Her Fate, His Mate

Chapter 7

Asher helped wrap tape around my hands, which was used to shield them against the heavy punching bag. We started with stretching our muscles, loosening up for today. We did a few warm up exercises like jumping jacks, lunges, and high knees. He brought me over to the punching bag first "Stand back and watch my stance, how I bring my arm around."

I nodded and made sure I stood back a little and to the side to get a good view. I crossed my arms over my chest watching him attack the punching bag with such force and pent up anger. When he finished he motioned for me to come closer. "Okay I want you to place your non dominate side foot here, and place most of your weight back on your dominate side. That's where your power is going to come from. Now I want you to picture this bag as whatever makes you the most angry. Then I want you to come around with your dominate hand and use that hand to attack first, mimicking what I done previously."

"Okay I think I can handle that." I closed my eyes and took in a deep breath and pictured Grant and a low growl ripped through my chest, my wolf wanting to rip through him. I opened my eyes and they glowed. I had never felt more powerful and I laid into the punching bag with swift, quick, powerful hits. I felt a warm tingly sensation rush over my entire body and I stopped what I was doing, looking at my hands.

Asher smiled and patted my shoulder, "See. Special abilities. You're rare and Grant knows this that's why he rejected his previous mate."

It made since now, why he flipped the switch. Explains why his mother and father were so happy that I was his mates son. I was powerful. Just the thought of this made me angry, him using me to boost his power, hurting my best friend and having her blame me. I turned and looked at Asher, my eyes glowing bright sky blue. "I am so incredibly infuriated with him!"

Asher looked at me and nodded "As you should be. Just remember, he doesn't know what your special abilities are or even if you have them. He was taking a chance on betting that you have them."

"Oh. How did you know that I had them then?" My head c*****g to the side.

"Oh, my mate can see the future." He smiled.

I laughed, shrugging my shoulders "Well then that makes a lot of sense then how you knew."

"Lets go for a run? Yeah?" He pointed to the path that went to the wooded trails.

"Sounds good." We took off and followed the winding trail that went around the outter limits of the houses.

"Sometime during this run I'm going to have a surprise for you." His voice sounded rough from running.

About twenty minutes into the run I was nearly blindsided from my right. When they stepped onto branch, it cracking under their weight and making me alert. I turned just in time and without thinking shifted into my wolf form. I haven't had my wolf out in a few weeks and it felt good to let her take control of the assailant. I brought my attacker down to the ground with a thud, sliding across the dirt with the force from him. A deep, threatening growl escaped from my mouth as I placed my paw against his throat, holding him there. "Easy, easy. That was a test to see how you would do. Let him up." I turned and seen Asher in his wolf form, hearing his wolfs voice in my mind. The wolf approached me and leaned his head to the earth. "I am so pleased to meet you. I am Carmine, Ashers wolf. He says he is very pleased with how you took on Kingstons attack."

I looked at him and back to Kingston and huffed "I am Amethyst, and I don't enjoy being attacked." I gave a warning growl in Kingstons direction and he shrunk back. I then turned to look at Carmine. His wolf's fur was silver with a black stripe going from the nape of his neck down his tail. His eyes glowed a golden honey color and he stood tall.

We all soon shifted back and walked to the training grounds. Come to find out on our walk back, Kingston was a warrior from Woodland as well and presented himself as a rouge. He was going back and forth between the two packs as a line of communication. Everyone thought he just enjoyed going into human territory but apparently that is not the case at all.

It was a relief that I had allies here in the pack and that made me happy. I didn't feel so alone. I said my goodbyes and walked to the house. I bumped into Gracie inside and I couldn't help myself and just gave her a huge hug. "I never meant for any of this to happen. You deserve so much better I am so very sorry." Surprisingly she returned the hug.

"Can we have lunch together?" She asked

"Abso-freaking-lutely!" Squealing with excitement. I just need to shower and get this dirt and sweat off me. "We can't let Grant see us. Oh we can go to the training house, no ones there today we should be safe there. I'll be there at 12:30?"

"Sounds good Anna. See you then." She smiled and we parted ways. I walked up the stairs and took a shower. I was deep into washing my hair when I heard the door open. "Hello..? Who's there..?" Panic rose into my voice.

"I can't wait any longer for you. I need you now!" A gruff voice came from behind the curtain as his hand reached for it. I stood there frozen. He pushed open the curtain and smiled looking over my body.

"Grant get out, now." I yelled at him grabbing the towel and wrapping it around my body.

"Every day you lock that door. You messed up today and now I can't wait to show you the best pleasure you will ever experience. Today you will become mine." He stepped into the shower, he was still fully clothed and shoved me back into the wall. His mouth covered mine in an instant. As my head hit the shower wall a small groan escaped my lips from the pain. He used that moment as an opportunity for his tongue to trespass and evade my mouth, exploring and pressing against my own tongue. One hand gripped my hair and pulled my head back to look up to him, while the other moved around my waist pulling me ever so close to him. He pushed his body between my legs and I felt him hard against my stomach. "So delicious, those lips of yours." "Stop." I was looking up at him, pushing him away from me.

He paused and looked at me and stepped back "You don't want this?"

"Not like this, I do not. Can we please wait?" I lied, I never wanted him. And this forceful side of him terrified me.

He growled and reluctantly pulled back away from me. He slung open the shower curtain and went to get out and stopped. He looked back at me one last time. His eyes moved over my body and he licked his lips. "You will be mine." He promised and walked out.

I leaned against the wall and tears streamed down my cheeks. I couldn't believe what had just happened. He was a complete and total psychopath.

I got out of the shower and heard my phone go off with a ding sound. It was my texts. I walked over to it, picked it up and unlocked it with my passcode.

It was a text from Gracie; "ANNABELLE YOU WILL NEVER GUESS WHAT HAPPENED?! The Moon Goddess has blessed me with a second chance!"

"Thats all I get? Seriously?!" I said Out loud to myself. I hurried and threw on my clothes and texted her to meet me in the training arena. I rushed down the hall and down the stairs. I hurried and made a couple sandwiches and grabed a bag of chips and two waters. I walked by a plate of cookies and snatched those up too. I left the kitchen and walked to where we trained. About 150y yards away I seen Gracie already walking inside. I was so happy for her. She deserved this more than anything. I walked inside and there sat Kingston and Gracie, she was kissing him and had made herself comfortable in his lap.

"Oh my Goddess! Your mate is Kingston!?" I shrieked with excitement and wrapped her into a huge hug and instantly began crying.

She gave me a tight squeeze "I ran into him earlier, literally ran into him. I smelled the most wonderful evergreen forest smell and took off. My wolf became excited and when I turned the corner at the same time he did we both screamed 'MATE' and yeah I made him late to some big thing he had to do." She giggled.

"Well I am so incredibly happy for you both, truly I am. You deserve to be absolutely happy and treated like the princess you are."

We sat at the table and chatted as we ate our food, catching up. I hadn't told her anything and I linked with Asher to have him join us in the training hall.

About fifteen minutes later Asher came strolling through the door. "What's going on in here?"

Kingston stood then "Well I would like you to officially meet my mate, Gracie, who actually happens to be Ms. Annabelles best friend."

"Ahh yes and Grants rejected mate. His loss I say and your gain. I am incredibly happy for you both." He eyed her carefully "Well you're going to find out everything eventually so Kingston, can you catch her up please. You can't hide the truth from your own mate but Gracie, I will tell you one thing, absolutely no one can know what we are about to tell you. Understand?"

Gracie nodded slowly and looked over at Kingston "What is he talking about?"

He turned to her and started telling her everything. Gracie would make side glances at me from time to time and kept scooting closer to Kingston as he spoke. They were so obviously drawn to one another, it was sweet. "Well holy crap Anna. You have powers?!"

"Apparently I don't know all I can do I just feel heat radiate through my body and boom I'm super strong." I raised my arm and showed my weak looking muscles. "Honestly I don't know where it all comes from." Everyone laughed and we sat there and filled Gracie in on the rest of our plans.