Axel

Chapter 3

-Axel P.O.V- 

I groaned once I heard Forrest's response. I shoved my head in the crock of his neck as I took a huge sniff of his scent. My wolf was begging me to take him, but I needed to wait. I wanted to know more about him, and I am not going to let s*x get in the way of that. With that in mind, I pulled back causing my mate to whimper. 

"As much as I want to take you, I cannot. I want to know you before I f**k you. You are my mate, and you deserve more than that." I tell him while I am staring into his eyes. 

I watch as his eyes go from lust to pure happiness/love. I can tell that what I just said made him really happy. "Thank you." He mutters out which causes me to smile. 

I lightly kiss his nose as I pull back. "I am going to take a shower. You can go ahead and lay down unless you want something to eat, then I will mind-link someone to bring you food." I ask him. 

"I just want to rest." He tells me and I nod. 

I then turn my back as I head into the bathroom. I strip and step into the shower once it gets warm. I sigh as I let the warm water wash over my body, and I can finally un-tense my muscles. My relaxation is short lived when my wolf speaks. 

Bryant: You should have taken him right then and there! 

Me: He is our mate, not some piece of meat. He just went through something and I want to know what that is before we f**k him!

Bryant: His wolf was calling out to me! You bastard. 

I close off the mind-link because I don't want to hear my wolf bi**h anymore. I quickly wash my body and exit the shower once I am done. I wrap a towel around my waist and out of the bathroom only to see Forrest still awake, but his back is turned to me. I head into my closet where I dry off and put on some boxers. Once I exit the closet, I hear him let out a sob which makes me rush over to the bed. I climb into the bed and force him to turn over, to where he is facing me. He just buries his face in my chest, and I wrap my arms around his body. 

"Hey, talk to me." I ask him softly as I tighten my arms around him. He doesn't me as he just sobs into my chest and I just let him. 

Me to Bryant: Something happened to him and we need to find out what. 

Bryant: I agree. Someone hurt mate and they will not live to see another day. 

Soon I felt my mates breathing even out as he fell asleep. He must have been through something huge for him to just pass out like this. I just tighten my arms around him even more as I close my eyes and I let myself fall asleep. 

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I reach over only to feel that Forrest isn't in the bed. I sit up and look over at the clock to see it is 7 in the morning. I have never slept in like this before, I have always woken up around 5 in the morning. I then hear my mother’s voice...I jump up from the bed and throw on some basketball shorts as I rush over to my living room. I open the door to see my mate, my mother, AND my sister sitting there eating and laughing. 

"Oh, Hello Son." My mate turns around and blushes as he sees me. 

I walk over to him and pull him up while I sit down where he was. I then pull him back down in my lap. I wrap my arms around his waist as I shove my face in the crock of his neck. 

"Well, isn't this a sight." My sister says with amusement in it.

"Shut up, sis." I mutter out as I take in my mate’s scent. 

"We just had to come over and meet this mate of yours." My mother says. "And I am also sorry for how my husband acted. It was wrong of him and he shouldn't have caused a scene since it was your first night here. Even though it was my son who threw him through the door." 

I look up from my mates’ neck and rest my chin on his shoulder. "Well Dad shouldn't have disrespected my mate. He knows how my wolf can get when someone tests me, and he just had to do that." I scoff out. 

"But did you really have to throw him through the door?? I mean damn, bro." My sister then adds. 

I snap my gaze over to her and she shuts her mouth. "Now, now, children. Stop it. You did the right thing, son." My mother’s voice breaks through the tension. 

My mother then hands my mate a plate and tells him to just rest it on my lap so I can eat. I thank my mother while she chats with my mate along with my sister. After a bit, they get up and leave. 

"I am sorry for my mother and sister." I tell my mate as he gets off of my lap and sits across from me. 

"Nonsense. They were nice." He tells me with a smile. 

I sit up and rest my elbows on my knees as I look at my mate. "Tell me why you were crying last night." 

He sighs as he looks up at me...

-Forrest P.O.V.- 

Blaze: you need to tell him. My wolf's voice fills my head. I know he is right, and I think it is about time that I do that. 

"I used to be a part of a pack along with my parents. It was going okay until the Alpha found out my parents and I secret. You see, I am an elemental wolf. I can control fire and things of the earth, like I can throw/lift rocks or I can make an earthquake happen. I can also make a fireball within my hand and control any kind of heat source. My parents also had powers, but we kept them a secret because not every pack was welcoming to those who were different. One day, someone caught my mom using her powers and they ran off to tell the Alpha. He forced me and my parents out of our home as he demanded that we show him our powers. He wanted to use us in order for us to keep our lives. My parents refused as well as me. We were not some pawns that he could use whenever he needed us. Well...after we refused, the whole pack turned against us. They started to attack us under the Alphas orders and my parents focused on getting me out of there." I closed my eyes as I didn't want to really tell this next part. "Basically, they got me out, but they died in the process. I ran and ran until I stumbled onto your land. Then you know the rest. If you are going to reject me now that you have found out that I am different then please kill me after." I begged of my mate because I couldn't live anymore if he rejected me. 

My eyes snapped open when I heard him growl so loud that he shock the walls. My eyes widened when I saw his eyes...they were a crimson color. He got up and started to stalk over to me while I was just frozen in place. He stepped in front of me, and I looked up as he looked down at me. 

"DO. NOT. EVER. SPEAK. OF. ME. REJECTING. YOU. AGAIN. I will NEVER reject you. Also, I don't care that you have powers since I am a Demon Wolf. My pack accepts me, and they will accept you too, or they will be banished." I could feel the anger radiating off of him as he spoke to me and I didn't really have time to focus on the fact that he just told me that he was Demon Wolf as I stood up and touched his arm. I needed to calm him down. 

I gripped the back of his neck and forced his head in the crock of my neck so my scent could calm him down. He wrapped his arms tight around my body as he breathed in my scent and I could feel his body calming down. My wolf and I both were feeling very happy and excited about the fact that our mate wanted us, and I could care less that he was a Demon Wolf. He accepted me so I accepted him.