The Rejected Mate

He stops when there is an inch of space between us and dread fills my features when I hear the words leaving his lips.

"Who was he?" With a dark look on his face

I stay quiet contemplating whether I should tell him. I open my mouth to say something but I'm cutoff by a new voice.

"Serenity, Wha- What are you doing here?" Matthew is standing at the door looking like he ran a marathon with his tousled hair and crumpled up t-shirt, his question directed at Damien

Damien has a angry look on his face when he replies "None of your business, pup".

Hearing the pup word has made Matthew mad. Alpha’s don't take lightly to be insulted and being called a pup, that's a big no-no

Matthew takes a step forward and says "Actually it is, Serenity is my Girlfriend, so it is my business, Alpha" saying the last word in a taunting manner which makes Damien more Angry.

Both of them are chest to chest, glaring at each other, "She doesn't need you" Damien says through clenched jaw.

"Oh, let her decide for herself" Matthew replies and both of their heads turns towards me for an answer. I panick inside not knowing what to do. Although Damien might be my so called mate, Matthew had been there for me everytime I needed someone by my side.

I avoid Damien's gaze knowing that he's staring at me through those piercing grey eyes of his. A few moments passes like us in the same position and I lift my head and speak, breaking the silence among us "Matthew".

Matthew smirks at this and I look towards Damien to see some emotion like hurt crossing through his eyes for a fleeting second, before it's gone . Which honestly confuses me, why would he be hurt?.

Damien looks furious now and shooting a last glare at Matthew and a look my way storms out of the room.

Matthew walks towards my bed and sits on it and quietly ushers me towards him knowing that I neede this form of comfort without breaking the silence, he pulls me onto his lap. I usually shy away from intimate things like cuddling but Matthew loves it. My body immediately relaxes in his hold because of the familiarity it brings. I lay my head on his shoulders as a support and heave a sigh thinking about random things.

I don't if anyone would understand the type of relationship Matthew and I have. Have you ever felt a bond with someone which consists of not only love, but comfort and understanding. Although we're dating and if we were to breakup we would be still remain bestfriends and be there for eachother through thick and thin.

Next Day...

Matthew and I had become bored sitting in the room watching random Netflix shows.

"Hey! Let's go for a run" Matthew speaks up while looking through the different shows and I nod my head in reply.

We walk downstairs and out of the pack house, we part ways and I go behind a tree, I remove my clothes and tie the clothes around my ankle and shift into my brown wolf, I walk towards the forest instantly spotting Matthew's big black wolf in front of me.

A plan formulates in my mind, I hide my scent and creep my way towards him. When I'm within a close proximity I nip at his tail and take off running. I don't look behind, I hear Matthew release a playful growl and taking off after me, taking it as a challenge to catch us

I know that I cannot out run an Alpha and I also know that Matthew can easily catch upto me, but I try anyways knowing that there is no harm in trying.

Matthew jumps upon me the moment I slow my pace to turn back and look at him, which wasn't clearly a bright idea on my part. His wolf playfully tugs at my fur, occasionally licking us and growling playfully, this continues for a while.

I cherish moments like this where I get to forget that I don't have a mate who rejected me for someone else that being my bestfriend who is dead now and have a son together,and that my life isn't sunshine and rainbow everytime. I feel so blessed to have Matthew in my life, and I would choose him over anyone even my said mate, my wolf whines at my trail of thoughts but I shake those thoughts away and focus on the black wolf crouched before me with his tag wagging from side to side. I snicker in my wolf form at the scene infront of me which doesn't sit well with Dom, Matthew's wolf. He growls playfully for the hundredth time before nipping at my sides and taking off deep into the forest.

My wolf immediately takes off after his wolf who is nowhere to be seen. We walk through the thick canopy formed by the trees, it's almost dark in this part of jungle because of the tall trees surrounding the area, that you would thinks it's night time but in reality it's daytime. My wolf occasionally stops to sniff put his scent, we could hear the birds chirping and dripping of water droplets could be heard.

Its after a few minutes that, we come to the conclusion that we're completely lost. But what had my senses going crazy was the unknown scent my wolf was able to sniff out from the air and it was fresh, meaning that they had been hear for a while now. It smelled like death and rotten flesh and my nose scrunches up in disgust.

My wolf tenses up when we hear a twig snapping in the distance, my ears stand up straight and strain to pick up any sound, my wolf head snaps towards the sound, just in time to see a grey colored flash, and I realise that it's a wolf . A rogue to be exact.

My wolf growls at the enemy and takes off in the direction it went, when I reach a nearby stream where I had seen the rogue taking off into, I see nothing there but what caught my attention was a paper hanging from one of the trees with the help of a knife and a shiver runs down my spine knowing it's made of silver. Whoever was here wanted me to struggle for it.

I immediately shift into my human form and put on the clothes I had wrapped around my ankle and I move towards the paper that I've spotted. I almost take a step back when I see the blood and dirt smeared on the paper.

I pluck the knife of the paper but using my shirt to cover my hands as I do so, so that it wouldn't burn my fingers due to the silver, I tug at it for a few minutes and I'm finally able to pull the knife out. I open the folded paper and my breath hitches the moment I see the words scribbled on the paper with blood and what has me shaking was the name, that I haven't heard in a long time.

' Found you, my dear daughter.’

-RI

I almost turn around and attack the person behind me, when I feel their hands on my shoulder. I turn back around and see Matthew who has put on a pair of shorts and is shirtless looking at me with a worried look on his face.

"What is that" he asks me curiously while I'm still coming to terms with the contents of the letter, I show him the letter.

"A letter” I reply shakily my voice almost a soft whisper. Matthew's brows are crunched together with confusion "from whom?" He aks me again not able to understand the “RI" on the bottom of the letter and I know that there's no escaping this time from my past.

" From Alpha Roman Ivanovick, also my biological father " I reply and take notice of the shock covering his features but they suddenly turn deadly when he remembers the name I told him. "Fuck" He grits out and takes a step towards me with a dark look on his face and I take a step back in fear, I've only ever seen him with this look on his face when I met him for the first time three years ago when I asked him about his mate, his eyes are black meaning his wolf is in control. "Matthew, what happen-, why are you-?" I'm immediately cut off when his wolf growls and grits out "He killed my mate" and this time it's me who is shocked with this new piece of information.