Second Chance of The Moon: Laura's Redemption

Chapter 2: Fated mates

MAXWELL'S POV:

She was so beautiful that I couldn't take my eyes off her, I have always loved her eyes as they glowed like the moon. Beautiful wasn't enough words to describe her. I could give her all the love I had inside me. I have always dreamt about her being in my arms as my wolf and I knew well that she was our mate.

She had always been admired by most of the pack's members, especially the unmated ones, but her father was the alpha's daughter, she was untouchable. Although we grew up together as my father was the Beta, I had always gone unnoticed by her.

But, I was shocked to find out on her 18th birthday that she was my mate. As she stepped out of the house in her yellow gown with the Alpha by her side, she looked more beautiful than ever.

I suddenly felt a feeling of longing and want, as my chest went right, I looked up at her and my wolf and I whispered mate. This was unexpected, I knew I had a crush on her since she was 5, but never in a million years would I have thought that we would be mated.

I walked up to her with excitement to wish her a happy birthday personally and probably make her look at me and realize that we were mates, but I didn't expect what came next.

She had looked at me with the same eyes, just like she had always looked at me. I stared at her longer than expected, still hoping that she would realize that her mate stood In front of her, but nothing happened. She just nodded and walked away like nothing happened.

I felt shattered as my wolf longed for his mate, he desired to hold his mate, but our mate didn't feel the same way. I have always waited for the day she would see me, and for a moment, I thought this was an amazing opportunity and blessing the moon goddess had given to me but I guess that wasn't the case, especially not for my mate.

I was so far off with my thoughts that I didn't notice the knock at the door. The person knocking was shouting and screaming for attention but his screaming didn't solve it on time. I later realized the Knock about ten minutes after he had stood outside waiting for me. I thought it would be Xavier, my cousin.

As I went outside to open the door for whoever it was, I saw my father at my door, he didn't look so pleased and I was surprised to see him. I didn't think that my father could be knocking at the door like that.

“What's the problem with you and why were you keeping me waiting?” my father said, almost yelling.

“Father I had something doing that was why I delayed and besides I thought it was Xavier, I didn't know it was you I'm sorry for the delay” I defended.

“Just let me in and go get me some food I am hungry,” he said, clearly irritated

One of the things I didn't like to do was prepare a meal for my dad and because we didn't have a female in the house who could do that for us, my father always sent me to the kitchen to prepare our meals which I hated so much, I always tell him to remarry and his reply would always be “I am not ready for that”.

Since, the death of my mother, his mate, he has never been the same, it was evident that he loved her but she was a warrior and had lost her life one day trying to protect the late luna from rogues. I was consoled with the fact that she had died honorably.

“I won't be long now dad, the meal is almost ready, just give me some time, okay? I will be done soon,” I replied

“I am famished, okay? please hurry up son,” my father said.

Not quite long after my father had complained about the meal, it was finally ready.

“Father I am done, here is your meal, enjoy,” I said feeling proud of myself for pulling off cooking up another meal.

“Okay son," his father said with a smile.

We both finally sat down and began eating the meal, while eating, I realized that I had been hungry myself. As we ate, Xavier walked in.

“Aren't I so lucky? Having to walk in on you guys eating. maybe I should wait to be invited before I join you in this meal," Xavier said.

We all laughed knowing fully well that he was being sarcastic as Xavier never asks to be invited before joining us for a meal. But since he did today, I asked him to join us. Xavier and I were cousins, we were also best friends and we did almost everything together.

My late mother and Xavier's father were siblings. At times we even spend the night at each other's home. We grew up together and haven't had any serious fights ever since then.

“I came for us to go hunting," Xavier said as we feasted on the meal in front of us.

"Okay let's finish eating and go get things prepared to go hunting,” l said to him

“Okay no problem, let's finish up quickly then" Xavier replied

I finished up quickly, left my father on the table, and went to get some equipment for hunting. We went to the forest where we could get some meat, as we went further, we were so lucky, so we went deeper than usual into the forest in search of animals to kill and get home “I saw something” Xavier shouted as something moved fast in the bushes.

They both went in the direction of where Xavier had seen the animal, but unfortunately for us, it was some rogues. I quickly pushed Xavier out of the way as one of the rogues approached him fast.

Xavier and I quickly changed into our wolf form and they both joined forces to kill the rogues, I quickly brought out my claws and swiftly attacked one of the rogues. I was able to subdue one of the rogues but wasn't fast enough to handle all of them.

They were five in number and Xavier, who was already badly injured by them became too weak to continue the fight against the rogues, so I pushed the rogue away, but the rogue hit Xavier's head he fell and turned back into his human form.

I saw my cousin lying lifelessly on the floor, and I had lost it as I attacked the rogue, I managed to chase it away because they were bleeding as well and had scars all over their body. We had managed to kill three of them.

l was already weak and scared and I was not even strong enough to walk properly and I had to carry Xavier as well. I saw him bleeding and was not able to do anything about the fact that we were both bleeding uncontrollably. I was slowly losing consciousness and wasn't able to get up.

I had hoped that someone would come to our rescue as we lay there on the floor because the forest was dark and lonely and had no one coming because the forest was lonely and dark. I suddenly saw someone approaching before my eyes closed.