Future Mate

POV

If you let go, are you weak for not getting revenge? Or, since it's so much harder to forgive, does that show strength?

Aleah

I feel like singing for the first time in forever! I giggle like a school girl thinking of Lionel.How can he be so utterly amazing? Like protective, not aggressive, possessive, but in that that's not for you kind of way. He is a little bit edgy like he is trying to be as perfect as possible, I hope he gives that up soon. It drives me nuts, like really dude? I have enough problems with out adding needing to be perfect when I am perfectly broken. He doesn't seem to care but part of me thinks he just doesn't see it. I tried to tell him, and he said he was trying to be the mate I deserve! Awwwwwe isn't he just..... so...... ya know? " hmhm," Lillith chuckles" Oddly enough I actually know exactly what you mean." Did we have to give them two whole weeks? "We were trying to be fair," She states."If you wanted we could reject Alec early."

"WAIT.WHAT? Why didn't you tell me sooner?"

"I needed to make sure you were feeling the same as me." she says sheepishly."Think on it if we do you have to let Lionel mark you publicly."

OH now it makes sense why she didn't tell me sooner. That is a very intimate moment between mates. To do it publicly? I just don't know if I'm that sure yet.Would we need to complete the bond right away? "No"Lillith tells me, " just the mark." That makes it seem a lot better to me for some reason.Everything in me wants to take this chance. What the hell for once I am going to trust my instincts. After all, with everything I have already been through what more could happen?

My musings are brought to an abrupt end as someone bangs on my door. Hesitantly I open the door to see Alpha Alec standing there looking down his eyes pitch black. Suddenly his eyes cleared up, and he looked at me.

"My wolf is going to leave me if you accept him." he states.

"What" is my intelligent response to this statement.

"My wolf is livid with me and if you leave me he will to" he says looking at me sadly.

Suddenly Lillith goes nuts" He is trying to guilt you into rejecting Lionel, all you have to do is give him his second chance back." She snarls with contempt, "Kieth requests we don't tell him if we do though, he is beyond livid he overpowered a blocker to tell us."

He blocked his wolf on purpose? I am done with this monster. You can't think right with out your wolf. People think our violence is due to our wolves, its actually tied to our human side while our outstanding compassion is a wolf trait. I wonder if I can mind link Lionel? Worth a shot.

"Lionel I need to talk to you I have made my choice but since I have to let my mate mark me publicly anyway can we get even a little?"I ask trying to reach him.

Almost immediately I hear a response," What did you have in mind? Does he sound scared?

"I am going to have him walk me down the stairs, if you don't mind ask me to sit with you." Before I can go farther he interrupts me.

"There won't be a chair." he states.

"So where can I sit close to you?" I ask, wait for it I think.

"If it were my choice my lap" he growls.

"Why thank you for that offer! If you make it at dinner I will accept, putting me in the perfect position for my mate to mark me." and I wait patiently for him to catch on.

"You chose me?" he asks sounding stunned.

Like duh! It wasn't as much of a contest as he seems to think it was.

Kieth

I can't believe that stupid human is going to use her heart against her. I snarl and rage, locked in a compartment of his mind burning like bathing in wolfs bane and silver water. I can't let this happen so with all the strength I can muster I push out till I feel Lillith, as quickly as I can I tell her everything. I hope they reject us they deserve better than my human. As soon as I finish telling Lillith I feel drained I feel the darkness coming the burning starts to get worse. How can he do this to me? Suddenly I feel A sweet breeze on my fur . It smells of sun, mountain pine, desert rain, and wild honey suckle in summer heat. Lillith was blocking the pain for me. I felt a tug, she pulled me into Aleah with her and said until I was ready to go back she would find a way to give me my own body.How the hell did she do this? I don't really care as I slip off into a dark dreamless rest.

Lionel

She picked us, oh s**t she wants me to mark her at dinner tonight dinner is at six sharp. Sh*# it's five thirty!I rush to get ready and head down to ensure the only available seat is my lap. He must have pushed her really hard to make her go for blood. My sweet little mate deserves this chance at revenge. I wait and watch as she walks down the steps, she didn't dress up , but she didn't need to. I growl as I notice his arm on her till I notice his smell turning from alpha ultra to human. She spared his wolf? It must have played a part in her choice. I make a mental note to talk to his wolf later if I can. I walk up with all confidence and ask her to sit on my lap, she had to have been bluffing right?

NOPE! As she takes her seat on my lap, I notice her hair is pulled off this side of her neck. She was serious?! She can hate me for this later but in this moment she is offering me what I can not resist. I extend my canines and mark her, knowing nobody but me will know she will regret this.As my mark takes hold I feel her thinking about how glad she was I was hers now. "It would seem our little mate is possessive." Rays chuckled " The only thing she regrets at this point is giving him the second chance at all. Her and Lillith were talking about it before the pup screwed himself thoroughly. Now stop worrying for no reason and go hold our mate!" he all but snarls at me. He is right I think and I head towards my beautiful mate. I know she will not want to complete the mating bond tonight but that is ok, she carries my mark and wants my pups. I worry she thinks I don't see what they have done to her but I do. I can't not see it's in the dullness that sneaks in when nobody watches, the way she won't fight for herself but turns positively demonic if you hurt someone needlessly regardless of rank or even if she likes you. She became a champion because she never had one. She did for others what absolutely nobody would do for her. She is brave our mate, she holds her broken self together with god knows what and instead of being bitter she cares. I asked her why and she said what would make you feel better right there to be ignored like a problem? Or to be shown that someone no matter how briefly cared?I can't believe what an amazing luna she will make.