Mute Mate

Chapter 22

~AUTHOR POV~

(Just over one hundred years ago)

There was an alpha, Kim Taemin.

He was known to be one of the best the pack had ever seen so far. Always described as strong, brave, loyal and honest also not to mention very handsome. He could have his pick of any girl but all he wanted was his true mate, the one that was destined to be by his side forever and love until death but sadly as years went by he couldn't find his mate.

Soon enough he gave up trying to even find his true mate and stuck to his duties in looking after his pack as an alpha should do, just without his Luna. The lone Alpha is what others outside the pack would call him and some would think of him as weak because of this but he was far from weak and showed anyone inside the pack or outside just how untrue that was.

Even with the love of his people, it kept him going through the lonely years, even to watch his younger brother Yeonjun find his mate and go through the tradition of the mating ceremony and live their lives together. He loved his brother and thought of his sister in law as a sister of his own but he couldn't help but still feel jealous for what they had but that didn't stop him from also feeling happy for them.

He started to believe that he was probably destined to be alone but one day....that changed.

Taemin was out patrolling the borders as he did every morning and night. First he picked up a scent that made him excited and felt drawn to it but couldn't quite pin point where it was coming from. Until he heard that screeching scream fill his ears through the trees. It caused him great pain and he dropped to his knees at the sound. He never heard anything like it and to only last seconds did the screaming stop and he rushed across the border to follow the scent that grew stronger for the longer he ran. Something inside him was telling him to be ready for what was to come next, that what he's about to find will change everything.

And it did.

The moment he found that woman, laying on the forest floor curled up with her eyes closed in her unconscious state did he realise straight away who she was to him. She was the most beautiful woman he had ever laid eyes on. Clearly she wasn't from around here, she was of different race to him but he didn't care, she was gorgeous in his eyes and vowed there and then to protect her. In the first deed to protect her he sought action to pick her up from the cold floor and take her home but he did not let anyone near her. As far as he was aware this woman in his arms was his, no one was to touch her or even look at her. Taemin wanted her all to himself and as he finally reached his home, he laid her comfortably on his bed and watched over her as she slept.

She only woke up hours later, introduced herself as Aileen but wrote her name down for him as he came to learn she was a mute.

Aileen could not speak but that didn't faze Taemin one bit, he still saw her as the most precious thing to ever walk the earth and as for Aileen it was love at first sight. She knew as soon as she laid eyes on that man that the two were destined to be together.

She had a serious moment with him, explaining how she had come to find his pack, something telling her of what is to happen due to dreams she had been having since arriving in the country. She was scared for him, for his people. That part she didn't say but she didn't have to as Taemin soon enough and somehow as they bonded more, grew to understand what she would mean, what she would think and how she could feel as if she was telling him everything but with no words. As if he could read her mind when in reality he couldn't.

No one could explain it but everyone would speak of how strong their bond was. It was powerful and over time everyone grew to love Aileen as she became one of them, part of the pack as one big family. Though it didn't come with out the bad parts of her stay at the pack.