I’m your fated mate?

Chapter 9: My Mate?

LACIE POV:

I’m sitting in my chair sipping my iced tea waiting for Tom to come back when I hear voices at the front porch, oh cool he must have found Liam I think to myself. My chest aches and my heart races, am I having more anxiety or what? It’s doesn’t FEEL like my normal anxiety so what could this pang be? I wonder as I slightly rub my chest. Just then I hear a howl in the distance and my heart feels like it’s been torn from my chest, why is that howl seeming to affect my body?! I hear more commotion at the front door before I hear Billie yelling,

“Makes me upset? Sir I’m not upset I’m livid, now explain!”

I snort, uh oh Toms in trouble now, I think as I smile and shake my head. They might fight here and there but it’s never more than a few words. Never have I seen either lay a hand on each other unless in a loving or playful way. They are beyond relationship goals! Married at 18 after being high school sweethearts, been married for 60 years now if I’m correct and still to this day you can see the love in their eyes. I am pulled out of my thoughts when Billie and Tom walk into the house towards the kitchen

“Hey Lacie girl! I heard you have some questions about Mr. Liam am I right?” Billie says and she comes to sit in the chair by me and pats my knee. I blush and nod my head not looking up from my tea.

“GREAT! Now here’s the thing. I’m gonna tell you a ton of stuff, starting from the beginning and I want you to listen to it ALL before saying anything, okay?” Billie says with an elated smile. Ummm suspicious but whatever’s

“Yeah, I can do that” I say as I smile and shrug my shoulders. She leans back into her chair and looks knowingly at Tom who is once again back to his stone wall face.

“Liam asked us to tell you everything about him, and for starters I want you to be aware it’s gonna get a little weird but hold all questions to the end, okay? Okay.” Billie nods to herself before continuing.

“Many years ago, we didn’t have this fancy fence around our property, we had normal bar wire that wildlife would get caught in sometimes but it kept the horses in. Anyways it was normal for us to go and check the fence every other day to make sure nothing was caught up or knocked down.” She looks to Tom who is shaking his head to all of this

“One night we had heard a lot of wolves howling and what sounded like fighting as well, we waiting till daylight before we went to check the horses, when we got out there, we saw a huge black and white wolf laying in the pasture, badly injured. We had never seen a wolf this size before, it was almost the size of Daisy!” Tom chimes in.

“He actually was bigger than Daisy, but that didn’t stop us from going over to see if the wolf was alive or dead, we got over to its head and saw it had a very large bite on its neck and one on his hind leg but he was still breathing. He made eye contact with us and instead of growling he lifted his head up to glance at us and then laid back down before transforming into a naked man covered in blood and bites.” Billie sniffles a tear as he tells us this.

A MAN?! WHAT?! Are they gonna laugh and say this is a night they experimented with acid? I lean in intently as Billie starts talking again in an emotion filled voice,

“We took him to the barn and cleaned his wounds before bandaging them up and giving him warm clothes to put on. He was asleep for a day and a half before he woke up and walked into our living room. Which scared me half to death!” Tom rolls his eyes,

“More like made you mad as hell for tracking mud into your house.”

“Oh, hush same difference,” Billie says as she waves him away. I giggle a little.

“Anyways, the point is he woke up and told us all about him, what he is, where he comes from, what’s his name. This my dear is how we were introduced to Liam's father, Alpha Jakob Wood. At the time many packs were at war, Alpha Jakob and his pack single handedly ended the reign of terror becoming the largest and most powerful wolf pack in North America. Alpha Jakob had lost his Luna Helena during wars but his infant son survived thus making Liam the sole heir to the black moon legacy and you my dear just so happen to be his Fated mate bestowed upon him by the moon goddess.” Billie does a little wiggle in her seat, beaming with joy as if everything she just said made any sense.

“Wait… hold up haha… can you. Haha. Can you just rewind real quick you found Liams dad naked in your pasture and you became friends with him?” I say trying to hide my confusion and panic with a laugh as I stare at them with a crazed look on my face. They have to be joking right? There’s no such thing as werewolves that’s just a fairytale. Right? Tom then clears his voice before scooting to the end of his chair

“Now Lacie I know it might seem crazy, trust me if I hadn’t seen Alpha Jakob transform in front of my eyes, I would be in the same head set as you. But Sweetie we are telling you the truth.”

“Okay even if what all you say is true what does that even mean? Black moon legacy? Alpha? Luna? I have no clue what to even think and what the hell is a fated mate?!” I feel panic starting to raise in my chest, my breathing is getting more difficult to handle and I’m starting to gasp for air.

“Tom get a pillow!” Billie yells as she helps me move from my chair to the wooden floor

“Lacie, you need to breathe, look at me sugar, look into my eyes, you need to focus on my words, you can do this” she tries to coach me and help me through my anxiety attack like many times before but this time is different. I feel like my life has been flipped upside down, there’s no way out I can’t, I can’t do this. I'm hyperventilating and starting to lose the feeling in my hands and feet, I’m getting dizzier as I still can’t control my breathing. I feel the darkness pull me under as I finally pass out. I lay in the darkness letting my mind wander as I feel like I’m floating around.

1: Liam is a werewolf.

2: He’s an Alpha who runs the biggest pack in North America.

3: Liam kissed me today.

4: The moon goddess has made me his fated mate.

5: Werewolf’s are real and I kissed one.

Okay.

LIAM POV:

“ETA IS 10 minutes give me an update!” I mind link Ryan.

“Your dad is here and helping us regroup, no new Rogues in the past 15minutes, only 28 injured 5 casualties on our end. They got Simon Alpha, he just started western patrol last week”

“Stay on guard I’m almost there!” I say as I close the link. Damn it Simon was only 17, just like Seth he wasn’t even old enough to find his mate yet! I howl an ear-splitting howl that ends in a growl.

“What Dante? What’s the growl about?” I ask as a pressure in my chest builds.

“Our mate is hurting; I feel it don't you?!” He growls again, this time I realize the pressure in my chest is still growing and becoming more painful.

“Tom and Billie are with her she is safe, and I sense it’s not a physical pain, we have to focus right now. I know it sucks but they can handle her having emotional problems for the time being until we get the whole pack safe from the rogues!” I try to reason with Dante who has now stopped us from running

“We have to go to the pack, she will survive” I say as I push us forward to a sprint again. Dante whines but no longer fights our path.

“Think we can fix her hurt later?” He asks. I continue to stare forward closing in on the clearing to the pack house I sigh and shake my head

“I hope we can, I really hope we can.”

LACIE POV:

I still feel the darkness surrounding me as I know my body is still reviving from my panic attack and as this isn’t my first panic attack, I accept it and just enjoy the darkness. It’s funny that the darkness and unknown gives me so much anxiety in the real world but in my post panic state it’s almost like a warm and comforting feeling. It’s like my body craves the dark that I’m so deathly scared of. Weird, I know but I’ve had that feeling since I was 16, like the darkness of my mind isn’t to be fought with. A whisper floats through my darkened mind,

“Lacie are you ready to finally accept me?”

“Finally Accept you? Who ARE you? Why do you sound so familiar?” The voice gives a small chuckle,

“I’ve been in your dreams since you were 16, I came every year, waiting on the border of your subconscious for your acceptance but you were never ready…”

“THE VOICE FROM MY DREAMS!” I try to gain my consciousness once more before this conversation can go any further but it’s like I’m stuck.

“W-what do you want? Why are you always hiding my dreams of you?” I ask with a wary tone.

“There’s many things little one that will be a shock and you had to be in the right mind set, are you ready to wake up and remember all those dreams?” The small voice giggles again

“Are you ready to finally know the truth little one?”I gulp and nod my head, hesitant of what the voice might say, but honestly my day can’t get any weirder.

“Good, now open your eyes little one and all will be revealed” I feel myself regaining my consciousness as I smile at the disembodied voice, what a weird day.