Filed to story: Wolf Crying Mate of the Alpha by Jazz Ford
‘You heard me, Nina. ‘Did you like the kiss?’ He yells.
I fall to my knees crying and look up at my beloved Magnus, ‘It felt like I was kissing you.’
Magnus storms out of the packhouse.
‘Magnus, please!’ I chase after him, but Yiselda grabs me.
‘Luna, he needs to process everything.’ ‘You should give him some time,’ she suggests.
I hesitantly nod. I want to hold Magnus and tell him I love him no matter what. My inner wolf whimpers, wanting to comfort his wolf.
Magnus didn’t come back to our room that night. I spent the majority of the night peering out the window, wondering where he was and when he’d return.
‘Reaper, please try and find him for me?’ I say out towards the moon tree. I watch as Reaper flies into the night in search of Magnus.
Will Magnus ever forgive me? What if he wants to leave me? Is he going to reject me and find a new mate?’ All these thoughts and more flow through my mind until I fall asleep from fatigue.
I look onto Magnus’s side of the bed as I wake. He isn’t there. Reaper is on my window sill.
‘I couldn’t find him Luna,’ Reaper mind-links.
I run downstairs to see if he is having breakfast. Everyone else is eating breakfast, but Magnus is nowhere to be found.
‘Good morning, Luna,’ everyone says.
‘Has anyone seen Magnus?’ I ask with a slight tremble in my voice that everyone picks up.
‘Isn’t he in bed?’ Josie asks.
‘Um, no, I thought he might be down here eating breakfast,’ I say.
‘Is everything okay?’ Flint asks.
I’m not sure if I should inform them Magnus is upset. I’m also mates with the vampire king. I solemnly nod and force a small smile. ‘He’s probably out having a run in wolf form.’
Everyone nods and eats their breakfast. My appetite had disappeared. All I could think about was wanting to know if Magnus was okay, but I already know he isn’t. I’d be upset too if he came home and told me he had a second mate. How am I ever going to make us okay again? I burst into tears and run up the stairs, shocking everyone at the table. I enter my room and close the door behind me.
I’m sitting with my back against the door when I hear a gentle knock.
‘Luna, it’s May, Josie and the witches here. We have come to see if you are alright. It’s not like you to burst into tears and run away like that.’
‘Magnus is the one you should all be worried about,’ I sob.
‘Why is that, Luna? Has something happened to him?’ May asks concerned.
‘I’ve done something terrible. He will never forgive me,’
‘I’m sure there is nothing in this world he wouldn’t forgive you for,’ May reassures me.
‘Does that include cheating on him?’ I say.
They all gasp and whisper to one another.
‘Luna, I think you need to let us in and tell us what has happened so we can help you,’
‘I’m a horrible person May. Why would you want to help me?’
‘Because you are my sister and you are not a horrible person at all. You are the sweetest, kindest most understanding person I have ever met,’ she retorts.
‘That’s right,’ They all agree.
Slowly I stand and unlock the door, they all wrap their arms around me. It’s a hug I definitely welcomed.
We all climb onto my massive bed, plump the cushion and get ourselves comfortable as they ready themselves to hear what I am about to tell them.
May wipes the tears from my face.
‘The day I first went to Pandora’s Box, something happened to me while we were in the dungeon. Do you remember when Alec held my wrist?’
‘Yeah, you were insane being that close to him in the first place,’ Ria chuckles, but pauses when she notices my serious expression.
‘He had marked me,’ I say holding my wrist for them all to see. They all furrow their brows, gazing closer to my wrist and shoving each other out of the way. Lilac tumbles off her bed onto the floor.
‘I’m okay,’ she adds as she crawls back into the bed.
‘So, what exactly does that mark mean?’ May inquires.
‘It means Alec the vampire king is my blood flame. Alec is my second mate,’
‘What!?’ They all say. Everyone, but May falls off the bed in shock.
Once they regather on the bed, they all look at each other and back at me.
‘I feel the mate bond with Alec the same way I feel it with Magnus. My mind and body are yearning to be with both of them. Alec is refusing to break the bond between us and I don’t know how to break it. Then we kissed and it was so magical and amazing like I was kissing Magnus. I told Magnus about Alec being my second mate. He was angry and upset, which of course he would be, but I haven’t seen him since.’
May wraps her arms around me, ‘It will be okay. We will help you figure this all out, won’t we girls?’ They all nod and give me sympathising looks. ‘We should tell Dad, so the warriors can find him?’ she suggests.
‘What will Mum and Dad think of me having two mates, May? They will be so ashamed of me,’
‘No, they won’t be. None of this is your fault, there is a reason you have been given two mates, Nina. The gods and goddesses have willed it.’ She says trying to make me feel less guilty.
‘I can’t believe the vampire king is your mate,’ Lilac says. ‘I get he is handsome and all, but he is a vicious murderer, Luna. He is evil,’
‘He has been nothing but kind and gentle towards me Lilac and even so, he has spent hundreds of years all alone in that dungeon and lost his first blood flame who was killed at the hands of humans. If someone purposely killed Magnus, I would probably do everything in my power to kill whoever was responsible too,’
Lilac doesn’t know what to say.
‘I think Lilac just wants you to be very careful around Alec, that’s all,’ Ria says.
‘My main focus right now is to find Magnus and have him home with me where he belongs.’ I say.
Everyone nods in agreement.
‘Then what are we all doing in here then? Come on, we will split up and all search for him,’ Fern says.
Josie dashes downstairs while the rest of us ‘Skedaddle Dash,’ and appear out the front. Josie frowns with her hands on her hips. ‘That’s not fair,’ Josie pouts.