TWICE MATED

Two mates

I never thought that having two mates at the same time was possible. I never thought the moon goddess would ever make mistakes. When my turn to find my mate came, I never thought I would be mated to the infamous alpha Michael. He was every woman’s dream and every man’s nightmare. When he walked into a room women would marvel at the power he possessed and the man would shriek in fear and shrink in size. What woman wouldn’t want a man like that? I wasn’t the lowest of omegas, but I wasn't in the high ranks either, in fact they called me the omega of all omegas even though i was ranked above some of them. If he had not met me that night he wouldn’t even know that I existed. Or maybe not, he would have known about me one way or the other but I guess the outcome would have always been the same…he would have rejected me and I would probably have ended up in the position that I was in right now. It was funny how my admiration for this man had turned into pure fear for him and then pure resentment and all in a short space of time. Now I had a decision to make, a decision that would have been simple had Michael not forced me to come back here and work hard to win my love back again. They were now two and I could only have one.

MICHAEL’S POV

There she was, walking gracefully into the ballroom and looking around. Everyone including me could see what she was looking for and although I knew that I had to be grateful that I was the one she was looking for, I couldn't help feeling like I was the unluckiest man in this whole room. I couldn't help feeling like this was some kind of a curse that had been placed on me, and I had no way of escaping my fate. I honestly felt trapped. I hadn't spoken to her yet but it wasn’t something that I was looking forward to. Maybe I should have been grateful that no one else was paying any attention to her but I couldn't pretend to be happy about her presence and what it meant for me, I couldn’t pretend to be happy about what was happening right now. I wished I could scream out loud and command her to leave my presence at once but I was concerned about what everyone here would say and what they would think of me. I don’t even know why I cared because I was the alpha and I could do whatever I wanted, but I didn’t want word to spread that I had mistreated my mate in front of everyone in attendance. Did the fact that I didn’t want her to make me a bad person? I didn’t think I was a bad person, I just thought that I was the kind of person that knew exactly what he wanted and it wasn’t this girl. It wasn’t that she wasn’t beautiful because she was very beautiful. She wasn’t the most beautiful girl that I had ever seen but she was easy on the eyes and the reason why I wasn’t interested in her wasn’t that she was ugly but because I didn’t see the role she was going to play in my life and in this pack. She probably also knew that her place was not at the front of the pack leading them but at the back serving, which was where she had been for most of her life.

She came here expecting to be meeting her mate for the first time and I was honestly looking for the same thing, I wanted the same thing. This had been something that I had been looking forward to ever since I came of age and took over the throne after my father’s death. To finally have a mate, a companion that I could share this power with, was something that I had been looking forward to ever since my father passed away and I took over. Before I became the alpha, I always wondered what she would be like, what she would smell like, and how it would feel when I finally met her. That day had finally come and there was one thing that I could say for certain that she smelled better than I could have ever imagined. However, she wasn’t the one that I was waiting for, she wasn’t the one I wanted and I had to get rid of her as soon as I could. I probably loved her scent because she was my mate and I didn’t have a choice but to love her scent. The moon goddess had literally created this female wolf for me but she had definitely gotten the design wrong and it was up to me to make sure she fixed her mistakes.

What kind of punishment was this? What was the moon goddess trying to prove by mating me to this retched omega? It would have been better if she was an omega from another pack, but she was an omega from my own pack and everyone knew Anaiah the omega. I couldn’t even imagine myself introducing her to the pack as my mate without them thinking it was a joke, they were never going to take her seriously. She was filthy and I knew that once my peers heard that she was my mate they would make fun of me. I would never be looked at the same way again after introducing her to them as my mate.

The question was what I would do now that she was here. She obviously wasn’t going to disappear into thin air and whether I liked it or not I would have to deal with her. I would have to eventually face her and make sure that we were on the same page. I just didn’t see how she would think that things would work between the two of us. She was an omega and I was an alpha and we were living two completely different lives. Hence, I still had to decide what I would do with her. Would I reject her and pretend that she never existed or just kill her and be done with her? I wanted to do it the right and convenient way, but I guess I couldn’t handle that one either because that would mean that I had to accept her. I just had to be selfish and put myself first here, I knew that I didn't want her and what she wanted didn’t really matter to me. I was the alpha and her main concern should be what I wanted because I came first. However, despite all this, I still didn't know what the best way to solve this was, I wasn't sure of what to do. My best option was to break the mate bond of course but I would have to do that without raising alarm. One thing I knew for a fact was that I didn’t want her for the rest of my life and i also didn't want anyone to find out she was the one who had been picked for me. I didn’t want her to give me children that were as filthy as she was. I had to do something to make sure that this little thing didn’t go beyond tonight. After all, the moon goddess was bound to make a mistake and sometimes those mistakes had to be corrected by us. The moon goddess had proven that she wasn’t always reliable and she had proven that to me with the first mistake with my parents.

“Luke…”I whispered to my beta who was standing right next to me as always,

“You see that girl in a black dress?” I asked him, pointing to the only female wolf who was dumb enough to think that wearing a black dress to a mating ball was a good idea. Maybe she wore that dress on purpose because she knew that it would make her the center of attention or maybe she didn’t know that. Maybe she didn’t have anything else to wear, but she stood out anyway and her reasons for doing so didn’t really matter right now because she did stand out.

“You mean Anaiah the omega?” he asked me in disbelief and I nodded “what about her?” he asked he couldn’t believe that I was asking about an Omega because I was never one who involved myself in the business of omegas. However, I wasn't in the mood to answer any of his silly questions right now, I just wanted to deal with the matter at hand and if I saw the need to explain to him I would do it later.

“Bring her to my room after the ball,” I said getting up from my chair he held my hand and pulled me back as I was about to walk away.

“What do you want from her?” he asked me.

“Have you seen how she looks when she is not wearing that…those rags that she is wearing?” He asked me pointing to her

“Yes I have, and I have my reasons for wanting to see her. Now, will you let me go so that I can attend to other things?” I asked him and he hesitantly let my hand go.

“Why would you leave now? They are about to present the virgins” he asked “And what things are you going to attend to that I don’t know about?” he asked me as if I owed him any explanation.

“I already know that my mate isn’t here…presenting them to me would be a waste of time because I would only pick a partner for the night”, I said, and he shook his head.

“And since when has that been a problem for you?” he asked me “you do that every year and you are suddenly telling me that you don’t want that,” he asked and I shook my head, I didn’t understand what his problem was. Why couldn’t he just do what I was telling him to do.

"This is your year, we spoke about this remember. we spoke about how you were going to find your mate no matter what this year" he said still trying to convince me not to leave

“I don’t understand you but it's not like I can stop you from leaving. I will make sure I let them know what your orders are and then I will bring Anaiah…the omega to you" he said.

“Why can't you just follow instructions without questioning me?” I asked him with irritation. I jated being questioned or being treated as if I had to explain the decisions I made to anyone.

“As I said, I just don’t understand why you are suddenly showing interest in this omega, but I trust that you know what you are doing” he said

“Good, now make sure she comes to my room after this…thing is over,” I said as I stormed out of the ballroom and headed to my office. I had much bigger things to worry myself about and leaving the party a little earlier was the least of those problems.

This was exactly why I didn’t want to have that omega as my mate. It was almost impossible for anyone to talk about Anaiah without mentioning that she was an omega. Luke calling her Anaiah the omega was still ringing in my head and leaving an echo and I couldn’t stand it. The next thing to happen was that I was going to be called Michael the alpha that was mated to the omega. I didn’t want that to be something that was attached to my name as a matter of fact I didn’t want her name attached to mine and that was the reason why I felt the urge to detach myself from her and these feelings before it was too late.

Her name would permanently be attached to that fact and that scared me. I didn’t want to be known as the alpha mated to the omega, and I didn’t want my name to be associated with that. I just wanted her to go away and never come back. I wished there was a way that I could make her disappear without laying a hand on her but I was out of ideas.

From what I had heard before, breaking the mate bond was almost as painful as losing your mate, but the only difference was the fact that the pain of losing your mate was only emotional, but this one was going to be physical. However, I had to free myself from her and I was going to do it one way or the other I was going to take the pain knowing that it was all worth it. At this point, I didn’t really care about the price that I would have to pay if I had to get rid of this girl because I just wanted her gone. I was going to deal with and face the consequences that came with getting rid of her with a brave heart because I didn’t have any other choice but to do that.

I was going to keep her in my room until I figured out how to do it and it wasn’t going to take long for me to figure that out because of the connections I had. If by some sort of bad luck figuring this out took me more than one night, she would have to be kept as a prisoner in the guest room. I couldn’t keep her in any other room because I didn't want Luke to have any more questions for me concerning this girl. I didn’t want him to ask me why I had imprisoned her myself when it was his duty. He would even want to know what crime she had committed and the only crime that this girl had committed was being mated to me and being an omega in my pack.

I pulled out my phone and dialed Alpha Xavier’s number because I was driving myself crazy with my own thoughts. I had to ask someone else about what to do in this situation and he was the only one that I could ask for help. He was my long-time friend and any other wolf that I trusted apart from Luke. I was confident that he would know what to do in this situation because he was the only alpha that had dealings with oracles that I knew and trusted and I didn’t trust a lot of alphas. I decided that it was best for me to figure out a way to deal with this girl before she came in there with Luke. I didn’t want to have to keep her here with me longer than it was necessary, I didn’t want to end up developing feelings for her and I didn’t like the little feelings that were instilled in me by the moon goddess to grow and be out of control.

“I need your help,” I said as soon as he answered the phone and he chuckled, there was not time for me to exchange pleasantries with him and that was the reason why I was getting straight to the point.

“What… I don’t even get a hello?” he asked me and I sighed

“I am sorry for that, but this is an urgent matter and I need it resolved by morning if not tonight,” I said.

“It certainly sounds urgent,” he said “what do you need from me?” he asked me and I was relieved that he asked me that question because it meant that he was willing to help me. Now all I had to do was find out if he could help me in this predicament that I was finding myself in.

“I need your help breaking a mate bond,” I said and there was silence on the other side of the line for a little while. I sighed nervously as I waited for my last hope to tell me that he could help me.

“Why would you want to break a mate bond?” he asked me and that was the question that I was dreading to answer. I knew that he was going to ask me that question but I wasn’t ready to answer him. I knew that what I was asking for wasn’t something that he was probably used to or something that he expected to hear from me because I had told him in great detail about how much I wanted a mate and how I wished the goddess would bless me with one sooner rather than later.

“She is just not the one for me and I know that the moon goddess made a mistake by giving her to me,” I said, and he sighed once more.

”I just need the bond to be broken before it grows and I become more attached to her. I know that breaking the mate bond then would be harder.”

“Well, are you sure this is what you want to do? Don’t you want to sleep on it for tonight at least?” he asked me.

“I am certain, I don’t want her,” I said as fast as I could as if that would make him act faster when I knew that he still had a lot of questions for me.

“I have more questions about this but I will not ask you anything anymore because I feel like this is urgent,” he said.

”Well, breaking the mate bond is easy really, you mix the wolf’s bane with the bitter leaf and then put your blood and hers in it” he instructed. “After doing that, you drink it and she does the same” he added and if I had known that breaking the mate bond didn’t require visiting an oracle I wouldn’t have panicked the way I had. However, I was glad that I now knew how to do it because it meant that I had one less thing to worry about when it came to my mate.

“Thank you so much, my friend, I owe you big time,” I said

“Damn right you do’ he said as he hung up and I ran out of my room and headed to the garden. Our garden had all kinds of herbs because we used them for different reasons. After fetching them, I quickly made the mixture and waited for her to arrive. if she refused to drink the portion, I would force her to, because I didn't see the reason why she would want to stay with me despite knowing that I wanted nothing to do with her. I wasn't even going to wait for the portion to kick in before getting rid of her. I trusted Xavier and I knew that if he said the portion would work, then it definitely would. I hoped that the moon goddess would fix her mistake after this and realize that this girl was not meant to be my mate.