The Teased Mate (𝓑𝓸𝓸𝓴 #1)

Chapter Thirty-Six

I break down as soon as I hug my mom. Her warmth is so welcoming. My death grip on her probably isn't comfortable.

"Honey you are scaring me. What's wrong?" Her voice is so full of worry.

"Anthony said he was done with me," I say while hiccupping. The tears keep falling, no matter how badly, I try to prevent them from falling.

Something inside me broke and it wasn't the mate connection. My whole body aches and my stomach is running on practically nothing. It growls right on cue. I sigh in confusion, normally when I am upset hunger is the last thing on my mind. But now that I am pregnant, I am always hungry.

"Why don't we go get you something to eat." I could use something to eat. The way she said those words though, it was if she thought, I would break if she treated me normal. We walk over to our kitchen it is nice, neat and stocked with so many delicious goodies. Oooh, I smell brownies.

My stomach growls again, but my mind is telling me not to eat. That, I don't want to, but I do.

My mom starts warming up leftovers. Beef stew, I think. The smell fills the room while I think about my mate. I know, I shouldn't but it is all that is on my mind most of the time. How the hell am I supposed to do this? Can I reject him without falling apart? Will he try to take the baby? I try to keep my tears at bay, my baby is all I can think.

Before I know it my mom has juice sitting in front of me. She warms up a few rolls. All the scents are tickling my nose.

My mom then puts the hot stew and rolls in front of me. Oh, shit our picnic! I left the stuff in the van, the stupid van I went into to grab my new clothes.

I begin to devour my food. My oh my, I am hungry as hell! The first bite is amazing the second bite is of the steaming hot role. I dip it into the broth and devour it. All the table manors I learned are nonexistent as pig out.

I finish the bowl in no time ready for a second helping of it. For some reason as in probably the baby's fault, my appetite is really enormous today.

"Mom, do you think he will try to take my baby?" My mom looks up from the stew she was just swirling around in the pot.

"Honey, everything will be fine. He hasn't rejected you. He could never do that, I have seen how head over heels in love with you he was a little boy. He loves you with all of his heart." I scoff and it stings to do that. I want to believe he cares for me, but after everything, he said, I more than doubt it.

"Mom he played us, he doesn't love me." My mom walks over with another half-full bowl of stew.

"Why would he do that?" She asks a bunch of things fill my brain in less than a second.

"He wanted this, he wants the baby. Why else would he act this way? I am almost done with college, have no steady stream of income, on top of that I am now homeless." My mom frowns. She never heard the way he talked about family. How he wanted one of his own, but I never seemed to be in the picture of his fantasize about having a family. He never mentioned me being his family. All he ever said was that he loved me. He then said all of that is a lie counter-attacking everything he made me believe.

"You are not homeless, you can stay here." My mom shoves another roll toward me as she says this.

"I don't want to live here. I want to be somewhere where my mate doesn't rule everything." She sighs as I explain this.

"Are you sure? That means you won't have the right to be Luna. You will have no rank you and that child will become rogue as soon as you cut ties with us. What will you do? How will you make money?" She asks, putting more doubt and fear in my mind.

"I can get a job and I have money mom, so I can find a nice and safe place for me and the baby." My mom is quick to reply.

"What about Anthony?" She asks.

"I will tell him the baby didn't make it." My mom frowns.

"That's cruel as hell." I nod, he has been cruel maybe this will be my revenge.

"I know that, but he already said the baby and I were mistakes. Why should he have to put up with two unwanted mistakes?" My mom's face saddens, then I can see a spark of anger in her eyes.

"He said that to my pup and my grand pup. How dare he have the audacity to say that, I will have a few words with him." I shake my head no trying to stop her from doing whatever she is thinking.

"No, you will not," I say with as much confidence and authority as I can muster.

I will just drive off and cancel the mate bond. I can't care for him anymore. Easier said than done, I know. I can not let my mom know I am planning this or she will try and stop it. No one can know.

This meal could be the last with my mom. I can not let her suspect a thing.

"I am tired may I crash here tonight?" She smiles.

"The guest room is all yours." I laugh it used to be all mine, then it was a game room, now it's a room with a really nice bed.

Before I go to bed, I put my car inside the garage and get rid of any trace of my scent. Thank god I took extra lessons as a kid.

Just as my head hits the pillow there is a banging sound at the door. I can smell him.

Oh god, he is pissed. The one night, I leave him he comes home how ironic. I ignore it and cut off my Werewolf senses. He can't sense I am here so that is pissing him off.

I can hear my mother open the door. A second disturbance in the middle of the night is sad. I will apologize in the morning.

"Where is she?" He asks his voice full of kindness and respect. He can respect my mom and treat her well, but not do the same with me. That fricken stupid dick! My mom is very polite to him. Maybe he won't suspect a thing knowing how calm she is, maybe he will go.

"You two live together, once she was out of my house, I stopped keeping tabs on her." He seems to huff out a sigh and leave after she says this. She shuts the door and walks back up the stairs to her room.

Just like that?
I hear a tap at the window. Oh fuck, not now!

Go away. Please just go away.