He snarled, “That doesn’t change that you are mine.” I warned, “Stop saying that because I am NOT yours nor will I ever be.” Dax followed us into the meeting with Booker, Caine, Edward, and Trevor. Edward said, “I linked Buck you wouldn’t be joining him.”
I disagreed, “I’ll join him so fast… like blazingly fast.” Jean said, “You just can’t feel the mate bond.” I snorted, “Are you going to try and gaslight me right now? I feel you are. I really do.” Edward, surprisingly gently, said, “You don’t have a wolf. So, you have to be marked to feel the bond.” Dax tensed but I laughed in all their faces.
Trevor’s mom joined us and sat quietly. I started crying I was laughing so hard. I asked, “Is this what you tell all the wolf less members?” I looked at their faces and sobered. I gasped,“You do! Oh my gosh… why do I keep thinking I know how DEPRAVED you are? I clearly don’t… you all are on some…”
Booker interrupted, “You will mate my son and like it.” I laughed, “I’ve yet to hear about an encounter a woman enjoyed with him.” Trevor snarled at me, “You are my second chance, and you will submit.” I said, “I am not yours and you know it.”
He argued, “You can’t feel…” I cut him off, “I’m not letting you gaslight me. I grew up in a pack with partials. There are Werewolf hybrids that have a QUARTER of wolf blood running in their wolf less veins, and they recognized their mate. A QUARTER!”
Dax’s head jolted to mine as if he didn’t know that. I scoffed, “I’m not mating Trevor… end of story.” I walked out of the room with them following me. Booker demanded, “Alpha Command her, Edward!” I scoffed, “Oh my gosh… try it. Try it and find out what happens. That is ILLEGAL even to the Supernatural council.”
Edward grabbed Booker’s arm because one of the men that mated to a woman from another pack were outside in the yard. Her jaw dropped and her arms crossed. Edward laughed nervously, “Of course I wouldn’t Alpha Command Melanie to do that.” He couldn’t.
He’d tried before and it didn’t work, but that was before Red Run banished me. He hadn’t tried since that had happened which was odd now that I thought about it. The woman nodded and the guy shot me a look full of apologies as he rushed her out of the pack. I didn’t need an apology. He should get her out. This wasn’t true.
Booker snarled, “Mate my son, now.” I answered, “No, in fact if anyone wants a lesson in how to know when you’re being gaslit... I’m here for you. I’m here for you all the time but none of you listen… which…”
Trevor growled, “You just don’t feel the bond yet.” I replied, “Chosen mates don’t feel a bond until they are marked. FATED mates do… even if they are a partial. I, Melanie Jane McAlister, reject you Trevor McCann as my mate.” Nothing happened.
I snorted, “See? LIAR!” Booker stammered, “It didn’t work because you don’t have a wolf.” The rumblings had started around the pack. A lot were indignant. I snorted, “Every single wolf knows that if he had been my mate, it would’ve hurt him even if he didn’t accept. Because while you claim I don’t feel the bond… he said he did. Yet he’s standing there just fine…”
I paused adding, “And I think we all know he’s a wimp when it comes to pain.” Trevor snarled, “You can’t talk to your mate like that.” I shouted, “YOU ARE NOT MY MATE! I AM NOT YOURS!” He warned, “Just because you wanted to be someone else’s doesn’t make you not mine.”
I replied, “The fact you hurt me the way you did does… the fact that you have been NOTHING but a bully, tyrant, evil, sadistic jerk to me since I came does… the fact that you didn’t go down IN PAIN when I fake rejected you WITH THE REAL REJECTION WORDS does… AND EVERYONE HERE KNOWS IT!”
I got in his face, “You can’t gaslight me about mates. I didn’t grow up here with your crap being spewed at me. I was raised with love.” He shoved me, “And got sent to us because you’re a cursed family killer!” Pain lit through me. Dax snarled at him.
Caine jumped out of a truck. He asked, “What’s going on here?” Someone muttered, “They’ve been lying about how wolf less don’t feel the bond with their fated mates until marked. Melanie said she wasn’t Trevor’s and proved it by rejecting him. He didn’t even flinch in pain. They have been LYING all along!” Good. Finally. People were pissed.
Caine snarled, “Trevor, back off.” He declared, “She is mine.” I scoffed, “I’m not and you know it.” Edward Alpha Commanded,“No one will tell Melanie she’s not Trevor’s. He’s said she is, and we believe him. This is just a mate’s spat.” People stared at him like he was insane. He blinked realizing that he was losing the tentative string he held on this pack.
I shook my head, “You’re disgusting. You are a disgrace to your blood. You should have my back… especially considering this is the man who hurt me… and you let that happen. You should’ve said you’d get a pack approved couple’s therapist if you believed him. You should PUNISH him for LYING about me being his mate…” He went to talk, but I wasn’t done.
I scoffed, “And not how you punish people. Like normal Alpha’s do… though Trevor would be DEAD in any other pack. He shot the Female Lead Warrior in the back while she was saving pups.” Trevor growled, “You deserved it.”
I scoffed, “For saving pack members? Even if it wasn’t MY JOB… no one deserves to be shot by a coward in the back… and…” He cut me off, “You got your family killed! Beta Jason told us we could do whatever we wanted to you.”
I scoffed, “No he didn’t. If you want to hold onto that though I’ll drive to their border with Blue Moon’s border and ask. Do you think Alpha Peter and Beta Jason would enjoy your masterpiece and condone it, Trevor?” I knew the answer even if they’d deluded themselves into think they had permission to do that. They all paled.
Booker snarled, “You’re not leaving. You are my son’s mate.” I mocked him, “Just because you keep saying it, doesn’t make it true… he’s not mine and I’m NOT an idiot. No one here believed he was my mate before he didn’t react to my rejection. It’s literally unthinkable, even to you dolts, to hurt your mates the way he has PHSYICALLY hurt me.”
I sneered, “Only deviants hurt and abuse their mates. Are you finally admitting he is one? Because then he will be taken to the Supernatural Council and…” Edward said, “That’s notnecessary.” I argued, “Under Supernatural Council decrees 149 SSB subsection…”
Trevor shouted, “We don’t care about your rules!” I rolled my eyes saying, “You don’t care about anyone’s rules until they affect you. It’s very uneducated of you… unbecoming… there are more adjectives to describe you, but we’d be here all day, and I have a MEETING!”
I took off running and for once, most of the pack covered my escape. Trevor snarled, “You can’t escape me, mate.” I shouted, “I am NOT your mate… you wet smelly dog…” I grumbled, “He smells so bad and… opfff…” Trevor’s mom grabbed me and yanked me behind the gym.
I asked, “Alice, are you ok?” Mentally I pleaded, please don’t tell me to be with Trevor to save him… please… I really liked Alice. I actually felt really bad for her. She whispered “You can’t mate with him. He’ll kill you.” I winced, “It’s more like the other way around.”
She glanced sharply at me then nearly laughed. She waved, “I needed that. Just don’t let him convince you to be with him. You don’t deserve the things he’s done.” Tears rolled down her cheeks. She whispered, “I tried so hard with him. He was a sweet boy then…” She trailed off and wiped her face.
I squeezed her hands, “You did what you could.” She cried, “It’s not enough. He’s even more of a monster than his father is. Booker does unkind things, but that candy you gave helps. Booker never hits me. He’s never raised a hand outside the bedroom though I wish he would’ve instead of making our son evil. I wish he’d beat me black and blue and left Trevor alone.”
She continued, “He’s so focused on Trevor, I’ve been able to keep the rest of my pups away from him. You know my other pups are so sweet.” I agreed, “They are.” She shook her head, “The things I’ve heard him say about this day and how he’d treat you. I’m so glad you’re not his. I want to be surprised he lied butI’m not. God, I’m really not. Please stay away from him. I have to go.” She ran from me as if her life depended on it. To be fair… it did.
I walked into the gym and found Buck. He sighed in relief when he looked at my neck. He whispered, “Can the wolf less really feel the bond if it’s fated?” I answered, “Of course… why wouldn’t they? Because they don’t have a wolf to growl ‘mine’? They still feel everything everyone else does with their fated. Tingles can’t be faked.”
He asked, “How is Avery?” I answered, “Talk to her and find out… you guys were talking, did something happen?” He replied, “No, it’s just different now.” I shrugged and we worked out the schedules.
