The Beta's Abused Mate

17: Brooke: she was my Skylar

My heart wasn't at peace and neither was Cassy, the mark on my shoulder was making her restless just as much as it was making me lose peace and as if to add a cherry on top, Aaron wasn't even talking to me.

I wanted to leave him alone and let him be but I couldn't. I needed to make sure that we were cool and that he wasn't going to reject me now that I'm wearing Drake's mark on my shoulder.

This mark---- no I wasn't going to accept it and I was going to make sure it fades even if it means scrapping it off with a knife.

"We both know a mark is just a sign that a bond between two souls has formed, even if you scrape it off, it won't erase the fact that we are bonded to Drake," Cassy whimpered laying down, covering her eyes with her paws.

"No Cassy, I'm not going to accept this bond, and you won't accept it either. This bond has only formed halfway. As long as we don't mark him back and mate, it will easily fade away right?!"

She didn't say anything else and just whimpered.

I let out a sigh looking at Aaron, we were both sitting on the couch in his room. The Lady who wanted to hurt me was gone, and Vanessa who was still freaking out about what she saw, was down stairs with Ivan and William.

"I'm waiting Aaron, say something. Who is she and why did she want to attack me?" I questioned.

He didn't say anything and just kept looking at my hand that was sandwiched between his large ones.

"Aaron," I wanted to remove my hand from his but he brought it closer to his lips, kissed it then pressed it on his chest.

"You are important to me you know that right?" he asked caressing my cheek lightly.

"You are important to me too," I whispered staring into his eyes, "and that is why I want to know what's going on and why she wanted to attack me and, where did she come from? You were alone in your room when I left,"

He let out a sigh and lay his head on the couch backrest, staring at the ceiling with my hand still in his.

"That woman is my mom,"

"Your mom?" I asked adjusting my body to face him.

He hummed in response letting out another sigh.

"But why would your mom want to kill me? Does she think that I'm a bad person? Wait she hasn't met me yet so she can't tell whether I'm bad or not which even gives me more reason to ask why she would want to kill me when she doesn't even know me yet, is it because---" I trailed off as realisation hit, the mark on my shoulder.

Could it be that Aaron told her that I was marked by another man and she got upset and wanted to kill me?

"It's not because of the mark," Aaron randomly said as if eavesdropping on the conversation I was having in my head,

"Then what is?" I asked.

"It's because you look like Skylar my mate,"

"Mate?" I frowned looking at him, "What do you mean by mate?"

"I had a mate before you, well I thought I did. Her name was Skylar she was friends with my cousin Zane's mate. She looked just like you ----" he looked at me and brought his hand up caressing my cheek continuing, "The same rosey cheeks, the same lips, same hair, everything about you screams Skylar. You are exactly like her, nothing about you can distinguish you from her except maybe----"

"My scars," I said my eyes downcast but he lifted up my head to meet his gaze saying,

"Even the scars. Only difference is you are slightly thinner than her,"

I frowned staring at him, wondering whether he thought I was a joke to him or not, there is no way someone would look exactly like me unless if they were my twin but I don't think I have a twin and even if I did, she wouldn't match my scars unless if she was abused like me.

But again I can't share a mate with my twin, I've heard of people having two mates but they always ending up choosing one and rejecting the other.

Could it be that he rejected her?

" I don't know how that is possible," he shrugged, "but the same way I met you that night was the same way I met her, it was early morning," he began explaining looking up at the ceiling as if remembering that fatefully morning, "the patrol informed us of a rogue attack, we went there but there weren't any rogues and it was just you, I mean Skylar, covered in blood and bruises, naked, just like I found you last night,"

This is some weird case of dejavu. How is it possible that he met a woman who is exactly like me in the exact same condition I was in when we met?!

"I took her to the pack hospital," he continued explaining, " she recovered and I fell madly inlove with her. She was my Skylar and I was her Aaron,"

A growl escaped from my lips, Cassy riding shotgun when the words of him claiming another woman registered in my mind.

"How can he call her his? We are suppose to be his --- not this other she wolf!" Cassy growled in my head but I pushed her down saying,

" Calm down Cassy, lets hear what happened first," I said to her looking at Aaron who was already looking at me.

"Are you jealous?" He asked a smirk playing on his lips.

"Of course not!" I scoffed brushing him off even though I was deeply jealous.

"Are you sure?" He asked and I vigorously nodded my head.

" Anyway, We were happy and inseparable, always together,"

"But how come you don't have a mark and how come you've never---" I let my sentence hung hoping he got what I wanted to say.

I didn't want to say it out loud. It was already weird enough that he was a virgin despite all the rumors about him.

" Because of my family. At home, we follow strict rules, if you find your mate before she's eighteen you have to hold off from marking and mating until then. And that's what happened, she was fifteen well, I thought she was --- and I was eighteen. After a few weeks or months I think, we found out that she was actually a thousand year old witch named Sasha who was using me to get into the house and attack Scarlet, my cousin's mate,"

"What?!" I widened my eyes not believing it, the girl I was feeling jealousy of wasn't even his mate but was just a witch who was using him?

Now this explains why she looked exactly like me, she probably disguised herself as me to trick the mate bond but wait, if she used my face then it only means she knew we were mates but how did she know? As far as I'm concerned I've never seen Aaron before and judging by his accent, his not from here so then-- how did she do it??

"Yep, before we found out, Skylar suggested a dual between her and Scarlet, with the caption, the winner gets my cousin Zane. I was mad at her for making that suggestion but the 'love'," he air quoted the word love,

" Blinded me and instead of getting mad that she wanted my cousin, I supported and even helped her train," he groaned rubbing his face with his hand, "I was so f*****g stupid to not have seen through her, and when she and Scarlet started fighting, she turned into her true form revealing herself as Sasha,"

He made a disgusted face shivering lightly, looking like he badly wanted to puke.

I held his hand rubbing it lightly in an assuring way and he blew out a breath continuing,

"At this point I didn't even care that she was a witch or that she was thousands of years old, she was my mate and loving her was my calling. Commotion ensued, everyone was upset and my cousin Zane wanted to jump in kill Sasha and save Scarlet but it was a dual and no one was allowed to intervene.

Sasha was winning, I was happy until I don't know what happened but Sasha fell down with a blade stuck in her throat. Everything moved in slow motion, I remember running to her but next thing, I woke up in the hospital, my mom explaining everything to me.

I was mad at her for using me and all I wanted was to resurrect her and kill her again but I couldn't deny the affection for her that had began growing in my heart and even though I despised her, I still wanted to see her one last time to just ask her why she did that to me and to know whether she ever felt something for me but I knew it was wishful thinking.

Everything home reminded me of her and so I left and came here and then I met you,"

"So that's why your mom wanted to kill me. She thought I was the witch Sasha,"

"Hmmhm," he hummed rubbing his face again.

"Did you also think I was her when you saw me? Is that why you weren't talking to me?"

"Well -----" he posses for a moment sighed then continued, "yeah but that was just partly, the main reason was because of your scent,"

He licked his lips then looked at me,

"It's so intoxicating, overwhelming and the only thing I want is to mark you as mine and to just ---" he licked his lips again staring at my lips, "Kiss you and ----" His eyes trailing off, settling on my chest.

I cleared my throat biting my lip when I felt heat creep up my face, Cassy was purring and waging her tail, creating obscene scenes in my head and talking about how I should just let him have us.

"f**k," Aaron cursed under his breath shifting in his seat and running his hands in his hair.

"So um are you going to tell me about your family?" I said changing the subject.

It was too early for us to mate and I wanted to know him first.

"Well," he cleared his throat, "What do you want to know, specifically?"

" How many siblings you've got, and which country you are from because judging by your accent, you are not from here -- and also why your friends keeping calling you a royal beta, are you like from royalty or something?" I chuckled looking at him and he just raised an eyebrow.

"Wait you are not really from royalty, are you?" I asked searching his eyes,

" My parents are the Betas of royal Black phantom pack and the king is my uncle," he said with a shrug of his shoulders, a ghost of a smile playing on his lips.

"There is no way I'm mated to a royal!" I said with a gasp, hitting his arm,

He chuckled rubbing his arm saying,

"Well believe it, because you my girl---" he scooted closed and pecked my lips, "are going to be a royal,"