Alec’s

Alec.

“Mate”

Sadie and I say at the same time, both of us frozen in shock.

F**k! You’ve got to be **g me. I feel like I’ve been hit by a boulder. Of all the people to be my mate, the savior of my pack, why did it have to be her?

“No” she snarled, pulling deep breaths into her lungs. “Just f**g no”

Her eyes are wild and there is a tremor in the hand as she runs it down her face. I can’t move. I can’t do a f**g thing except stare at her.

How the hell was this f**g possible? Just hours ago I almost killed her, and now you’re telling me that she’s my f**g mate? There has to be a f**g mistake or something.

“I guess there is no need to ask what is going on” Micah said unhelpfully.

Everyone in the room is as shocked as the two of us. No one saw this **t coming, I mean come the **k on. Fate must be playing a cruel joke on us.

“Sadie, calm down,” the red-headed witch tries to tell her friend, but it seems like Sadie isn’t willing to listen.

“Hell no” she yelled. “I thought that**h was done playing games with my***g life, but this is too cruel even for her cold beating heart!”

“Who are you talking about, Sadie” the man with a scar gently asked her.

“The moon goddess! That’s who I’m talking about Why would she play me like this, as if I didn’t hate this b***d enough, and now she makes him my mate?”

I growled at her insult.

“It’s not like I’m thrilled at this unfortunate turn of events” I said through gritted teeth.

“I was talking to you” she snapped. “So shut the f**k up.”

“Don’t f**g talk to me like that!”

“Or what?” she challenges, her eyes flashing color. “What are you going to do about it, Alec? Lock me in the dungeon and torture, huh? Kill me? I should have ripped your spine and killed you when I had the chance, then I wouldn’t be stuck with you as my mate.”

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Her words, hate and venom drive me insane. I want nothing but to strangle her and forget that I have a mate.

“Do you think I’m dancing in joy at having a b**h like you as a mate?” I asked, feeling my anger rise to the surface. “I’d give up my balls if I could change this d**n fate.”

We were head-to-head when Micah steps in between us.

“Everyone just calm down” he tried, calming us. “Take a deep breath, and then we can work this out. No need for. insults and bloodshed.”

Sadie scoffs, but steps away. She turns and faces the desk, her shoulders rising and falling as she takes deep

breaths.

I step away too and run my hand through my already disheveled hair. D**n it! How did things end up so badly? How could one simple trip that was meant to get us an ally turn into such a major cluster **k?

My mind was a f**g mess and I felt like I was having an out-of-body experience. It didn’t help that Knox was unnaturally quiet.

“What do you think?” I asked him.

He looks just as lost as I felt. “I don’t f**g like this, but we need her remember? She’s the only one that can break the f***n*g curse.”

**t! I’d completely forgotten about that d**n curse and what my mate had to do with it. Again, I ask, why her? Why couldn’t it be anyone else? I wouldn’t have such a big problem with it if it wasn’t Sadie.

“This doesn’t make any sense,” Jason spoke for the first time since we entered this room.

“What doesn’t make sense?” this comes from Micah.This belongs © NôvelDra/ma.Org.

Jason steps forward and stand beside me. “All this! If they are mates, shouldn’t they have been able to sense it the moment they saw each other outside yesterday? Instead, they were both out to get each other.”

Nobody says a d**n thing. I frown at that. He was right. We should have been able to scent each other like we did

right now.

Jason continued. “I think Sadie had the witch do something. She has always wanted you. Maybe she got the witch to forge a fake bond. That way she can have you and have her revenge at the same time.”

“You really aren’t the brightest cookie of the bunch, are you?” Sadie turned to him and asked.

“Why you…” he goes to attack her, but she flings her hand, sending him flying and crashing against the wall behind

us.

“Well, that’s new” she murmured, looking at her hands.

Jason gets up, and Micah stops him before he can try to launch another attack on Sadie.

“I’m not happy about this and Alec is the last man on earth I would want as a mate” she added after a while.

“Then how do you explain this? Because Jason does have a point,” I asked while folding my arms against my chest.

“I have a theory” Micah muttered before facing me. “What were you feeling when you saw Sadie?”

That was simple. “Rage”

“And you, Sadie?”

“Fear, desperation and anger.”

“There you have it,” Micah concluded, as if that was supposed to answer all the questions.

“What’s the point of this?” Jason cut in.

The nameless man joins in. “What he is trying to say is that instead of scenting each other, Alpha d**he bag smelled her fear and desperation while Sadie smelled his anger. Those emotions overwhelmed their mate scent because they were both drowned in them. They were too clouded by them to register anything.”

My hands are sifted into balls, as the a**le disrespects. Didn’t he know who the f***k I am? I swear once this is sorted and my head is straight, he is going to taste the end of my fist.

Micah nods his head in agreement. “Exactly.”

**. Sure, Jason’s theory about the witch was farfetched, but I wanted to believe in it. Anything at this point, except accepting the fact that Sadie is my mate.

It’s funny how I was desperate to find my mate because my pack was suffering under the curse, but now that I’d found her, I was happy about it.

“If you don’t believe it still, there is another way of finding out” Micah said, staring directly at me.

Out of all of us, he was the only one calm about this whole spectacle.

“How?” both Jason and I asked.

“The mark,” he answered.

“What mark?” The red head questioned with curiosity.

I nodded and he approached Sadie.

“Is it okay with you, Sadie, if I check something?” Micah turned to her.

She eyes him, as if debating whether she should let him.

“Please” he pushes softly and surprisingly she agrees.

Yeah, there was definitely something Micah was hiding from me, because how come Sadie was comfortable with

him while she hated the rest of us?

Now with her permission, he approaches her before standing in front of her. He gently moves her short hair. I take

a step back when he reveals a small white crescent moon mark.

“F*k!” is the only word I can utter.

With the mark, there is no denying who she is to us.

“Where did you get that mark? You never had it before.” the d***he bag asked her.

“What mark?”

Wait, what the **k? “You didn’t know you had a mark behind your ear? And according to him, you’ve never had it before, so does that mean you’re playing us?”

It was a s**d question even to my own ears. There was no way Sadie knew about the journal entries or the curse, so she couldn’t have faked the mark.

“Again, I ask, what mark? Wait-” she holds her finger up. “Let me ask my wolf”

Her eyes become unfocused before resuming back to normal minutes later.

“My wolf said that it appeared when I awakened. It’s a symbol of what I am” she explained, a furrow between her eyebrows. “Not like she’ll tell me what exactly I am.”

I remain quiet as I try to absorb all that I’ve learned today. I felt like I was getting an overload of information. I don’t know how, but deep down I knew she wasn’t lying. That doesn’t mean that I’ve forgiven her or forgotten. After all, she did cost me the woman I loved.

“What happens now?” Jason asked, clearly struggling with the turn of events.

Sadie takes a seat and stares at me.

“It’s simple really, I reject you.” she shrugs as if it wasn’t a big deal.

Before I can recover from the shock of her words, or do anything, she says those d m n n g words.

“I, Sadie Evans, reject you, Alec Ashford, as my mate, and hereby sever our bonds and cut all ties with you.”