Chapter Three
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Isaac's POV
"Yes, Celeste. Everything is wrong. It's not fair. At first I wasn't happy, but now I am. Goddess. There are things I need to tell you. You may just hate me and want nothing to do with me. I will fully understand." I can't lie to her any longer. It's been hard enough these past four years. It killed me. I knew the pretending had to stop. She didn't say anything, at first.
"I'm sorry." Why was she apologizing to me?
"For what? You didn't do anything wrong." I tried to move toward her, but she recoiled.
"I don't know why the Moon Goddess made us mates. Did she make a mistake? If she didn't, why wouldn't you want to be with me?" I didn't want to be with a child, but I knew us being mated to one another was no mistake.
"Celeste, it's complicated. I promise I will tell you. I didn't expect us to be mates. When I came back this morning, it took me longer than it should've to realize whose scent I had caught. You didn't smell like this yesterday. There is more than one reason I wasn't happy. I admit I should've dealt with it better, instead of bolting. I had to talk to someone first."
"You have a girlfriend, right?" I wanted to laugh. Me? Have a girlfriend? I've been sitting around waiting for my mate to grow up first, apparently.
"Baby girl, that's not even close."
"I like it when you call me that. I always have." She's making this harder for me. "Can you tell me who you went and spoke with? And why weren't you happy about us?"
"First, it is your age. I'm going to be thirty-six. I was your teacher and then your guardian. It doesn't bode well for me. People will think I'm a pedophile. Assume you and I were doing things before you turned eighteen. And the second answer is, I had to talk to your parents about it."
"I don't understand. My parents were cremated."
"Here is where you are going to hate me. I know your birth parents." I admit I didn't think my response out fully.
"You found my birth parents?" I couldn't tell what emotion she was feeling.
"Not exactly. Your father is the Alpha and your mother is the Luna of the pack I belong to. Celeste, I was the one that left you at the fire station for them."
"WHAT? WHY TELL ME NOW? HOW COME YOU COULDN'T TELL ME AFTER I SHIFTED CONFIRMING MY SUSPICIONS OF WHAT I WAS? DID YOU STEAL ME FROM THEM?"
"You have been in danger since before your birth. I know what happened, but it's not my place to tell you. Your father and I formulated a plan to keep you safe. Your mother doesn't know anything. Neither does your father after he handed you to me. I have been the only one with knowledge of your whereabouts to keep you safe. If I were killed, no one would know anything about you."
She scoffed. "Keeping me safe. You expect me to believe that? I don't believe what I'm hearing right now. What else?"
"You have three brothers and two sisters."
"I want to meet them. I have so many questions that you obviously can't or aren't going to answer." She had so much hatred towards me, just like I knew she would.
"I can't take you there. You are legally dead. It has to be done right. I can have them come here to you. Just your parents. You will have to meet in the woods. I don't know if there are more wolves out there still trying to find you."
"Fine. I'm going alone. I don't want you there. Now, get out of my house and don't come back. Text me the time and location. And don't follow me like you always do."
"Good bye, baby girl." I said, and then I turned and left. When I was in my truck, the dam burst. I hated the Moon Goddess at that point. She told me I would find my mate. She didn't tell me she would hate me for protecting her and hiding this sh*t from her. I pulled myself together as best I could and called Alpha Clark. He and Luna could meet Celeste tonight after ten.
Isaac
The woods where we run.
Ten tonight.
I didn't expect a reply back and I didn't get one. I sped away from the house. I didn't know where I was going, but I knew where I wanted to be. That was impossible now. I should've told her something sooner. It's my fault I didn't think she could handle it and not ask too many questions.
Celeste's POV
I apologized to him. I didn't know what else to say. He clearly wasn't happy with the arrangement. I almost understood his hesitance. I'm eighteen and he's going to be thirty-six. That's all he's worried about is age? That's stupid. When someone tells you they have more than one reason they don't want to be with you, it's never anything good. I thought he had found a girlfriend. Makes sense, why else would he be freaking out the way he is?
"Baby girl, that's not even close." That was his response to the girlfriend question. I have to admit I get weak when he calls me 'baby girl'.
"I like it when you call me that. I always have." I retorted. It was the truth.
My next questions were simple, but his answers were a bit evasive and confusing. He admitted the age difference. I expected that. He thinks people will talk and think he's a child molester. I understand that too. But talking to my parents I didn't get it. For a second, I thought maybe the accident was faked and they were under witness protection. But I have a picture of my father holding my mother's hand as they died in their car. They had to be cremated. Well, my mom did. She was crushed. I found the file, I read the reports, but I didn't look at the photos. I wanted their hand holding to be my last memory, even if they were dying.
"Here is where you are going to hate me. I know your birth parents." He blurted out his answer so quickly my brain almost didn't catch it.
He found my birth parents. When? They are the Alpha and Luna of the pack he told me he belonged to. Funny he forgot to mention I obviously belonged there too. Then admitting to leaving me at the fire station. All these years I thought the man that called to report a baby left at the fire station doorstep was my father. No, instead it had to be my f*cking future mate. To say I lost my mind is quite an understatement.
He's telling me small pieces of this puzzle that is my life. He knows the answers I'm looking for. My birth father and he made a plan to keep me safe. He's not telling me safe from what or who. My birth mother doesn't know anything? I don't believe that for a second. It's suspicious that only Isaac knows anything about me. I had to ask what else and I didn't like the answer. I have three brothers and two sisters. I have siblings. I needed to meet them, my parents, not my siblings. Isaac wasn't going to answer all my questions, so I knew they had to. It's funny how all the love I felt for this man has faded and turned to hate. It was made worse when he informed me that I was legally dead. I have to meet my birth parents in the woods. Whatever, it didn't matter.
Telling him he wasn't to come and he wasn't to follow me seemed to crush him. Then I told him to get out of my house and not to come back. That seemed to make his heartbreak more obvious. I told him to text me the time and location. With that, my words to him were done.
"Goodbye, baby girl." It was my turn to feel my heart break, before I could turn to say something, he was gone and already out the door. I watched from my window as he sat in his truck. It looked like he was punching his dashboard. I'm so confused right now.
Isaac
The woods where we run.
Ten tonight.
That was the last I heard from Isaac for almost two years.
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