Silence……. I walked out of my room and didn’t hear anything. That was a good sign for me. You see I’m abused by my mate. What’s a mate? A mate is your other half. My mate has been beating me for 2 years now. I met him when I was 17 and it hasn’t gotten anything but worse since the day we met. Do I love him? No I don’t love him at all. I never had feelings for him or a pull. They talk about your mate having a pull and you feeling attracted to them. Well I don’t feel attracted to him. With that being said I haven’t let him mark me.
“Adelaide are you okay?”
I turned around and saw my best friend Lucas. His face got pale white when he saw my face. He walked over to me and I felt a spark. I gasped at the spark.
“Lucas did you feel that?”
“Yeah, I sure did. How is that possible when Nathaniel is your mate?”
“What if he isn’t? What if I told you that I found out that Nathaniel is faking our whole mate thing because of my crazy dad.”
Lucas’s face got bright red and he started shaking. I did what I would do no matter what I grabbed his face and kissed him. I felt him start to relax under the kiss and felt his arms snake around my waist. His hand accidently brushed against my ribs and I winced in pain. Lucas pulled away and looked at me.
“Adelaide come with me to my room.”
I didn’t have a chance to disagree before he pulled me down the hallway and up the stairs to the next floor. Neither one of us said anything until Lucas closed the door. I closed the door and when I turned around Lucas was standing his arms wide open. I ran into them and buried my face into his shirt and started crying. I don’t know how long I had cried for but I pulled away and saw that I had left a stain on his shirt.
“Adelaide what happened earlier with Nathaniel?”
“He beat me because I dropped the plate when I was serving them all food.”
“Let me see your side. I know he got you in your ribs because when my hands brushed your side you winced away.”
I slowly took my shirt of making sure not to my bruise. I knew it was pretty back because he kicked me many times in the ribs. Once I had my shirt of I saw tears start forming in Lucas’s eyes.
“Adelaide I’m so sorry he is doing this to you. I’m your mate and I am supposed to be protecting you from anyone hurting you.”
“Lucas it’s not your fault that this is happening. If anyone should be sorry it’s my dad and Nathaniel for doing this to me. The whole mate thing neither one of us knew until now because I overheard them talking to each other about why they chose me.”
“Addie why did they choose you?”
“Lucas I don’t know if I should tell you. You’re going to want to kill them and we need to keep this a secret that I know just a little while longer.”
“Adelaide Michelle Azaria tell me now what did they say.”
“They only want me to give to the vampires. They want to create a treaty for them and they wanted a young pure female wolf and that is me.”
Lucas looked straight into my eyes and I felt that pull between the two of us. I kissed him quickly and he grabbed my lightly by the waist. It didn’t help that I hadn’t put my shirt on yet. I snaked my hands in Lucas’s hair and pulled him closer to me. I felt him moan against my lips. I put my hands up the hem of his shirt and felt him pull away from me.
“Addie we can’t do this. Not with everything going on. I want our first time to be special and not because of what you found out.”
I looked at him and I started crying because I felt like nothing was going right in my life. I missed my mom, I missed who I use to be.
