Unloved Mate (Wolves Of Night Shade Pack)

14

Kane

Before first light, I woke up for a patrol run around the pack territory. I returned to the house after and made breakfast for Valor and me, then I took it upstairs only to meet him in the bed, still covered in the sheets and resting. Putting the food on the side table, I crossed my arms, watching over him as he slept. I walked to the bed and brushed my knuckles against his cheeks and stirred him awake. He smiled when he saw me and stretched on the bed, pulling me closer and kissing my cheeks. “Hey, you.”

“Good morning. How are you feeling?”

“Good, actually.”

“I’m sorry if I went too hard yesterday. I shouldn't have gotten lost in the moment. I mean, you're still getting used to this.”

“I know, and I'm fine with the sex.”

He answered and rustled out of the bed. Before he could step away from the bed, I lifted him from the floor and wrapped my hands around him, taking him to the bathroom.

“You know I can walk, right?”

“Yes, I do. but I'd like to hold my wife.”

He set me back down and put the paste on my toothbrush, standing behind me and watching as I brushed my teeth. “You’ll need to go back to your pack, you know, and tell them how things went down with Zeke. Just temporarily, because I want to spend the rest of my life with you.”

“Yeah. I have so many questions for my dad, especially regarding my Omega bloodline. It just doesn't make sense to me.”

I confessed and finished up, and we returned to the balcony and settled in front of the table, digging in.

“Well, I'm sure he'll answer every question you have.”

He smiled at me.

“You’ve been so happy since I woke up. Like extremely happy.”

“Shouldn’t I be excited that I'm with my fated mate?”

“Yeah, you should. I'm very rare.”

We finished breakfast, sharing our childhood memories and laughing heartily at each other. I told him about the circumstances of my birth. How my pregnant mother went on the run and abandoned me at the doors of an orphanage home when I was born. I told him what it was like to grow up in an orphanage and how it was to move from one home to another as an aggressive child. Lycan genes and all. I also told him how Leda saved my life. My birth mother bound my Alpha side before she left me at an orphanage and fortunately, Leda was powerful enough to break the curse, giving me a better chance at survival after what Ezekiel did to me. Valor also shared the adventures he had during training in the Sentinel he had told me earlier about and the nature of his relationship with his father. A past that Ezekiel was a part. From the way he talked about him, I saw how much he cared about him and the excitement in his eyes when he talked about the moments they had together. Valor had such a good heart. It was just too bad that Zeke turned out to become something entirely different. I promised myself that I'd spend my entire life making him happy and building a family and a pack together. We were both like two sides of a coin and he was what completed me, the same way I completed him.

We headed into the bathroom, and I turned on the shower, helping Valor out of his clothes. We stepped into the trickling water and took time washing each other up. I put the soap in my hand and helped Valor wash his hair. He chuckled as we rinsed our body under the shower, the soap foams from our bodies moving down the drain. When we finished, we dried our bodies and returned to the room, changing into new clothes.

“Is there anything I can help you with today?” He asked.

“I talked to Rohan about your idea for the training program during the patrol, and he's agreed to work with you.”

I answered and buttoned up my shirt.

“Alright. I'll meet him. What about you?”

“I’m with Leda. She's doing a spell to help find some Lycans that left the pack, and she needs me. I'll be back in the evening.”

“Alright. Have a great day, and I'll miss you.”

He walked closer and pulled me into a kiss.

“Don’t stress yourself, ok? Remember if you need anything tell me. I'll be here to take care of you and give you whatever you need.”

I kissed his forehead and let him go, walking out of the house.

I headed downstairs to where Leda had been waiting. Her usual all black attire flowed down her body and she had a scowl on her face. I gave her an apologetic glance, and a smile tugged at the corner of her lips. “Good morning, Kane.”

“Leda. Come on, let's head over to wherever the spell's happening.”

“You should be excited about this. Magic saved your life and that of your mate. Have you told him the good news yet?”

She was saying as we both sauntered out of the house.

“Oh, Leda! Can you be discreet? Anyone could hear and tell him.”

“That means you haven't told him. He deserves to know, Kane. Besides, it's been weeks and he'll be getting signs soon.”

“But I’m not prepared for this.”

I answered as we hurried down the stairs together. We both cornered on the path that led into the forest, heading straight for the cabin at the lake.

“No one is. You just have to go with it. You love him, don't you?”

“Yes, I do. He's so special to me. I never thought I'd ever see someone how I see him. But I do.”

I chuckled, amazed by my own words. Growing up, I didn't think I'd end up with a future like this. I used to think that it would always end with fighting for my life and not settling in a place or finding some sort of peace. But I had those things now, and I had a pack that I needed to bring home and lead. In the end, everything worked out.

We arrived at the cabin, where Leda set everything required for her spell on the kitchen counter. She had a map of the country, candles, a dagger and other important witch objects used for spell casting. We stood opposite each other, and she took the dagger, asking me to put out my palm. She sliced through and my blood dripped onto the country map. As my hand healed, I pulled away while her hands hovered over the map and the candles came to life as she chanted her witch spell. My blood gathered together at the center of the map and dispersed to five places on it. She marked it and wrote the names of these places.

“There’s one in the city.” She said.

“I think we should start by rescuing the ones closer to us. Like these two.”

I pointed out.

“Yes, true. Do you think we should send out the warriors right now?”

“Tomorrow. I have to speak with them about the importance of this mission.”

“That’s very thoughtful of you,”

she smiled at me. “Let’s head back.”

“Mm.”

I agreed. On our way back to the pack house, I mind-linked the warrior wolves to meet up with Leda and me on the training grounds, and when we arrived, they were already waiting there. They were about twenty-five in number, and I explained everything to them and our course of action. Then I asked them to return to their homes and rest up for what was to come for tomorrow. I bid goodbye to Leda and continued with the rest of my duties on my own. By the time I finished through my scheduled duties for the day, it was already evening, and I was giddy to return to Valor and spend the rest of the night with him. My beast has been humming all day, wanting to be with him, and now he was going to get what he wanted. We were both obsessed with our little wolf.

I was heading back to the pack house from the workplace, which was only about five buildings away from the mansion where I spent most of my day dealing with the pack businesses with the Gamma of the pack. He had left earlier, leaving me to finish and close up. I sauntered down the path that led to the mansion with the starlight guiding me down the road. Halfway through my destination, I heard a movement behind me and I turned in its direction. My claws extracted from their fingertips and a growl rumbled in my throat, my beast coming forward and becoming defensive. “If you value your life, I suggest you step into the light and stop hiding in the dark like a fucking coward.”

I declared.

“I’m not a coward. I'm just a cunning, manipulative werewolf who will always outsmart you and your pathetic mate.”

I heard a voice behind me, and I turned to the source, seeing a person who I never thought I'd see again.

“Ezekiel. How are you alive?”

“I learned from the best. All I needed was a dark object to make you believe you killed me. Meanwhile, it was all a projection.”

He answered with a smirk.

“Stay away from Valor.”

I growled and swung my arms at him, but he ducked, using his unnatural speed to move behind me, gutting me with a dagger. I grunted and tried to pull the weapon away, but an immense amount of pain coursed through my body, forcing me to my knees. He placed his hands on my temples and chuckled manically. I tried to fight him from putting memories in me because I knew that the only reason he came here was to put Valor and me apart. I struggled, but the level of pain I was feeling now from the mystical weapon he had used against me was unbearable.

He had his way, poisoning my mind with memories of him and Valor being intimate and when he was done, he asked me to send my mate away and never go back on that decision. He disappeared just like he came, like he was never there, leaving me to wonder what had happened to me. Until the memories hit and I realized Valor was having an affair with Zeke, who he had claimed to hate so much. I growled as I made my way back home driven by the one desire to ruin everything I had with Valor.