The Mate Fate Almost Didn't Give Me

Chapter 1: But I Don't Want To Go

Chapter 1

But I Don’t Want To Go

Azara’s P.O.V

“ Must I go this year?”

“Yes, Azara you are still unmated,” Alpha Johathan replies.

“And I highly doubt me going to the ball this year is going to change that. So why not let me stay home and complete border patrol?” 

“Because,” he sighs, “It would make us look weak to not send every unmated wolf and you know that from all the previous years you have come in and pleaded your case Azara.” 

I sigh, “fine but at some point, I shouldn’t have to have to go to this thing anymore. I should be allowed to move on with my life. Without my mate.”

With that said I walk out of the Alpha's office before he can reply because I know he will say that isn’t how our world works and mates are the most important thing. It’s not that I disagree with him, it’s just I am tired of looking for my mate. I am pretty sure he doesn’t exist. Either he is dead or already mated to someone else. Whichever option is true all this ball will do is remind me of this reality. 

However that being said I am a werewolf I can’t disobey my Alpha so I simply go back to my room in the pack house and get ready to go. I will have to change as soon as I get there so it doesn’t really matter what I wear right now, so I slip on a shirt, a pair of black leggings, and my favorite pair of black knee high leather boots. With that I carry my bag to the car that I will be riding in to get to the ball. 

It won’t be too far to the ball this year because My pack is located in northern Montana and the ball will be held in Spokane Washington this year. 

In my car is the future beta of the pack Gabriel (he is 19 this year), his sister Brianna (this is her first year she is 16), a couple of her friends, and another pack warrior Apollo ( he is one of the few that make it to my age without a mate and he is my best friend). 

Apollo smiles at me, god sometimes I wish that we could have been mates. “I guess your plea to the alpha didn’t work?” He chuckles. 

“Hey, it was worth a try. I mean tell me you don’t want to get out of going, you have to be just as tired as I am of not getting a mate?” 

He smiles sadly and I know I have touched a nerve, “yeah, but the difference is I haven’t lost hope Azara. And you shouldn’t either, he is out there you know.” 

I sigh (I’ve been doing that a lot lately)

“ I agree, you have been quite whiny lately. It’s rather annoying,” my wolf Cora responds (not that I was asking for a response.

“I don’t know Apollo, I just don’t want to spend my whole life looking for someone who might not exist for me. It feels like a waste of time. I understood having to go for the first few years but 4 years in it kind of feels like a cosmic joke.”

“Meeting your mate would make it worth the wait, furthermore it isn’t your whole life it’s just one week a year.”

I glare at him because I know he is right, meeting my mate would be worth the one week a year I spent looking for him (even though 4 years in I have given looking for him a month of my time). 

Instead of finishing a conversation I know I am losing, I just sigh again and look out the window for the rest of the trip