The true mate

Chapter 13

Chapter 13

Liz's POV

What time is it? My body hurts so much. „Ehmm.“ I'm laying on my stomach and trying to look at my phone. But my body isn't moving at all. I try again, but the only thing that happens is that the weight on my body only grows. „Oh, great.“ Matthew is laying on me, covering my whole body with his. He's like my personal weighted blanket. I have to chuckle when that thought crosses my mind. I try to reach out for my phone to take it and finally succeed. 3:01. It's so early, but I'm not tired at all. I don't think I'll fall asleep again and with Matthew's body, heavy body on me it's definitely not possible. I bet he's over 200 pounds of pure muscle. Makes sense that he's able to throw me over his shoulder with a body like that. I like how big he is compared to myself. How those arms squeeze my hips, my hands and neck when he's about to c*m. I let out another chuckle. Come on Liz, he's not a piece of meat. But he is delicious.

„You know I heard all that, right?“

What the-!

„Sorry, our minds are probably connected. Did I wake you up?“

Matthew lifts some of his weight off of me and I turn to face him.

„Sort of. The feelings you had, that's what woke me up.The happiness and butterflies. And some pretty kindy thoughts.“

„It's not a kink.“ Sometimes my powers slip and my mind connects to Matthew's. He can hear my thoughts, just like the first time we met in the forest.

Matthew puts his right hand in my hair and comb it with his fingers. He looks in my eyes with an emotion I now know very well. Lust. „Hmmm, I don't know. I like how bigger he is compared to myself? That sounds like a size kink to me.“

I try not to blush and hide my face into his chest. He only lets out a silent laugh and hugs me around my waist. „You know I'm teasing you right?“

„Not so sure about that.“ I look at Matthew with an annoyed look and pout my lips. He looks so handsome in the moonlight. His eyes have even lighter colour, they're almost grey. His skin is paler, hair a bit sweaty after the s*x we had, but he's still the most handsome guy I've ever seen.

He closes his eyes in delight and smiles.

„Thanks.“

I should really work on this mind sharing thing. Suppress it. Focus. Find the energy. Build it.

Matthew opens his eyes all of a sudden looking at me. „Don't. I want to hear you. I don't mind... and by the way, you are the most beautiful woman I've ever seen too.“

This guy. I lean closer to him and kiss him. „You should go back to sleep, Matthew. I think I'm done with my sleep. Don't mind me.“

„No, I want to be with you.“

„I'm right here.“ I sit on his lap and lower my head in the crook of his neck. My right hand is on his chest drawing circles with my fingers. „It's ok, sleep.“ All I hear is Matthew humming half asleep already. I wait a few more minutes and get up. It's 3:23, I'm not sleeping, at least not for now. I go downstairs in the kitchen to get myself some water and to sit on the couch in the living room. I look outside the window and see the moon. I wonder if I'll be able to do it again. I sit on the floor, cross my legs, put my hand on my knees and close my eyes. Maybe if I focus enough I'll be able to connect with the woman, just like I did before. I don't know the process of it, but when I connected to Matthew she just appeared. This time if I do it purposely maybe I can reach her. Wait! The moon. I stand up and sit by the french door that leads to the garden and look at the moon. The light is covering me and I can feel my mind getting calmer and open with every second. I cross my legs again and close my eyes. Focus on the stream in your body, feel it. Connect with Matthew's energy, focus on him. Mate's streams are one. Even though Matthew is in a different room I'm able to connect to him, I can feel it. I can see him in our room, laying in bed. I can see our room. I look out of the window, but instead of the lake I can see inside of a room. I open the window and jump through.

I look around and I'm standing in a strange place. It's dark here, the air is cold and humid. The smell is different, like I'm in the mountains or somewhere in a forest. I look around the room, but there is nothing, just concrete, dark and.. a door? I go to the direction of the door and open it. And again nothing but darkness and a long hallway. I go slowly through the hallway, a bit frightened. But this is not real, nothing can happen to me right? I get to the end of the hallway and see another door. I open it and enter a rather large room. There is a tall window facing mountains and a desk in front of it with a tall chair. It looks like this building is very high above a forest. I get closer to the window and look around. It's so beautiful. The forest is enormous, there is a fog coming out of it and surrounding the mountains. It's amazing, so peaceful, I could see myself living here.

The sound of the door opening gets me out of my daydreaming and I turn around. In the door there is a young man standing, not paying any attention to me as if he can't even see me. He's walking to the desk and sits down. He's got his elbows on the table just looking at his intertwined fingers. He signs and leans on the headrest of his chair. I'm standing on the right side of the desk looking around. There are some cabinets with papers, but that's it. Nothing else, this room is so cold and empty.

„Stop it. Break it off. I can feel your magic.“

I just stare at this man, not knowing what's going on.

He stands up and walks to where I'm standing, talking with venom in his voice. „I know your tricks Moira, trying to hide your magic won't help. I said knock it off!“

Moira? So she is still alive? And who is he? Before I'm even able to try to run or just move he grabs me by my throat and with overwhelming strength and speed slams me to the wall. „Enough tricks, show yourself! If you want something look me in the eye!“

I can feel his fingers tightening around my throat, my breathing is getting worse, I try to get his hand off me, but there is no use.

„Here you are, you thought that casting an invisibility spell would work? You should know me better, Moira.“

„Please stop. You're hurting me.“ With every breath that leaves my body I can feel the magic in me fading. With every breath his grip is tighter. At one point his eyes get wide, now he's looking me in the eyes directly.

Jacob's POV

That f*cking b***h. She knows how to get on my nerves. But this feels good I gotta admit. Squeezing the life out of her. She's always been a pain in the ass, but I need her for now. Maybe this will teach her not to play with me. I can feel her struggling against me, that's odd, but works with me. I squeeze her throat even more, I know that she'll give up soon. I can see the outline of her body and face now.

„Here you are, you thought that casting an invisibility spell would work? You should know me better, Moira.“

I smirk to myself, but my face turns into confusion and then shock.

„Please stop. You're hurting me.“

This voice. It's not Moira. „Who are you?!“ I squeeze her throat again and that's enough for her to show herself. „You're not Moira.“ I look at her eyes, her face and her whole body. Her eyes are light purple, brown hair and she's wearing only oversized tshirt like she just got out of bed. And then it hits me. The levander and snow scent, it's so sweet. I loosen my hold on her throat, but still hold her. I move my hand from her throat to her jaw and move my face closer to hers. I take a deep breath and connect my forehead with hers. She's trembling and so scared. I cup her cheek with my left hand. This will calm her down, I can feel myself getting calmer already. „Is this how is feels like to have a mate? Where have you been?“ I look at her, but her eyes are closed. She's still scared, please don't be, I won't hurt you. „Please talk to me. How did you get here?“

„I don't know, please let me go.“

Go? No, I finally found her. I can't let her go.

„You're finally here. I found you. I found my mate.“ What is it? Why is she looking at me like that? She shakes her head trying to get away from me, but I won't let her. I took a hold of her right wrist and push myself onto her, so that she can't move.

„Let me go!“

„Please calm down, you're just confused, it's ok. I won't hurt you, I would never hurt my mate.“

„I'm not your mate!“

What is she talking about? Of course she is. This feeling, I'm sure she can feel it too.

„Please listen to me. You gotta understand, I'm not your mate.“

„Yes, you are! I'll prove it to you.“ I move my hand that's holding her jaw to the back of her head and move her closer. I can see the shock in her eyes when I move closer and kiss her. She's pushing me away from her, but I don't care, the feeling is too good. That's it, my love, I'll make you see it. I snake my other arm around her waist and pull her even closer to me. This feeling is too good to be true.

„STOP IT!“ like a dagger her voice echoes in my head and when I look at her I see her purple eyes looking at me and veins under her eyes go black. I get away from her and hold my head. The pain makes me scream to the whole building. It feels like my head is going to explode. Why is she doing this? If she doesn't stop soon I'll be dead. She is so powerful, but looks like she doesn't control it yet. I look at her with pleading in my eyes, hoping that will make her stop. For a second she hesitates and whatever spell she's using stops. That's my moment! I get up quickly even though my head is pounding and I have a problem even standing properly and get back to her. I got a hold on her throat again. „Why did you do this?! Don't you understand?! You're my mate!“

„I already have a mate! Don't you see?“ She takes her hand and uncovers her mating mark on her neck. I look at it and an enormous wave of anger spreads through my body. Who is this guy? She's my mate, I've waited for years to meet her only to find out she's already mated with someone else!

„And believe me when I say that Matthew will beat the s**t out of you if you hurt me!“

Matthew? No way, is this the little witch Moira talked about? Why does he always have to go against me? Why did he and his family take everything away from me!

„Matthew f*****g Blackwood, eh?“ I shake my head and chuckle. „Looks like I have one more reason to kill him... and you believe me on this. When it's done I'll come for you-!“ I take one more look at her and smile. „and I'll erase his mark with mine.“ with those words I release her and step away from her. She's looking at me like she just saw a ghost. She's looking around her, like she's looking for something. I can hear her whisper his name and then she closes her eyes in an attempt to focus. Is she going to attack me again? No, looks like she's vanishing away, but before she does I say one last thing to her. „Tell him that Jacob says hi.“ and smirk at her.

Matthew's POV

„Liz? You ok?“ I woke up again, it looks like Liz didn't suppress her thoughts after all. But this feeling was not good. My throat hurts like someone tried to choke me and I'm scared. Maybe she has a nightmare, would make sense after everything that happened in those last 2 days. I turn to her side of the bed but she's not there. A fear get over me before I can even think about it. I get out of the bed and find sweatpants, put them on and run to every room on this floor, but she's not anywhere. I run downstairs and there I see her, in the living room, sitting on the floor facing the garden. But this is strange, the feeling of this whole part of the house is so cold and empty, her energy is even visible now. There are streams of purple strings in the air circulating around her. I can see that the pictures on the table are shaking, some lighter objects are already floating in the air. Because of our feelings and emotions connected I know that she's angry, I don't know what's happening, but she needs to stop. I run to her, facing her, looking at her. Her head is slightly on one side, like she's sleeping and the veins under her eyes are visible. I try to touch her, but the usual sparks I feel are much stronger. I hold her shoulders with my hands and shake her. Her head falls down to her chest, looks like she's in a deep sleep. „Liz, wake up. Liz!“ I hold her shoulders tighter and shake her violently. The sparks are so powerful that I can feel my hands burning, it's a bit uncomfortable, but she needs to wake up. „Baby, wake up, please.“ the skin of my hands is burning now. „Please Liz, come back to me. Come back.“

She takes a deep breath and looks at me with fear in her eyes. She's looking around her breathing deeply and takes my hands with her trembling ones.

„Calm down honey, you're ok. Hey hey hey look at me. Calm down, you're hyperventilating, take deep slow breaths. That's it.“ I pull her closer to me, sit her between my legs and hug her tightly. „You're ok, you're ok. I'm here.“ I rock her body slowly and give her small kisses on her forehead. Few minutes like this and she's calmer. I give her one last kiss on the top of her head and pull away. I cup her cheeks and look at her. She looks tired. „What happened? What were you doing?“

She's not even looking at me, I can see that her eyes are not focusing on anything, she's just sitting here. She opens her mouth to talk, but closes it again shaking her head.

„Itried to connect to the woman from earlier, but instead of her I ended up in a house somewhere in the mountains, there were trees everywhere, the building was somewhere high up. I entered a room and there I saw a man. He didn't see me at first, but then I could feel my magic and attacked me.“

„What?!“

„He hold me by my throat. I couldn't breath, I thought I was going to die. I could feel my magic fading away. He said something about invisibility spell. My magic was weak and he could see me. He said his name is Jacob.“

Jacob?! But how is it possible? And he even touched her.

„And-“ I look at her. She's on the verge of tears. I move my thumps on her cheeks to encourage her to speak. „At that moment I think he found out I'm his mate, he said I'm his mate and kissed me. I'm so sorry Matthew. I didn't want to but-“

„Shh, it's ok, it's not your fault. I got you.“ What is going on? f**k!

Liz takes some time to compose herself and talks some more. „Is it really possible that I'm his mate? He said he will erase your mark with his. He wants to kill you Matthew. He even knows the witch I told you about. Moira. Looks like they're working together.“

„I don't know. Some information about mates, why and how they're chosen are still a mystery. It is possible that with your strong connection to magic you are a mate of more than one werewolf. He could be your second chance mate. Just like me and Zoe. But we were not meant to be. Maybe this is the same case.“

„I know you are my mate, not him. But we mated and you marked me. He can't just erase that.“

„Actually, when a mate dies their mark disappears, making a chance for the second chance mate to come into her or his life. If you're really his mate and he wants to put his mark on you it is possible.“

„By killing you.“

„... Yes.“

Liz is looking at me with a look I've never seen before. I can feel her anger and guild. She's got so many emotions fighting inside of her right now. „He can't.“ I hear her whisper those words with a broken voice. She's shaking her head and trying to stand up. I'm still holding her in my arms, but she's pushing herself away from me. She's struggling against my strength, but manages to stand up. I follow and try to calm her down, but she hits my hand away from her.

„Babe, please. Talk to me.“ She's walking around the room, chewing on her thumb nail. She stops and looks at me.

„I can't let him do anything to you. I just can't. This is the happiest I've ever been and I won't let anyone take that away from us.“

„I know honey, I won't either.“ I come closer to her and hug her again, putting my head on top of hers. She buries her face in my chest breathing in my scent. She's so warm. I take her tshirt she's wearing and put my hands under the fabric so that I can touch her skin even more. She needs the contact to calm herself down and to be honest I need that too.

Jacob, what happened to you? When we were kids I tried to include him, it even looked like he was warming up to us, but one night I saw him leave the pack somewhere in the woods, he never told me even if I asked and since that day he was with us less and less until he left and never came back. If I only knew what was going on inside his head I could stop him. If only...

„Did you feel anything when he kissed you?“

Liz thinks about my question, and pulls away from me. She's looking at my chest, takes a deep breath and looks me in the eye. „A little bit, it was not even sparks, just a little tickle, like a spider on my arm.“

So there is some connection. It shouldn't be present until my death, but it's still there. Is it possible that she is his mate? Even the first mate? That's why the connection is still there? Did I just happened to be at the right place and find her before him? If there's a stream connection, there is a mate. Does is mean that Liz is his?

„Matt? Hey, don't even think about it. I'm yours.“

I see Liz looking at me with a stern expression. She heard me. „Sorry, it's just... shock. Out of all the people... Jacob-.“

„-is someone we need to deal with. If he's really behind the attacks, he won't stop. We need to talk to your brother. He might be in danger too and they can try to find him. I think he's somewhere near your pack, I saw forest and the house was very high up in the mountains. And also I saw a television transmitter on one of the hills, if you look at it it's on direction 10 hour.“

„Are you a spy or what?“

Liz giggles and hugs me tightly. „No, but earlier in life I learned to remember details of my visions, because it turned out there are clues in them and sometimes they would tell me and guide me in the future.“ After that she kisses me. She takes my hands from behind her back and holds them in hers. But then she forrows her eyebrowns and turns my hands to look at them. „What happened to your hands?“

I look at her with confusion and them at my hands. The skin is red from the heat, some parts are even slightly burned. I try to talk it off, but Liz won't let me. „Ok, well... When I tried to wake you up, I wanted to shake you, but then I touched you. The sparks were very strong, so strong that it burned.“

Liz starts to apologize, but I explain it's all right. With my werewolf healing, it will be gone when we wake up in the morning. „It's only 4:05, let's sleep some more, today is our last day. Let's just take it easy.“

We get back to our bedroom and I spoon Liz's little body so incredibly close to me, that it feels like we are one person. I can feel her falling asleep. When I look at her peaceful figure I have to think about Jacob. What happened to him? He's not doing this for Liz, he didn't know before that she was his mate. If he wants his pack back he has to challenge me. My father won his challenge. The birth right for the Alpha title belongs to the winner and every progeny of his family branch. He must know this. And he's even working with the witch that killed his father. Jacob...

I can feel Liz move a little bit and frown. I whisper in her ear to calm her down, I'm sure she can feel my distress as her own. I don't want her to have bad dreams. „It's ok honey, I'm sorry. Good night.“ I lay down and bury my face in my mate's hair. Her smell is the best thing in the whole world. I won't let anything happen to her. She's my mate, my love, my future wife and Luna.