Filed to story: Wolf Crying Mate of the Alpha by Jazz Ford
They take his hands and pull him towards the houses as more she-wolves come out. Even though I am being dragged away, I turn my head to watch Nina walk away towards the Packhouse.
She doesn’t want to come with me to meet the she-wolves. I don’t understand why. You would think she would be keen for me to find my mate so I can break her curse once and for all. I really don’t get her sometimes.
The mate bond did not go into effect after meeting all the available she-wolves. They were very disappointed that I was their mate. I return to the packhouse.
‘So, tell me, was any of the ladies your mate?’ Alpha Anslo asks.
‘No.’ I sigh.
‘Well, that’s very unfortunate. I wish you luck in the next pack.’
‘Thanks, we should get going.’ I say and look over at Nina. She seems withdrawn. We leave the packhouse and enter the woods.
‘So, which pack are we going to next?’ she asks.
‘Let’s set up camp for the night. We can worry about the next pack in the morning.’
We silently collect sticks together and bundle them up.
‘Inferno Flamo.’ She says, lighting the fire.
She sits on the other side of the fire and avoids any eye contact.
‘Nina, I can’t help but feel you have been distancing yourself from me? You have been avoiding me and you didn’t even want to help me find my mate today. I’m thinking you don’t want me to break the curse?’
She looks up at me wide-eyed, with her beautiful doe eyes. Her eyes well.
I scoot over to her.
‘What’s wrong? Please tell me?’
‘I don’t want to upset you or make the situation worse.’
‘Nina, seeing you upset is upsetting me. The only time I am ever truly happy is when you are smiling and when we are together?’
‘Really?’
‘Yes, really.’
‘It really hurts when I see all the she-wolves swoon over you. I know you need to find your mate, but I really care about you. I always wished as a child you would be my fated mate.’ She sobs.
‘You really wished I was your mate?’ I ask as my heart rate rapidly increases. A feeling of happiness washes over me at her words.
‘Yes, it’s stupid. I know.’
I cup her face in my hands and gaze down into her brown eyes and suddenly realise that I don’t just love Nina as my best friend, but I’m in love with Nina.
‘Nina, I think we can go back home now.’ I smile.
She gives me a look of confusion.
‘But we haven’t found your mate yet?’
‘We don’t need to find her. I have everything I ever dreamed of right in front of me.’
‘Magnus, what are you saying?’ she trembles in shock.
‘Nina, it’s you I love. It’s you who I want to spend the rest of my life with, even if it means I never shift again and you never have your wolf. We don’t need to have the mate bond to know we love each other. I don’t need to feel electricity when we touch, but the warmth of your soft skin. Nina, I want to be with you. I love you.’ I cry.
‘Magnus.’ She sobs. ‘I love you too.’ She says as we stare at each other’s lips.
We kiss with the utmost passion. A c***k of lightning strikes a tree nearby and thunder roars through the sky. Nina wraps her arms around my neck, and I wrap mine around her waist as the kiss intensifies.
Suddenly Nina flinches back and screams in pain as a bone snaps.
She is shifting. The curse is now broken.
More thunder and lightning flash through the sky above us and turns into a hectic storm raining down on us. As I hold Nina in my lap, I feel the electric static where ever our skin touches. It feels amazing. Our eyes turn black. ‘Mate.’ We say in unison.
Nina lets out another scream.
‘Try not to fight it, Nina. It will hurt less if you let your wolf take over.’ I say, stroking my fingers through her hair.
‘It hurts,’
‘I know, babe. I’m here and I’m going to help you through this.’
She nods and tries her best to relax. Black fur covers her as she shifts into her wolf. My breath is taken away. Her wolf is pure black with a white-shaped star on her forehead.
‘Nina, your wolf is so beautiful. You even have a white star on your forehead. I’ve never seen anything like this.’ I say stroking her fur. She steps back and prances around happily in wolf form, then nudges into my shoulder.
‘You want me to shift too?’
She shakes her head.
‘Well, if the curse is broken, I should no longer feel any pain when I shift. Here goes.’
I remove my clothes and focus my mind, closing my eyes for a moment. I open them to find I have shifted straight away, pain-free, into my large white wolf.
‘This is amazing.’ I think to her.
‘I can hear you!’ Nina replies.
‘I can hear you too, we can mind-link now!’
‘We were fated mates all along. Can you believe that?’ she cries.
‘We were never cursed, Nina. We had been blessed with each other all along.’
We rub our furry faces all over each other affectionately.
‘Let’s go for a run towards home’ I mind-link.
Nina runs ahead with super speed. I can only just keep up behind her. We run for hours through the night until we are exhausted. We lie huddled together and stare up at the moon.
‘Moon Goddess, thank you for blessing me with Nina as my mate.’