Fighting For My Mate: Blood Moon

Chapter 17

Christa POV

Pete looked at me with confusion, and I could see in his eyes that he was scared. I didn’t want him to find out like this! If only I had told him sooner, this wouldn’t be happening right now. I berated myself for not telling him that Monika wasn’t his true mate when I had plenty of opportunities, and now he meets his true mate in the worst possible way.

He shakes his head back and forth in denial.

“It was a mistake coming here. I shouldn’t have come.” Pete looks at Jenna with sorrow, “I… I… sorry, I’m so sorry, Jenna, this is a mistake!” He says before taking off. I quickly take off after him.

“Pete, wait!” But he’s too fast and is gone before I can get to him. Amanda walks up behind me and leads me back to the apartment. As the door closes behind me, I lean against it and sigh. I look up to see Jenna standing there, her eyes red and puffy with tears still staining her face.

Now my procrastination of telling Pete the truth has not only hurt him, but his mate too, and I immediately hate myself at this moment. My heart breaks for her, and I realize that I need to explain the situation to her, which also means I need to reveal who I really am. I know Eli isn’t going to like this, but she deserves to know the truth. She is a part of this whole mess now, just like the rest of us, so it's only fair that she knows what she’s dealing with. I reluctantly push myself off the door and walk over to her, taking her hand and leading her to the couch. I sit down to face her before I take a deep breath and begin explaining everything that has happened up until this point.

I am done telling her everything; her eyes are glazed over. I can tell she feels overwhelmed and is trying to process the information I’ve just given her.

“I think you should stay here for the night. You shouldn’t be alone right now. You might also consider staying here for a little while now that Pete has marked you as his mate; you could be in danger. We don’t know what Monika is capable of and what her plans are, but it’ll be safer for you if you stay here until we get this all cleared up.” Jenna just nods her; I can only guess how much of a shock this is to her.

“Rebecca, can you make up the second guest room for her and Amanda can send a warrior to her house to pack some clothes for her?” Rebecca nods her head and walks to the guest room.

Amanda gets up and says, “On it!” As she starts dialing numbers on her phone. I turn back to Jenna and do my best to reassure her.

“It’s going to be okay; I promise, it’s going to work out!” I tell her as I give her a hug.

I hope I’m convincing because at this point, I’m not so sure myself.

**Jenna**

I slowly open my heavy eyes not recognizing the room I am in. As I slowly wake up, I feel a tingling sensation on my neck and I automatically reach to touch my neck making electricity shoot through me.

It’s then everything that happened yesterday comes rushing back to me. My mate is Pete and he marked me yesterday. I was so happy as he marked me, and my wolf was howling with joy as well, but that happiness and glee came crashing down the moment he looked at me and told me it was a mistake and took off. My wolf Rose hasn’t stopped whining from the pain since.

It felt like a rejection when he said it was a mistake. I knew that he already had a mate, so I couldn’t understand how I could be his mate too? The mate connection between us is so strong, I know he felt it too. But maybe it was a mistake.

I felt a soft hand on mine and allowed it to lead me as I slowly snapped out of my daze. I realized it was Zoey when she sat down and faced me with a serious look on her face. She took a deep breath and started telling me everything from the very beginning. So, when she told me that she was really Christa I actually laughed at her.

-Last night-

“Jenna, I’m so sorry you have to find out this way. This is all my fault, I waited too long to tell Pete that Monika isn’t his true mate and that she’s been tricking him.”

“Wait. Hold on. Stop right there… what do you mean she’s been tricking him? How do you trick someone into being your mate? And how do you know him?

I thought you were new here?” Zoey takes another deep breath,

“What I’m about to tell you is going to come as a shock to you but my name isn’t really Zoey, it’s Christa, Pete is my brother.” I stare in disbelief for a moment and then begin cracking up hysterically.

“Do you seriously expect me to believe that? Christa is dead! Do you really think I’m that naïve?”

“Jenna, it’s true. I can prove it.”

“Fine, show me!”

She then begins chanting something under her breath, slowly her face begins to change, then her body, until she looks just like Christa. I can’t believe my eyes as she sits there in front of me. I can’t help but touch her to make sure she’s really in front of me. I feel like I’m seeing her ghost.

We had gotten to know each other really well and even became friends as I helped her with physical therapy. That was the first time I had met her brother Pete. I knew I had felt a connection to him then but it wasn’t very strong at that point and just shrugged it off. I had always kind of had a crush on him but I knew he had a mate so I would have never acted on it. Never would I have ever thought that she was never actually his mate.

Christa went on about how this guy Lex is trying to get to her and that’s why when she came back to life, they continued to let everyone believe she was dead and not only that but she has strong powers and a special wolf that no one can know about.

“You have to swear that you won’t tell a soul about this. If my secret gets out, we will all be in danger, not just me!” I shake my head.

“I swear, I won’t say a word!” I said adamantly.

-Present-

Even though I know the truth now, I still can’t help but feeling like my heart is broken, mixed in with confusion and anger. I let out a gasp when I realize these aren’t just my emotions. Yes, my heart is broken and I feel sad and overwhelmed but these other emotions are Pete’s! He’s marked me so now I can feel everything he’s feeling. I wonder if he can feel me too?

Author’s Note:

Hello, my lovely readers, I’m sorry to have to post this here but I am only allowed to post 200 characters in the actual author notes section which sucks. So I’ll keep this as short as possible and I’ll make my author notes it at the end of my next few chapters because there is a lot I’d like to say. But for now, thank you so much for your patience. You guys don't know how much I appreciate it and I’ll tell you why at the end of my author’s notes in the next chapters I post. I am so excited to be posting a few chapters at a time when I can do so because my book isn’t even close to being finished, and it would take forever if I did wait to finish my book. So, without further ado, here are the long awaited chapters! ❤️