My Forbidden Mate

Chapter 5

Sunday morning comes to quickly and after getting dressed I listen quietly trying to tell if Sabrina and Jackson are awake. I hear snoring and decide it's safe to leave my room. I grab my red vans, slipping them on as quietly as I can and walk out to the kitchen swiping my car keys off the counter.

I jump at the sound of Jackson's voice behind me. "Where are you going?" I sigh still walking towards the door as I say, "None of your business."  I hear him growl and gasp when suddenly he's right in front of me blocking the door. "You are my mate. You will speak to me with respect."

I know I should be scared, terrified even but something in the way he says respect makes me snap. I get in his face and stick my finger out poking him hard in the chest. The shock on his face makes me grow more confident with my words. "Respect? Don't you dare talk of respect when I heard you screwing my sister the other night. Don't tell me to respect you when my sister sleeps in bed wearing the ring you gave her."

And with that I push past him, yanking the front door open. I start my car and I'm driving away before I even have my seatbelt on, watching Jackson watch me through my car mirror.
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I didn't know where I was going. Not until I was there that is. I sit down at my mothers grave not caring if I dirty my white shorts. I don't say anything. I never do when I come here. How do you talk to a women whose life was given in order to give you yours? She died giving birth to me. How do I talk to my mother when I never really knew her to begin with? I sigh, running my hands through my hair. I send a quick text to Sabrina letting her know I'm spending the night at a friends house. I already texted josh on my way here making sure it was cool that I stay over at his place. He's not even home, having been spending most nights at his new boyfriend  Angelo's house. He has his own apartment which he made me a key to in cases of emergency's. I can't be home tonight, not while Jackson is there sleeping in the same bed with my sister and doing who knows what else with her.

I think about texting my father and letting him know too sense he comes home tonight but decide against it. I doubt he would even notice I'm gone let alone care to know why. After all I'm the reason his mate is in this grave to begin with

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I wake up to the sound of the front door opening. I check the time and see that it's 2 am. I grab the silver dagger under joshs bed and open his bedroom door. I see a large figure in the dark living room. But before I can lunge for it I'm tackled to the ground and the dagger falls from my hand clattering somewhere I can't see. I scream and kick the man on top of me. "Help, help, help!" A hand covers my mouth and I bite it and try to scream again when the voice stops me.

"Fuck. It's me, Jackson."

I go still underneath him finally giving myself time to notice the minty and fresh rain smell that I've come to learn is uniquely him. I push him off me and he growls. I stand up and turn the light on and cross my hands over my chest. Once again I am not wearing a bra and this time I'm only wearing a baggy t shirt and a white pair of panties. But he seems to have already noticed that, his eyes roaming the length of my bare legs.

I clear my throat in a attempt to divert his attention. It doesn't work. He just continues to sit up on the floor staring at me. My cheeks redden and I try not to think to hard about why he's looking at me. I sigh, "Jackson what the hell are you doing here?"
That seems to awaken him from his trans long enough for him to look around in suspicion.

"Sabrina said you were spending the night at a friends house. I asked my team to track you down. So where is this friend of yours?"

My mouth opens in surprise. "You tracked me?"

He nods as if that is a perfectly normal and ok thing to do. "We need to talk about today. Everything. I have a lot of things to clear up with you. But again where is your friend?"