Page 5 of Griffen's Mate

Chapter 2

Pet

It had been a couple of months and Pet was still sleeping alone. Every night she felt Griffen come in and just stare at her. He kept his boundaries. Pet was sure by now he would have noticed their differences, like her pointed ears, her eyes that changed colors, and her skin. She tried to keep her skin looking human and her eyes either brown or hazel. Her natural yellow gold eyes and her shimmery rainbow, almost translucent, skin kept coming through, and she had to hide and gather herself. She’d never had to keep up her chameleon state for as long as she had since being with Griffen. She knew if she did what she needed to do and gave Faith what she deserved, then she wouldn’t be able to hold human form for long at all.

She turned the volume up on the romance audiobook and wished Griffen saw her the way the hero in the novel did. Sure, she was his mate, but he’d never even kissed her like she’d seen the other males do to their mates. Some nights lately she dreamed of kissing him. She imagined all the different ways he gave her the first kiss she wanted. Ever since she started dreaming of Griffen and seeing all the possible outcomes she daydreamed, wished, and hoped for the best, or in other words, the outcome that would get her her heart’s desire.

The voice in her ears announced the next chapter, and she turned it off and listened to the quiet house, making sure Griffen was asleep. Sitting up in bed, she got out from underneath the covers and stripped out of her nightgown. It was time. Pet knew she couldn’t put off seeing Faith any longer. From what Remy and Ava had told her, Faith’s sanity was almost gone and she couldn’t control what fate she ‘saw’ or how far into the future she ‘saw’ or how many different outcomes.

Pet allowed her skin to become translucent. It was the skin she was the most comfortable in. Opening the window, she climbed out and ran to the forest, climbing the first tree and camouflaging with it as she swung from tree to tree, making her way to Faith and Kane’s house. In this form she had suction grips on her fingers and her body was covered in a protective, rough hair. Her people were chameleons and were meant to be in nature and blend with it. She felt like she was home. Pet took her time, enjoying the free feeling.

With the strong noses of the shifters, her scent was the hardest thing to hide. Her scent had changed; before Griffen had bitten her, she could have hidden her scent, but his bite changed her a little. It made it easy for Pet to stay in human form, and it gave her a scent as she didn’t really have one before she mated Griffen.

Two look-out wolves caught her scent, but with her camouflage she stayed safe. What would have taken fifteen to twenty minutes, if she was a friend and could have walked and been invited in, took her over an hour and a half. It was better safe than sorry, and right now she was already betraying her mate’s trust by going behind his back to do this.

It wasn’t easy for Pet to get in the house. She used her skills and had never been more grateful in her life for being an Enewu. Faith was in a room, sitting at a table and staring at a camera that was recording everything she said. Faith looked a wreck. Her brownish red hair was in a messy mass of knots around her face, and her skin looked a sickly white. Gazing around the place, Pet saw that no one else was in the room, but it was covered with discs, papers, and white boards. It was worse than anything Pet could have imagined or thought she could have ‘seen’.

Pet came away from the wall slowly and became a human with creamy white skin. She made her way to Faith with her hands raised. “You have to stop, Faith. If this world is to win the fight, you need my help. You need to become what you’re prophesized to be, and for that to happen, I have to help by giving you something.” Pet repeated this a couple of times quietly and then got louder.

Faith didn’t seem to notice her at first. Once she did, she blinked rapidly and then her eyes went wide. She stared for a moment before her mouth fell open for just a second, then she blinked again and snapped it shut. “You’re not human,” she mumbled.

Moving closer, keeping her hands raised, Pet showed her the suckers on her hands and toes. She lowered one hand down and tucked her hair behind her ear, and lastly Pet changed her eyes to a gold color. Faith didn’t scream or move from her, and Pet took that as a good sign.

“I’m Enewu. I only know what I’ve seen and what little my mother told me in visions and what I’ve seen of my people, but I’m from a planet the demons destroyed.”

Faith shook her head and stood, coming to Pet. “How? Who else knows this?”

“You are the only one.” Pet sighed. “I don’t have much time before someone checks on you. So I need to do what I came to do and tell you what you need to know.”

Faith stared at her for a long time, not saying anything. Then she cried out, “Why have I known from the start that you are good? Why did I ask Remy to help you? Why? What have you done to me?” She whispered the last question.

With her yell, Pet knew she didn’t have much time, so she ran to Faith and grabbed her in an embrace. “I am sorry, Faith. You need more power to help control your own, and I need—no, I want less.” Closing her eyes, Pet dug deep and said in her own language, “E ianoto senoro quiente frio weelono assna beensa. I give you freely some of my strength and gift. Klenzo rexno senoro aalonp. Take what you must.” Pet let her grip loosen and felt her gift and strength seep out of her. Opening her eyes, she smiled at Faith. “This will help you gain control. You need to stop seeing visions and live in the here and now too. You are important, not just to this world, but you have a family you deserve to love and enjoy.”

Faith screamed, but before the noise even left her mouth the door was flung open and Kane stormed in with a white wolf following. Pet watched as they stared in shock at what they were seeing—Pet in her true form, her golden eyes, snow-white hair, pointed ears, and skin that went translucent and then tried to go chameleon.

“Holy fucking shit! What is it?” Kane yelled as he ran to Faith and tried to yank them apart.

The white wolf knew who Pet was, he and Kane just didn’t know what Pet was.

Faith gasped, and together they had a vision of Pet’s home world, of her mother pregnant with her and being taken. It was then of the demons destroying Pet’s world. The vision showed the lush paradise her world had been before the demons, and her people and their abilities, then it showed them what the demons had done to her mother and what they’d then done to Pet. It revealed what was done when she didn’t obey. It displayed when she tried to help another world, not so different from this one, but still ended up with the same destruction. It revealed that shifters weren’t originally from this world. It showed them that the shifters were an ancient race that became protectors against the demons when they defeated them from their world. The vision stopped on the many visions she’d seen of Faith and the shifters of this world and two others defeat the demons. When they came out of it, Pet let go and so did Faith. Pet dropped to the ground, drained.

With very little energy left, Pet gazed up at Faith and smiled. “Remember what I said. I have given you the power to control what you see so you don’t see a bunch of maybes, you will only see the right one, and you can control who and what you want to see. The prophecy is fulfilled. You need to start living now, not just for everyone in the world, but for your family, because when you win the war, and I believe and have faith that you will.” She smiled wide at the irony. “Your name is so appropriate. Because you are worth everyone’s faith.” Pet let Faith take what she needed because Pet had more faith in her than anyone. “You need to live your life and have the love and memories that you’re missing out on now.”

Darting her gaze over to the white wolf, Pet frowned and shivered with a cold that seemed to seep into her bones. For the first time in weeks, she felt alone.

“I’m sorry. I don’t deserve you, Griffen, but I have loved you from the first vision I saw of you. I’m going to be out for a while. My body will recharge, and I will go into a coma-like state for a week or so, but I will wake.” To Kane, Pet said the only thing she could, “I’m sorry for the trouble I caused. Faith will be better now. Make sure she does what I advised. Take ca—”

The blackness took over and she let herself fall.

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Griffen

Running to Pet, Griffen shifted as fast as he could, drawing strength from the pack, and caught his alien mate. Holy shit! His mate wasn’t human.

As he stared down at her, her skin turned from translucent to matching his for a moment and then went clear again, and then it changed like it couldn’t decide what it wanted to stay with. Her eyes were closed, but her hair was falling back away from her face, and for the first time he noticed that her ears were pointy, like a fantasy elf or fairy. How on earth had he missed those? Well, clearly she wasn’t from Earth.

“She’s Enewu,” Faith whispered.

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