Her Mute Sister (Complete)

Chapter Thirteen

                                                                        Ambers POV

    I was relieved to know that my mate was fine with me staying here till graduation.  In all honesty I couldn’t care less about graduating from the same place as that monster who’s my father, but it’s the only way I could think of talking them into letting me stay here a bit longer.  I need more time to perhaps build up a relationship with my mate to get him to allow me to take Willow with me.  I will not leave her behind, I refuse to.  She’s my little sister and I need to protect her.  I am also planning on meeting up with Ansel later tonight so we can come up with a plan to help Willow.

    The day went on uneventfully as others found their mates and others didn’t.  I did however witness two who rejected their mates and it seemed really awful.  How could someone reject their mate?  The moon goddess hand picked them for us for crying out loud!  I’m glad my mate didn’t reject me, although he didn’t seem to fond of me either.  Perhaps as time goes on and the mate bond gets stronger he’ll like me and want to be around me more.

    I sat in my room when I saw the clock read midnight.  I snuck out of my room and met up with Ansel in the woods where no one could see us.  He seemed really deep in thought when I approached him.

    “Hey” I whispered to him hoping I could get his attention.  He seemed a little startled and then he realized it was me.

    “Don’t scare me like that!” he said holding his chest as though his heart would jump out of his chest at any moment.  I just smiled and rolled my eyes at him.

    “Well any ideas about Willow?” I asked him.

    “Well I was thinking if we can wait till she turns sixteen then I could take her with me” Ansel said.  I was a bit confused.

    “What do you mean?  Why would you wanna wait till she’s sixteen?” I asked him a little confused.

    “Well that's the minimum age one can claim their mate at, and I’m ninety nine percent certain she is my mate” he said.  I was shocked.  How could he tell?  Most people don’t start emitting that hormone till age sixteen to attract ones mate.

    “How do you know?” I asked him.

    ‘Well being an alpha I can actually tell as long as my mate has gained her wolf.  Of course I am not going to pursue it or anything until she’s older as that would be creepy and gross” he said.  I was relieved to hear that not only was he more than willing to wait but also that he wasn’t even thinking of rejecting her.  I’m so glad because if he did I would have to kill him myself and I wouldn’t hesitate to do so.

    “I am going to entrust you to give this phone to her.  It has both your number and mine.  She’ll need to hide it and I won’t expect her to use it till late at night after everyone has slept as I don’t want her to be in any kind of trouble or be beaten.  If I could take her away right now I would because no one let alone a child should have to endure what she has gone through” he said.  I was rather touched at how much he cared about Willow already and he had only met her once.  I on the other hand have a mate who seems to want nothing to really do with me which was rather upsetting.  Maybe he is just having a bad day or is under a lot of stress.  It did sound like his father was expecting a lot from him in such a limited amount of time.  After talking a tad bit longer we went our own ways and I went back to my room to sleep.

    When I woke up in the morning I realized that some packs were going to be leaving as they had a rather long journey to make and couldn’t be gone for too long.  Others would be staying another day as they didn’t need to worry about going back till tomorrow.  I quickly got dressed and went downstairs so I could say goodbye to Teival.

    “Teival!” I shouted as he was about to leave.  He turned around and for a brief moment he seemed really agitated, but then his face went to being emotionless.

    “Yes Amber?” he asked.  I blushed a little and became a bit shy.

    “Um I wanted to say goodbye and wish you safe travels home” I said to him.  His face remained emotionless even though other people who heard us thought it was cute.

    “Well thank you Amber, now we must get going home.  I will let you know when we arrive so you don’t worry about me” he said and then continued to walk out the door towards one of the cars he and his pack members came in.  I felt a little hurt that he didn’t say goodbye back to me or even give me a hug.  He must just be under a lot of stress.  I excused myself back to my room to do some schoolwork even though it was all done.  I just wanted to be alone right now.

    “I don’t he likes us very much” I heard Ivory say.

    “No I think he does, he’s just under a lot of stress what with training to become to next alpha” I said.

    “But he could’ve at least hugged us.  I couldn’t even reach his wolf, normally wolves can at least somewhat reach each other when they find their mates.  For him it seemed as though his wolf was hiding” Ivory said sadly.

    “Well maybe there were a lot of people around and he isn’t one for showing much affection of emotion in front of others, and maybe his wolf is just shy” I said trying not to be hurt by it.  

    “No, especially not for an alpha wolf.  They can’t be shy or else they can’t run a pack properly.  I wonder if perhaps him and his wolf don’t like us or if they are fighting with each other and he has completely blocked off his wolf from reaching out” Ivory pondered.

    “Do you think it’s possible for the human side to become stronger than the wolf side?” I asked Ivory.  

    “I have no idea, I would have to ask the mother goddess.  Or maybe we can research it later” Ivory sighed.

    “When would we have time?  Do you not remember I work a lot during the week and have schoolwork to keep up with?  Not to mention I have to do what I can to take care of Willow because no one else will and she needs me like I need her” I replied upset and angry.  Not at Ivory but at this whole predicament I’ve been placed in.  how could my parents be so cruel to Willow for no good reason?  Like seriously I still can’t get out of them why they treat her this way.  Anytime I ask I’m either told it’s none of my business or I’ll understand when I grow up.  No matter how much I ponder I can not for the life of me understand it.

    “I’ll see what I can do to ask the moon goddess about it.  I want to now too because it hurts not being able to have even the slightest bit of communication with his wolf.  He seems as though he doesn’t even want to touch us” Ivory said sounding like she was on the verge of tears.

    “I don’t understand how he could be this way to his own mate.  But the only thing I can do right now is give him the benefit of the doubt for now.  Maybe he’ll come around after talking to him a bit and building up our mate bond” I said trying not to cry.  I decided to lay down for a bit.  I mind linked my mom to let her know I was going to take a nap, I told her I wasn’t feeling too good and just needed to rest a bit.  She was ok with it and told me if I need anything to let her know.  I closed my eyes and fell into a dreamless slumber.