I'm pretty sure about it.

"I did, why?"

"Can I wear it when he comes? Just to mix James' scent with mine. If what Mark says is true, he will shift," I explained.

"Why would you want James' jersey to do that?"

"Emma," I breathed. "We need to make him angry. So what if you smell another girl all over your boyfriend? You will be angry. That's the point. If he smells James' scent all over me, he'll get angry. Again, he gets angry, he shifts." For the third time, I explained.

"Oh," She finally understood.

"Yeah, so can I have the jersey please?"

"I'm kinda jealous..." She smirked.

"Shut up, and give me the jersey. Its not like I'll steal your lover boy," I stuck my tongue out.

She threw the jersey at me, "I hate you."

I blew her a kiss and started laughing.

I am blessed with this idiot.

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Next day, after touring, everyone was exhausted. Except for me. I was..nervous? Scared? I don't know what to expect. Thinking about it gave me the churns in my stomach, which only made me nervous.

"Go to your room and change into the jersey now," Mark texted as I enetered the lobby.

I dragged Emma into the elevator and withing a heartbeat, we were in our room and I was in the jersey.

There was a knock on the door and I didn't need to guess who it was.

Mark and Tyler stood there and Tyler looked nervous.

We said our greetings awkwardly and Tyler kept eyeing me , I shifted in my seat uncomfortably. Just sitting there with our eyes glued to our phone when unexpectedly, a growl echoed in the room.

"Mine," Tyler growled through gritted teeth. revealed, fingers turned to claws and

He charged from his seat towards me, and I got scared by the second. I guess my scent and James' finally could be smelt.

Mark stopped him, which only made him growl even louder, making me and Emma flinch.

Tyler's eyes started to darken. From hazel to brown to black. He started shaking furiously as his canines and hair turned to fur. I also started shaking too. I don't know if it was out of fear or I was imitating Tyler's movements. Just like that, the room was full of snapping voices -and I knew his wolf is taking over. All of a sudden, a wolf was there, coal black fur, red eyes with a line if hazel in it, and it had a silver necklace around its neck.

It was the wolf in my dreams. The wolf me and Emma saw in the street. With the silver necklace.

It snarled as it eyed my body.

"He's ordering you to change. He doesn't like the scent on you," Mark said. I think Tyler just mindlinked him.

Though his wolf was huge, it reached to my chin, I wasn't scared. In fact, I was expecting this size, but Emma clearly didn't see that coming, her knees would've buckled under her if I wasn't there to catch her.

I went and changed into my leggings and my brother's hoodie.

Yes, I have a brother, Jason. He's 24, and he's in college. And yes, I wanted to show Tyler that he doesn't completely own me.

I came out of the bathroom to find Emma sitting cross legged with Mark and Tyler across her.

I sat beside Emma and we were wrapped in awkward silence.

"So now you believe me," Mark said.

Ignoring him, out of nowhere, I randomly stated.

"I'm going to reject you."

~Tyler~

Again? Her words were knives that stabbed over and over. Sure, she hasn't officially rejected me, yet it hurts.

"Grace," I breathed. "The decision you made 5 years ago.."

"It remains unchanged," she said firmly.

"That was 5 years ago, I was 12, sure, it affected mean, it wasn't as serious, now we're older, it doesn't only affect me, lets not forget the pack."

"What about them?" She asked calmly.

"I did mention he's Alpha. Any decision he makes, affects the pack," Mark spoke.

"Think about it, a mateless Alpha," I said, trying to convince her, but I know she won't buy it.

"I'm human, how do you expect me to run a pack with minimum of 500 werewolves who are obviously stonger than me.." She started babbling.

"Physically," I stopped her.

"What?" She stared at me.

"Yeah, they're physically stronger than you. You've got Luna qualities, I've noticed that in you," I blurted the last part.

"Noticed?" She raised an eyebrow.

"Yeah..I,um, kinda...observed...you?" Hesitantly, I said.

She stared at me blankly, then scoffed, mumbling, "observed."

"Something completely out of the subject, who's hoodie are you wearing?" I said, irritated by the human's scent combined with hers.

A smirk played on her lips, "Oh, its from a dear friend of mine. He moved to another town and gave this to me. God knows how much I miss him. He's a very lovable person," she miled warmly in the end.

I growled, "he?'

"Yeah? Can't you see? Its obvious its a guy's jacket?" She narrowed her eyes.

I growled louder.

"Relax," she laughed. "Its my brother's jacket. Stop growling like that."

"Scary?" I grinned.

"Annoying," Her expression hardened.

"Can we sleep now. Its 11:30, I'm tired," Emma said.

And with that, we were out of their room.

She can't reject me now, at least. With the pack depending on her, I don't think she will.

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A/N

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- Reema