I felt Seleste’s discomfort most of the night. It took her a long time to get to sleep. I can’t believe that I my choice to be with Theresa in the past could ruin my relationship with my mate. I hope she knows I am not the type of male that would be in a relationship with two females at one time. My mother raised me with more respect than that. I need to talk with Theresa and let her know it is over between us. Now that I have my second chance mate, I can’t imagine being with any other female. Seleste is everything to me. I need to slip away in the morning and call my beta. I need him to get to Theresa and keep her away from me until I tell her about me finding my second chance mate. I wasn’t lying to Seleste when I said that I forgot about everything else when she projected herself in the room with me and her cousins. My only focus was rescuing her.
“Well now, your focus better be on keeping our mate. I will never forgive you if anything happens and I lose another mate because of you. I will ask the moon goddess to take me away from you. You didn't listen to me when I told you to stop having sex with that female.
“Come on Onyx. How was I supposed to know that we would get a second chance mate?”
“Regardless human, you should have listened to me and followed my instinct. Have I ever lead you wrong? I told you that female was not the right one for us. Even if we ended up with a chosen mate, she was not the one. She has a mate out there. If we chose her, she would have left us when her mate came or stayed with us for our power and nothing else.”
“You are right, Onyx. I’m sorry I didn’t listen to you. I will do everything I can to protect our mate and make her happy. I will let Theresa know it is over. I want to do it face to face. I feel like I owe her that much.”
“I don’t agree with that. Our mate will not be happy about you meeting the female you were intimate with alone and in secret. Are you trying to ruin things for us?”
“Nothing is going to happen, Onyx. It will be a quick conversation and Seleste will never know.”
“Why are you getting so dumb all of a sudden? This is a bad idea. You need to cut all ties with Theresa before we get back to the pack. You need to call her and end it before we leave.”
“I will not do that, Onyx. That would not be fair to Theresa. She has done nothing wrong. I found my mate, but she was important to me at one time. I shouldn’t just discard her like trash.”
“I am going on record and say this is a bad idea and when it blows up in your face, don’t blame me. If you value our mate and really want things to work, end it with Theresa before we get back to the pack, so there won’t be any issues for our mate.”
‘Onyx, I will not break up with Theresa over the phone. That is not right. I will end things with her face to face.”
“Hump, if I didn’t know any better, I would think you just want to see and be with her one last time.” Onyx says and closes our link.
I think about what Onyx said, but no, that’s not it. I just want to end things correctly. Before long, it is morning and time for us to get up and head to my pack. My mate is up and dressed, looking beautiful. She is the moat beautiful female I have ever seen. Why would I need to see another female when she is everything I could want? Onyx is wrong. I have no desire to be with Theresa again. I’m just trying to do the right thing.
“Keep telling yourself that. I hope it comforts you when our mate leaves us.”
“I thought you blocked me.”
“I did. I just want to remind you that I warned you this will not end well. That’s all.” Onyx says and closes the link again.
Onyx is worried about nothing.
My mate is silent this morning. I try to keep her close to me, but she keeps pulling away. She must be still upset about our conversation last night. Maybe Onyx is right about me letting Theresa know it’s over before I get back. If Seleste is this quiet now, she will be pissed if she found out that I met with Theresa.
I called my beta and tried to get him to bring Theresa into the office so that I can tell her about my mate, but my beta says that Theresa is not currently there. She went on a trip with her friends for a couple of days. That makes me relax a little. I won’t have to worry about anything. I let my beta know that my mate and I will head that way within the hour. It will only take a couple hours for us to get there via helicopter.
After a hardy breakfast, we all load up in the helicopters and the bus and head towards my pack. I notice that my mate is still quiet. I’m not the only one who notices.
“Let, are you ok?” Talia asks my mate.
“Yes, I’m good. I guess I’m just a little nervous about meeting the pack.”
“Let, I have seen you face off with countless rogues without fear, win battle against impossible odds without breaking a sweat and you are worried about meeting your mate’s family who will and probably already love you?” Talia says.
“Talia is right, mate. My family will simply adore you. My pack is excited to have a luna again.” I say.
Seleste looks at me and Talia and smile but does not say much. The rest of the tip is relatively quiet, with me pointing out landmarks for Seleste. She seems a little on edge. So does Onyx. I trust everything is going to be ok,
“Onyx, why are you so worked up? Chill, everything is going to be ok.”
“No, it’s not. This will not end well. I can feel it. You should have called the female and ended it.”
“I tried, remember? She wasn’t at the pack when I called.”
“You should have called her directly. You could have if you wanted to.”
“Why, beta Leighton said Theresa went away for a couple of days. I will talk to her once Seleste settles in her room.”
“Look human. I know you mean well, but you are being very dumb right now and your stupidity is going to hurt our mate and cause her to leave us. You can’t say I didn’t warn you repeatedly.”
“You worry too much, Onyx. I love Seleste. I wouldn’t do anything to hurt her.”
“All I’m going to say is that I warned you.” Onyx says.
We finally make it to my pack’s helipad, and I am glad to be home. I can feel the excitement buzzing around my pack. The word has gotten around that I am bringing my mate home. They are all excited to meet her. I look at Seleste and she is genuinely smiling. I know she can feel the excitement of the pack.
We all step out of the helicopter and head towards the pack house. We don’t get that far before my mom and dad reach us. My mom immediately grabs Seleste in a hug.
“You must be Seleste. I’m Daisy, this idiot’s mom. I am so happy to meet you. I didn’t think this day would ever happen again for us, but I thank the moon goddess for you.” My mom says.
“Thank you so much, Mrs. Blake. I am so happy to meet you.” Seleste says.
“As you can see Seleste, this is my mother Daisy and the mountain of a man standing behind her is my father, Dockson.”
“Hi Seleste. It’s a pleasure to finally meet you in person. Talia has told us all about you.”
“Thank you, Mr. Blake. It’s a pleasure meeting you as well.”
“None of that Mr. and Mrs., None sense.” My dad says, “You are family. You can call us by our names.”
My dad and mom walk with Seleste in the middle of them. We start back towards the pack house. I introduce Seleste to rank members as we pass them on the way. Everything is going smoothly so far. Seleste has relaxed with my parents. She, Talia, my mom, and Yvette are talking about going shopping later. Seleste will need clothes, since all of her things are still at the bear’s den. I know Seleste has her own money, but I will send her on this shopping trip with my credit card. I want to see her walking around in clothes that I provided for her.
Just as we got to the front of the pack house, I hear a loud scream of my name and Theresa runs and jumps in my arms. She wraps her legs around me and kisses me on the mouth.
“Hi baby. I missed you. When did you get back?” Theresa says and kisses me again while her legs are still wrapped around me.
I hear my mate yell in pain. Talia comes up and snatches Theresa out of my arms.
“How could you do this to my best friend? Alpha or not, I will kill you for this. You didn’t have to bring her here for this.” Talia says and jumps at me, but is caught by her mates who are also glaring at me.
I am frozen in my same spot. I don’t know what to do. I didn’t expect this to happen.
Theresa gets up and comes back over and puts her arms around me.
“What the hell Talia. Is that any way to treat the future luna of this pack? Jarvis should make you leave for that. Baby, did you see what she did to me?”
My mate just stands there and looks at me. I can see the hurt and anger in her eyes. She looks at Theresa’s arms around me and looks back into my eyes. I’m still frozen.
“Baby, let’s go to your room. You have been gone for days. Let me show you how much I missed you.” Theresa says and tries to pull me into the packhouse.
Seleste is still standing there, just looking at me. Like she is waiting for something to happen. After about a minute, she drops her head and teleports away.
“Seleste, wait,” I yell, but it is too late.
My mate is gone, and I don’t know where she went. That’s enough to break me out of my fog. I shove Theresa away from me.
“Fine, time for you to act now, son.” My father says. “I am so disappointed in you. Your mother and I raised you better than that. The moon goddess gives you a second chance mate, and that is how you treat her. I hope she never comes back. You don’t deserve her.”
My mother just looks at me with disappointment.
“I can’t even stand to look at you right now.” My mother says as she grabs my father’s hand and they walk away from me.
I look around and I see disappointment on the faces of all the pack members around me.
“I used to have so much respect for you. I constantly told Seleste what a great guy you were. I actually prayed to the moon goddess to make you Seleste’s second chance mate, because I thought you would cherish her well. I wish I had not spoken so highly of you, so she wouldn’t have accepted you so readily.” Talia says and walks off.
“My cousin did not deserve that. I will let the council know I can no longer work with you. I have lost all respect I had for you. What kind of male allows another woman to completely disrespect his mate like that? You know, she waited to see if you would push that female away from you, but you didn’t. You let her kiss you in the mouth twice. Talia had to push her away. Then you let her come right back into your arms. Your actions said it all.” Sam said.
“Like my brother, I can no longer work with you. You are a disgrace to everything we stand for. If I have my way, you and your pack will be removed from the protector team. I no longer trust you with my cousin.” Drew says and walks off to join his brother and mate.
“What the hell is going on, Jarvis?” Theresa says.
“That’s alpha to you. I never told you, you could address me by my name and I never told you, you would be my luna”
“But we’ve been together for months.”
“No, we’ve been fucking for months. We have never been in a relationship. We had an understanding. Maybe I was a little lax in letting you have your way around here, but you knew we would never be more than what we were.”
“So its true? You were granted a second chance mate. I thought it was just gossip when I heard it around the pack.”
“You knew I had a mate before you pulled that little stunt just now?” I asked her.
“I had heard it, yes, but when you held on to me and didn’t push me away, I figured the rumors were false. Why would you allow it if I meant nothing to you? After all, you kissed me back. Why else did your mate feel the pain when we kissed? She would not have felt the pain if you didn’t kiss me back.”
“It is over between us. Stay away from me. If you come before me again, I will banish you. The fact that you purposely tried to hurt my mate says a lot about you. I thought better of you than that. I respected you as a person. I was coming to tell you about my mate face to face instead of calling you and dumping you over the phone. I apparently gave you more consideration than you gave me.”
“So you are going to end things just like that. Your mate left. She will not want you back after what you did and baby, no matter how much you deny it, it was you. You let me do all of that in front of your mate. So you need to check yourself.”
“Even if she never comes back to me, I will still wait for her. As you can see, I am already marked. This is for life.”
“Well then, you should have stopped me, at the very least. You should have pushed me away. Ask yourself why you didn’t. I’ll leave you with that.” Theresa says and walks away.
I go up to my room. I don’t know what to do right now. I hurt my mate in the worst way. I don’t know if she will ever forgive me, but we are mated, and this is for life. It will hurt us to be away from each other. I can already feel the pain of separation.
“I told you to end it before we got back. Now my mate is gone.”
“I’ll make it up to her when she comes back. The mate bond should bring her back to us.”
“You are an idiot. She is the moon goddess’ chosen one. Do you not know that there is a way for her to completely break the bond between us and reject us even after we’ve marked each other? Do you not remember the reason the young alpha did not lose his wolf was because Tamaska broke the bond and released him and walked away? Don’t think she can’t do it again and guess what? If she breaks the bond with us, the moon goddess will give her the option of having another mate. So yeah. You fucked up royally, and I will never forgive you. Why did you mate and mark her if you still wanted that female?”
“I don’t want that female. I want our mate.”
“I was there Jarvis. For a minute, you kissed her back. The only thing that stopped you was the pain our mate felt. It should not have gotten that far. I think she may have even forgiven you if it didn’t get that far. You betrayed our mate. Something you promised her you wouldn’t do. Tamaska told me before they left she will never allow you to hurt her human again and that she will break the bond herself before she allows that to happen. Do you know how rare it is for a wolf to want to break the bond with her mate? You did that to our mate.”
“I really never meant to hurt her. It was always my intention to end it with Theresa. I wasn’t expecting her to do what she did. You know she has never done anything like that before. I was in shock. I still don’t know what happened. It was like I was watching everything happen, with no control over my actions for a moment. I can’t explain it, but I know I never meant to hurt Seleste. Seleste is my world, and I am lost without her.”