His Rejection, page 13
Sometimes I swear you are a lunatic. That’s the Vampire who wanted to kidnap Nova at the party, my wolf explained, and that’s when everything clicked into place.
That’s why they were after her.
“What do you want with me,” I shouted back.
“To make you my mate of course. But first, we have to reverse that mongrel blood of yours so that you can be human.”
I gasped, “That's impossible.”
“Not when you have witches on your side,” he gloated. I could practically see the smug smirk in his face and hear it in his voice.
A part of me wanted to giggle. He wasn't the only one with ties to a witch. But the thing that had scared me most was the time. How long would it take for Nova and the rest of the wolves to get here? I needed to stall. I didn't want to be human. Not by a long shot; and I did not want to lose my mate. I started thinking about how much I missed him, but then, randomly a thought popped into my head.
“So, if you wanted me, why d'you take another girl,” I asked.
“See my friend Natalie here wants your mate, Maxon. So, for her to lay claim to him she would have to be a wolf,” he explained.
It was all starting to make sense. The only way a person could become a werewolf is if a werewolf gave them a huge amount of blood. This would weaken said wolf for days so unnatural transformations were pretty much obsolete. They took this random girl so that the witch could become a wolf.
We are in a hell of a lot of trouble, my wolf told me.
They will come in time.
Hopefully.
Since when have any of them let us down? They will come, you don't have to be scared, I said comforting her.
She nodded inwardly but ended the conversation and retreated to a deep place in my mind.
“Marc. Please hurry,” I whispered.
chapter 19
Maxon
“What the fuck do you mean dead,” Alex shouted at Marc.
Once we had stepped off the plane, we had immediately spotted Alpha Marc and his second and third in command. We didn't have to collect our bags because we didn't pack. Once I heard danger and Nova in the same sentence, I jumped up and literally said fuck clothes. Now here we were sitting in Alpha Marc's car getting debriefed.
“Alex I'm so sorry,” Juan's mate Vanessa whispered.
He shook his head not wanting to believe it. If she were dead, he would've felt it. Alex and I have been trying to console each other for weeks and I know for a fact that he hasn’t felt her die.
I tried to remember the last time I had seen Alex in serious pain since Noni left. My mind was coming up blank, I knew a lot about the mating process, as Alpha's son and the next Alpha in line I had to learn the histories and knowledge of our race.
If your mate was hurting or even if they were dying, you would be able to feel it. People said that it felt like your soul being ripped away from your body and went to be their mates in the afterlife. I didn't know what it felt like personally, but I knew he was supposed to feel it. How come he didn't feel it?
“She. Isn't. Dead.” He was on the verge of shifting, and that would be dangerous since we were still in the car.
“Alex, we have her body,” Marc replied, turning in his seat to face him, when he did, I was inhaling. The smell caused me to stiffen and smelled the air again. Nova...
Why the hell is our mate's scent mixed with his, my wolf asked me angrily.
“She’s not fucking dead alright! I know she’s not! She can’t be, I didn’t feel anything,” Alex shouted again.
I sniffed the air again, just to make sure it was my nose playing tricks on me and sure enough, it was there.
He had sex with her, my wolf shouted at me again.
“Alex, calm down,” I warned through clenched teeth; in my Alpha tone. I watched as his shaking died down only to have to try to calm myself down. I was shaking violently. My wolf wanted to rip Marc apart, and the longer we stayed in this car it was getting stronger.
“This was all their fault! If they cared so much for Nova and Noni, why is one dead and the other kidnapped? Something isn't right Maxon. I smell a setup,” Alex announced.
Juan and Vanessa looked shocked that Alex would have the audacity to accuse an Alpha of something that foul, and truthfully, I would've too if I wasn’t thinking the same thing. Too many pieces weren't fitting together.
The car came to a screeching halt causing the car to jerk and its passengers to jerk forward. Luckily, there was no one else on the road. Marc turned around again causing the smell of him and Nova to hit me again. It was so strong that before I couldn't control him, he took control over my whole body and jump for Marc's throat.
After that, the car broke out into complete chaos. Juan tried to protect a pregnant Vanessa from getting hit, while still trying to help Alex pry me off Marc. Marc and his next in command tried to get me off also, but I was way stronger than them. I was born an Alpha, not made one by default.
“Maxon, What the fuck is wrong with you? Let him go,” Alex shouted. But I couldn't. I wasn’t in control.
“Let him go,” Alex shouted again.
Maxon, what the hell are you doing? Let Marc go, a voice shouted through my head.
Nova?
Uh yeah, who else would it be trying to save your ass from starting a war?
Aren't you kidnapped, I asked dumbly.
No! Who told you that lie?
Marc, I seethed.
What the hell? What is going on there, she asked.
You had sex with Marc.
Yes, she replied.
My wolf howled in pain. He finally released Marc's neck and gave me control back as he sunk back into the deepest part of my mind, wallowing in depression. She had slept with another guy. How could she do that to me?
Like you are one to talk. You slept with Natalie, she yelled at me.
I didn't even respond, and why would I? I was already guilty in her mind, so I was no longer interested in proving my innocence. I closed the link with her and sealed it to make sure that she couldn't get through for any reason. This was like the rejection all over again. My eyes started to blur, and my head was spinning. I could feel my wolf trying to severe the bond that Nova and I shared. I kicked open the car door and jumped out.
“Maxon where are you going,” I heard Alex call.
“I'm going home. Nova doesn't need me.”
chapter 20
Nova
I was still fuming at Maxon as I approached the cabin that they had taken the girls to.
I mean seriously.
How could he be mad at me when he had knowingly slept with Natalie, of all the people in the world, why her? There was a familiar light burning in my head that told me somebody needed to get in contact with me and that they were pissed. Thinking it was Maxon I completely ignored the feeling, tucking it away as I tried to refocus my attention.
The cabin was patrolled by two normal enough looking humans. I smiled to myself knowing that I could take my frustrations out on them. Before I could even strip down to nothing, my phone vibrated. I had a text message from Alex.
{It's not Maxon trying to link you. It's me now open up.}
I could taste the hostility of the words from the phone. I felt myself slightly cringe at his anger. Alex wasn't normally an angry guy so for him to be upset something had to be completely wrong.
{Okay fine. But we don't have long, I'm busy.} I replied.
Seconds later I received an OK. I opened the link. I couldn't even get out my 'What’s up', before he started laying it on me.
What the hell did you do to Maxon, he shouted at me. This made me livid. How dare he shout at me on Maxon's behalf?
What do you mean what did I do? I did nothing but the same thing he did. And how dare you yell at me in his defense? Maxon is a grown man, if he had a problem with me, we would talk about it as mates.
Nova, PLEASE tell me you didn't really sleep with Marc? I laughed internally which caused my wolf to growl angrily at me. We haven’t spoken much and truthfully, I'm surprised she is still allowing me to shift.
So, what if I did? He slept with Natalie, I retorted.
Is that what this is to you Nova, a game of fucking tit for tat? You are playing with someone’s heart! Fates, what has gotten into you?
He stopped and sighed, probably trying to calm him and his wolf down. I was still reeling from the short lashing he had just given me.
He did not knowingly sleep with Natalie. If you would've been an adult and talked to him instead of acting like a child and running into the arms of another man, you would've known that.
Alex, you weren't there I know what the hell I saw OK. They were having sex, he was enjoying it. Stop trying to cover up for your friend, I seethed.
I was close to tears. I didn't want to have to listen to this while I was so close to finding out why Charlie wanted me and to kill that bitch Natalie. This emotional stress was not helping.
Nova, when have I ever lied to you? Maxon didn't fucking know! Natalie used a glamor spell. She looked like you, she smelled like you, hell I'm sure she even sounded like you, he said.
Something in my headshot me back to the night I saw them, replaying the scene in my head. There was a moment that I thought I had, in fact, heard my voice on the other side, but it was too fast to even tell.
A part of me wanted to believe it; it wanted nothing more than to figure out what Charlie and Natalie wanted, kill them both and then run to Maxon with open arms and apologize for forever. But then there was that other side that kept saying it was a lie. That Maxon somehow knew it wasn’t me and continued to have sex with her, anyway. I fought this internal battle for what seemed like hours. Both sides going back and forth until finally, one had won.
I don't believe you.
It was silent for a minute. I figured we were done talking, so I closed the link and sat down. Leaning against the tree that I was using to conceal my body, I wrapped my arms around my legs and pulled them in close to my body.
Maybe he didn't know. Maybe it was all Natalie's fault yet again, and I had another reason to want her dead. Maybe Alex was right and I being a child. Too rash with my actions and now I was suffering the consequences.
As I opened back up the link to tell Alex I was sorry and that I believe him and more importantly I believed Maxon, he exploded on me, again.
Don't close the link on me again Nova, he said his voice full of authority. Although we were miles apart and speaking through the link, me and my wolf felt his command and didn't like it one bit.
My wolf and I agreed on something that hasn't happened since I slept with Marc.
You are not my father Alex. You are my brother. Don't forget that, I raged. My wolf growled in agreement, but as soon as I showed her an ounce of attention she crept back into the mental cage and completely ignored me.
I may not be your father, but I’m the closest thing you’ve had to one! It was me who took you to school and picked you up… it was me who made you dinner… it was me who helped you with your homework… me who went to all your recitals… I bought your clothes and did your hair and tucked you in at night! You were in my bed when you couldn’t sleep from the bad dreams… I did it all! I was just a kid too, I didn’t have to, but I did.
With every act he named he projected images of him doing it. I was trying to block them out, but he just kept pushing them into my head.
Hell, I taught you about your first period! I think I deserve the right to act as both father and brother. I taught you a hell of a lot Nova, but I never taught you to act like this… you talk about not forgetting things… what about when you forgot about me? You just left without a second thought about me… without even caring about me! Then you come back and rob me of my mate!
I never asked her to leave, I stated.
You didn’t have to! You are her best friend and the only family she’s ever had… there’s nothing she wouldn’t do for you and now she’s missing and it’s all your, he shouted sounding completely heartbroken.
I let the tears fall freely. I never knew Alex felt this way about me. He was making me feel bad and while I knew most of this was indeed my fault, I knew I didn't deserve all these brutal words.
It's not all my fault. It's Natalie's for killing her, but I will make it up to you Alex, I promised.
She. Is. Not. Dead.
She is. I saw Natalie kill her.
No, what you saw was some girl who was glamoured to look like Noni while my mate pretends to be you, not able to get in contact with anyone because she's trying to protect you! Fates, you are ruining everybody's life! You deserve to be alone and I'm happy that Maxon is going to severe the bond between the two of you, Alex said cutting off the link.
The soft tears were now running down my face at an alarming rate. I was trying to get Alex back until the things he said were finally clicking. Noni was alive, and she was in that cabin, probably waiting for the cavalry.
I was about to get up and go save Noni for Alex when I felt it. The searing pain that swept through my body causing my legs to buckle. I fell to the floor and curled into a ball. I was moaning trying not to scream at how much it hurt. It felt like I was chained to a table while someone left cuts all over my body only to pour tons of salt in each of the cuts. I could hear my wolf whimpering in pain as well.
Maxon, I thought, trying to link out to him.
Oh Fates, he’s hurt.
I tried to get up and find him, but my eyes were getting blurry, and all I could see black and gray spots. I closed my eyes and prayed that the pain would stop, and everything would go back to the way it was before all this happened.
My mind drifted back to when Maxon and I were at the packhouse in his room and we were so close to mating. I remembered the feelings and sensations of having him touching me in places that would ignite a fire in me that burned so hot that it caused me to sweat. I remembered all the kisses that made my head dizzy and made me forget my name. Kisses that no one else could reciprocate.
I didn't mean to give Marc my virginity. I was just upset and, in a funk, and depression and he was there to comfort me and make me smile. It started with a small kiss that turned from that into full-blown sex. I woke up the next morning feeling dirty and guilty, that was until Marc said that Maxon slept around so why couldn't I. It made sense then because I had really thought that he had, but now I knew differently. Now I wished I could take it all back.
Maxon is in trouble, I said to my wolf.
No. We are dying.
My wolf let a painful howl. Even though the news was a shock and a bit hard to believe I still believed it. It was the only reason why I could be hurting this bad with Maxon not being in trouble.
I tried to sit up, but my head was swirling. I still couldn't open my eyes and I didn't want to. I just wanted to keep them close and let myself succumb to the pain and die.
That's what they would want me to do. And then they would say that I was being selfish, I thought to myself.
What’s wrong with us, I asked my wolf. Even my mental voice was struggling to get words out.
Fates, this was painful.
Maxon and his wolf are severing our bond. It’s going to kill us, she explained.
Severing the bond between mates was known to do that to a wolf. It wasn’t like just rejecting your mate. When you reject your mate, you are just denying them for the moment. Even if it’s months or years, you are just denying them.
Severing the bond completely removes the bond, taking away your other half and, for a lack of a better phrase, spitting in the Fates' face. They say that the pain is so harsh that after minutes of feeling it your body goes completely numb and you don't even feel when your heart gives out. I could still feel the pain, so I knew I probably had moments left.
I could feel the ground vibrating as something was running towards me at an alarming speed, but I didn't care. I was dying and going to a better place where sex, lies, and bitches didn’t exist. Maybe my wolf and I could be reincarnated and find our happiness with our new mate. I prayed to the Fates for this as my world began to dull.
Nova.
Maxon?
chapter 21
Maxon
Ignoring my breaking heart and angry wolf as well as the many people calling me to come back, I just ran and shifted mid-air. I couldn't take being around him anymore. The smell of my mate, my Nova, on him drove my wolf crazy. All I could do was picture him mounting her and riding her into euphoria, something that I was supposed to do. Images of him licking and biting on what was mine.
My wolf let out a feral growl at the thought. Hell, it took everything in me not to turn around and skin the guy alive, but a war with this pack, while it's something that my pack could handle, is not something I want to deal with.
I could feel the tingling sensations of someone trying to reach me through the link. My first thought was to not answer it, in fear that it was Nova, but what if it wasn’t? I was Alpha after all and I needed to make sure that no one really needed me.
What, I answered.
Maxon, what the hell happened back here? Marc is threatening war, Alex shouted.
While I could see why he would be upset my wolf didn't like his tone, and I didn't feel like hearing him complain about it. If Marc wanted a war, I'd give it to him and wipe out his pathetic excuse for a pack.
He slept with her bro.
He slept with whom? My wolf growled at the stupid question. I knew he was just trying to make sure we were on the same page, but I couldn't hide the venom in my voice when I spoke next.
Who do you think?
Nova! Are you serious?
I nodded my head, but after a few seconds I realized that he couldn't see me, so I answered.
Yes.
That was one of the thickest and toughest words that had ever come out of my mouth. Even in my mind I could hear the emotions that were interlaced with it. I couldn't stop the pain that went through my heart as the reality of the words I spoke hit me.
She had slept with another wolf, I thought to myself. She had done the one thing that was unacceptable in our society.
