Her Unwanted Mate

Chapter 7…

Isabella’s P.O.V.On the way home, a lot of things are going on in my mind to even realize that the car has a weird silence in it. Okay, I had a lot on my mind and was busy settling it with myself, but why the hell was Ry silent?

No music. No useless babbling.

I look at him and see that his eyebrows are creased together, it’s something he does when he is thinking to intently about something that is bothering him.

I gently place my hand on his arm and ask, “Hey you okay?”

He answers with, “Yeah princess, everything is fine.”

Just when I think it’s useless to ask him this, because I know he is not going to say the truth. I hear his voice saying, “The hell it is. Things are getting f****d up.” But I didn’t see his lips move.

What the hell?

That’s when something strikes me, his thoughts. I can read his thoughts too. I thought it was just a mate thing.

Or maybe not.

But then I remember that I didn’t hear any of his thoughts earlier. Why am I hearing his thoughts just now, when I could hear Mason’s thoughts way before it?

That’s odd…

It’s our touch, you dumb woman. I hear Aurora say.

That’s when it clicks, I could hear Mason’s thoughts only when either of us was touching each other and I didn’t hear Ryan’s thoughts earlier because I didn’t touch him, until now.

Geez… What is happening to me?

We found our mate, that’s the reason why we are slowly recognizing our powers. said Aurora.

Powers? What the hell Aurora. I barked.

She just shrugged and said, Don’t behave as if I didn’t warn you beforehand. I told you the day you shifted, that we are a special kind of wolf.

You never told me, we will be having supernatural powers, b***h. I growled.

Where’s the fun in that, if I told you everything before?

She had the nerve to f*****g smirk at me while saying that, now I’m just pissed. These are the times when I hate having a sarcastic, bitchy and witty kind of wolf.

God, she is infuriating.

Just as I’m about to give her a piece of my mind, I hear Ryan mumble something to himself. I slowly keep my hand back on his shoulder and ask again, “What is bothering you Ry? You know, you can tell me anything right?”

He just gives me a small yet fake smile and says, “It’s nothing Princess. Just some Gamma duties, I have to take care of.”

I know he is lying, because whenever he lies his legs start to shake. He can’t lie, at least not to me, even if his life depended on it. But he never learns from his past experiences that he shouldn’t even try to pull that s**t with me.

And that’s when I hear his thought, “I am worried sick about you Bella. How am I supposed to tell you that?”

He is worried about me? But why?

I slowly twist my questions and ask, “By the way, you never told me, what you think about Mason?”

He freezes. He literally freezes in his seat. So that’s what he is worried about. I irk him more by adding, “You like him right?”

He just nods and hums, when I hear him think, “No. I don’t like him, at least not for you. Which brother, in his right mind, would want his sister to be mated with a ruthless, stone-hearted killing machine? Not ME.”

So he is worried because I’m mated to the Alpha of the Blood Moon Pack, not because he didn’t like him. This is the reason I love him so much. Even my own brother wouldn’t have loved and cared for me as much as he does.

I don’t even realize that we reached the pack house, until the car comes to a stop. He still looks worried, so to lighten the mood, I ask, “Should I tell them about Mason, I don’t think it’s a good idea.”

Ryan looks at me as if I’ve grown two heads and screams, “Have you lost your mind Bella. We have to tell them. They deserve to know, especially in your case.”

“What the hell does that mean Ryan?”

He just shakes his head and says, “Hey. I didn’t mean it in a wrong way. I just meant, you are mated to the most powerful Alpha and this news is huge, you have to tell them. If not now then at least today itself.”

“What about Caleb. This will hurt him” my voice not more than a whisper.

“Come here” is all he says before engulfing me in a warm hug and continues, “He is going to get hurt either way, but he will soon find his happiness too, in the form of his mate. Just like you.”

I nod and move out of the car as I make my way to the pack house to get my baby brothers.

As soon as I go in, I hear their playful voices talking about something to someone with so much intensity. When I go further in, I see Caleb sitting with Lucas in his lap, while Winston and Theo are sitting on either side of his.

He loves my brothers as his own, and my heart swells whenever I see them so happy and comfortable with him. As they all are busy, no one notices me creeping towards them. As soon as I reach them, I shout ‘Boo”, on hearing it, all of them flinch including Caleb. I couldn’t hold it in me at their expressions and shout, “Gotcha” and start laughing.

Lucas looks at me and says, “You scared us mommy.” To which Theo shakes his head, whereas Winston just comes running towards me with open arms shouting, “Mommy, you’re home. I missed you”

I look at this cute little boy who was blessed upon me as my little brother and reply, “Awww. Mommy missed you too baby”.

I take him in my arms, pick him up while standing and settle him on my waist as I call the other two munchkins, “Now, who wants to go home?”

Hearing this, all 4 boys shout, “Me”

Yes. 4 boys including Caleb.

I smile and shake my head at his childish behavior and grab Lucas and Theo’s hand and make my way towards the door. Caleb comes behind me with the stroller, to drop me home.

When I reach my house, I take my keys out from my pocket and unlock the door. As I’m about to step in, I hear my sister’s voice right behind us. Iris shouts, “Someone’s late from college today” whereas Mia takes the stroller from Caleb and thanks him for his help.

I move inside and slowly put Winston down, the boys run upstairs to get their toys. Whereas the girls make way to their room to get changed. It’s just me and Caleb in my living room.

I make my way towards the kitchen and ask him if he’ll have some coffee, to which he replies with a yes.

I’m so busy thinking about how to break this news to him that I don’t realize when he enters the kitchen, but I’m brought back by his voice. I turn to see he is standing too close for my liking.

It’s not awkward though. We all are used to standing close to each other, but now that I’ve found my mate, I just feel it’s wrong.

I slowly move back and turn so that my back is facing towards him. He asks again, “Where were you princess?”

“In class, Caleb” is all I say.

He senses something and pulls me to face towards him. When I turn, I notice that he is not happy at all, he looks pissed. I seriously don’t know what he is angry about.

He slowly takes predatory steps towards me and asks, “Why do smell like another male?”

Fuck. This was good while it lasted. Bye world.

As I silently say my goodbye to this world, he starts losing his patience and asks again, “I asked you something princess. Why the hell do you smell like another male?”

I gulp hard to wet my throat before speaking, “It’s…”

“What is it? What are you not telling me Bella?” shouts Caleb.

I know it will be better for all of us, if I just tell him the truth and that’s what I do, when I say “I found my Mate.”

He just looks at me shocked upon knowing the truth, soon his expression turns pained as I see tears form at the rim of his eyes.

Fuck.

I try to comfort him, as I extend my hand to rest on his shoulder while saying, “Caleb. I…”

He shrugs my hand of his shoulder, turns and leaves.