Her Unwanted Mate

Chapter 10…

Caleb’s P.O.V.Why the f**k is this happening to us? Why did she have to find her mate when we were happy in our own bubble? Why would the Moon Goddess punish us like this?

Everyone knows that she belongs with me. It’s visible that we are perfect for each other. That we are meant to be, so what if we aren’t mates?

I don’t want a mate; all I want is my princess. Is it too much to ask for? I never loved anyone as much as I love her, never had a goddamn girlfriend; because I knew even if I date I won’t be able to stop loving Bella.

Why didn’t she reject him? I know she loves me as much as I love her, but still she wouldn’t reject that stranger, whom she calls mate.

When she came to the pack house today to get her brothers’, I noticed she wasn’t her own self. She was stressed and worried about something and that’s why I followed her home, taking the stroller as an excuse. The moment she avoided me and entered her kitchen to make coffee without asking me to join her in there for help, I knew things were about to get complicated.

And I got my answer when I approached her. I could smell it on her, a different smell of pheromones that did not belong to either of us. I knew, the moment I smelled it, that it belonged to her mate.

I’ve been with her all my life to know that she doesn’t allow other males to touch her or hug her the way we do. Hell, she hardly shakes hands with other guys. She was always the kind who wouldn’t mind touching a guy, if she had to kick his ass or to break their bones while training.

But never did she allow anyone to touch her in a manner, we were allowed to. In the manner, I was allowed to. It was always my scent and rarely Ryan’s or Matt’s. My scent was wrapped up on her all the time, for other males to know, that she was out of their reach.

And to think, it worked all these times. She never had a problem with that. But smelling his scent on her pissed me to no end. I knew that exact moment that she found her mate, yet I wanted her to say it out loud.

But when she said it, more like whispered it; I felt something break in me. In that moment I realized that I never ever want to hear her say it ever again. It felt like each of her words were like knives slicing my heart into pieces. I didn’t even realize when I pulled away from her and left.

I left; more like ran from there, shifted to my wolf and disappeared into the forest. I think I ran for more than an hour, but the tears that were spilling from my eyes wouldn’t stop at all. I slowly made my way to the pack house, towards my room. On my way there, I saw Matt working in his office, he called my name out, but I acted as I didn’t just hear him call my name and entered my room, slamming the door shut.

I love Matt as my own brother; but I just wanted to sleep my sorrows away, which I knew wouldn’t happen anytime soon, since the sorrows just entered my life. I stripped off my clothes and made my way to the bathroom to have a shower thinking it might help me eradicate the thoughts of heartbreak with the all the dirt and mud that was flowing down my body with the hot water droplets gliding my body.

I was 10 minutes in there, till I realized that it wasn’t going to help. Wrapping a towel around my waist making my way towards my closet to get changed into a fresh pair of clothes, I made my way to the bed.

Closing my eyes, I couldn’t think of anything other than my princess being wrapped in that stranger’s arms, going on dates, getting married , bearing his pups. My own thoughts were hurting me more, than her words did. I was turning toxic for myself.

Just when I’m busy thinking about it, I can’t forget the heartbroken look on Bella’s face when I pulled away. I hurt her to no end, my behavior hurt her. This made me hate myself even more. While I was busy self-pitying myself, I heard my phone ding. It was Bella, texting us in our group chat, asking us to come over for dinner, saying she wanted to tell us something.

I knew what she wanted to tell everyone and I wasn’t ready to hear it again, so I did the only rational thing I could think of. I ignored all their messages.

After a good 15 minutes, I got a personal text.

Warrior Princess: Hey. I know you’re not sleeping and I also know that you are pissed at me. Maybe you don’t even want to see my face again, but can you please come for dinner tonight. Let me explain everything and if after that you feel like you don’t want me to be a part of your life. I promise I won’t interfere. Please Caleb.

I read and re-read it again and again, till it was time to leave and Matt knocked on my bedroom door. I composed myself and made my way to the door, making it look like I wasn’t feeling well and that’s why ended up sleeping for awhile.

He didn’t ask any more questions, just inquired me, if I was fine enough to join them for dinner. I knew, I shouldn’t have gone there, but after reading my princess’s text, I couldn’t bring myself to ignore her.

I could never do that to her.

So I assured him that I could and left with Matt. The moment we reached her place, the first thing that dropped on our ears was Rose shouting, “MY BEST FRIEND FOUND HER MATE.”

I froze when those words hit my eardrums, till the time Bella realized I was there, the damage was already done. I avoided her eyes and ran upstairs towards the boys’ room.

They were like my own to me. It always made me happy seeing how Bella took care of them. It made me dream about my future with her, about our pups, how beautiful they would be and how it would be the best thing to ever happen to me.

But now, I felt like it was a lost cause. No hope left, what so ever. I went in there and saw them playing. They saw me and shouted, “Caleb”. They once thought I was their Daddy, since I was the one who would spend most of the time here with Bella taking their care.

But then Bella told them that I wasn’t, I remember that upset faces, when she told them that. I was upset too and had a fight with her for breaking the triplets’ heart. All she said was, “Its not right Cal. What if, you find your mate and she thinks they are really yours? I don’t want us to be a problem in your chance of having something beautiful.”

She was always like that, selfless, caring, sarcastic, stubborn, kick ass kind of a girl. Words cannot explain what she is to me. I was busy in my thoughts to hear what the triplets’ were babbling about, when I heard her voice, she was here to call us for dinner.

She called the triplets’ who went running towards her, they adored her. Slowly she turned towards me to say something, but me being the dickhead; I upped and left without looking back.

After a few minutes passed, she came down with Theo in her arms and Winston and Lucas walking at either side. Guilt was all I felt. I was so stuck up in my own anger that I left her alone to bring them down. How can I turn so stupid?

She noticed my pained expression, being an angel that she is, just smiled to let me know it wasn’t a problem and that she got it under control. She slowly put the boys in their seats and set their plates in front of them.

Turning to settle herself down, in her usual spot between me and Ryan, she approached us. I was so stuck up my own ass, about her finding her mate that I moved in my seat feeling uncomfortable and decided to leave before it gets more painful.

She somehow knew, I was planning to leave when she placed her hand on mine, which was resting on my lap. When I looked at her, she was crying, a pained look etched on her face as she mouthed only one word, “Please”

My princess was crying because I was being an ass to her, I didn’t realize when my other and moved to her face to wipe the tears down while I slowly nodded to tell her that I wasn’t leaving. The dinner was pretty much over when Matt asked her again, she noticed my body moment and started rubbing circles on my hand.

She knows me so well.

I completed my meal and went to settle down in the living area while she finished all her work. Everyone helped, while I sat in the living area with an ice cream tub in my hand, stuffing my face with it.

Once everyone was done with their assigned work, they joined me and Matt, her being the last one. Settling herself she started speaking, more like informing us about who her mate was.

The moment she told which pack he belonged to, everyone was shocked except Ryan. I think that prick already heard it from the source itself, that being the reason for his calmness.

Then she continues and says that it’s not the worst part and surely she was right. The worst part being that he was the f*****g Alpha.

Like you have got to be kidding me.

That is the reason, why she can’t just go forward and reject him. The Alpha and his mate cannot reject each other; it leads to tremendous pain because the mate bond is supposed to be much stronger than normal wolf pairs, which leads to death of both of them.

As this information registered in my brain, my last hope of her rejecting him later on also dies. I end up shouting and pushing her away to leave.

The moment I reach the door, I realize that the door is jammed; it just won’t open or break no matter what I did. That made me more agitated and I let out a loud growl.

I am never so angry, but the idea of losing the woman I love somehow managed me to get pissed up to no extent. That is when we all hear a baby’s cry from upstairs and I realize that I just woke Lucas up. Felling sorry about my behavior, I look up towards Bella and the moment I see her, it’s like the anger comes rushing back to me.

I know being in the same vicinity as them is going to end up bad for them, so I run upstairs to Bella’s room and slam the door shut.

It takes her a few minutes to come up to her room, when she does; I see she stops outside the door talking to Ryan.

Werewolf hearing.

He is trying really hard, to stop her from entering her own room, scared what I might do to her.

And I appreciate his concern for her, but right now, all he is being is a d**k, telling her to avoid me instead of confronting me. Men seriously don’t know how to handle things; this is the reason, why they end up in trouble almost every other day.

She tells him that she is not going to avoid me and I feel proud of my girl for being brave enough to deal with her problems.

Can I call her my girl anymore?

She pauses and I think that she is going to enter her room, when she continues to say that she loves me more that I can ever understand.

She does love me.

I feel my shoulders relax as if someone took away all the weight from them. I just sit there rewinding the same words through my mind, to even notice her entering.

She looks happy to see me here; I know that she thought I left through her balcony. Trust me I thought about it, but somehow knew it’s not going to take us anywhere. And also because I won’t be able to calm myself down even if I tried to, so I stayed her, inhaling her scent and waiting for her to come in and wrap me in those arms while she sang me to sleep.