Her Brother, Her Mate

“You are a mate, Hadley. Mark and Mitch, since they share the same DNA, they have the same mate, and it’s you. You are their mate, my dear. You are a seer and their mate, and Mitch and Mark are not just wolves, but wolf and witch hybrids.”

Okay, now I know this is all insane. They’re insane. I need to leave. I can’t stay here and listen to this for another second. These two are obviously crazy. None of this can be real. His teeth thing is probably just a stunt for that weird b***d club he said he owned. Bloodlust? He obviously has some rich man’s kink.

I get up to leave, then start backing towards the elevator, keeping my eyes trained on Vincent and Simone in case they really go insane and try to attack me. Vincent sighed, setting his glass down gently on the table beside him.

When I was about 5 feet from the elevator, an intense breeze ruffled my hair, making me flinch involuntarily. Vincent is no longer in his chair. I snapped my head around searching for where he went.

“Here, Hadley,” his icy breath fans on my neck, making me turn around and jump back with a yelp.

“How did you?….”

“I’m a vampire, my dear. I wasn’t lying to you and I’m not insane. I’m also not going to hurt you. Vampires in Miami do not feed directly from humans. Our leader will not allow it. Well, unless they are our sires, but only our leader and I have sires. Simone is my sire, and I am her mate. I can feed off her if I want, but I prefer to get my b***d at the b***d bank most of the time.”

“B***d bank?” Isn’t that where Mitch works? He works for vampires? Do they feed on him? Why does the thought of others touching him in that way make me so angry?

“Our coven owns many of the hospitals in the city. The b***d donations fuel them and our own b***d bank for vampires.”

“That’s where Mitchel works?” I asked, backing away from him.

He nods.

“Hadley, we aren’t trying to scare you. We’re trying to help you. I know this is a lot to take in and its best you prepare yourself now, because Mitch and Mark are your mates and they will want to claim you soon. You will want to claim them as well. I know you already feel the bond with them,” Simone tells me, beckoning me with her hand to come sit beside her on the couch.

I choose to sit on the ottoman furthest from her instead, and flinch when I see her face drop at my reluctance to join her.

I gulp down my fear, sigh, and get back up to sit by her on the couch. I keep a couple feet between us to be safe, but her face perks up.

“We’re friends now, Hadley. I don’t want to not tell you something this important and you become mad at me later because I didn’t prepare you. I want you to be fully informed now, because as much as I love Mitch and Mark, they can be idiots. They might not explain everything fully or in a way you can understand them. And plus, if you freak out like this with them, it could hurt Mark and Mitch and then hurt you to see them suffering. Let me tell you everything you need to know to be ready for when they confront you.”

“What if I don’t want them to confront me? What if I don’t want to be their mate?” Even as I say it, the words don’t feel right coming out. They don’t sit right in my gut. It hurts my heart to think about not being with them. Both of them. I’m crazy too.

“That’s your choice, but the mate bond isn’t easy to fight,” Vincent tells me, “I am not human, like you, but I am not a wolf either. I couldn’t resist it. I was actually in love with another girl, and Simone’s best friend, but the mate bond was so strong that the attraction I felt for Carli instantly faded to nothing and all I could think about was Simone. She was everything to me before I even knew why.”

“Geez, this Carli person again? Does she have, like, a diamond-studded v****a or s**t gold? Why did so many of you guys like her?” I almost growled in a possessive sneer. Mitch said he was once in love with her too. I don’t even want to meet her after hearing about all these guys fawning over her at some point or another in their lives. And she’s Mark’s boss too? Did Mark have a thing for her too? I don’t even know Mark, but why does that upset me?

Both Vincent and Simone laugh at my outburst.

“No, she was just the strongest female in the pack. Most of our warriors wished she was their mate. You would laugh if you heard who her actual mate turned out to be,” Simone giggles, “And as for Vincent, the w***e took his virginity, way before I met him. It used to bother me, but Vincent is very good at letting me know that I’m the real winner and have nothing to be jealous of,” she sends him a sweet smile as he takes his seat and picks up his drink once again. He blows her a k**s, and I resist the urge to fawn over them. Even if they are freaks, they’re really cute.

“Anyway, the point is that you won’t be able to fight the mate bond for long. You will end up wanting them sooner or later. After watching you today, I think it will be much sooner rather than later. You can’t tell me that the thought of not being with them doesn’t cause you pain,” she c***s her head to the side and quirked a brow at me.

I gnaw on my l*p, unable to answer her, because I know she’s right. It’s really the only explanation as to why I feel all the things I feel towards them. They are everything I should dislike in men, but for some reason I’ve felt drawn to Mitchel from the start, and Mark’s sorrow on his face when he looked at me at the restaurant made me feel like my heart was literally breaking.

“Let me explain everything to you about our world; about the werewolf world, so when they confess to you and explain what they are, you are prepared.”