Page 4 of Resisting Fate

I pace the front porch of the Thompson’s home.

My mate had been victim to a brutal attack.

She was clawed into on her side and was bleeding out right before my eyes.

I watched the light leave her eyes.

Everything inside of me broke.

All I could see was everything I lost.

The one-person fate had deemed my other half was gone; I would never know true happiness.

As soon as the light left her eyes, I howled out in pain, shifted, and took off.

It wasn’t until I felt the presence of another wolf that I knew it had to be my mate. I ran back to the Thompson house as fast as I could.

As soon as I saw her eyes slightly open, I fell to my knees and broke into a sob.

I told her over and over again that I wasn’t leaving.

The pain and cold look in her eyes when she told me to leave devastated me as I followed Ryker out of the room.

I need to find a way to get my mate back. My need for her is as strong as my need to breathe; though I never really had her in the first place. That thought breaks me up inside.

How could I let someone so important to me endure the fake disgust and hate I threw towards her for all these years?

My dad was the beta of the pack, and I can’t say that I’m sorry he’s gone. He was a terrible man and had always pushed me towards Penelope. He wanted our family to take over the pack. This was the only way to do it without causing a war.

Every time Penelope broke up with me, my dad found a new way to punish me. Like it was somehow my fault.

Both Penny and I didn’t really feel any romantic feelings towards each other. I felt that desperate need to cling to her when she mated Ryker because the beatings from my dad were becoming unbearable. He always made sure to hit me brutally hard in places where it wouldn’t show.

He was also able to get away with the abuse because, as wolves, we heal faster than humans. The first few hours before the healing fully activates can be brutal though.

As much as I would have loved to accept Hailey, I couldn’t. To my father, humans were beneath us. They couldn’t shift, and there was nothing special about them.

I hated to pretend that I was something I wasn’t.

I could see how upset both Max and Hailey were when they didn’t fate to one another. You could see the devastation they both felt. I was relieved. When I got closer to Hailey, I knew why.

How could I compete with someone like that?

I couldn’t.

To her, Max was the perfect mate, and I was just the asshole who had always treated her like dirt.

The pack had a meeting last night, and I barely paid any attention to it. All I could think about was my mate and how much pain I had caused her.

If I go after her now, she will only think it’s because she’s changed that I will now want her.

That wouldn’t be close to the truth.

I can only prove to her and everyone else that I’m not the man they all think I am.

Only one person has seen the real me and, even now, I’m just learning who I really am now that I am allowed to be him.

Now that most of the older generation had been killed, I know things are definitely going to change around here.

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