My Runaway Mate

Prologue

I startled awake at the feeling of sun against my skin. It felt lovely but I wasn't ready to get up yet. I was still fatigued from yesterday's hunt. Fay jumped onto my chest chirping at me to get up. She knew that I wanted to rest but also knew there was too much to do today. I groaned and rolled over causing her to fall off the bed. Fay immediately jumped onto the bed again and growled at me before pouncing onto my face making me wake up.

"Why Fay?--" I wined at her and opened my eye to look at her. Seeing her triumphant face made me smile.

Thank you Moon Goddess for Kalis. Kalis are your soul. They were your best friend and they stayed by your side your whole life. Your Kali never left you or hurt you. But if the tie was severed you would never be the same. It would feels as if part of your heart and soul was gone and you would not be able to get it back.

People were able to live through this of course but they were less in tune with their emotions and were never really able to accept anyone or anything into their hearts again other than their mate but they wouldn't feel the same pull as others. The tie was a small mark on the back of the neck right below the hairline that was different for everyone. If this mark was slashed the tie or bond between you and your Kali would be lost and dissappear. This is why most people protect their tie more than they're own life.

Fay was my Kali, she is the most fun and amazing friend for me and she keeps me sane living here on my own. It always makes me shiver thinking if I had to be here on my own. When I was really young I lived here with my parents. My mother was a ray of sunshine, her smile could calm a beast and she would do anything she could to protect me, and she did. When my mom was in her mid-twenties she met my dad, her mate. At first she was ecstatic, she had always longed for her mate and when she finally found him she immediately went off with him. He was a rogue, an overthrown alpha who had to flee his pack to survive the new alpha, so they set up in this cottage in the woods and began living together there. But years of being in power then losing it took a toll on my father and at some point he snapped and started attacking my mom. He would beat her, force her, and lock her up till her soul was almost broken, but the stupid bond between mates made her think it would be alright and he would change and that's what my mom and her wolf told themselves even after he had severed her tie to her Kali. She was so lost until she finally had me.

It gave her hope and purpose again and she would always say to me late at night as I was nearly asleep, "You are my everything and my light and we will get through this together." Tears would slowly fall down her face and she would hug me close. As I grew older my fathers temper just seemed to get worse and worse. He would curse me for the smallest things throw things at us for not obeying him and when my mom would try to leave he would find her through the bond and twist her mind again into thinking that since they were mates everything was fine.

It was one day in winter when I was 7 that my mom finally planned to leave. She packed us both small bags after he had left to scout the area in case any other wolves were coming near, and grabbed my arm and ran like a mad women. The snow was cold against the little tattered clothes we had on but we pushed forward. My mom flinched when she heard a loud howl. As I looked at her I was unnerved, my mom was a strong women and a strong wolf, but at this moment tears were streaming down her face and as they reached the edge of her chin they fell to the ground melting the snow.

I was so confused. Why were we running? Why was she crying? Who was howling with such desperation and anger? Then I heard it. The crunch of the snow as paws crushed and melted it down. The heavy gritted breathes growing closer. Before I knew it my mother was throwing me to the side and shifting as a large wolf pushed her down into the snow lashing at her. My stomach twisted and turned as I recognized the wolf as my father. My mother kicked as scratch at him keeping his bites inches from her neck. Finally, she threw him off her and in a flash was up and running in a directions trying to get him away from me. And it worked he followed her eyes pure black and set on her. I scrambled to my feet running after them. My mother ran and ran until she reached the edge of a cliff looking over at the certain watery death. Her eyes flashed around looking for another way but all she could see was him charging towards her and without knowing of what lied behind her. Right as ky feet reached the clearing at the edge of the cliff my father collides with my mother pushing them both off the cliff.

The last thing I heard was my mother's mind link of "I'm sorry.", and a loud echoing splash.

The mate bond had drove my mom, a wonderful, strong, powerful women to her death. Mates weren't your other half. They were lies. They built you up only to bring you to your death or make you hazy with feelings you couldn't control. I would be damned if I were to take a mate before I died. I will survive on my own. And that was a happy thought for me.