His Cursed Mate!

Misery likes Company!

~Thierry~

I fled like the coward I felt like. I just left her there. She prepared herself, she was so god damned determined. I knew that look in her eyes. I was all too familiar with it. She had already decided long before she met me. The scars ran deep, so deep and I was going to make sure Amara paid for every single one of them. I wasn't going to let her get away with it. Time and time again, she had taken my mate and nothing and no one was going to stop me from killing her once and for all.

I looked out into the dark forest. Nightfall was fast approaching. She didn't follow me. I didn't expect her to either after fleeing. She probably took it as my rejection as her mate, but she couldn't be more wrong. I love her with every fiber and cell in my body. I could never reject my one true love. I have to figure out how to save her and therefore saving both of us from this retched curse.

Goddess forgive me for taking off on her like that.

I hope she forgives me.

"T, you good?" Kade asked from behind the door.

Figures they'd know what happened by now.

"Its open," I called out.

Kade enters and I can feel the questions radiating off him. Why did you leave her? Are you rejecting her? Are you coming back? Are you okay?

The truth is I don't fu.cking know. I'm scared, scared of losing her. Scared that for once she'll be the one to reject me and our bond. "You don't have to be scared T." he murmurs from behind me.

Easy for you to say buddy, I can smell the change in his scent, he and his mate have already completed their bond. I'm sure Dante and Ezra have as well. No need to prolong something inevitable. It was ingrained in our DNA that once the bond snaps into place, that's it, you're lost in the beauty and warmth that is a bond between fated mates.

I sigh. What do I do?

"She's waiting for you." his voice is soft and gentle like he's speaking to a child and maybe he is because right now I feel lost like a child seeking his mother.

'Trust your mate,' the voice whispers.

"What?" I ask.

"I said, she's waiting for you," Kade repeated his questioning gaze penetrating into the back of my head. I know what I heard, their was absolutely nothing wrong with my hearing.

I shook my head and turned around to look at him. "No before that, what did you say?" my brows knitted together in exasperation.

"I didn't say anything. I was waiting for you to answer." He's slightly irritated by me, making it obvious that he has better things to do than be stuck here with me while I sulk in my misery, but you know what they say Misery likes Company and after finding and mating with their mates they aren't the best company and neither was I, if I was being honest. I'm irritable and jealous.

I shake my head. "No, I heard you say trust your mate."

"Dude, are you okay? Are you hallucinating now? Because, swear on the Goddess, I didn't say that," he says, raising his right hand, and I believe him, Kade had no reason to lie and besides I knew him like the back of my hand, for all intents and purposes he is my brother, but I could also smell it if he were.

I gave him a nod and leaned against the windowsill. "Is she okay?"

Kade sighs and leans against the door frame. "She thinks you ran off because she said something she shouldn't have. Dante and Vera are talking her out of whatever she's thinking," he says, looking somewhere behind me with a slight crooked smile. "Look Thierry, don't be stupid for once. Listen to her, trust her, the narrative changed for a reason. Believe that things have changed and maybe just maybe so will the outcome. Don't be so pessimistic."

He's right. I know he's right. From the moment I laid eyes on her I knew that things had changed, but fear does a good job of twisting that little bit of hope inside you just enough to f***k you up. She's everything I ever wanted, the only one I will ever want, but I just can't bear to lose her again.

Then it dawns on me when did Kade suddenly become so optimistic? Oh yeah, the moment he found his fated mate and claimed her. I rolled my eyes at him.

"So what do you suggest I do?"

Then that mega-watt smile appears right before my eyes. "Easy, go back to your mate and say your sorry and we'll figure out the rest, eh." he said, approaching me then slapping me on my back.

I have to go back to her and grovel on my knees. If I have to, maybe I should propose while I'm on bended knee while I'm at it. I have her ring. Would she accept to be my Queen? Would she accept me as her mate? Did I already f***k it up for us before we even began?

Goddess have mercy on my soul.

"So what do you purpose I do?" I suggested, because I sure as sh.it didn't know.

Kade smiles and its been long over due. I like it. I like seeing them happy for once. "Hell if I know,I've only just found my mate and thank f***k I don't have to deal with this sh.it so can't help you there buddy, but one thing I'm sure of now is Mate's make us stronger, so much stronger."

He wasn't wrong, but I didn't know what it truly felt like being one with your mate. The connection we'd share would go beyond what it is now, but when we did mate and exchanged blood our fate would be sealed for eternity by our bond and blood.

"Let's get you back to your mate shall we?"

I nod and we head out of my bedroom and into the night.

The breeze felt different tonight, but I couldn't quite place why while Kade and I headed back in the direction of the Academy zig zagging through the forest. Then the sickening scent of rotting flesh hits my nose, but I didn't see where it came from when it suddenly knocked me into Kade. We both rolled on the ground and moved into position.

Kade in front of the creature and I in front of my mate.

I heard the unmistakable sounds of growls and hissing. The wolf in front of me never taking its golden eyes away from the damned creature. I looked at Kade and we both crouched in a defensive position away from the fight taking place in the center, just in case we had to jump in and help her. The wolf was unstoppable, never letting it get a bite or scratch in as she clawed and bit.

Our eyes never left them. Kade itching to join the fight, but I stop him. The need to protect his Queen calling to him, the silver in his eyes glowing in anger, but I try to keep him in place with our link.

'Calm down Kade, she knows what she's doing,'

His silver irises ignite, his fangs descend and his upper lip twitches. ' I want to kill it,' he hisses in my head.

I try not to take my eyes from him because his body is shaking from from the need to protect her as he watches her fight the creature. 'She's got it, trust her.' I calmly rasp because I didn't trust myself either. I wanted to protect her too, but I knew she could handle herself. She has already proven that she was more than capable.

Her jaws rip through its twig like arm and the damned snarls its rotten teeth at her while she growls right back it and right when it was about to pounce on her she jumps away from his jaws and lunges onto it’s back puncturing her canines and severing its head from its disgusting and disfigured bodice. Immediately Kade and I sigh in relief. That was the longest five minutes of my entire existence.

She swiftly shifts back and she is the most beautiful woman I've ever seen, not a single hair out of place in her high ponytail her black joggers and shirt were dirty from the creatures guts, but other than that she was perfect, not a single scratch on her. Her smile is bright and Kade doesn't hesitate to take her in his arms.

Hahnnah smiles and hugs him back, her pools of liquid gold never leaving mine and then I see the perfect dimple on her left cheek, that doesn't come out as often as it should. "I'm okay Kade," she whispers while she rubs his back instantly soothing him. The effect she has on them isn't lost to me.

I guess it wasn't lost on her either and I smile because I knew she loved them too.

"It could have hurt you," his husky voice filters through.

"It didn't, I wouldn't have let it hurt either of you." her voice is soft and soothing and I don't mistake the conviction in it. I knew she would do anything to protect those she held dear, but it als wasn't lost to me that she appeared shifted into her wolf. When just a few hours ago I learned that their connection was weak.

"I know, Thank you my Queen." her smile falters slightly and I instantly hated it. Maybe she couldn't figive me afterall.

Or maybe she hated the term, but either way that’s exactly what she is. A Queen, My Queen, My everything.

They let go of each other and she makes her way towards me taking one of my hands in hers, the sparks instantly calm me. "Are you okay?" she murmured biting her full bottom lip while her eyes roamed down my body. If anything my clothes were soiled from the grass and dirt, but I didn't care.

Again the way she looks at me gave me hope. I loved the way she looked at me. It is the same way I see her. A mate completely and utterly smitten and in love.

I nod. "Are you?"

She pulls me closer to her and embraces me in her warms, tingles run throughout my body everywhere her hands touched and my eyes instantly shut as I breath in her sweet scent. "Don't scare me like ever again your Highness or else I'm going to have to challenge you myself."

I smile because I'd love nothing more than to spar with her. "Challenge accepted my Queen." I chuckle in her ear and she shivers against me, but makes no effort to withdraw from my embrace, making me feel as if we were going to be okay again that little speck of hope seeps through me.

Dante's and Ezra's scent's fill the night air as well as those of their mates. "The King's Guard weren't to keen on leaving their King unprotected." she whispers, running her nose aganst my neck inhaling my scent. Goddess this woman was going to be the death of me. My body stiffens because I can feel myself harden and I'd love nothing more than to take her right here and now, but again we had eyes on us.

"I can protect myself mate," I say with a growl, but I feel her smile into my neck and then she places a peck in the crook of my neck where her mark will one day sit.

"I'm sorry," I hope she knew I meant from running from her.

Hahnnah pulls slightly away, but keeps her arms wrapped around my neck and shakes her head. "You don't have to be sorry. I know its overwhelming."

I would have rather kept our conversation private, but she didn't seem to care that we had an audiance. These were the people we trusted and loved the most and it wasn't like they didn't already know. In this very moment I really wished I could be in her head, but that would have to wait.

I wanted to tell her I wasn't overwhelmed, that her wolf didn't project, that she tapped into my ability to share all her memories and I dropped the mental block and let her. That I loved her more than life itself and I'd do anything and everything for her and we would figure it out.

She cups my face in her hands and her right thumb rubs my bottom lip. "Let's get cleaned up. We stink." I chuckle and so do does everyone else. She takes my hand and leads us into the barrier of the Academy and screams. "Last one inside is a rotten egg." and we all take off laughing and enjoying the run with our mates.