Omega's Fight

Six: The Mate Bond

Six: The Mate Bond

Jack

I can feel him standing there staring at me. I let out a sigh as I hear the door open and he enters. I don’t know how long I have been down here but I’m tired of staring at the same four walls in this enclosed space. I feel like I’m starting to go crazy and the only thing I can think of is the she-wolf. The one that is my Fated Mate. I think that I know her but it has been years and I still cannot remember her name. I have a feeling that we have a past together. Not anything major but I think I used to save her from being bullied. Then low and behold I do the unthinkable and hurt her worse than any other could possibly do.

“Explain yourself.” I look up and see that my father is sitting on the wooden chair right in front of me. I sigh and just look back down at my hands. The disappointment on his face is my undoing. I feel my eyes filling with unshed tears. It seems as if I cannot do anything right. “I… I… I don’t know what you want me to say.” I stutter and rubbing my face hard with both hands. “Let’s start with how you met Ann Marie.” I hear my father gruff demanding voice that makes me feel like a pup once more.

“Two years ago, in school.” I look up at him. “Dad I’m twenty-five years old. At the time twenty-three. I hadn’t met my Fated Mate and I fell in love with her. I still love her even if I have just recently met my Fated Mate.” I say looking into his eyes. “I love Ann Marie. I don’t even know the name of my Fated Mate. I don’t know her but even if I did….” I sigh out as he narrows his eyes on me. “What?” He asks me and I notice how tired he looks as he starts to slouch in his chair.

“I don’t know her.” I say as his eyes narrow on me. “Tell me son. Do you want the Alpha title or not? Because without your Fated Mate it will never be yours.” My jaw drops at his words, and I shake my head. “But why not?” I see him shaking his head at me. “Didn’t you study our history?” I nod my head. Thinking back, I actually think I paid the professor off in that class. It was so boring, and I was busy at the time, with Ann Marie. “Then you should know that a pack is only strong when led by a Fated Mate couple.” I look up at him. “You need to decide what you want but most importantly if I was you….”

He stands up and walks to the cell door. He turns to look at me once more. “You should at least get to know your Fated Mate first. If you take a chosen mate, it will kill her. The other half of your soul. Your mother would be so disappointed in you. Think on my words and what kind of person you want to be in this world.” He then turns and leaves. Leaving the cell door open. I feel the stabbing pain in my chest once more as I message my hand over my heart. Maybe I should have paid attention in class instead of f*cking every she-wolf around.

I stand and hobble out of the cell. My legs are stiff and sore from being in there for so long. I make it down the hallway as the pain in my chest intensifies and I fall to my knees. I cry out as it gets so bad that I scream out in pain. I feel hands on me, and I don’t know who picks me up when I cannot see. Everything is blurry and I can’t understand what is being said around me. I just close my eyes as I feel a pinch in my arm until I know no more but darkness.

I hear the drip, drip of something as I try to open my eyes. I hear shuffling of papers to my side and smell my fathers scent. I turn my head and cr*ck my eyes open. I see my father sitting there looking at papers with a pen in his ear and his reading glasses on his face. I frown wondering when he started wearing those to read. He is a wolf he shouldn’t need glasses to read. Not unless…. No, it couldn’t be.

I moan and his gaze lands on me. “What happened?” I groan out as he sets his papers to the side, pulling his glasses off his face. “It’s the mate bond.” He says on a sigh. I groan as I try to sit up. A glass is shoved into my face. I glance at my father as he nods his head. I take the straw into my mouth and drink the ice cold water. Feeling it slide down my throat soothing the irritation. When I was done, he sat the glass back down and looked at me with a worried expression on his face. “What do you mean by the mate bond?” I ask as I close my eyes. My body feeling heavy but the pain in my chest is gone.

“You are feeling the effects of the rejection.” He says as I just look at him for a moment. What does he mean by rejection. “I didn’t reject her though.” I mumble out as I hear his sarcastic laugh. I glare at my father wondering what he is finding so amusing. “What’s so funny?” I ask keeping my voice from growling. “You are. For you maintaining a 3.75 GPA. You know nothing about our kind. What the hell did you do pay all your professors off?” Sh*t is all I can think. He knows. He continues to stare at me. My guilt must be showing because all he does is raise his big bushy eyebrows at me.

“Let me give you a crash course in Fated Mates.” My father says leaning back in his chair. “You will only ever get one chance at love and true happiness. A Fated Mate is the other half of your soul. When created the Moon Goddess breaks our souls in half. Placing them in different bodies. It is the only gift that she gives us beside our wolf spirit. It’s a gift that she takes seriously and if her children don’t accept her gift they will feel the pain of her displeasure.” I stop my father and he just stare at me. “Dad that is the same story you have told me since I was little. It’s just a story.” I say as he chuckles once more.

“How did I end up having such a strong son but stupid all at the same time.” My jaw drops open at his words. "How can you say that about your own pup?” I say as he just laughs making me feel so uncomfortable. “Because if you would have listened to the stories you would understand. They are not just stories but facts that have been passed down generation to generation, based in facts.” I close my mouth. I guess I should listen to what he has to say. Maybe I can figure out how to win my mate back. I don’t want her to die. Maybe she will be the one to make this emptiness inside of me since my mother died be filled.

“When we find our Fated Mate, they are the only one to complete us, making us whole. If we reject them directly or indirectly both will start to die. We can stop the process only by taken a chosen mate. However, doing so you will break the link forevermore. Never being able to have them in any future lifetimes. Never being able to feel complete ever again. For when you take a Chosen Mate you kill the other half of your soul, never to be reborn again.” He stops and looks at me. “Tell me is anyone worth killing apart of yourself for? If you chose to do so I would suggest you get to know your Fated Mate first.” I nod my head as tears roll down my face. “I’m not a monster father. I didn’t reject her.” I whimper out as my wolf spirit feels so sad inside of my head and heart right now.

“You must have done something to hurt her. For she surely has rejected you. Now like I said you have to decide what and who you want to be. I know I raised you right so I’m counting on you to make the right decision. Until then you have no rights to the Alpha seat until the Elder determines that you are worthy.” He says walking towards the door. “Dad.” He stops and turns to look at me. “How do I find her?” He smiles at me. “You’re the future Alpha. Where did you see her last. That is where I would start.” He says walking out of my room making me frown.

All I can think about is how did I really not know all of this. Was I really so self-absorbed that I didn’t pay attention to the ins and outs of my own kind? Now I have probably hurt the only person that could mean so much to me and I to her. I still remember the look on her face when she caught me and Ann Marie in the bathroom. I just hope she is still in the pack lands. That she didn’t run away which is what a normal person would do…. Run.