Mate (COMPLETED)

Chapter six

Deborah's Point of View

I got back home before my mother and Jordyn did.

Huffing and puffing, I walked into the house and into my room and closed the door and sat on my bed, trying to catch my breath.

A few minutes later, I heard the front door open and close. Panicking, I tried calming my breath down more and grabbed a book and laid back on the bed and just flipped to a random page and started reading.

My bedroom door opened and I looked towards it and saw my mother standing there. "I thought I had told Jordyn to walk with you here and I assumed after he did, you'd stay in here." She said very sternly. "I'm sorry mother. I guess you checked in on me when I was in the restroom." I said, trying to stay calm. "Maybe. Just as long as you didn't sneak out to see that boy, Jesse." She told me. I shook my head. "No. I didn't." I set the book down.

She nodded once. But she had a look on her face that I knew all too well. Where she needed or wanted to talk to me about something but didn't know how to word it or if she really should bring the topic up to me. "Is there something wrong mother?" I asked. She looked up at me. "Yes. There is." She told me and walked in. I moved and patted a spot on me bed for her to sit.

After she got comfortable, she looked at me. "I didn't mean to freak out on you earlier today. I was just worried that, that Jesse kid was going to hurt you. And that's why I want you away from him. There's... a bad past between our packs." She told me. "But why? I don't know why or how. What is even the problem." I questioned.

She looked at me. "Twenty five years ago is when I met your father. But I never told you how. Or how your uncle became alpha." She said. Taking a deep breath, she started the story. "Your uncle and father was part of Vanished Fire." She said plainly. I gave her a shocked look. "What?" I asked surprised. She nodded. "But twenty five years ago, we weren't fighting or anything. We were peaceful to each other. But if one person went to the other pack then it was really upsetting to the pack they left and they would never be allowed to come back to that pack. Even if their mate from the opposite pack dies or something happens to them." She told me. It took me a minute to sink in and I nodded for her to continue.

"The alpha of Blue Oasis at the time already had a mate. So the beta was alone and she didn't have one yet. And here comes along your uncle and they became mates. Your uncle and your father were both sons of the alpha of Vanished Fire. He wasn't too upset that your uncle left because even then, he was a problematic person. But a few months after he came over to Blue Oasis, your father came and along to meet up with your uncle. I was with the Beta and with him while your father came to visit him. That's how I knew him and I were mates."

I gave her a questioning look after she paused for a long time. "But that didn't really my answer as to how the fighting started. If it wasn't a big problem other than the one who left the pack not being able to come back. I didn't know that even was allowed or could happen to leave your pack though." I said. She sighed. "If you let me think then I will tell you how the two packs started fighting." She told me. "Sorry..." I said.

After thinking for a moment, she started up again. "The reason why our two packs started fighting is because when your father left the pack, their alpha was furious. He had a plan to where when he got too old to be alpha anymore, your father would attack him and become alpha. But since he married me and came to Blue Oasis, he couldn't do that. So his father, the alpha, declared war on us.. Blue Oasis won, due to having more wolves than they had, but it left us smaller than them ever since. And ever since Blue Oasis "took away" their "future alpha", they've all been mad at us ever since."

I had no idea that something like that could ever happen. I always thought that once you were born into a certain pack, than that's where you stay forever. Even if your mate is in another pack. "And I noticed that your little friend out there, was related to the Vanished Fire alpha." She told me. That information wasn't new to me. He told me that his brother was alpha. But I just nodded and acted like I didn't know that. "I get I should be thinking about how you feel, Deborah, but I also have to think about my pack as well. And if you and Jesse were to officially become mates, than Vanished Fire would declare war on Blue Oasis. Whether Jesse would become alpha or not. He's still related to the alpha and his brother would fight us until we gave him back. I don't want anyone to die."

I felt the tears run down my face. I didn't want anyone to die either, but I also didn't want to loose Jesse. But I am the Beta of Blue Oasis. My mother's people where my people, too. And even if I didn't have as much authority as her, I still technically have some authority over everyone in Blue Oasis. I needed to think of them more than I thought of myself. "I'm sorry mother. I promise I won't see him ever again." I said quietly. But I knew she heard me.

She lightly pushed my hair out of my face. "I know it would be hard for you to, sweetie. But I promise you won't regret it." She said and left my room.

You're right, mother. I thought to myself. I won't regret it because I won't stop seeing him. Even if it's the cost of our pack.