The Unwanted Mate

Not According to Plan

Terry smiled into the night as he wrapped his arms around his mate. Never in a million years would he have thought fate would blessed him with the union of being mated, but he would never deny the joy and peace having a mate brought him. He had been happily mated for the past three months. Turning and looking at Bethany sleeping made his chest swell with pride. She was drop dead hands down the most beautiful woman he had ever seen. Every time he looked at her his beast growled with pride and a possessiveness took hold of his body, as if on cue he pulled her closer to him as she slept and she naturally snuggled closer sighing in her sleep. Terry absent minded nodded to himself at her actions of submitting to his beast even in her sleep. Terry kissed Bethany and regrettably pulled away from her. She whimpered in her sleep at the lost of his warmth and embrace. He smiled and headed towards the bathroom. He looked at the text message again that he had gotten yesterday. Keith was on his way home, after getting stuck in Europe for 3 months to help regain control over warring packs and setting up a peace pact he was writing to let his cousin know he was heading home and he was again thankful to his cousin for getting his bride for him 3 months ago. Terry was very fond of his cousin and hated the hand fate had dealt him regarding Bethany, but Terry didn't regret his actions. As his uncle and aunt both noted the mating bond is uncontrollable and no beast can change its alluring bond and power.

"Keith will be angry, but he'll understand, my boy, don't worry about it." The king had assured Terry. Yet Terry wasn't so sure. He knew Keith to be a prideful man and did not submit to defeat. But in his defense everything happened so quickly, one minute Terry was handing a letter to Alpha Robert and next thing he knew he was marking Bethany in a barbaric moment of beastly passion right in the hallway of the Alpha's sitting room. Terry couldn't explain it, no matter how many times he replayed it in his memory because one minute he was whistling and wishing the girl would hurry up and next thing he knew she walked into the room and her scent hit him in his gut. His beast boldly took over, his eyes glowed golden and his canines bared themselves and he growled at Bethany: You are mine. He heard the Alpha growl and the Luna shout no, but he couldn't control his beast as he grabbed Bethany by her shoulders and sinked his canines into the girl's neck. She didn't run or deny him, but simply allowed him to claim her, he later asked her why one night in bed after they had made love:

"Why did you not try to stop me from marking you in such a beastly way?" He was playing with her golden curls and admiring her beauty as he watched her face deep in thought.

" I had felt the pull from your beast as I walked into the dining room, my beast had been so tired and broken at my mate's rej-

"I'm your mate." Terry growled interrupting her speaking.

Bethany smiled shaking her head at her Lycan's mate possessiveness. She wonder if all Lycans had this trait.

"Yes you are but before you a coward claimed my heart and it had broken my wolf in such a way I thought she would never recover from, your cousin's marriage proposal had eased the embarrassment of being rejected publicly, but it had not healed my wolf's heart, so when I felt the familiar pull that I felt from Caleb I was not going to give another one the chance to reject me again."

Pulling her into his arms and kissing her deeply, "I would have never rejected you my little wolf, you have completed me in ways I didn't know I needed. I assure you the only reason this Caleb is still alive is because he rejected you which made it easier for me to claim you."

Bethany snuggled up to her beautiful mate. "And if he had not rejected me?"

"I would have fought him to the death for you?"

Bethany gasped.

"But I would have been in love with him, that would have killed me Terry, you know wolves need their mates to survive."

Terry smiled at his beautiful wife

"No, my little wolf you would have lived and flourished because I would have given you my Lycan's blood to sustain you. Fate is funny, but your little Beta mate would not have been enough to override my mate bond to you."

Bethany frowned her eyebrows together as if trying to make sense of it. Terry watched her sigh and figured she had convinced herself of his logic.

"Terry"

Hearing Bethany's voice brought him back to the present moment and his pending encounter with his older cousin.

Opening the bathroom door, Terry came face to face with his naked bride.

"What are doing in there?"

Terry eyes glowed as his nose filled his lungs and loins with his mate's scent.

"Nothing that you need to worry your little head over my little wolf." He reached out and grabbed her by the waist and brought her to him. Her full breast crashing against his hard muscled chest.

"You're trying to figure out what to do in telling Keith about you and I?"

He smiled at her, in only three months time his little wolf was learning his mood and emotions.

Kissing her and picking her up, she instinctively locked her legs around his waist as he walked them to the walk in shower, "Let me worry about Keith, little wolf, all you need to worry about is how will you break the news to our parents that they are gonna be grandparents soon" Bethany grasped at the possibility, "Oh my God, Terry...I hadn't thought"

Terry busted out laughing as he proceeded to step into the shower with his wife still wrapped around his waist.

"Well you should practice how you'll start that conversation, but right now we're gonna continue practicing on making our parents grandparents."

"Okay" was all Bethany whispered as her husband, her life mate, her love pushed his hardness inside her wetness driving her wild with pleasure.