Surrender (Werewolf)

Chapter 6

Chapter 6

“Be my mate,” he suggested.

His words caught me off guard. I wasn’t sure what kind of reaction my showed, but I’m pretty sure it was one of sheer surprise.

Me mate with Kieran? That’s just insane. We don’t even like each other. Well…I guess he probably likes me due to his excessive flirting at the diner last week but I had never really thought of him that way. I had a mate.

My mood lessened. Oh yeah, my mate.

I had temporarily forgotten about that. The hollow feeling inside my chest started to make its appearance again.

Kieran watched me very closely, cautiously.  When my eyes began to water again, he tensed. He slowly took a few steps toward me and placed his hands on my shoulders and gently, soothingly, rubbed them. Had my wolf been present she would have protested to him touching us whole heartedly. She’s still want Daniel. But that sad truth was she isn’t here. She’s gone. She left me, when he did. I was utterly alone inside myself.

“See, this is exactly the kind of pain that you can free yourself from. Don’t make yourself suffer anymore than you have to.”

He seemed weak as he told me this, like it physically pained him to say it. He was convincing himself as well and not only me. I had a feeling that he was forcing himself to move on even though that’s not what he really wanted. I don’t think I’ve ever seen an Alpha so weak before. Not unless they were dying at least.

“I am physically unable to be an Alpha to my pack. I’m too weak right now to make any decisions. My beta had to take over for me until I am able to resume my role again, whenever that may be.” He paused for a moment before continuing. “You can help me with that. We can both be normal again, and possibly even happy if we try hard enough.”

This time I was finally able to speak. I still had questions poking at my mind and I needed them answered.

“We don’t even like each other like that. I know when you flirted with me before it seemed a bit off. You were forcing yourself to do that. You were still thinking about Jasmine. Weren’t you?”

“I was,” he agreed. “But you forget, I was rejected before you were, I’ve had a little time to cope.”

“How long ago?” I asked.

“A month,” he answered solemnly.

His hands dropped from my shoulders and he took a step back giving each of us some room. His features still resembled depression.  I honestly felt bad for him.

“I tried to kidnap her you know,” he continued.

“What?”

“I tried to take her, but your Alpha stopped me. He would have most likely tried to kill me had we not been on human territory,” he explained. “He might have today if it wasn’t for the wake of recent events.”

“Is that when she rejected you?” I asked.

She shook his head. “No. It wasn’t until after that when she told me she loved someone else and couldn’t accept me.”

“I’m sorry,” I said. I really was. I felt bad that he had to go through that.

He didn’t say anything. He merely turned his head and looked out the window.

“So why me? Why not mate another she wolf?”

He turned to me again.”Because you’re already broken. If I found someone else, I stand a change of taking them away from the mate they haven’t met yet. I couldn’t inflict that kind of pain on another wolf.”