The Chosen Mate

CHAPTER 8 |

Cole’s POV

She immediately caught my eye. She was walking so nonchalantly with her curves begging for me to grab them. She was balancing her body in this way I knew would come out one day.

I knew that when she gained confidence, she would become this beautiful and sexy girl every man would beg to be touched and loved by.

The only problem was that she wasn’t walking towards me. She was walking towards Henry. I’m glad he wasn’t facing her. His eyes shouldn’t have the privilege to see her this way. I hated his way of looking at her, there was too much friendliness in it.

The way he would touch her soft hair and smile at her was frustrating me to a point I didn’t understand.

I see her almost running to him, I feel this itch and heat coming out of jealousy. I want to kill Henry right now, I want to tear out his throat and erase that stupid smile he has on his f*****g face when he’s looking at her.

I see her foot kind of wobble and I surprise myself.

I felt this jolt of exquisite pleasure when my hands and arms were touching her and preventing her from falling any further. 

The dress is so thin, it’s like touching her bare skin and it’s making me feel crazy.

I forget about that detail and help her get up properly and asks her if she’s alright.

As I finish my sentence I can feel her muscles tense under me.

Fuck, it’s like when I asked to come to the dinner. I know it was weird to ask that out of the blue, it just got out in the moment. I didn’t want her to go on that stupid date with Henry. I was kind of irritated when she faked having her headache but it’s better than her solo with him.

She slowly turns around and looks up.

Cayden gets all excited in my head. I don’t understand it. It’s not possible. I knew something was off since my birthday. I had felt this with Isabella before but this time it’s different. 

Since my birthday I had become more and more concerned about her, more aware of her presence, more aware of her way of walking, her way of talking, smiling. I started to feel this connection to her. I liked Bella but this was different; too intoxicating, too good for me. She made my heart go crazy and my mind too full of her to even think properly.

I soon as our eyes meet, I hear both of us whisper the forbidden word, “Mate”. 

Cayden is howling like never before, while he's expressing all of his joy and ordering me to take our mate in our arms and inhale her scent, I am trying to stay as stoic and neutral as possible. 

"What the f**k are you doing ?!" Cayden growls, "Why are you restraining the bond, Cole ?! It's our f*****g mate !" 

"I know but it can't be! Isabella is our mate! I felt tingles at my birthday party… So what the f**k is this? There has to be a mistake somewhere, maybe the Moon Goddess has changed her plans ?" I try to reason Cayden. 

"Yeah well good for us! Mavis IS our mate, stop acting like a d**k! She's better than your stupid Isabella for all I know !" 

"No, we can't! Let's sort this out later! We'll talk better, for the moment, I'll act as if I don't feel anything" I say firmly. 

Of course, it doesn't make Cayden shut up so I ignore him, he's strong but so I am.

It takes all of my willpower and strength to take away my arms and take a step backward.

Something shifts in her, I saw it. But she doesn't want to give up, she tries to get closer. 

"f**k", I think. "I won't be able to hold back if you get closer !" 

I see tears coming down her cheeks, rolling down her neck, and finish their race on her chest.

Her eyes suddenly take this yellow color, the color of sadness in wolf eyes.

“See what you did jerk ?!” Cayden barks at me. “You can’t continue this! Stop cutting the bond !”

He’s right, she’s my mate I can feel what she’s feeling right now but I try to push back, harder than before.

“I, Cole Matthew Walker…”

No, what the f**k ?! I don’t want to reject her! That’s not what I meant to do!

“... officially and immediately... “

Stop you f*****g i***t! NO!

"... reject you, Mavis, as …”

My sentence stops in mid-air.

We all hear bone crackles. Her bones breaking down and reshaping.

Shit, she’s shifting now. What are the f*****g odds of this.

She’s down on her knees now, breathing heavily, and sweat covering her fair and smooth skin.

People gasp, finally understand the situation.

I hear Henry scream her name and see Alpha Richard yelling orders to everybody, telling them not to approach her.

I can’t obey, the Alpha tone doesn’t work on me now. My need to be with her, to calm and reassure her is stronger than anything else in this world.

I get closer and take her in my arms, she doesn't react like minutes ago. 

“Mavis are you okay ?! Mavis ?!”  

She doesn’t hear me.

I hear the loudest c***k, get up and go farther from her. Her wolf might attack on sight.

There she was, her fur was soft and long, her ears shyly capturing the sounds around and her paws trying to maintain her position awkwardly for the first time. She is huge. I think she might be my size actually, really uncommon.

But what is even more striking is not her final and wonderful transformation.

No, what’s shocking me, and everybody, is this white spot, no, more like a white streak of fur, coming from above her left eye, covering her left ear and ending at the base of her head.

I have never seen anyone with such a rare feature. What the hell is that?

I don’t have time to think about that detail, for she is trying to shift back into her human form.

She transforms back and is now lying in the cold grass, naked.

She lets out this sound and I feel my heart break, she needs assistance and rest, now.

I want to go and take her to the house but I can’t move.

I see Henry cover her body with his suit jacket and carry her.

They disappear in the house and I have nothing left to think except,

“What did I just f*****g do my Goddess …”