“No! You don’t understand! I don’t want a mate. It’s not you, it’s me. I don’t want a mate!” “Well you have no say in that, baby, because you’re staying with me until the day we die,” he told me in a tone that said there was no more negotiation to be done. Athena has been running for two years now: running from someone who made her life a living hell. While she's running from an Alpha, she bumps into another, literally. But this Alpha is a little different: he's her mate. . her very possessive and dominating Alpha mate.