Mates Don't Love

Second Chances and Preparing For War

Lucas’ POV

We had finished our meeting early and I had a feeling that I needed to be with Lucia at this very moment.  I didn’t know why and even Ranger seemed on edge.  I told Ronnie that I was heading to see Lucia and he could catch up with me a little later to fill me in if something else was said.  He nodded his head and patted me on the back.  “We love you dude. She is going to wake up and she is going to give you a second chance dude.  I know it in my heart.”  I appreciated the effort made by my Beta and best friend.  I only hoped that what he said would come true.  I wanted nothing more than to have my beautiful mate wake up and forgive me.  If she would do those few things then I would make every effort to show her how important she is.  I would make certain she felt nothing but loved and cherished.  As I approached her room I saw nurses running in and out of the room.  I heard one of the nurses say that Lucia was waking up.  My heart started to leap out of my chest.  My beautiful was waking up.  I took faster and longer strides in my steps to reach my beloveds room.  As I approached I could hear voices and knew immediately that one of them was that of Amber.  I heard Amber talking to Lucia and just listened to the conversation.  “Lucia do you think you can ever forgive Lucas?  He didn’t mean to hurt you like he did.  When he met you he knew that you were a werewolf and that you were his destined mate.  What he didn’t know was that you had been rejected and almost killed but the fucker Brian.  When he saw you with Vlad that night he lost control of his wolf and reacted wrongly.” I had to hand it to Amber she was always my strongest advocate.  So much so that she almost ended up losing her relationship with Lucia over it.  But then again Amber did have a vested interest in this.  She knew all about the prophecy and the importance of the role that Lucia and I had to play.  Then I heard the sweetest voice in the world.  “Mystic told me that he didn’t mean to hurt me.  She told me how much he loves me because she has been talking to Ranger.  He wants nothing more than to make it up with me and treat me like I should be treated.  It’s going to take some time to trust him again but if I would have had Mystic when we first met I would have understood better.  For the sake of our pup I owe it to Lucas and Ranger to try and get past this.  But I just have one thing that I can’t wrap my head around. what is so wrong with me that men just want to hurt me?  First Brian tried to kill me, then Lucas raped me and finally Anthony almost killed me and my pup.  What is so wrong with me that they would do that to me?  Am I not enough for them?”  I gasped when she said this. My heart broke in two that my mate thought she wasn’t enough and that something was wrong with her that us foolish men would hurt her. 

When they heard my gasp they both turned around to look at me standing in the door.  There were tears in my eyes and I couldn’t hide them.  Lucia was looking at me warily and Amber had tears in her eyes as well.  I strode over to where my beautiful was laying in the bed and softly touched her cheek.  “Mystic is a beautiful name for a wolf.  I hope that Ranger and I get to meet her one day soon.”  She just nodded at me and swallowed hard.  “Lucia I know that I don’t deserve it but if you give me a second chance I promise that I will never hurt you again.  I would rather die than to ever hurt you again.”  She smiled at me.  She actually smiled at me.  Just then a strange look came over her face and her smile got even bigger than before if that was even possible.  She looked at me with those big beautiful eyes of hers and said “he or she just moved.  Our pup knows that you are here and that you are their dad.”  I just gaped at her.  “Do you want to feel?  Our pup is doing cartwheels in there and I’m sure he or she wants to say hello to their daddy.”  I couldn’t help the joy I was feeling as I slowly reached out to touch her stomach.  As if on cue when I touched her belly the baby kicked my hand.  My little pup kicked my hands as I had laid them over the bump.  I looked over at Lucia and when our eyes met she just smiled at me.  “Looks like our pup really loves their daddy.  I’m willing to try and make this work if you are.”  I couldn’t believe my ears and Ranger was howling in my brain.  I knew he wanted something like this more than anything.  He was angry with himself for taking over like he did and ruining it for us.  But now that she was willing to give us another chance he vowed to take care of our mate and her wolf as much as I was going to. “Mate will never be scared of us again.” Ranger purred in my head.

Lucia’s POV

Mystic was talking to me telling me it was time that I woke up.  “Our mate, our pup and our family needs us to wake up and gain our strength.  You need to get up love it’s time to mend your mind and your heart.”  She was right I had been hiding here in the recesses of my mind for I’m not sure how long.  When Anthony had started to beat me I just lost all reason and sanity.  I had decided that if I was going to die at the hands of some man then I was going out with the biggest fight of my life.  I wasn’t going to let him get the best of me.  After he hit me the first time that night I spit out some blood and taunted him.  I remember telling him that if he was going to kill me it was going to take more than the little tap he had just delivered.  He growled at me and said I could spare my life I only had to do a few things in return.  First being I needed to “get rid of that little mongrel pup of yours in your stomach.  I know it’s not mine and I won’t have you delivering a pup that doesn’t belong to me.”  I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. I loved this baby and I didn’t care who the father was it was mine and I was not getting rid of it.  He took my silence to mean that he could continue so he did.  “Two, you and I are going to fully mate with one another.  You will renounce your destined mate, accept me as your forever mate and allow me to mark you.”  I laughed at him and he looked at me like I had just gone crazy.  I hadn’t gone crazy I just wasn’t going to accept his ludicrous demands. “That is not going to happen.  You have taught me something very valuable Anthony” I spat those words at him.  He sneered and then started to hit me once again.  The last thing I remembered before waking up here in this hospital bed was my head hitting the wall.  It must have been a stud because there was no give in the wall at all.  While I was unconscious I kept dreaming of Lucas and our pup.  My dreams showed me a handsome little boy playing with the most magnificent black wolf I had ever seen.  The wolf had the purest blue eyes and a white star on the top of his head.  When he was playing with the little boy he seemed to be in pure heaven and like a pup himself.  Then the wolf looked over at me and I saw nothing but love and admiration in his eyes.  The wolf walked over to me and my heart leapt.  Through a mind link the wolf told me “my name is Ranger and I love you so much my mate.  You are everything Lucas and I could have ever imagined.  Please wake up and let us meet Mystic and prove to the both of you and our pup in your stomach how much we love you.” 

When I woke up Amber was sitting by my bed.  She had been crying and I knew that she blamed herself for what had happened.  But she needed to understand it wasn’t her fault.  She had tried to warn me about Anthony.  She had tried to dissuade me from moving in with him.  I’m the one that made those choices and it almost cost us our relationship.  I wasn’t sure about my relationship with Vlad as Anthony had kept me away from him as much as possible.  I know that werewolves don’t usually have friendships with vampires but they really should.  Not all vamps are bad.  Amber was great and got me a glass of water to ease my parched throat.  One of the nurses had scolded me telling me to drink the water slowly and she called me Luna.  I couldn’t understand why she was calling me Luna that was my friend and sister in law not me.  I looked over at Amber and asked her why the nurse had called me Luna and to say that I was shocked at the reason was beyond words.  I was fated to meet Lucas and become his mate.  More over I was fated to be the Luna to the Royal family as Lucas was the prince.  He was only waiting to take over the throne when he found and marked his true mate.  That would be me.  Amber also explained to me that I was a blessed wolf and that Anthony and his Alpha were planning an attack on my home pack that would devastate the supernatural world.  That took some time to digest and to say the least a part of me knew all of this but just my mind didn’t want to accept it. 

I then told Amber about how I had finally made contact with my wolf Mystic in my mind while I was sleeping.  How Mystic had told me that she had been talking with Ranger when Lucas was here and that I should give them another chance.  They hadn’t realized the pain I had went through with my former mate before meeting them.  I looked at Amber and told her how I had decided that I needed to forgive him and try to move forward for my pup’s sake and my own.  I just wanted to know one thing and that was why did men who claimed to be my mate always hurt me.  First there was Brian, then Lucas and the Anthony.  I wanted to know what was so wrong with me that they wanted to hurt me.  That’s when I heard a gasp from the doorway and when I looked up I saw Lucas standing there.  My heart skipped a million beats and Mystic howled in delight at finally laying eyes on our mate.  He had tears in his eyes as he made his way to my bedside.  “Mystic is a beautiful name for a wolf.  I hope that Ranger and I get to meet her one day soon. Lucia I know that I don’t deserve it but if you give me a second chance I promise that I will never hurt you again.  I would rather die than to ever hurt you again.”  I smiled at him and was about to tell him that I have already forgiven him and was willing to give him the second chance he so desired when I felt it.  I felt our pup moving inside of me.  I looked up at him and told him that our little one was reacting to their daddies voice and asked him if he wanted to touch.  His eyes glazed over with joy as he shakily reached out to touch my stomach.  Just as his warm hand touched my stomach our little pup kicked as hard as he or she could letting us know where we all belonged and that was together as a family.