Finding My Mate

Chapter 19

A/N: I'm so sorry I haven't updated in like forever! But there's one now so here ya go! 

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Calla's POV: 

Choices. They have to be made. But there comes a time in everyone's life when they have to make a choice for the greater good. 

I looked at the writhing girl at my feet in pity. Her screams filled the night in harmony with the sound of other wolves being ripped to shreds. I needed to make up my mind and I needed to do it now. Ashley's pain wouldn't last forever, and she would lunge at Ben for killing who I assume was very important to her. 

"Calla." Ben spoke into my mind. I didn't respond at first. "Calla?" He said again. "What?!" I snapped back. I turned to look at him and instantly regretted the harsh tone. I felt even worse when I realized, this wasn't just a choice for the greater good, it was a choice of loyalty. 

Ashley has been apart of my old pack, hell, she was my family. She had gone to far, attacked my new pack and everyone in it, and now I was expected to kill my own family because of it. It was too much. "Calla. You need to decide, and soon. I can't do this for you. You know your pack loves you , and you know I do, but you need to decide where your loyalties lie. I can't vouge for you if you let her live. Just know that." He said in our link. I stood, shaken at his reality, while he turned to help his family. The one he had been born to lead. And the same one I had been born to as well. 

I had seconds left before Ashley would snap out of it and go for my throat, and I wouldn't be able to dodge her this time. 

Pack. Family. Pack. Family. Pack. Family. PACK. FAMILY. 

The words jumped around in my head as though it were a trampoline. My brain was going a million miles an hour. I was surprised it hadn't exploded. But just when I felt like it was about to, I was taken back. Back to a time I had long since forgotten. 

Remember when you were a kid? And whenever something bad happened, you could just run and hide from it amoung your toys? Or you would look at a posted hanging in your room of your favorite idol and wonder what they would've done? 

I have never wanted to go back to that time so bad. I had always looked forward to growing up. Now I regretted that wish. 

Then I was taken to another thing, the night I changed. Another night I had felt like this. I started to see another image too. It was one of my favorite times, my time spent with Steph and Bryn, my two best friends in the whole world. I hadn't talked to them in forever. We were playing Uno on a table and I threw my deck of cards at Stephen because he put down the card that makes you draw four of them. 

All of these things were flashing before me. And I couldn't remember why. I just sat back and enjoyed the rest of the show. 

The next picture was of the day I met Ben. I was walking through the woods with Bryn, her spunkiness radiating like her blond hair, and I saw him. I saw us. Kissing in the water, I saw the night he marked me, the night we mated, I saw everything. And I knew what I was going to do. 

It had never been a choice between life and death, or loyalty, or even morals. It was choice of who I was, and who I am. Ben was my new life. His, My, Our pack was my life. It was my destiny all along, and now I had to carry through with it. I had to kill Ashley.