The Mating Rights

Chapter 7

Jesse's POV

   I shifted into my wolf and sat waiting for her to react.   

   She slowly started to back away. My wolf whined taking it as a rejection. 

   She stopped. Then she looked at me, or 'us' in a weird way. She began to slowly walk towards us. She reached out with her hand letting us sniff her and get her scent. 

   My wolf started to preen. Trying very hard to make our mate proud of our appearance. 

   "You're so big, Mr. Cave, I mean Jesse", our mate said. 

   My wolf licked the palm of her head and admired our pretty mate. 

   "This is too freaky", she said under her breath. "Can you um, please change back"?

   My wolf eager to please our mate changed back very quickly. 

   There I stood. Naked and human in front of my mate. I started putting my clothes on while my mate sat on the bed with her head in her hands. 

   I finished dressing myself and sat next to her. 

   "Princess, I know this is surprising and sudden but you need to know everything", I said. 

   She looked at me through her lashes and I couldn't stand not touching her so I held her hand. 

   "Why are you so nice to me, why do you keep touching me, why did you kidnap me, why does my whole body buzz every time you touch me? And why do you keep calling me yours", she said in an eerily calm and quiet voice. 

   "Because I need you. I'll answer all of your questions after I tell you everything, okay", I said. 

   She nodded. 

   "So, you know about werewolves. Every werewolf belongs to a pack. It is against werewolf law for them not to. There are wolves that break this rule and they are called rouges. There is a natural ranking system embedded into our DNA. Each pack has an Alpha, Beta, and so forth along with the common wolves. There are around 50 or so different packs scattered across America. This pack, the Silver Eyes pack is mine. I am the Alpha", I stop to make sure she is following along with me. 

   "Please keep going", she says. 

   I nod and continue, "The Moon Goddess created all werewolves. When doing so she made each male werewolf a counterpart. It is impossible not to be together. If one should reject the other they would go insane. They are destined to be together. They will love each other like no other and essentially will die without each other. The Alpha's mate is called Luna, it means moon and is a very honored name because a wolfs life is centered around the moon".

   She looks a me and I can feel her grip on my hand tightening. 

   "Since the Alpha has more power than the other wolves it is important that he finds his mate to soothe the beast raging inside. The Alpha's mate is like the queen in chess. She is the most important piece to the pack", I tell her feeling nervous. 

   "Jesse, am I...", she trails off. 

   "Yes Taya Princess, you are my mate", I finish. 

   She looks down at our interlocked fingers. 

   "So what would happen if I didn't want to be with you", she asked. 

   My heart hurt thinking about that possibility. "I would go insane. I would terrorize anyone I came in contact with. Turn rouge. My wolf would go crazy with fury and take over completely and I would hurt people until you accepted me, or until the mate bond fully wore off and we died", I explain.

   "We died? Why do I have to die", she questioned angrily. 

   "Baby, I'm Alpha and you're Luna. Our bond is the most powerful and connecting type of bond that exist. Which means it needs extra care. We get a lot of privileges with our bond but there are also some down sides if we aren't connected our souls slowly starts to leave our body then we die", I tell her. 

   "Yeah well with a downside like death I can see how to people would connect" she said sarcastically. "What other downsides" she asks.

   "We'll both be very protective and territorial over each other. Which will make us easily susceptible to jealousy", I explain.

   She nods and takes a deep breath. "Can I talk to my Aunt please, I need to let her know that I'm okay", she tells me. Trying to ignore everything I just said. 

   "She knows you're okay. Jessica told her you're my mate", I tell her. 

   "Of course she does", she mumbles under her breath. "She knows about werewolves", she asked. 

   I nod yes.

   "And Jessica is a wolf", she asks.

   I nod again. Then ask, "how do you feel about everything"?

   "How else can I feel? I have to be your mate or else I'll be responsible for multiple people dying, you losing your conscience, and inevitably both of us dying" she says. 

   "I'm not going to apologize for you being my mate because I would rather have no one else but I do wish you didn't have to deal with the hardships", I tell her, sincerely sorry for the stress she now has because of me.

   She puts her head down again and stares at our hands. 

   I place my other hand on her palm so that her hand is sandwiched between my own. 

   She smiles, still looking down and places her hand on top of the hand sandwich I made. 

   I take my hand and place it underneath her chin. I push upwards so that she's looking me in the eye. 

   She gives a small smile then her eyes well up. A few tears cascade down her cheeks. I wipe them away wishing they had never appeared. 

   Taya whimpers then bites her bottom lip, I assume to keep from crying any further. 

   I place my hands on the sides of her face and lean in. Slowly I place a kiss on her forehead, then her nose then each cheek. She closes her eyes so I press a kiss onto each eyelid. Then the corners of her mouth. Finally I kiss her lips. 

   It was the most amazing feeling I had ever experienced. Her dewy cheeks pressing into my hands as my tongue explored her mouth. She made a small noise. Almost like a quiet moan. My body lit up. She tentatively moved her lips against mine. Like kissing was new to her. Or maybe she just didn't trust me completely yet. My whole body buzzed. I could feel every nerve in my body firing, basking in this feeling.

   I broke the kiss and rested my forehead against hers. 

   We stayed like that for a while until I felt her lulling off into sleep. 

   I picked her up and carried her to our room and away from her temporary one then placed her on the bed. I locked the door and hid the key on top of the full length mirror.

   I laid down with her and cuddled her while stroking her hair and her face until I fell into a dream filled sleep.