Chapter 10: Mate: Part 2
***Jane***
“I’m Kota,” he giggles, climbing off my lap.
“What’s your name mister?”
The boy grins back at me, not an ounce of judgment in his tiny body.
His pretty eyes sparkle with excitement as he waits patiently for my response.
I have been asked for my name many times in my lifetime, usually for unpleasant reasons, but never had anyone asked just for the simple reason of getting to know me.
My father asked me my name everyday growing up and everyday I disappointed him.
Last night, my own mate wanted my name so she could reject me.
And yet, this little boy with blue and brown eyes just wanted to know who the stranger in the bushes was.
His smile is infectious and as I stare silently at him, he furrows his brows and leans in close.
“Are you dead too?” He whispers, resting his chin in his hands.
“I know a dead person,” he hisses.
“Her name is Egg-Ness,” he adds matter of factly.
“She can’t hear.”
He suddenly stands close to my ear and shouts, “Can you hear me!?”
“Kota?”
We hear Talia call out and I place my hand over his mouth.
Kota.
“Hehe mommy”
Kota laughs when his mother walks right past us again without noticing our presence.
The little boy dusts off his hands and squeezes my cheeks together.
“I like you,” he laughs.
“Do you wanna play with me?”
He stares at me with his blue and brown eyes and for the first time in years, I feel completely at ease.
“Y-yes,” I whisper.
His grins, grabbing hold of my hand and dragging me out of the bushes.
“Come on!” He squeals.
“There are dragons chasing us! Mommy’s the princess. We have to save her!”
He pulls me in the direction that his mother had walked to and we stop just before Talia, her eyes narrowing to slits when she sees me with her son.
Oh dear Moon Goddess…I avoid her stare and shift uncomfortably on my feet, my legs itching to sprint out of there.I can feel my mate glaring at me and I try to run but Kota has a firm grip on my hand.
“Mommy look!” Kota smiles proudly at himself.
“I found a friend.His name is….”
He stops himself and looks up at me with a grin.
“What’s your name?”
Talia ignores me and grabs her son, ripping him out of my grip.She crouches down so that she’s at his eye level and looks at him sternly strangers! It’s dangerous!”
She snaps, the little boy’s lip quivering at the harshness of her voice.
“But mommy…”
“No buts, Kota,” she retorts, her cheeks slightly flushed in anger.
Her face softens when Kota’s eyes fill with tears and she takes a deep breath.
“Okay.Okay.I’m sorry, baby,” she whispers, pulling the boy to her chest and kissing his head.
“I’m sorry for yelling.I didn’t mean to.You just can’t talk to strangers like that, okay?” She sighs quietly.
Kota nods solemnly.
“I’m sorry,” he says, kissing her cheek.
she says, kissing him back and pointing to a tree
off.I just need to talk to your
off to the tree, grabbing a stick and waving it around like a
will kill you.Do I make myself
my head, unable to explain the misunderstanding.She taps her foot
over with so
uncontrollably, Grayson whispering his plan
full of security job, and living with friends and your mother, my
gulp and she
it, she’s good,
I guess right?” She asks, tilting head slightly
silence falls between us, the only sounds coming from Kota as he jumps and roars to himself, swinging the
or any other werewolf tradition, so if
I
at me in confusion,
I said it wrong,” she
Ramos, reject you
her, still feeling absolutely
be saying
only a wolf
you say
reject me and
says.Perhaps my plan may work. I shake my head at my mate and my heart
down on her knees and holding her hands up
do anything.Anything.Please, just let me go.I can’t do this
again? I wonder.Her voice
“P-please!”
her crying, I crouch down and
screams at me to let her go but I only hold her tighter until she finally
down her hair and rest my chin on
Please don’t cry…
tell her but as always, the words taste like cotton in
stops his game and runs over to us, his
He asks, wedging his small body between mine and Talia’s so that he can
tears and kisses her son
when she pulls away
fingers and forces her cheeks up into
arms and smothering him in
as I remember all the
Agnes who didn’t
steals a quick glance at me, her distrust for me still lingering
make a deal,” I sign and to my dismay,
what you’re saying,”
frown and search for a small
to your house,” I
her concern.I might be her mate but
hurt you,”
“Just talk.”
her boy and nods
“Follow me.”
child to climb on.She invites me in and has
quite rambunctious and performs a nonsensical skit for story
Zane and I talk a little while you go out and play?”
convince him to leave
Talia finds a notebook
over a jar of pens for me to
goes nothing, I sigh,
her knees up on the
I hand her the notebook and she
***Natalia***
what it means to have a mate and their importance In my world.I do not know your reasons for wanting to reject me but I can assure you,
be my mate for the next three months and if I can convince you that I can be a good mate, you
thought of spending the rest of your life with me repulsive, I will reject you and never ls he serious? He expects me to fall in love with him
right?” I laugh
once again scribbles
will not accept your rejection unless you give me a
unable to understand why he, a perfect stranger, wanted me for no other reason
is this so f*****g important to
pen shaking slightly in
long pause, he lets out a sigh and scribbles a few words on
what it’s like to have a mate.” I
f*****g joke.It’s just some
writes furiously on his page.I read his words several times, furious that I was once again
will you?”
signs, pinching his fingers
burning in my eyes. I know how strong the
to look at me and he could have me
Another three months with a wolf? Will be strong enough to resist Zane and this
only good gift a wolf
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